I’ve got a few questions for you. Are you a fan of Pokémon? Are you looking forward to seeing Pokemon: Detective Pikachu? Do you like seeing movies before they’re released? Will you be in the Los Angeles area May 7th? And, finally, would you like to see director Rob Letterman do a Q&A after seeing the film? If you answered yes to these...
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On today's episode of Movie Talk, Perri Nemiroff, Coy Jandreau, and Elew discuss the following: Paramount released the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog featuring Jim Carrey, James Marsden and the voice of Ben Schwartz as the derry blue speedster. Patty Jenkins shared a new Wonder Woman 1984 image as a birthday tribute to Gal Gadot that has fans asking if it is...
The Witching Hour: Episode 39 – Genre Storytelling in ‘Avengers: Endgame’ & Netflix’s Best Horror Series
April 30, 2019
Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Editor and Horror Lead Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. On this week's episode, we dig into the exciting lineup for the Overlook Film Festival before serving up a review for Netflix's latest horror series Chambers and why it doesn't quite hit the mark. After that, we break down which of Netflix's horror series...
The cast of misfits who will populate writer/director James Gunn's mostly-new version of The Suicide Squad is filling up quickly. Just a day after Ant-Man alum David Dastmalchian landed the role of Polka-Dot Man, Variety reports that relative newcomer Daniela Melchior will join the project as Ratcatcher. Now, both those names might be met with a "who?", so let's start with Melchior: the Portuguese...
Quentin Tarantino Recut the ‘Hateful Eight’ as a Netflix Miniseries with 20 Minutes of New Footage
April 30, 2019
If you wanted an even longer version of Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 film The Hateful Eight, you’re in luck. Earlier this month, The Hateful Eight was made available to watch on Netflix in two versions: the theatrical cut, and an extended version that’s presented as a four-episode “miniseries.” Initially, many thought Netflix had just decided to chop up the longer “roadshow” version of The Hateful...
Back in 2017, it was reported that Quentin Tarantino was developing a Star Trek film with an eye to direct, based on an idea he shared with producer J.J. Abrams. Since then, Tarantino has been pretty hard at work on his 1969-set drama Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—which is not a Manson movie!—and we haven't got much of an update on the...
‘Us’ Blu-ray Details Promise Six Deleted Scenes & a Bounty of Behind-the-Scenes Features
April 30, 2019
If you've been dying to dig into the mysteries of Us, good news -- the biggest horror hit of 2019 so far is heading to home video, and the Blu-ray is jam-packed bonus features. Jordan Peele's dopplegänger horror film sparked a whole lot of theorizing and debate, and if you're hoping to throw some fuel on the fire, look forward to six deleted scenes...
This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we're talking about Avengers: Endgame. In our spoiler-filled podcast, we talk about why the film succeeds, how it connects to other Marvel movies, our favorite moments, the future of the MCU, our Top 10 Marvel movies, and more. We then finish up with Recently Watched. Listen to the latest episode of The Collider.com Podcast below; click here...
Those worried that Quentin Tarantino is treading uncouth territory with regards to the Manson murders in his next film may be encouraged by new plot details that have emerged. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood takes place in 1969 in, as the title suggests, Los Angeles. The story's focus is on the changing landscape at the time, when Hollywood’s Golden Age gave way...
Marketing! Who can tell what is good or bad anymore, truly. Is it a good idea to reveal Sonic the Hedgehog has horrific baby human teeth to the sound of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"? Is it ethical to shoot and show false footage to maintain the secrets of Avengers: Endgame? Should Disney have maybe finished the VFX on Will Smith before releasing an Aladdin...
I attended my first Comic Con as a fan, not a writer - buying a pass and going to panels just for the sake of enjoying them, not because I had to have an article about their content. This was in 2006, and while I can't remember everything I went to, I distinctly remember sitting in the audience as Jon Favreau, Louis Leterrier,...
‘Game of Thrones’ Cinematographer Offers Pro Tips on How to Watch the Super-Dark Show
April 30, 2019
Game of Thrones is dark. Like ... super dark. It always has been. But normally when fans of the HBO hit are commenting on how dark it is, the conversation is about tone, or storytelling twists, or gut-wrenching, unfair character deaths. Rarely does the term "dark" apply to the series' visual palette in casual conversation, and rarer still does anyone comment that an...
Jason Rothenberg on Season 6 of ‘The 100’, Time Jumps, and Planning Ahead for Season 7
April 30, 2019
The CW drama series The 100 is back for Season 6 (and already picked up for Season 7) with a huge reboot, now 125 years further into the future and facing a mysterious new planet that they must go down and explore. With no idea what’s in store for them, a small group, including Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and Bellamy (Bob Morley), head off...
IFC Films has released a trailer for Ophelia. Set in the 14th century, this re-imagining of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is told from the perspective of Ophelia (Daisy Ridley) as she tries to maneuver through all the intrigue that surrounds her. Re-imagining. I saw the film at Sundance 2018 (it’s been on the shelf for a while) and didn’t really care for it. From...
Hopefully you've had a chance to catch up on the latest episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, because it's just about all anyone's been talking about since Sunday night. And with good reason. Not only did the super-sized episode have a lot of ground to cover, with a massive battle sequence at its core, it also had a record number of people tuning...
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"The book was better" is a phrase heard often in conversations about book-to-film adaptations. "Don't judge a book by its movie" is another common jab. While we've all uttered some version of this sentiment at one point or another, there have been those rare occasions when the opposite is true. As a lifelong bookworm and cinephile, I've discovered that whether I read the...
The break between George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and David Benioff & Dan Weiss’ Game of Thrones has become increasingly clear as the show has left Martin’s books behind. Even if you aren’t familiar with all the lore and details Martin has packed into his novels, you can see that in Martin’s view, he’s rebelling against standard fantasy tropes. He doesn’t play...
Disney’s ill-advised decision to fire James Gunn resulted in Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which was on track for a 2020 release, getting pushed back indefinitely. Thankfully, Disney and Gunn mended fences, and he’ll return to finish his cosmic trilogy. However, during the time he was fired, he was picked up to direct The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros., which has led to...
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First comes the obligatory disclaimer: Game of Thrones is an event series, it’s incredibly fun to watch, and the horror and tension that director Miguel Sapochnik was able to leverage in Season 8’s third episode, “The Long Night,” was absolutely outstanding. But there was one element of this epic, long-awaited battle episode written by Dan Weiss and David Benioff that felt half-baked, because...
‘Sonic the Hedgehog’: 36 Images from the Trailer Will Make You Wonder Why Sonic Has Human Teeth
April 30, 2019
On the heels of the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, Paramount has sent along 36 hi-res screengrabs from that trailer. For those who don’t know, the live-action/CGI adaptation of the long-running video game series stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic and has the blue hedgehog teaming up with a human, Tom (James Marsden), to stop the villainous Dr. Robotnik (Jim...
Spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame. After a glorified cameo in Iron Man 2, we really got to know Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) in The Avengers. She was defined by “the red in my ledger”, and while that conversation was a ploy to draw out Loki’s plan, through further MCU movies we see Black Widow as someone who operates in a gray area...
It's our pleasure to bring you the exclusive announcement of a new comedy series that pairs perfectly well with your favorite drink of choice. Today, DrinkTV, in conjunction with Shout! Studios and Dr. God, is announcing a new show airing exclusively on the streaming platform. Hell Den is an animated series that mixes original animation and re-dubbed cartoons in a deliciously warped and hilarious brew of...
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A grand total of ninety million American dollars went into the production of Sonic the Hedgehog, an adaptation of the popular video game series about a anthropomorphized blue mammal capable of running at sound-barrier-breaking speeds. Today, the first trailer for this film has surfaced online, and the design of its central character has left some wondering where that money went. Voiced by Larry...
Paramount has released the first trailer for their upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie. The film follows Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) as he tries to save the world alongside his human pal Tom (James Marsden) and stop the villainous Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey). It’s very easy to be cynical about a Sonic the Hedgehog movie, but honestly my biggest complaint is how mundane...
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It is widely accepted truth those among us who don’t self-identify as insane that the 1990 film Pretty Woman is one of the most execrable artworks ever forged in Beelzebub’s furnace. Indeed, a sulphurous tinge rises to the back of the throat when even broadly referring to this film as a piece of art. Jonathan Levine’s scattershot comedy Long Shot attempts to right...
Documentaries about the future prospects of our planet have, by necessity, become increasingly alarming of late. Yet it’s taken a national treasure like Sir David Attenborough to raise the alarm for the wider populous – and big business – for them to sit up and take note. Finally, we are all now having to consider our use of plastic and what it does...
On this episode of Collider Movie Talk, Perri Nemiroff, John Rocha and Clarke Wolfe discuss the following: Multiple news outlets are reporting that director John Singleton has passed away at age 51 from a stroke. The panel honors his work and his legacy. The box office returns are in for Avengers: Endgame and it has absolutely demolished numerous box office records including being...
Kevin Hart will produce and likely star in an English-language remake of the Korean box office sensation Extreme Job for Universal Pictures, it was announced on Monday. There's no director attached yet, but Girls Trip scribe Tracy Oliver will write the script and produce alongside Hart and Francis Chung of CJ Entertainment, which produced the original film. Jerry Ko will serve as an...
‘The Society’ Trailer: The Kids Are Not Alright in Netflix’s Supernatural Thriller Series
April 29, 2019
Netflix has released the full trailer for its upcoming thriller series The Society. Written by Chris Keyser (Tyrant) and directed by Marc Webb [(500) Days of Summer], the story takes place in a world "where a group of teenagers are mysterious transported to a facsimile of their wealthy New England town, but without any trace of their parents or other adults. Left to their own devices, everything...
HBO has revealed the list of titles arriving to and leaving its standalone streaming service, HBO NOW, in May. It's a huge month for the services' original series, mostly in the way a few of them will be gone forever. Game of Thrones' series finale will be available on May 19th, while the series finale of Veep will hit the service on May...
We Made Seth Rogen & Charlize Theron Tell Us Which Secretaries Of State They’re Attracted To
April 29, 2019
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We have some sad news to report today. Oscar-nominated director John Singleton has passed away at the age of 51. Singleton had suffered a stroke and was on life support, and his family made the decision to take him off that life support. Singleton is a fascinating director and one of the most important in bringing black cinematic voices to the mainstream. The...
Bond 25 is fascinating in the way that we suddenly know a ton of details about it and yet, don't really know a whole lot about it at all. Danny Boyle was in, then he was out, and now it's the equally-hype Cary Joji Fukunaga handling directing duties. Phoebe-Waller Bridge took a pass at the script to jazz it up, as did Scott Z....
As expected, not everyone survived the battle at Winterfell in Game of Thrones. Season 8's Episode 3 – "The Long Night" – brought death over the gates of the Stark family ancestral home, and though the living fought valiantly, some of our favorites didn't make it. Spoiler alert! If you didn't see Sunday night's GoT, stop reading now and bookmark this link to...
The Division did not launch well. Visually and aurally, it was top-notch; narratively and ideologically, it was grim and inhumane; in gameplay, it was shallow and repetitive. While its essentially fascist themes never changed, Ubisoft gradually patched the Tom Clancy quasi-MMO into something with great replayability and depth. Those learnings are clear in The Division 2. While it’s still a muddled melange of...
Mild spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame. With a three-hour run-time, there's plenty to mine from Avengers: Endgame. But one line of dialogue you probably missed might just tease the arrival of a long-standing Marvel Comics character: Namor the Sub-Mariner. That three-hour run-time is fairly lean, meaning that few if any lines of dialogue included in the final cut are throwaways; there's a reason...
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James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is shaping up to be a very different beast than its predecessor. The upcoming sequel/reboot will bring back Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), and Amanda Walker (Viola Davis) along with adding new faces Idris Elba and John Cena for unspecified roles. But now it looks like in addition to the old gallery of villains, Gunn...
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Filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller are leaving 20th Century Fox TV to set up a new overall deal at Sony Picture Entertainment, which includes overseeing a slew of TV shows based on Marvel Comics characters. Per THR, Lord and Miller have signed a five-year overall deal with Sony TV, where they will create and develop comedy and drama projects for broadcast, cable,...
Tyler Perry is set to join Angelina Jolie in Taylor Sheridan's next pulse-pounding thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead, Collider has exclusively learned. Based on the bestselling novel by Michael Koryta, Those Who Wish Me Dead is described as a hard-boiled chase thriller set against a wildfire in the Montana wilderness. It follows a 14-year-old boy who witnesses a brutal murder and enters a federal protection program that involves teaching...
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Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame follow below. One of the most devastating moments in Avengers: Endgame comes before the big battle, when Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow sacrifices herself in an act of pure bravery to acquire the Soul Stone, which in turn gives the Avengers the chance to revive half the universe’s population. It’s a tremendously emotional moment, and one that plays out with...
Spoilers ahead for last night’s episode of Game of Thrones. Let's talk about Arya Stark. Like most of the Stark children, she's survived untold horrors over the years/seasons on Game of Thrones, but unlike a few of them, she's alive and in good shape to survive the trials that are yet to come. Arya, and by extension actor Maisie Williams, got to play...
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Minor spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame. Now that all the Marvel Netflix shows have been canceled, it remains this interesting little experiment that kind of flirted with being part of the MCU, but really was off in a corner so remote that the movies or other Marvel TV shows couldn’t touch it. It was basically just a collection of loosely interconnected shows that...
Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame follow below. The third act battle scene of Avengers: Endgame is not just one of the highlights of the movie, it’s one of the highlights of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. But an alternate, even longer battle scene was actually written and shot before being cut from the film entirely. As the Infinity War sequel approaches its, ahem, endgame,...
Avengers: Endgame didn’t quite put a period on the run-on sentence that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe like its title might lead you to believe. Such things cannot end, lest the world go hungry for giant, gaping holes in the sky belching out spaceships. The question on the minds of Marvel fans everywhere is no longer “how will it end?” Now, it’s “how...
Well. folks, "The Long Night" has come to an end, and despite the fact that I went a full 26 minutes before realizing that my computer monitor just wasn't turned on, I thought this was a real mixed bag! I simply cannot sit here and tell you an episode of television in which one dragon eats another zombie dragon's face off in the...
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Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 3: "The Long Night." For many who watched Game of Thrones' epic Battle of Winterfell episode, officially titled "The Long Night," it was hard to see exactly what was happening. There was a lot of purposefully confusion visual chaos to simulate the horror of battle, but also, the episode was shot only at night and,...
Warner Bros. has announced the Fantastic Beasts 3 release date, letting fans know when the next installment of the Harry Potter prequel franchise will be hitting theaters. The new film is set to open on November 12, 2021, which marks nearly three years to the day that the sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald opened—one year longer than the gap between the...
‘Game of Thrones’: Maisie Williams Was Worried Fans Would Hate the Battle of Winterfell Ending
April 29, 2019
Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3 follow below. The episode many fans have been waiting for since Game of Thrones began aired last night: the long-awaited showdown between the heroes of Westeros and the Night King and his Army of the Dead. The final stand played out at Winterfell and resulted in a few casualties, but all eyes were on...
‘Game of Thrones’ Battle of Winterfell Explained in 40-Minute Behind-the-Scenes Video
April 29, 2019
Spoilers ahead for last night’s episode of Game of Thrones. Hopefully you're caught up on HBO's Game of Thrones, because last night's epic episode "The Long Night" was one for the history books. While the ultimate fate of most of our favorite characters has yet to be decided, this episode went a long way towards showing off the impressive and talented crew behind...
So, y'all remember when Thanos did his snap and half of life just blinked out of existence? That's exactly what Disney and Marvel did to box office records over the weekend when Avengers: Endgame dropped in theaters and promptly decimated the competition. There was a lot of theorizing and scrutinizing about whether Endgame would be able to top $300 Million domestically in its opening weekend --...
Spoilers ahead for last night's episode of Game of Thrones. There's a lot that went down in last night's Game of Thrones episode, the extra long, extra intense, and extra heroic "The Long Night." Some two dozen of our favorite characters stood side by side in a fight for survival, a literal battle between life and death. But while the battle itself took...
Fresh off the highly anticipated Battle of Winterfell episode—officially titled “The Long Night”—HBO has released the trailer for next week’s episode of Game of Thrones. With the Night King and his Army of the Dead defeated, it appears that all eyes are now on Cersei. As Dany puts it in this trailer, they’ve won the Great War and now they’re aiming to win...
Just last night, a new version of Francis Ford Coppola‘s hallucinatory Vietnam opus Apocalypse Now debuted to a rapt crowd at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The good news is that it won’t be long before everyone else can get eyes on a resurrected classic. Directly following the premiere, Lionsgate sent out a press release announcing plans to bring the restored...
Last year, LEGO started a new line of Harry Potter sets, and they’re continuing to expand the line this August with five new sets. The sets will include the Knight Bus, Hagrid’s Hut, the front of Hogwarts, a battle between Harry’s Patronus and dementors, and the dragon from the Triwizard Tournament. Here’s a quick rundown on the individual sets: Expecto Pantronum - 121...
Twenty-four years on it’s still difficult, if not impossible, to know quite what to make of Showgirls. That is, at least, the view of director Jeffrey McHale in this academic look at what is now considered a cult classic. Is it, he asks, a “masterpiece of shit”, a misunderstood masterstroke of satirical bad taste from a master of cinema? Or simply a godawful...
Avengers: Endgame marks the closing of an unprecedented era of blockbuster filmmaking, the climax of a cinematic universe that has spanned 22 entries. While there are countless examples of sequels, prequels, threequels and more, it’s rare that a franchise get to the 22 film mark while still capturing the public’s imagination. There are, however, a handful of instances – we’ll leave it to...
To generalise grossly, you might say that the films of the archly combative Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa are about how corruption manifests like a creeping fungus on all tiers of society. His fiction breakthrough, 2010’s ironically titled My Joy, tramped a comically grim trail through the oppressive tactics employed by the Ukrainian state, from bent politicos to power-tripping police officers and way, way...
You may have noticed that we're just a tiny bit excited about Marvel lately here at Birth.Movies.Avengers: Endgame. Given that this is essentially the end of Marvel's first giant chapter, it seemed like a good time to check BMD's pulse on how the saga currently ranks. Speaking just for myself this changes from day to day, and a whole lot of entries are...
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