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Early Buzz: Does ‘True Detective’ Season 2 Live Up To The Greatness Of Season 1? By Angie Han/June 12, 2015 2:00 pm EST True Detective Season 1 was one of the most talked-about shows of last year, inspiring a thousand thinkpieces and raking in award after award. All that acclaim set an awfully high bar for True Detective Season 2, which had the disadvantage of losing director Cary Fukunaga. But hey, series creator Nic Pizzolatto was still on board, with a whole new setting, story, and cast (including Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, and Taylor Kitsch) to play around with....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ Adds ‘Cinderella’ Star Lily James; New Plot Details Revealed By Angie Han/May 8, 2015 6:23 am EST Edgar Wright has picked up another promising young talent for his next film. Lily James will join Ansel Elgort in Baby Driver, a thriller previously described as “the ultimate rock-and-roll car chase film.” And with her casting comes some juicy new plot details on the movie. Get all the latest news about Baby Driver after the jump....

By Angie Han/Nov. 24, 2015 7:30 am EST Indeed, the question isn’t really if we’ll ever see another Fantastic Four movie, but when and from whom. Under Fox’s current deal with Marvel, they have to make another Fantastic Four movie by a certain deadline or the rights will go back to Marvel. (And if Marvel does get the rights back, they probably already have a contingency plan in place.) But neither side has made an announcement yet, so don’t assume we’ll be seeing the Fantastic Four fighting alongside the Avengers in the near future....

Garry Marshall Lines Up ‘Mother’s Day’ With Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston And More By Angie Han/July 1, 2015 10:30 am EST After a few years’ hiatus, Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve director Garry Marshall is resuming his quest to turn every holiday on the calendar into a middling ensemble comedy. The next one on his list is Mother’s Day, and he’s already attracted quite the high-profile cast including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, and Jason Sudeikis....

How Much Money Did It Cost To Save Matt Damon In The Movies? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2015 10:30 am EST Over the last two decades, Hollywood has saved Matt Damon from a variety of precarious situations, from an exhaustive European search during World War II (Saving Private Ryan) to his most recent rescue mission from Mars (The Martian). How much money did it cost to save Matt Damon’s characters in movies?...

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Secretly Oversaw A 4K Restoration Of Don Coscarelli’s ‘Phantasm’ By Angie Han/Dec. 15, 2015 2:30 pm EST J.J. Abrams is a big fan of Don Coscarelli’s horror cult classic Phantasm. He’s such a big fan of it, in fact, that he even pays tribute to it in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Phasma, the “Chrome Trooper” played by Gwendoline Christie, is named after the 1979 movie....

Martin Scorsese Might Direct A ‘Macbeth’ Movie, Says Kenneth Branagh By Angie Han/March 24, 2015 2:00 pm EST Kenneth Branagh may have just added one more item to Martin Scorsese’s very long to-do list. According to the actor, Scorsese is looking to direct a feature film adaptation of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth, based on the recent stage production mounted by Branagh. And though Branagh acknowledges that scheduling could be tricky, he maintains they’re “practically there” and he’s feeing “very very hopeful....

Olivia Munn Chose To Bust Skulls As Psylocke Instead Of Playing Deadpool’s Girlfriend By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2016 10:00 am EST The biggest surprise hit of the year so far has to be Deadpool. For about a decade the character chilled on the shelf at 20th Century Fox, with fans demanding that the studio give them an R-rated version of the character after he was mistreated so badly in X-Men Origins: Wolverine....

Paramount’s Lawsuit Against ‘Star Trek’ Fan Film ‘Axanar’ No Longer A Concern By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2016 12:00 pm EST Just before 2016 began, the producers of a crowdfunded Star Trek fan film called Axanar received some bad news in the form of a lawsuit from Paramount Pictures. At the core of all the legal mumbo jumbo, the lawsuit claimed ,“The Axanar Works infringe Plaintiffs’ works by using innumerable copyrighted elements of Star Trek, including its settings, characters, species, and themes....

Rumor: J.J. Abrams Wanted For Star Wars Episode IX By Angie Han/March 18, 2015 7:30 am EST J.J. Abrams is currently finishing up Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but his time in that faraway galaxy may just be getting started. Rumor has it Abrams is wanted back for Star Wars Episode IX, expected out in 2019. More on the Abrams Star Wars Episode IX rumor after the jump. Latino Review reports Abrams has emerged as the frontrunner to direct Episode IX, after Disney brass saw and loved the footage he’s put together so far for Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

Sequel Bits: ‘Bad Boys 3’, ‘Finding Dory,’ ‘SLC Punk 2,’ ‘XXX 3: The Return Of Xander Cage’ By Jacob Hall/Feb. 12, 2016 9:00 am EST Crazy cops, cuddly fish, punk rockers, and X-TREME super-spies all have a home in today’s edition of Sequel Bits: Director Joe Carnahan teases a Bad Boys 3 action scene. New toys reveal Finding Dory’s new characters. XXX 3: The Return of Xander Cage gets a distributor and a new image....

Steve Wozniak Reacts To ‘Steve Jobs’ Trailer: “I Felt A Lot Of The Real Jobs” By Angie Han/July 3, 2015 6:00 am EST The world can, and has, discussed the accuracy of the Steve Jobs trailer at length. But most of us only knew Jobs from his public appearances. Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak can compare Danny Boyle’s upcoming biopic to the Jobs he knew in real life. So how does Wozniak think Steve Jobs measures up to the real Steve Jobs?...

Superhero Bits: Heroes Reborn, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, AKA Jessica Jones By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2015 4:09 pm EST What’s the deal with the controversial Batgirl comic cover? How can you win a trip to the premiere of Avengers: Age of Ultron? Is there a porn version of the Guardians of the Galaxy? Have casting calls began for Captain America: Civil War? Was Sally Field amused by the idea of an Aunt May spin-off film?...

By Jacob Hall/June 8, 2016 11:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: Nashville has seemingly found a second life at CMT. Homeland season 6 will feature a female President. Eddie Murphy and Brett Ratner are teaming up again on Netflix. Netflix reveals the trailer for Marco Polo season 2. ABC’s Nashville was never a ratings juggernaut and it was never a serious awards contender, but it has a passionate fanbase who were gutted when the series was cancelled following its fourth season finale – which ended on a cliffhanger, of course....

VOTD: Comparing ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Movie To The Comic Book By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2015 5:00 am EST In an exciting meshing of old and new franchise stars, X-Men: Days of Future Past effectively rebooted the comic book franchise again, complete with a new timeline that retconned the old one, and brought all your favorite characters who died in the original trilogy back from the dead. And while the title and basic storyline is lifted directly from a Marvel story arc in the mutant comic book series, there are a significant number of differences between the comic book and the movie, and we’re not just talking little nitpick details here and there....

VOTD: Learn More About The Sound Of Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ By Ethan Anderton/July 1, 2015 4:00 am EST While there’s plenty of sound design, editing and recording that has to be done for live-action movies, the job seems a little more difficult when it comes to feature-length animated films. Every single sound you hear has to be manufactured for the film. And that job gets exponentially harder when you have to give sound to a location you’ve thought about, but have never been to, like the inside of an 11-year old girl’s mind....

VOTD: New Documentary Relives The Battle Of Endor From ‘Return Of The Jedi’ By Ethan Anderton/June 30, 2015 9:00 am EST Some film franchises and television shows have a large enough mythology and universe that entire encyclopedias (or more commonly Wikis today) have been written in an attempt to chronicle every facet of the world that some of our favorite stories unfold. Star Wars, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, Lost and more all have expansive and rich histories....

‘Black Panther’ Will Be A “Big Geopolitical Action-Adventure” With Ties To ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ By Angie Han/Dec. 30, 2015 12:30 pm EST Next year’s Captain America: Civil War finally brings Black Panther into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and by the looks of it he’s going to be a force to be reckoned with. That’s him getting a sunlit hero shot, kicking the crap out of Cap’s beloved Bucky, and outrunning Cap himself — this guy is no slouch....

‘Bride Of Frankenstein’ Writer Shuffles Forward With ‘Spider-Man’ Writer David Koepp By Angie Han/Dec. 17, 2015 3:00 pm EST In any case, Jolie won’t make a final decision on the project until a script is in, so Koepp has been hired to take care of that step. He’s worked with the studio many times before, dating back to the 1990s when he worked on films like Jurassic Park, Death Becomes Her, The Paper, and Carlito’s Way for them....

‘Collide’ Trailer: “Who Could This Foolish Man Possibly Be?” By Jack Giroux/May 24, 2016 3:30 pm EST In Collide, Casey (Nicholas Hoult) must revisit his dark past to save the one he loves. That set up is very familiar, but Eran Creevy is a director capable of transcending tropes. Creevy’s sophomore effort as a filmmaker, Welcome to the Punch, is a story of hero and foe uniting, a potentially trite set up that makes for a refreshingly streamlined film with a reliance on practical action....