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Brian And Wendy Froud Promise Dark Crystal Sequel Is Still Coming, Comic Book Spin-Offs Also Due This Summer The long, long wait for a sequel toThe Dark Crystalhas left me feeling doubtful about whether or not we’ll ever get to see the film at all. Consider me heartened, then, to report thatBrian and Wendy Froudseem quite certain the film is on the way. The Frouds are the designers of the sets, props and various puppet creatures that inhabit the world ofThe Dark Crystal, as well as the other Henson fantasy-world seen inLabyrinth....

Casting Notes: Carla Bruni In Woody Allen’s Next; Guy Pearce In The Hungry Rabbit Jumps Casting news will be thin until next week; Hollywood basically rolls up the sidewalks when a holiday like Thanksgiving comes around. Don’t expect much news. But we’ve got a weird note and a good one to get today going. Woody Allenis working at a breakneck pace. There’sYou Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, his latest London-set film, which is already in post-production....

Cool Stuff: Pick Up New Posters For Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy, Indiana Jones And ‘Die Hard’ Christmas is right around the corner, and if you’re still struggling with what to get that movie lover in your life, a recently released batch of prints paying tribute to movies likeShaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Blade RunnerandDie Hardare available for purchase today. Get details on each of the prints and find out where and when you can get them below....

Disney Converting The Lion King To 3D; Roger Rabbit Sequel Update; The Snow Queen Shelved For Now Disney is a studio that knows how to mine its back catalog; no other company has been as adept at re-releasing films to an eager audience. Looks like the latest to be mined will beThe Lion King, which the studio is working to convert to 3D. Along with news on that, we’ve got updates on theRoger Rabbitsequel and bad news aboutThe Snow Queen, theHans Christian Andersonadaptationonce thoughtto be an upcoming hand-drawn animated film....

Disney+ Joins Comic-Con At Home With Panels For The ‘Phineas And Ferb’ Movie, ‘Marvel’s 616’ Disney+is joining the online festivities withComic-Con at Home, the virtual experience hosted by San Diego Comic-Con. The streamer announced that it will be hosting virtual panels for three of its upcoming original titles, including the animated moviePhineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universeand the anthology docuseriesMarvel’s 616. Disney confirmed the participation of Disney+ at Comic-Con at Home with virtual panels for three of its originals:Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe,Marvel’s 616, and the streamer’s first scripted series from National Geographic,The Right Stuff....

Early Buzz: Robert Downey Jr. Calls Due Date “The Second Greatest Movie” He’s Ever Made For a few months now we’ve been telling you aboutDue Date, the upcoming comedy fromThe HangoverdirectorTodd PhillipsstarringZach GalifianakisandRobert Downey Jr. The buddy-comedy story has been described as kindaHangovermeetsPlanes, Trains and Automobiles. The screenplay byAlan R. CohenandAlan Freedland(with rewrites byAdam Sztykiel) has Galifianakis as a wannabe actor who becomes the companion to an expectant father / businessman (Downey) as they dash cross-country to (hopefully) arrive in time for the childbirth....

Elusive Gem ‘Rolling Thunder’ Finally Hitting DVD; Playing Atlanta Theater November 5 We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Despite the fact that there are more films available for home viewing than ever before, there is a significant crop of films that never hit DVD. One of the most serious omissions on the format has beenRolling Thunder. The 1977 film castsWilliam Devaneas a Vietnam vet who is out for revenge against a crew of seriously bad guys, enlistingTommy Lee Jonesin the process....

Emma Stone Reportedly To Be Offered Mary Jane Watson Role In ‘Spider-Man’ Over the last week, a shortlist has emerged of actresses that caught the collective eye of Sony andSpider-MandirectorMarc Webb. The prizes: two lead female roles inSpider-Man, the romantic interests Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson.Emma Stoneis one name on the list, and she seems like the ideal fit for Mary Jane Watson. And now Sony will reportedly offer her the role....

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Trailer Breakdown Today Warner Bros. released the new trailer for “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” and I’m going to use my years-long addiction to the “Harry Potter” universe to break it down for you. You know Harry Potter? The boy wizard whose story was told by someone … can’t remember the name of this terrible person. “The Secrets of Dumbledore” is the third film in the “Fantastic Beasts” series, and stars Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Katherine Waterston, andMads Mikkelsen, who has taken over the role of Grindelwald for Johnny Depp....

First ‘Oldboy’ Teaser Poster, Plus Very Early Screening Reaction [Updated With High-Quality Poster] Spike Lee’s new version ofOldboy, drawn from both the Park Chan-wook film and the manga that inspired it, is getting closer to release, with a date planned for this fall, but it remains more or less a mystery. Sure, we know the basics: that Josh Brolin plays a guy kidnapped off the street one night and held in a strange prison for many years....

Friday Box Office: Max Payne Opens At #1, May Reach $18.5 Million Max Payne (Fox) has successfully made the, often-times treacherous jump, from video game to the big screen grabbing an estimated $6.75M on its opening day. That will mean a likely $18.5M opening weekend, which is decent news for Mark Wahlberg and Fox. I received advance word from a couple of reputable critics that Max Payne is not very good (one called it Max Payne-ful), and, as it turns out, Fox was smart to embargo reviews until today....

Funko Movie From Warner Bros. Animation Lands Pixar And Disney Filmmakers At the beginning of the year, we found out there was aFunkomoviein development at Warner Bros. Animation. The collectible toy company has turned tons of characters from movies, TV shows, video games and more into collectible figures in their extensive POP line of vinyl figures, but they have a wide variety of stylized figures besides that. Now we’ll see if the toy company is popular enough to get butts into theaters for a Funko movie from a couple Pixar and Disney filmmakers....

Gaspard Ulliel, French Actor And Moon Knight Star, Dies At 37 After A Ski Accident Actor Gaspard Ulliel, an international star and beloved figure in French cinema, has passed away at the age of 37. News of his death comes hours after a skiing accident in the Alps: according toLe Parisien, Ulliel was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday after colliding with another skier and suffering major head trauma. Reportedly in “serious condition” at the time, Ulliel was transported by helicopter to the Grenoble University Hospital where he died an hour later....