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Behind The Scenes Footage And Concept Art From ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Blu-Ray Extras UPDATE – Warner Bros. has asked us to remove all of the media attached to this story. No more video or photos. Sorry. Release ofThe Dark Knight RisesBlu-ray is mere weeks away and while itwon’t have deleted scenesor amythic director’s cut, there seems to be some cool stuff to satisfy your Bat-craving.One of the manybehind the scenes featurettes has made it online, showcasing the construction of several of the major sets as well as the destruction of some others....

Canceled Cannes Lineup Will Be Announced Next Week Cannes is still canceled, but that doesn’t mean we can’t daydream about what could’ve been. While the prestigious fest will not happen this year due to the coronavirus, festival organizers are still planning to release the names of the films they had hoped to screen. While this may seem futile at first glance, having your film associated in any way, shape, or form with Cannes lends said movie a certain amount of credibility....

Casting: Chow In Dragonball, Affleck In State Of Play, And Pitt In Tree Of Life There’s a lot of casting news tonight, and instead of boring you with three separate news stories, I thought it might be better to combine them into one Casting update. So here we go. Chow Yun Fathas been cast as Master Roshi in 20th Century Fox’s live-actionDragonball Zmovie. Chow’s character trains Goku, played in the film version by Justin Chatwin, an alien warrior who must protect Earth from “an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling mystical objects known as Dragon Balls....

Crazy Rich Asians 2: Everything We Know So Far “Crazy Rich Asians” stole our hearts when it premiered in 2018, a joyous rom-com that explored what happens when love and family collide. Its release was also dubbed a watershed moment in Hollywood, as the first film since 1993, by a major studio to feature a majority Asian cast. The film arrived to much fanfare and critical acclaim so naturally, immediately following the its success, Warner Bros announced their intention to make a sequel....

DreamWorks Animation Wins Bidding War For ‘Captain Underpants’ Another popular series of children’s books has just been purchased for adaptation and this one features an old man walking around in his underwear. On Wednesday, DreamWorks Animation won a bidding war for the rights to the Scholastic book seriesCaptain UnderpantsbyDav Pilkey. The eight book series is about two fourth graders who hypnotize their evil principal into becoming a superhero named Captain Underpants however, being as he has no superpowers, the boys have to stealthy follow him around to make sure he doesn’t get into trouble....

Ethan Hawke Will Play Batman…in An Animated TV Series About A Sentient Batmobile Ready to break the internet? Here it is folks, Ethan Hawke is your new Batman! What, you’re still here? Okay,fine, he’ll merely be voicing a new Batman … in a cartoon … with a premise that just so happens to revolve around living and breathing Bat-vehicles. You know, and I know, that you want to scroll down and find out all the details about this galaxy-brained project, so let’s not even try to pretend otherwise....

Guillermo Del Toro Prefers ‘Better Call Saul’ To ‘Breaking Bad’, And With Good Reason Over the course of four seasons,Better Call Saulhas somehow evolved into a better show than its predecessor,Breaking Bad. At least, that’s what I think. But don’t just take my word for it – allow Academy Award winning filmmakerGuillermo del Toroto school you onSaul’s brilliance. The filmmaker took to Twitter to proclaim his love for the prequel series, and you can read his thoughts below....

Here Are Two Ways Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome Could Be Saved Earlier this week, Hollywood was heartbroken to learn the sad news that ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres would be closing all of their locations, including the famed Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard. Industry insiders, directors, and general audiences grieved the loss of these Southern California institutions by sharing their favorite moviegoing memories, but the future of the Dome remains murky. Thanks to a couple of recent reports, though, we’ve learned about two ways the Cinerama Dome could be saved – and why it seems unlikely that the iconic building will be converted into a high-end restaurant....

Interview: Screenwriters Adam Horowitz And Edward Kitsis, And Producer Justin Springer Talk ‘Tron Legacy’ On November 19th, I had the opportunity to participate in a day of roundtable interviews with the cast and crew ofTron Legacy. I also conducted a couple of one-on-one discussions with the filmmakers and screenwriters (but that will come later).The plan is to post one of the interviews every day up until release. We’ve previously posted interviews withOlivia WildeandGarrett Hedlund....

James Mangold Attached To Make ‘The Deep Blue Good-By’ Movie Travis McGee is one of the many crime fiction heroes that stars in his own series of books. McGee’s basic approach to life is simple: he works only when he needs money, and then he takes jobs helping people recover stuff that has been taken from them. His fee is simple, too: he keeps half. McGee is at the center of twenty-one books byJohn D....

Legendary TV Producer Norman Lear’s Entire Catalog Is Coming To Streaming WithoutNorman Lear, TV would be a completely different beast. He’s the creator of some of the most influential TV shows in history, includingAll in the Family,Diff’rent Strokes,The Jeffersons, andSanford and Son. Now, finally, you can watch them all in one streaming location. In a deal with Amazon Prime Videoand their free television arm IMDbTV, Lear’s entire catalog of 1970s and 1980s programming are now available to stream....

Matt Smith Says His Cut Star Wars Character Was A ‘Big Shift’ In The History Of The Franchise Matt Smith can do it all: “Doctor Who” heartthrob, British royalty in “The Crown,” and he most recently gave a performance that was equal parts seductive and alarmingly sinister in Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho.” He was also in “Terminator Genisys” that one time but, uh, we don’t talk about that. In any case, the man obviously has a face made for both the small and big screen, with ample talent and screen presence to spare....

Michael Bay Responds To ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Nazi Controversy Can we just take a minute to acknowledge how weird it is that there is a Nazi controversy tied to aTransformersmovie? All right, let’s get to the story. Last week, we learned thatTransformers: The Last Knightwould be bringing Hitler and Nazis into the equation somehow. This information came to light because the sequel from directorMichael Bayis currently filming in the United Kingdom, and one of their locations included Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the home of Winston Churchill....