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Photos: James Gunn’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Gifts Are Out Of This World By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2014 1:00 pm EST As the holiday season continues, one property that’s sure to be at the top of many lists is Guardians of the Galaxy. The Marvel Studios movie remains the highest grossing domestic film of the year, spawning a whole new legion of fans for the previously obscure characters. Some may get the Blu-ray, others a poster or action figure, but when you’re the director of the film, your level of gift gets significantly better....

Snow White’s Sister Rose Red Is Getting Her Disney Live-Action Fairy Tale Movie By Angie Han/March 31, 2016 2:00 pm EST Disney’s live-action fairy tales fall into a couple of different categories. There are the remakes, like Cinderella and the upcoming Beauty and the Beast, which might make a few changes to the story but mostly take their cues from the Disney animated classics that came before them. And then there are the reimaginings, like Maleficent, which put an entirely different spin on the familiar story by showing it through the eyes of an entirely different character....

Sony Hackers Threaten Theaters Showing ‘The Interview,’ Homeland Security Says “No Credible Info” By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2014 5:00 pm EST While no link between North Korea’s government and the hackers (who ironically call themselves “Guardians of Peace”) has been proven, the threat stirred up fears of action that goes beyond the digital realm. And even as Franco and Rogen canceled promo appearances meant to pitch The Interview to various audiences, the Department of Homeland Security says there’s no credible info to indicate an actual threat....

Watch The Unaired Pilot For A ‘Clerks’ TV Show Starring Jim Breuer And Keri Russell By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2015 6:00 am EST Whether you like him or not, Kevin Smith made some big waves with his indie comedy Clerks back in 1994, and it launched the career that Smith still has today as an outspoken filmmaker, comic book writer and pop culture mouthpiece. Clerks led to a sequel back in 2006, with a third film potentially on the way after Mallrats 2, and a short-lived animated series back in 2000....

What’s The Fundamental Flaw Of ‘Batman V Superman’? [Video Essay] By Ethan Anderton/July 28, 2016 5:00 am EST Since Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice just recently unveiled the Ultimate Edition on Blu-Ray and DVD, the DC Comics movie has been talked about all over again. While the Ultimate Edition has been said to improve upon the theatrical cut of the film, it still undoubtedly has its problems, and a new video essay attempts to explain what the fundamental flaw is in Zack Snyder’s comic book sequel, and it makes quite a valid point....

‘Christmas Eve’ Trailer: Patrick Stewart Wishes You All A Merry Christmas By Jack Giroux/Nov. 3, 2015 6:00 am EST We rarely see great Christmas movies. We’ve only had a few notable ones in the past ten or fifteen years, including Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, The Ice Harvest, Catch Me If You Can, and Bad Santa – and two of those titles aren’t really even about the spirit of Christmas. But there are three Christmas movies coming out in the next two months about the holidays, and one of them has real potential....

By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2016 1:00 pm EST When the 10 Cloverfield Lane trailer appeared out of nowhere, moviegoers around the world were shocked to find out that JJ Abrams had secretly produced a sequel to Cloverfield. But is it a sequel? Abrams has called the film “a blood relative of Cloverfield” and the common thought is that it its the second film in a series of anthology movies (think Twilight Zone) that share the same thrilling mystery box tone and feel....

‘Comet’ Trailer: Justin Long And Emmy Rossum’s Surreal Love Story By Germain Lussier/Oct. 27, 2014 2:30 pm EST Every once in a while, you go to the movies with no idea what you’re about to see and witness something special. Even something miraculous, cinema in its purest form, without hype or expectations. That happened to me this summer when I saw Sam Esmail’s Comet. In Comet, Justin Long and Emmy Rossum star as a couple whose entire relationship is viewed in a series of connected scenes that change, transform and surprise in a multitude of ways....

‘Daredevil’ Season 2 Is Basically “Daredevil Vs The Punisher” By Russ Fischer/June 26, 2015 1:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Daredevil season 2 has new showrunners, Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez, and a big new Marvel character as the anti-hero Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, is set to bring violent vigilante justice to Hell’s Kitchen. Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead) will play Castle when the show’s second season gets going....

‘Eight Days A Week’ Teaser Trailer: Ron Howard’s Beatles Documentary Is Coming To Hulu By Ethan Anderton/June 20, 2016 11:00 am EST Even if you think you know everything there is to know about The Beatles, a new documentary coming to Hulu this fall is bound to have something that you haven’t seen or heard yet. Director Ron Howard has been working on a documentary about the British import known as the Fab Four, focusing on the years the band was touring around the world to screaming audiences and fainting women from 1962 to 1966, and the first teaser trailer gives us a glimpse of the film, complete with talking heads from the surviving members of the band, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr....

‘Exposed’ Trailer: This Case Isn’t Bigger Than Keanu Reeves, It’s Bigger Than All Of Us By Jack Giroux/Nov. 18, 2015 3:30 pm EST The past few years have been kind to Keanu Reeves. Since the disastrous 47 Ronin, the actor has picked up some quality projects. Reeves is currently shooting John Wick 2, and will soon be seen in Exposed. The latter film is without a release date and a distributor, but with Reeves in the starring role, it’ll probably get scooped up soon....

‘Legends Of Tomorrow’ Producer Marc Guggenheim On A Sassy Jonah Hex And Timey Wimey Episodes [Wondercon] By Fred Topel/March 31, 2016 7:00 am EST “He’s in episode 11, I can tease that,” Guggenheim said. “He’s terrific. Jonathan is an amazing Jonah Hex. I would say very, very faithful to the comics incarnation with a touch more sass, a little bit more attitude. That might have had something to do with the fact that I wrote episode 11 and I can’t seem to write characters without sass....

‘Lego Batman Movie’ Will Answer The Question “Can Batman Be Happy?” By Angie Han/Jan. 9, 2015 2:30 pm EST Batman may be the most miserable major superhero out there, especially in his current, Christopher Nolan-influenced incarnation. This is, of course, despite the fact that he has all the fame, fortune, good looks, and intelligence that an ordinary person could possibly want. So if all those things can’t make him happy, can anything?...

‘Morgan’ Trailer: Kate Mara Meets A Synthetic Child Prodigy All Grown Up By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 2016 7:30 am EST Last year Ridley Scott delivered the crowd-pleasing sci-fi survival drama The Martian, and now he’s busy shooting Alien: Covenant, the first film in what is supposed to be a new trilogy that will lead up to the events of the original Alien from 1979. But before that, Scott had time to produce a promising new sci-fi thriller directed by his son Luke Scott....

‘Papa: Hemingway In Cuba’ Trailer: The First American Film Shot In Cuba In Over 45 Years By Jack Giroux/March 25, 2016 6:00 am EST In the past month alone, two biopics (The Program and I Saw the Light) have come out that followed the tired biopic formula. Showing a person’s life in a span of two hours isn’t easy — and, in some cases, isn’t even necessary — but biopics that zero in on a specific time in a person’s life, to let that one event or a small series of events speak for the figure, tend to be the bio films that stand out....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Will Feature Three Actors From ‘The Raid’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 5, 2015 10:45 am EST This is an unexpected yet awesome piece of Star Wars news to kick off the year of The Force Awakens. Twitch is reporting that three of the main actors from Gareth Evans’ The Raid and The Raid 2 have roles in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The actors in question are the lead actor Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian (who played Mad Dog and Prakoso in the films) and Cecep Arif Rahman, who played “The Assassin” and fought in the kitchen finale of the sequel (seen above right, with Uwais)....

‘The Conjuring 2’ Set Photos Show Off An English Setting And Patrick Wilson’s Mighty Sideburns By Jacob Hall/Nov. 27, 2015 2:00 pm EST Director James Wan has posted a new batch of photos from the set of his sequel to The Conjuring and now we can’t help but wish this movie was titled An American Exorcist Couple in London. Dumb jokes aside, these images do give us a tiny taste of the upcoming sequel, which is actually called The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist and is set in England in the mid-1970s....

‘The Lost City Of Z’ Trailer: Charlie Hunnam & Robert Pattinson Find A Tribe Of Cannibals By Ethan Anderton/April 3, 2016 11:11 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. TRAILER REMOVED AT REQUEST OF PRODUCTION COMPANY If you’re unfamiliar with the book by David Grann, here’s the official synopsis: Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam plays Percy Fawcett while Robert Pattinson plays his exploration partner Henry Costin....

‘The Witch’ Trailer: And That’s Why You Never Play Peek-A-Boo When There’s Evil Afoot By Jacob Hall/Feb. 1, 2016 7:00 am EST I’ve been eagerly shouting about The Witch to anyone who will listen since I saw it during its festival run last year and I’m afraid that I’m starting to sound like a broken record. But I honestly, truly believe that this is a very special film from a director who is poised to leave his thumbprint on the horror genre in a major way (especially since he’s making a new Nosferatu next)....

‘Warcraft’ Trailer: Magic Threatens The Realm Of Azeroth By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 2016 9:00 am EST This summer, Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures are taking a big risk by bringing the video game Warcraft to the big screen. While the property on which the film is based is one of the most popular video games ever, the trailer has already shown that this is some deep fantasy material, complete with different races of orcs, some powerful wizard magic, and much more....