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Kristen Stewart Suggests She’d Like To Be In A Superhero Movie By Germain Lussier/Jan. 21, 2015 6:00 am EST Kristen Stewart gets a bit of a bum rap. She’s undoubtedly one of our best young actresses but, after being cast in the blockbuster franchise Twilight, her career went off on a tangent. She was typecast as the young character Bella and got forced into the national celebrity spotlight, something the actress was certainly not comfortable with....

Marvel Studios TV And Movie Crossover: Producer Nate Moore Thinks It’s Possible By Ethan Anderton/March 7, 2016 11:00 am EST In case you haven’t heard, /Film was on the set of Captain America: Civil War, witnessing the beginning of the fight between superheroes. We ran the gamut of interviews with stars like Chris Evans, directors Anthony & Joe Russo and more. And in our interview with Marvel producer Nate Moore, the question arose of whether or not we might see Marvel’s TV heroes like Daredevil or Jessica Jones end up on the big screen....

New Regency Scraps Gore Verbinski And Steve Carell Film ‘Pyongyang’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2014 2:30 pm EST The film would have been based on the graphic novel by Guy Delisle, and is described as “a paranoid thriller about a Westerner’s experiences working in North Korea for a year.” Steve Conrad (The Weather Man) scripted. (That recent description is a bit of a change from earlier talk, which emphasized the “darkly comic” aspects of the story....

Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Adds Michael Pitt As The Laughing Man By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2016 4:30 pm EST It took several years for Ghost in the Shell, the English-language adaptation of the Japanese manga, to settled on Rupert Sanders to direct, and another year before it landed on Scarlett Johansson to star. In the past few months, though, the project has started to gain some real steam, picking up a new screenwriter, a new co-star, and now a new villain in Michael Pitt....

UPDATE: Watch The New Marvel Studios Opening Logo With All-New Fanfare [Comic-Con 2016] By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2016 8:15 am EST UPDATE: Video of the new Marvel Studios logo and fanfare is now available for you to watch. Our original story from Comic-Con follows.Marvel Studios brought down the house with their Hall H panel yet again, revealing a new trailer for Doctor Strange, some footage from the set of Thor: Ragnarok, the first footage and teaser trailer from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

VOTD: How To Get A Job At Pixar Animation By Ethan Anderton/June 25, 2015 5:00 am EST If you saw Pixar’s Inside Out this past weekend and you’re an aspiring animator, then you might be wondering just how you can go about getting a job at one of the best animation studios in history. And it just so happens that we have a good resource with some helpful advice. A couple years ago, back when Monsters University was heading to theaters, director Dan Scanlon and producer Kori Rae shared some helpful advice for anyone with a passion for animation and a desire to work with the people who made Toy Story, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, WALL-E and many more of the best animated films of the past 20 years....

When Should You Decide To Become A Filmmaker? By David Chen/May 12, 2015 3:00 pm EST It’s probably a question that many of you have considered: When should you quit your job and become a full-time filmmaker? What moment do people reach before they decide that this is the right life for them? I recently launched a weekly advice podcast called Big Problems with Stephen Tobolowsky and this question came up via an email from a listener....

‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ First Look: Ang Lee Unveils An Unusual Wartime Dramedy By Angie Han/May 11, 2016 3:30 pm EST Four years after the technically audacious, jaw-droppingly gorgeous Life of Pi, Ang Lee is back this fall with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Based on the novel by Ben Fountain, the modern wartime drama follows a squad of heroic American soldiers brought home for a victory tour culminating in a showy appearance at the Thanksgiving Day game....

‘Burnt’ Trailer: Bradley Cooper Gets Back Into The Kitchen By Angie Han/Aug. 13, 2015 7:00 am EST Ten years after Kitchen Confidential, Bradley Cooper is getting back into the kitchen with Burnt. Directed by John Wells, the new film follows a gifted chef named Adam Jones who shot to fame at a young age… and then lost everything he had thanks to his out-of-control behavior and crippling drug addiction. In an effort to redeem himself — as well as to win that third Michelin star that’s eluded him for so long — he opens a new restaurant in London, surrounding himself with the brightest culinary talents....

‘Fear The Walking Dead’ New Teaser Blacks Out Los Angeles By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2015 9:30 am EST We’re still a few weeks away from the premiere of Fear the Walking Dead, the companion series to AMC’s hit horror drama The Walking Dead. but the spin-off series was recently given a 15-episode order for a second season, as recounted in our TCA coverage. And along with news of that second season order, a new teaser promo for the series premiere has arrived....

‘Hotel Transylvania 2’ Trailer: Mel Brooks Is A Grumpy Old Vampire By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2015 11:30 am EST Family issues get more complicated in Hotel Transylvania 2 when the half-vampire grandson of the Adam Sandler-voiced version of Dracula doesn’t seem to be developing his monster side, and when Drac’s daughter gets a real taste of the human world while visiting human in-laws. But the real attraction here is probably Mel Brooks, who voices the very old and seriously old-school father of Sandler’s vampire....

‘House Of Cards’ Season 3 Trailer #2: “What Are We Doing This For?” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2015 5:00 am EST Netflix aired a second House of Cards Season 3 trailer during The Oscars on Sunday night. President Underwood fights to secure his legacy. Claire wants more than being First Lady. The biggest threat they face is contending with each other. You can watch the new House of Cards Season 3 trailer after the jump....

‘Keanu’ Red Band Trailer: Key And Peele Will Do Anything To Rescue A Kidnapped Kitten By Jacob Hall/Jan. 21, 2016 9:50 am EST For five seasons, Key & Peele was one of the funniest shows on television, a beautifully produced sketch comedy series that was literate and lewd, silly and sly, observational and controversial. Now, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key look to continue that legacy with Keanu, which already looks like a frontrunner for one of 2016’s funniest movies....

‘Kicks’ Trailer: How Far Would You Go To Get Your Shoes Back? By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2016 11:30 am EST For some people, a pair of shoes is just a piece of clothing that serves a practical function. For others, shoes mean so much more; they’re a status symbol, but that means they can also get you killed. So the question is, how far would someone go just to get pair of shoes back?...

‘Late Phases’ Trailer: “Can You Make Silver Shotgun Shells?” By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2014 6:00 am EST I’m a sucker for a werewolf film, and Late Phases may have just enough of a unique spin to set it apart from the plentiful collection of not-so-good werewolf movies we’ve seen over the years. In the film directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Here Comes the Devil, Penumbra) from a script by Eric Stolze (no, not Eric Stoltz) a blind veteran (played by Nick Damici of Stake Land) movies to a retirement community....

‘Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates’ Trailer: Anna Kendrick And Aubrey Plaza Out-Bro The Bros By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2016 6:30 am EST One of the recurring themes of 2016 is going to be Zac Efron, comedy star. The High School Musical alum has not one, not two, but three separate comedies coming out this year. The first, Dirty Grandpa, has already come and gone, and this summer brings Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates....

‘Miles Ahead’ Trailer: Don Cheadle Is Miles Davis By Angie Han/Feb. 2, 2016 10:30 am EST Biopics are more traditionally associated with the year-end glut of prestige pics gunning for Oscar, but in 2016 the flood of biopics starts early. This month brings two sports biopics, Race and Eddie the Eagle, and this spring brings two music movies, I Saw the Light and Miles Ahead. The last of those is a riff on the life of jazz legend Miles Davis, directed by and starring Don Cheadle....

‘Spider-Man’ Reboot Casts Zendaya Opposite Tom Holland By Angie Han/March 7, 2016 9:50 am EST Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man reboot is picking up steam. Actress and singer Zendaya has just been cast opposite Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei in the superhero movie, which is being directed by Jon Watts for release in 2017. Deadline reports Zendaya will be playing “Michelle.” More specific details on the character remain under wraps. The trade notes that “it doesn’t sound like” Michelle is intended as a love interest for Holland’s Peter Parker; in the comics, Peter’s main romances are with Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy....

‘Terminator Genisys’ Super Bowl Spot Teases A New Threat By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2015 4:05 pm EST There are a couple quick glimpses of a new Terminator in the Terminator Genisys Super Bowl spot, which went online earlier this week and just aired during the game. While most of the footage is culled from the first trailer, this spot promises “a new threat” before showing off a not-quite skeletal metal warrior with a familiar-looking skull face....

‘Three Days Of The Condor’ To Be Remade For TV By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2015 2:30 pm EST When someone mentions “paranoid ’70s thrillers” as an inspirational set of films, one of the movies they’re talking about is Three Days of the Condor. (Anthony and Joe Russo, for example, namechecked it often in the runup to Captain America: The Winter Soldier.) Sydney Pollack’s original film featured Robert Redford as a low-level CIA analyst whose entire office cohort is murdered while he’s out at lunch; he spends the rest of the film eluding his own death while trying to figure out what’s going on....