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‘Westworld’ Season 2 Includes A New “Rubik’s Cube Narrative Puzzle Box” Plenty of trailers debuted during the Super Bowl last month, including our first glimpse at the eagerly anticipated second season of HBO’s hit sci-fi seriesWestworld. The series doesn’t return until late April, but some new details have emerged to hold us over as we wait to see what’s going on in the recently overthrown futuristic theme park. Showrunners and executive producersLisa JoyandJonathan Nolanrecently revealed some moreWestworldseason 2 details....

/Film Interview: ‘Gravity’ Producer David Heyman Talks Last Minute Changes, Expectations And Genius A genius filmmakers has a brilliant idea. But there are problems: it’s going to cost untold millions of dollars to realize, and he has no clue how to make it happen. Enter a great producer. This is what happened withAlfonso Cuaron’s latest film,Gravity. From the outset, the small space-set movie was incredibly ambitious. No one knew exactly how to make it feel and look like the action was happening in space....

16 Horror Movies That Ruined Everyday Activities Horror movies can scare you in a lot of different ways. Some use explicitgoreand visceral violence to terrify, while others exploit deeply-held religious beliefs to haunt long after the credits roll. There are imports and exports, a transnational stage where distinct, individual fears are rendered global. The advent of social media has illuminated, perhaps better than ever, the kinds of fears people experience in their day-to-day lives....

Cool Stuff: ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Poster By Gabz There’s a very fine line between making a poster that’s artistic and beautiful, but also recognizable as something from a movie. If you go too far one way, it might be obscure. The other way? A lazy, photoshop mashup. It’s a true talent to be able to ride that line, and the latest piece byGrey Matter Artshows that talent. The company has been releasing posters forThe Texas Chainsaw Massacreand the latest one is by Grzegorz Domaradzki, akaGabz....

Cool Stuff: Christmas Caroling ‘Gremlins’ Figures Are Coming From NECA This Year NECA has already released a handful of outstanding action figures fromGremlins. Not only did they release ultimate versions of both Gizmo and two versions of the generic transformed monster gremlins, but they also released a new version of Stripe. They all come with a bunch of accessories to recreate scenes from the movies, and now two more are coming this fall that will make the perfect decorations for Christmas....

Cool Stuff: Fake Criterion Covers For The ‘Harry Potter’ Film Series [Image Gallery] Fake Criterion covers have become a pretty popular form of fan art as of late. Design-inclined cinephiles have fake-Criterioned everything fromOrson Welles’Macbethto a French version ofHarold & Kumar Go to White CastletoKickpuncher(which is itself a fake movie), and it’s no wonder why. Criterion DVDs often get the kind of cool, artsy covers you would never find on ‘normal’ DVDs, which usually opt for something more tame and immediately recognizable....

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 11 Teaser Reveals October Premiere Don’t get too excited, but the eleventh season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is returning to HBO on July 26, 2025 at the very specific time of 10:40 P.M. Eastern and Pacific. The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning comedy is coming for us once again, and while the teaser doesn’t give us any specifics, it does promise that what we love about the show, specifically Larry David being, well Larry David, will stay the same....

Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake Eyes Rob Marshall To Direct Rob Marshall, the director of movies likeChicago,Memoirs of a Geisha, andNine, is looking to be part of Disney’s world once again. According to a new report, the filmmaker is on the top of the studio’s wishlist to direct the planned live-actionThe Little Mermaidremake, which will feature music fromHamiltonandMoana’sLin-Manuel Mirandaand Disney legendAlan Menken.Deadlinehas the news, reporting they’ve heard Marshall has been offered the job on the upcoming movie but that director will wait until after the holidays to decide one way or the other....

Early Buzz: Your Highness It looks like they have begun to test screenDavid Gordon Green’s new comedyYour Highness, starringDanny McBride, James Franco, Natalie PortmanandZooey Deschanel. After the jump you’re able to find a round up of comments from IMDb, Twitter and other sources, from TEN people who claim to have attended the recent test screening in Burbank on February 18th 2010. Context:Your Highness won’t hit theaters until October 2010, so I assume that that it is a very early cut of the film without final cuts, sound mix or score....

Elemental First Look: See The Concept Art From The New Pixar Film Directed By The Good Dinosaur’s Peter Sohn Fresh off the delightful joys of last month’s “Turning Red” and with next month’s “Lightyear” ahead of us, Pixar is already gearing up for their next high-concept animated film on the docket. Nobody needs a rundown of the studio’s prolific success over the decades (though if that sounds ominously like I’m going to include a mini-summary anyway, you assumed correctly), starting with 1995’s seminal “Toy Story....

Filmmaker Mode Coming To Consumer TVs, Striking A Fatal Blow In The War Against Motion Smoothing Motion smoothing is a disease, but we may have just found the cure. Last September, filmmakers likeChristopher NolanandPaul Thomas Andersonmet with members of The UHD Alliance, an organization comprised in part by major film studios and consumer electronics manufacturers, to seek a way for consumers to be able to watch movies on home television sets without the scourge of motion smoothing and other awful settings ruining the picture quality....

HBO Developing A Scripted Series About Elon Musk’s SpaceX HBO is about to add Elon Musk to the premium cable channel’s iconic roster of characters. A new report says that aSpaceXlimited series is currently in development at HBO, centering on Musk’s space exploration company, andStar Trek Beyondco-writerDoug Jungwill serve as a writer and executive producer of the scripted SpaceX show. Tech genius Elon Musk has an abrasive, flamboyant, bombastic personality – with the successes and failures he’s had at companies like SpaceX and Tesla, he’s exactly the type of person I’d gladly watch an in-depth documentary about....

Home Sweet Home Alone Trailer: The Home Alone Sequel Comes Gift-Wrapped On Disney Sometimes a franchise from your childhood receives a nostalgic, decade-later continuation andit looks as good as you could have imaginedit. Other times, you get what seems like a straight remake of “Home Alone” and the trailer footage mostly makes it appear to be … more of the same of what we’ve seen before? That is, until the shot of a uniformed officer wearing a “McCallister” name tag seems to reveal that Buzz from the original movie has become a cop, which is absolutely wild....