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This Week In Trailers: Insert Coin: Inside Midway’s ’90s Revolution, Hertzfeldt On Blu-Ray, Victoria, Prince, The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution By Christopher Stipp/July 26, 2015 9:00 am EST I mean, just look at what these guys created: Gauntlet, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, Rampage, Spy Hunter, the Cruis’n series, and a litany of pinball favorites. To that end, producer Joshua Tsui thought a Kickstarter to celebrate this video game publisher was long overdue....

Tom Cruise And Doug Liman Reunion ‘Mena’ Set For January 2017 By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2015 3:00 pm EST We’ve got a set of new release dates from Universal and Warner Bros. The new collaboration between Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman and star Tom Cruise has been set for January 2017 by Universal, and Warner Bros. has given dates to the Key & Peele film Keanu, and the remake of Going in Style....

VOTD: ‘Inside Out’ Without The Feelings In Riley’s Head Will Still Pull At Your Heart Strings By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 3, 2016 9:00 am EST This past summer, Pixar’s Inside Out really turned on the waterworks for people of all ages, and the film has ended up on a lot of year-end Top 10 lists for the films of 2015 (including some of ours coming this week). It should come as no surprise that the movie about feelings really gets our own feelings stirring, but what might be a little surprising is that Inside Out without the feelings will still deliver a bit of an emotional gut punch....

When Will ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Get X-Wings? Dave Filoni On That Potentially Awesome Moment By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2016 9:00 am EST Star Wars Rebels follows the Rebellion in the five years before Star Wars: A New Hope, but we’ve yet to see an X-Wing appear onscreen. So one of the first questions I asked Filoni is when we’ll finally see some X-Wings in Star Wars Rebels. Find out what he said about Star Wars Rebels X-Wings, after the jump....

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Director Dan Trachtenberg Joins ‘Black Mirror’ Season 3 By Jacob Hall/April 29, 2016 11:00 am EST Black Mirror is already a perverse and pitch-black riff on The Twilight Zone, so why shouldn’t it steal directors from a film series that also seems to be borrowing a thing or two from Rod Serling’s iconic television show? 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg will helm an episode of the popular science fiction anthology series’ third season, which was wooed away from the U....

‘Bojack Horseman’ Season 3 Trailer: “What Do You Mean, ‘What’s Next?’” By Angie Han/June 29, 2016 10:30 am EST Who would have guessed that the closest spiritual successor to Mad Men would come in the form of a half-hour cartoon about a washed-up sitcom star who just happens to be a horse? Netflix’s Bojack Horseman was a little shaky in the early going, but it hit its funny-sad stride around the middle of its first season, and by its second season was a legitimate contender for one of the best shows on television....

‘Demonic’ Trailer: Frank Grillo And Maria Bello Lead James Wan-Produced Thriller By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2015 11:45 am EST Originally, James Wan was supposed to have two films out in 2014: Furious 7, which he directed; and Demonic, which he produced. Alas, both got pulled off the calendar. Furious 7 has at least found a new date in April, but we’re still waiting for release details on Demonic. In the meantime, though, we do have a new Demonic trailer that offers a taste of the creepiness to come....

‘Dope’ Director Rick Famuyiwa To Helm HBO Films’ ‘Confirmation’ By Angie Han/April 15, 2015 5:00 pm EST Hot off his Sundance hit Dope, director Rick Famuyiwa has landed himself a high-profile gig. He’s set to helm Confirmation, HBO Films’ upcoming picture about the 1991 Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill scandal. Kerry Washington is already set to play Hill. Get all the details on the Rick Famuyiwa Confirmation deal after the jump. TheWrap reports Famuyiwa has closed his deal for Confirmation, and will shoot early this summer....

‘Heroes Reborn’: Zachary Quinto Won’t Return As Sylar By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2015 5:30 am EST Sylar won’t be among the heroes reborn for Heroes Reborn. Actor Zachary Quinto confirmed that although he has been approached, he will not reprise the Heroes villain for NBC’s upcoming miniseries reboot. Read the Zachary Quinto Heroes Reborn comments after the jump, including his explanation of why he won’t be back. Buzzfeed’s Kate Aurthur got the scoop straight from Quinto at Sundance....

‘Masterminds’ Trailer: These Idiots Actually Manage To Pull Off A Heist By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2015 10:30 am EST Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess returns with Masterminds, a comedy about two dopes and a schemer (played by Kristen Wiig, Zach Galifianakis and Owen Wilson, respectively) who team up to steal a truckload of money. Amazingly, the heist goes well, but the fallout isn’t so easy to deal with. In the aftermath of the robbert, when everyone wants the money, things get weird....

‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Will Explore Privacy And Data Encryption By Jack Giroux/March 15, 2016 7:30 am EST Filming on Mr. Robot season two recently commenced. The USA drama just added Craig Robinson, Joey Bada$$, Chris Conroy, and Mimi Gummer to the cast of the upcoming season. Outside of who’s new to the cast, who’s returning and what roles have been beefed up for season two, we know a decent amount about to expect from Mr....

‘Sharknado 3’ Presidents Casting Might Shock You By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2015 10:00 am EST Syfy has announced some new casting for Sharknado 3. It seems like this mockbuster franchise is increasingly being stuffed with celebrity cameos, some of which make little to no sense. (Much like the plot of these films, I’m sure some would say.) The latest casting includes Mark Cuban as the president of the United States of America....

‘Suicide Squad’ Creator John Ostrander Thinks Critics Just Really Wanted To Hate ‘Suicide Squad’ By Angie Han/Aug. 9, 2016 3:00 pm EST Unless you’ve been living down in the sewers, Killer Croc-style, for the past week, you’ve surely heard by now that Suicide Squad was not much loved by critics. One logical explanation for this is that Suicide Squad just isn’t a great movie — that it’s too messy or overstuffed or ugly....

‘The Infiltrator’ Trailer: Bryan Cranston Takes Down A Drug Empire For A Change Of Pace By Jacob Hall/April 20, 2016 11:30 am EST Over the course five increasingly intense seasons of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston’s Walter White built a drug empire that damaged and destroyed the lives of countless characters. Perhaps Cranston believes in establishing some kind of cinematic karmic balance, because his new movie is all about him attempting to take down a drug empire....

‘The Night Of’ Teaser Trailer: Screenwriter Steven Zaillian Is Finally Directing Again By Jack Giroux/April 18, 2016 2:30 pm EST HBO’s The Night Of represents screenwriter Steven Zaillian’s return to the director’s chair. Zaillian hasn’t shot a feature film since All the King’s Men, and although that 2006 remake is a notable misfire, his directional debut, Searching for Bobby Fischer, is reason enough to want to see him direct again. The Academy Award-winning screenwriter responsible for Schindler’s List and American Gangster is, thankfully, back at it, having helmed eight out of the nine episodes of HBO’s upcoming miniseries....

‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Teaser: Kevin Hart Is A Fluffy Little Bunny By Angie Han/Jan. 15, 2016 7:00 am EST Everyone claims to know their pets — their likes, their dislikes, their habits and personality quirks — but do we really? Or are we just projecting our own ideas and preferences onto a bunch of unamused creatures? Universal’s upcoming The Secret Life of Pets posits that there’s a lot more to these animals than we might suspect....

Are Twitter Movie Reviews Killing Film Criticism? By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2015 12:43 pm EST So is a Twitter reaction film criticism? It’s debatable. Thierry Fremaux, head of the Cannes Film Festival, says it is and that Twitter reactions are ruining film criticism. Read his quotes and some thoughts on Twitter movie reviews below. Fremaux talked to Le Film Francais (via IndieWire) and said the following: Cannes president Pierre Lescure agreeded:...

Five ‘Inside Out’ Ideas That Didn’t Make The Final Movie By Germain Lussier/June 18, 2015 8:00 am EST “We’ve done outer space, we’ve done the ocean, but the biggest set we’ve ever created is inside the mind of an 11 year old girl.” That’s Pete Docter, the co-writer and director of Inside Out, the latest film from Pixar. As Docter says, the film is set in the mind of an 11-year-old girl, giving the filmmakers an infinite canvas to work on, which was both a blessing and a curse....

Javier Bardem Is The New Frankenstein In Universal’s Monsters Universe By Jacob Hall/July 11, 2016 12:53 pm EST UPDATE: The chief question I proposed below has been answered by Variety’s Justin Kroll on Twitter: To be clear, he would be playing the monster in some form not Victor — Justin Kroll (@krolljvar) July 11, 2016 The original article continues below. If there was any doubt about whether or not Universal was viewing their new monsters cinematic universe as something that should be taken very seriously, just look at the talent they’ve been assembling: Tom Cruise will battle the title creature in The Mummy, Russell Crowe is playing a new version of Dr....

Marvel Sets ‘12 Years A Slave’ Scribe John Ridley For TV Series By Angie Han/April 17, 2015 11:00 am EST EW got the scoop on the John Ridley Marvel project. Details are under very tight wraps at the moment, but according to their sources the project “involves reinventing an existing Marvel superhero character or property for ABC.” It’s not clear if that means the show will center around a superhero that’s already been introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or a superhero previously established in the comics....