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‘Vikings’ Star Katheryn Winnick To ‘The Dark Tower’ Came By Jacob Hall/April 28, 2016 11:00 am EST UPDATE: Deadline reports that Michael Barbieri, the star of Little Men, has joined the cast as Timmy, a friend to Jake Chambers. The original story follows below. That headline may be a bit of a deep cut for the uninitiated, but you hopefully got the gist of it: Katheryn Winnick, who is best known for playing Lagertha on the History Channel’s Vikings series, has joined the rapidly expanding cast of the upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower....

By Germain Lussier/March 19, 2015 10:30 am EST Los Angeles has a double-dose of great pop culture art debuting Friday night. Gallery 1988 has their postcard show (check it out here) and the Hero Complex Gallery has Cut It Out: The Silhouette Art of Jordan Monsell. Monsell uses scissors to create the outlines of pop culture icons from TV movies and more. Almost every piece in the show is an original work and there’s something for everyone....

Cursed Genius Terry Gilliam Is Working On A ‘Time Bandits’ TV Series By Jacob Hall/Oct. 8, 2015 1:00 pm EST Check out Gilliam’s own comment on the Time Bandits TV series after the jump. Wait. What? Tell us more about that Time Bandits show, sir! We are involved in two possibilities — one, a TV series based on Time Bandits, another based on a script by Richard LaGravanese and I wrote after Fisher King, called The Defective Detective....

DreamWorks’ ‘Motorcade’ Loses Director Joe Carnahan By Jack Giroux/April 15, 2016 3:30 pm EST Joe Carnahan hasn’t been confirmed to direct Bad Boys 3 and Bad Boys 4 yet, but after the director posted some pre-viz for one of the sequels on his twitter feed, it’s safe to presume he’s directing those Sony films. A year ago, Carnahan became attached to direct another action movie, Motorcade, but he’s just left that long-in-development DreamWorks project....

First Look At The Next Pixar Short Film, ‘Piper’ By Jack Giroux/April 6, 2016 4:30 pm EST Finding Dory opens in theaters this summer, and we all know what that means: a new Pixar short film is on the way. The company’s latest short, Piper, follows a baby sandpiper that must conquer its fear of the water in order to eat. Alan Barillaro directed Piper, which he was inspired to make after witnessing thousands of birds flying away from waves, only to then return to the ocean to eat....

Fred Armisen Joins ‘Zoolander 2’ By Angie Han/April 22, 2015 8:00 am EST Zoolander 2 continues to load up on the funny folks. Portlandia star and SNL alum Fred Armisen has just signed on for the long-gestating comedy sequel, joining Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Justin Theroux is directing. Watch the Zoolander 2 Fred Armisen announcement after the jump. Stiller confirmed the Zoolander 2 Fred Armisen casting on Instagram. It’s a re-gram of an earlier video posted by Armisen, in which he packs essentials for his trip like glasses, a toothbrush, and headphones (attached to a dummy head)....

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James Bond Gets Sultry And Tender In Sam Smith’s ‘Spectre’ Theme Music Video By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2015 6:00 am EST Just last week, the final trailer for James Bond next’s mission, Spectre, arrived with a lot of action. It arrived not long after the film’s new theme song, “Writing’s on the Wall” by Sam Smith, debuted online. And now the film and the theme song meet in the Spectre theme music video....

By Angie Han/Feb. 24, 2015 10:30 am EST The all-female cast won’t be the only thing distinguishing the Ghostbusters reboot from the original Ghostbusters movies. It’ll also be taking inspiration from an unusual source. During an appearance on AMC’s The Talking Dead, director Paul Feig revealed that The Walking Dead would be an influence on the new film. Well, he did promise his Ghostbusters would be “scarier than the original.” Read Feig’s Ghostbusters Walking Dead comments after the jump....

Report: Brie Larson Is The Frontrunner For ‘Captain Marvel’ By Jacob Hall/June 1, 2016 5:30 pm EST If a new rumor is to be believed, Marvel Studios has finally found its Captain Marvel. It seems that newly minted Oscar winner Brie Larson is the frontrunner for the coveted role, although it’s not clear just how close she is to signing on the dotted line. In any case, if this is the quality of performer Marvel is pursuing for the star of their first solo female superhero movie, it certainly looks like everything is in good hands....

Rumor: Spider-Man To Enter MCU In 2018’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War Part 1’ [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2015 10:15 am EST UPDATE: As expected, Sony denied this rumor. Disney wouldn’t comment. Read more below. Today’s juicy rumor comes from the land of Marvel. We all know about the talks Sony and Marvel Studios had over the last year about what to do with Spider-Man. Marvel wanted him back. Sony was open to sharing after The Amazing Spider-Man 2....

Seth Rogen Shares ‘Preacher’ Poster As AMC Orders The Show To Series By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2015 12:30 pm EST Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin have been shooting the pilot for their TV series adaptation of the Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic book series Preacher, and the show hits AMC in May… or, well, sometime in 2016. Which means that, yes, AMC has seemingly formally ordered Preacher to series....

Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Trailer Promises Epic Confrontations By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2015 11:15 am EST DisneyXD is at New York Comic Con this week to promote the upcoming second season of Star Wars Rebels. But you don’t have to be at the Javits Center to get a glimpse of season 2. Lucasfilm has released a new Star Wars Rebels Season 2 trailer, which reveals a lot about the upcoming season including the return of long lost friends, epic confrontations, new ships and much more....

Sundance Breakout ‘Dope’ Gets Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2015 11:45 am EST Update from editor Peter Sciretta: Dope executive producer Pharrell Williams just revealed the film’s official poster on Instagram. Check it out after the jump. Dope Movie Poster Germain’s original story from January 30 2015 follows. One of the best films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Dope, has just been slotted onto the release calendar. Open Road acquired the film for $7 million very early at the fest, and have given them film a release date of June 12....

This ‘Rocket Raccoon & Groot’ Animation Test Is Beautiful, Cute, And A Little Explosive By Jacob Hall/July 27, 2016 10:00 am EST Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was one of the big winners out of Comic-Con 2016, with James Gunn’s upcoming sequel headlining Marvel Studios’ panel and going all-out with new footage and big revelations. At this point, it’s getting hard to believe that this group of characters were considered obscure just a few years ago....

Three New ‘Ant-Man’ Photos Catch Paul Rudd In An Uncertain Moment By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2015 2:15 pm EST It’s been a big week for Marvel’s Ant-Man as the first trailer for the film was revealed and subsequently dissected. Photos have come out from one magazine promo deal, including a set of still images from the shoot, and a couple pieces of concept art. Now we’ve got three more Ant-Man pics, one of which is a good shot of Scott Lang seemingly feeling incredulous about his future as a hero....

VOTD: First Cut 2016 Runs Through The Cinematic Fun Coming This Year By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 2016 9:00 am EST This whole week, the /Film crew has been running through their most anticipated films of 2016. Angie Han, Jacob Hall, Jack Giroux and yours truly all put together lists that included everything from blockbusters to musicals to hopeful Oscar contenders. But if that wasn’t enough to get you excited for all the cool movies we have coming this year, maybe First Cut 2016, a supercut put together from all the 2016 trailers we’ve seen so far, will do the trick....

VOTD: The Summer Of 1982 Was A Great Time For Sci-Fi By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2015 4:00 am EST Among cinephiles, sometimes discussion turns to what the best summer ever for movies was. Everyone has their own idea of the greatest summer for blockbusters, and a new retro TV clip from 1982 just might give the definitive answer. Entertainment Tonight is mostly a bastion of gossip and garbage today, but they used to be much more focused on real entertainment, and that’s where this sneak preview clip of movies hitting theaters in the summer of 1982 comes from, and your mind will be blown by the sci-fi titles that were released in that season....

‘American Crime Story’ Season 2 Will Be About Hurricane Katrina By Angie Han/Jan. 7, 2016 3:00 pm EST American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson won’t premiere on FX for another few weeks, but Ryan Murphy is already making plans for season two. The executive producer has revealed that the next installment of the true-crime anthology series will focus on Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in late summer 2005....

‘Bad Moms’ Trailer: Mila Kunis Is Ready To Party Like A Mother By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2016 6:00 am EST Since Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend, there’s no better time to unleash the Bad Moms trailer. Mila Kunis is sick of trying to be the perfect mother, so she decides to just take a break from trying to please everyone all the time and just live it up. Joining her for the carefree lifestyle change are Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn while Christina Applegate plays the uppity, high-strung PTA mother who is not about to let them get away with their reckless behavior....