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RAY GUNN Director Brad Bird Says Animation Shouldn’t Be Treated Like a Genre for Kids: “It’s Film” — GeekTyrant
Animation isn’t a genre. It isn’t automatically kids’ entertainment. It’s a way to make movies, tell stories, and Brad Bird would like people to finally treat it that way. The director of Ray Gunn has spent much of his career working in animation, and during a recent Q&A I attended following a screening of the film, Bird talked about his…
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The TRANSFORMERS/G.I. JOE Crossover Movie Is Dead, and That’s Probably for the Best — GeekTyrant
The long-planned Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover movie is officially dead, and honestly, I’m good with that. Paramount teased the crossover at the end of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, setting the stage for Autobots and Joes to finally collide in a live-action movie. It was a cool idea on paper, but everything we heard about the project afterward made it sound…
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Ben Affleck Used AI for “Lots of Things” in His New Netflix Movie ANIMALS But Won’t Reveal What — GeekTyrant
Ben Affleck used artificial intelligence for “lots of things” while making his new Netflix crime thriller Animals, but don’t expect him to reveal exactly where the technology shows up. Affleck confirmed the use of AI during a Screentime panel, explaining that while the technology played a role in the production, identifying those moments could spoil some of the movie magic.…
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William Shatner Gets Real About Reprising Captain Kirk in STAR TREK — GeekTyrant
William Shatner isn’t closing the door on Captain Kirk, but if Star Trek wants him back, it better come knocking with a really great idea. William Shatner has once again addressed talk of returning as Captain James T. Kirk, saying that nostalgia alone isn’t enough to get him back in the captain’s chair. He loves the character and the franchise,…
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WERWULF Trailer Unleashes Robert Eggers’ Brutal Medieval Werewolf Nightmare — GeekTyrant
The full moon is out, and Robert Eggers has unleashed another nightmare. A new trailer for Werwulf has arrived, offering another nasty glimpse at Eggers’ upcoming gothic folk-horror movie. It looks brutal, grimy, and genuinely terrifying, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, and Willem Dafoe caught in what appears to be one hell of a medieval nightmare. The second Werwulf trailer…
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DYNAMIC DUO Casts Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Barbara Gordon as Chris Pine Is Eyed for Batman — GeekTyrant
Dynamic Duo is starting to put together one hell of a cast, with Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon, and even a potential Batman now in the mix. The animated DC project from Swaybox is one of the more unusual movies coming from DC Studios. Rather than sticking with traditional animation, the film will combine miniatures, models, puppetry, animatronics, and…
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Hot Toys’ Ellen Ripley and Power Loader Figure Is Freakin’ Badass! — GeekTyrant
Hot Toys is giving Aliens fans one hell of a collectible with its new Ellen Ripley and Power Loader 1/6 scale release. Aliens remains one of the most awesome sci-fi/horror movies ever made, and Ellen Ripley is still one of my all-time favorite movie characters. Her showdown with the Alien Queen is legendary, with Ripley climbing into the Caterpillar P-5000…
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Zack Snyder Reveals His Retro-Futuristic Approach to the ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Remake — GeekTyrant
Zack Snyder has figured out one of the biggest questions surrounding his remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York: How do you remake a futuristic movie when its future is already nearly 30 years in the past? You don’t modernize it. You go back to 1981 and imagine 1997 all over again. Snyder has shared some new details about…
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Courteney Cox Wants to Direct a SCREAM Movie After 30 Years of Fighting Ghostface — GeekTyrant
Courteney Cox has spent 30 years running from Ghostface, chasing news stories, and somehow keeping Gale Weathers alive through one massacre after another. At this point, she figures she might as well direct one of the movies. Cox is returning to directing with her sophomore feature Evil Genius, and while discussing the true-crime film at the Deadline Studio during TIFF,…
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Tim Curry Reveals His Favorite Lost CLUE Ending and the Exhausting Day That Sent Him to the Hospital — GeekTyrant
Tim Curry spends the final stretch of Clue racing around Hill House like a man possessed, explaining an increasingly complicated series of murders at breakneck speed. Turns out filming all that chaos was just as exhausting as it looks. During a visit to the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library before he passed away, Curry looked through original production materials from the…
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