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New ‘Ant-Man’ TV Spot And Posters Want To Call In The Avengers By Germain Lussier/June 11, 2015 9:40 am EST Disney’s biggest challenge with Ant-Man is going to remind people this is a Marvel movie. He’s in the same universe as The Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy and more. Now, they’re tackling that problem head on in the latest wave of promotions. A new Ant-Man TV spot directly references The Avengers and a new series of poster put the character front and center in a bunch of familiar places....

Paramount Confirms ‘Mission: Impossible 6’ Development [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2015 1:45 pm EST The Mission: Impossible series is a slow-burning one, unlike the fuse that accompanies each film’s opening credits, and very much unlike the typical development path for some big action franchises. (2006 through 2015 delivered three Mission: Impossible movies, but five Fast and the Furious films, for example.) With the latest mission, Rogue Nation, about to hit theaters, star and producer Tom Cruise says the wait for the next film might be much shorter....

Star Wars Bits: Episode 7 Jedi, Joel Edgerton Up For Uncle Owen’s Return, Rebels Producer Simon Kinberg, Simon Pegg, Clone Wars, LEGO By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2014 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. All this and more, after the jump. The release features: Warrior star Joel Edgerton got his start in the Star Wars prequels playing young Uncle Owen. The actor was recently asked if he would want to reprise the role if Disney actually makes a rumored Obi-Wan Kenobi spin-off film....

The Final ‘Jessica Jones’ Trailer Is Here To Drink Whiskey And Kick Ass (And It’s All Out Of Whiskey) By Jacob Hall/Nov. 10, 2015 7:00 am EST Jessica Jones could be something special. The second collaboration between Marvel Studios and Netflix, the series is a loose adaptation of Alias, the critically acclaimed comic run from writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos that followed costumed superhero Jessica Jones as she hung up her tights and opened her own private investigation business....

The New ‘Trumbo’ Trailer Sets Bryan Cranston Up For Oscar Gold By Jacob Hall/Oct. 6, 2015 11:30 am EST The new Trumbo trailer features all of the things you love about the movies. Bryan Cranston with an awesome mustache. Helen Mirren scheming while rocking some serious old school fashion. John Goodman yelling and smashing things. The mere presence of character actors like Michael Stuhlbarg and Alan Tudyk. And that’s before you get to the exactingly recreated 1950s Hollywood setting and the fact that Dalton Trumbo’s life story is genuinely thrilling stuff....

VOTD: Meet The Man Behind Some Of Hollywood’s Best Known Movie Title Designs By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2016 6:30 am EST Most of the time, movie titles come and go without much pomp and circumstance. After all, audiences already know what movie they’re sitting down to see, so why bother being flashy about it? Well, some of the best movie title designs immediately immerse you in the world in which you’re about to spend a couple hours, which is why some of the most iconic ones really stand out....

Watch: Heath Ledger’s Joker Diary Revealed In Documentary Clip By Angie Han/Aug. 11, 2015 7:06 am EST Although it’s a short clip, there’s a lot of detail to take in. The diary includes photos of wild animals, bugs, and clowns; stills from A Clockwork Orange; comic book panels of the Joker; a list of “Things that make me laugh” (including “land mines,” “AIDS,” and “brunch”); and various scribbled notes like “It’s simple....

Watch The First Ten Minutes Of Documentary ‘The Death Of Superman Lives’ By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2015 4:00 pm EST Over the weekend we ran a clip from the documentary The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? from Jon Schnepp, which chronicles Tim Burton’s failed attempt to make a Superman movie starring Nicolas Cage. The film was in development and pre-production in the ’90s, based originally on a script from Kevin Smith, with a final revision from Dan Gilroy, who would eventually write and direct Nightcrawler....

Why Shawn Levy Left The ‘Minecraft’ Movie By Angie Han/Dec. 12, 2014 12:00 pm EST Warner Bros.’ video game adaptation Minecraft suffered a big blow this week when director Shawn Levy abruptly left the project, just a couple of months after he originally signed on. Now he’s coming clean about his reasons for dropping out. At the simplest level, it boils down to “creative differences” — what Levy envisioned and what Minecraft maker Mojang wanted were two different things....

‘Arrested Development’ Season 5 Will Be Like ‘Making A Murderer’, Could Hit Netflix This Year By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2016 5:30 pm EST Arrested Development has always been praised by fans and critics for being ahead of its time, and that doesn’t seem to have changed going into the fifth season. If anything, the show might be too prescient, as Hurwitz told Deadline he’s had to rewrite storylines because real life kept catching up....

‘Dragons: Race To The Edge’ Teaser: Hiccup And Toothless Fly To Netflix By Russ Fischer/April 13, 2015 10:30 am EST How to Train Your Dragon fans may have to wait longer than expected for the next film in the series, but there are TV adventures coming to Netflix this summer. Dragons: Race to the Edge just got a premiere date and a teaser trailer that also seems to be more or less the show’s opening sequence, in which Hiccup and Toothless lead the charge to explore more of their world than ever before....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4 Blooper Reel: ‘Tis A Silly Place By Angie Han/Feb. 20, 2015 1:16 pm EST Game of Thrones the show is all gloom and doom. If you’re unlucky, you’re poisoned or stabbed or head-exploded to death. If you’re really unlucky, you’re suffering a torment worse than death itself. And even if you are kinda lucky, all it means is that you can look forward to getting poisoned or stabbed or head-exploded to death on a different day....

‘Goosebumps’ Monsters Revealed In New Images By Angie Han/Nov. 24, 2014 7:00 am EST If you were a kid in the ’90s, there’s a very good chance you were really into R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps at some point. Now Sony is hoping to reintroduce the franchise to a whole new generation with its Goosebumps movie, starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine himself. We’ve already gotten to know some of the human heroes (including Black, Dylan Minnette, and Odeya Rush) in earlier images....

‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ Trailer: The Iconic Cinema Conversation Comes To Life By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 28, 2015 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For cinephiles, one of the most helpful and revered books is Hitchcock/Truffaut, the 1967 publication that features French filmmaker Francois Truffaut sitting down with legendary director Alfred Hitchcock for a week-long conversation that spanned the master of suspense’s entire career up to that point....

‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension’ Trailer: Toby Has A New Friend By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 15, 2015 10:00 am EST We’ve heard before that all the activity has led to this, but in the case of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, it really seems to be true as this is meant to be the final chapter in the found footage horror series. And as one last ditch effort to get people on board before the film arrives next week, one final Paranormal Activity The Ghost Dimension trailer has arrived, with some new footage from the sequel that will show us more of the spirits and demons than we’ve ever seen before, including the infamous Toby....

2016 Directors Guild Awards Winners: ‘The Revenant’ Takes Another Big Prize By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 8, 2016 5:00 am EST Lately there have been some shake-ups in the race towards the Academy Awards. Even though The Revenant won Best Drama at the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild gave their award to The Big Short and the Screen Actors Guild gave their top prize to Spotlight. However, the awards love has gone back to the aforementioned Golden Globe winner after the Directors Guild crowned Alejandro G....

Bourne Trilogy Honest Trailer: Matt Damon Weaponizes An Entire Staples Catalog By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2016 5:00 am EST This past weekend brought Jason Bourne to theaters after being away for nearly a decade. The sequel hasn’t fared too well with critics, earning a 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, but audiences turned out enough this weekend to take it to the top of the box office. Still, it’s hard to deny that Jason Bourne doesn’t exactly deliver as high of quality storytelling in the spy thriller arena as the three predecessors starring Matt Damon....

Cool Stuff: Custom LEGO Version Of Pixar’s ‘Tin Toy’ Short By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2015 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today audiences know Pixar Animation for delivering stunning feature length computer animated movies. But before they were able to complete the incredible feat that was Toy Story, they created computer animated shorts in the late 1980s. One of their earliest shorts was Tin Toy, a predecessor to Toy Story in more ways than one, and one Pixar fan has given the main character in the film a building block makeover....

By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 15, 2016 11:00 am EST Even though we’re big fans of all the collectible artwork that Mondo throws out there for us to plaster our walls with, we also love what comes out of Gallery 1988. Personally, I have several pieces from their Ghostbusters 30th anniversary exhibition on my wayy, and I’m always on the lookout for their next great print series. And a very interesting new one has just been revealed....

Cool Stuff: Star Trek Beyond Collectible Posters Available At Select Theaters [Exclusive] By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2016 10:00 am EST Paramount Pictures has again teamed up with Los Angeles-based art gallery Gallery 1988 to create a series of collectible posters for their latest film, Star Trek Beyond. The six Star Trek Beyond collector’s posters, created by Jeffrey Everett and Matt Taylor, will be given away this weekend as opening weekend giveaways at Star Trek Beyond 3D screenings in participating locations....