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Cool Stuff: Sink Your Teeth Into These New ‘Jaws’ Shirts By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2015 5:00 am EST This year marked the 40th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s classic thriller Jaws, one of the greatest blockbusters of all-time (actually, the first blockbuster in cinema’s history). Seeing the film in theaters again this year was a special treat, reminding me just how incredible a movie with a simple premise can be. It’s a master class in filmmaking....

Cool Stuff: The Ones That Got Away Volume 2, Posters For Movie That Never Came To Be By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 2016 7:30 am EST Over five years ago we featured a small batch of posters in a series called The Ones That Got Away. In the poster series, artist Fernando Reza and his Fro Design Company label created some awesome posters for movies that never came to be. Whether it’s because they got stuck in development hell or lost funding at the last minute, these movies simply never became a reality....

David Cronenberg On Turning Down ‘True Detective’ Season Two By Jack Giroux/Oct. 1, 2015 12:00 pm EST Man, Nic Pizzolatto just can’t catch a break. The mind behind HBO’s True Detective was accused of misogyny during the first season of his once acclaimed show, and then season two took a real beating from critics and fans. Now, even David Cronenberg (The Fly), who was offered the chance to direct a season two episode, has some harsh words for Pizzolatto....

Playmation Trailer You can watch the trailer for Playmation now embedded below. Disney’s Playmation Trailer: What Does The Future Of Play Look Like? By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2015 10:05 am EST Playmation Trailer You can watch the trailer for Playmation now embedded below.

How Many Steven Seagal Movie Posters Don’t Feature Him Holding A Gun? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2014 11:30 am EST 1990’s action star Steven Seagal has appeared in 43 movies. How many of those movies have a poster that doesn’t feature Steven Seagal holding a gun? Reddit user nathanmcc1 attempted to solve this age old question and the answer may shock you. Hit the jump to see the Steven Seagal gun posters for yourself....

JJ Abrams Buys Pizza For 1,500 Fans In Line At Star Wars Celebration By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2015 6:00 am EST Star Wars Celebration begins today at the Anaheim Convention Center, but fans started lining up at 5am on Wednesday morning, 29 hours before the opening ceremony for the Star Wars fan convention. The panel is expected to be a presentation featuring a trailer and possibly more for the next installment of the franchise, Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

Kylo Ren Coming To Disneyland And Disney World By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2016 12:30 pm EST Now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become a global phenomenon, Disney is planning to add more new characters from Episode VII into the parks. The opening of Star Wars Launch Bay saw First Order Stormtroopers roaming Tomorrowland while Darth Vader and Chewbacca were given dedicated meet-and-greets (with Boba Fett making special appearances)....

Naomi Watts Will Star In Netflix’s Psychological Thriller ‘Gypsy’ By Jack Giroux/April 19, 2016 6:00 am EST After the massive success of 50 Shades of Grey, director Sam Taylor-Johnson decided against returning for the sequels. Since the adaptation opened in theaters, she hasn’t lined up many film projects for herself. In December, Taylor-Johnson was briefly attached to direct Chappaquiddick, but two months later, she dropped out of the film to work on Netflix’s Gypsy, a series that has just landed its lead, Naomi Watts (Demolition)....

New ‘Insidious Chapter 3’ Clip And Poster Unveiled At WonderCon By Germain Lussier/April 6, 2015 11:30 am EST One of the smartest things writer/director Leigh Whannell did with Insidious Chapter 3 is go back in time. In the first film, the awesome character of Elise was killed. In Chapter 2, we see her as a character in the Further, the spiritual limbo the film series centers around. But for Chapter 3, the series goes rewinds the timeline to explain a bit more of how Elise – played by Lin Shaye – because so familiar with the spirit world of the Further....

New ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Video Lets George Takei Explain The Origin Of En Sabah Nur By Jacob Hall/April 18, 2016 2:00 pm EST As far as brief viral videos go, this one is actually pretty clever. Produced to look like it was shot and edited in the 1980s (the setting of X-Men: Apocalypse), this faux ad for an upcoming TV special chronicling the legend of the world’s first mutant has its fair share of charms....

Page 2: Gremlins, Star Wars, Terminator, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Spielberg, GoT, 50 Shades, Wes Anderson, Up By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2015 4:00 pm EST Header Photo: MONDO TO RELEASE GREMLINS 2 PRINTS BY RHYS COOPER ON FEBRUARY 19, 2015 The Ultimate Dystopian Movie Timeline Why Newt And Hicks Had To Die In ALIEN 3 Kick Ass Custom Motorcycle Helmets 50 Great Movies That Were Nominated For Zero OscarsJim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Clint Eastwood’s American SniperThe Terminator T-800 Mug Will Give Rise To Skynet10 Examples of Hollywood Being Really Bad at Casting the “Ugly” Best Friend5 AWESOME ITEMS FROM TOY FAIR 2015 TO PREPARE YOUR WALLET FORDoctor Who TARDIS Jewelry Box...

Page 2: Star Wars, Matrix, District 9, Love Actually, Michael Bay, Noah, Bates Motel, Fincher, Big Hero 6, Interstellar By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2014 2:00 pm EST Header Photo: Popsicle Landspeeder t-shirt Ranking the 15 Best TV Shows of 2014Here Are 7 Movies And TV Shows That Took Aim At North Korea Without Incident Licensed to Shoot First t-shirt The Very Best Cosplay of 201425 Things You Might Not Know About ‘The Hobbit’Matrix Concept ArtThe 17 Best New Shows Of 201410 FUNNIEST BRITISH FLICKS OF ALL TIME...

By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2015 3:00 pm EST While Constantine recently got the ax from NBC, another character from the darker side of DC’s universe has been picked up to series. The Lucifer series got the nod for a season order this weekend, as did another unrelated and potentially more promising project: the Minority Report TV series. We’ve got more info and the trailers for both below. Both series will air on Fox....

Sequel Bits: Trainspotting 2, Star Trek Beyond, Transformers, Bill & Ted 3 By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2016 1:00 pm EST I today’s Sequel Bits, we take a look at the following stories: Shooting of Trainspotting 2 movie begins Why Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman left the Transformers writing room Zoe Saldana shares a photo from the Star Trek Beyond reshoots And Keanu Reeves give san update on Bill & Ted 3 All this and more, after the jump....

So Is ‘Terminator: Genisys’ A Reboot Or What? By Angie Han/Oct. 30, 2014 10:00 am EST We know how Terminator: Genisys fits into the Terminator franchise in our world. It’s the fifth feature, and the first since 2009’s Terminator Salvation. What’s harder to suss out is how the story fits into the Terminator mythology. Is it a reboot? A sequel? Or something else entirely? The answer, it turns out, might be “all of the above....

The Complete ‘Twin Peaks’ Revival Cast Feels Like A Practical Joke By Jacob Hall/April 26, 2016 10:30 am EST Showtime’s revival of Twin Peaks has been filming under an impenetrable veil of secrecy. Anyone who knows what’s going on with it isn’t talking and for all we know, those who came close to getting chatty were met with a mysterious “accident.” Even all of the casting news that has been steadily arriving over the past year has been met with total silence....

The Lone Gunmen Are Also Returning To ‘The X-Files’ By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2015 2:00 pm EST But now we have as close to official word as we can get that the trio known as The Lone Gunmen will also back back for The X-Files revival. Find out more about The Lone Gunmen returning to The X-Files after the jump! Dean Haglund, Tom Braidwood and Bruce Harwood played the three conspiracy theorists, government watchdogs and computer hackers who helped out Mulder and Scully in no fewer than 38 episodes, not to mention the first big screen outing of The X-Files....

VOTD: Peter Sciretta Breaks Down The ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Teaser At Celebration By Russ Fischer/April 17, 2015 2:30 pm EST Yesterday, just after the premiere of the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer, our own Peter Sciretta was invited by StarWars.com to join a few other folks in a breakdown of the new teaser on the Star Wars Celebration livestream. Along with Peter were Eric Vespe of Ain’t It Cool News, Bryan Young of Big Shiny Robot, and Devin Faraci of Badass Digest....

Watch Disney World’s New Star Wars Jedi Training: Trials Of The Temple Show By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2015 12:00 pm EST Star Wars Season of the Force opened at Disneyland and Disney World’s Hollywood Studios over the past few weeks, but one key addition has had a late start: an updated version of the popular Jedi Training Academy. While the show is primarily for children, Adult Star Wars fans have always gotten a kick out of seeing their children go facer to face with some of the biggest Star Wars villains in a test of the Force and lightsaber battles....

Watch How Michael Bay Edits A Movie: ‘Transformers 4’ Post-Production To Premiere By Germain Lussier/Dec. 11, 2014 9:45 am EST Post-production is frequently a total mystery to fans. Once is film is finished, sometimes a studio will release concept art or set photos showing us pre-production. We see the actual production on the screen and in lots of behind the scenes featurettes. But once filming is done, you’d think the movie was magically willed into existence with special effects, music and sound, all perfectly timed to specially selected shots....