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Guest Post by ConcernedForMulan A white merchant’s business brings him to the heart of a legendary Asian conflict — he unwittingly helps save the day while winning the heart of the Asian female. Am I describing the plotline of the Netflix series Marco Polo? No. I’m describing the spec script that Disney bought for its…
A more spry Charles Xavier in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Image: Fox Months ago, Patrick Stewart dropped the news that his version of Professor X would be appearing in the third Wolverine film. Now that we know the film is called Logan and it’s set in 2024 (as well as a certain mutant who…
Art by John Cassaday According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lucasfilm and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street) have narrowed their search for a female lead in the Star Wars Han Solo prequel/spinoff to three frontrunners. Tessa Thompson (Annihilation), Zoë Kravitz (Mad Max: Fury Road), and Naomi Scott (Power Rangers, The Martian) have…
Thirty seconds into watching this video, my face already hurt from smiling too much. What you’re about to watch is a compilation of footage that shows what director George Miller actually shot on the set of 2015’s masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. And you will be amazed at how much was actually done, practically, on…
It’s wearing a little thin. With a little over a month before its release, Marvel has finally pulled the curtain back a bit on Doctor Strange. Reports from a recent set visit have been pouring in Tuesday, and all sorts of tidbits are coming to light about the movie: How its exploration of magic will…
Captain America finally gets his own Avengers movie. Wait… I mean… The Avengers finally show up to help out in one of their members’ solo films. Wait… Spider-Man finally doesn’t suck in a film about not-Spider-Man… wait… Here are the sins we found in Captain America: Civil War, a movie we didn’t love, but didn’t…
The sequel to a film that received a middling response from critics and took in a modest (by blockbuster standards) box office, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was in a precarious position before reports of its ballooning budget started to make the news. After a string of expensive failures including Jupiter Ascending, The Man from…
Of all the movies in the Star Trek canon, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is an outlier. It’s a total lark, a romp, a love letter to fans who just wanted to have a damn good time watching a Star Trek movie. After the heavy life-and-death themes of Star Treks II and III, it…
Photo: 2016 Getty Images Did you think The Man in the High Castle was going to be the only Nazi scandal rocking Hollywood over the past year? Not anymore! Michael Bay’s forthcoming Transformers outing, The Last Knight, is drawing criticism from numerous veteran groups after it was revealed that Winston Churchill’s birthplace — Blenheim Palace…
When Idiocracy was released in 2006, it didn’t make much of an impact upon the world. In fact, most people didn’t even know it existed. 20th Century Fox had a contractual obligation to release Mike Judge’s follow-up to Office Space, but they pretty much just tucked it away. After being sat on for more than…