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UPDATED: ‘Chicken Run 2’ Lands At Netflix, A New ‘Mission: Impossible’-Style Heist Is Teased UPDATE: According toNewsweek,Mel Gibsonwill not be reprising his role as the chicken Rocky. Our original story from July 20, 2025 follows below. Today marks the exact 20th anniversary of Aardman Animation’s stop-motion animated comedyChicken Runhitting theaters, a movie that still holds the honor of being the highest grossing stop-motion animated movie of all time. To celebrate, Aardman has announced that Netflix has come on board to finance and distributeChicken Run 2....

VOTD: Mark Hamill’s Heartfelt Tribute To Carrie Fisher From Star Wars Celebration 2017 With this year marking the firstStar Wars CelebrationsinceCarrie Fisherpassed away last winter, there were plenty of touching words said about the late actress and writer by colleagues and admirers alike. But no one gave Carrie quite as wonderful a tribute asStar WarsbrotherMark Hamill. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher formed a strong bond on the set ofStar Warsand an even stronger friendship after the film turned them into international superstars....

Warner Bros Developing Live Action Ninja Scroll Movie Warner Bros will be briningNinja Scrollto the big screen. The live-action big screen adaptation will be based on the popular 1993 Japanese Anime movie which spawned a popular animated series. Ninja Scrolls is considered one of the best Anime films ever produced.Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s original action/thriller tells the story of a Journeyman ninja-for-hire named Jubei, who “stumbles upon a plague, an evil clan of demons, a national crisis, and a beautiful ninja girl....

Watch Rock God Hans Zimmer Perform The Dune Score Live Today Warner Bros. has released a just over three minute video of a live performance of the Academy Award-winning soundtrack to “Dune,” with composerHans Zimmerhimself on electric guitar (and the sound mix board) — and oh my gosh, I want to see this group perform the entire thing. I will give you all my monies. Please take them and give this to my ear holes and eyeballs....

Watch The Comic Con Panel For Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ Sadly, you’ll have to wait to see the glorious footage fromGravitythat was screened this past weekend at Comic Con.The long sequence shown in Hall H was spectacular— in fact, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. That footage showed the two astronauts played bySandra BullockandGeorge Clooneyas they work on the Hubble Telescope, and are warned that conditions around them are about to change for the worse....

Why ‘Hack/Slash’ Should Be The Next Huge Horror Movie Series As horror’s gender pendulum slowly swings back towards XX chromosomes, I’m ready to make a plea. “For more female leading characters?” In a way, but frankly, horror’s the one genre that empowers women more than most. “For more female filmmakers?” Hopefully, but creators, Film Twitter, and the general cinema public are already voicing this angle with appropriate fury. “Then can you just tell us you insufferable sod?...

‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Early Buzz: That Killer Doll Returns For More Gary Daubermanhas been one of the key creative forces responsible for building outJames Wan’s extended Conjuring Universe. He wrote the first twoAnnabellemovies – the first of which was widely derided, but the follow-up was seen as a significant improvement. Dauberman also wrote the third entry,Annabelle Comes Home, and that new film also marks his directorial debut. So how did he do?...

‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Problems: Director Andrea Arnold’s Creative Control Was Ripped Away In the second season ofBig Little Lies, the lead characters have been struggling to stay afloat after their momentous decision at the end of season one. But they weren’t the only ones making potentially disastrous choices: according to a scathing new report, HBO and showrunnerDavid E. Kelleywrested creative control of the show away from season 2 directorAndrea Arnoldto put it back in the hands of season 1 directorJean-Marc Vallée....

‘Bloodline’ Trailer: Kyle Chandler And Ben Mendelsohn Lead Netflix Family Drama As Coach Taylor onFriday Night Lights,Kyle Chandlerprojected a reassuring warmth and wisdom. No matter how badly his players screwed up, he was always there to dole out sage advice or set them right with his stern yet understanding gaze. In his new role in Netflix’sBloodline, however, it seems Chandler’s the one in need of some guidance. He plays one of four adult children of a wealthy Florida Keys family, whose lives take a dark turn after the arrival of black-sheep eldest brother Danny (played byBen Mendelsohn, because of course)....

‘Deadpool 2’ Box Office Tracking Suggests A Bigger Hit Than The First Film MovingDeadpool 2’srelease date up a few weeks is apparently going to pay off. EarlyDeadpool 2box office tracking suggests the raunchy superhero sequel is on a path to have a bigger opening than 2016’sDeadpool. You probably could’ve guessed this, butDeadpool 2is going to be a hit. Just how big a hit? Well, let’s just say it’s currently tracking for a big opening weekend....

‘Dunkirk’ Trailer: Christopher Nolan Takes Us To World War II In a summer filled with superheroes, directorChristopher Nolan’sDunkirklooks to be offering a more dramatic, sobering respite fro the tights and capes. Of course, this is a dramatic, sobering respite that is also massive in scope, a war movie that looks as practical and down-to-earth as the kinds of epics Hollywood used to release decades ago. It may lack the flash of its summer movie brethren, butDunkirkis rightfully being positioned as a major event....

‘Force Of The Trojans’ Will Combine CG Effects With Ray Harryhausen-Style Stop-Motion Influential visual effects artistRay Harryhausendied in 2013, but his legacy lives on in a whole generation of filmmakers who he inspired with his jaw-dropping stop-motion effects. His work also lives on in the Harryhausen Foundation, which is responsible for protecting his collection of movie-related artifacts. Now the Foundation is teaming up with a company called Morningside Productions to produce a new Harryhausen-style adventure film in the vein of 1981’sClash of the Titansthat is tentatively titledForce of the Trojans....

‘Gotham High:’ The Animated Teen Batman Show That Almost Was This almost seems like a joke. A Batman cartoon featuring everyone as teenagers? And they all went to the same school? Well, it almost happened. That photo above is Clayface, Two-Face, The Penguin, Killer Croc, The Riddler, Batgirl, Batman, Scarecrow, Catwoman, Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane and Mr. Freeze. As teenagers. It’s a promotional image fromGotham High, a show that was being developed by comic book artist/author teamCeleste GreenandJeffrey Thomasbased on an image they sent to DC....