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‘Chrononauts’ Movie: Universal Is Adapting Mark Millar’s Time-Travel Comic By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2015 7:00 am EST Even if you don’t read comic books you probably know comic creator Mark Millar from his many film adaptations such as Wanted, Kick-Ass and most recently Kingsman: The Secret Service. It seems like almost every Millar comic book gets optioned for the big screen these days, the last being Starlight, which has Star Wars spinoff screenwriter Gary Whitta work writing....

‘Finding Dory’ Ride Coming To Tokyo Disney Resort In 2017 By Angie Han/May 19, 2015 3:00 pm EST Want to feel like a small, vulnerable fish in a big, scary sea? Who hasn’t, right? Well, starting in 2017 Disney will offer you the opportunity to enjoy that terrifying experience, with the opening of a Finding Dory ride at Tokyo Disney Resort. Get a first look at the Finding Dory ride after the jump....

‘HAPPYish’ Teaser: Steve Coogan Finds That Life Is Miserable And Hard By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2015 10:30 am EST Here’s a teaser for the new Showtime comedy HAPPYish, which premieres in April. The show stars Steve Coogan as Thom Payne, a mid-40s guy who has to deal with a young new boss who throws around business buzzwords with alarming freedom. But the arrival of that guy in Payne’s life is just the catalyst for other questions, primary among which is whether or not Payne can ever actually be happy....

By Angie Han/Nov. 7, 2014 3:30 pm EST Millions of voices that had been crying out guesses were suddenly silenced yesterday when Lucasfilm finally, officially announced the name of the new Star Wars movie: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And then those voices immediately piped up again with snarky jokes, because the Internet will never not judge something a full year early. But amid all the wild speculation of the past couple of years, it turns out there were at least a few people who were right on the money....

‘The Get Down’ Trailer: Baz Luhrmann Chronicles The Rise Of Hip-Hop In 1970s New York By Angie Han/July 25, 2016 1:30 pm EST Last month, HBO cancelled Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl after already having renewed it for a second season. But if you’re mourning the loss of your window into the 1970s New York music scene, fear not – Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down is arriving in just a few weeks....

‘The Lego Movie Sequel’ Gets A New Director By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2015 3:36 pm EST Phil Lord and Chris Miller wrote and directed The Lego Movie to massive hit status, and created a legitimately good movie at the same time. We knew a sequel was in the works, but the Lego Batman spin-off movie (to be directed by The Lego Movie’s director of animation Chris McKay) recently took over the release date once meant for the sequel....

Common Will Be The Poor Fool Who Goes After John Wick In ‘John Wick 2’ By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2015 3:30 pm EST John Wick is thinking he’s back for a sequel, and that means he’s going to need a fresh crop of baddies to mow down in his pursuit of… well, whatever it is he’s after this time. Enter Common, who’s just been set to play a villain in John Wick 2....

Eight New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Images Are Here To Help Take The Edge Off By Jacob Hall/Dec. 9, 2015 9:30 am EST Hey, man. I hear you’re looking for some new Star Wars images? A little birdie told me. You know, through the grapevine and such. Well, let’s just say that I’m the man who can supply you with such things. I know some people will tell you that Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in a little over a week and you should just wait, but they don’t understand people like you and me, you know?...

Everything Wrong With ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’ By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2015 5:00 am EST This week brings the third attempt at a sequel to the modern classic that is Jurassic Park. If the buzz from the world premiere is any indicator, this might finally be a worthy sequel to Steven Spielberg’s original dinosaur adventure. But that doesn’t make the disappointing sequels in between any better. There was no way that any sequel could live up to the magic of Jurassic Park, but Spielberg tried with The Lost World: Jurassic Park....

Final ‘In The Heart Of The Sea’ Trailer: Chris Hemsworth Deals With A Real Moby Dick By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 2, 2015 6:30 am EST “Call me Ishmael” isn’t a line from Kingpin, but rather the iconic opening text from the classic novel Moby Dick. And this line finally graces the screen in the final In the Heart of the Sea trailer, the adaptation of the true story that inspired Herman Melville’s 1851 novel....

By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2015 4:00 pm EST Deadline reports that the producers are looking for a showrunner now, after which a pilot script, cast and director will start to fall into place. So it’ll probably be 2016 at least before we see anything from this effort. The story, as the official site says, goes like this: Here’s the Enormous web series pilot, which originally appeared just under a year ago, in March 2014....

Jessica Chastain Eyes Aaron Sorkin’s Directorial Debut ‘Molly’s Game’ By Angie Han/Feb. 18, 2016 4:00 pm EST Over the course of his career, Aaron Sorkin has put his words in the mouths of some very talented actors, from Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs) to Jeff Bridges (The Newsroom) to Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network). And now that he’s getting ready to make the leap from writing to directing, he’s got his eye on another world-class thespian....

Jonathan Ames Offers ‘Bored To Death’ Movie Update By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2015 1:30 pm EST It’s been a couple of years since we heard HBO was developing a Bored to Death movie, and we’ve heard next to nothing about it since. But you can rest assured Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames hasn’t forgotten about it. He recently stated that a film still “could happen,” and offered an update on the script....

LOL: ‘Hobbit’ Director Peter Jackson Claims To Hate Big Hollywood Franchises By Angie Han/Dec. 22, 2014 10:00 am EST When’s the last time you rolled your eyes and scoffed “oh, that’s rich”? Has it been a while? Would you like to do it now? Because if so, we have the perfect occasion for you. Peter Jackson, director of three Lord of the Rings movies and three Hobbit movies, has gone on the record criticizing Hollywood for being too “franchise driven....

Meet The Supporting Cast Of ‘Ant-Man’ In New Photos From The Marvel Studios Movie By Ethan Anderton/June 20, 2015 10:00 am EST With the release of Ant-Man less than a month away, we’ve already seen quite a bit from the second Marvel Studios film hitting theaters this summer. Paul Rudd looks great in the Ant-Man suit, Corey Stoll’s Yellowjacket also looks pretty slick, and Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lily will also have plenty to do in the tiny superhero’s first big screen adventure....

Netflix Picks Up Christopher Guest’s ‘Mascots’ By Angie Han/Aug. 11, 2015 9:00 am EST Over the past few years, Netflix has done a great job of establishing itself as a purveyor of quality television. And from here, it looks like the company’s push into film distribution will be similarly successful. The streaming service has added yet another promising project to its upcoming movie slate — Mascots, the latest film from Christopher Guest....

Nicolas Winding Refn Teams With ‘Spectre’ Writers For What May Or May Not Be ‘The Avenging Silence’ By Angie Han/Jan. 29, 2016 4:00 pm EST Deadline broke the news. Refn is developing and producing the movie with Lene Borglum, and will additionally direct. Plot details are being kept under very tight wraps. However, based on what little information we have about it so far, the new film sounds like it could be The Avenging Silence....

Noomi Rapace To Play Amy Winehouse In New Biopic By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 5, 2015 9:00 am EST After a documentary about the singer’s life hit theaters earlier this year, the late Amy Winehouse is now in line to get the biopic treatment as well, and an impressive actress may be lined up to play her. Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is currently in talks to play the British soul singer, who tragically died four years ago due to a lethal amount of alcohol intoxication after battling with addiction....

Page 2: BTTF, Star Wars, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harry Potter, Sundance, Groundhog Day, Simpsons, American Sniper, Doctor Who By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2015 3:15 pm EST Header Photo: Back to the Future Part II got it right! Observed: 7 Trends We Noticed At The 2015 Sundance Film Festival Planets Far Far Away t-shirt TOMORROWLAND BIG GAME SPECIAL LOOK SHOT-BY-SHOT ANALYSISHow Critics Have Failed Female Filmmakers Watch: Emotional And Epic 22-Minute Video Tribute To The Genius Of Philip Seymour HoffmanThe Year Sex Took Over SundanceHow ‘Selma’ Got Smeared: On historical drama and its malcontentsJames Hance’s “Chewsticks” (Wookiee The Chew – Graphite / Acrylic / Color Pencil on Watercolor Paper)...

Peter Berg Directing ‘Mile 22’ With Mark Wahlberg, Ronda Rousey, And Iko Uwais By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2015 7:00 am EST The collaboration between actor/producer Mark Wahlberg and director/producer Peter Berg soldiers on following Entourage, Lone Survivor, and Ballers. Now Berg will make a film called Mile 22, an espionage thriller starring Wahlberg as a CIA agent stationed far from home, who has to deal with a whole variety of gun-toting enemies as he transports an informant out of town....