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Cool Stuff: Matt Ferguson’s Outstanding ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Posters By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2016 5:00 am EST There’s no shortage of Star Wars artwork hitting the web all the time. We’ve featured work from artists such as Tyler Stout, Olly Moss, Ken Taylor and Kevin Tong, Marko Manev and Craig Drake. Plus, just last fall we featured a new Star Wars trilogy poster from Gabz, and I’m proud to say I have one hanging up in my office....

David Tennant Lending Voice To Animated Adaptation Of ‘Chew’ Comic Book By Ethan Anderton/June 20, 2015 11:15 am EST Former Doctor Who star David Tennant will already enter the realm of comic books with a villainous role in the forthcoming Marvel and Netflix series AKA Jessica Jones, but that’s not the only comic book gig the actor has booked. Tennat has just landed a role in the voice cast of Chew, the animated adaptation of the popular Image Comics title....

First Look: Johnny Depp Is Intimidating As Whitey Bulger In ‘Black Mass’ By Russ Fischer/April 22, 2015 10:45 am EST In two days, we’ve had two new images of Johnny Depp in two very different roles. Yesterday was the first look at his fifth Pirates of the Caribbean outing, with Depp in the now so-familiar Jack Sparrow garb. Today is the first look at Depp as famed Boston gangster Whitey Bulger — and here he’s more scary and intimidating than a real pirate....

HBO Cancels ‘Togetherness’ After Two Fantastic Seasons By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2016 9:00 am EST Even though HBO does a bang up job selecting original series that usually last a long time, sometimes the cable network just has to pull the plug for practical show business reasons. HBO has decided to cancel the series Togetherness, the family dramedy series created by Jay & Mark Duplass and Steve Zissis, after just two seasons on the network....

James Wan To Direct ‘The Conjuring 2’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2014 10:29 am EST Last night the news broke that New Line had pushed The Conjuring 2 out of 2015 and into an un-dated 2016 release window. We wondered if that had anything to do with the success of Annabelle, and if New Line might be thinking of making more spin-off movies based on the Warren case files, instead of doing a proper sequel....

LOL: Marvel’s ‘Daredevil’ Gets ‘Law & Order’ And ‘Night Court’ Credits Sequences By Ethan Anderton/May 27, 2015 6:00 am EST Everyone loves binge-watching shows on Netflix. But the problem with watching an entire season of any show in a week or two is that the window for people to talk about that show comes and goes very quickly. For example, even though Netflix premiered the new Marvel Studios series Daredevil just last month, no one is really talking about it anymore....

Matthew Vaughn Producing ‘Ghostgirl’ YA Adaptation By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2014 7:00 am EST Tonya Hurley has written five novels about a teen girl whose problems with adolescence are complicated by the fact that she is also dead, and now the first book is en route to the big screen. The Ghostgirl movie is being guided into movie form by Kick-Ass and Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn, who is producing along with Valerie Van Galder....

Superhero Bits: Jon Hamm As Cable, Marvel Comedy Pilot, Civil War II And More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 11, 2016 6:00 pm EST Is a crossover between Supergirl, The Flash and Arrow more possible than originally thought? What new Marvel comedy pilot did ABC just order? Which superheroes will be facing off in Marvel’s Civil War II? Was Chris Pine ever actually approached to play Green Lantern in the DC Comics cinematic universe?...

The Man In The High Castle Season 2 Announced By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2015 12:00 pm EST The drama produced by Ridley Scott, is set in an alternate 1962 where the Axis powers won World War II. A San Francisco woman (Alexa Davalos) comes into possession of a film reel depicting a world where the Allied powers were victorious, which inspires some very dangerous ideas. Luke Kleintank and Rufus Sewell also star....

This ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6 Featurette Explores How You Make A White Walker By Jacob Hall/March 23, 2016 10:30 am EST Game of Thrones has no shortage of monsters. Some of those monsters are human beings, scoundrels and killers and torturers, who just need a great actor to bring them to life. Others, like the zombies and those mysterious ice demons, require a little more practical elbow grease. A new featurette has arrived, showing off the ever-popular show’s prosthetic department and offering a cool glimpse at just how much time, energy, and effort goes into making a single White Walker....

Universal Pictures CinemaCon 2015 Video Blog Reaction By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2015 1:00 pm EST I just got home from Las Vegas, where for the last week I had attended the CinemaCon convention (formerly ShoWest), the largest gathering of movie theatre exhibitors each year. Thursday afternoon we saw a presentation from Universal Pictures showcasing some of their big upcoming films including Jurassic World, Everest, Crimson Peak and The Secret Life of Pets and more....

Watch The Sequence Pixar Animated For ‘Tomorrowland’ By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2015 10:30 am EST The backstory for Brad Bird’s film Tomorrowland contains a lot of detail about the beneficent cabal known as Plus Ultra, a secretive group of dreamers which conceived and built a futuristic creative paradise. In the actual film, however, we don’t see too much about Plus Ultra. Scenes were trimmed for length and pacing, and much of that story was left out of the film, along with all mentions of Disney....

Where The ‘Bring It On’ Characters Would Be 15 Years Later By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2015 12:30 pm EST On August 25th 2000, Bring It On hit theaters nationwide. Thats right, want to feel old? Its been 15 years since the release of that movie. I’ve always loved that movie for whatever reason, call it a guilty pleasure. I feel like it were released today it would have a bunch of theatrical sequels and the same success that we’re seeing from the like-minded Pitch Perfect franchise....

‘Bates Motel’ Renewed For Two More Seasons By Angie Han/June 16, 2015 7:30 am EST Norma and Norman Bates’ toxic relationship will continue for the foreseeable future. A&E has renewed Bates Motel for two more seasons, the show’s fourth and fifth. The Psycho prequel stars Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga. More on the Bates Motel renewal after the jump. Variety reports the next two seasons of Bates Motel will consist of ten episodes each, just as the last three seasons have....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Art Has Everyone Fighting, But Who Is War Hammer? By Angie Han/Dec. 18, 2015 12:30 pm EST The Avengers looked stronger than ever when we last left them in Avengers: Age of Ultron. When they weren’t joining forces to defeat unstoppable killer robots, they were partying it up at Tony’s and recruiting new team members. But dark times are ahead for our heroes, as we’ve already seen in the first trailer for Captain America: Civil War....

‘Daredevil’ Officially Renewed For Season 3 [Comic-Con 2016] By Jacob Hall/July 21, 2016 7:33 pm EST Next stop: Hell’s Kitchen. Daredevil Season 3 is coming soon. #Daredevilhttps://t.co/tkWwJNBLJy — Daredevil (@Daredevil) July 22, 2016 If Daredevil followed the pattern established by the first two seasons, it would premiere early next year, but that doesn’t seem to be case. With Luke Cage premiering in September, the new Iron Fist series taking up early 2017 real estate, and the Defenders crossover miniseries arriving later that year, Daredevil has been displaced....

‘Deepwater Horizon’ Trailer: Mark Wahlberg Faces The Flames With Courage By Ethan Anderton/May 26, 2016 11:00 am EST After facing prehistoric Transformers in 2014 and hanging out with a talking teddy bear in Ted 2 last year, Mark Wahlberg confronts something a little more real this fall in Deepwater Horizon. Based on the real life disaster, the film follows Wahlberg as a family man working on the title oil rig as anything and everything goes wrong, leaving the lives of those on the job that day in grave danger....

‘Fifty Shades’ Sequel Release Dates Set For 2017, 2018 [Updated With First-Look Image] By Angie Han/April 24, 2015 9:00 am EST The Fifty Shades sequel still needs a director, but it has a screenwriter and now it also has a release date. Fifty Shades Darker is officially set to open in two years, followed by Fifty Shades Freed the year after that. Hit the jump for more details on the Fifty Shades sequel release dates....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Animated Series Teaser Trailer, Poster And Release Date By Angie Han/July 22, 2015 5:00 pm EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: Disney XD has released the first Guardians of the Galaxy animated series teaser trailer. You can watch the first 15 second promo, embedded after the jump. The original story from Angie Han published on July 6th 2015 follows: The Guardians of the Galaxy won’t return to the big screen until 2017, but their cartoon counterparts will hit the small one later this year....

‘In The Heart Of The Sea’ Trailer #2: The Whale Is Just The Beginning By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2014 1:00 pm EST The Rush team of director Ron Howard and star Chris Hemsworth reunite for In the Heart of the Sea, which tells a variation on the Moby Dick story by adapting a novel that recounts one story which inspired Herman Melville to write his landmark novel. A large and particularly determined whale features in this story, too, and then there’s everything that happens around the encounter with the animal, which causes the crew of the whaling ship Essex to deal with multiple forms of crisis at sea....