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Drive-in movies are back, and it took the deadly COVID-19 virus to resurrect them. With cinemas closed and large public gatherings not a good idea no matter what some bikers, party-types and comb-over presidents might think, some adventurous souls have met with success in recent months by rejuvenating the largely…

As the voice of everybody's favorite talking Jack Russell terrier Max in The Secret Life of Pets 2, Patton Oswalt not only brought his own unique, edgy humor and laugh-out-loud sardonic tone, but he was also stepping into Max's paws following Louis C.K.'s removal from the role—a situation Oswalt graciously doesn't…

Director Brad Bird didn’t wait for the first Incredibles movie in 2004 to sweep the world, gathering up box office and critical praise, before plotting its sequel. “I had the idea when I was promoting the first film,” Bird said about the follow-up during a recent appearance at Deadline’s The Contenders New York…

Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a hit film hailed as a game-changing meld of CG technology with a retro, hand-drawn spirit, won the Golden Globe tonight as the top animated feature film of 2018. Accepting the award, Spider-Verse producer and co-writer Phil Lord praised the “800 filmmakers around the world&#8221…

It’s not the first time that a sequel has arrived more than a decade after it’s predecessor, and in such situations, it’s always daunting for a studio, because you never know if moviegoers are still going to care, or if they’re too precious about the original movie. However, Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2, like Finding D…

It’s hard to think that any superhero film could qualify as a Hollywood rarity these days but Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is just that. As an animated big-screen adaptation of a comic book superhero the Sony film is on a surprisingly short list. On Thursday the film’s three directors — Bob Persichetti, Peter Rams…

Spoiler Alert: This interview features discussion of critical plot elements from Pixar's Incredibles 2. When The Incredibles came out in 2004, it was a film ahead of its time. Marking a major paradigm shift in animation as a whole, Brad Bird's family-centric superhero story was so ambitious—in the midst of the…

It is hard to believe it was 14 years ago when the first and until now only The Incredibles hit theaters, made more than $630 million worldwide and won an Oscar as Best Animated Feature. Certainly a concept and success like this 2004 juggernaut would warrant a sequel, but it has taken all this time for original…

Filmmaker Brad Bird has been tapped to receive the Cinematic Imagery Award from the Art Directors Guild. The honor will be presented next month at the guild’s 21st annual Art Directors Guild�' Excellence in Production Design Awards. The Cinematic Imagery Award is given to “those whose body of work in the film industry…

“What if there’s a place — a secret place — where nothing is impossible? Miraculous place where you could actually change the world. You wanna go?” Disney thinks you do. Here’s the first full trailer for Tomorrowland, the mystery flick starring George Clooney that the studio has been so secret that it’s likely Edward…

Tomorrowland debuted a “special look’ ad for the Super Bowl broadcast, and here it is, though it doesn’t seem to unveil in 30 seconds a great number of revelatory new scenes. The film from Disney is directed by Brad Bird and written by Bird and Damon Lindelof. It stars George Clooney, Britt Robertson and Hugh Laurie. &nbsp…

UPDATE 12:45 PM, with more details throughout: While San Diego’s Comic-Con mostly dwarfs New York’s confab, the latter has stepped up the star power as George Clooney just surprised fans by appearing onstage for Disney’s Tomorrowland panel. It was the opening panel of the weekend-long confab that drew thousands of…