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Japan’s Toho Plans New ‘Godzilla’ By Angie Han/Dec. 8, 2014 9:30 am EST THR and Empire reported on the announcement from Toho. “The time has come for Japan to make a film that will not lose to Hollywood,” said Toho producer Taichi Ueda. Another Toho staffer added, “This is very good timing after the success of the American version this year: if not now, then when? The licensing contract we have with Legendary places no restrictions on us making domestic versions....

Jason Momoa Joins ‘Magnificent Seven’ Remake By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2015 1:00 pm EST Ever since Training Day director Antoine Fuqua was confirmed to direct Denzel Washington in a remake of The Magnificent Seven at MGM, we’ve seen an impressive cast assembling as the titular band of gunslingers. Chris Pratt and Training Day co-star Ethan Hawke are just a couple of the talents on board, and now the cast has gotten even bigger as Game of Thrones star and DC Comics’ future cinematic Aquaman Jason Momoa joins Magnificent Seven....

LOL: Thor Wants To Party After Defeating Ultron In ‘SNL’ Sketch By Angie Han/March 8, 2015 8:29 am EST Chris Hemsworth stopped by Saturday Night Live last night, and you know what that means: there was an Avengers skit. Even though Avengers: Age of Ultron doesn’t open for another two months, the Avengers SNL sketch picks up immediately after the climactic battle, as the various Avengers are reacting to their victory....

Lost In Translation: Bad Subtitles On ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Lead To Bad Reviews In China By Angie Han/Oct. 17, 2014 1:30 pm EST In the U.S., Guardians of the Galaxy was universally well-liked. It got a 91% on the Tomatometer and an A rating from Cinemascore, not to mention over $300 million in domestic box office sales. But that hasn’t been the case in China, where it opened to mixed responses from critics and audiences alike last weekend....

Matt Ryan Will Bring Constantine To ‘Arrow’ For “One-Shot Episode” By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2015 2:30 pm EST Constantine, the show, may be cancelled, but John Constantine, the character, isn’t dead. And thanks to a new deal that confirms a rumor that began in the past few weeks, we’ll see John Constantine on Arrow, at least briefly. Once again, he’ll be played by actor Matt Ryan, who starred in the short-lived NBC series....

Page 2: Star Wars, Studio Ghibli, Alien, Interstellar, Wes Anderson, Jurassic World, Transformers, Hobbit, Inside Out, Tron By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2014 3:00 pm EST Header Photo: Bad Robot The Playlist’s 15 Best Film Scores Of 2014 I Love Remakes, Reboots, Sequels And Prequels These Studio Ghibli Shoes Are Loaded With Characters Variety Announces 10 Directors to Watch for 2015 Why Jackie Chan movies are so much fun to watch...

Read Four Pages Of The Unmade Max Landis ‘Fantastic Four’ Script By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2015 4:00 pm EST Over the weekend, screenwriter Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra) shared the first four pages of his Fantastic Four pitch on twitter. As you know, Landis was the writer of Chronicle, the debut feature of current Fantastic Four director Josh Trank. What might a Max Landis Fantastic Four movie have looked like? Lets get a glimpse, after the jump....

Ron Howard Will Direct National Geographic’s ‘Genius’ By Jack Giroux/April 29, 2016 9:00 am EST Learn more about the Ron Howard National Geographic series below. The plan is to start filming Genius this summer in Prague, and the hope is for the series to premiere next spring, in a total 0f 171 countries and 45 languages. A few months ago, National Geographic finally got its feet wet with scripted television. Their two-night miniseries event, Saints & Strangers, was mostly well received....

By Angie Han/Aug. 25, 2015 6:36 am EST THR reported the news. Will Gluck (Easy A, Annie) will produce, but as of now isn’t signed on to direct. Jodi Hildebrand will also produce. Although Pixar has steadfastly denied that Up was inspired by Macefield, her house became forever linked to the movie when Disney publicists tied balloons to the roof as a fun bit of marketing ahead of the film’s 2009 release....

Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman Test Screening Spoilers, Animated Spider-Gwen And More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 31, 2015 4:00 pm EST How close was Leonardo DiCaprio to playing Spider-Man for James Cameron? Has someone already been cast as Green Lantern? What spoilers have leaked from a recent Batman v Superman test screening? What would a Spider-Gwen animated series look like? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits. Color your own comic book covers with these special DC Comics variants....

Tom Hiddleston Casts Doubt On His Chances Of Becoming The New James Bond By Ethan Anderton/June 6, 2016 7:00 am EST The future of James Bond is up in the air. Rumors have been swirling that Daniel Craig really doesn’t want to come back for another mission as 007, and after his blunt comments indicating distaste for playing the iconic spy from the press tour for Spectre, that wouldn’t be a surprise....

VOTD: Chris Gethard Wants To Rename Washington DC To Washington Marvel, Because DC Sucks By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2015 5:00 am EST Despite the combining of all sorts of geekiness at Comic-Con, there’s thankfully not a lot of confrontation amongst the fans of Star Wars and Star Trek, Marvel and DC or Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. But comedian Chris Gethard decided he wanted to stir up some potential trouble by going around the Comic-Con show floor and asking fans to sign a petition to change the name of Washington DC to Washington Marvel....

Watch A Short ‘Pixels’ Movie Preview: 8-Bit Video Games Invade Earth By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2015 1:35 pm EST Columbia Pictures has released a ten second teaser trailer for the upcoming Chris Columbus video game sci-fi comedy Pixels. The plot of the movie is about a group of video game experts who are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters attacking our planet. Its been pitched as Ghostbusters, but with classic 80’s video game creatures instead of ghosts....

‘Anomalisa’ Character Featurettes: Meet The Extraordinary, Ordinary Leads Of Charlie Kaufman’s Stop-Motion Drama By Angie Han/Dec. 29, 2015 4:30 pm EST Leave it to Charlie Kaufman to take what sounds like an ill-advised gag and turn it into one of the year’s most affectingly, heartbreakingly human films. Anomalisa is a romantic drama shot in stop-motion with a cast of puppets. But this isn’t Team America: World Police – Kaufman and his co-director Duke Johnson play it completely straight, giving their universe a relatively realistic look....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Posters: Team Iron Man Seems To Be One Man Short By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 2016 9:00 am EST Yesterday brought our report straight from the set of Captain America: Civil War when the film was in production in Atlanta, Georgia last June. Along with that came a batch of posters for all the characters on Team Cap, as well as an interview with stars Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan....

‘Dead 7’ Trailer: Backstreet Boys & NSYNC Team Up To Fight Zombies In SyFy Original Movie By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2016 11:00 am EST SyFy has never been shy about making movies that are clearly meant to be terrible. We’re talking about a network who has release movies with titles such as Rock Monster, Ice Spiders and of course, the Sharknado franchise, which has opted to not only jump the shark, but thrown them around in a bloody cyclone of nonsense....

‘Dope’ Red-Band Trailer Gives The Characters An Uncensored Voice By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2015 10:30 am EST Dope has been making waves since Sundance, but the first trailers have only partially showed off what’s really up with the film. This new Dope red-band trailer goes a lot further, by presenting the characters uncensored, and by showing off a lot more of the story that drives the film. It’s more than a sunny tale of three high school kids (played well by Shameik Moore, Kiersey Clemons, and Tony Revolori) trying to survive school and their neighborhood, after all....

‘Humans’ Teaser Trailer: AMC’s Robot Servant Drama By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 2015 9:00 am EST Update From Editor Peter Sciretta: AMC has released the first Humans teaser trailer, which you can watch embedded after the jump. AMC Humans Teaser Trailer “The upgrade you’ve been waiting for is here.” Okay so the first teaser doesn’t show us much, but I’m still intrigued. Humans is set premieres on AMC sometime in Summer 2015....

‘Jem And The Holograms’ First Look: The Girls Take The Stage [UPDATED With Hi-Res Image And Official Synopsis] By Angie Han/Feb. 26, 2015 10:30 am EST UPDATE: We’ve updated with a higher-res version of the Jem and the Holograms first look, plus the first official synopsis. Check them out after the jump. The Jem and the Holograms movie came together seemingly overnight last spring, but we haven’t heard much from the candy-colored rockers since then....

‘The Divergent Series: Insurgent’ To Open In 3D; See The New Motion Posters By Angie Han/Oct. 28, 2014 9:30 am EST Oftentimes sequels are just more of the same, but at least we know for sure The Divergent Series: Insurgent will differ from its predecessor in one key way. Lionsgate/Summit announced today the dystopian action sequel will open in 3D. To celebrate that news, the studio is releasing eight “interactive 3D character posters” throughout the day....