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No. Really. In a decision that can’t possibly have any negative repercussions for the city’s helpless residents, Springfield, Illinois mayor J. Michael Houston has given the key to the city to noted terrorist leader and snake enthusiast Cobra Commander. Ostensibly this was done as a promotion for the upcoming JoeCon, the G.I. Joe collector’s convention…
Hollywood is nearing a crisis situation. Soon, there will be no more white male actors named Chris left to star in superhero movies. The Chris rumor du jour is that Chris Pine (Star Trek) is in the running to play Green Lantern in DC’s Justice League franchise. If he winds up being cast, Hollywood will have…
What has director Joseph Kosinski been up to since wrapping up Oblivion? Well, it sounds like he’s been getting Tron 3, the sequel to Tron: Legacy, ready to film. Yes, folks, it looks like we’re getting another trip to the neon-lit Grid. VancityBuzz, a local Vancouver blog, broke the news that filming on Tron 3…
<br /> In the latest episode of Filmmaker IQ (previously), host John P. Hess traces the history of the auteur theory, a concept in film criticism that celebrates the director as the primary auteur (from the French word for “author”) of a film’s creative vision. Simply put, the Auteur Theory holds that a film is…
‘Five very different kids, struggling to define themselves against the stereotypes projected onto them by parents and peers, spend Saturday detention together in the school library.’ Photograph: c.MCA/Everett / Rex Features/c.MCA/Everett / Rex Features The year was 1985. I was drinking a shandy, a lukewarm mocktail of beer and lemonade that proclaimed to the world,…
Start Article Post Content Women and minority writers have seen minimal progress in television, the Writers Guild of America West has reported.The guild’s television staff brief found that female writers accounted for 29% of TV staff employment during the 2013-14 season, down from 30.5%. Minorities accounted for 13.7% during the 2013-14 season, down from 15.6%….
Sir Ridley Scott has made some of the greatest genre movies of all time, but in the last several years, he’s also made some horrible mistakes. But his misfires and missed opportunities pale before the grievous error he’s about to make: creating a sequel to Blade Runner. The original Blade Runner is a science fiction…
“Robots will take over the world.” It’s a familiar refrain from movie scientists, conspiracy theorists, or your paranoid friend after he saw a TV special on autonomous cars. As artificial intelligence research accelerates in sophistication, it has also set off alarm bells and calls for caution from some of the brightest minds in the world,…
On Wednesday, J.J. Abrams was honored with the Visionary Award at the Visual Effects Society Awards. In a conversation with Collider on red carpet, the “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” director discussed the upcoming “Star Wars” film, CGI versus sets and Simon Pegg and the next “Star Trek” film. Abrams also addressed a major…
James Gunn says Marvel execs found the plot of Guardians 2 to be risky Everyone wants to know what to expect from GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2 despite the fact we are still two years away from seeing the film. But, with Marvel plotting out their projects years in advance, writer/director James Gunn already has…