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Warner Bros. Considering Harley Quinn Movie Starring Margot Robbie By Angie Han/May 16, 2016 12:21 pm EST Suicide Squad won’t be in theaters for a few months yet, but based on the trailers, it already looks like Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn will be the breakout star of David Ayer’s DC supervillain line-up. And Warner Bros. seems to thinks so, too. The studio is reportedly considering a spinoff that would center on Harley Quinn and several other female heroes and villains from DC Comics....

Watch: ‘The Babadook’ Offers A Great Holiday Greeting Video By Russ Fischer/Dec. 19, 2014 5:00 pm EST We’ve praised The Babadook since Sundance. It landed on Angie’s “Best Performances of 2014” list and our “50 Great Movies From 2014” list, and (spoiler) it’ll be on my ranked top ten of 2014, too. In short: see it! (Even Stephen King and The Exorcist director William Friedkin would tell you that.) The film is on VOD now and in some theaters, too, so you can see it for yourself....

‘HarmonQuest’ Trailer: Dan Harmon Brings His Role-Playing Games To Life By Ethan Anderton/July 11, 2016 5:30 am EST If you’ve watched Community or Rick and Morty, or you listen to Harmontown, then you know that television creator, writer and producer Dan Harmon is a huge nerd. He loves sci-fi and fantasy and one of his many geeky vices is role-playing games. However, if you’re not a good friend of his, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy his role playing adventures....

‘John Wick’ Directors To Direct Charlize Theron In ‘The Coldest City’ By Angie Han/May 11, 2015 11:40 am EST It seems everyone wants a piece of David Leitch and Chad Stahelski these days. Ever since the success of John Wick, the directing duo has seen their to-do list balloon to include such high-profile projects as Bloodshot and John Wick 2. Now here’s one more to add to the pile: The Coldest City, a spy thriller to star Charlize Theron....

‘Legend’ Trailer: Tom Hardy Plays The Twins Who Terrorized London By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2015 10:30 am EST Tom Hardy plays gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray in the film Legend, and the new Legend trailer — the first domestic trailer for the film, following a UK debut — makes Hardy’s dual-character performance look like one of the must-see film events of 2015. Legend opens in the US on October 2....

‘Macbeth’ UK Trailer: Michael Fassbender And Marion Cotillard Steal The Throne By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2015 8:30 am EST Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) directed a new cinematic take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the lead roles of Lord and Lady Macbeth. The film is not a contemporary re-telling of the story of the Scottish lord who takes the King’s throne through murder, but judging from this first Macbeth teaser trailer, the film does take a strikingly stylized visual approach to telling the story....

‘Men Go To Battle’ Trailer: An Off-Kilter Look At The American Civil War By Jacob Hall/May 4, 2016 8:00 am EST If you’ve recently looked over the slate of films arriving in 2016 and thought “Man, I really wish there were two films about the American Civil War coming out this year,” you’re officially in luck. In addition to Free State of Jones, we will soon be treated to Men Go to Battle, which looks about as far removed from that bigger, more bombastic take on this material as possible....

‘Myst’ TV Show In Development From Legendary By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2014 11:30 am EST The game Myst was one of the first mega-hits of the CD-Rom wave of gaming in 1993. It spawned sequels, spin-offs and novels, and was a top seller in games for almost a decade. Now Legendary TV has made a deal with Cyan Worlds, the original developer of the game, to develop a Myst TV show and accompanying new video game....

‘Selma’ Trailer: As MLK, David Oyelowo Fights For Voting Rights By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2014 5:00 pm EST In the US we’ve just seen the sad turnout for a midterm election in which the under-30 crowd accounted for only 13% of voter turnout, and the 30-44 age group was only another 22%. The 45-64 year olds turned out in far greater numbers — more of that age range than of everyone younger combined....

‘Star Wars’ Documentaries Explore The Prequels And Luke’s Friend Biggs By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2015 9:00 am EST The best thing about documentaries is there’s something for everyone. No matter what you’re into, from the grandest ideas like religion or politics, to the smallest things like Star Wars, someone has made a movie about it. Then things can get even more specific within those ideas. In the case of Star Wars, two new docs tackle the series from two very different, but equally interesting angles....

‘Star Wars’ Movies To Be Released In New Limited Edition Individual Blu-Ray Steelbooks By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2015 9:30 am EST Its interesting that the only Jedi pictured on the covers is Yoda and not Luke Skywalker. The good news for those of you who don’t need to own these new collectible covers is that the Blu-rays don’t feature any new special features which means you won’t have to repurchase the films....

‘The Crow’ Reboot To Shoot In Early 2015 By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2014 8:30 am EST With Devil’s Night just around the corner, now seems as good a time as any to check on The Crow reboot that’s been brewing for the past couple of years. In a recent interview, producer Ed Pressman revealed that the revenge thriller (which he describes as the “anti-Spider-Man”) was aiming to shoot early next year....

‘The Purge: Election Year’ Trailer: Keep America Great By Jacob Hall/May 19, 2016 9:30 am EST The Purge: Election Year was in development long before anyone involved knew it would be released in the middle of the most contentious, ludicrous, and genuinely embarrassing election season in American history. And while the average American (and many other citizens of the world) squirm and groan with every new development arising from both sides of the political aisle, the third film in writer/director James DeMonaco’s horror series has found itself in a unique position....

8-Part Showtime Miniseries Will Precede ‘The Stand’ Movie By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2015 2:45 pm EST The epic nature of Stephen King’s The Stand has meant that a big screen adaptation is all but impossible. Several filmmakers have tried and failed to condense the lengthy story – which is about a plague that destroys the world, and the battle between good and evil that follows - into a single movie. All have failed....

Akiva Goldsman To Lead Writers Rooms For ‘G.I. Joe’ And ‘Micronauts’ Development By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 22, 2015 9:00 am EST In an effort to reinvigorate the Transformers franchise, this year Paramount Pictures set writer Akiva Goldsman to lead a writers room comprised of about a dozen writers. The result was a roster of at least three sequels that will keep Transformers movies hitting theaters at different points throughout the next 10 years....

Alicia Vikander In For ‘Bourne 5’, Out For ‘Assassin’s Creed’ By Angie Han/June 23, 2015 10:00 am EST 2015’s most ubiquitous, most in-demand actress is making some tough decisions. Alicia Vikander has just been confirmed for Bourne 5, after entering talks last month. However, this means she won’t be starring in Assassin’s Creed, which she was also eyeing at the time. Get all the details on the Alicia Vikander Bourne 5 and Assassin’s Creed updates after the jump....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 23, 2014 1:00 pm EST The latest victim, er, guest for Zach Galifianakis on his fictional talk show Between Two Ferns is Brad Pitt. You could cut the tension with a knife! Will Galifianakis botch his guest’s name? Will he ask awkward questions, and reveal too much about himself in the process? I think you know the answer to this question, but as with any good piece of storytelling, spoilers don’t matter....

Cool Stuff: Sideshow Collectibles ‘Evil Dead 2’ Figure Will Make You Hail To The King, Baby By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2016 6:30 am EST Starz has inspired a resurgence of Sam Raimi’s cult classic character Ash Williams thanks to their series Ash vs the Evil Dead. So if you’ve been going back to watch the original Evil Dead movies and now you’re itching for a groovy new collectible, Sideshow Collectibles have you covered with a new figure inspired by the chainsaw-armed version of the grocery store clerk from Evil Dead II....

Farting Corpse Movie ‘Swiss Army Man’ Gets A Red-Band Trailer, In Case That Green-Band Trailer Was Too Tasteful By Angie Han/May 10, 2016 12:00 pm EST Last month brought us the first trailer for Swiss Army Man, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s (in)famous Sundance dramedy about a desperate man stranded all alone on a desert island (Paul Dano), until he stumbles across a flatulent corpse (Daniel Radcliffe). With a description like that, Swiss Army Man’s marketing was never going to be appropriate for polite company — but if you walked away thinking that first green-band trailer was still a bit too tasteful, today we’ve got the Swiss Army Man red-band trailer to share with you....

By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2015 9:00 am EST Some hotels might shy away from an association with ghosts and gruesome (if fictional) murders, but not the Stanley Hotel. The Colorado landmark, which famously inspired Stephen King’s The Shining, is leaning into its creepy history by commissioning a giant hedge maze. And it wants your help designing it. More details on The Shining maze after the jump. It’s a case of life imitating art imitating life....