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‘I.T.’ Trailer: Pierce Brosnan Will Punch Your Connected Lifestyle Right In The Face By Jacob Hall/Aug. 5, 2016 11:30 am EST Pierce Brosnan’s post-James Bond career is an endless source of fascination. Sure, he’s done his fair share of the expected “aging action hero” junk like The November Man and Survivor, but he’s at his most interesting when he’s teetering on the edge of his cool-and-composed onscreen persona. He was a bright spot of lunacy in the otherwise turgid No Escape, an inspired comic presence in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End, and the snippets we’ve seen of his performance in the upcoming drug thriller Urge look like my kind of bonkers....

‘Mission: Impossible 5’ Will Open In IMAX By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2015 6:30 am EST Ethan Hunt’s next jet-setting, death-defying international adventure will be just as big as his last one. Paramount and IMAX announced today that Mission: Impossible 5 will play in IMAX when it hits theaters July 31. Because if Tom Cruise is going to strap himself to a plane at 5,000 feet, he’s gonna make damn sure we can drink in every little detail....

‘Risen’ Trailer: Joseph Fiennes Searches For Jesus In This Episode Of ‘CSI: Jerusalem’ By Jacob Hall/Nov. 13, 2015 11:30 am EST The problem with almost every “faith-based” film is that they’re too busy delivering a sermon to tell a good story. There is nothing wrong with entertainment being specifically crafted for Christian audiences, but there is everything wrong with recent movies like God’s Not Dead and The War Room, which coddle their audiences by literally preaching to the choir and no one else....

‘Strangerland’ Trailer: Nicole Kidman In A Frantic, Gorgeously-Shot Search By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2015 6:00 am EST Here’s the first trailer for the tense Australian drama Strangerland which premiered at Sundance this year. Nicole Kidman plays a woman whose children disappear, leading her and her husband into a desperate search. Well, this is the first real domestic trailer; we saw another Strangerland trailer late last year that was quickly pulled. This one is better, so it works out for everyone....

‘Twin Peaks’ Adds Amanda Seyfried And Balthazar Getty In Mystery Roles By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2015 7:00 am EST Two more are entering Twin Peaks. Amanda Seyfried and Balthazar Getty have just signed on for Showtime’s revival of the ’90s mystery series, joining returning star Kyle MacLachlan. Get details on the Twin Peaks Amanda Seyfried and Balthazar Getty casting after the jump. Details on Seyfried’s character are being kept under wraps, but she’s described as a “major” character who serves “pivotal” role in the narrative....

A24 Sets Cary Fukunaga To Direct The Story Of Joe And Jadin Bell By Russ Fischer/April 30, 2015 12:30 pm EST A24 has been making great moves acquiring and releasing films like Under the Skin, A Most Violent Year, Ex Machina, and the forthcoming End of the Tour and The Witch. The company is one of a handful of smaller distributors whose name is enough to get me interested in a film....

Actor Ian McShane Is More Than Ready To Return To ‘Deadwood’ By Jack Giroux/June 4, 2016 12:00 pm EST Deadwood is one of the many HBO shows that had its life cut too short. Ever since the series was canceled, there have been talks of creator David Milch wrapping the series up with a film. One year a Deadwood movie appears likely, the next year it’s reported as dead. A few months ago, though, HBO confirmed “it’s going to happen,” and they’re ready when Milch is....

More ‘Suicide Squad’ Spin-Offs May Be In The Works By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 2016 10:30 am EST Just over a week ago, we learned that Warner Bros. Pictures was considering expanding their future roster of DC Comics films with a spin-off that would focus on Margot Robbie reprising her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn. Instead of being a solo outing for the villain, the movie would feature a new ensemble of characters with Batgirl and Birds of Prey mentioned as possibly appearing....

Showtime’s ‘Twin Peaks’ Revival Drags Miguel Ferrer Back Into Town By Jacob Hall/Nov. 6, 2015 1:45 pm EST We’ve reached the point where things you used to love back in the day getting a big second chance have become commonplace. Oh, a Star Wars movie that seems to evoke the original trilogy? That’s nice. Six new hours of The X-Files? That’s good. Nothing is ever dead anymore – it’s just taking a little nap before it’s roused from its slumber, given a new coat of paint, and asked to win over the fans and attract new admirers....

Superhero Bits: Agent Carter, Deadpool, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Green Lantern By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2015 4:00 pm EST How does Jenna Dewan-Tatum look as Supergirl’s Lucy Lane? Is Josh Brolin excited for Avengers: Infinity War? Has Agent Carter Season 2 started shooting? What does Jon Watts have to say about his new Spidey? Which supervillain will show up in the Arrow Season 3 premiere? Where are Thor: Ragnarok and Captain Marvel going to shoot?...

Superhero Bits: Deadpool Christmas List, Lex Luthor Interview, Giant Man In Civil War By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 18, 2015 5:00 pm EST Did a Captain America: Civil War LEGO set just confirm an appearance by Giant Man? What’s on Deadpool’s Christmas list? What’s Tom Holland doing on the set of Doctor Strange? What did Lex Luthor have to say in his interview with Wired? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: X-Men Apocalypse, Batman V Superman, Avengers Age Of Ultron, Spider-Man, Joss Whedon By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2015 4:30 pm EST Which Attack the Block star is coming to the Flash/Arrow spinoff show? How will Apocalypse recruit his horseman in X-Men: Apocalypse? Has Avengers: Age of Ultron already started making money? Which DC Superhero would Joss Whedon want to make a movie about? Is he upset he missed Marvel’s Spider-Man?...

The New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Lines Up Its First Director By Jacob Hall/July 22, 2016 2:30 pm EST 2016 is a good year for Star Trek fans, with a new movie in theaters right now and a gigantic art show tribute at Comic-Con and a new documentary about Leonard Nimoy arriving in just a few months. This whole 50th anniversary thing is pretty cool. However, the most intriguing new Trek development is the most mysterious and it won’t arrive until 2017....

Warner Bros. Yells “Witness Me!”, Drives ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Straight At The Oscars By Jacob Hall/Oct. 13, 2015 10:30 am EST If we were to measure a film’s success in cultural impact and not box office, Mad Max: Fury Road would be the biggest movie of 2015. It may have only earned a fraction of the cash hoarded by Jurassic World and Furious 7, but no film this year has inspired so much enthusiasm....

Watch Never Before Seen Robin Williams Outtakes From ‘Aladdin’ Recording Sessions By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 10, 2015 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 23 years since Disney’s animated musical Aladdin hit theaters. And while it’s not a special anniversary for the film, the film comes to Blu-Ray for the first time on October 13th, which means there are some cool new special features that are coming to light....

Will Smith Producing ‘Hitch’ TV Series For Fox By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2014 8:00 am EST As far as movies based on TV shows go, a Hitch TV series doesn’t seem like a bad idea. The premise lends itself easily to small-screen storytelling. Hitch’s business could sustain anything from an episodic, case-of-the-week format to a serialized long-form storyline — or even both at the same time. Hitch is one of several movie-based shows brewing right now....

‘12 Years A Slave’ Writer John Ridley To Direct L.A. Riots Drama By Angie Han/Oct. 12, 2015 4:00 pm EST Get details on the John Ridley LA riots project after the jump. Ridley’s L.A. riots script has been set up for years at Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. But it’s just gotten a fresh jolt thanks to Broad Green Pictures, which has come aboard to produce and distribute. The two companies jointly announced Ridley’s new project today....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Website Launches With Propulsive Score Sample By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2014 10:00 am EST That image above is the new(ish) update for the Avengers: Age of Ultron logo, which comes from the film’s just-launched official site. At this point there’s not a lot to see at the new portal, but there is something to hear. The new Age of Ultron website is backed by a looped track of music that provides a great indicator of the tone of the film — there’s a mechanized underpinning to the cue, which starts with a slow, moody pulse before opening up to swells of synthesizers and insistent strings....

‘Doctor Strange’ Will Be “Marvel’s Fantasia”, But What Does That Mean? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2015 9:40 am EST Cinematographer Ben Davis, who was also the director of photography on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers: Age of Ultron, spoke about his next film during the BAFTA Masterclass in London. He briefly described how the look of Doctor Strange will be different from previous Marvel films. The following quote comes from ScreenDaily:...

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ Will Be All About Family By Angie Han/April 15, 2015 1:00 pm EST Guardians of the Galaxy felt like a departure for Marvel in some ways, but one of the things it definitely has in common with other MCU films is its lingering daddy issues. It sounds like they’ll only get more intense in the sequel, which director James Gunn says is “about fathers.” And Star-Lord won’t be the only one dealing with family drama....