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VOTD: ‘Avengers’ In The Style Of Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ Trailer The Avengers are Disney/Marvel, the Watchmen are Warner Bros./DC, and never the twain shall meet. But if they did, the results might look a little something like this. YouTube userThe Unusual Suspecthas cut together a new trailer for 2012’sAvengers, done in the style ofZack Snyder’sWatchmen. It’s surprisingly effective sum-up of Snyder’s style, even though Snyder himself had nothing to do with it....

Watch ‘Ren & Stimpy’ Show Creator John Kricfalusi’s Couch Gag From ‘The Simpsons’ No, you didn’t get a touch of space madness watchingThe SimpsonsSunday night.Matt Groeningand company just happened to commision another famous artist to animate their own couch gag.We’ve already seen Banksy’s takebut there’s a possibilityJohn Kricfalusi’s might be even more disturbing. Kricfalusi is best known for his hit 1990s Nickelodeon seriesRen & Stimpyand has since been doing music videos and various other animated work....

Watch This Now: Carl Erik Rinsch’s The Gift Philips has just releasedCarl Erik Rinsch’s futuristic action thriller short filmThe Gift, which is about a robotic manservant who flees the police. Rinsch is not onlyRidley Scott’s protege, but also a commercial director for Scott’s company RSA. You might recognize Rinsch’s name as he was originallytappedto direct a prequel/remake ofAlien, but Fox convinced/pushed Ridley Scott to helm the project himself. I was one of the few people actually interested in Rinsch’s involvement....

Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Short Film Now Online; Plus His Favorite New York Films As promised last week,Wes Andersonhas released a short companion piece to his latest film,Moonrise Kingdom. It’s a series of six animated sequences from the fictional books Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward) reads in the film, which is now playing in NY and LA and will open wider throughout the month. After the jump, watch the film, read more about its conception and find out about Wes Anderson’s favorite New York films....

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ VFX Pioneer Douglas Trumbull Was “Flabbergasted” When WB Chose Christopher Nolan To Oversee A 70mm Restoration In 1968,Douglas Trumbullwas a 23-year-old animator who had been hand-picked by director Stanley Kubrick to work on a science fiction film called2001: A Space Odyssey. Trumbull was eventually tasked with pioneering visual effects for several of the movie’s most memorable sequences, and the unforgettable results turned him into a legend in the field....

‘24’ Reboot Announced: African-American Or Latino Lead To Replace Jack Bauer At the Television Critics Association winter press tour, Fox executives confirmed the long rumored24reboot series. Speaking on an executive panel, Fox Television Group Chairman and CEODana Waldenannounced the name of the new24and the take from24producers. “We’re ordering a pilot set in the world of24,” Walden said. “We’ve thought about doing a sequel to this for a long time. After the final event series, we saw the real time format could work in a 12-hour format....

‘A Very Murray Christmas’ Teaser: Bill Murray Is Back With Chris Rock, George Clooney & More This holiday season will be filled with a little extra Yuletide joy and cheer, asBill Murrayis reteaming with hisLost in TranslationdirectorSofia Coppolafor a Christmas special that will be exclusively available onNetflix. So far we’ve onlygotten a brief glimpse of the special, but a newA Very Murray Christmasteaser has just popped up online showing off some of the famous faces who will be helping Murray out....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Director Cathy Yan On Her Cinematic Influences And Building An All-Female Superhero Team [Set Visit Interview] Many people have not seen the 2018 filmDead Pigs(it only grossed $4,000 at the box office), but Warner Bros. andMargo Robbiedid. And that’s all that matters. WithBirds of Prey, directorCathy Yanis getting her chance to show the world what she’s made of. In March, I visited the set at Warner Bros. studios and was lucky to chat with her about the new film....

‘Fantastic Four’ Is Worst Reviewed Marvel Movie But Fox Still Committed To Franchise This past weekend brought the release of 20th Century Fox’s latest iteration ofFantastic Four, and we already knew the first reviews weren’t very good, but no one was expecting it to be this bad. First of all, the film landed at #2 at the box office behindMission: Impossible – Rogue Nationin its second week of release. It pulled in just over$26 million domesticallyand another $34 million internationally for a total of $60 million, hardly a runaway hit, especially for a comic book movie with a built-in fanbase, even outside of he Marvel cinematic universe....

‘Fear The Walking Dead’ Season 7: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you may watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.)The Walking DeadandThe Walking Dead: World Beyondare airing their final seasons in 2021 and 2022, but the zombie universe will keep expanding with an untitledDaryl and Carol spin-offand new anthology series,Tales of the Walking Dead....

‘Fire And Fury’ TV Series About Trump’s First Year In Office Is Already Being Made Hell hath no fury like a sitting president who is about to have his first bungled year in the White House be dramatized as a TV series. A TV series based onMichael Wolff’s controversial tell-all book,Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, is in development. The series will follow the first year ofDonald Trump’s administration....

‘Frozen’ Stage Production To Replace ‘Aladdin’ At Disney California Adventure Good and bad news for Disneyland fans: Find out more details about the Disneyland Frozen musical after the jump. The new Frozen stage show will debut in summer 2016 at the Hyperion Theater at Disney California Adventure park. This new show will immerse you in the world of “Frozen” as never before, with elaborate costumes and sets, stunning special effects and surprising scenic transformations....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Super Bowl Spot: Scarlett Johansson Goes Full Anime RoboCop As I’m not familiar with the originalGhost in the Shellmanga or anime, I can only watch the trailers for the new film as a detached observer with no real stake. For example, I can note that thefirst trailerfor directorRupert Sanders' live-action take starringScarlett Johanssongives off some seriousBlade RunnerandRoboCopvibes, mainly because I have no ideawhether or not it looks or feels anything like the source material....