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‘Descender’ Hunts Down A Screenwriter To Adapt Jeff Lemire And Dustin Nguyen’s Excellent Comic By Jacob Hall/Feb. 3, 2016 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Over the past few years, I’ve watched my weekly comic book purchases change in some very telling ways. As my subscriptions to Marvel and DC books declined, I found myself reading more creator-owened series and the current king of that landscape is Image Comics....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 5 Will Kill Off Characters Still Alive In The Books By Angie Han/Feb. 16, 2015 7:19 am EST Part of the fun of Game of Thrones is that you never really know who’s going to die next. That is, unless you’ve read the books — then you already have a pretty good idea of who’ll survive or perish. But George R.R. Martin warns that won’t be forever....

‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Adds A Second Director By Angie Han/Feb. 25, 2015 12:00 pm EST Kung Fu Panda 3 has been coming together slowly and steadily for the past few years, but now DreamWorks Animation and director Jennifer Yuh are bringing on some help to pick up the pace. Alessandro Carloni, who worked on both previous Kung Fu Panda movies, will join Yuh as co-director of the upcoming sequel. More on the new Kung Fu Panda 3 director after the jump....

‘Mr. Holmes’ Trailer: Ian McKellen’s Aged Detective Tackles One Last Case By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2015 2:00 pm EST The latest screen incarnation of Sherlock Holmes is a somewhat unusual one. In Mr. Holmes, Ian McKellen plays Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective very late in life, and finds him looking back at an unsolved case even as his own faculties begin to falter. Bill Condon directs, and when it premiered in Berlin earlier this year the reviews were very kind to the film....

‘Run All Night’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Stays In Action Mode By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2015 5:30 am EST If you thought the latest film in the Taken series would be the end of Liam Neeson’s run as an action star, you thought wrong. Here comes Run All Night, which casts Neeson as a mob hitman who must protect his son from the violent attentions of a gangster after the young guy witnesses the wrong act....

‘Terminator Genisys’ Not Dead Yet, Even If You Want It To Be By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2016 10:30 am EST Game developer Plarium has acquired the rights to develop a Terminator Genisys video game for iOS and Android that “will pull from the themes, experiences and character likenesses from Terminator Genisys franchise.” The new game will follow “the struggles of the Resistance, whose soldiers are in a state of civil war over the few resources and weapons that remain....

‘The Conjuring’ Sequel Pushed To 2016 [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2014 5:30 am EST New Line had planned a Conjuring sequel for October 2015, but that plan has changed. Just weeks after the Conjuring spin-off Annabelle opened in the US, New Line has pulled The Conjuring 2 off the 3015 schedule, pushing it into 2016. The studio will still use that date for horror, and will release a different, as-yet untitled horror movie on the old Conjuring 2 date....

‘The Crown’ Trailer: What Is The Purpose Of The Crown? By Jack Giroux/Jan. 6, 2016 3:30 pm EST Netflix’s upcoming drama has some serious talent behind it. That’s generally the case, but The Crown, in particular, has such a promising cast and writer involved. Based on the award-winning play “The Audience” and written by Academy Award nominee Peter Morgan (Rush, The Queen), the Netflix drama focuses on Queen Elizabeth II’s early reign....

A Cast Of Kings S4E09 - The Watchers On The Wall By David Chen/June 9, 2014 10:21 pm EST Joanna and David discuss the ninth episode of season 4 of Game of Thrones, “The Watchers on the Wall.” Thanks to our sponsor for this week, Hover. Learn more details about our T-shirt contest on our Facebook page. If you like the show, feel free to leave us a review on iTunes and like us on Facebook....

ABC Making ‘Bachelor Party’ TV Series Based On 1984 Tom Hanks Movie By Angie Han/Oct. 22, 2014 10:00 am EST A few weeks ago, we got word that the 1988 Tom Hanks classic Big was being adapted for the small screen by Fox. Now ABC is also mining Hanks’ resume for material, and has come up with a TV series based on the 1984 comedy Bachelor Party. If someone options Splash, we can officially call “TV shows based on ’80s comedies starring Tom Hanks” a new hyper-specific trend....

Cool Stuff: Andy Fairhurst’s ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Posters By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2015 8:53 am EST Hot off the biggest Star Wars weekend of the year (so far), the Bottleneck Gallery is releasing a beautiful set of official posters based on the original trilogy. The artist is Andy Fairhurst, who did this incredible set of Back to the Future posters a few months back. As he did with those, Fairhurst gives these popular films an etherial, yet recognizable look, and links an entire trilogy with the same basic concept....

David Hasselhoff Confirmed For A Role In ‘Baywatch’ Movie By Ethan Anderton/March 3, 2016 12:30 pm EST Even though Pamela Anderson is still figuring some things out regarding a potential appearance in the forthcoming Baywatch movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron, one of the stars of the original TV series isn’t wasting any time locking down a role in the movie. A David Hasselhoff Baywatch cameo of some sort has been confirmed, and this comes straight from the set of the movie from Dwayne Johnson himself....

Finding Dory TV Spot Asks “Have You Seen Her?”, Trailer Coming Next Week By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2016 10:00 am EST Disney has revealed that a brand new trailer for Pixar’s Finding Dory will debut exclusively on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this Wednesday, March 2nd 2016. To kick off the announcement, Disney has released a brand new “Have You Seen Her?” tv spot, which you can watch after the jump....

Jack Huston Now In Talks To Lead ‘The Crow’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2015 6:00 am EST The remake of The Crow has turned into a revolving door for talent, with a parade of writers, directors, and actors being attached to the film in various capacities before falling off again. Most recently, F. Javier Gutiérrez was going to direct, with Luke Evans starring. But Gutiérrez fell away, and Corin Hardy signed on to direct....

New ‘Nightcrawler’ TV Spot And Poster: Succinct And Perfectly Seedy By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2014 8:00 am EST I’m getting to the point where I love the one-minute and even the 30-second trailer. Take Nightcrawler, a film which looks truly great, and about which I’ve heard nothing but good things since it started doing the festival rounds a few weeks ago. Dan Gilroy’s tale of seedy Los Angeles news reporting boasts a lead performance from Jake Gyllenhall that has become the must-see turn of fall 2014....

Nicolas Cage Turned Down A Lead Role In ‘Lord Of The Rings’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 3, 2015 1:00 pm EST It seems like Nicolas Cage doesn’t turn down anything nowadays. From Left Behind to Season of the Witch, the last five years haven’t been full of Cage’s best decisions. However, there was one point when Cage was a little more choosy, and he turned down what could have been one of the biggest roles of his career....

Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Reveals New Concept Art, Updated Logo By Angie Han/Dec. 30, 2014 9:00 am EST Pixar released zero new features in 2014, but the company is making up for that absence by opening two films in 2015. The first is Inside Out, due out in June, and the second is The Good Dinosaur, scheduled for November. While we’ve already seen a trailer for the former, the latter remains a bit more mysterious for now....

Rumor: Sony Mulling Team-Up Film Starring Female Spider-Man Characters By Russ Fischer/Oct. 30, 2014 3:30 pm EST A third Amazing Spider-Man film is planned, with a scheduled release in 2018, and before that we’ll (maybe) get the bad guy team-up movie Sinister Six. That film has been described as a Dirty Dozen sort of story with Spidey basically in the Lee Marvin role, working with the villains. That’s one conception of it, at least....

Sega Begins To Develop Video Game Adaptations For Film And TV By Russ Fischer/Dec. 11, 2014 4:30 pm EST Sega just realized that it has a bunch of video game properties that could potentially be adapted to film, TV, and digital series. OK, maybe the company didn’t just realize this, but it is just putting plans in motion to exploit titles such as Shinobi and Altered Beast. At this point we don’t know what will end up as film, and what might be on TV as live-action or animation, but Sega is taking control of its own development efforts just as UbiSoft did before it....

Sony Classics Picks Up Hank Williams Biopic Starring Tom Hiddleston By Angie Han/April 2, 2015 4:01 pm EST Tom Hiddleston’s casting as country legend Hank Williams attracted some skepticism when it was first announced, but Sony Pictures Classics, for one, feels pretty good about it. The company has just acquired worldwide rights to I Saw the Light, written and directed by Marc Abraham. More on the I Saw the Light Sony Classics deal after the jump....