Beyond a heavily silhouetted appearance in Creature Commandos, Batman has yet to be formally introduced in the DCU. There has been speculation that DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn is considering making Robert Pattinson the DCU’s Dark Knight, but The Brave and the Bold director Andy Muschietti doesn’t think that will happen.

While appearing on Radio TU (translated by Reel Anarchy), Muschietti said, “As everyone knows, the Batman featured in The Brave and the Bold will belong to the new DC universe. It’s quite obvious that Matt Reeves’ Batman is not part of this new universe. However, DC and Warner Bros. are moving forward with the second part of Reeves’ Batman series, which, as widely reported, is expected to release around 2027. This means the next Batman movie will take some time before it sees the light of day.“

Muschietti continued, “Releasing two Batman films simultaneously would be counterproductive. What DC is doing is creating a strategy to ensure these two films don’t conflict with each other. Regarding my involvement in the project, there are good intentions for now. They want to do the movie with me, and I want to do it as well. I’m eager to work on the film. We are talking about the story and the tone.“

As Muschietti mentioned, the release of The Batman sequel was recently pushed back by a full year. The film is now slated for an October 1, 2027 release, but director Matt Reeves has confirmed it will start shooting this year. As far as Pattinson becoming the DCU’s Batman, Reeves was open to it if it made sense. “Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it really comes down to whether or not it makes sense,” Reeves said on the Golden Globes red carpet. “What’s been great is there was a story that I wanted to tell that we’re calling The Epic Crime Saga which is the thrust of what we wanted to do. It’s been important to me to be able to play that out. James and Peter have been really, really great about that and they’re letting us do that. What the future brings, I can’t really tell you. I have no idea right now except that my head is down now about getting The Batman Part II shooting and to make it something special which is, of course, the most important thing.“

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Beyond a heavily silhouetted appearance in Creature Commandos, Batman has yet to be formally introduced in the DCU. There has been speculation that DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn is considering making Robert Pattinson the DCU’s Dark Knight, but The Brave and the Bold director Andy Muschietti doesn’t think that will happen.

While appearing on Radio TU (translated by Reel Anarchy), Muschietti said, “As everyone knows, the Batman featured in The Brave and the Bold will belong to the new DC universe. It’s quite obvious that Matt Reeves’ Batman is not part of this new universe. However, DC and Warner Bros. are moving forward with the second part of Reeves’ Batman series, which, as widely reported, is expected to release around 2027. This means the next Batman movie will take some time before it sees the light of day.“

Muschietti continued, “Releasing two Batman films simultaneously would be counterproductive. What DC is doing is creating a strategy to ensure these two films don’t conflict with each other. Regarding my involvement in the project, there are good intentions for now. They want to do the movie with me, and I want to do it as well. I’m eager to work on the film. We are talking about the story and the tone.“

As Muschietti mentioned, the release of The Batman sequel was recently pushed back by a full year. The film is now slated for an October 1, 2027 release, but director Matt Reeves has confirmed it will start shooting this year. As far as Pattinson becoming the DCU’s Batman, Reeves was open to it if it made sense. “Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it really comes down to whether or not it makes sense,” Reeves said on the Golden Globes red carpet. “What’s been great is there was a story that I wanted to tell that we’re calling The Epic Crime Saga which is the thrust of what we wanted to do. It’s been important to me to be able to play that out. James and Peter have been really, really great about that and they’re letting us do that. What the future brings, I can’t really tell you. I have no idea right now except that my head is down now about getting The Batman Part II shooting and to make it something special which is, of course, the most important thing.“

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach is playing Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but will the actor utter the character’s iconic catchphrase?

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Moss-Bachrach was asked if he says, “It’s clobberin’ time” at some point in the film. “I slipped it in there a couple times,” Moss-Bachrach said. “We’ll see what happens. I don’t have final cut on this one.“

The Thing will be brought to life through motion-capture in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the actor even got some help from the godfather of motion-capture performance, Andy Serkis. “I have seen a very crude rendering, because it takes a while to build this stuff,” Moss-Bachrach said. “They’ve got lots of animators working on this. I wore a motion-capture suit, two cameras right here and so they’re capturing absolutely everything, every nuance in my eye. It takes a while to build it, and they’re building it right now. Andy Serkis, who’s sort of the godfather of motion-capture, he has this company, The Imaginarium at Pinewood Studios, where we shot this.“

Moss-Bachrach continued, “They have a room they call the Magic Mirror, where you put on the motion-capture suit and you put on monitors, and you can see in real time a beta rendering. It’s not fully realized, you can’t see the face too much. But there are stairs and a doorframe so you can see the physics, how big the character is.“

Kimmel then tried to get Moss-Bachrach to spill some details on the upcoming film, including whether Robert Downey Jr. might appear as Doctor Doom, but the actor didn’t bite. “It’s not gonna happen,” he said. “I’ve been through rigorous media training.“

“So has Tom Holland, and he always gives me something,” Kimmel responded. I don’t know if Holland is ever going to live that reputation down.

The official synopsis for The Fantastic Four: First Steps: “Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ben Grimm/The Thing as they face their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.” The Fantastic Four: First Steps will hit theaters on July 25, 2025.

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach is playing Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but will the actor utter the character’s iconic catchphrase?

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Moss-Bachrach was asked if he says, “It’s clobberin’ time” at some point in the film. “I slipped it in there a couple times,” Moss-Bachrach said. “We’ll see what happens. I don’t have final cut on this one.“

The Thing will be brought to life through motion-capture in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the actor even got some help from the godfather of motion-capture performance, Andy Serkis. “I have seen a very crude rendering, because it takes a while to build this stuff,” Moss-Bachrach said. “They’ve got lots of animators working on this. I wore a motion-capture suit, two cameras right here and so they’re capturing absolutely everything, every nuance in my eye. It takes a while to build it, and they’re building it right now. Andy Serkis, who’s sort of the godfather of motion-capture, he has this company, The Imaginarium at Pinewood Studios, where we shot this.“

Moss-Bachrach continued, “They have a room they call the Magic Mirror, where you put on the motion-capture suit and you put on monitors, and you can see in real time a beta rendering. It’s not fully realized, you can’t see the face too much. But there are stairs and a doorframe so you can see the physics, how big the character is.“

Kimmel then tried to get Moss-Bachrach to spill some details on the upcoming film, including whether Robert Downey Jr. might appear as Doctor Doom, but the actor didn’t bite. “It’s not gonna happen,” he said. “I’ve been through rigorous media training.“

“So has Tom Holland, and he always gives me something,” Kimmel responded. I don’t know if Holland is ever going to live that reputation down.

The official synopsis for The Fantastic Four: First Steps: “Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ben Grimm/The Thing as they face their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.” The Fantastic Four: First Steps will hit theaters on July 25, 2025.

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Filming on the next season of Amazon and Bethesda’s popular Fallout TV show has been delayed due to the ongoing and massive fires near Los Angeles, California.

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Filming on the next season of Amazon and Bethesda’s popular Fallout TV show has been delayed due to the ongoing and massive fires near Los Angeles, California.

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Back in 1989, Lisa Loring – best known for playing Wednesday Addams in the 1960s TV series version of The Addams Family – starred in a slasher movie called Iced. I had never seen that movie until last year, when some friends and I had a blast watching the “so bad it’s entertaining” flick. So it’s cool to see that Vinegar Syndrome is giving Iced a Blu-ray release through their Degausser Video label, with copies shipping out later this month. To secure a copy of your own, head over to THIS LINK.

Directed by Jeff Kwitny from a script by Joseph Alan Johnson, Iced has the following synopsis: A group of friends head off for a fun-filled getaway in the snowy mountains, where they’ve unexpectedly been offered a free stay at a luxury ski resort. Once they arrive at their cabin, however, the high spirits are soon dampened when they discover a newspaper clipping concerning the tragic death of their friend Jeff during a ski trip four years earlier – it’s clear that someone holds the group responsible for the accident. Sure enough, as the friends settle in for a cozy winter vacation full of skiing, sexual intrigue, and naked cocaine binges, a mysterious figure in ski gear and cracked goggles stalks the surroundings, intent on picking them off one by one in a variety of gruesome ways.

Vinegar Syndrome‘s Degausser Video label was created with the intention of bringing to Blu-ray ‘deluxe editions of both canonical and under-seen shot on video (SOV) genre cinema, in addition to work shot on film, but edited on tape, wherein the original film materials are believed to be lost or destroyed. Similar to Vinegar Syndrome’s focus on FILM preservation, Degausser will work only from original analogue tape materials with an emphasis on maintaining the aesthetics inherent to each respective video format.” Which is why, as you can see in the trailer above, the Iced Blu-ray still has a VHS look.

Iced comes to Blu-ray with the following features: – Region Free Blu-ray – Newly transferred and restored from the best surviving tape master – Commentary track with director Jeff Kwitny and special features producer Ewan Cant – Commentary track with The Hysteria Continues! and author / film historian Amanda Reyes – Introduction to the film by director Jeff Kwitny – “Jeff Was Here” (22 min): an interview with director Jeff Kwitny – “The Best Part of It” (20 min): an interview with actor Ron Kologie – “On Camera Film School” (13 min): an interview with second assistant director Rodney Montague – Image gallery – Inside sleeve artwork – English SDH subtitles

Will you be buying Iced on Blu-ray? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Just when I thought I knew everything about one of my favorite movies of all time, Julianne Moore is dropping knowledge bombs about The Big Lebowski on The Drew Barrymore Show! It turns out that Moore was secretly pregnant for the first time while shooting Joel and Ethan Coen’s cult classic comedy. Moore says she felt awful during portions of the film’s production, making the iconic dream bowling scene particularly challenging to pull off.

“Can I tell you? I was pregnant with my son. The first time I was pregnant. I was so sick that day,” Moore told Barrymore about the scene. “I was so nauseous I could barely move, and that dress was really solid and made from Styrofoam, and I was always like, ‘Oh,’ every time I moved… I was just unbelievably sick and I couldn’t tell anyone I was pregnant because I didn’t want them to know.”

The scene in question happens after Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is drugged and passes out while investigating Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark living in Malibu. While unconscious, the Dude (or, uh, His Dudeness, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) experiences a fever dream featuring Moore’s eccentric Maude Lebowski as a Viking queen bowler. While strutting to “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, the Dude and Maude dance among women dressed as bowling pins while throwing rocks down the alley. It’s very psychedelic, man.

“Jeff is such an extraordinary person. He’s so funny, so generous. I couldn’t look him in the eye without laughing,” Moore confessed about filming the legendary scene. “I’d have to look at his mouth while he was acting because if I saw his eyes, I’d start to laugh. Or I’d look just beyond him or something.”

What a trooper! First pregnancies are a rough business, and the pressure of shooting The Big Lebowski must have weighed on Moore considerably. While her role in the film is brief, Maude adds a hysterical feminine touch with unforgettable dialogue, mystique, and ulterior motives for getting close to the Dude. I’ll think differently about her performance from now on, knowing she was acting for two.

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Just when I thought I knew everything about one of my favorite movies of all time, Julianne Moore is dropping knowledge bombs about The Big Lebowski on The Drew Barrymore Show! It turns out that Moore was secretly pregnant for the first time while shooting Joel and Ethan Coen’s cult classic comedy. Moore says she felt awful during portions of the film’s production, making the iconic dream bowling scene particularly challenging to pull off.

“Can I tell you? I was pregnant with my son. The first time I was pregnant. I was so sick that day,” Moore told Barrymore about the scene. “I was so nauseous I could barely move, and that dress was really solid and made from Styrofoam, and I was always like, ‘Oh,’ every time I moved… I was just unbelievably sick and I couldn’t tell anyone I was pregnant because I didn’t want them to know.”

The scene in question happens after Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is drugged and passes out while investigating Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark living in Malibu. While unconscious, the Dude (or, uh, His Dudeness, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) experiences a fever dream featuring Moore’s eccentric Maude Lebowski as a Viking queen bowler. While strutting to “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, the Dude and Maude dance among women dressed as bowling pins while throwing rocks down the alley. It’s very psychedelic, man.

“Jeff is such an extraordinary person. He’s so funny, so generous. I couldn’t look him in the eye without laughing,” Moore confessed about filming the legendary scene. “I’d have to look at his mouth while he was acting because if I saw his eyes, I’d start to laugh. Or I’d look just beyond him or something.”

What a trooper! First pregnancies are a rough business, and the pressure of shooting The Big Lebowski must have weighed on Moore considerably. While her role in the film is brief, Maude adds a hysterical feminine touch with unforgettable dialogue, mystique, and ulterior motives for getting close to the Dude. I’ll think differently about her performance from now on, knowing she was acting for two.

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Reacher is a crime show about a big guy solving big mysteries, usually with his big muscles. It’s won hearts and minds thanks to remaining laser-focused on this simple but laudable premise, and season 3 appears to be doubling down on it in its new trailer as gentle giant Jack Reacher faces off against a dude who’s…

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