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But those are the perils of using your film to set up a franchise without any certainty that there will, in fact, be anyone that wants it. Sometimes, when you are trying to plan on several films at once, you forget to concentrate on the one you're making. People will not want two of your films if they don't like the first one. Enter Jumper. Jumper was a film that had everything going for it. It had a star director (Doug Liman, fresh off the smash Mr. and Mrs. Smith), a hot movie star (Hayden Christensen, not quite yet fully meme'd), and a beloved science-fiction novel with a killer hook th...

Immanuel Quickley knows New York Knicks fans can be a rough crowd. That's why he has used post-draft skepticism as motivation.

Welcome to "This Week in Genre History," where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. In the past 25 years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, making computers the principal tool for the artform. DreamWorks and others have followed in the Disney company's footsteps, creating visual wonders through this incredible technology. But those often indelible films don't represent all that animation can do. Sometimes, the old-fashi...

Good morning. Kevin Sherrington has some real boomer energy as he writes about how leadership has changed in locker rooms or something and includes thoughts on Elvis Andrus and Chris Woodward’s clubhouse dynamics. Kyle Hendricks is the one that got away from the Texas Rangers in Will Leitch’s piece on a player each team wishes it had back.

Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where we look back at the world’s greatest genre movies on the week that they were first released.