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‘Turbo Kid’ Sundance Trailer Zips Through A Post-Apocalyptic 1997 By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2015 5:00 pm EST You can’t throw a rock at Sundance without hitting a coming-of-age tale, but it’s safe to say Turbo Kid is different from most. The Park City at Midnight entry follows an orphaned boy (Munro Chambers) in a retro-futuristic, post-apocalyptic 1997. After his best friend (Laurence Leboeuf) is kidnapped by the evil Zeus (Michael Ironside), he sets out across the Wasteland on his BMX bike to find her....

A Third Benghazi Movie Is In The Works By Angie Han/March 17, 2015 3:15 pm EST It seems Benghazi is Hollywood’s new favorite hot topic. Alcon Entertainment has put into development Zero Footprint, a new drama about the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Libya. That makes three Benghazi movies in the works at this moment. More on the new Benghazi movie after the jump. Deadline reports Alcon has picked up the Zero Footprint spec script by Scott Charnick, Charley Parlapanides, and Vlas Parlapanides....

Channing Tatum’s ‘Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock’ Has Found Its Writer By Jack Giroux/Oct. 5, 2015 2:30 pm EST For a few years now Channing Tatum has expressed interest in directing. He’s produced a few films, including Magic Mike XXL and 22 Jump Street, but he’s finally stepping behind the camera. The actor is set to make his directorial debut with an adaptation of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, which now has a writer onboard....

Christopher Nolan Responds To Criticisms About ‘Interstellar’ Science By Angie Han/Nov. 11, 2014 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For his part, though, Nolan himself doesn’t seem at all bothered by the criticism. He says he’s “fine” with his films being held to “a weirdly high standard,” and points out the obvious fact that “much of it is speculation.” Hit the jump to Nolan’s comments on the science of Interstellar....

Daniel H. Wilson Offers A ‘Robopocalypse’ Update By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2014 1:30 pm EST What’s up with the Steven Spielberg film Robopocalypse? At one point it was all set to be his next film, but that was back in 2012. The script was being developed by Spielberg and Drew Goddard as Daniel H. Wilson wrote his novel. Actors such as Chris Hemsworth, Anne Hathaway and Ben Whishaw were all said to be in line for roles in the film about — as the title implies — “a global war between man and machine....

Danny McBride Boards A Spaceship For ‘Alien: Covenant’ By Angie Han/Feb. 10, 2016 7:30 pm EST It was a given that Michael Fassbender would return for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel Alien: Covenant, and the addition of Katherine Waterston as his new leading lady wasn’t exactly surprising either — she’s exactly the kind of young, on-the-verge star you’d expect to see cast in a big-budget blockbuster like this. The newest new cast member, however, is definitely unexpected....

Dwayne Johnson Believes ‘Shazam’ Could Be Released Early By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2015 10:17 am EST Fans who were looking forward to Dwayne Johnson playing a comic book character were probably a little disappointed when Warner Bros. released their big, upcoming, DC schedule last year. Among all the huge movies and announcements was the fact Johnson’s Black Adam wouldn’t appear until 2019 when Shazam hit theaters. A few months back though, Johnson suggested that release date might be moved forward and now he’s at it again....

Karen Gillan Joins ‘The Circle’ With Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, And John Boyega By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2015 1:45 pm EST The cast of The Circle, from The Spectacular Now director James Ponsoldt, continues to expand in intriguing ways. The lineup already features Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega playing characters based on Dave Eggers’ satirical novel about an ambitious tech company. Now Karen Gillan, who we know from Doctor Who and have seen in the last year in Selfie, 7 Days in Hell, and Guardians of the Galaxy, will play a fourth major character in The Circle....

Live-Action ‘Astro Boy’ Movie Coming From ‘San Andreas’ Writers By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2016 11:30 am EST Astro Boy is getting closer to takeoff. A year ago, we heard Animal Logic Entertainment (the animation and effects studio behind hits like Avengers: Age of Ultron and The Lego Movie) was planning to adapt the classic Japanese manga as a live-action feature. Now it’s found a new home at Warner Bros.’ New Line, and picked up San Andreas scribes Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore....

Netflix Details How To Build Your Own “Netflix And Chill” Button By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 29, 2015 3:30 pm EST Over the past couple of months, the phrase “Netflix and chill” has taken off as a meme of sorts. For those who don’t know what the phrase means, basically if you ask someone if they want to “Netflix and chill,” you might as well be asking them if they want to pretend to watch a movie and just get down to some risque adult business....

New ‘Batman V Superman’ Plot Synopsis Reignites Your Geeky, Late-Night Debates By Jacob Hall/Nov. 4, 2015 11:00 am EST It’s a conversation you’ve had countless times before. You had it at sleepovers when you were a young kid. You argued over it in the aisles of your friendly neighborhood comic book shop. You chatted the semantics of such a showdown in late-night, half-drunk dorm room discussions. You regularly debate the details on internet forums....

POTD: New Look At Olivia Munn As Psylocke In ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Set Photo By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 2, 2016 10:00 am EST Now that it’s officially 2016, we’re just a little bit closer to X-Men: Apocalypse, the next installment of the Marvel comics franchise from 20th Century Fox. Before 2015 was over we got the first teaser trailer, showing off some of the new/old mutants and the destruction that will be coming from the iconic villain Apocalypse, played by Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Oscar Isaac....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man, Fantasticar, Thanos Helicopter, Adrianne Palicki’s ‘Supergirl’ Tattoo By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 16, 2015 5:00 pm EST Which silly vehicle from the comics is coming to LEGO Marvel’s Avengers? Where does Adrianne Palicki have a Supergirl tattoo? How did Scott Lang and Hank Pym meet in a deleted scene from Ant-Man? What could have the Fantasticar looked like in the Fantastic Four reboot? Will we see Spider-Man before Civil War hits theaters?...

VOTD: The Best Films Of The Decade So Far (2010-2014) By Germain Lussier/Jan. 23, 2015 6:00 am EST We’re only half way into this decade, but the Internet is already jumping the gun. Case in point, this video of the best films of the decade – so far. Taking the first five years of the decade – 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 – editor Kevin B. Lee put together a 7 minute 30 second video culled together from the votes of over 300 responses on social media....

Will Smith May Only Produce New ‘Bad Boys’ Sequels By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2015 9:30 am EST Fans of Michael Bay’s action comedy franchise Bad Boys got some good news last week when Sony Pictures slated both Bad Boys 3 and Bad Boys 4 for release in 2017 and 2019. However, fans may want to keep their hype in check, because their favorite parts of the film series aren’t locked in place for those movies yet....

‘Ant-Man’ Trailer: Paul Rudd Is The Ultimate Secret Weapon By Angie Han/April 13, 2015 6:28 am EST Marvel Studios has just issued a trailer for its other big release of summer 2015, Ant-Man. Paul Rudd stars as Scott Lang, who’s recruited by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) to become the Ant-Man. Yes, Scott, it’s too late to change the name. Check out the Ant-Man trailer after the jump. Marvel debuted the new Ant-Man trailer on YouTube....

‘Deadpool’ Hijacks Japan’s ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer To Take Some Shots At Fox By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2016 10:00 am EST What’s cool is that despite the long wait to see these movies after they’ve hit the US, our friends in Japan get to see some fun cross-promotional marketing featuring Deadpool popping up after the new X-Men: Apocalypse trailer. Even more amusing is that the Merc with a Mouth actually throws some shade on 20th Century Fox....

‘Inspector Gadget’ Trailer: Netflix Revives An ’80s Classic By Angie Han/March 26, 2015 5:30 am EST Believe it or not, Inspector Gadget is over 30 years old at this point — he first came into being as an animated show from the mid-’80s. But older doesn’t always mean wiser, and that goes double in the case of this bionic detective. In the first trailer for Netflix’s new Inspector Gadget series, he proves to be as embarrassingly incompetent as ever....

‘Justice League’ Concept Art Offers First Look At Cyborg And The Flash By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 19, 2016 11:30 am EST In an effort to help hype tonight’s TV special DC Films Presents: The Dawn of the Justice League on The CW, Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled a piece of Justice League concept art featuring the whole team standing together. And that means we get our first look at what Ray Fisher and Ezra Miller may look like as Cyborg and The Flash, respectively....

‘Star Trek Beyond’ Clip: Dr. Bones Makes A “Typically Reductive Inquiry” By Jack Giroux/July 1, 2016 1:30 pm EST In J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek films, Bones (Karl Urban) mostly interacts with Captain Kirk (Chris Pine). Now and then he’ll have a tense or fun side conversation with Spock (Zachary Quinto), but in the upcoming sequel, Star Trek Beyond, the two clearly have more to do together — which is a good thing, since Quinto and Urban are consistently reliable comedic relief in these films....