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Ava DuVernay Will Not Direct ‘Black Panther’ By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2015 2:13 pm EST Kevin Feige said last weekend that Marvel will soon choose directors for Black Panther and, most likely, Captain Marvel. He also confirmed that Marvel had talked with Selma director Ava DuVernay about making one of the studio’s films. Now, however, DuVernay has said that she won’t make Black Panther, and it sounds like she’s probably not going to make any Marvel film at all....

First Look: Charlize Theron Is Ready For Action In ‘Fast 8’ By Angie Han/May 20, 2016 10:30 am EST Fast 8 pulled off a pretty great casting coup when it convinced Charlize Theron to come aboard as the villain, and today we have our first look at exactly what Dom Toretto and his family will be going up against in their next adventure. The film has unveiled the first official still of the Charlize Theron Fast 8 character, and you can see it after the jump....

Interview: Why ‘The Conjuring 2’ Director James Wan Wants To Continue To Make Big And Small Movies By Jack Giroux/June 9, 2016 10:00 am EST At the press day for The Conjuring 2, Wan discussed with us his career, the pace of the film, working with kid actors, and more. We began our conversation with Wan discussing a striking long take in the sequel, in which Ed communicates with an evil spirit, Old Bill....

James Gunn Adding One Of His Favorite Superheroes To ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2015 10:30 am EST James Gunn has been very honest that he’s going to be adding characters to Guardians of the Galaxy 2. That’s what happens in a sequel. The universe gets expanded, flipped on its head, some characters die, others go away, anything is possible. The bigger question is who, or in the Guardians galaxy “what,” is going to be added to the sequel?...

Miles Teller Confirms He Auditioned For Han Solo, Discusses What Went Wrong With ‘Fantastic Four’ By Jack Giroux/March 18, 2016 3:00 pm EST Below, actor Miles Teller discusses Fantastic Four and the experience of auditioning for Han Solo. The principal cast of Fantastic Four has been doing just fine since its release: Michael B. Jordan scored big with Creed; Miles Teller has Todd Phillips’ untitled dark comedy and Thank You For Sharing coming up; and Toby Kebbell is on a roll with Warcraft, A Monster Calls, and Kong: Skull Island....

New ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’ Trailer & Clips: The Hatter Is The Matter By Ethan Anderton/May 9, 2016 8:30 am EST This month (and the rest of the summer) is chock full of sequels. Captain America: Civil War just kicked off the blockbuster movie season with over $181 million at the box office for the fifth highest opening weekend of all time. Another comic book sequel is on the way with X-Men: Apocalypse arriving later this month, but the film will face some pretty big competition with Disney’s sequel to Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland....

New Terrence Malick Film ‘Knight Of Cups’ Set For Berlin Festival Premiere By Russ Fischer/Dec. 15, 2014 7:30 am EST All we know about Knight of Cups is the cast, which features Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Isabel Lucas, Teresa Palmer, and Frieda Pinto among others. (It isn’t the film for which Malick was shooting at Austin music festivals in 2012; that’s the movie formerly called Lawless.) And even with the three-year wait since its announcement, the arrival of this movie in 2015 still represents a smaller interval than usually exists between Malick movies....

One Company Offers Limited Netflix Ratings; Learn Viewership For Shows Like ‘Daredevil’ And House Of Cards’ By Germain Lussier/April 28, 2015 12:30 pm EST One of the great mysteries of Netflix is how many people are watching. We know there are over 40 million domestic subscribers, but what those people are actually watching, and when, is something only the company itself knows. Netflix does not share ratings data. As streaming becomes more and more prominent, however, ratings are something many people are curious about....

Paul Feig’s ‘Spy’ Sequel Will Include An Even Less Self-Aware Rick Ford By Jack Giroux/June 21, 2016 4:00 pm EST Before Spy was released into theaters, writer-director Paul Feig already knew he wanted to make a sequel, and what it would be about. The director had hoped to turn The Heat into a franchise–something Sandra Bullock wasn’t onboard with–but it looks like he may get his wish with a Spy 2....

Rumor: Warner Bros. Wants More Batman, Less Superman In ‘Batman V Superman’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2015 10:30 am EST Before Ben Affleck was officially locked down to direct, co-write and star in his own solo Batman movie at Warner Bros., the story started as a rumor following a test screening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice attended by the film’s crew and studio executives. While the reaction to the screening was reportedly overwhelmingly positive, a new rumor says Warner Bros....

Rumored Details On William Shatner’s ‘Star Trek 3’ Cameo Revealed, Plus: Leonard Nimoy Responds By Angie Han/Oct. 7, 2014 9:00 am EST After some initial denials, William Shatner confirmed last week he’d been contacted about Star Trek 3. So now the question is what exactly he’ll be doing in the movie, and a new report claims to have some of the juicy details. Meanwhile, Leonard Nimoy, who’s rumored to appear alongside Shatner in the next film, has finally issued a response....

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights Of The Fallen Empire Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2015 3:30 pm EST A lot of Star Wars video game news out of E3 2015 today. Earlier today we wrote about the new digital collectible card game Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes, and also posted a Star Wars: Battlefront trailer showing 5 minutes of assault on both gameplay footage. Its not over just yet....

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ Enlists Simon Pegg By Angie Han/March 18, 2016 6:00 am EST Steven Spielberg’s next film, Ready Player One, is an ode to pop culture geekdom, so of course he’s enlisted one of the most beloved pop culture geeks around. Simon Pegg is in talks to join the sci-fi adventure film, opposite Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn. Based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One unfolds in a desolate and not-too-distant future, following a teenager named Wade Watts (Sheridan) who spends most of his time escaping into a vast virtual reality universe called OASIS....

Superhero Bits: Suicide Squad, Captain America: Civil War, Batman V Superman, New Mutants By Germain Lussier/May 18, 2015 5:00 pm EST What does Jared Leto’s full costume look like in Suicide Squad? Why hasn’t a Lobo movie happened yet? What’s going on on the set of Captain America: Civil War? Has Matthew McConaughy read for movies with Marvel and DC? Want to see some cool promo at from Batman v Superman?...

Terminator Genisys Not A Sequel Or Remake; MoCap Endoskeletons; PG-13 Rating Likely By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2014 10:30 am EST We don’t really know too much about the new Terminator movie Terminator Genisys, which features franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his franchise role as The Terminator, alongside Emilia Clarke as Sarah Conner, Jason Clarke as John Conner and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese – the three points of a family triangle first outlined in James Cameron’s original Terminator....

There’s A Tim Burton-Themed Bar Opening In New York City Soon By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2016 8:30 am EST If Hot Topic just doesn’t have enough Tim Burton fandom to keep your love for the filmmaker’s ouevre at bay, then you may want to check out a new bar opening in New York City called Beetle House. Inspired by films such as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands and more, the watering hole features an aesthetic that fans will love, plus a slew of menu options with names that will be very familiar to Tim Burton fans....

‘Anthropoid’ Trailer: Cillian Murphy & Jamie Dornan Must Kill One Of Hitler’s Top Men By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 2016 1:00 pm EST Right now Christopher Nolan is working on a World War II drama called Dunkirk about Operation Dynamo, which saw the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of British, French, Belgian, Polish and Dutch soldiers in the title French city after being completely surrounded by German forces. Cillian Murphy is reteaming with Nolan for the film, but before we get to see a frame of Dunkirk, we’ll get to see the Batman Begins star carry out another famous World War II operation....

‘Back To The Future’ Meets ‘Knight Rider’ In This K.I.T.T. And DeLorean Car Replica Mash-Up By Ethan Anderton/March 7, 2016 5:00 am EST People mash up movie trailers all the time for us to watch. Just recently someone took footage from Guardians of the Galaxy and cut it in the style of the most recent Suicide Squad trailer. But it took more than some pointing and clicking to create the latest mash-up that was brought to our attention....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Adds ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Star Daniel Brühl As Villain By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2014 1:31 pm EST Captain America: Civil War already has a pretty impressive cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chadwick Boseman and now another name has been added. Joe and Anthony Russo have cast Daniel Brühl, the star of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Ron Howard’s Rush, in a mystery role. (Early reports say he’s a villain....

‘Fearless’ Trailer: Netflix Takes You Into The World Of Professional Bull Riding By Jacob Hall/Aug. 4, 2016 7:00 am EST The late Roger Ebert famously called movies “empathy machines,” writing on how they allow you to experience other lives and new perspectives in a fashion that most other art forms cannot. I find this to be especially true with great documentaries, which can take subject matter that doesn’t seem like it would interest you at all and blow your mind wide open with the details of a world you would normally never think about....