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Michael K. Williams Confirms Certain ‘Ghostbusters’ Character Returning In Paul Feig’s Reboot By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2016 8:00 am EST Even though we already know that this summer’s reboot of Ghostbusters will feature cameos from the surviving members of the original paranormal exterminating team, along with several of the co-stars, we also know that they won’t be playing their characters from the original franchise. However, co-star Michael K. Williams has confirmed that at least one character from the original films will be returning, because he actually shot a scene with this character....

New ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ Trailer And Poster: Time Travel Gets Violated By Germain Lussier/Dec. 10, 2014 11:00 am EST Were you too scared to click on the red-band Hot Tub Time Machine 2 trailer from July? Well, a green band trailer is now here and you can finally see what’s in store for the good friends who find a time machine. This time around, the characters played by Craig Robinson, Clark Duke and Rob Corddry misuse their amazing toy and decide to go back into the past to fix the problems they create....

Oscar Isaac Joins ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ As Villain By Angie Han/Nov. 24, 2014 11:18 am EST According to Variety, Singer has been meeting with actors for the past few weeks. But Isaac was an early favorite, and now he’s booked the role. Isaac joins returning cast members Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult. Scripted by Simon Kinberg, X-Men: Apocalypse promises to close out the First Class trilogy with “mass destruction....

Real Life ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Prisoner Caught After 56 Years By Ethan Anderton/May 6, 2015 10:30 am EST Those of us who have seen The Shawshank Redemption are quite familiar with the tale of Andy Dufresne, the man who (spoiler alert) “crawled through a river of sh*t and came out clean on the other side.” And today we have a peculiar set of coincidences where life imitates art to some extent. An escaped prisoner caught after 56 years on the lam has been revealed to be a 79-year-old man who once did time in the reformatory where The Shawshank Redemption was shot on location, but escaped incarceration....

See Drew Struzan’s Six Star Wars Posters Recreated With Lego By Germain Lussier/April 10, 2015 7:59 am EST Three things I love: Star Wars, Lego and posters. So I just about flipped when I saw that Lego had recreated Drew Struzan’s posters for the first six Star Wars films. There’s no real rhyme or reason behind it, other than these six movies are now available digitally for the first time ever, but they’re still super cool....

See Patrick Stewart As A Skinhead Scumbag In ‘Green Room’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2014 11:00 am EST Jeremy Saulnier, the cinematographer-turned-director, got our attention in a big way with Blue Ruin. (That thriller is on our list of 50 great films you should see in 2014.) Now he’s making his second feature as a director. The movie, Green Room, features Patrick Stewart as a white supremacist scumbag who leads a gang that ends up in conflict with a punk band that witnesses one of the gang’s violent acts....

Set Photo: First Look At An ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ Quicksilver Effects Sequence By Germain Lussier/June 11, 2015 2:30 pm EST Most people would agree X-Men Days of Future Past was a solid addition to the X-Men franchise. Even if they don’t, everyone agrees the Quicksilver scene was the highlight. The way director Bryan Singer used slow motion and camera effects to show how fast the character, played by Evan Peters, was truly memorable....

Sony Spends Big On New ‘Robin Hood’ Pitch By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2014 6:00 am EST Robin Hood will never die, at least not at movie studios where a recognizable royalty-free character concept is a big deal. (Above you see Russell Crowe as the character in Ridley Scott’s 2010 film.) A new pitch has been making the rounds and Sony is now putting up some big bucks for the story. Just how much the character will be seen is open to question, as the pitch is described as being set “in the world of Robin Hood....

By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2015 5:00 am EST The general plan Gilliam outlines is for a window of “a month or two” with streaming set up to immediately follow. The director also hinted at further projects, saying, I’ve got a couple other things I’m playing with. A couple of old scripts that have been wallowing within the studio system; we’ve got them out, so we’re going to stretch them out. So what was going to become a two and a half hour movie will now become a six-eight part TV series....

The Pitch For The Emoji Movie Revealed [CinemaCon 2016] By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2016 11:00 am EST When Sony announced they had won a bidding war against two other studios to make The Emoji Movie, an animated feature based on emojis, we were like [insert WTF face emoji here]. Now we know what the pitch from Eric Siegel (producer on the TBS series Men at Work) and Anthony Leondis (director of the animated series Kung Fu Panda: Series of the Masters and the delayed DreamWorks Animation project B....

UK Actor Sam Strike Is The New ‘Leatherface’ By Angie Han/March 10, 2015 9:00 am EST Behold, the new face of Leatherface. 21-year-old British actor Sam Strike has ben set to lead Leatherface, an origin story about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer. The new film is being directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, a French duo who received high praise for their 2007 horror Inside. More details on the Leatherface casting after the jump....

VOTD: 9 Kisses, Video Series That Encompass Acting In 2014 By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2014 9:00 am EST As the end of the year approaches, critics and awards voters everywhere are scrambling to put together their lists of 2014’s best performances. But the New York Times has outdone them all by actually getting the brightest talents of the year in a room together — and then asking them lock lips with one another....

VOTD: Why Are Video Game Movies So Terrible? By Ethan Anderton/July 18, 2016 5:30 am EST Even though this year brought the most successful video game movie of all time with Legendary Pictures bringing Warcraft to the big screen, there still hasn’t really been a video game turned into a movie that has struck a chord with audiences and critics alike while also being a big hit at the box office....

Watch John Williams Conduct New Music For ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 11, 2015 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens have been filled with temp and trailer music, so we’ve yet to really hear John Williams’ score for Episode VII… until now. 60 Minutes is doing a profile on the new Star Wars film and in a preview released online we get to see director JJ Abrams direct John Williams on the scoring stage....

Watch The Music Video For Justin Timberlake’s ‘Trolls’ Tune “Can’t Stop This Feeling” By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2016 4:00 am EST Director Mark Romanek has only been at the helm of a handful of feature films, including One Hour Photo and Never Let Me Go. But he’s had quite the lucrative career directing music videos for the likes of Taylor Swift, Madonna, Weezer and even Michael Jackson. Now he’s back behind the camera for a new music video from Justin Timberlake, and it just so happens to be for one of the many tracks that will be coming thanks to his starring role in DreamWorks Animation’s new animated musical comedy Trolls....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Honest Trailer Tackles The Fourth And Fifth Seasons By Ethan Anderton/April 27, 2016 8:30 am EST Now that we’re fresh off the sixth season premiere for Game of Thrones, hopefully enough people are caught up on the fifth season of the show to partake in the riffing that happens in the recent Honest Trailers skewering of the popular HBO fantasy series. The latest Game of Thrones Honest Trailer sets its sights on the fourth and fifth seasons of the show that “used violence and boobs to trick non-nerds into liking fantasy....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’: Jeff Goldblum Helps David Levinson Debunk A Crazy Conspiracy Theory By Angie Han/June 9, 2016 3:16 pm EST Any major, world-changing event is going to inspire a few bizarre conspiracy theories, and in a new viral video for Independence Day: Resurgence, Earth Space Defense head David Levinson takes a few minutes to debunk one of the craziest rumors about the War of 1996. You know, the one that he and actor Jeff Goldblum are the same person....

‘Stranger Things’ Bits: Alternate Monster Designs, Fan Art, T-Shirts, Video Games, And More By Jack Giroux/Aug. 2, 2016 3:30 pm EST Until Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), Sherrif Jim Hopper (David Harbour), and Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) come back to the small screen, we can expect plenty of more fan made t-shirts, posters, and more for the hit sci-fi series in the meantime. Below, check out the Stranger Things point-and-click video game and its VHS cover in this edition of Stranger Things bits....

First ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ Teaser Trailer Goes Back To The Beginning By Angie Han/March 29, 2015 7:47 pm EST As AMC’s The Walking Dead wrapped up its fifth season this weekend, it left us with one last parting gift: the first teaser trailer for the upcoming spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead. Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, and Alycia Debnam Carey lead the new series, which takes place in the same universe as The Walking Dead but in an entirely different time and place....

By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2015 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. And of course, the new Shawn Ryan television series Mad Dogs. I loved the pilot for this one, watch the trailer below: