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‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Hints At ‘Wolverine 3’ Villain; ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ Star Joins Cast By Angie Han/May 19, 2016 1:00 pm EST Wolverine 3 has been operating under a shroud of secrecy. We know it’ll bring back Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Patrick Stewart as Professor X, and that it’ll loosely be based on Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s Old Man Logan storyline. But even as the cast continues to grow — with Fear the Walking Dead and Orange Is the New Black star Elizabeth Rodriguez as its latest exciting addition — we haven’t heard a whole lot about which characters these actors will be playing....

Alexander Payne’s Bizarre Comedy ‘Downsizing’ Lands At Paramount By Jacob Hall/Oct. 5, 2015 7:30 am EST Director Alexander Payne carved out his niche as a chronicler of the mundane, a filmmaker who mines comedy and drama from high school elections and road trips across the midwest. So the fact that his next movie, Downsizing, is a high-concept science fiction comedy should come as a bit of a surprise. Yet he’s the kind of guy whose low-key films rack up the Oscar nods and attract big-name talent....

American Ultra Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg Does His Best Jason Bourne By Angie Han/July 30, 2015 5:30 pm EST Jesse Eisenberg is just about the last guy you’d expect to emerge as a lethal agent. It’s easier to buy him as a supervillain, even. But that’s exactly the point of his latest movie, American Ultra. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh and written by Max Landis, the action-comedy stars Eisenberg as an aimless stoner who’s secretly a highly trained operative....

Animated ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Finds Its Drax And Star Lord Voice Actors By Germain Lussier/Feb. 18, 2015 10:30 am EST Disney’s animated interpretation of Guardians of the Galaxy is currently casting up. Tuesday, Groot and Rocket were given TV voices. Now Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, has been given life. Former Boy Meets World star Will Friedle will provide the voice for the Earthling who was kidnapped and brought out into space on the 2015 Disney XD show....

CBS’ New ‘Star Trek’ Series Boldly Adds Gene Roddenberry’s Son To The Crew By Jacob Hall/March 3, 2016 4:30 pm EST Here’s how much CBS wants you to try out their new All Access digital streaming platform: the network is making a new Star Trek television series that will premiere on regular ‘ol TV before sending all other episodes exclusively to the new service. And to make sure that you comply and sign up, they brought the great Bryan Fuller on board as showrunner and hired Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn director Nicholas Meyer as a writer and producer....

Halle Berry In Talks For ‘Kingsman 2’ By Angie Han/March 11, 2016 6:00 am EST Based on the comic book series by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar, the Kingsman movies center on a super-elite, super-secret, super-British spy organization. The first film, which saw Eggsy competing to join the group under the mentorship of Harry Hart (Firth), was a surprise hit, grossing $414 million worldwide last year on a budget of $81 million and earning very strong reviews besides....

Hugh Jackman And Rooney Mara Set For ‘Collateral Beauty’ From Director Of ‘Me And Earl And The Dying Girl’ By Germain Lussier/May 13, 2015 2:00 pm EST Variety broke the news of the film, which does not yet have a distributor. It’s an original story written by Allan Loeb (Here Comes the Boom, 21, Rock of Ages, The Dilemma) and it follows a man at a New York ad agency whose whole live changes after a major tragedy....

Infographic: The Influence Of ‘Star Wars’ On Film & TV By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 12, 2015 6:00 am EST There’s no doubt that one of the most influential films ever made is Star Wars, not just in the genre of sci-fi, but in filmmaking in general. From special effects to storytelling to hero/villain archetypes and more, the entire original Star Wars trilogy made waves in the entertainment industry that are still felt to this day....

James Mangold To Direct Classic Hollywood Love Story ‘Seducing Ingrid Bergman’ By Angie Han/June 19, 2015 3:30 pm EST More about the James Mangold Seducing Ingrid Bergman project after the jump. TheWrap reports Mangold is attached to direct Seducing Ingrid Bergman. The script by Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco) landed on the 2014 Black List of the year’s best unproduced screenplays. It’s based on the novel by Chris Greenhalgh, which in turn is a dramatized account of true events....

Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ Is Getting A Comic Book Prequel By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2016 4:30 pm EST Yoga Hosers, the second film in Kevin Smith’s True North trilogy, makes its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this Sunday, January 24. But if you saw Smith’s last film Tusk, you’ll be familiar with its lead characters already — Colleen and Colleen (Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp, the teenage convenience store clerks who were questioned by Johnny Depp’s Guy LaPointe....

Mark Millar’s ‘Empress’ Is Getting Turned Into A Movie By Angie Han/May 3, 2016 2:30 pm EST Hollywood’s favorite comic book writer, Mark Millar, is preparing to bring yet another one of his stories to the big screen. Millar is joining forces with Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for an adaptation of his latest new title, Empress, described as “part Star Wars, part Guardians of the Galaxy.” F. Scott Frazier (xXx: The Return of Xander Cage) is on board to write the script....

Marvel Releasing ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Prequel Comic Called ‘Star Wars – Kanan: The Last Padawan’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 13, 2014 9:30 am EST Everything is connected in the new Star Wars universe. The TV shows, movies, and books, all tell one cohesive story. That’s part of the way Lucasfilm and Disney are now doing business in a galaxy far, far away and a brand new endeavor spotlighting that singular story was just announced....

Netflix’s ‘Special Correspondents’ Trailer: Ricky Gervais Needs To Grow A Pair By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2016 11:00 am EST After making a comfortable home at Netflix for his series Derek, British comedian Ricky Gervais is bringing an original comedy feature to the streaming service with Special Correspondents. In what feels like a Tropic Thunder meets Wag the Dog kind of story, Gervais plays a sound engineer who teams up with a radio journalist (Eric Bana) to fake a report from the front line of a war in Ecuador....

New ‘Chappie’ Trailer Is Like A Cousin To ‘RoboCop’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2015 9:25 am EST This new Chappie trailer really makes Neill Blomkamp’s latest film out to look like his own RoboCop. There’s the designer played by Hugh Jackman who is trying to push a new military/police technology, with a design that looks a lot like the ED-209. There’s the advent of a new drone police force, and the one who ends up with a more-human-than-robot consciousness....

New ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Trailer: More Amazing New Footage, As If You Needed Convincing By Germain Lussier/March 31, 2015 10:07 am EST A lot of clips from Mad Max: Fury Road have been showing up online over the past few days. Well, forget those. Warner Bros. has released a brand new, full length Mad Max Fury Road trailer that’s sure to melt your brain. Check it out below. Thanks to Warner Bros for the trailer...

POTD: David Ayer Assembles His ‘Suicide Squad,’ Minus Jared Leto [UPDATED With New Cast] By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2015 5:33 pm EST For fans looking forward to Suicide Squad, you have to follow the film’s writer/director David Ayer on Twitter. The guy loves dropping great teases from the set and production of the film and his latest is the best yet. Production starts very soon on the DC Comics film, scheduled for release August 5, 2016, and Ayer posted a photo from the table read....

Rob Marshall’s ‘Mary Poppins’ Is Not A Remake, It’s An “Extension” By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2015 3:00 pm EST A new Mary Poppins is coming from Disney, that much we know. But exactly what kind of a new Mary Poppins are we talking? Is it a remake? A sequel? A reimagining from a different perspective? One of those weird reboot-quel hybrids that spends the running time of an entire feature film explaining that technically, this reboot is actually a sequel?...

Rumor: Christopher McQuarrie Toughened Up The ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Script By Jacob Hall/Oct. 19, 2015 11:30 am EST Every major Hollywood production is a merry-go-round of screenwriters coming and going, fixing and polishing. It’s never surprising and often never commented upon when a new writer is brought onto a new project to replace another. But since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has the words star and wars in the title, the internet has been keeping a careful watch on this project....

The ‘Hunger Games’ Team Embarks On Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2015 1:00 pm EST This fall, Lionsgate faces a horrifying thought: the end of The Hunger Games series, as Mockingjay – Part 2 opens in November. But the studio is making plans for something to follow that series, from the same people who worked on The Hunger Games. They’ve got a new adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey brewing, with Francis Lawrence set to direct the story of the ten-year journey home from the Trojan War undertaken by Greek hero Odysseus....

Trivia: R2-D2 Almost Starred In ‘The Lego Movie’ By Angie Han/Nov. 17, 2014 10:15 am EST The Master Builders of The Lego Movie were an eclectic bunch. There were Batman and all of his fellow Justice Leaguers, Gandalf and Dubbledore (sorry, Dumbledore), Shaq, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo (the painter) and Michelangelo (the turtle). One that didn’t make it in, however, was R2-D2. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller revealed they originally planned for the lovable droid to be a main character in the The Lego Movie, in keeping with the gleeful mash-up spirit of the film....