This Week In Trailers: Day Is Done, Dunderland, Quiz, Smiley, The Tall Man Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Universal And Cinemark Strike A Deal For Shortened Theatrical Window – Here’s What You Need To Know Several months after Universal Filmed Entertainment Group signed a deal with AMC Theatres, the company has now signed a separate deal with Cinemark Theatres with a different set of details giving movies a shortened theatrical window. Here’s what you need to know. According to Deadline, Universal has signed a multi-year deal with Cinemark, the third most popular movie theater chain in the United States (behind AMC and Regal)....

‘Amazing Stories’ Showrunners Explain The Approach To Their Apple TV+ Reboot [Interview] Apple has resurrected Steven Spielberg’s anthology seriesAmazing Storiesas part of its Apple TV+ streaming service, the first of their shows to be a revival of a pre-existing show. The original series ran from 1985 through 1987 on NBC. Apple’s first season consists of five hour-long stories.The first episode of the new series stars Dylan O’Brien as a modern man who travels back in time through the basement of a house he’s restoring....

‘Black Mass’ Review: Johnny Depp Can’t Save This Cliché-Ridden Crime Drama If you’ve never seen a crime drama in your life, or alternately are so enamored of crime dramas that you’ll find anything involving cops and robbers inherently fascinating, you may enjoyBlack Mass. If you’re aJohnny Deppfan that’s been waiting years for the slightest suggestion of a comeback, you should probably watchBlack Mass. If none of these apply to you, well, you don’t need to go out of your way avoidBlack Mass, but there’s no good reason for you to subject yourself to it, either....

‘Black Mirror’ Season 3 Featurettes Tease More Technological And Social Media Horror Tales Black Mirrorreturns to Netflix on October 21 with its third season and I couldn’t be more excited and horrified.Charlie Brooker’s technology-centric anthology series is the closest thing we have to a modern version ofThe Twilight Zone, a show that blends science fiction and horror and satire and tragedy into a delicious, mortifying, and addictive stew. Almost every episode so far has chilled me to my core and I love it to pieces and I love thata fourth season is already in the works....

‘Dark Phoenix’ Was The Biggest Box Office Bomb Of 2019, Losing $133 Million The 2020 box office is currently paused, so let’s jump in the Wayback machine and look at the biggest failure of 2019, shall we? A new report reveals that the biggest box office bomb of 2019 was none other thanX-Men: Dark Phoenix, the final nail in the coffin of Fox’sX-Menfranchise. Yes, evenCatswas a bigger “hit” thanDark Phoenix, and that’s saying something....

‘Dracula’ TV Series Trailer: The Creators Of ‘Sherlock’ Sink Their Fangs Into The Immortal Horror Classic That immortal scamp Dracula is at it again, this time in a new BBC series from the creators ofSherlock. The newDraculaTV series just dropped its first trailer, and it looks appropriately bloody and sexy.Claes Bangstars at the bloodsucking count, and based on the footage below, this new take on the story isn’t going to sticktooclosely to the source material (I don’t remember an army of stake-wielding nuns from the book)....

‘Justice League’ Reshoots Make Up 15-20% Of The Movie The making of Warner Bros.' long-brewingJustice Leagueis as fraught with drama as almost anything you’ll see in a theater this year. Following financially successful but critically despised movies likeBatman v SupermanandSuicide Squad, DC Filmschanged its tacticsand wanted to lighten things up a little bit. Part of that decision involved hiring Joss Whedon to come in and rewrite sections of the film’s screenplay, and ultimately Whedonstepped into the director’s chairto direct reshoots when original director Zack Snyder stepped away due to a death in the family....

‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ TV Series In The Works? Killer Klowns from Outer Spacewas a movie that I was obsessed with as a child, and I still love it today. A sequel to the cult classic has been in the works for years, but it now looks like it won’t hit the big screen after all. Instead of a big screen 3D sequel, the new plan is for a small screen television series which would act as both a sequel and a remake....

‘Mistress America’ Is Noah Baumbach’s Funniest And Most Accessible Film Yet [Sundance 2015] Noah Baumbach’s movies have never been easy to describe. Each one blends so many different tones, sensibilities and genres that simply describing his movies as one thing doesn’t work. CallingThe Squid and the Whalea family drama doesn’t seem right.Frances Haisn’t just a coming of age story andGreenbergisn’t just a movie about self-discovery. That lack of easy categorization is probably the only thing Baumbach’s latest film,Mistress America, shares with the director’s other films....

‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3 Trailer Paints A Tense, Paranoia-Filled Picture In A Post-Trump World I’ve frequently wondered whatMr. Robotwould look like in a post-Trump world. The nihilistic, anarchist viewpoint of the series seemed overly cynical when it first hit USA Network’s airwaves in the summer of 2015, giving a fantastical update to the grim, solipsistic anger of ’90s male fantasies likeFight Club. But what once seemed out of place now seems both prophetic and misguided, especially in the Season 3 trailer ofMr....

‘Pet Sematary’ Review: Scary As Hell, And One Of The Best Stephen King Adaptations Ever [SXSW] The bestStephen Kingadaptations do not adhere rigidly to the author’s text but rather remain true to the general spirit of the work. ThinkThe Shining. ThinkMisery. Think even the 2017 adaptation ofIt. These works bear a strong resemblance to the words King used, but also forge their own identities, and tell their own stories – while maintaining the atmosphere King created....

‘Pirates 5’ Review Round-Up: The Early Buzz May Have Been Premature Disney is practically overrun with film franchises these days, but sincePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tidesmade over a billion dollars worldwide back in 2011, another sequel was inevitable.Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Talesarrives in theaters this Friday, but what are the early reviews saying? The consensus: maybe this film isn’t quite as good as the early buzz coming out of CinemaCon a few months ago seemed to indicate....