Mila Kunis to Be ‘Full-Time Mom’ After Baby Is Born

Mila Kunis to Be ‘Full-Time Mom’ After Baby Is Born
Hilary Lewis — The Hollywood Reporter

Mila Kunis’ new film, Jupiter Ascending, won’t hit theaters until next year, after it was recently pushed back from its original July 18 release date. But by the time she’s gracing the big screen with co-star Channing Tatum, Kunis may be taking a break from acting.

The actress, who’s currently expecting a baby with her That ‘70s Show co-star fiance Ashton Kutcher, tells W Magazine that she’ll be a “full-time mom” after her baby’s born — for a year at least.

I normally don’t comment on or post stuff like this when it comes to stars day to day lives because I find it both a little boring,…

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Disney Developing Live Action ‘Dumbo’

Disney Developing Live Action ‘Dumbo’
Marc Graser — Variety

Disney is developing a live action “Dumbo,” based on the animated classic of 1941.

“Transformers: Age of Extinction” scribe Ehren Kruger is writing the script that will build a family tale around the circus elephant who is ridiculed for his enormous ears and learns to fly through the help of his only true friend, a mouse.

The toon was Disney’s fourth animated film after “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia.” It’s also one of Disney’s shortest animated film at 64 minutes.

Wow. “Dumbo” seems to be the correct title for this live action film. What is the deal with…

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It’s A Metaphor

It’s A Metaphor

Join TJ, Joe, and Clark to discuss what turns out to be a pretty big disappointment for this summer movie season: ‘Earth to Echo’. While the film has a couple of redeeming qualities, its sins were just to great for the film to be much good for anything. This, of course, merits a good deal of discussion. Also in the news, more ‘Star Wars VII’ and Harrison Ford injury talk, ‘Trans4mers’ holding the number 1 spot at the box office, a video essay on what, exactly, constitutes “Bayhem”, a gritty Henry Cavill ‘Batman v Superman’ poster, the upcoming Blu-ray release of the old Adam West ‘Batman’ series, and ‘Enchanted 2’ is on its way to production.

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‘Star Wars VII’ Taking Two Weeks Off for Harrison Ford Injuries

‘Star Wars VII’ Taking Two Weeks Off for Harrison Ford Injuries
Devin Faraci — Badass Digest

Buried at the bottom of a casting announcement on StarWars.com - announcing two unknowns hired for unkown roles - comes the latest update in the Harrison Ford Leg Saga:

In August, the team will take a brief two-week hiatus while adjustments to the current production schedule are made as actor Harrison Ford recovers from a leg injury. Harrison is doing well and is looking forward to returning to the set soon. Shooting remains on track to wrap in the fall with the film scheduled for release on December 18, 2015.

How weird is it that they just say ‘leg injury?’ It’s all part of the spin - by…

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We’re Getting a Director’s Cut of ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’

We’re Getting a Director’s Cut of ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’

X-Men: Days of Future Past was a fantastic film and if any film deserves a director’s cut, it’s probably this one. We’ve heard a lot about how much material had to be cut because there just wasn’t time for it. Particularly, there was a sub-plot where Rogue (Anna Paquin) stepped in to help Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) when she got injured.

The official line for cutting that portion from the film is that it reduced the tension and urgency of the time crunch from Kitty’s injury. That does make sense, and normally I’m strictly a theatrical cut kind of guy with very few exceptions, but I’d like to…

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Earth to Echo — Review

2 of 5 stars
Earth to Echo

I may not actually be the best person to write this review. I have known for a long time that I liked films and wanted to watch all of them and evaluate them. But before I was running MovieByte, it was more difficult to justify the expense. As a consequence, I have seen only one of the previous films that treads the ground that this film waltzes across a little haphazardly. That one film is E.T., which I remember hating from my childhood. Yes, yes, I know, you may all gasp in shock and horror at the atrocity I have just committed. And to be fair, I haven’t actually seen E.T. since well before…

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‘Transformers 4’ Holds No. 1 Spot At Box Office

‘Transformers 4’ Holds No. 1 Spot At Box Office
Lindsey Bahr — Entertainment Weekly

Transformers: Age of Extinction showed its summer might once more by holding onto the No. 1 spot in its second weekend of release, grossing an estimated $36.4 million from 4,233 locations and effectively shutting out the slate of new releases. Michael Bay’s explosive epic also hit $400 million internationally after just 12 days in release.

There is no justice in the world. The best film to be released so far this year, Edge of Tomorrow, has only brought in $90.8 Million domestically and a worldwide total of $339.4 Million world wide. While that’s nothing to sneeze at, compared to the…

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Henry Cavill in Gritty ‘Batman “Five” Superman’ Poster

Henry Cavill in Gritty ‘Batman “Five” Superman’ Poster

I like my superheroes the way I like my chocolate milk: dark and gritty… er, well, dark… actually I guess it’s more of a light brown.

Oh I don’t even know where I’m going with this. Whatever. But I can tell you that I’m totally more interested in Batman Five Superman now that we’ve got this dark and gritty Superman poster — only, whatever the opposite of more interested is. This film looks to me like it’s going to be every bit the disaster that Man of Steel was, or worse (if that’s possible).

Here’s your poster though, because I know it’s a big world and there are some of you who will be…

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‘Pacific Rim 2’ Will Be “Very Different” Guillermo Del Toro Says

‘Pacific Rim 2’ Will Be “Very Different” Guillermo Del Toro Says
Michael Calia — The Wall Street Journal

Without spoiling anything, what can fans expect from “Pacific Rim 2″?

We are three years away, so to spoil anything would be fantastically silly of me. What I can tell you: [screenwriter Zak Penn] and I really went in, we started with [screenwriter Travis Beacham] about a year and a half ago, kicking ideas back and forth. And, admittedly, I said to Zak, let’s keep kicking ideas till we find one that really, really turns the first movie on its ear, so to speak. (…) It was hard to create a world that did not come from a comic book, that had its own mythology, so we had to sacrifice many…

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What is Bayhem? Must Watch Video Essay

What is Bayhem? Must Watch Video Essay

So what exactly is Bayhem? It’s a question worth asking. The reasons for Bay’s success may be beyond you if you do not take the time to analyze what Bay is doing in his filmmaking. There is no doubt that when it comes to technique, Bay is (usually) in a master class with very, very few others. There are certainly directors that try to replicate “Bayhem”, but they almost always fail miserably (John M. Chu in G.I. Joe: Retaliation comes to mind). Whatever your perspective on Bay or his copycats, it’s worth noting the things he does that work.

There is no question that Michael Bay has many…

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