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Which Comedian Turned Down An Opportunity To Appear In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’? By Angie Han/April 4, 2016 4:30 pm EST But even the power of the Force has its limits. And it reportedly met its match in one A-list comedian who was offered the chance to appear in a cameo role — and turned it down. Find out who and why after the jump. Empire spoke with Force Awakens editors Mary Jo Marke and Maryann Brandon, creature designer Neal Scanlan, and concept artist Doug Chiang for the home video release of the film, and learned some interesting bits of trivia along the way....

Will Forte Joins Key & Peele Movie ‘Keanu’ By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2015 3:30 pm EST I love the fact that Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, and their Key & Peele director Peter Atencio are making a movie called Keanu. Even more, I love that it has nothing to do with Keanu Reeves. What else would anyone associate with the name Keanu? The film is a comedy (obviously), and they’re giving us some idea of what to expect just from that title choice....

‘Ash Vs Evil Dead’ Featurette: Meet The New Crew, See The New Footage By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2015 2:30 pm EST Bruce Campbell returns as the dopey, selfish Ash in Sam Raimi’s new TV series Ash vs Evil Dead, but this time he isn’t alone in his battle against demented, relentless evil. There’s a whole set of new characters around him, from the two sidekicks (at least one of whom might be a lot smarter than Ash) played by Dana DeLorenzo and Ray Santiago, to the cop played by Jill Marie Jones and Ruby, the tough new character for Lucy Lawless....

‘Doctor Strange’ Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch Is Marvel’s Newest Superhero By Angie Han/April 12, 2016 10:53 pm EST Over half a century after he was first introduced in the pages of Strange Tales #110, Doctor Strange is finally conjuring up his first live-action big-screen feature this fall. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the surgeon-turned-sorcerer, while director Scott Derrickson works his magic behind the camera. And although Doctor Strange will be the 14th film in the overarching Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’ll be the first to dive deep into the psychedelic, mystical outer reaches of that universe....

‘Everybody Wants Some’ Trailer: Richard Linklater Welcomes You To The ’80s By Jacob Hall/Dec. 22, 2015 10:00 am EST Few filmmakers have showcased the consistency of Richard Linklater, whose worst movies tend to be significantly more interesting than that best movies from many of his peers. Right now, he’s coming off one of the hottest streaks of his career so far – how exactly does one go about following up the one-two gut-punch of Before Midnight and Boyhood?...

‘Fury’ Video Review - Great Tank Battles And Performances Redeem Weak Character Work By David Chen/Oct. 17, 2014 6:00 am EST David Ayer’s Fury is a solid film. If features great performances all around, the tank battles are legitimately thrilling, and there is some really unsettling imagery that lands the message of how war is hell. But the film, like many of Ayer’s other movies, glorifies the idea of being part of an unflinching brotherhood in the face of unspeakable odds....

‘Macbeth’ Featurette: Examine Shakespeare With Michael Fassbender And Marion Cotillard By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2015 6:00 am EST Macbeth, from director Justin Kurzel and starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, appears to be, if nothing else, a visually overwhelming adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Fassbender plays the general Macbeth, of course, who becomes king through treacherous violence, while Cotillard plays his devious and ruthless wife Lady Macbeth. This Macbeth featurette features interviews with those three primary voices (Shakespeare not included) and features interesting notes just as Kurzel saying the script read like a western, and the idea that Macbeth is suffering from PTSD....

‘Queen Of Earth’ Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Goes Off The Deep End [UPDATED] By Angie Han/July 24, 2015 4:20 pm EST As Emmy voters recognize Elisabeth Moss one last time for her work on Mad Men, she’s already moved on to a thriving post-Sterling Cooper career. She’ll be seen later this summer in Queen of Earth, Alex Ross Perry’s psychological thriller about a woman unraveling at her friend’s beach house. Watch the Queen of Earth trailer after the jump....

‘Shooter’ TV Series Trailer: Ryan Phillippe Is The New Mark Wahlberg, Still Framed For Assassination By Ethan Anderton/May 16, 2016 3:30 pm EST Back in 2007, Mark Wahlberg starred in the feature film Shooter, an action thriller based on the book Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. The story followed an expert marksman who is called back into action in order to foil a plot to kill the President of the United States of America....

‘Y: The Last Man’ TV Series In Development At FX By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2015 9:30 am EST For several years now a Y: The Last Man movie has been in on-again, off-again development, and now the adaptation may have found new life in a different form. According to a new report, Brian K. Vaughan’s dystopian sci-fi comic is now in development as a TV series at FX. Read all about the possible Y The Last Man TV series after the jump....

A Cast Of Kings S6E07 - The Broken Man By David Chen/June 6, 2016 11:36 pm EST In this episode of “A Cast of Kings,” Joanna and David discuss the seventh episode of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, “The Broken Man.” Thanks to Audible for sponsoring us this week! Go to audible.com/acastofkings to get a free 30-day trial. Thanks to Adam Wells from the Beyond The Shield podcast for his help in putting this ep together....

Behold The Stunning Animation Of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ In High Resolution Images By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2015 11:30 am EST A new trailer for The Good Dinosaur just arrived this week, giving us an even better look at Pixar Animation’s latest original tale, focusing on a lost dinosaur named Arlo and his feral young human friend he meets along the way. It teases exactly the kind of high quality storytelling and animation we’ve come to expect from Pixar....

Disney’s ‘Moana’ Doesn’t Need A Stinkin’ Love Interest By Jacob Hall/July 22, 2016 4:30 pm EST The original Disney princess characters were crafted in a traditional fairy tale mold. They were damsels in distress, beautiful young women who are terrorized by villains for 90 minutes before getting rescued by a bland but resourceful hero. That has started to slowly change over the years, but even tougher-than-usual Disney heroines like Jasmine still needed an Aladdin to rescue them from certain doom....

Exclusive: Syfy’s ‘12 Monkeys’ Producer Says Series Will Circle Back To The Pilot, Just Like ‘La Jetée’ By Fred Topel/Jan. 17, 2016 7:00 am EST This week at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, I got a chance to interview Natalie Chaidez on her upcoming Syfy series Hunters. We’ll bring you the full interview when the show premieres in April, but Chaidez was also a producer of the Syfy series 12 Monkeys so we got some news while we spoke about Hunters....

HBO Orders ‘Lewis And Clark’ Miniseries From Tom Hanks; Casey Affleck To Star By Angie Han/Jan. 31, 2015 9:00 am EST HBO loves itself a good historical miniseries, and the next one to come from the network will be Lewis and Clark. The frontier drama has a star-studded lineup both in front of and behind the camera: Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, and Edward Norton are executive producers, and Casey Affleck and Matthias Schoenaerts will star....

Is ‘Pirates 5’ Conceived As A Soft Franchise Reboot? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2014 3:30 pm EST After the lackluster fourth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Disney has been taking its time developing the fifth movie. But here we are, with Pirates 5 — aka Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales — set to be directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki) in Australia early next year....

Joel Kinnaman To Replace Tom Hardy In ‘Suicide Squad’ By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2015 11:32 am EST Suicide Squad currently has a Tom Hardy-shaped hole, and over the past few weeks it seems every 30something actor not currently attached to a superhero franchise has tried to fill it. (Or at least been rumored to be trying to fill it.) Now, at long last, it seems director David Ayer has finally found the right fit in Joel Kinnaman....

Kevin Feige Explains ‘Ant-Man’s’ MCU Significance; New Trailer Out Monday By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2015 5:43 pm EST An Avengers junket wouldn’t be an Avengers junket without a big surprise. In 2012, it was the reveal that the cast was filming one more scene. In 2015, for Avengers: Age of Ultron, Kevin Feige premiered the new trailer for Ant-Man, which went online Monday. Watch it here. Now that you’ve seen the new trailer, we talked to the Marvel Studios President about the Peyton Reed film....

By Jack Giroux/Oct. 29, 2015 4:00 am EST Beasts of No Nation isn’t the failure it’s being written off as. Last weekend the film earned only $50,699, in 31 theaters, and the theater average for Beasts of No Nation was $1,635. For an average indie that cost a few million dollars, that’s a disastrous number. But writer/director Cary Fukanaga’s (True Detective) film isn’t your average indie. And, make no mistake, the film has reached an audience....

Page 2: BTTF, Oscars, He-Man, Star Wars, Harry Potter, House Of Cards, Ghostbusters, Tarantino By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2015 3:00 pm EST Header Photo: Updated Back to the Future time machine look like by Khyzyl Saleem. How Boyhood won by losing at the OscarsHow the Oscars unfolded on Twitter Matt Needle’s Oscar Bait print series 5 Insane Things You Believe About Money (Thanks to Movies)36 Things We Learned from John McTiernan’s Predator Commentary...