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Claudia Wells To Play Jennifer From ‘Back To The Future’ Again In making theBack to the Futurevideo game, Telltale Games hasproved time and time againthat they’re huge fans and very respectful of the source material. For example with the third episode intheir series of games, calledCitizen Brown, they were able to getClaudia Wells, the original Jennifer, to reprise her role as Marty’s girlfriend. Wells played the role in the original 1985 film but, due to a family illness, was unable to come back for the sequels and was replaced by Elizabeth Shue....

Cool Stuff: Alternative Fan Posters For ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Say what you want aboutStar Trek Into Darkness, but it’s had a lot of posters.Teaser posters,IMAXposters,character posters, the print campaign for theJ.J. Abramssequel has been incredibly extensive anddiverse.Star Trekis such a vivid property, however, that there’s always room to go further. One website brought together several up and coming pop artists to reinterpret the film with their own unique style. The results range from minimalistic and eye catching, to exaggerated and exciting....

Creating Jurassic Park’s Climactic Scene Was A Last-Minute Scramble It’s become a bit of a cliche to describe a film as a roller coaster ride, but if any movie earns such a description, it’s “Jurassic Park.” Director Steven Spielberg made the 1993 blockbuster with all the aplomb befitting his prior hits like the “Indiana Jones” trilogy, combining his penchant for meticulously choreographed and edited action sequences with a story involving a dinosaur amusement park run amok....

Dinner For Schmucks Movie Trailer #2 Paramount Pictures has released the second movie trailer for theSteve Carell/Paul RuddcomedyDinner for Schmucks. The film, helmed byJay Roach(the director of theAustin PowersandMeet the Parentsfilms), tells the story of a rising executive who “succeeds” in finding the perfect guest, an IRS employee, for his boss’s monthly event, a so-called “dinner for idiots,” which offers certain advantages to the exec who shows up with the biggest buffoon....

Disney CEO Bob Chapek Thinks Shorter Theatrical Windows May Be Here To Stay The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the film industry. Productions have been slowed down or halted completely, safety protocols have made continuing productions much more expensive, and the theatrical distribution model has been shaken up dramatically. In fact, the window for seeing movies exclusively in theaters has been shortened so dramatically over the past year that Walt Disney Company CEOBob Chapekisn’t sure that the industry will be able to go back to the old ways....

Exclusive: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Recruits Katee Sackhoff To Play Bo-Katan In Live-Action Battlestar Galacticastar andStar WarsveteranKatee Sackhoffis joiningThe Mandalorianseason 2. We have exclusively learned that Sackhoff will be playing a live-action version of Bo-Katan Kryze, a Mandalorian warrior she previously voiced in Dave Filoni’s animated seriesStar Wars: The Clone Warsand laterStar Wars Rebels. Although both Lucasfilm and Sackhoff’s reps declined to comment, we have confirmed this story with multiple sources....

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Edited To Remove LGBTQ Dialogue In China “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” is days away from hitting theaters in the US and whisking audiences back to thewhimsical yet war-tornwizarding world. The promise of familiar faces and enchantments is more than enough to inspire excitement, but then there’s the chance to delve into a beloved character that the prior “Harry Potter” movies portrayed as a mystery: Albus Dumbledore....

First ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6 Footage Features Dany, Cersei, And More The very firstGame of ThronesSeason 6 teaserpremiered last week, but as exciting as it was, it didn’t contain any actual new footage from Season 6. For that, we have to turn to HBO’s end-of-year trailer, which looks back at the year that was and ahead at the year that’s coming. Game of Thronesis just one of many shows and movies highlighted in the video, so don’t expect a full, meaty trailer....

FX CEO Expects to Bring Grown-Up Shows to Disney [TCA 2018] Under the terms of the Disney acquisition of 20th Century Fox properties, the broadcast network Fox and various cable networks are not included. FX, however, is part of the Disney sale. Speaking with the Television Critics Association today, FX CEOJohn Landgrafsaid he expects FX to have a place in Disney, particularly feeding the streaming service Disney announced prior to the Fox deal....

Geek Deals: LG BD270 Blu-Ray Disc Player For $99 And Other Black Friday Week Bargins We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As Black Friday approaches, a bunch of really great movie deals are hitting the web. We’ll attempt to bring you a daily round-up of links throughout the week. The following deals are good for this week. Amazon is also doing a set of “Lightning Deals” which are only good for a specified set of hours....

Has Production On Astroboy Shut Down? Steve Hulett is the Business Rep. and Kevin Koch the president of The Animation Guild (TAG), Local 839 IATSE. They also keep a very interestingblogabout the ups, downs, ins and outs of living and working as a professional animator. Sadly, they’re now reporting that production on Imagi’sAstroboymovie appears to have shut down. This comes just days after I last reported on the film, on how it appears to have just scraped through it’s troubles with the recession....

Is Eternals The First Marvel Studios Movie To Receive A PG-13 Rating For … SEX?! Look away now and preserve your innocence, puritans! Everyone else, kindly settle in for an incoming rant. Forgive me for painting with such a broad brush, but I’d go so far as to say that blockbuster filmmaking has rarely felt more cold, sexless, and emotionally distant as it does now. I won’t try to dissect all the social or political reasons for why this might be the case, but nowhere is this trend more apparent than in the most popular and consistently profitable ongoing franchise: the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

LOL: Arnold Schwarzenegger Dresses As The Terminator To Prank Fans Walking on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA, you see a lot of people dressed as famous movie characters. Jack Sparrow, Spider-Man, Batman, Optimus Prime, Willy Wonka and so many more are all walking around, hoping people take a photo with them for a small fee. Most of the costumes are terrible, but some are quite good. The team atOmazeused that fact to their advantage....