‘Crying In A Sweater’ Trailer: Kristen Wiig Goes For Oscar In New Indie Drama By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2015 1:00 pm EST It’s a staple of the fall movie season to see an actor, usually one known for comedies, step outside of their comfort zone and deliver a powerful dramatic performance, wowing audiences and critics alike. And that movie is finally throwing itself into the Oscar race as a last-minute entry....
‘Iron Fist’ Casts ‘Game Of Thrones’ And ‘Star Wars’ Alum Jessica Henwick As Colleen Wing By Angie Han/April 1, 2016 1:50 pm EST Marvel and Netflix’s Iron Fist is officially a Game of Thrones reunion. After casting Finn Jones as leading hero Danny Rand, Iron Fist has also picked up Jessica Henwick as martial arts expert Colleen Wing, who runs her own dojo in New York City. She befriends Danny after he returns home from his adventures in K’un L’un....
‘Justice League’ Concept Art Offers A Better Look At The Whole Gang By Angie Han/June 28, 2016 6:30 am EST Earlier this month, our own Peter Sciretta visited the set of Warner Bros.’ Justice League and returned with hopeful reports of a movie with more heart and a more colorful personality than the divisive Batman v Superman had. But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So today, we’ve got some art for you to feast your eyes on....
‘Manglehorn’ Trailer: Al Pacino Can’t Quite Get A Hold On His Life By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2015 1:30 pm EST Al Pacino plays a sort of recluse for David Gordon Green in Manglehorn, and the first trailer is here. Pacino plays a guy struggling with his past and the woman that got away, even as he avoids truly dealing with the aspects of his life that are right in front of him....
‘Project Almanac’ To Cut Controversial Scene One Week From Release By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2015 10:00 am EST In Project Almanac, the “Primer meets Chronicle” found-footage teen time travel movie, the kids traveling back in time make some mistakes. Their real life counterparts have now made some mistakes too. In the film, there’s a plane crash caused by the time travel plot (that crash is in the trailer) and it seems director Dean Israelite may have used actual plane crash footage in the movie....
‘Star Wars’ Theme Park Plans To Be Announced “Fairly Soon” By Germain Lussier/Feb. 4, 2015 7:00 am EST We’ve been talking about a Star Wars theme park since well before Disney bought the franchise. Since then though, an announcement about an expansion has been inevitable. Where would it be? How big will it be? What are the specifics? These are just a few questions Star Wars and theme park fans have been asking themselves for years....
‘The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials’ Trailer: Here Come The Cranks By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2015 5:53 pm EST If you haven’t seen the film The Maze Runner and have been holding off waiting to see if those kids ever got out of that weird maze, I’m afraid the first moments of the sequel’s trailer, if not the existence of the sequel itself, is going to spoil things. Wes Ball returns to direct, and Dylan O’Brien stars once again....
‘The Merlin Saga’: Another Origin Story You All Asked For Is Coming By Jack Giroux/Nov. 18, 2015 7:30 am EST There’s a need to explain where characters came from these days. Obviously this trend makes it easier to launch a potential franchise, but creatively, it’s not the most enticing idea. In the case of The Merlin Saga, a series consisting of 12 books, it begins with the famous wizard as a boy, with his memory erased....
By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2015 1:00 pm EST The supposition is that Warner Bros. is making room for more Batman, including the solo film to be co-written and directed by Affleck. Variety reports new dates for the two movies:The Accountant, directed by Gavin O’Connor with Affleck starring as an accountant who moonlights as an assassin, was going to be a January 2016 release. Now it will arrive on Octobert 7, 2016....
Brett Ratner: ‘Rush Hour’ TV Show Doesn’t Rule Out ‘Rush Hour 4’ By Fred Topel/July 29, 2015 5:00 pm EST Today at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Brett Ratner was on a panel for the National Geographic series Breakthrough. Ratner directed an episode of the series, focused on the human brain. After the panel, a few journalists approached Ratner for follow-ups and I asked him about the status of the Rush Hour franchise....
Channing Tatum’s ‘Gambit’ Movie Coming October 2016 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 5, 2015 6:18 pm EST Channing Tatum has long been attached to play Gambit in the X-Men universe. We just don’t know when we’ll first see him in the costume. Could it be X-Men Apocalypse in May 2016? Maybe. But the actor took to his social media to reveal that a release date has now been set for a Gambit solo movie....
Cool Stuff: More Poster Posse ‘Ant-Man’ Artwork Sizes Up The Marvel Hero By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2015 1:20 pm EST Even though we’ve got over a month until Marvel Studios unleashes Ant-Man into theaters, that’s not stopping the folks at Poster Posse from revealing their tribute to the tiny superhero. As the group fans and artists have done with recent summer blockbusters such as Tomorrowland and Mad Max: Fury Road, a new collection of original artwork has surfaced inspired by Marvel’s latest addition to their cinematic universe....
Josh Hutcherson Joins James Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’, About The Making Of Tommy Wiseau’s ‘The Room’ By Angie Han/Dec. 7, 2015 8:30 am EST After spending much of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 evading explosives and monsters, Josh Hutcherson is getting ready to deal with catastrophe of another kind. He’ll join James Franco, Dave Franco, and Seth Rogen in The Disaster Artist, about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, widely considered one of the worst movies ever made....
Netflix Loses Epix To Hulu By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2015 8:06 am EST There’s already more stuff to watch on Netflix than you’ll be able to get through in a lifetime, but even so this news is bound to come as a disappointment to subscribers. Netflix has decided not to renew its deal with Epix, meaning films like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, World War Z, and Transformers: Age of Extinction will disappear from the streaming service at the end of September....
New ‘Daredevil’ Motion Poster Has Avengers Tower And Glimpse Of A New Costume By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2015 8:45 am EST When Daredevil hits Netflix on April 10 we’ll see just what Marvel’s first foray into streaming television really looks like. But a set of “motion posters” advertising the show has steadily shown us more details of this take on New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, and the blind hero who patrols its streets at night....
Phil Lord And Chris Miller Working On Story For ‘The Flash’ [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/April 9, 2015 4:20 pm EST UPDATE: On April 6, we posted this story about Phil Lord and Chris Miller possibly doing The Flash.Now there’s an update that they are indeed working on the film, but just at the story stage for now. Whether or not they’ll direct is still up in the air. Original story follows with the update after the jump....
Producer Compares ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Movie To ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy,’ Rolls A Crit And Adds D6 Damage By Jacob Hall/Feb. 23, 2016 11:30 am EST The beauty of Dungeons & Dragons is that it’s a big sandbox where anything and everything is possible. However, the great curse of Dungeons & Dragons is that it’s a big sandbox where anything and everything is possible. As a game system, D&D is simply a bunch of rules and an ever-growing library of books that offer more options, letting players build their own adventures and tell their own stories around their table....
Robert Rodriguez Signs On For ‘Jonny Quest’ At Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2015 12:23 pm EST The Hanna-Barbera cartoon Jonny Quest, about the globe-trotting adventures of a boy, his scientist father, and a small group of compatriots, has been in development as a film for years. Back in 2008 a Jonny Quest script even ended up on the Black List of popular unproduced screenplays. But that version stalled out, and has remained in limbo for a very long time....
Ron Howard Has A Minor Update On ‘Arrested Development’ Season 5 By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2015 1:00 pm EST The fact that Hurwitz is actively working with writers seems like an encouraging sign. Still, Howard shied away from saying anything too definitive. He continued: Previously, executive producer Brian Grazer stated that “another 17 episodes” of Arrested Development were coming from Netflix — a step up from Season 4, which had 15 episodes....
Sorry, Haters: ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Has More Girl Power Than You Think By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2015 10:30 am EST Whether you like it or not, the reboot of Ghostbusters is happening. It’s one thing to simply not want a movie that you love to get remade, but it’s another to be belligerent about the fact that the movie is utilizing four females in the lead role as the title paranormal investigators and exterminators....
