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The First Reported Alien Abduction Is Getting Turned Into A Movie By Angie Han/Sept. 17, 2015 3:30 pm EST Reports of alien abductions are common enough these days that we’re familiar with all the usual tropes. But someone had to be the first to call one in, and in 1961 that was Betty and Barney Hill. The New Hampshire couple claimed to have been captured by a UFO on the night of September 19, and then returned with missing memories....

This Week In Trailers: Richie McCaw, Stutterer, Sesame Street, The Ones Below By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 27, 2015 8:00 am EST When it came out damn near five years ago I was floored by its intensity, its ingenuity and for its mind-blowingly great trailer. So, when David Farr, writer of Hanna, decided to make this his comeback, along with his directorial debut, you give the guy a shot. With hints of something psychologically sinister, this feels like a movie we haven’t had much of in the multiplex....

Two More ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Alien Characters Revealed By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 31, 2015 9:00 am EST We’re just four days away from Force Friday, the huge unveiling of goodies that continues to fuel the hype machine for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a day which will be preceded by an 18-hour live streaming unboxing event. And while it seemed like we had seen a majority of the toys that will be sold, and therefore all the characters they’ll introduce, it appears there are still some new items to see....

VOTD: Teens React To ‘Back To The Future Part II’ By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2015 11:00 am EST Much of the nostalgia fueling Back to the Future Day comes from people (like yours truly) who are actually old enough to remember when 1989 was the present, and 2015 was an impossibly distant future. But a whole generation of moviegoers has come up since that film was released. So how do teens today — who, keep in mind, weren’t even born when Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale were predicting hoverboards and self-tying laces for 2015 — feel about the movie?...

Warner Bros. Had 5 Writers Compete For ‘Wonder Woman’ And More Issues With The DC Movies By Germain Lussier/April 29, 2015 11:00 am EST “We’re on track to deliver a slate of films that will delight audiences everywhere thanks to the efforts of the many exceptionally talented people invested in the success of this universe.” That’s Greg Silverman, President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production at Warner Bros., talking about the studio’s upcoming slate of DC movies....

Watch Over 10 Minutes Of ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Behind The Scenes Footage By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2015 8:26 am EST The floodgates have opened for Avengers: Age of Ultron. After the release of the third trailer, we’ve now seen what looks like a climactic battle, Vision, more Hulk/Black Widow romance, Ultron’s army and even some mysterious claws. Many questions have been answered, more have been posed, and now anything is fair game....

WTF: Do All Animated Female Disney Characters Have The Same Face? By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2015 1:00 pm EST Leave it to the Internet to find controversy in the most unlikely place. Specifically, the faces of Disney characters. A few blogs have noticed that in the past several years, specifically in Disney and Pixar’s computer animated films, animators have used the exact same face shape for every single female character. That’s opposed to the male characters who have wildly varied facial constructions....

‘Birdman’ Video Review - Technically Dazzling, With A Heart By David Chen/Oct. 24, 2014 8:00 am EST I saw Birdman Wednesday night at an advanced screening in downtown Seattle. I don’t think my audience knew what to make of it. It definitely suffers from many of the issues that Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu’s films typically fall prey to: overwrought dialogue; characters who serve as symbols or ideas nothing more; and a bit too much fixation on misery and regret....

Community Season 6 Clip This first Community season six clip comes via Variety. Community Season 6 Trailer Series creator Dan Harmon is still in action for this season, and he’s got a great roster of directors working with him on various episodes. Rob Schrab, who will direct The Lego Movie 2, oversaw the pilot, and Bobcat Goldthwait and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash also have their own episodes in the 13-installment season....

‘Desert Dancer’ Trailer: A Young Man Risks His Life For Art In Modern-Day Iran By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2015 4:30 am EST Unless you’re a character in Footloose, it’s easy to take dancing for granted in the U.S. But the characters of Desert Dancer don’t have that luxury. Set in modern-day Iran, the fact-based drama follows Afshin Ghaffarian, a young man (played by Reece Ritchie) whose gift for dance is stifled by an oppressive government....

‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Show In The Works By Angie Han/April 21, 2015 1:45 pm EST The NSEA Protector will fly again. Paramount Television is making plans for a Galaxy Quest TV show, based on the 1999 sci-fi comedy about a group of actors on a Star Trek-esque series who are whisked away on a real space adventure. Get all the details on the Galaxy Quest TV show after the jump. The Galaxy Quest TV series doesn’t yet have a network, but Variety reports Paramount TV is shopping it around town....

‘Jessica Jones’ Trailer: Bad Reputation By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2015 9:00 pm EST Marvel Entertainment and Netflix have released one more teaser for their upcoming series Jessica Jones, which features Krysten Ritter in the title role. This footage shows Ritter at a bar’s jukebox, where she cues up ‘Bad Reputation’ by Joan Jett, before strolling back across the bar through the remnants of a big fight. Check out this latest Jessica Jones trailer below....

‘Kill Your Friends’ Trailer: Nicholas Hoult Searches For The Next Killer Sound By Jacob Hall/Oct. 15, 2015 2:00 pm EST Nicholas Hoult has spent the past few years playing zombies and furry blue superheroes and sympathetic post-apocalyptic henchmen, so it’s only natural that he’d eventually end up in a movie that doesn’t require him to be slathered in prosthetics. That movie is Kill Your Friends, a darkly comedic thriller based on the novel by John Niven....

‘Me Before You’ Trailer: Emilia Clarke & Sam Claflin Keep Pulling At Your Heart Strings By Ethan Anderton/April 29, 2016 2:00 pm EST With Game of Thrones back in full swing, fans are happy to have Emilia Clarke back as their Mother of Dragons. But this summer they’ll see another side of the British actress as she stars in the tearjerking romance Me Before You, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Jojo Moyes....

‘The Witch’ Trailer: The Best Colonial New England-Set Indie Horror You’ll See In 2016 By Angie Han/Aug. 19, 2015 7:30 am EST Films about people turning on each other after maybe getting victimized by spiritual forces are nothing new. But Robert Eggers’ The Witch puts a fresh spin on the formula by moving the action to colonial New England, surrounded by superstition and wilderness. Set decades before the Salem witch trials, The Witch follows a devout Christian family who come to New England to start a new life....

‘Vinyl’ Teaser: Martin Scorsese Takes HBO To The ’70s Rock Scene By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2015 3:30 pm EST There’s not a lot of footage in this first Vinyl teaser, for the new HBO show from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Terence Winter, but when it’s footage from or for a Scorsese project, we’ll take whatever we can get. The show is set in the world of ’70s rock, specifically oriented around a fictional record label called American Century Records....

Cool Stuff: This R2-D2 Lamp Finally Gives The Droid Some Flexibility By Ethan Anderton/April 8, 2016 6:00 am EST There’s plenty of Star Wars stuff out there to clutter your house with, but it’s always nice when some of those items are also functional as well as representative of the sci-fi saga you love. That brings us to this cool new R2-D2 desk lamp that’s now on sale. Basically, it looks like Luxo from Pixar Animation had a baby with R2-D2....

Hannibal Buress Joining Dwayne Johnson In ‘Baywatch’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 15, 2016 10:00 am EST Comedian Hannibal Buress is really starting to build a promising feature film career. After appearing in Neighbors, as well as this summer’s sequel, and Daddy’s Home last year, the stand-up comedian has landed another role in a big studio comedy. Paramount Pictures is currently in talks to join the cast of the Baywatch movie, starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron....

International ‘Fantastic Four’ Trailer Tells Us To ‘Be Ready For What’s Coming’ By Germain Lussier/April 3, 2015 8:30 am EST “Be ready for what’s coming.” “What is coming?” " The answers." That dialogue ends a new international Fantastic Four trailer that is now online. It’s not lying. Answers are coming for questions about the mysterious Josh Trank superhero film. Unfortunately, this trailer doesn’t have many of them. There is new footage in there, even some new power stuff....

James Gunn Reflects On ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ One Year Later By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2015 7:30 am EST It’s been just over a year since Guardians of the Galaxy hit theaters, impressing Marvel fans around the world, and even some who weren’t the biggest supporters of Marvel’s cinematic universe. The sci-fi adventure proved to be one of the more original films from Marvel Studios, and it’s really opened up the comic book studio’s world in a big way....