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The creative force behind Surf’s Up discuss bringing their latest CG animated flick to life Not to name names, but a few other CG animated films seem to have grown bored with themselves this summer. And when they’re bored, it goes without saying that the audience is going to be bored. Luckily for us, another great family classic has ridden a wave of originality in from the island of Pen Gu to pick up the slack....

Chris Pratt is involved in some of the biggest blockbusters of the last decade, whether it’s the Jurassic, Lego, or Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. However, given the abundance of performances we receive from the actor, audiences may be oversaturated with Pratt. In September of last year, Nintendo announced the cast of an untitled Super Mario film, with Pratt in the lead. Reception to the casting was mixed, with audiences citing the lack of Italian heritage present in the movie....

We recently caught up with Top Shot’s host Colby Donaldson. Here’s what he had to say about this exciting new series: I wanted to know is what’s the main difference between being a reality show competitor and the host of the show? Colby Donaldson: Well based on my experience, the food and lodging is much better when you’re the host. I never knew or I had no idea that having competed three times now on Survivor but also just being a devout fan of the game for as long as I have - for ten years now - I had no idea it would come into play so much as the host....

Neal H. Moritz, founder of Original Film and producer of such high-profile forthcoming motion pictures as Battle: Los Angeles and Fast Five, has extended his first-look development and production pact with Columbia Pictures for three more years, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures. The extension of Neal H. Moritz’s deal comes 18 months before his current deal was set to expire and continues a successful partnership and collaboration with Sony, the studio that has been his home since he produced I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997....

Craig Bierko is set to star in the comedy, The Rules of Starting Over for Fox. Bobby Farrelly directed the show that centers on a thirtysomething newly single man (Bierko) and his recently divorced friends. Also, The Hollywood Reporter says Kevin McKidd will star in NBC’s fantasy drama, Journeyman. It’s about a man (McKidd) who travels back in time to fix people’s lives, but by recalibrating the past, he sometimes alters the future....

Daniel Craig has revealed that he sat on the explosive ending of his 007 swansong, No Time to Die, for as long as 15 years. SPOILERS incoming, as the movie ends with a hugely shocking twist, killing off Craig’s iteration of James Bond in epic fashion, as the iconic spy sacrifices himself in order to save his newfound family. In a companion book for No Time to Die, Taschen’s ‘James Bond Archives’, Craig has revealed that this was always the plan, with the actor stating that he had always wanted his version of the character to end up dead....

Paramount Pictures has signed on to create an animated film inspired by the 1970s sci-fi fantasy magazine “Heavy Metal”, with director David Fincher on board. According to Variety, Heavy Metal will be stamped by the erotic and violent storylines and images that remain the trademark of a magazine that debuted in the U.S. in 1977. The magazine introduced the works of American artists and writers such as Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and H....

The comedic actor decides to make his own action film in this new mockumentary, on VOD now Dax Shepard wants to be an action star, whether Hollywood is ready or not. Brother’s Justice chronicles the comedic actor’s attempts to gain entry into this genre with surprising and hilarious results. Is it real? Is it fake? It’s hard to tell as Dax appears on one talk show after the next, flaunting his ideas, and picking up a few famous cameos along the way....

Walt Disney’s daughter Diane Disney Miller discusses Lady in the Tramp Last week, I was invited up to the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco to celebrate the Blu-ray debut of Lady and the Tramp, which arrives in three-disc Blu-ray and two-disc Blu-ray February 7. The setting was quite fitting, since one of the special features, Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad, was shot in the museum, and offers a unique glimpse into Walt Disney’s life, as told by his daughter, Diane Disney Miller....

Back in March, we reported that Steven Spielberg is developing a mini-series about French leader Napoleon Bonaparte’s life, based on an unproduced 1961 screenplay written by Stanley Kubrick. Today, we have word that HBO is circling the project, with Baz Luhrmann in early talks to direct. Stanley Kubrick tried to get the project off the ground numerous times in the 1960s and the 1970s, after spending years researching the iconic historical figure....

Microsoft and Walt Disney Pictures have teamed up to make downloading films a more enjoyable experience. Starting today, you can download your favorite Disney films directly from Xbox.com. Here is their press release: Los Angeles, California-Whether you want to find adventure in a blockbuster game or lose yourself in a magical movie moment, you can get the ultimate in entertainment in your living room with Xbox 360™ and Xbox LIVE®. Today at the E3 Media & Business Summit, Microsoft and Disney-ABC Domestic Television announced an agreement to bring feature films from The Walt Disney Studios to U....

Comedy mad man Andy Dick leads a winning ensemble cast in the outrageous no holds barred comedy Division III: Football’s Finest. Meet bad coach Rick Vice, a redneck psycho with a suspect record (the attempted murder of a Pee Wee football team). When the Pulham Blue Cocks coach drops dead on the sidelines, Vice is brought in to turn around the worst team in college football’s lowest division. Marshall Cook costars as Mitch, the slacker second-string quarterback who butts heads with Vice, his worst nightmare, but maybe Vice’s demented methods will be just the spark to turn Mitch and the Blue Cocks into winners....

After several months of waiting, Doogie Kealoha, M.D. is coming to Disney+ in September. A reboot of the Neil Patrick Harris series Doogie Howser, M.D., will premiere on Sept. 8 with new episodes following every Wednesday. Ahead of the premiere, Disney also unveiled the series’ title sequence featuring a new rendition of the Doogie Howser, M.D. theme song, re-imagined and performed by Wendy Wang and Jake Shimabukuro. You can watch it below....

Shudder has released a promo video for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Haunted Halloween Hangout. In what has become an annual tradition for the horror-focused streaming platform, horror legend Joe Bob Briggs has been hosting Halloween specials as a tie-in to his ongoing series The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs. On Friday, Oct. 21, the latest special will arrive with special guest Cassandra Peterson, also known to horror fans as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark....

ABC has another hit on its hands with Revenge, the critically-acclaimed drama series that found a home at 10 PM on Wednesday nights, right after the network’s hit comedy block. Fans can relive the entire first season with Revenge: The Complete First Season, currently available on DVD, before the Season 2 Premiere airs on its new night and time, Sunday, September 30 at 9 PM ET. Series star Emily VanCamp recently talked about the first season, and what fans can expect in the upcoming episodes....

Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska makes her English feature debut with The Silent Twins. June and Jennifer Gibbons were daughters of Caribbean immigrants who settled in early seventies Wales. The girls (Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Eva-Arianna Baxter) were ostracized and bullied for being black. This led them to retreat inside and stop communicating. They didn’t speak to anyone but each other in a bizarre cryptophasia. The girls developed a rich fantasy life expressed in their writings....

The new film Zero Contact has broken new ground in several ways. It uses technology iconoclastically, as it is the first feature film to be released as an NFT and was actually filmed without anyone in the cast and crew in physical proximity with each other. The entirety of the film, organized by Enderby producer Rick Dugdale in his debut movie as a director, is filmed “without a single handshake,” as the production notes explain....

Lionsgate will soon release the new thriller Escape the Field and we can first debut an exclusive clip from the film. From director Emerson Moore, the movie follows six strangers who find themselves in a cornfield, caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil. In our exclusive clip below, the survivors attempt to make some sense of their situation after discovering some clues. Moore co-wrote the screenplay with Joshua Dobkin and Sean Wathen....

We have a brand new exclusive clip of Dark Blue: The Complete First Season, which will be available exclusively at the WB Shop starting on July 6. Click below to watch this exclusive clip to delve deeper into this upcoming four-disc DVD set which contains all 10 episodes of the first season. LAPD Lt. Carter Shaw (Dylan McDermott) and his special undercover task force understand that to collar criminals, one must first get on their level....

We have a brand new exclusive DVD clip from the upcoming release All About Steve, which will be available on DVD and Blu-ray shelves everywhere on December 22. Click below for our exclusive clip, which shows Sandra Bullock’s Mary character getting ready for a date. The clip features the following “Mary-ism” - “Better get going if I’m going to fall in love and get proposed to, register at Barnes and Normal, have a beautiful wedding with an accordion band and little tiny plastic bride and groom on top of a cake posing like this” - and you can take a look at more “Mary-isms” from the film below this exclusive clip....