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‘Ant-Man’ Extended Look To Premiere With ‘Jurassic World’ IMAX 3D Screenings; See A Brief Teaser By Angie Han/June 8, 2015 1:30 pm EST This summer’s tiniest hero is teaming up with this summer’s biggest villains, on the world’s most gigantic screens. Marvel has announced a six-minute extended preview of Ant-Man to debut this weekend with IMAX 3D screenings of Jurassic World. After the jump, get a little taste with a new teaser for the Ant-Man IMAX extended look....

‘Batman V. Superman’ Is A Gorgeous Mess [Video Review] By David Chen/March 23, 2016 5:00 pm EST Hit the jump to see my full video review. Let’s start with some of the good things about Batman v. Superman. Larry Fong’s cinematography is nothing short of amazing, and Zack Snyder continues to prove he has a great eye for iconic tableaus and breathtaking visuals. With several sequences of this movie shot in full IMAX, the images are so razor sharp that they look like they could cut you....

‘Bourne 5’ Adds Vincent Cassel As Villain By Angie Han/Sept. 1, 2015 1:15 pm EST Every spy thriller needs its villain, and so in Bourne 5, Vincent Cassel will be the one making trouble for our favorite amnesiac hero. The French actor is set to join Matt Damon in the upcoming film, which is being directed by Paul Greengrass. Get all the details on the Bourne 5 Vincent Cassel casting after the jump....

‘Chappie’ Trailer: Neill Blomkamp’s Latest Takes Robots In A New Direction By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2014 9:17 am EST The first Chappie trailer is here. The third film from Neill Blomkamp tells the story of an intelligent robot child which may be the next step in evolution. That scares people, and while the cast-off ‘bot’s existence starts off tough, things get even worse when he’s abducted. Sharlto Copley voices the performance-capture main character and Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman co-star....

‘Ghostbusters’ Director Paul Feig Discusses The Channing Tatum Spin-Off And Backlash By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2015 12:00 pm EST Ghostbusters has been the talk of the movie community for the past few weeks. It started with director Paul Feig announcing his all-female team for a film that’ll be released in Summer 2016. Then, things got taken up a notch when it was revealed Sony was doing a full Ghostbusters universe. Part of the news was a second Ghostbusters film directed by the Russo Brothers and potentially starring Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Animated Short Reveals Drax The Destroyer’s Origin Story By Angie Han/Aug. 25, 2015 8:00 am EST Following Star-Lord, Groot, and Rocket Raccoon, Drax the Destroyer has finally gotten his own prequel short from the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series. The fierce and fearless warrior revealed himself to be a bit of a secret softie in the movie, and judging by this video he’s always been that way....

‘Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World’ Trailer: Werner Herzog Has No Problem Going To Mars By Jack Giroux/June 1, 2016 3:30 pm EST Will artificial intelligence replace Werner Herzog and other filmmakers one day? Will will be able to compose tweets from our minds? And, more importantly, what will it take to send Werner Herzog to Mars? These are some of the many burning questions posed in the trailer for Herzog’s latest documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World....

‘The Trust’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage And Elijah Wood Do The “Incompetent Criminals” Thing By Jacob Hall/March 8, 2016 6:00 am EST The film festival circuit is littered with the corpses of “bumbling idiots try to be criminals” movies that never managed to go anywhere. It’s one of the default subgenres for filmmakers working on a modest scale – you don’t need too much money or a particularly large scope to tell the story of idiot criminals....

Captain EO Could Be Coming To Disney Infinity By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2015 3:30 pm EST I still haven’t gotten into Disney’s popular collectible toy video game platform Disney Infinity, despite the fact I own four Disney Infinity figures (hey, they just look cool). Disney is gearing up to launch the third version of the game platform which will include Star Wars, Inside Out and more, and now we are hearing the future could feature another George Lucas property....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s Comic Con 2016 Exclusives Include ‘Star Wars’ And Marvel Prints By Jacob Hall/July 19, 2016 10:30 am EST If the bylines seem a little inconsistent on /Film over the next few days, that’s because Peter Sciretta, Angie Han, Ethan Anderton, and Jack Giroux are all en route to San Diego Comic-Con, where they’ll be covering every must-see panel and event firsthand and reporting their findings straight back to you....

David Simon Dishes On ‘The Wire’ Spinoff That Never Happened By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2014 10:46 am EST HBO’s The Wire ended its run in 2008 after 60 episodes across five acclaimed seasons. But if creator David Simon had had his way, he might have stuck around that universe a little bit longer. In a recent interview, he talked about his discarded plans for a The Wire spinoff centered on Tommy Carcetti, the Baltimore politician played by Aidan Gillen....

Kevin Feige Responds To Steven Spielberg: Will Superhero Movies Go The Way Of The Western? By Jack Giroux/Oct. 2, 2015 6:00 am EST In the next five years, we’ll see more than 25 comic book movies. Will audiences continue to care about men and women fighting in tights? Steven Spielberg doesn’t think so. Now, Marvel head hancho Kevin Feige responds to Steven Spielberg. Read his response after the jump. Earlier this month The Bridge of Spies director told the Associated Press superhero movies won’t last forever....

Marvel Reveals First ‘Iron Fist’ Teaser Image, Confirms Finn Jones As Danny Rand By Angie Han/March 17, 2016 11:30 am EST As we prepare for our all-night Daredevil season 2 binges, Marvel and Netflix have dropped a tiny little tease for one of their next superhero series, Iron Fist. As we learned last month, and as Marvel has officially confirmed today, Game of Thrones alum Finn Jones will be the one to bring Marvel’s Asian-themed superhero to life....

Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ ‘Fast 8,’ ‘Aliens,’ ‘24,’ ‘See No Evil,’ ‘Dennis The Menace’ By Jacob Hall/April 27, 2016 4:00 pm EST Collider recently sat down with Simon Pegg to discuss Star Trek Beyond, which he co-wrote with Doug Jung and features the actor returning as Enterprise chief engineer Montgomery Scott. And like many Pegg interviews, it’s a geeky and thoughtful chat, like when he talks about combining the needs of a Star Trek story with the needs of a major action blockbuster:...

Showtime Releases A New ‘Twin Peaks’ Trailer As Peter Sarsgaard Joins The Cast By Jacob Hall/Oct. 6, 2015 7:30 am EST The new Twin Peaks trailer is a teaser in just about every sense of the word. Consisting entirely of footage from the original series, it is nothing more than a reminder that yes, Twin Peaks is still coming back and yes, the original series really was that intoxicating and strange....

Standalone Showtime Streaming Service Likely Coming In 2015 By Angie Han/Nov. 6, 2014 1:00 pm EST Showtime is following HBO into the cord-cutting era. The premium cable network has said we’re likely to see standalone Showtime streaming in 2015, just a few weeks after rival HBO announced the same thing. Hit the jump for more details on the possible standalone Showtime streaming offering.Engadget reports Les Moonves, CEO of CBS Corporation (which owns Showtime Networks) mentioned the possibility of a cable-free Showtime streaming during an earnings call....

Star Wars Bits: Jimmy Kimmel Interviews, Star Wars VR, Starkiller Base Blueprints By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2015 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Journalist and film critic Brent Simon recently attended some kind of event where an extended scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens was screened. He’s under embargo for the time being, but he did say this: Under embargo, obviously, but will say it’s heartening #StarWars will seemingly not have GENISYS’ Emilia Clarke problem....

This Week In Trailers: 6 Years, Glassland, Guidance, The Dressmaker By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 9, 2015 9:00 am EST All you in the UK and Ireland have already seen this so move along. What director Gerard Barrett has done here has garnered the man some deserved critical attention and it bleeds through the screen. It’s apparent that what we’re given is something special and knowing it’s coming to us by way of the producers of The Guard and Frank makes this relatively unknown little film so alluring....

Walter White Will Appear In ‘Better Call Saul’, But Not In Season 2 By Angie Han/June 19, 2015 7:00 am EST You can expect Bryan Cranston’s Walter White to stop by the Breaking Bad spinoff / prequel Better Call Saul at some point. Just not in Season 2. “It would be a shame if the show had its run — hopefully a very long run — and he never appeared,” said series co-creator Vince Gilligan....

‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’ Posters: Melting Clocks And Glowing Orbs By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 8, 2015 10:00 am EST Just last week, the first teaser trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass arrived, the sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. It’s quite an early tease for the film that won’t arrive until next summer, and now a batch of posters featuring some of the prominent Wonderland characters and one new face have surfaced....