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Watch The 74-Minute Chat Between J.J. Abrams & Chris Rock From Tribeca Film Festival By Ethan Anderton/April 21, 2016 1:00 pm EST Last weekend Tribeca Film Festival hosted a special chat between filmmaker J.J. Abrams and comedians Chris Rock (who is also a filmmaker himself) as part of their 15th anniversary festivities. We already featured some tidbits when their discussion turned to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, mainly its similarity to Star Wars: A New Hope and Mark Hamill’s hesitancy to return for the sequel....

By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 8, 2016 6:30 am EST Watch the Crisis in Six Scenes trailer after the jump. Crisis in Six Scenes takes place in the turbulent 1960s when plenty of controversy and turmoil was engulfing the United States. Specifically, the show will follow a middle class suburban family that is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down. That’s a pretty vague description of the story, but that’s what we’ve come to expect from Woody Allen....

‘Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip’ Trailer: Munks Get Put On The No-Fly List By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 29, 2015 4:30 pm EST Even though it seems like everyone will be flocking to theaters the weekend of December 18th to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we must remember that there are plenty of people who just aren’t interested. Some might prefer to see the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy Sisters, or have younger kids who aren’t old enough for Star Wars, making the new Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel the more appropriate choice....

‘Ash Vs Evil Dead’ Behind The Scenes Video: Shoot First, Think Never By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2015 2:00 pm EST We’ve seen a couple trailers for Ash vs Evil Dead, now it’s time for the behind the scenes featurette. This one should do the trick; it’s a couple minutes of bland but enthusiastic quotes from Bruce Campbell, producer Robert Tapert, new co-star Lucy Lawless, and composer Joseph LoDuca, among others. It’s got some good shots of the show’s creation, and one or two good bits, including Lucy Lawless’s comment that the show is a “jolly splatter-fest!...

‘Inferno’ Trailer: In Which Robert Langdon Makes An Art History Degree Look Useful By Jacob Hall/June 23, 2016 11:30 am EST It’s been a decade since The Da Vinci Code hit theaters and seven years since the same team adapted Angels & Demons and it’s a little surprising just how little director Ron Howard’s adaptations of author Dan Brown’s art history-themed airport thrillers have remained in pop culture consciousness. Tom Hanks playing a bookish, thinking man’s Indiana Jones who galavants around Europe solving mysteries tied to art and architecture should be fun, but it’s hard to remember anything at all about the previous two movies in this series....

‘Love & Mercy’ Trailer Starring Paul Dano And John Cusack As The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson By Angie Han/Feb. 26, 2015 7:30 am EST Brian Wilson wasn’t a conventional person, so why should he get a conventional biopic? Love & Mercy casts not one but two actors as the Beach Boys musician. Paul Dano plays him in the 1960s, when he was a young man on track for greatness; John Cusack plays him in the 1980s, as he’s struggling to get out from under an abusive relationship with his doctor Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti)....

‘Manhattan Night’ Trailer: Adrien Brody Is Absolutely Terrified By Jack Giroux/April 7, 2016 2:30 pm EST If you like trailers that probably reveal far too many plot points, then the trailer for Manhattan Night was cut just for you. The mystery — which might be hard to call a mystery after this trailer — involves a reporter that gets in over his head. Adrien Brody stars in the film, which looks like a bit like a throwback to the sexually-charged thrillers we rarely see these days....

‘The Muppets’ Posters Tease A Network Show With Full Frontal Nudity By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2015 2:00 pm EST Not long after the the video presentation that landed The Muppets a new show on ABC surfaced online after a debut at Comic-Con, we have a batch of new posters for the “more adult” TV comedy series that you’ll likely start seeing around major cities very soon. Featuring Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Gonzo, each of the character posters have a clever little tagline, with Kermit’s taking the cake as the boldest and funniest tagline to promote a Muppets production I’ve ever heard....

‘Wolverine 3’ Casts Richard E. Grant As Mad Scientist By Angie Han/April 27, 2016 7:00 am EST Wolverine’s never really been one for making friends, but he sure is good at making enemies. Richard E. Grant has joined Wolverine 3 in a villainous role, joining Boyd Holbrook as another baddie. Hugh Jackman, of course, returns to play Wolverine one final time, while Patrick Stewart reprises his role as Professor X. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Grant will play “a villainous mad-scientist type,” but doesn’t offer any further details about his character....

Abandoned ‘Toy Story 3’ Concept Art Shows The Sequel That Could Have Been By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2014 10:00 am EST Update From Editor Peter Sciretta: In 2005, Disney and Pixar were gearing up to split ways and was Disney Animation was creating its own and very different version of Toy Story 3 without John Lasseter and gang. A ton of new images have found their way online from the abandoned version of Toy Story 3....

Cary Fukunaga Directing ‘The Alienist’ TV Series By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2015 9:30 am EST The director of True Detective is taking on another full TV series — this time a period thriller set in New York City. The Caleb Carr novel The Alienist will be adapted for television, with True Detective and Beasts of No Nation director Cary Fukunaga (above, with Matthew McConaughey, who is not attached to this series) in the director’s chair....

Details Emerge On Major ‘Fantastic Four’ Deleted Action Sequence With The Thing By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2015 11:30 am EST The latest bit of information on Josh Trank’s comic book reboot involves a description of a major action sequence that was cut out of the film, something that Fantastic Four could have used much more of in the final cut. This particular sequence involves many of the shots of The Thing that we recently highlighted from the trailers which ended up not appearing in the movie at all....

Did You See These ‘Daredevil’ Season 2 Easter Eggs? By Ethan Anderton/March 25, 2016 9:00 am EST It’s been one week since the second season of Daredevil debuted on Netflix, so hopefully you’ve binged all the episodes by now and you’re excited for Luke Cage to arrive later this year (check out the teaser that appeared at the end of Daredevil’s second season right here). If you haven’t watched Daredevil’s new episodes yet, we’ll keep any spoilers after the jump, but if you’re looking for some insight into what kind of comic book Easter eggs can be found in the second season, as well as references to other facets of the Marvel cinematic universe, then we have the video for you....

How To Hide Potential Television Spoilers From IMDB By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2015 12:30 pm EST We all know how it is, sometimes while browsing the Internet Movie Database you can hit an unseen landline — a spoiler in the form of an actor or character in an episode’s credits. You had no idea that character was going to die in that popular Netflix series until you saw how many episodes the character was listed to appear in on IMDb....

Katherine Waterston Starring In ‘Alien: Covenant’ By Jack Giroux/Dec. 17, 2015 5:27 pm EST This is not a bad year to be Katherine Waterston. The actress broke out last year with Inherent Vice, and since then, she’s delivered an emotional performance in Steve Jobs and shot the highly anticipated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The actresses’ next job? A starring role in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant....

Lionsgate Picking Up ‘Robin Hood: Origins’ By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2015 4:00 pm EST It was once somewhat unusual to see the same basic story being developed as an arms race by competing studios and producers, but now the arms race approach to making big movies it so common as to be unremarkable. One of several subjects of heated development currently occupying studio time is Robin Hood, and Lionsgate has just picked up Robin Hood: Origins, the gritty retelling of the outlaw’s origin penned by Joby Harold....

Matthew Vaughn May Direct Sci-Fi Disaster Pic ‘Ascension’ By Angie Han/Oct. 12, 2015 10:30 am EST Vaughn’s deal isn’t locked in just yet, but the plan is for him to produce and possibly direct. The British filmmaker has demonstrated a knack for stylish, eye-catching action sequences, and the premise of Ascension should offer him plenty of opportunity to show off his chops. Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service exceeded expectations when it opened this year, grossing $412 million and kickstarting a new franchise in the process....

Netflix Offline Playback Could Be Coming This Year By Angie Han/June 24, 2016 11:30 am EST Fortunately, that may not be the case for much longer. Netflix is reportedly working on a feature that would let subscribers download some programs to watch offline, and it could be ready to go by the end of the year. Netflix has not officially announced an offline viewing feature. However, Light Reading has heard from multiple industry sources that Netflix is looking into it....

New ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Trailer: The World Gets Pitch Slapped By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2015 8:47 am EST The new Pitch Perfect 2 trailer is out and this time the stakes are bigger. Think: global. This time, the Barden Bellas literally compete in a worldwide a cappella competition. While the first trailer gave a hint of what this meant for the movie, the new one takes it a step beyond. As it says in the trailer, the world is about to get pitch slapped....

One Fan Has Built A Life-Size AT-ST From ‘Return Of The Jedi’ And It’s Pretty Great By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2016 5:00 am EST There are plenty of Star Wars fans out there who have made their own custom lightsabers, blasters, Jedi robes, LEGO sets, action figures, and countless more creations. But one fan has put them all to shame by building a life-size AT-ST (or All Terrain Scout Transport) from Return of the Jedi in his backyard....