ReelShift

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  • The Worst of the Worst

    The 20 Most Extreme Cases Of ‘The Book Was Better Than The Movie’

  • Pictures from the upcoming Jungle Book movie

    Some pretty awesome photos of the voice actors with their CG animals. I really love the Christopher Walken one. Both his and Ben Kingsley’s animals have the actors eyes.               

  • And the winner is…

    That was a great little back-and-forth between Russell Crowe and Ryan Gossling.  Then they listed off the nominees – the only one written by the original author is The Room. But the winner is…  The Big Short. Charles Randolph and Adam McKay. Congratulations guys! Uh oh… A little bit of a political rant… Sounded like…

  • Brad Pitt banned from China and Cyber China

    Brad Pitt was banned from visiting China back when 7 Years in Tibet, a movie based on the autobiographical 1953 book of the same name written by the main character, Heinrich Harrer, came out. Now though it appears that he is also banned from visiting China in cyber space. Pitt recently opened an account on Weibo,…

  • Former Child Actor to work with Child Actors

    As you may or may not know, Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ is making its way to Netflix. The series of children’s books are written by “Lemony Snicket,” the pen name of the actual author, Daniel Handler. A movie by the same name was released in 2004 and Starred Jim Carrey as Count Olaf,…

  • World War Z 2 Loses Director

    Deadspin is reporting that the director for WWZ2, Juan Antonio Bayona, is no longer on the project. The reason seems to be a scheduling conflict since Bayona wants to finish working A Monster Calls, a film based a book by the same name. The book was released in 2011 and is an illustrated fantasy novel for…

  • The Man Who Fell to Earth

    The Man Who Fell to Earth

    David Bowie passed away today at the age of 69 after a prolonged battle with cancer. I don’t need to tell you who David Bowie is. You all know him and love him and I’m not going to try to sum up his life in this meager little blog post. What you may not know is…

  • Do Androids Blow Out Electric Candles?

    Happy Incept Day Roy Batty! In case you haven’t been on the internet all day, it’s January 8th 2016, and if you’re a big nerd who loves tiny movie details, you’ll recognize that date as Roy Batty’s “incept” day – the day that the android was first turned on. via Mashable

  • Krang!

    We don’t talk about comic book movies! I swear. Okay – but just because this is about Krang. Anyone that has seen the trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows has probably noticed that Rocksteady and Bebop make an appearance in this movie and look a lot like their cartoon counterparts.…

  • Delay of ‘Game’ Penalty

    Delay of ‘Game’ Penalty

    According to Entertainment Weekly, the next book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series titled The Winds of Winter is definitely going to be pushed back to after the premier of the new season of Game of Thrones. This is probably at the top of the list of “old news that I missed while out for the holiday” but…