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Alleged ‘Jurassic World’ Trailer Description Teases Muzzled Raptors And A Great White Snack By Angie Han/Oct. 7, 2014 8:00 am EST While most of us eagerly await the first trailer for Jurassic World, a few lucky souls have seen some footage already in the form of an early cut of the trailer. Now, one of them has shared a detailed description of said trailer with the rest of us. Okay, so it’s not as good as actually getting to see the footage yourself — but until that first promo hits, it’s the next best thing....

Apple May Block iPhone Use At Concerts, Could Movie Theaters Be Next? By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2016 12:00 pm EST Apple has patented a new technology that blocks the iPhone’s camera feature, which would reportedly allow venues like concert venues to use an infrared beam to disable a mobile phone’s camera, preventing its users from taking videos and photos. According to the Telegraph, Apple’s patent says that the phone would display a “recording disabled” message when users take photographs or videos....

CBS Rules Out Supergirl/Flash/Arrow Crossover, Not Worried About Airing Opposite ‘Gotham’ By Fred Topel/Aug. 10, 2015 10:00 am EST After the panel, Tassler elaborated to a group of reporters asking followup questions about any possible Supergirl crossover. Even Superman is an ambiguous presence in the Supergirl pilot. He is seen from behind, and referenced by James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) and Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist). To be clear, they are not indicating whether Supergirl exists in the same world as Starling and Central Cities....

CBS Starts Its Own Streaming Service By Russ Fischer/Oct. 16, 2014 2:45 pm EST Just in time to really get cord-cutters excited after this week’s news of HBO’s plan to offer internet-only subscriptions, CBS is launching its own all-access digital service. In fact, the project is called CBS All Access, and it launches today at CBS.com and via iOS and Android apps. Pricing info and more details are below. CBS CEO Les Moonves said a bunch of jargon-y, business-type stuff,...

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s ‘Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan’ Vinyl With Matt Taylor Artwork By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 11, 2016 6:30 am EST In addition to fantastic artwork, Mondo has also been churning out some incredible, exclusive vinyl albums for some of your favorite film scores and soundtracks. And kicking off 2016 with a bang is a vinyl re-release of the late James Horner’s score for Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan....

First Look: Emma Stone In ‘Cabaret’ On Broadway By Germain Lussier/Oct. 16, 2014 7:00 am EST It used to be if you were a TV actor, you stayed on TV. Movies movies, stage stage. These days though, it’s all jumbled up. TV stars star in movies, movie stars go to TV and everyone performs on the stage. Live performance, for an actor, is the ultimate challenge and rush. It’s why you see actors like Denzel Washington, Scarlet Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch and so many others performing on Broadway or the West End....

James Cameron Has A Script For A Fifth ‘Avatar’ Film By Germain Lussier/April 28, 2015 10:30 am EST It goes without saying that James Cameron has a lot more story to tell in the universe first seen in Avatar. As it stands now, three sequel films are in development, and if all goes according to plan they will be released each year starting in 2017. However, according to one of Cameron’s frequent collaborators, there may be more....

James Franco To Direct Zola Movie, Based On Viral Twitter Epic By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2016 12:30 pm EST For a few days last fall, the big watercooler pop culture event wasn’t yet another premium cable antihero drama or $200 million superhero blockbuster, but a 148-tweet epic of a stripper’s Florida road trip gone dramatically awry. The true-ish tale of Aziah “Zola” Wells followed two sex workers, a violent pimp, and a very sad boyfriend through a drug- and sex-fueled odyssey that eventually involved betrayal, kidnapping, a suicide attempt, and even a murder....

Jonah Hill Making Directorial Debut With ‘Mid ’90s’ By Angie Han/March 31, 2016 4:00 pm EST When Jonah Hill first burst onto the scene, he seemed like just another Seth Rogen type – indeed, one of his first breakout roles was as, essentially, a Rogen stand-in in Superbad. But over the years, he’s matured into a fine dramatic actor as well, scooping up a pair of Oscar nominations for Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street, and even branched out into writing with the Jump Street movies and the TV show Allen Gregory....

New Lars Von Trier TV Show Will Be About A Serial Killer By Angie Han/April 17, 2015 9:00 am EST Lars von Trier has yet to announce his big-screen follow-up to his five-hour, two-part sex epic Nymphomaniac. In the meantime, though, he’s got something else cooking. As we reported last year, he’s working on a new TV series called The House That Jack Built. At the time, we knew only that it was supposed to be “without precedent,” whatever that meant....

Scarlett Johansson Is Now The Highest-Grossing Female Movie Star Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2016 3:30 pm EST Scarlett Johansson has now become the highest-grossing female movie star of all time. According to Box Office Mojo, Johannson has surpassed Cameron Diaz for the top slot thanks to Captain America: Civil War. As great of an accomplishment as this is, Johansson’s $3.3 billion cume is just barely enough to put her into the top ten if you include male actors....

Superhero Bits: Abandoned Deadpool Concept Art, The Black Racer, More Joker For Mark Hamill & More By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2016 4:30 pm EST Want to see concept art from a 2013 iteration of Deadpool that didn’t move forward? Will there be romance for Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales in Marvel Now? Is Mark Hamill done playing The Joker after Batman: The Killing Joke? Which DC Comics and Marvel Comics characters went the longest without “dying” at all?...

Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman Runtime, Deadpool VFX, Civil War For Best Picture? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 22, 2016 4:30 pm EST Which super villain is Ward turning into on Agents of SHIELD? How long is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Who think that Captain America: Civil War will get nominated for Best Picture? How did they pull off the mask effects and more for Deadpool? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Suicide Squad, Batman Arkham Knight, X-Men Apocalypse, Iron Man, Gotham By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2015 4:30 pm EST Want to see Batman battling the Joker and Harley Quinn on the set of Suicide Squad? How about seven minutes of gameplay for Batman: Arkham Knight? Is Mark Millar confident in Fantastic Four? Which Gotham villain has become a season 2 regular? Is there a new piece of X-Men Apocalypse concept art?...

Watch A Clip From ‘The Lion King’ Sequel ‘The Lion Guard: Return Of The Roar’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2015 4:30 pm EST Just last week, we got a first look at the forthcoming Disney Channel TV movie and animated series kick-off The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar. An extended sneak peek of the TV movie portion of this follow-up debuted at D23 this weekend, and it’s now available for you to check out....

Watch The Doc ‘Atari: Game Over’ Now For Free By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2014 4:00 pm EST When a landfill in New Mexico was dug up last year, with those involved hoping to exhume thousands of dumped copies of Atari’s terrible E.T. video game, the whole event was captured on camera for a documentary. That doc is Atari: Game Over, directed by Zak Penn, and it is now available online. Thanks to Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, you can watch Atari: Game Over for free....

‘Addicted To Fresno’ Red-Band Trailer: Judy Greer Makes Funny Bad Decisions By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2015 4:30 pm EST This summer, we’ve seen Judy Greer as a mom in Ant-Man and Jurassic World and heard her as a mom in Tomorrowland, which means maybe those films are all actually part of the shared Judy Greer Universe. But 2015 won’t merely be the year of Greer toiling in supporting roles as a caregiver....

American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson Teaser Trailer: The Question American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson Teaser Trailer: The Lie American Crime Story Teaser Trailer 2 American Crime Story Launch Trailer My original story from October 8th 2015 follows: The teaser trailer premiered just a day after Murphy’s American Horror Story: Hotel with Lady Gaga made its debut on the network. ‘American Crime Story: The People V....

‘King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword’ Trailer: A King Raised On The Streets By Jack Giroux/July 23, 2016 3:40 pm EST Sadly, director Guy Ritchie didn’t attend Comic-Con this year to promote a Man From U.N.C.L.E. 2. We’re not going to see that sequel anytime soon (or ever…), but Ritchie is currently hard at work on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Today, the first trailer for the fantasy film debuted at San Diego Comic-Con....

‘The Expendables 4’ Will Open In Theaters In 2017 By Jack Giroux/Oct. 9, 2015 3:00 pm EST Despite The Expendables 3’s underwhelming box-office performance in the States, this franchise isn’t dead yet. They can’t seem to get these movies right, but that’s not stopping Sylvester Stallone (Antz) and all involved from making Expendables 4. Learn more about the sequel after the jump. A director isn’t attached yet, but Variety is reporting the sequel will shoot next year to make an unknown 2017 release date....