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‘Cruel Intentions’ TV Series In The Works, Will Be A Sequel By Angie Han/Oct. 21, 2015 12:00 pm EST Deadline reports NBC has ordered a pilot script for the Cruel Intentions TV series. The story follows Bash Casey, the son of Sebastian Valmont and Annette Hargrove from the first film. He leaves behind his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship at the prestigious (and sexy, and filthy-rich, and corrupt) Brighton Preparatory Academy in modern-day San Francisco, and starts to uncover the family legacy when he discovers his dad’s journals....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ Filming Date And Location Revealed By Germain Lussier/April 6, 2015 12:30 pm EST At this time next year, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will almost be in the can. Writer/director James Gunn took to Periscope late last week to answer questions about the highly anticipated release, and revealed that it will start filming in February 2016 in Atlanta, GA at Pinewood Studios. That’s where Ant-Man shot and Captain America: Civil War will soon shoot....

‘House Of Cards’ Season 4 Trailer: “You Have No Idea What It Means To Have Nothing” By Jacob Hall/Feb. 10, 2016 6:36 pm EST I’ve joked a few times about Netflix’s approach to marketing the fourth season of House of Cards, which has mostly entailed them nothing at all. There has been some viral marketing and some vague teasers, but otherwise, the the streaming service’s flagship series has been awfully quiet for a pop culture juggernaut that is less than a month away....

‘Justice League’ Scoops Up Former ‘Spider-Man’ Villain Willem Dafoe By Angie Han/April 19, 2016 10:00 am EST Justice League may be a DC Comics adaptation, but it’s going to star a whole lot of Marvel vets. First Warner Bros. scooped up Ben Affleck from the ashes of that Daredevil movie, and then they picked up J.K. Simmons from the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films. Now they’ve made room for one more Spider-Man alum: Willem Dafoe, who played the villainous Green Goblin in that universe but will get to be a good guy here....

‘The Angry Birds Movie’ Holiday Greeting Introduces The Unbearably Adorable Hatchlings By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2015 11:30 am EST There are people who put off their holiday preparations until the very last second, leaving them to screech into the shopping mall 15 minutes before closing on Christmas Eve. And then there are people who have all their holiday cards sent out and all of their gifts tied up before they even turn their calendars to December....

‘The Lego Batman Movie’ Teaser Trailer #2 Winks At 50 Years Of Batman History By Angie Han/March 28, 2016 7:30 am EST Like most characters who endure for decades, Batman has a way of shifting with the times. Sometimes he’s campy, sometimes he’s super-gritty, sometimes he’s got nipples on his Bat-breastplate, and sometimes he’s a super preppy kid who’s BFFs with the guy from The O.C. One thing that never changes, however, is his trauma over the death of his parents....

‘The Wolf Man’ Will Be The Next Universal Monster To Get Rebooted By Angie Han/Nov. 12, 2014 11:30 am EST Universal has been working hard to get a Marvel-style Monsters franchise off the ground. Their efforts kicked off this year with Dracula Untold, which included a hastily tacked-on epilogue to fit in with the rest of the universe, and will continue in 2016 with the Mummy reboot. Now it looks like the Wolf Man could be the next to get a 21st century makeover....

Gavin O’Connor Directing FIFA Scandal Movie By Russ Fischer/June 26, 2015 1:00 pm EST The FIFA scandal that finally unseated organization president Sepp Blatter broke just as FIFA’s own promo movie, United Passions, landed in theaters. The film hit with a flat thud in the US, but a new project in development now has the potential to fare much better. This one is a FIFA scandal movie with Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) set to direct for producer Ben Affleck, and it will focus on one particular executive who took part in underhanded dealings....

How To Build Rey’s Blaster From ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Ethan Anderton/April 27, 2016 3:00 pm EST Even though Obi-Wan Kenobi finds blasters to be uncivilized compared to the more elegant weapon that is the lightsaber, for a short while, a blaster is all Rey has to defend herself when the First Order is in pursuit in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Han Solo hands the weapon over to Rey, and even though it doesn’t fare well against the Kylo Ren’s Force powers and cross guard lightsaber, she’s still a pretty good shot with it, and the weapon certainly packs a decent punch....

Jamie Foxx May Solve Crimes With A Puppet In The Jim Henson Company’s ‘The Happytime Murders’ By Angie Han/April 28, 2016 4:00 pm EST For years now we’ve been reporting on the on-again, off-again development of The Jim Henson Company’s The Happytime Murders, a puppet noir described as “Avenue Q meets L.A. Confidential.” The project got a shot in the arm last year when STX Entertainment scooped it up, and now it’s taking another big step forward by casting its first human....

John Travolta Returns To TV For ‘American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2015 6:00 am EST John Travolta’s had one of those amazing careers where each generation knows him for something different. The youngest kids probably know him mostly for his slip up at the 2014 Oscars. The generation before that, as the guy who made a big comeback in Pulp Fiction. Before that, the musical movie star of classics like Grease and Saturday Night Fever....

Michael Keaton Will Play ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Villain After All [UPDATED] By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2016 10:15 am EST UPDATE #2: On April 13th, 2016 it was reported that Michael Keaton was in early talks to join Spider-Man: Homecoming. A week later we learned that the talks had fallen through. Well, it’s a month later and things have changed once again. According to THR, Michael Keaton is now in final negotiations to join Spider-Man: Homecoming as a villain....

POTD: Entire ‘Fast 8’ Cast Photo Offers First Look At Kristofer Hivju In The Sequel By Ethan Anderton/June 6, 2016 11:30 am EST Just over a week ago, a video from the production of Fast 8 featured nearly the entire cast of the action sequel on set, though not with all of them together. Now a new photo from Vin Diesel rounds up all the principal performers from the film directed by F....

POTD: Ryan Reynolds As ‘Deadpool’ Teamed Up With The X-Men For Trick Or Treat By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2015 12:00 pm EST Here’s the image Ryan Reynolds posted on Twitter last night: This Happy Deadpool Halloween fun is simultaneously adorable and cool, and in true Merc with a Mouth fashion, he was a little bit of a smart ass by tweeting along with the photo, “Dear Fox, stop changing the timelines....

Ryan Reynolds On Why Now Is The Perfect Time For ‘Deadpool’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 2015 11:00 am EST Now that the film is in post-production, Ryan Reynolds talks Deadpool, opening up a bit about the thrill of finally getting to make this movie after 10 years and why now is the perfect time to make it happen. A new interview with GQ has Reynolds talking about savoring the moment that they began shooting Deadpool, realizing how long it had taken to reach this point:...

Scott Cooper In Talks To Direct ‘American Wolf’ For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2015 5:30 pm EST Last year, Warner Bros. got hold of a story called American Wolf. That’s the film concept based on a book proposal from a Texas Monthly editor that tells the story of a hunter who accidentally kills an endangered wolf while on a trip in Yellowstone. Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way, with Langley Park, picked up the rights last year, and Warner Bros....

VOTD: New THX Intro Goes Ethereal By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2015 10:30 am EST When a THX intro plays in front of a movie, you know you’re in for a treat. The movie may be terrible but you know that it’s going to look and sound great. That knowledge made the old school THX intros a sort of comfort blanket for film fans. A guarantee of quality in an industry where crap is often good enough....

VOTD: The Cinematic Effect Of Long Takes Vs Editing By Ethan Anderton/April 8, 2016 5:30 am EST Long takes are such a rarity in cinema it seems that we always have to point out when there’s an especially impressive shot in a film or television show without any cuts. Whether it’s a movie like Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu’s Oscar-winning Birdman or The Revenant or a real superhero sequence like in the first season of Daredevil, you can’t help but marvel at how these single takes are pulled off....

Watch Ethan Hawke As Chet Baker In ‘Born To Be Blue’ Clip By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2015 9:00 am EST Ethan Hawke plays jazz trumpeter and famous addict Chet Baker in the film Born to Be Blue, which premieres soon at the Toronto International Film Festival. There’s no trailer for the film just yet, but you can see a clip of Hawke in action, playing a mournful version of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in the studio as his producer, played by Callum Keith Rennie, looks on approvingly....

‘Doctor Strange’ And ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Synopses Tease Old Foes, New Allies, And Everything In Between By Jacob Hall/June 20, 2016 1:30 pm EST Marvel Studios has built up enough goodwill at this point that they could probably get away with just releasing a title and release date and still pack their fair share of theaters. But if you simply must know what Doctor Strange and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....