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‘Triple 9’ Trailer: Casey Affleck Takes On Cop Corruption And Crime By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2016 11:30 am EST In what appears to be a mix of Training Day, Sicario and Inside Man, a new trailer for the action thriller Triple 9 has just debuted. And with a story that feels very familiar, it’s the star-studded cast that seems to makes this one worth watching. Casey Affleck plays a rookie cop joining a crew of dirty cops who have blackmailed to pull off a heist for the Russian mob....

‘Zero Motivation’ Trailer: ‘Office Space’ Meets The IDF By Angie Han/Oct. 29, 2014 11:30 am EST Each year, there are a handful of films that don’t quite seem to get the attention they deserve. Maybe they don’t star the right people or premiere at the right festivals, or maybe they suffer from plain bad luck. Whatever the case, the Tribeca Film Festival entry Zero Motivation is up there for me as one of the best films of 2014 that few people have heard of, much less seen....

A ‘Batman And Robin’ Sequel Is Coming In Comic Book Form [UPDATED] By Angie Han/Oct. 27, 2014 8:30 am EST There are plenty of Batman fans who’d like to forget the Joel Schumacher films ever existed. Even the director himself sounds apologetic when he talks about his second one, admitting he “didn’t do a good job.” But now he’s actually going back to revisit that world, in comic book form....

Cool Stuff: That’s No Moon, It’s A Levitating Death Star Bluetooth Speaker By Ethan Anderton/April 16, 2016 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Check out the floating Death Star Bluetooth speaker after the jump. Here’s the Death Star Bluetooth speaker in action (via Fancy): When the 1,000 mAh battery is fully charged, the speaker will give you about 6-8 hours of playback before it’s in position to destroy Yavin IV....

Disney Wants Chris Pratt For ‘Indiana Jones’ By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2015 11:39 am EST It seems the sky’s the limit for Star-Lord. Hot off the massive success of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt is reportedly being eyed to lead Disney’s revival of the Indiana Jones franchise. More on the possible Chris Pratt Indiana Jones casting after the jump. Deadline cautions that nothing has been finalized. The studio’s plans for Indiana Jones are still in the very early stages....

Lucasfilm Confirms TR-8R is FN-2199 Lucasfilm confirms that the Stormtrooper dubbed TR-8R by the internet is in fact FN-2199 (aka “Nines”), a character the was introduced in Greg Rucka’s book Before the Awakening. As we told you last week, “Nines” trained and served on a squad with Finn (then FN-2187) in the First Order, which explains why he is so angry upon seeing his former friend at Maz’s Castle. The image above, from Before the Awakening, features FN-2199 seated in the background with red hair....

First ‘Bourne 5’ Image And New Plot Details Revealed: Jason Bourne Is “In A Dark And Tortured Place” By Angie Han/Dec. 31, 2015 9:00 am EST America sure has spent a lot of money trying to save Matt Damon over the years, but thankfully his next role, Jason Bourne, is a more self-reliant sort. He kind of has to be, considering our government (well, the CIA) has burned through a lot of money trying to kill him....

First Look: Paul Feig’s New ‘Ghostbusters’ Car - The ECTO-1 By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2015 7:48 pm EST Ghostbusters reboot director Paul Feig has been tweeting out photos from the set of the new film. First it was the new Ghostbusters uniforms, then it was the proton packs, and now he’s posted a photo of the new Ghostbusters vehicle. What does the new ECTO-1 look like? Hit the jump and find out....

Jeff Nichols Explains Why He’s Not Directing ‘Aquaman’ By Angie Han/March 7, 2016 1:30 pm EST Jeff Nichols makes his first foray into sci-fi with this month’s Midnight Special, before returning to more grounded drama with Loving. But you may recall a brief period when it looked like the director might go the superhero movie route. Way back during the Sony hack, word got out that Nichols was in talks with Warner Bros....

LOL: Learn How To Be A True Doof Warrior From ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2015 5:00 am EST Even a couple months after Mad Max: Fury Road hit theaters, the movie has stuck with us all summer. In particular, the flame-throwing Doof Warrior guitarist from Immortan Joe army has made quite the impression on movie goers, even prompting Conan to get a little crazy when he went down to Comic-Con for some of his shows this month....

Peter Sarsgaard Joins ‘The Magnificent Seven’ As Jason Momoa Exits By Angie Han/May 20, 2015 4:00 pm EST What’s a heroic band of gunslingers without a bad guy to fight? Thankfully Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven has finally found its villain in Peter Sarsgaard, who’ll play robber baron Bartholomew Bogue. Sarsgaard joins a starry cast that includes Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, and Vincent D’Onofrio. It no longer includes Jason Momoa, who has pulled out after entering talks earlier this month....

Quentin Tarantino Bringing ‘Hateful Eight’ To Comic-Con By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2015 12:00 pm EST Even though fans may not be able to get a tease of what Marvel Studios has in store for the next few years at San Diego Comic-Con this summer, there’s still plenty of good stuff we’ll be waiting to get a glimpse at in a couple weeks. Star Wars will be making a huge appearance, and now Quentin Tarantino will be there too....

Quentin Tarantino Helps Get 70mm Projectors In 50 Theaters For ‘The Hateful Eight’ By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2015 10:30 am EST Quentin Tarantino is a standard-bearer for the preservation of film in filmmaking, from the use of celluloid rather than digital when shooting a movie to the projection of film prints at his “no digital allowed” New Beverly Theatre in Los Angeles. Tarantino shot his latest film, The Hateful Eight, in the elite 70mm format — in fact, he used an even more rare variant of the 70mm format, called Ultra Panavision 70, which results in a very wide image....

Sacha Baron Cohen Still Working On ‘The Lesbian’, Reveals It’s A Musical By Angie Han/March 9, 2016 3:30 pm EST Sacha Baron Cohen takes his time picking his projects. He’s got two big films coming out this year, the spy comedy The Brothers Grimsby and the Disney fantasy sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass, and they’re his first onscreen roles since 2012’s Les Misérables. Beyond that, his future is a little bit murkier....

See The Image That Got’ Yoga Hosers’ An R-Rating, Kevin Smith Files MPAA Appeal By Jack Giroux/April 18, 2016 4:30 pm EST Kevin Smith has, once again, found himself in a dispute with the MPAA. The Motion Picture Association of America has branded Smith’s latest film, Yoga Hosers, with an R-rating. This isn’t the director’s first time appealing a rating, but in this instance, the reasoning behind the R-rating — a drawn pair of testicles – is laughable, even by the MPAA’s standards....

Star Wars Halloween Special To Air On ESPN2 [Weird Corporate Synergy] By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2014 2:00 pm EST In 1978, the Star Wars Holiday Special aired on CBS. It quickly became one of the most infamously horrible pieces of Star Wars history. (Until the prequels, that is, hey yo!) Aside from a cartoon that introduced us to Boba Fett, the television special was notoriously bad, showing us Life Day on the Wookiee home world of Kashyyyk where Bea Arthur sings musical numbers....

Superhero Bits: Gotham, Supergirl, Marvel Zombies, The Flash, Arrow, Hellboy By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2015 5:00 pm EST What can we expect from the next The Flash/Arrow crossover event? What would a Marvel Zombies movie look like? How did Supergirl do in the ratings last night? Which Suicide Squad villains are getting caught up in a bizarre love triangle? Will Marvel be mad at Clark Gregg for promoting a DC Comics superhero?...

The ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Movies Will Be “Very Different From One Another” By Jacob Hall/April 11, 2016 4:00 pm EST Captain America: Civil War isn’t even in theaters yet, but we’re already asking directors Joe and Anthony Russo and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely about their next collaboration for Marvel Studios: the two-part Avengers: Infinity War. But you can really blame anyone for being curious? The grand finale of Marvel’s “Phase 3” will tie up every loose end in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far and bring together a reported sixty-plus characters to battle the evil Thanos, who has been looming over these movies for years....

‘American Sniper’ Trailer: Bradley Cooper Breaks Down By Russ Fischer/Dec. 18, 2014 12:00 pm EST There’s a new American Sniper trailer, and if this second look at Clint Eastwood’s film about decorated Navy sniper Chris Kyle isn’t as tense and perfect as the first trailer, it does show off a lot more of Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of the man. Here we see Kyle — who in real life was murdered at a gun range while home in the States — as he wrestles with his role as a sniper, and the conflicts that creates with his life as a father and husband....

‘Dope’ Clip: Riding Through The Bottoms By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2015 2:00 pm EST This clip from Sundance smash Dope features Forrest Whitaker as the film’s narrator, and sets up a few basics of the life of Malcolm (Shameik Moore), a high school student trying to make it to class without running afoul of the many pitfalls of his Inglewood neighborhood. But he and his friends, played by Tony Revolori and Kiersey Clemons, are stopped short by Zoe Kravitz....