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‘Wednesday’: Tim Burton Directing Live-Action ‘Addams Family’ Series About Wednesday Addams Solving Spooky Mysteries Tim Burtonwill make his TV debut withWednesday, a live-action Netflix series featuring everyone’s favorite goth child misanthrope, Wednesday Addams. The show will feature an adolescent Wednesday who has psychic abilities and is tasked with solving spooky mysteries, which, honestly, sounds absolutely nothing like the Wednesday Addams we’re all familiar with. But you know how it goes – Tim Burton is gonna Tim Burton....

Awards: A Prophet Scores Big At Cesars; ASC Awards The White Ribbon; Hurt Locker Wins Audio Accolade This year’s Oscars aren’t for another week, but this past weekend was a big one for awards. We’ve already posted on theVisual Effects Society awardsthat were largely handed out toAvatarandUp. But France’s big awards ceremony, the Cesars, went down over the weekend, withJacques Audiard’s widely acclaimedA Prophetscoring nine wins. And the American Society of Cinematographers handed out a slightly surprising best of ‘09 while the Cinema Audio Society honored sound mixing achievements in ‘09....

Bill Skarsgård Will Star As Eric Draven In The Crow Reboot With Rupert Sanders Directing The Hollywood machine has been trying its hardest to reboot “The Crow” for the better part of a decade now. Yes, this town loves IP, but you have to admit that the original comic and its 1994 adaptation have earned their place in pop culture at this point. The trick is that so much of the 1994 film rested on the shoulders of its lead, Brandon Lee, who was tragically killed in an on-set accident....

Boardwalk Empire: 14-Minute Behind The Scenes Featurette HBO has released a thirteen and a half minute behind the scenes featurette for theTerence WinterandMartin Scorsesecreated Prohibition-era gangster television seriesBoardwalk Empire. The new series focuses onSteve Buscemi, who plays the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City and town Treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, who is described as “a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role....

Box Office: Cloverfield Grabs $18.25M Friday; Headed For $54.75M 4-Day Weekend! Paramount’s 2008 is off to a spectacular start. The J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield has delivered a monster opening day of an estimated $18.25M, and it will easily coast to both the All-Time January 3-Day record and the All-Time 4-Day MLK weekend record. The Friday number is a tough call because there’s no clear answer about where Paramount will add Thursday post-midnight sneak preview business....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Dark Knight Trilogy’, ‘Doctor Strange’ And Video Game ‘Spider-Man’ Posters For NYCC 2020 It’s the second day of New York Comic-Con, and Grey Matter Art has a new line-up of collectible art inspired by some of your favorite comic book movies and video games after selling out almost all oftheir Day 1 exclusives. The second wave of Grey Matter Art 2020 NYCC exclusive posters includes a series of posters fromNeil Daviesinspired byThe Dark Knight Trilogy, and they all combine to form a triptych image....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Imperial Probe Droid Sixth Scale Figure By Sideshow Sideshow Collectiblessent me a sample ofStar WarsImperial Probe Droid Sixth Scale Figure. Lets unbox this figure and take a look at whats inside the box. After the jump you will find photos of Sideshow’s Star Wars Imperial Probe Droid Sixth Scale Figure, alongside my thoughts on the product. From its introduction in the opening ofStar Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Imperial Probe Droid was one of those things that haunted my childhood....

David Lynch And Frank Herbert Discuss Dune Back in1983, the Waldenbooks chain recorded a long conversation betweenDavid LynchandFrank Herbert. The occasion was the impending release of Lynch’s version ofDune. The final film, as most well know, was often derided as an artistic failure, and it was undoubtedly a commercial disaster. In the years since the film’s release, Lynch rarely speaks of it. Herbert died in early 1986, so he didn’t have time to see the film attain a certain level of respect in the sci-fi community....

Director David Ayer Blasts 2016’s ‘Suicide Squad’: “Not My Movie” Early praiseofJames Gunn’s upcomingThe Suicide Squadhas started drawing comparisons to directorDavid Ayer’s2016Suicide Squad. And Ayer has something to say about it. The director took to Twitter for a lengthy rebuttal, slamming Warner Brothers for dramatically changing his film. Ayer’s Turn Ina single tweetwith three images of text titled “My Turn,” Ayer described his struggles both in life and in makingSuicide Squad....

Disney’s Beauty And The Beast Prequel Series Snags Marvel Actor Fra Fee As Disney inches closer and closer to running out of animated films to remake in live-action, the studio has begun to explore new ways of cashing in on the franchises it’s already revived. It’s similar to what the studio did with its direct-to-VHS animated sequel, prequel, midquel, and spinoff films in the 1990s and early 2000s, which is how we ended up with titles like “The Fox and the Hound 2....

DVD Review: Caprica If Battlestar Galactica asked the question “How would humanity survive a holocaust led by our most advanced technology?”, Caprica asks “At what point does our need for progress supplant our humanity?” Even though it’s set a mere 58 years before the events of the Galactica series, Caprica has a startlingly different tone. It makes sense, I suppose, since there are no Cylons hunting humans down to extinction (yet)....

Emma Stone Once Auditioned For Nickelodeon’s ‘All That’ This weekend,Emma Stonereturns toSaturday Night Liveto host the late night sketch show for a third time. However, she almost starred in an entirely different sketch comedy show much earlier in her career, one that would have had her crossing paths with a certainSNLcast member at a young age. While appearing onThe Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the 28-year-old actress revealed that she auditioned for the Nickelodeon kids sketch comedy showAll Thatwhen she was 12 years old....

First Look At Nicolas Cage In ‘Dying Of The Light,’ Producers Take Over Final Cut That shot above is the first look atNicolas Cage,Anton YelchinandIrène Jacobin the newPaul Schraderfilm,Dying of the Light. Cage plays a CIA agent whose vision is failing as he undertakes his final mission. Schrader scripted the movie in 2010, and it was once set to be directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. After Refn’s plan to make the film with Harrison Ford failed due to creative differences between director and star, Refn stepped back to a producer role while Schrader took the director’s chair....