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‘The Mummy’ Release Date Pushed Back; Tom Cruise Officially Signed On By Jack Giroux/Jan. 21, 2016 11:32 am EST Months ago it was reported Tom Cruise was in negotiations to headline Universal’s third recent attempt to revive their classic monsters. Now, it’s been confirmed Cruise will indeed star in director Alex Kurtzman’s (People Like Us) remake of The Mummy. Having an actor of Cruise’s caliber involved probably played a hand in the studio’s decision to open the tentpole film in the summer....

‘The Wannabe’ Trailer: Vincent Piazza And Patricia Arquette Have “Gotti” Get Out Of This Place By Jacob Hall/Oct. 28, 2015 3:00 pm EST All modern Mafia movies live in the shadow of Goodfellas, so being able to pull Martin Scorsese’s name out of your back pocket is very useful when you’re trying to see your new mob drama. The masterful director was only an executive producer on The Wannabe, but seeing his name pop up on screen can’t help but lend this trailer a pinch of two of legitimacy....

‘World War Z 2’ Gets A New Writer, J.A. Bayona Almost Directed ‘Jurassic World 2’ Instead By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 31, 2015 10:36 am EST Dennis Kelly, the creator of the British television series Utopia, will write the new draft of the follow-up to the Paramount Pictures adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel that hit theaters in 2013. And while the project is staying on track to hit theaters in the summer of 2017, there was almost a hiccup with keeping the director on the project....

Cedric Nicolas-Troyan To Direct ‘The Huntsman’ After Frank Darabont Departure By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2015 5:29 pm EST It’s been an up and down news cycle for The Huntsman, which will be Universal’s prequel to the 2012 film Snow White and the Huntsman. First there was the news that it would leave out Snow White, but then came the announcement that Frank Darabont would write and direct. In a surprise move, however, Darabont pulled out of directing last week, thanks to “creative differences....

Exclusive: Hear Two Tracks From The ‘Kumiko The Treasure Hunter’ Score By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2015 11:00 am EST Kumiko the Treasure Hunter is an excellent, slightly strange film about a young Japanese woman who comes to the United States in search of treasure. Part of the film’s success can be attributed to the score, created by The Octopus Project out of Austin, TX. This is the band’s second collaboration with filmmakers Nathan and David Zellner, and the music is an essential part of creating the film’s mood....

Freddie Mercury Biopic Moving Forward With ‘The Theory Of Everything’ Screenwriter By Jack Giroux/Nov. 19, 2015 6:30 am EST The Freddie Mercury biopic has been in development for over half a decade now. The movie appeared to pick up speed when Sacha Baron Cohen (Grimsby) became attached to the project, before departing over “creative differences.” Now screenwriter Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything) has signed up to write the latest draft of the Sony project, which may star Ben Whishaw (Spectre)....

Jennifer Lawrence Shares ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2’ First Look; Trailer Coming Next Week? By Angie Han/June 3, 2015 11:00 am EST The first The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 poster hinted at a brutal end for the villainous President Snow. But Katniss and the rebels still have a lot more work to do before they can deliver that final blow. In the first image from the film Katniss and a few of her trusted comrades are armed and suited for battle....

Joseph Kosinski To Direct ‘The Trials Of White Boy Rick’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2014 12:20 pm EST Joseph Kosinski has been established as a sci-fi director thanks to Tron Legacy and Oblivion, his work on the Black Hole remake, and commercial work such as his recent Destiny spot. But he’s working to move in other directions, with non-sci-fi developments. One was the project Go Like Hell he and Tom Cruise were trying to put together, about the rivalry between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari....

Neill Blomkamp Tweaked His ‘Alien’ Concept To Get Out Of Ridley Scott’s Way By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2015 11:00 am EST Neill Blomkamp revealed his ideas for a new Alien movie, and soon after his deal to make them a reality, during the promotional runup to his latest film, Chappie. Now that Chappie has been out for a couple weeks, all the focus is likely to go to Alien in the months going forward....

New ‘Batman V Superman’ Clips Reveal More Than Just A Superhero Battle For The Ages By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2016 2:00 pm EST We’re less than a week away from seeing Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice debut on the big screen, giving DC Comics fans the cinematic match-up they’ve been dreaming about for years. So far the trailers and TV spots have fans divided on their excitement for the battle, mostly due to their enjoyment or distaste for director Zack Snyder, but the box office tracking indicates this is undoubtedly going to be a huge movie....

Paramount Sets Robert Zemeckis’ WWII Movie Starring Brad Pitt And Marion Cotillard For Fall 2016 By Jack Giroux/Nov. 4, 2015 3:00 pm EST Learn more about the project after the jump. Anyone else getting a Mr. & Mrs. Smith vibe from this plot synopsis? That’s not a bad thing, considering how fun Doug Liman’s movie about married assassins is, but this WWII film sounds eerily familiar… Tonally, though, I’m sure they’ll be two completely beasts....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller Say ‘The Lego Movie 2’ Takes Place Four Years Later By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2015 1:00 pm EST The Lego Movie was just the beginning; Warner Bros. and Lego have three other films in the pipeline. One is based on the Ninjago label, another expands the story of the Lego version of Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, and a third will be a proper sequel to the original movie by Phil Lord and Chris Miller....

POTD: Phil Lord And Chris Miller React To ‘The Lego Movie’ Oscar Snub By Angie Han/Jan. 15, 2015 10:00 am EST One of the more surprising omissions from this morning’s Oscar nominations was The Lego Movie. Despite its immense popularity with both critics and general audiences last year, The Lego Movie somehow failed to secure a nomination for Best Animated Feature. But it’s okay, because when the bad news came, co-director Phil Lord reacted the way any Master Builder would: he built his own....

Skrillex & Rick Ross’ ‘Suicide Squad’-Themed Music Video Gives Us More Of Jared Leto’s Joker By Jack Giroux/Aug. 5, 2016 3:00 pm EST Fans of the Joker aren’t going to see a whole lot of the clown prince of crime in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Quite a bit of Jared Leto’s scenes were cut from the film, and Ayer and the studio may have gone as far as to remove an entire confrontation between him and the Squad....

Taron Egerton Talks ‘Kingsman 2,’ Promises An “International Story” And Other Spy-Ish Things By Jacob Hall/Jan. 27, 2016 3:00 pm EST Kingsman: The Secret Service was one of the more pleasant surprises of 2014, a darkly comedic riff on spy movie archetypes that took a swing at every single possible target and still managed to become a surprise box office smash. We’ve known that a sequel was in the works for some time now, but now star Taron Egerton has spoken about the next film from the Sundance Film Festival, where his new movie, Eddie the Eagle, played as a secret screening....

VOTD: A History Of Horror In 122 Films Over 122 Years By Ethan Anderton/June 21, 2016 4:30 am EST People love to be scared by movies. The fact that we pay money to sit in a dark room with complete strangers, hoping to scream and jump in terror, is inherently sadistic, albeit in a fairly tame fashion. However, what scares audiences hasn’t always been the same, and the horror genre has evolved quite a bit in cinema’s relatively short history....

Watch: ‘Batman V Superman’ Reimagined As A 1940s Film By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2015 1:30 pm EST Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice promises to be a thoroughly modern film, from the high-tech costumes and cutting-edge CG work, to the grim and gritty tone, to the annoying naming convention that suggests it won’t be a standalone feature but rather just one tiny component of a massive mega-franchise. But for all these 21st century flourishes, the characters themselves are actually ancient by pop culture standards....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Prequel Comic Hints At New Character Origins By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2015 8:30 am EST Potential spoilers from here on out for those who only want their info to come from the films. (Though if that’s the case, why are you here?) There’s a lot of speculation that the Inhumans will be seen in Agents of SHIELD later this year. When Avengers: Age of Ultron rolls around we also guess that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, characters written as mutants in comics stories, will be revealed as Inhumans....

‘Going Clear’ Trailer: Alex Gibney’s Controversial Scientology Documentary By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2015 3:30 pm EST One of the hottest tickets at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the world premiere of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It’s the latest documentary from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and it follows men and women who left the controversial religion as they reveal their thoughts on how it works. There’s dirt on John Travolta, Tom Cruise and tons of others....

‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’ Trailer: The Gritty ‘Frozen’ Reboot You Didn’t Know You Wanted By Angie Han/March 22, 2016 9:48 am EST Sunday was the first official day of spring, so naturally Universal is celebrating with a trailer that’s all about winter. The Huntsman: Winter’s War takes Eric the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) and Ravenna (Charlize Theron) back before they met Snow White, to a time when he got caught up in the battle between Ravenna and her sister Freya (Emily Blunt)....