November 4, 2020 SHARE TWEET Olivia Wilde‘s new movie Don’t Worry Darling starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles has shut down production for roughly two weeks following a positive test for COVID-19. Deadline broke the news, reporting that the person who tested positive was not “a member of the principal cast, but someone who was
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November 4, 2020 SHARE TWEET Warner Bros. has issued a statement apologizing for its depiction of people with limb differences as witches in the studio’s new movie The Witches, which premiered on HBO Max two weeks ago. Robert Zemeckis directed the adaptation of Roald Dahl‘s beloved 1983 children’s novel, and the film follows a young
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November 3, 2020 SHARE TWEET That’s all she wrote for Castle Rock, as Hulu has pulled the plug on the horror anthology series based on the works of Stephen King after two seasons. The news comes nearly a year after Season 2 premiered to disappointing ratings, only to be quickly forgotten amid a glut of
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November 3, 2020 SHARE TWEET For 10 seasons, with its 11th and final forthcoming, The Walking Dead has lumbered across AMC with a hit, splattery combo of zombie horror and character-driven drama. One of the fan favorite characters in recent seasons, a villain so potent and terrifying you can’t help but love to hate him, is Negan,
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October 30, 2020 SHARE TWEET While you might have a favorite big screen Batman, Joker, Superman, etc., one of the most exciting parts about having multiple actors take on the same character is seeing how their interpretations differ. We have multiple stellar and unique Batmans, Jokers and Supermans because of it, just to name a
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October 28, 2020 SHARE TWEET Buster Bunny and his Looney Tunes cohort are coming back to our TV screens after 25 years away with the new animated series Tiny Toons Looniversity. The new animated series is a reboot of the early ’90s Looney Tunes spinoff Tiny Toons Adventures. Tiny Toons ran for three seasons and racking up nearly
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October 23, 2020 SHARE TWEET – [Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Witches on HBO Max.] Hope you’re ready for a whole lot of Kristen Chenoweth in the next few weeks because she’s been keeping mighty busy! Not only does she have Holidate hitting Netflix on October 28th and a new Food
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October 19, 2020 SHARE TWEET The technology that made The Mandalorian possible is now also being used on one of the biggest upcoming films, The Batman. Lucasfilm had been trying to get a live-action Star Wars TV show off the ground for years, but the biggest hindrance was how to not only make such a
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October 13, 2020 SHARE TWEET Gather ’round, fans of The Matrix franchise, because new details about The Matrix 4 have emerged. The Matrix 4 co-star Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist, Game of Thrones) has shared new details about director Lana Wachowski‘s filming style on the next Matrix movie. The fourth installment will arrive in theaters in 2021, nearly 20 years after the third movie, The Matrix Revolutions, was released. Given
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October 12, 2020 SHARE TWEET Hulu revealed the first look at its Animaniacs revival series on Sunday at New York Comic-Con 2020. The Animaniacs revival has been in the works for a few years after Hulu gave the wacky animated series a two-season order back in 2018. It’s been more than 20 years since the original Animaniacs series debuted
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October 8, 2020 SHARE TWEET On the latest episode of The Sneider Cut, your esteemed host Jeff Sneider weighs in on Doctor Strange and Electro joining the cast of Spider-Man 3, as well as the week’s major release date changes, from The Batman, The Flash and Black Adam to Dune, No Time to Die and
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October 6, 2020 SHARE TWEET Just because the Shazam 2! release date has been delayed by seven months doesn’t mean the film itself is now off track. Indeed, Warner Bros. recently announced a slew of release date changes for some of its biggest upcoming films – including The Batman and The Flash – and these
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October 2, 2020 SHARE TWEET After working together on The Suicide Squad, Idris Elba and John Cena are poised to re-team for Amazon’s action movie Head of State, Collider has confirmed. Deadline reports that Amazon bought the pitch following a Zoom presentation from screenwriter Harrison Query and producers Peter Safran and John Rickard in a
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October 2, 2020 SHARE TWEET In a pretty shocking piece of news, Warner Bros. and HBO Max announced today that Robert Zemeckis’ feature film reimagining of the Roald Dahl book The Witches is going to be premiering directly on HBO Max, skipping theaters altogether. As if that wasn’t surprising enough, it’ll be available to stream
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September 29, 2020 SHARE TWEET Back in June, Spotify, Warner Bros. and DC announced a multi-year partnership for a slate of original audio dramas, and now they’ve announced the first scripted podcast under the deal — Batman Unburied from executive producer David S. Goyer. Goyer returns to Gotham City after writing Christopher Nolan‘s Batman Begins,
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September 28, 2020 SHARE TWEET While we all wait for Steven Soderbergh‘s Let Them All Talk to debut on HBO Max, the director has just unveiled the cast for his next movie No Sudden Move, which just started shooting in Detroit under strict COVID-19 safety protocols. We already knew that Don Cheadle and Jon Hamm
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September 27, 2020 SHARE TWEET Here we are, at the end of yet another weekend trying to find the silver lining on an ever-darkening box office cloud. Sure, Warner Bros. Tenet is still at the top of the box office chart, with 20th Century Studios’ The New Mutants and Solstice Studios’ Unhinged rounding out the top three. But
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September 23, 2020 SHARE TWEET The honest-to-goodness actual Snyder Cut — sorry, Zack Snyder’s Justice League — flew at all of us, fast and furious. But one sticking point stayed consistent throughout the social media movement: Snyder’s vision was ready to go before Joss Whedon came in late in the film’s production period, a snuffing out
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September 23, 2020 SHARE TWEET – Let society never forget that even in the chopped-to-pieces mess that was David Ayer‘s Suicide Squad, Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) remained a delightful bright spot, the only character actually operating on the gonzo wavelength the studio was selling. So it was a joy to see that Courtney’s triangle-tossing super-criminal
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September 22, 2020 SHARE TWEET For five seasons, including the ambitious and acclaimed Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover storyline, Supergirl has given us Greg Berlanti-produced CW superhero action of the highest order, bolstered by a titular performance from Melissa Benoist. Fans have been wondering when we’ll get a sixth season, and well, we’ve got some good news and some bad
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September 20, 2020 SHARE TWEET Warner Bros. Tenet continues to trend downward at the domestic box office as it closes out another week in theaters. It was revealed last weekend (thanks to some quick numbers-crunching) that director Christopher Nolan‘s latest had earned a mere $9.5 million in its three-day Labor Day opening weekend and dropped down
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September 18, 2020 SHARE TWEET Good news for DC Universe fans! The app isn’t going away as many had feared, but is rebranding as DC Universe Infinite and will focus entirely on digital comics. Meanwhile, all of the DC Universe premium video content will migrate over to HBO Max, including original series Harley Quinn, Doom
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September 16, 2020 SHARE TWEET By all accounts the PS5 is going to cost the equivalent of a small country’s national budget and run on pure experimental jet fuel, but hoo dang the footage out of today’s showcase event has me willing to risk it all. In addition to trailers for Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Resident
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September 9, 2020 SHARE TWEET On Wednesday, Warner Bros. released the official trailer for Dune, the sci-fi epic adapted from Frank Herbert‘s 1965 novel of the same name (and the first in the series). Dune is directed by Denis Villeneuve and this trailer marks the second successful attempt at getting the story to the big screen. Dune features an incredible cast
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September 9, 2020 SHARE TWEET Much like Brad Pitt desperately waving a gun in the face of a serial killer, you might’ve watched today’s highly-anticipated Dune trailer and thought to yourself: “What’s in the box?” It certainly looks like Denis Villeneuve has crafted a gorgeous, ambitious sci-fi epic, but Dune—both book and, apparently, movie—is filled
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September 6, 2020 SHARE TWEET [Editor’s note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we strongly encourage individuals to check with the recommendations of public health officials and CDC safety guidelines before seeing a movie in a theater.] The good fortunes of Warner Bros. and director/writer Christopher Nolan increaseth at Tenet opens in U.S. theaters to some very surprising
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September 6, 2020 SHARE TWEET There will be a notable absence from The Matrix 4 in the form of Hugo Weaving, who portrayed the villainous Agent Smith across the original Matrix trilogy. In light of franchise alums Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Lambert Wilson set to return, why wouldn’t an equally integral piece of The Matrix puzzle like Weaving also come back?
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September 2, 2020 SHARE TWEET What do you do when you want to reboot a mega-successful teen drama? Give it to an architect of another mega-successful teen drama! Per The Hollywood Reporter, a reboot series of Pretty Little Liars is in the works from Riverdale maestro Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, which just makes a lot of dang sense! Image via Warner Bros.
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September 1, 2020 SHARE TWEET Two new images from Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune have been released ahead of the official trailer reveal on September 9. Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s novel of the same name (the first in a Dune series) boasts an incredible cast led by Timothée Chalamet and also stars Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, and many
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August 27, 2020 SHARE TWEET On the latest episode of The Sneider Cut, your esteemed host Jeff Sneider weighs in on Christopeher Nolan’s Tenet, the new trailer for The Batman, and Season 2 of The Boys, as well as the new Charlie Kaufman movie I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Jeff also talks about the latest
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