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Disney Developing A New Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ Alice in Wonderlandtruly did send Disney down the rabbit hole. The billion-dollar success of that live-action adaptation quickly got the studio scrambling for live-action remakes of its classic animated films.Maleficentwas a massive hit,Cinderellais still raking in the dough,The Jungle Bookis in production,Beauty and the Beastis getting ready, and several others likeThe Little Mermaid, DumboandMulanare all in the works, too. That’s not even a comprehensive list....

Dr. Strangelove Ending Explained: We’ll Meet Again Is nuclear war a suitable subject for comedy? Stanley Kubrick certainly thought so. During his research for his masterful Cold War satire, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” he came to see comedy as the only sensible way of doing the subject real justice. Having bought the film rights to Peter George’s novel, “Red Alert,” he started out with the goal of making a serious drama....

Duncan Jones Is Re-Teaming With Composer Clint Mansell For ‘Mute’ I’ve gone on the record aboutnot being a particularly big fan ofWarcraft, but that doesn’t change the fact that I still believe inDuncan Jones. After all, how could you possibly write off the man who madeMoonandSource Code? And for its many faults,Warcraftis still a work of passion that is too weird to be dismissed completely. So I’m choosing to look to the future and towardMute, the science fiction noir Jones has been teasingsince 2009, when it was supposed to be his sophomore feature....

Electronic Arts Developing ‘Madden Curse’ Movie Each and every year, theMadden NFLseries is one of the top selling video games. The highly realistic football simulator has been been a console staple for the better part of two decades and is the closest a gamer can get to actually being on the gridiron, both as a player or a coach. Over the decades though, while gamers took control of their favorite NFL teams virtually, the actual players on the cover of the game were getting injured in reality....

Eli Roth To Direct Killer Shark Thriller ‘Meg’ It’s been lurking in the waters of Hollywood for almost a decade, the monster movieMegmay be resurfacing once again. Megis a killer shark story based on a 1997 book written bySteve Allenthat has been at multiple studios over the past decade, with many of different names on board. The project had been thought dormant for a good long while, but now a script byDean Georgarisreportedly has Warner Bros....

Everything We Know About The National Treasure Disney+ Series So Far Ever since 2007’s “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” people have been asking director Jon Turteltaub if there would be a “National Treasure 3” which told another story of adventure-seekers going on a quest for lost treasure that has historical significance to United States history. There wereactual rumblings about a possible third movie, but soon after Disney launched its new streaming service, the studio decided topivot the franchise onto the small screeninstead....

First Look: Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Trollhunters’ Dreamworks Animation has just released the first image fromGuillermo del Toro’sTrollhunters, a Netflix original series coming later this year. Hit the jump to see the Trollhunters photo and learn more. First Look Trollhunters Photo TheTrollhuntersfirst look photo was debuted to coincide with the news that Guillermo del Toro will hold a Masterclass at Annecy on Wednesday June 15th 2016 at 4pm. Here is the official information from DreamWorks Animation:...

First Official Look: Tom Hanks And Emma Thompson In ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Watching Disney’sMary Poppinsas a small child, I remember being amazed by the (in my view) radical technology that allowed real movie stars to stand alongside cartoon critters. Little did I know that combining animation and live-action was the least of the struggles in getting the picture made. The upcoming dramaSaving Mr. BankschroniclesWalt Disney’s fourteen-year effort to convinceP.L. Travers, author of the originalMary Poppinsbooks, to give over the movie rights....

Hangover 2 Script Half-Finished, Moving Out Of Vegas Talking toEW,The HangoverdirectorTodd Phillipsgave the low down on the status of a sequel. He’s currently midway through the script, although no plot details are known yet. Phillips mentioned that he was thinking of ideas for a sequel while they were filming, and that Warner Brothers asked for a sequel as soon as they saw how well the film tested. He also promises thatBradley Cooper,Ed Helms, andZach Galifianakiswill definitely be returning for another adventure....

HBO Still Isn’t Ruling Out That ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel PictureDavid BenioffandD.B. Weiss, the showrunners on HBO’sGame of Thrones. Picture them working on season 7. Picture the lines around their tired eyes, the grey invading the beards they haven’t had time to shave. Picture them hunched over a monitor or a schedule or the coffee that offers them respite during their busy days on set and picture them trying to solve whatever new issue has invaded their always ambitious, globe-trotting production....

Henry Winkler Joins Wes Anderson’s Star-Studded ‘The French Dispatch’ Wes Andersonhas no problem rounding up an impressive assembly A-list talent whenever he gets behind the camera to direct a new movie. Most of them are recurring stars from his previous collaborations, but with each movie, he brings in some fresh blood who have never worked with the filmmaker before. And one more new collaborator has been added to the cast.Henry Winkleris enjoying a career resurgence thanks to his role on HBO’s dark comedy seriesBarry, including a recent Emmy win (though sadly not a Golden Globe win), and now he’s joinedThe French Dispatchcast, the next film from Wes Anderson that is said to be set within the Paris bureau of an American newspaper....

Jesse Eisenberg May Not Be Back For ‘Justice League’ In just a few weeks,Justice Leaguestarts production. Since this will be the first time Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg will be seen on the big screen at the same time, it’s bound to be bigger than evenBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Of course, that all depends on whether or not the fans who were disappointed byZack Snyder’s comic book battle are willing to give him another chance for the DC Comics superhero ensemble....

Lakewood Review: Naomi Watts Races Against The Clock In This Overblown School Shooting Drama [TIFF 2021] That most horrible — and American — of institutions, the school shooting, is the impetus behind “Lakewood,” Phillip Noyce’s frantic, overblown blend of drama and thriller. The basic concept behind the film — a mother racing against the clock to get to her child during a shooting — could yield something potentially great, devastating, and timely in the right hands....