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Star Wars Bits: A Very Festive Death Star, Mark Hamill’s Take On Luke’s Fate, And The Return Of Jar Jar Binks! In this edition of Star Wars Bits: For fans of how theStar Warssausage gets made,Varietyhas an absolutely wonderful profile of ILM’s SVP and executive director, Rob Bredow. He talks about a lot of different stuff, but one of the most interesting quotes is this one about how much he loved working onSolo:...

Stranger Things Season 4 Will Feature Several Movie-Length Episodes I guess if you’re going to spend$30 million per episodeon season 4 of “Stranger Things,” it’s good that some of the episodes are long ones. According to an interviewThe Wrapdid with the Duffer Brothers, two of the new episodes are going to be over two hours each. That’s the length of most movies. It’s interesting to me to see how these things work....

Sundance Darling ‘The Miseducation Of Cameron Post’ Acquired By HBO, Will Begin Streaming Soon The Sundance darlingThe Miseducation of Cameron Postis getting another distributor. The Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner starringChloe Grace Moretzhas been acquired by HBO following the film’s small August theatrical release by FilmRise, which helped broker the deal with the cable company. HBO has acquired the U.S. rights toThe Miseducation of Cameron Post, according toThe Wrap. The tender and warmhearted coming-of-age film from directorDesiree Akhavansuccessfully made the rounds at the film festival circuit early last year, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival before making its way to Tribeca....

Superhero Bits: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ ‘Thor: The Dark World,’ ‘Dark Knight Rises,’ ‘Green Lantern,’ ‘Iron Man 3’ Want to see how Warner Bros. is pushingTheDark Knight Risesfor Oscar consideration on their own building? How isFrank Grillotraining forCaptain America: The Winter Soldier? What isNatalie Portmanup to on the set ofThor: The Dark World? Is there any truth toGreen Lantern 2rumors? AreBatman Liveperformances being cancelled? Who is the latest character to get their ownHot Toystoy?...

Superhero Bits: Arrow, The Flash, Batman: The Animated Series, Green Lantern What wouldSpider-Manin feudal Japan look like? How terrifying isZoomonThe Flash? What’sLivewiredoing onSupergirl? Does a new set video fromDoctor Strangeprovide any new details? Is there aStan Lee Museum of Art & Comicson the way? Why is the newVisioncomic book so unsettling? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. The 1966 Batmobile designerGeorge Barrishas passed away. Mark Dacascostakes a recurring roleinAgents of SHIELD....

The 13 Scariest Animated Movies Too often, animated movies are written off as silly children’s fare, but the medium is more than capable of scaring even the most hardened adult. From Disney classics to anime horror fests, animated films have been responsible for plenty of nightmare fuel. So as we count down the days to Halloween, let’s count down the scariest animated movies (using that unlucky number 13, of course)....

The Exact Moment In The Suicide Squad That Inspired James Gunn To Make The Peacemaker Series When the news broke that Christopher Smith, AKA Peacemaker (John Cena), from James Gunn’s"The Suicide Squad"was getting his own spin-off series (one also written and partly directed by Gunn), reactions were naturally mixed. Sure, the character’s violently jingoistic outlook made for a darkly amusing running gag in Gunn’s DC Extended Universe movie, but was there enough “there” there to justify giving this particular antihero his own show — least of all after he turned on his teammates to do Amanda Waller’s bidding near the end of that film?...

The Moment That Made Jim Carrey Fall In Love With Movies Cinema is a powerful medium that means different things to different people. Whether inspiring us through the onscreen action or serving as a means of escape by taking us to worlds that don’t exist, movies can be quite cathartic. And sometimes, the simple act of going to the movie theater can make a world of difference. In the case ofJim Carrey, a trip to a movie theater became a pivotal moment in his life....

The RZA, Hans Zimmer Teamed Up To Score Vin Diesel’s Babylon A.D. One is the feted composer of films likeTrue RomanceandThe Dark Knight, the other is the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan and a killer composer in his own right (Ghost Dog,Kill Bill). What do they both have in common? They both made appearances on the latestSlashfilm Muxtape! And in yet another example of the /Film Effect, Zimmer and the RZA have combined their magic to scoreVin Diesel’sBabylon A....

The Weinstein Company Plans Nighttime, Off-Site Comic Con Exhibition For Piranha 3D Last week, The Weinstein Companypulled a planned panelforPiranha 3Dout of Hall H, because the Comic Con powers that be decided the footage TWC planned to show didn’t fit the event’s family-friendly guidelines. But man-eating fish aren’t to be held back, so there’s a new event scheduled to show off the film, which will take place Thursday night away from the convention center....

Up-And-Coming Teenage Comedian John Mulaney Is Joining The Writing Staff Of ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ It’s always nice when an up-and-coming comedian with promising talent gets an opportunity to really break into the industry. And that’s exactly what’s happening with young buckJohn Mulaney. The stand-up comedian is going straight from his first communion to the writing staff ofLate Night with Seth Meyers, giving him a lot less time to see ifAddams Family Valuesis available at Blockbuster Video....

Venom Becomes Second Movie Of The Year To Pass $200 Million At The Domestic Box Office If you had said two years ago that “Venom: Let Their Be Carnage” would wind up being the second-highest-grossing domestic release of the year you might have been laughed out of the middle school cafeteria. Yet here we are, as Deadline reports that the Sony Pictures Spider-Verse film has become only the second movie of 2021 to cross the $200 million dollar milestone after Marvel Studios' “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” ($224 million)....

Vince Gilligan Books His Potential ‘Breaking Bad’ Follow-Up On CBS Vince Gilliganjust won the Best Drama Series Emmy forBreaking Badand the show is finishing up with higher ratings than ever before. Where do you go when you’re at the top of the world? Apparently, CBS is one option. The network has just picked up a “series production order” for a show Gilligan created calledBattle Creek.HousecreatorDavid Shorewould run the show with Gilligan executive producing along sideBreaking Bad’sMark Johnson....