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‘iZombie’ Trailer: The CW Presents The Undead Veronica Mars By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2015 5:00 am EST Leave it to The CW to make a TV show about a zombie that you’d brag to your friends about dating. Based on the DC Comic of the same name, iZombie is a show about a young woman named Liv (get it?), who is holding up pretty well despite being dead. Liv works with dead bodies, and which probably helps out when she gets hungry and needs to eat some brains....

‘Last Samurai’ Helmer Ed Zwick In Talks To Direct ‘Jack Reacher’ Sequel By Angie Han/May 19, 2015 10:30 am EST Deadline reports Zwick and Herskovitz are in negotiations to rewrite the Jack Reacher sequel script by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer), and that Zwick will direct. Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote and directed the first Jack Reacher, will executive produce. Cruise is expected to reprise his lead role as a former MP....

‘Sausage Party’ PSA Begs You To Destroy Your 4th Of July Barbecue By Ethan Anderton/July 4, 2016 8:00 am EST Next month, we’ll see food get mercilessly devoured in the dark, animated comedy Sausage Party. In the film from Seth Rogen & Even Goldberg, the sentient food from the grocery store wants nothing more to be taken home by the people shopping around, at least until they learn what really happens when they arrive at their new home....

‘Terminator: Genisys’ Cast Squints At The Future In First Official Images By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2014 9:30 am EST The two covers of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly feature our first official look at four of the stars of Terminator: Genisys. and one skeletal robot. “How to Save a Billion Dollar Franchise” blares the the copy in text only slightly smaller than the magazine’s title and the movie’s name. Well, here’s a hint on “saving a franchise”: don’t debut the characters in photos that look like they were taken at a mall during a festival for cosplayers on a budget....

‘Tomorrowland’ Viral Video Teases A Blast From The Past By Angie Han/May 13, 2015 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In a new ad, proprietors Hugo (Keegan-Michael Key) and Ursula (Kathryn Hahn) show off their wares — mostly sci-fi collectibles and comics, and perhaps the occasional magic pin that takes you to an alternate dimension. And yes, you can actually buy things from the Blast From the Past Super Store....

Ang Lee’s Next Film Will Be The First Shot At 120 Frames Per Second By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2015 10:00 am EST Twenty-four frames per second has served us just fine for almost a hundred years. Modern technology, however, always strives for more, and filmmakers recently began to experiment with a higher frame rate. Shooting at higher frame rates would, in theory, make a moving image more realistic (because more info is being fed to us) and make it much more open to manipulation....

Charlize Theron Eyes ‘Young Adult’ Reunion With Jason Reitman And Diablo Cody By Angie Han/April 5, 2016 7:30 am EST Reitman made a splash with his first feature film, Thank You for Smoking, but he and Cody really broke out together with Juno — his second movie and her first. The heartfelt dramedy won Cody an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay Oscar and got Reitman nominated for Best Director. The two joined forces again a couple of years later for Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body, which Cody wrote and Reitman produced, and then again in 2011 for Young Adult....

Cool Stuff: Mark Englert And Chris Skinner’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Prints By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2016 5:30 am EST Just in time for Star Wars Celebration this weekend, our friends at the Bottleneck Gallery in conjunction with ACME Archives is releasing 3 new Star Wars prints. A BB-8 focused print by Chris Skinner called “Finn’s Buddy” and Mark Englert’s tribute to the end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in two variants....

Jeremy Renner Reveals ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Promo Art: Whose Side Are You On? By Ethan Anderton/June 12, 2015 11:00 am EST Production is underway on Captain America: Civil War right now down in Atlanta, Georgia, and with a whole bunch of The Avengers (new and old) on the cast roster, it’s safe to say we can expect a pretty massive flick. And while the movie doesn’t arrive until May 6th, 2016, one of the cast members is wasting no time driving a wedge between our superheroes....

LOL: ‘SNL’ Takes On Dystopian YA With ‘The Group Hopper’ By Angie Han/Oct. 13, 2014 7:00 am EST 2014 has brought us no fewer than three major dystopian YA adventures (Divergent, The Giver, and The Maze Runner), with one more (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1) still on the way. That adds up to about eight hours of watching fake teenagers run around uncovering conspiracies. So why not save yourself some time and watch Saturday Night Live’s The Group Hopper, which essentially mashes up all four of those and then some?...

LOL: ‘Transformers’ Villain Megatron Berates Theme Park Guest For Taking A Selfie By Angie Han/Dec. 17, 2014 9:30 am EST Transformers villains Megatron doesn’t have much love for humans in general, but he hates humans who take selfies most of all. When a theme park guest tried to get a selfie with the Decepticon leader, he ripped into her “ridiculous furred hoodie” and grumbled about “how disappointing” Millennials were. Of course, his tactic proved completely counterproductive as it resulted in the best selfie ever for the highly amused guest....

Matt Damon Calls ‘Jason Bourne’ The “Completion Of This Journey” By Jack Giroux/Feb. 9, 2016 7:30 am EST Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) swimming away to the sounds of Moby’s “Extreme Ways” was a fitting farewell for the tortured operative. The Bourne Ultimatum was a completely satisfying conclusion, but almost a decade after its release, we’re going on another adventure with Bourne. What kind of conflict will he be grappling with this time?...

By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2015 4:00 pm EST As of now, Stephen Daldry is still attached to direct and Winnie Holzman is writing the script. Based on the 1996 novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is a retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West. More on the Wicked movie release after the jump. Platt told Film Divider he wants to get Wicked in theaters by 2016, but that the date is “not set in stone....

Rumor: Batman’s Second Suit Has Unique Powers In ‘Batman V Superman’; Plus A Second Batmobile By Germain Lussier/Oct. 28, 2014 7:30 am EST Some very cool, and very plausible Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice rumors are circulating this week. They both concern Batman, whose whole entry into the new DC Multiverse is bathed in shadow. We do know he has two Batsuits in the film. The one in the above photo as well as the Bat Armor revealed in the Comic-Con teaser (you can read about that here)....

Superhero Bits: Agent Carter, Deadpool: Bad Blood, Robot Chicken’s Agents Of SHIELD By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2015 5:00 pm EST Which Marvel hero has a female version arriving in the new Spider-Gwen issue? What will happen on the midseason finale of Gotham? What can you expect from Rob Liefeld’s new Deadpool comic? Where does director Ant-Man director Peyton Reed think the Fantastic Four reboot went wrong? All that and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Gotham, Guardians Of The Galaxy, X-Men Apocalypse, Black Panther, Arrow By Germain Lussier/Nov. 20, 2014 5:00 pm EST Where does Jennifer Lawrence think Mystique is as X-Men Apocalypse starts? When did Chadwick Boseman agree to be Black Panther? Will the Gotham producers kill any major characters? Why did Matthew Vaughn do Kingsman instead of X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to hear the Warner Bros. CEO describe why they announced their DC Comics movies they way they did?...

VOTD: Godzilla And King Kong Are Total Bros In This Stop-Motion Animated Short By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2016 5:00 am EST Universal and Legendary Pictures will be bringing the movie monsters King Kong and Godzilla to the big screen together in the summer of 2020, mostly because Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull just wanted to see the movie monsters fight. It’s a simple concept, and it’s an obvious match-up with the new version of Godzilla already unleashed on viewers and a new take on King Kong coming in the form of Kong: Skull Island....

Warner Bros. Fast-Tracks ‘Lego Batman’ Spinoff From ‘The Lego Movie’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2014 10:51 am EST “Darkness! No parents! The opposite of light!” People liked the Lego version of Batman so much in The Lego Movie that Warner Bros. has fast-tracked development on a Lego Batman spinoff movie. In fact, while WB still plans to make The Lego Movie 2 eventually, this Batman spinoff is basically taking its place....

Warner Bros. Wants Justin Lin To Direct The Live-Action ‘Akira’ Adaptation By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2016 12:00 pm EST For years, Warner Bros. has desperately been trying to figure out how to make a live-action adaptation of the iconic cyberpunk manga Akira. There have been various iterations of the project over the years, but the most recent attempt may finally get some traction. A report surfaced a year ago this month that Warner Bros....

‘James White’ Trailer: Christopher Abbott Is Like A Raw Nerve In Sundance Success By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2015 12:30 pm EST Here’s the first trailer for James White, which marks the feature directorial debut of Josh Mond, who produced Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer. The film was a source of constant conversation at Sundance this year, where we all sadly missed every screening. Much of the talk about the film centered on the lead performance from Christopher Abbott (Girls), and the first image we see of him in this trailer is of a guy who has been beaten up, but is still kicking....