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Star Wars Bits: Ron Howards Gets Real About Trolls, Some Seriously Great Collectibles, And Some ‘Solo’ Number Crunching In this edition of Star Wars Bits: We’re kicking off thisStar WarsBits with some great movie history and some super deep cut Star Wars trivia courtesy ofCBR. This in-depth piece looks at the legend of the iconic opening credits that caused George Lucas so many issues with the Directors Guild of America, and if you’re a fan of behind the scenes stories and baffling bureaucracy then you’ll enjoy this strange tale of howThe Empire Strikes Backopening caused the Star Wars creator some serious headaches....

Stuck Together: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know. Up today: “Stuck Together.") The experience of living during the Covid pandemic is slowly making its way into our entertainment. “Stuck Together,” a Netflix original French film, is one installment in what looks like will be a new tranche of Covid-based features and shows....

Superhero Bits: ‘Gotham’ Reveals Shane West As Bane, Canceled ‘Injustice 2’ Characters & More Would you believe that’sShane WestasBanein the final season ofGotham? Want to make your ownVenomsymbiote container? IsJensen Acklesgoing to playBatmanin theArrrowverse? Which characters didn’t make it intoInjustice 2? Why did Marvel have to change the Spanish poster tagline forCaptain Marvel? IsGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3delayed two years? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Daredevil, Avengers Age Of Ultron, Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad, Supergirl Superhero Bits is about to go on a well-deserved vacation, but we couldn’t leave without one more column. Need to brush up on your Marvel beforeAvengers: Age of Ultron? HasWill Smithbeen spotted on the set ofSuicide Squad? DidRyan Phillipperespond to thoseIron Fistrumors? IsSuperman’s mom showing up onSupergirl? Read about all this and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

Tales From The Box Office: Resident Evil Beat The Video Game Movie Curse Video games have been wildly popular for decades now, but it was in the ’90s when Hollywood first became interested in the notion of turning these interactive experiences into movies. These began in earnest with the likes of the legendarily bad “Super Mario Bros.” in 1993 and the A-for-effort “Mortal Kombat” in 1995. To this day, video game movies remain a truly difficult nut to crack, with only a few managing to rise above and become truly successful....

Teen Titans Live Action Movie Announced Warner Bros has announced that they will be making a live-action big screen movie based on the ht DC Comic series Teen Titans. While the first incarnation of the junior Justice League-type group appeared in 1964, it wasn’t until the 2003 cartoon network animated television series hit before they became popular in the mainstream (the comic book series was also popular in the 1980’s but not to this level)....

The City Of Boston Declares March 26 To Be Leonard Nimoy Day Honestly, we should be thankful every day thatLeonard Nimoyexisted and brought to life an iconic (beautiful, wonderful, magnificent, handsome) character like Spock. But the city of Boston is going one step further and dedicating a whole day to theStar Trekactor, declaring March 26 to beLeonard Nimoy Day. The Boston Globereports that outgoing Mayor Martin J. Walsh has designated March 26 to be Leonard Nimoy Day in Boston “to honor the West End native’s contribution to the arts in roles like Mr....

The Lost James Bond Movie That Eventually Became ‘Skyfall’ Any movie franchise with a 53-year history is going to have some stories of things that never happened and what could have been. Fans of theJames Bondfilms always like to play the “What If?” game. What if George Lazenby had hung around for more movies afterOn Her Majesty’s Secret Service? What ifThe Spy Who Loved Mecould have actually seen the return of Blofeld and S....

The Morning Watch: ‘Stranger Things’ World Tour In New York City, The IMAX Of The 1890s & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch as the cast ofStranger Thingshits New York City while on a world tour for the show’s third season....

The New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Lines Up Its First Director 2016 is a good year forStar Trekfans, with a new movie in theaters right now and a gigantic art show tribute at Comic-Con anda new documentary about Leonard Nimoyarriving in just a few months. This whole 50th anniversary thing is pretty cool. However, the most intriguing newTrekdevelopment is the most mysterious and it won’t arrive until 2017. I am, of course, taking aboutBryan Fuller’s newStar Trektelevision series, which presumably has a title and a premise, even if we don’t know anything about them yet....

The Northman Ending Explained: Revenge Is A Flat Circle We’re in a bit ofa Vikings renaissance— a Vikingssance, if you will. Whether it’s “The Last Kingdom” and its tale of identity and war, the intricate political scheming of “Vikings Valhalla,” the animated coming-of-age epic “Vinland Saga,” or even the sci-fi take from Marvel’s “Thor” movies, it’s a good time to be into Vikings. These titles have helped challenge the notion of Norse people as just uncultured savages, showing instead complex tales of political intrigue, with intricate social and religious systems, and stories that are about more than pillage and plunder....

The Radical Generosity Of ‘The Good Place’ Made It One Of The Greatest Modern TV Shows Major spoilersforThe Good Placefollow.Imagine pitching a half-hour sitcom like so: our main character wakes up dead. She’s in heaven. But here’s the thing: she’s a real piece of crap.Of course, there’s so much more toMichael Schur’sThe Good Place, the NBC comedy that ended its four-season run last night. It’s a universe- and century-spanning epic of cosmic proportions, told in fifty brightly colored, bizarrely conceived, half-hour increments....

Theme Park Bits: Galaxy’s Edge Sporks, Pokemon In Universal Studios, And More In this edition of Theme Park Bits: If you have a hankering for merchandise,Star Wars:Galaxy’s Edge has you covered. Yes, they’ve got everything from puppets to droids to lightsabers to…sporks. Yes, you read that right, there are sporks that you can nowbuyat Galaxy’s Edge, if you’re so inclined. Now, here’s the interesting twist: these sporks used to be at Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo, for free before they were discontinued....