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This film is also the best monster movie of the year and the best picture of any kind to open so far this summer.

Yes, there's under one week until the biggest monster movie of the year hits cinemas in the form of Gareth Edwards»...

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2016 was an especially monster year for Disney at the box office distinguishing it from much of Hollywood as the movie studio continues to close ranks around its core franchises, such as Pixar and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Nearly 75 years later, and there still hasn't been a monster movie quite like «The Bride of Frankenstein.»

Your child may be a 6 - year - old who laughs at monsters in movies and can handle the truth about bad guys being a reality of life.

Your child may be a six - year - old who laughs at monsters in movies and can handle the truth about bad guys being a reality of life.

I'm a 21 year old gamer that likes to read on my spare time and battle monster when i'm not lol.I'm also a quite a understanding person with loyalty and respect.I love all sorts reptile, but i hate spiders.The sort of movies i watch are anime or sad movies with action.I love all sorts of music.If...

It's the placebo version of the glorious drug that Warner Bros concocted with 2014's «Godzilla,» the majesty and grace of which the studio has been trying — and failing — to replicate across a half - dozen monster movies over the last four years.

Shot last year in 36 days in New York State's Hudson Valley, the movie is set in 2020, when most of the Earth's population have been wiped out by giant, sightless monsters equipped with tremendously acute hearing.

Two years after 2001 came out, the year 1970 ushered in that decade's I - Like - Ike nostalgia fad with the U.S. release of Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, a monster - cum - alien saucer movie featuring a buzz - cut American who saves theMonster Zero, a monster - cum - alien saucer movie featuring a buzz - cut American who saves themonster - cum - alien saucer movie featuring a buzz - cut American who saves the world.

Electric Dynamite and 20th Century Fox just released the latest international movie poster for the upcoming comedy «Gulliver's Travels» by director Rob Letterman (Monsters vs Alien, Shark Tale) and starring Emily Blunt (Charlie Wilson's War, The Wolfman), Jason Segel (Despicable Me, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up) and Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, Year One, Tropic Thunder).

All the way from China and starring one of the country's most popular stars Matt Damon, The Great Wall is a monster movie set in the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, events previously filmed in the tv series Dynasty starring John Forsythe and Linda Evans.

For years there was talk of a sequel to 2008 found - footage monster movie Cloverfield, but it had all but dissipated — starved of new information from J.J. Abrams or director Matt Reeves, people had simply stopped asking them about it.

Will this movie be filled with amazing monster destruction like last year's Pacific Rim or will this chunky Kaiju be as much of as an embarrassment as the 1998 Roland Emmerich fiasco?

He won the MTV Movie Award for «Best Villain» two years in a row and followed it up with another wonderfully evil performance in Fox's monster hit RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (directed by Rupert Wyatt) alongside James Franco, Freida Pinto, and John Lithgow.

56 - year old Frenchman Alexandre Desplat is nominated for his work on two scores — director Guillermo Del Toro's critically acclaimed monster movie romance «The Shape of Water,» and director Luc Besson's epic space fantasy «Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets» — and is one of the five nominees for Composer of the Yyear old Frenchman Alexandre Desplat is nominated for his work on two scores — director Guillermo Del Toro's critically acclaimed monster movie romance «The Shape of Water,» and director Luc Besson's epic space fantasy «Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets» — and is one of the five nominees for Composer of the YearYear.

Many of the nominated films are still going strong in theaters, notably the monster movie / romantic drama The Shape of Water, which leads this year's class with thirteen nominations; the polarizing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, -LSB-...]

Ross and Kyle explain how a social - justice monster - erotica movie called The Shape of Water came to be this year's Oscar frontrunner, then dial back the clock to consider what movies should have won the Oscar back in 2007, 1997 and 1987.

This of course, is after this year's recent alien movies which include Monsters and Skyline, the latter of which was involved in legal disputes with Battle: Los Angeles.

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We added HD screencaps from the newly released trailer of Jane's upcoming movie Monster Trucks that will hit theaters next year.

It's a sign of the changing of the times that 15 years ago this combination of A-list stars would have been one of the biggest events of the year, whereas now Money Monster is a sleeper bit of counter-programming for viewers seeking out a more adult alternative to the mammoth blockbusters flooding in for the summer movie season.

It all started a few years back when Star Trek and Transformers co-writer Alex Kurtzman and Fast & Furious screenwriter Chris Morgan teamed up to spearhead the creation and development of a new Universal Monsters Movie Universe.

Director John Krasinski will not be getting the same kinds of criticisms for his A Quiet Place, a monster movie that is earning rave reviews out of SXSW this year.

By the way, if you could only see half a dozen movies between now and the end of the year, you could hardly improve on the six narrative features that played both Venice and Telluride: Alexander Payne's big - idea satire «Downsizing,» which kicked off both festivals; Guillermo del Toro's terrific revisionist monster romance «The Shape of Water»; «Weekend» and «45 Years» director Andrew Haigh's spare nouveau western «Lean on Pete»; Lebanon's «The Insult» and Israel's «Foxtrot»; and «Taxi Driver» writer Paul Schrader's best movie in at least two decades, «First Reformed.»

In many ways, The Shape of Water has the potential to do for monster movies what last year's La La Land did for musicals.

After her Academy Award - winning turn in the harrowing drama «Room,» the 27 - year - old actress has been sampling a string of new genres, from co-starring opposite a monster movie icon in the recent blockbuster «Kong: Skull Island» to her upcoming stint as a superheroine in Marvel Studios» «Captain Marvel.»

Warner Bros / Legendary Pictures (Saturday, Hall H 2:30 - 5:00) This year Warner Bros is bringing in some monster movies including Guillermo del Toro's «Pacific Rim,» «The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey» and «Man of Steel.»

Universal went on a monster movie tear that lasted 30 years, spawning many of the genre's most iconic movie monsters: The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and of course The Invisible Man, which is the focus of Jonathan Burton's stunning piece.

You'd think that The Shape of Water remains too undeniably weird to have any shot at awards, and I think that the stuffy Academy that decided to go with The King's Speech over The Social Network or Black Swan (yep, still bitter) might not have given much more than token nominations for an inter-species romance monster movie, but the Academy has gotten younger and more diverse in the years since then, allowing for some more left of center films to get a boost.

As a result, Moonee and her pals — in one of the films great touches, she starts the movie hanging out with two boys and via the transient nature of childhood ends the film palling around with another girl altogether — become some of the most compelling, realistic, and lovable (despite the fact that they are objectively little monsters) protagonists in any film last year.

It's that time of the year again, yes October, and it's full of ghouls, monsters and horror movies to make your anxiety skyrocket.

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Godzilla is back in theaters in a monster new reboot of the classic movie icon, and at 60 - years - old, he has

Spectacular visuals, amazing soundtrack, jaw - dropping stunts, imaginative characters, and the most insane monster machines ever put on film make this film one of the most entertaining movies you'll watch this year.

Dawn replaces Wyatt with Matt Reeves, who after years of toiling in B - movies (e.g.. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory) and television (he created the WB college drama «Felicity»), began commanding feature film respect with both his lucrative no - name 2008 monster movie Cloverfield and the acclaimed but poorly - attended Let Me In, a 2010 remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In.

With the success of this weekend's low - budget found - footage superpower movie «Chronicle,» we thought it would be fun to look back in the Scene - Stealers vault to four years ago when director Matt Reeves and producer J. J. Abrams hoisted «Cloverfield,» a monster movie firmly rooted in the lo - fi - meets - CGI aesthetic, on the world.

That it does so with some genuinely unnerving moments and one of the most original movie monsters in years is a remarkable trick, confirming what a talent Mitchell is.

But 14 years after Roland Emmerich's forgettable «Godzilla» remake, Del Toro's «Pacific Rim» constitutes a large - scale attempt to bring Japan's beloved Kaiju movies — their monster films, of which Ishiro Honda's 1954 «Godzilla» is the most famous — to American shores.

This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.

One of this year's most high - profile out - of - competition slots goes to the new movie from Up and Monsters, Inc. director and all - around animation genius Pete Docter.

Writer - director Bong has long excelled at tweaking genre, notably in monster movie The Host (06) and in his super-tantalizing 2003 police thriller Memories of Murder, which pre-emptively out - Zodiac'd Zodiac by four years.

In a promotional interview for The Shape of Water, director Guillermo del Toro expressed his regret at having turned down an opportunity some 10 years ago to oversee the resurrection of Universal's monster movie series.

Salma Hayek has added her voice to those of the dozens of women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, saying in a new op - ed piece that, «for years», the disgraced movie producer was «my monster».

How do you find the actor that will play the scariest movie monster of the year?

Whatever one may say about that film, it is a remarkable technical accomplishment, revealing a skill set that makes him an interesting choice for a CGI - heavy monster movie that sounds like a twisted cousin of Steven Spielberg's «The BFG» from earlier this year.

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His last, 2013's Pacific Rim, offered blockbusting robots vs. monsters thrills, but only after the Mexican auteur had stumbled around Hobbiton for two years before exiting without a movie to show for it — small wonder he then almost lost his marbles At The Mountains Of Madness, a project that's still in limbo.

The first official trailer for next year's Kong: Skull Island, which will set up the King Kong and Godzilla united movie universe of giant monsters, was revealed today at the ongoing San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC) and has now made its way online along with a teaser poster.