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Ice Cube And Son May Star In Thriller Set During 1992 LA Riots [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2015 5:30 pm EST Straight Outta Compton, produced by Ice Cube based on his own life and starring his son O’Shea Jackson Jr., has proven to be box-office gold, and you can already see evidence of producers trying to kickstart projects that might imitate or borrow some of Compton’s qualities. One film sounds like it is riding Compton’s coattails, but in fact comes from one of the producers on the film, and may pull in Cube and his son....

Is Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs Still Set Primarily During Three Keynotes? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2015 6:05 am EST In November 2012 we learned that Aaron Sorkins’ Steve Jobs biopic would be presented in three long real-time sequences written around specific Apple keynote events. Now that the movie is filming, under the direction of filmmaker Danny Boyle, we are starting to learn more about the feature film. Last week video footage was released from the the film set outside of Steve Jobs’ old home in Los Altos, California where they are filming the garage where Jobs and Steve Wozniak began the Apple empire....

Latest ‘Legends Of Tomorrow’ Trailer Emphasizes Show’s Comic Book Roots By Angie Han/July 15, 2015 9:00 am EST You don’t have to be a comic book aficionado to follow along with Legends of Tomorrow, The CW’s third DC shared universe series. Nevertheless, the franchise is proud of its roots, and leans hard into its comic book origins in the latest promo. Watch the new Legends of Tomorrow trailer after the jump....

Louis C.K. Pulls A Beyoncé, Surprises Fans With Web Series ‘Horace And Pete’ By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2016 12:00 pm EST Louie is currently in the middle of another extended hiatus, but Louis C.K. has apparently been busy working on another, top-secret series. Over the weekend, C.K. borrowed a page from the Beyoncé playbook and dropped a new web series, Horace and Pete, with no warning. C.K. plays Horace and Steve Buscemi is Pete, and the two operate a run-down Brooklyn dive bar together....

Mariah Carey Christmas Movie In The Works From Brett Ratner By Angie Han/April 7, 2015 2:00 pm EST All Mariah Carey wants for Christmas… is for you to check out her new holiday movie. New Line is developing an untitled Yuletide project to star Carey and center on the power of music. Brett Ratner will produce through RatPac Entertainment. Get all the details on the upcoming Mariah Carey Christmas movie after the jump....

Mark Romanek To Direct ‘Norco’ By Angie Han/June 15, 2015 1:30 pm EST Mark Romanek has been plenty busy in the past few years, but he hasn’t actually released a movie since 2010’s Never Let Me Go. Happily, he looks ready to get back into the feature filmmaking game with Norco, a bank robbery thriller based on true events. More on the Mark Romanek Norco project after the jump. THR reports Romanek is in final talks with MadRiver Pictures to direct Norco, which has a script by Adair Cole....

Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ Closes In On A Screenwriter By Angie Han/Oct. 6, 2015 12:30 pm EST The second half of Marvel’s Phase Three is starting to come into clearer focus. Black Panther is reportedly closing in on Joe Robert Cole to write the script, with Chadwick Boseman already on board to star as the Wakandan superhero. Learn more about the Black Panther writer after the jump. TheWrap got the scoop on the Black Panther writer....

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joining ‘BrainDead’ TV Series, Described As ‘The Strain’ Meets ‘The West Wing’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2015 3:02 pm EST This fall, CBS will venture into genre television with a Supergirl series premiering in November, and it sounds like this is just the beginning of the network’s new direction into previously uncharted territory. CBS is working on a new comedic thriller series called BrainDead, which sees Congress and plenty of other Washington DC staffers having their brains eaten by invading aliens, causing the government to stop working....

Movie Theater Blames Christopher Nolan For ‘Interstellar’ Sound Issues By Germain Lussier/Nov. 13, 2014 5:30 pm EST Over a week after our story about the sound problems in some theaters for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, neither Nolan’s camp or anyone from a major theater chain has offered any kind of explanation. It remains a mystery everywhere…except for one theater in upstate New York. They say it’s Christopher Nolan’s fault. A patron of the Cinemark Tinseltown USA and IMAX in Rochester, NY tweeted an image of a sign posted outside theater....

Netflix Developing A ‘Legend Of Zelda’ TV Series By Germain Lussier/Feb. 6, 2015 1:12 pm EST For decades, video game fans have been clamoring for some kind of big media translation of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda. We’ve dreamt of movies, TV shows and everything in between. The closest we’ve come is a brief animated series from the late ’80s. Now, those dreams may be about to come true on a bigger scale....

Page 2: Star Wars, Alien, BTTF, Hobbit, Orphan Black, Interstellar, Roger Rabbit, GI Joe, Simpsons By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2014 2:30 pm EST Header Photo: Pop Culture Characters Done 16th Century-Style Punch a Hole In The Sky: An Oral History of The Right Stuff. We ranked every song in ‘The Little Mermaid’ Alien Face Hugger dog leash with harness.The 10 Levels of Unoriginality in Hollywood Movies21 Shockingly Dark Moments In Beloved Children’s Movies...

Rawson Marshall Thurber To Direct Movie Adaptation Of Sci-Fi Board Game ‘Dust’ By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2015 11:30 am EST I almost included this game in my list of board game movies that Hollywood should make next, but did not know enough about the game itself. I’ve never played it, but the art has always stood out to me. The story is set in an alternate history steampunk-themed version of the 1940s where World War II never ended and the world is divided into three sides: the Allies (the US, the Commonwealth, and the French colonies); the Axis (not led by Hitler); and the SSU, a union of the USSR and China....

Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan Is Done With ‘Star Wars’ After His Han Solo Movie By Jacob Hall/Nov. 11, 2015 8:30 am EST Once upon a time, Lawrence Kasdan wrote (and occasionally directed) many of your favorite movies. You’ll find his name on Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Body Heat, The Big Chill, and Silverado. For a stretch, he had a magic touch – whatever he touched turned into something great....

Steven Spielberg And Jennifer Lawrence Team For Lynsey Addario Memoir ‘It’s What I Do’ By Russ Fischer/March 2, 2015 3:45 pm EST Warner Bros. is in the process of picking up rights to the memoir It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life Of Love and War, the account by photographer Lynsey Addario of her time documenting war zones and scenes of severe strife and unrest across the globe. The book has been a hot property recently, and it has just landed a notable filmmaking team, as Steven Spielberg is now attached to direct Jennifer Lawrence in the Lynsey Addario movie It’s What I Do....

The CW Eyes ‘Arrow’ Spinoff ‘Atom’, Orders ‘Vixen’ Webseries By Angie Han/Jan. 12, 2015 10:00 am EST The CW’s love affair with DC Comics isn’t slowing down anytime soon. High off the successes of Arrow and The Flash, the network has ordered a Vixen webseries for CW Seed. In addition, it’s considering Atom, an Arrow spinoff centered around Brandon Routh’s character Ray Palmer. Hit the jump for more details on the possible Arrow spinoff Atom, and the new digital series Vixen....

There’s Far Too Much Green Screen In The Climax For ‘Terminator: Genisys’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2015 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s no secret that a lot of Hollywood blockbusters use a significant amount of visual effects to bring certain sequences to life on the big screen. And in addition to making fantastical scenarios look as real as possible, visual effects are also used for more subtle things such as set extension....

This Live-Action ‘Metroid’ Short Film Is The Best Thing You’ll Watch Today By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2015 5:00 am EST However, Nintendo recently revealed plans to get back in the feature film business, though we don’t know if there are any solid plans on the table for movies from them in the immediate future. But while you wait, we advise you to watch this spectacular Metroid short film that takes cues from classic sci-fi films such as Alien, Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey....

Trivia: ‘Back To The Future’ Delorean Couldn’t Even Get Up To 88MPH At Twin Pines Mall By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2015 10:30 am EST In a movie that involves time travel and a climax that involves a car harnessing the power of lightning at the exact second that it hits, we don’t usually look too hard at the scientific accuracy. Well when it comes to Back to the Future, BullittRide did the math and it turns out that Marty McFly wouldn’t have even been able to go back in time in the first place because the Twin Pines Mall would not have enough room to allow the Delorean time machine to get up to the necessary 88 miles per hour....

Watch Some Of The Obvious And Not-So-Obvious Hidden Edits In ‘Birdman’ By Jack Giroux/Oct. 23, 2015 4:30 pm EST With Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance), co-writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel) took a break from torturing characters to, well, torture some more characters. Birdman has a sense of humor, though, something we hadn’t seen much of from Iñárritu in his past work. The film went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, a divisive win amongst movie fans....

‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Trailer: Mark Hamill’s Joker Gets The Last Laugh By Angie Han/April 27, 2016 9:00 am EST Following last month’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a very different Dark Knight takes on a very different nemesis in this year’s other Batman movie, Batman: The Killing Joke. This one, as the title suggests, is an adaptation of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s famous comic book storyline, and Warner Bros....