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Zach Braff To Direct ‘Going In Style’ Remake By Angie Han/Nov. 19, 2014 4:00 pm EST It took Zach Braff ten years to get from his first directing effort to his second, and even then he had to turn to Kickstarter for funding. But it looks like he won’t be waiting quite so long to make his third. And he won’t need crowdfunding to get this one going, either. Braff has entered talks with New line to direct Going in Style, a remake of the 1979 caper starring George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg....

‘Black Mass’ Trailer: The FBI Lets Johnny Depp Become A Boston Crime Kingpin By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2015 9:00 am EST If you haven’t been impressed with the work Johnny Depp has been putting out over the past decade, with disappointments like Mortdecai, The Tourist, Dark Shadows, The Lone Ranger, Transcendence, and tired Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, it looks like Black Mass might restore your faith in the actor....

‘Blood Father’ Trailer: Mel Gibson Teaches Drug Cartel Thugs Not To Mess With His Daughter By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2016 12:30 pm EST If you thought Liam Neeson got upset when some criminals kidnapped Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and then himself in the Taken franchise, just wait until you see how pissed Mel Gibson gets when some drug cartel thugs come after his daughter. Blood Father premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, and it’s coming to theaters late this summer, giving Mel Gibson another chance at redemption on the big screen after previous efforts landed without much pomp and circumstance....

‘Feast’ Director’s Next Film For Google Could Be A New Step For Cinema By Germain Lussier/June 1, 2015 11:34 am EST We’re always wondering what’s next for the movies. Since film’s inception as a storytelling form we’ve seen the addition of sound, color, bigger screens, third and fourth dimensions, and more. Now we’re at a point where the physical theater has become the major constraint. Some filmmakers are looking smaller for the next big thing....

‘Girls’ Season 5 Teaser: Lena Dunham Dances Like No One Is Watching By Jacob Hall/Nov. 2, 2015 7:00 am EST But Girls will be Girls and it’s still perfectly good at doing what it does. It’s going to keep going as long as Dunham and her team have embarrassing and uncomfortably personal stories to recreate on screen. The first footage from season 5 has arrived and once again, Dunham showcases a shamelessness/fearlessness that is genuinely admirable....

‘Len And Company’ Trailer: Rhys Ifans Is A Bitter, Old Rock Star By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 2016 12:00 pm EST The life of an aging rock star can be a depressing one as the raging lifestyle of sex and drugs begins to turn into a lonely, quiet time of reflection. That’s exactly what Rhys Ifans experiences in the new drama Len and Company as his son (Jack Kilmer) seeks his father’s approval for his own musical career....

‘Misconduct’ Trailer: Anthony Hopkins And Al Pacino Finally Share The Screen By Angie Han/Dec. 17, 2015 4:00 pm EST Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino have both been acting steadily since the 1960s, starring in some of the most iconic films of all time and winning an Oscar each along the way. But somehow, they’ve never actually shared the screen until Misconduct. Directed by Shintaro Shimosawa (Fox’s The Following), the thriller stars the two titans as corporate rivals....

‘Nightingale’ Trailer: David Oyelowo Loses Control In One-Man Show By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2015 4:00 pm EST The solo show must be both one of the most appealing and among the most frightening prospects for an actor. David Oyelowo gets a chance to totally own the screen in HBO’s Nightingale, in which the actor plays a war veteran whose psyche is falling apart. That’s all I need to know, as Oyelowo is a powerful actor, and I would be happy to see his take on just about any role....

‘Orange Is The New Black’ Season Three Trailer: Sorry/NotSorry By Russ Fischer/April 9, 2015 1:00 pm EST Orange Is the New Black returns to Netflix on June 12, and the trailer for the show’s third season has arrived. We see the return of Laura Prepon’s character (aka “the Bettie Page of Litchfield”) to the inmate roster, there are a few other new faces, and we see the results when Crazy Eyes (Suzanne Warren) makes an effort to write… porn?...

‘Scream’ TV Series Trailer: “You Can’t Do A Slasher Movie As A TV Series” By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2015 7:11 pm EST MTV just announced that the TV series based on Wes Craven’s Scream will premiere on June 30, and along with that announcement comes the first Scream TV series trailer. Right off the bat the trailer delivers a few elements common to the films in the series: a young woman alone, a horrifying death, and meta-commentary on the nature of horror storytelling....

‘Tales Of Halloween’ Horror Anthology Coming From Neil Marshall, Darren Bousman And More By Angie Han/Oct. 30, 2014 2:00 pm EST Here’s a Halloween project to look forward to, though it won’t be ready in time for this Halloween. Epic Pictures Group is assembling a horror anthology called Tales of Halloween, which will bring together directors like Neil Marshall (The Descent) and Darren Bousman (Saws II-IV) in celebration of that most macabre of holidays....

‘Vice’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Pisses Off A Robot By Angie Han/Dec. 3, 2014 8:30 am EST Bruce Willis still makes good movies, but he tends to make a whole lot of forgettable dreck between them. It’s too early to determine which side of that line Vice, his latest movie, falls on, but if we had to guess… well, let’s just say this seems to have more in common with The Prince and Fire With Fire than Moonrise Kingdom or Looper....

A Cast Of Kings Bonus Ep. - Podcast T-Shirts And Season 5 Directors By David Chen/Aug. 6, 2014 7:00 pm EST In this bonus episode of “A Cast of Kings,” Joanna and David discuss the availability of “Cast of Kings” t-shirts (pre-order them here!), the all-new directors for Game of Thrones: Season 5, as well as all the things that Joanna and David are watching and doing to stay busy during the Game of Thrones off season....

Exclusive: The Alamo Drafthouse Set To Screen ‘The Shallows’ On The Water By Jacob Hall/June 2, 2016 8:00 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse theater chain is known for its unique (and frequently insane) special events and screenings, but it’s awfully hard to top one of their regular summer events: Jaws on the Water. After all, if you’re going to watch a movie about a killer shark treating people like an all-you-can-eat buffet, why not up the ante and watch it while floating in an inner tube in the middle of a large body of water?...

Execs Say ‘Fantastic Four’ Comic Cancellation Was Unrelated To The Movie By Germain Lussier/Nov. 18, 2014 5:30 am EST Turns out, as you might have expected, that’s 100% not the case. The Chairman and CEO of Fox, Jim Gianopulos, said as much in a recent interview and you can read his quotes about the Fantastic Four cancellation conspiracy below. The official Fantastic Four cancellation conspiracy quote come from a longer roundtable discussion with several high powered studio heads done by the Hollywood Reporter....

HBO’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Officially Set To Return For Season 9 By Angie Han/June 14, 2016 11:30 am EST HBO has some pretty, pretty, pretty good news for us today. The network has officially announced a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, nearly five years after it last aired an episode. The news doesn’t come entirely as a surprise — it was just a few days ago that actor J.B. Smoove was telling press Larry David wanted to bring back the show — but now those plans look much firmer....

Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye Will Appear In ‘Captain America: Civil War’ By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2015 11:41 am EST Expert archer Hawkeye was missing in action during Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but we’re about to get a double dose. Of course, we know he’s got a major role in Avengers: Age of Ultron out in May. And while he won’t appear in the subsequent Marvel film, Ant-Man, there’s now evidence he’ll appear in Captain America: Civil War, which will be out in May 2016....

POTD: Mark Hamill Won’t Get Off Daisy Ridley’s Back In ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ Set Photo By Ethan Anderton/April 11, 2016 6:00 am EST With the exception of some sneaky spy photos from a few different shooting locations for Star Wars: Episode VIII, we haven’t seen much from the sequel so far. An announcement of production showed off the return to Skellig Michael with Rey (Daisy Ridley) attempting to hand off the lightsaber MacGuffin from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), but we don’t know what’s going to happen when we return to that moment right at the beginning of Episode VIII....

Steven Spielberg Thinks ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ “Could Be The Biggest Movie Ever” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2015 1:00 pm EST Over the weekend actress Daisy Ridley revealed that Steven Spielberg has seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens three times. This isn’t surprising as Spielberg is a mentor of Episode VII filmmaker J.J. Abrams and a longtime partner of Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. I’m sure the legendary director was brought in by Abrams and Kennedy to give notes during the editing process....

The CW Developing DC Comics Team-Up Series As ‘The Flash’ And ‘Arrow’ Spin-Off By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2015 5:00 am EST Arrow and The Flash are doing quite well for The CW, and the network is pursuing more shows in the same vein. When Brandon Routh joined Arrow this year there was talk of a potential spin-off show featuring his character, for example. Now we know more about that show, and it won’t just be a showcase for Routh....