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Watch: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Teaser Trailer Is Finally Online By Angie Han/April 16, 2015 9:45 am EST If you were one of the few people who caught Sin City: A Dame to Kill For last summer, you’re one of the few people who’ve already seen the first The Hateful Eight teaser trailer from Quentin Tarantino and The Weinstein Co. For everyone else, the Hateful Eight teaser trailer is finally available online....

Watch: Syfy’s ‘The Magicians’ Pilot Is Streaming For Free By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2016 5:00 am EST Syfy gave us an early Christmas present last month, in the form of an early broadcast of the pilot episode for its new fantasy series The Magicians. But if you missed it the first time around — or if you did catch it, but like its fantasy-obsessed protagonist are eager to dive back into a world of magic and mayhem – you’re in luck....

Watch Stephen Colbert Get Admirably Geeky About ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Before ‘The Late Show’ Recordings By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 8, 2016 5:00 am EST It’s no secret that Stephen Colbert is a huge fan of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The man even interviewed Smaug back when he still had The Colbert Report on Comedy Central as part of an entire week of guests centered around the release of one of the chapters of The Hobbit....

Will HBO’s ‘The Night Of’ Get A Second Season? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2016 7:30 am EST HBO’s The Night Of was designed as a one-and-done miniseries, but as you know, any film or movie these days that is modestly successful is ripe for a sequel. Series executive producer Steven Zaillian says there have already been talks about doing a second season of the acclaimed series, which follows the story of a man who is charged with murder after finding a girl he just met the night before stabbed to death....

‘Daredevil’ Honest Trailer Arrives Just In Time For Netflix Show By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2015 6:00 am EST The last time I saw the 2003 Daredevil movie was 2003. I didn’t like it then and I’m pretty sure I don’t like it now. To be honest, I don’t remember much about it. Its memory faded faster than I could walk out of the theater. That’s what bad movies do. But Daredevil has since, somehow, never left the public consciousness....

‘E.T.’ Screenwriter Melissa Mathison Has Passed Away By Jacob Hall/Nov. 5, 2015 7:00 am EST Born on June 3, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, Mathison broke into Hollywood by co-writing the screenplay for 1979’s The Black Stallion. An adaption of Walter Farley’s beloved 1941 novel of the same name, the film was a box office and critical success. However, her greatest success was wright around the corner. Director Steven Spielberg originally set out to make an alien-centric horror movie, but Melissa Mathison’s screenplay for E....

‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Casts Alison Sudol By Angie Han/July 9, 2015 11:30 am EST Set roughly 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them follows British “magizoologist” Newt Scamander (Redmayne) as he travels to New York in pursuit of magical creatures to study and document. Word is a U.S. school of witchcraft and wizardry may be involved as well....

‘Homeland’ Season 5 Will Jump Ahead, Move To Europe By Angie Han/March 11, 2015 7:30 am EST Homeland Season 5 will be making a major leap through time and space. Showrunner Alex Gansa has revealed that the next season of the Showtime thriller will pick up two and a half years after the end of Season 4, finding Carrie (Claire Danes) in Europe. Naturally, this means Carrie herself will have undergone some big changes as well....

‘Spy’ Trailer: Melissa McCarthy Is A Woman On A Mission By Angie Han/March 31, 2015 7:00 am EST McCarthy plays Susan Cooper, a deskbound CIA analyst supporting the agency’s suave star spy (Jude Law) on his missions, she never gets to have the glory. Until, that is, the usual James Bond types (including Jason Statham) are targeted by a villain (Rose Byrne) who claims to know all the identities of all the agents....

‘The Crow’ Remake Loses Director Corin Hardy Amid More Legal Woes For Relativity By Angie Han/March 16, 2016 2:30 pm EST Relativity’s remake of The Crow cannot catch a freakin’ break. Director Corin Hardy has just been removed from the project, after initially signing on back in 2014. His name is just the latest on a growing list of stars and filmmakers who’ve parted ways with the project over the years....

‘The Jungle Book’ Photos: Actors Pose With Their CG Spirit Animals By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2016 9:30 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a series of images featuring the cast of Jon Favreau’s “live-action” adaptation of The Jungle Book posing next to their computer animated counterparts. Hit the jump to check out the photos, which I guess serve as a classier/better version of when companies like DreamWorks Animation would do a split screen showing an actor voicing his role during the trailer....

‘The Ring 3’ Delayed Until 2016 By Jack Giroux/Oct. 1, 2015 9:00 am EST Pumped for The Ring 3? Sorry to break the news, but the sequel/reboot/prequel has been pushed to 2016. The film, titled Rings, is currently without a release date. F. Javier Gutiérrez’s film has been flying far under the radar for a while now, so nobody should be shocked by this news. Learn why the film was removed from Paramount’s fall schedule after the jump....

A New ‘Star Wars’ Stage Show Has Debuted At Disney’s Hollywood Studios Theme Park By Jacob Hall/April 4, 2016 3:00 pm EST Star Wars characters haven’t been strangers in Disney theme parks for some time now. Even before the cooperation acquired Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise, Darth Vader and Stormtroopers and other familiar faces were regular sights at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida as part of the Star Wars Weekends event....

Amy Brenneman Wants To Kill Liv Tyler On ‘The Leftovers’ Final Season By Fred Topel/Jan. 14, 2016 7:00 am EST Amy Brenneman was on a panel at the Television Critics Association for the NBC series Heartbeat, which she produced. After the panel she spoke with reporters further, and /Film asked her thoughts on the upcoming third and final season of The Leftovers. With one season left to resolve things, Brenneman has some very specific ideas for what her character, Laurie Garvey, needs to do before the end....

As ‘Suicide Squad’ Joker, Jared Leto Sports Green Hair And Red Lips By Angie Han/April 16, 2015 4:30 pm EST Celebrity makeovers are typically the terrain of gossip rags, not film blogs like ours. But when the celebrity in question is future Suicide Squad star Jared Leto, and the makeover brings him a lot closer to the Joker’s signature look, well, that’s a different question. Leto has got superhero movie lovers buzzing thanks to a selfie of himself sporting lime green hair and cherry red lips....

Bill Skarsgard Cast As Iconic Pennywise The Clown In Stephen King’s ‘It’ By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2016 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Warner Bros has been trying to remake Stephen King’s It for over seven years now. Last year, Mama director Andrés Muschietti replaced Cary Fukunaga, who had left over creative differences with the studio. And now it seems like the adaptation/remake is actually happening as casting is being locked down as we speak....

Deadpool Gives EW’s Comic-Con Issue The Thumbs Up [Image] By Angie Han/July 6, 2015 7:30 am EST Over the past few days we’ve seen Deadpool running all over town in a series of still images. Here he is surveying the damage after a fight; there he goes riding around town with his BFF Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Now he’s made it all the way to Entertainment Weekly, where he gets to grace the cover of their Comic-Con Bonus Issue....

By Jack Giroux/Dec. 18, 2015 4:00 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter shared some of the shows we’ll see next year. One Mississippi and Z: The Beginning of Everything, in particular, are the two shows I’m looking forward to the most. Find out what they’re about below:Highston One Mississippi Z: The Beginning of Everything Good Girls Revolt Patriot If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Niko and the Sword of Light

Kathryn Bigelow Detroit Riots Movie Announced By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2016 4:30 pm EST The film, which is being referred to at the moment as the “Untitled Detroit Project,” is set to begin principal photography this summer with a release date targeted for 2017 (the 50th anniversary of the riots). No story details have been revealed at this time, but the press release reveals that the story is “a crime drama set against the backdrop of Detroit’s devastating riots that took place over five haunting summer days in 1967....

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura To Produce Movie Of Mark Millar’s ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2015 1:30 pm EST Another week, another Mark Millar property being turned into a movie. Fresh off the huge success of Kingsman: The Secret Service, the comic book writer behind Kick-Ass, Wanted and Nemesis has teamed with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to work on a movie version of Jupiter’s Legacy. Not to be confused with Jupiter Ascending, the just-finished series centers on the disappointing children of the world’s first superheroes....