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‘Agent Carter’ Season 2 Clip: Jarvis Really, Really, Really Hates California By Angie Han/Dec. 9, 2015 4:30 pm EST We’re looking forward to seeing Peggy (Hayley Atwell) punch all of L.A. in the next season of Agent Carter, but evidently not everyone is thrilled about the westward move. Jarvis (James D’Arcy), it turns out, hates sunny Southern California. Despises it. Absolutely loathes it. “You have no idea how foreign Los Angeles will seem to a civilized person such as yourself,” he complains to Peggy upon her arrival....

‘Bad Boys 3’ And ‘Bad Boys 4’ Coming In 2017 And 2019 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2015 11:48 am EST Sony has officially announced that they will be releasing Bad Boys 3 in February 2017 and Bad Boys 4 in July 2019. More details after the jump. Not much more is known at this time. Sony dated a dozen upcoming films which included the Bad Boys sequels: Bad Boys 3 is scheduled to hit theaters on February 17th 2017, while Bad Boys 4 will hit theaters two years later: on July 3rd 2019....

‘House Of Cards’ Season 4 Trailer: You Get The Leaders (And The Netflix Shows) You Deserve By Jacob Hall/Jan. 11, 2016 11:30 am EST When someone writes a gigantic book about the history of mass entertainment a few decades from now, they’re going to need to dedicate a chapter to House of Cards. Netflix’s first original series is one of those watershed moments – you can cleanly divide the timeline between before and after this show premiered....

‘Narcos’ Teaser: Netflix Gets Into The Blow Business With Pedro Pascal By Angie Han/June 25, 2015 12:00 pm EST Game of Thrones fans still missing the Red Viper will be happy to know he’ll be back on their TVs in just a couple months. Netflix has set an August debut date for Narcos, starring Pedro Pascal as a DEA agent chasing down legendary drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura). Boyd Holbrook also stars as another DEA agent....

‘Sausage Party’ Trailer: Not As Raunchy, But Food Still Gets Murdered By Ethan Anderton/May 19, 2016 11:00 am EST In addition to bringing some comedy to summer this weekend with Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, we’ll get more of Seth Rogen to close out the summer later this year with his raunchy animated adventure Sausage Party. The film is basically an R-rated Pixar movie following a group of friends who just so happen to be foods in a grocery store....

How Did George Lucas Get Cut Out of Episode VII? George initially wanted nothing to do with Episode VII, but changed his mind after pre-production began. According to the report, Lucas brought in McCaig and another prequel artist (possibly Doug Chiang) to Skywalker Ranch to help him realize his concepts. Apparently this “script was rejected outright.” This might seem like completely new information, but it’s very possible that the timeline of this story is not being presented in context....

‘The Nice Guys’ Gets A Grainy, Retro 70s Trailer By Ethan Anderton/April 29, 2016 5:00 am EST We’re just a few days away from May, which means the release of Shane Black’s dark comedy The Nice Guys starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling is just around the corner. Not too long ago, a new promotional web series came online with Crowe and Gosling getting some therapy sessions in before they embarked on their publicity tour for The Nice Guys....

Amy Schumer May Team With ‘50/50’ Director Jonathan Levine For Her Next Comedy By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 2015 7:00 am EST Deadline reports Levine currently has an offer to direct Schumer’s next movie, but THR apparently revealed he was in the running for the gig back in July. Anyway, the script comes from The Heat and Ghostbusters reboot writer Katie Dippold, inspired by the writer’s own relationship with her mother....

Chris Hemsworth Wants More ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’-Style Humor In ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ By Angie Han/Nov. 24, 2015 1:30 pm EST The very title of Thor: Ragnarok promises doom, death, and destruction. But Chris Hemsworth hopes there’s some room for levity in there as well. In a recent interview, the Marvel actor suggested the next Thor movie could stand to inject some more “smart wit” and “unexpected humor” a la Guardians of the Galaxy....

HBO Will Air A ‘Hello Ladies’ Movie To Conclude The Series By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2014 2:00 pm EST After multiple successful TV shows with partner Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant didn’t have the same success with the HBO show Hello Ladies. It had some fans, both critical and general, but never caught hold of pop culture like other HBO shows and was thought to be done after one season. Well, in classic Merchant fashion, the series is getting one more shot to wrap everything up....

J.J. Abrams Explains Why ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Borrows So Much From ‘A New Hope’ By Ethan Anderton/April 16, 2016 10:00 am EST While some have called this narrative decision lazy, others have rationalized this was done as a way to ease us back into the Star Wars universe with something familiar while simultaneously expanding the roster of characters who we would follow for at least the next two films in the new trilogy....

New ‘Batman V Superman’ TV Spots: The Man Of Steel & The Dark Knight Hate Each Other By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 2016 7:00 am EST We’re about two months away from seeing several DC Comics superheroes converge on the big screen for the first time ever in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. If the most recent theatrical trailer didn’t show enough, the TV spot with Superman denting the Batmobile and footage from the DC Films TV special last week gave us plenty more teases of what to expect from this clash of comic titans....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller’s ‘Son Of Zorn’ Adds Jason Sudeikis And Cheryl Hines By Angie Han/July 31, 2015 1:00 pm EST Here’s the bizarre-sounding synopsis for Son of Zorn (renamed from Son of Zahn): Upon arriving home for the first time in ten years, an animated Barbarian father finds that reconnecting with his live-action son and ex-wife while suffering a mundane office job and the banality of suburban life is harder than waging actual war in his distant, animated world....

PHOTO: First Official ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Logo Has Some Bite By Angie Han/Nov. 3, 2015 12:30 pm EST 2016 is going to be a big year for Potterheads. Not only is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — a play described as the eighth Harry Potter story — opening in London next summer, the big-screen spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will make its way to theaters next fall....

See A Five-Minute IMAX Preview Of ‘Mission: Impossible’ Before ‘Terminator Genisys’ By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2015 8:30 am EST Every once in a while the IMAX release of one film will provide an opportunity to do promotion for another. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, for instance, featured a preview of footage from The Dark Knight Rises when the Tom Cruise thriller came to IMAX theaters in December 2011. Four years later, a new Mission: Impossible film is coming to theaters, and this time you can preview it in IMAX by seeing a different movie....

Superhero Bits: New Batman In Arkham Knight, Superman, Ant-Man, LEGO Avengers By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2015 5:00 pm EST How fun will LEGO Marvel’s The Avengers be? What is Hugh Jackman’s favorite Wolverine scene from the X-Men series? Did the government have something to do with canceling Adam West’s Batman series? When does Ant-Man arrive on Blu-Ray? What are the ten best episodes of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman?...

UPDATE: Hoyte Van Hoytema Will Not Shoot ‘Wonder Woman’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2015 12:05 pm EST UPDATE: Much as we’d love to see a Wonder Woman movie shot by Hoyte van Hoytema, the cinematographer insists it isn’t happening. “I have nothing to do with that movie,” he told The Playlist. Original story from September 3 follows. We’ve had new information on Wonder Woman only very occasionally, but with the film getting ready to shoot in the fall with Patty Jenkins directing, we’ll soon start to learn a lot more about the movie....

VOTD: The Five Stages Of Watching A Pixar Movie By Ethan Anderton/June 19, 2015 5:00 am EST This weekend brings the touching and wonderful Inside Out, Pixar Animation’s latest film, to theaters. And much like whenever a Marvel movie comes around, it seems the average movie goer runs through several different feelings every time they see a new Pixar movie. The folks over at How It Should Have Ended have followed up their Five Stages of Watching a Marvel Movie with the equally accurate and amusing Five Stages of Watching a Pixar movie....

Warwick Davis Will Appear In ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 16, 2014 10:38 am EST A new piece of Star Wars news hit today, straight from the official YouTube page. The channel posted a funny video featuring long-time Star Wars actor Warwick Davis discussing whether or not he will be appearing in Star Wars Episode VII. Spoiler alert: he will. Watch the video and more below. Here’s the Warwick Davis Star Wars 7 video via the Star Wars YouTube channel....

Winter Soldier Could Resurface In ‘Black Panther’, Hints Sebastian Stan By Angie Han/June 7, 2016 11:30 am EST So far, Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes (a.k.a. Winter Soldier) has functioned mostly as a supporting character to Chris Evans’ Captain America: part sidekick, part nemesis, part damsel in distress. But Captain America: Civil War gave Bucky the opportunity to mingle with some of Marvel’s other big names, with spectacularly entertaining results. Now he could reunite with one of his new acquaintances in the not-too-distant future....