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‘Chasing Niagara’ Trailer: The Latest Red Bull Media House Joint By Jack Giroux/June 28, 2016 12:30 pm EST Red Bull doesn’t only make energy drinks. The company also makes films, and mostly the kind of movies you’d expect Red Bull to make. Red Bull Media House will release their latest picture, Chasing Niagara, this summer. The documentary follows Rafael Ortiz as he plans to (illegally) kayak Niagara Falls. Below, watch the Chasing Niagara trailer....

‘Constantine’ Is Definitely Dead By Angie Han/June 8, 2015 6:30 am EST Sorry, Constantine fans: the show is really, truly, officially dead. Following its cancellation at NBC last month, Warner Bros. TV attempted to find a new show for the series. And fans both famous and not tried to rally for the cause. But now showrunner Daniel Cerone confirms Constantine is done for good. Read his Constantine cancellation statement after the jump....

‘Frozen’ Animated Shorts Coming From LEGO And Disney; Original Voice Cast To Return By Angie Han/June 21, 2016 1:00 pm EST Disney Animation has been working on a Frozen 2 for the past several months, but we’ve still got a while to wait before the film actually hits theaters. In the meantime, though, we’ll get to see the gang back together again in a slightly different form. The Disney Channel is teaming with the LEGO Group for Frozen Northern Lights, a “brand extension” that will include a series of brand-new animated shorts....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’: Will Smith Is Also Sad About Steven Hiller’s Fate By Angie Han/Jan. 4, 2016 11:00 am EST Were you bummed to hear about what happened to Steven Hiller between Independence Day and Independence Day: Resurgence? So was Will Smith. In an interview, the original Independence Day star admits it was “terrible” to learn of his character’s fate — though also like you, he managed to enjoy the trailer anyway....

‘Kingsman 2’ Offers Julianne Moore The Chance To Play A Supervillain By Jacob Hall/Feb. 17, 2016 10:00 am EST There are many joys to be experienced in Kingsman: The Secret Service, a film so bursting with color and energy that you can forgive the points where it stumbles and falls flat on its face. One of the highlights was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson as the bad guy, which saw the intimidating actor playing against type as a squeamish bleeding heart with a speech impediment who sets out to wipe out much of the human race as part of a wacko plan to save the world....

‘Our Kind Of Traitor’ Trailer: Ewan McGregor And Naomie Harris Get Caught Up In Espionage By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2016 1:00 pm EST Although the adaptation of John le Carré’s spy thriller Our Kind of Traitor has been in the can since 2014, the film has taken a little while to make it to the big screen. But our friends across the pond will finally get a chance to see it this spring, and the first trailer finds Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris (Skyfall) in the wrong place at the wrong time, suddenly caught up in a struggle between a Russian mafia money launderer (Stellan Skarsgard), a ruthless MI6 agent (Damian Lewis) and the British government....

‘Super Mario Bros.’ Honest Trailer: The Awful Movie Based On The Video Game…Kinda By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2015 5:00 am EST We’ve seen enough movies based on video games to know that they just don’t seem to work very well for some reason. Whether it’s too much fan service for those who played the games, or maybe video game stories are only fun when you’re the one in control of the main character, Hollywood just can’t crack them....

‘The Shallows’ Trailer Preaches The Virtue Of Self-Reliance By Angie Han/June 8, 2016 4:00 pm EST Sony has released one last trailer for Blake Lively’s summer shark movie The Shallows, and it may just be the best one yet. Instead of B-movie gore or schmaltzy backstory, it offers a stern lecture about self-reliance, all set to gorgeous, sun-dappled scenes of Nancy (Lively) preparing to get into the water. “Yes sir, it’s hard work to become self reliant,” a voice says firmly....

Alamo Drafthouse Is Celebrating Steven Spielberg This Fall With ‘Septemberg’ Screenings By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2015 3:30 pm EST There’s no doubt that Steven Spielberg is one of the most influential and iconic directors working today. Spielberg has dabbled in everything from war dramas like Saving Private Ryan, historical dramas like The Color Purple, thrillers like Jaws, sci-fi classics like E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the action adventure trilogy featuring Indiana Jones....

Barbra Streisand Returning To Directing With A Catherine The Great Biopic By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 4, 2015 9:30 am EST After keeping busy in the 1970s with films such as A Star is Born and The Way We Were, singer-turned-actress Barbra Streisand has been very selective over the past 20 years, opting to only star in four movies: The Mirror Has Two Faces, Meet the Fockers, Little Fockers and The Guilt Trip....

Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Producing Syfy Series ‘Incorporated’ By Angie Han/April 6, 2015 1:00 pm EST THR reports Syfy has given a pilot order to Incorporated. Brothers David and Àlex Pastor (Self/less) will write and direct the pilot, and Ted Humphrey (The Good Wife) will serve as showrunner. Affleck and Damon will executive produce through their Pearl Street Films banner, along with Pearl Street president Jennifer Todd. Margaret Chernin, also of Pearl Street, will be an associate producer....

George R.R. Martin Slyly Hinted About That Jon Snow Reveal Back In 2002 By Jacob Hall/July 11, 2016 3:00 pm EST Spoilers for Game of Thrones season 6 immediately follow. Game of Thrones season finales tend to be packed to the brim with important reveals and exciting business, but “The Winds of Winter” was more stuffed with important details than just about any other episode in the entire series thus far....

Help Pixar Alum Carlos Baena Make ‘La Noria’, A Beautiful Animated Horror Short By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2015 12:30 pm EST You may not know Carlos Baena by name, but you’re definitely familiar with his work. As an animator at Pixar, he was involved with classics like Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Toy Story 3, and at ILM he worked on films including Star Wars Episode II and Men in Black II....

Jason Bateman To Direct And Star In ‘IPO Man’ By Angie Han/Oct. 29, 2014 10:30 am EST In 2008, Merrill put himself on the market with 100,000 shares costing $1 apiece. 929 of them sold, and he kept the other 99,071 as a non-voting shareholder. His investors voted on everything from whether he should have a vasectomy (no) or invest in a Rwandan chicken farmer (yes). When Merrill’s IPO scheme cost him his girlfriend, a minority shareholder who was fed up with having strangers interfere in their lives, other investors weighted in on new potential love interests....

Joaquin Phoenix In Talks To Reunite With M. Night Shyamalan By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2015 1:00 pm EST It’s been a good year so far for M. Night Shyamalan, or at least a much better year than the last few. His TV series Wayward Pines had a solid audience, and his new film The Visit has drawn rave reviews as it has been previewed throughout the summer. Now it looks like the writer/director will do a new project with Jason Blum, who produced The Visit....

Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth Of A Nation’ Is Powerful, Necessary Storytelling [Sundance Review] By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2016 10:30 am EST Comparisons to 12 Years a Slave will be inevitable, but in truth Birth of a Nation complements, rather than competes with, the other recent slave drama. 12 Years a Slave was the horrifying true tale of a free man forced into slavery. Birth of a Nation is the equally horrifying, equally true tale of a man who’s never enjoyed a single day of freedom in his life....

New ‘True Detective’ Trailer: Let Those Inner Demons Out By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2015 3:30 pm EST The first True Detective season two trailer was all slow shots of sad faces. This second one has a lot more character — we hear from a few of the major players, including the bad guy played by Vince Vaughn, and the cops played by Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch. The real standout so far looks to be McAdams, who comes off like a total badass in this footage....

Nickelodeon’s ’90s Nicktoons Getting A Live-Action Animation Hybrid Movie By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 5, 2015 1:00 pm EST Hot on the heels of news this past week that Nickelodeon is considering reviving some of its fan-favorite cartoons from the ’90s, animated characters from that decade at the kid-geared cable network may also get new life on the big screen. Paramount Pictures is said to be in the early stages of development of a live-action/animation Nicktoons movie that will bring together the likes of Rugrats, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!...

By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2015 3:00 pm EST There’s a book to be written on the decade and a half development of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. At varying times, plans for the film featured a roster of other projects which came and went as Fury Road itself soldiered on. A companion film called Furiosa was planned at one point. Even earlier on, that movie was envisioned as an anime prequel or companion to Fury Road....

Superhero Bits: Santa Claus Can Beat Any Hero, Frank Miller Doesn’t Care About New Elektra By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2015 3:00 pm EST Can Santa Claus really take on any superhero? What does Frank Miller have to say about the Elektra on Netflix’s Daredevil series? Why does Tom Holland say the new Spider-Man will be like the biggest independent film ever? Which The OC star will reunite with Ben McKenzie on Gotham?...