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Watch Three ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ FX Reels By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2015 1:30 pm EST We’re a couple weeks past the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron — far enough into the film’s life for reaction pieces, reactions to the reactions, and more detailed looks at the film’s place in the summer lineup, and culture as a whole. But let’s look at the film from a different angle: the FX work that helped create everything from huge setpieces to simple environments....

Watch Two Trailers For A Martin Scorsese Directed Short Starring Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio And Brad Pitt By Germain Lussier/Jan. 13, 2015 10:00 am EST During periods of his career, Martin Scorsese has enjoyed working with one lead actor over and over again. In the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, that actor was Robert De Niro. In the last two decades, it was Leonardo DiCaprio. However, the three have never worked together on a feature film....

‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ Opening Credits: Thou Shalt Not Forget To Tune In Next Week By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2015 4:00 pm EST We’ve known that American Horror Story: Hotel would involve dudes sewn into beds, an old-timey serial killer, creepy pale children, and a deliciously devilish Lady Gaga. But the just-released title sequence reveals another theme we weren’t necessarily expecting: religion. Watch the American Horror Story Hotel opening credits after the jump....

‘Beyond The Reach’ Trailer: Michael Douglas Hunts Jeremy Irvine By Russ Fischer/Feb. 5, 2015 2:30 pm EST Beyond the Reach gives Michael Douglas a high-powered rifle and an insane sense of entitlement — not a good combination. Douglas plays a rich guy who hires a desert local (Jeremy Irvine) to lead him on a hunting expedition. But when Douglas shoots the wrong target, things go bad really quick. Soon Douglas is hunting Irvine, but the local kid has some pretty good tricks up his sleeve....

‘Breaking A Monster’ Trailer: Follow A 7th Grade Heavy Metal Band’s Rise To Fame By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 2016 10:00 am EST If you keep up on viral sensations on the web, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Unlocking the Truth. The heavy metal band is made up of three 7th grade African-American kids from Brooklyn, and when one of their performances in Times Square went viral, they skyrocketed to fame online and in the music industry....

‘Doctor Who’ Season 9 Trailer: Daleks, Ghosts, And Maisie Williams [Comic-Con 2015] By Angie Han/July 9, 2015 4:52 pm EST Whovians who braved the Hall H lines today at Comic-Con were treated to the very first look at the Doctor Who Season 9 trailer. But now everyone else gets to join in on the fun as well, as BBC America has posted the video online. Among many, many other exciting bits and pieces, the Season 9 trailer also includes the first footage of Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams — though you’ll have to wait a little while longer to find out exactly what she’s doing there....

‘Furious 7’ Is Fastest Film Ever To Cross $1 Billion At The Box Office By Angie Han/April 17, 2015 4:30 pm EST Furious 7 is the first entry in the series not to have “fast” in the title, which is ironic because it’s turning out to be the fastest of them all. The recent sequel has hit $1 billion at the box office after just 17 days in theaters, making it the quickest film ever to hit that mark — not to mention the only Universal film ever to do so in its original run....

‘Inside Out’ Trailer: Pixar Turns Emotions Into Characters By Germain Lussier/Dec. 10, 2014 9:13 am EST The first trailer for Pixar’s summer 2015 release, Inside Out, was really more a reminder of the film’s existence. “Hey, remember us? I know we don’t have a movie in 2014, but we’ve done really awesome work in the past, and next year we’ve got something special for you.” Now there’s a second look at the Pete Docter-directed film....

‘The Death Of Superman Lives’ Clip Shows Nicolas Cage Superman Costume Test By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2015 9:00 am EST Superman Lives, the ’90s effort that saw Tim Burton working on a Superman movie starring Nicolas Cage and originally scripted by Kevin Smith, is one of those “could have been” projects that continues to haunt fans. It haunted Jon Schnepp to such a degree that he made a documentary about it....

Bill Murray Explains Why He Decided To Return For Paul Feig’s ‘Ghostbusters’ By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2015 10:30 am EST Earlier this month we learned that Bill Murray, after years of staunchly refusing to return for a third Ghostbusters movie, had shot a cameo in Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters. So what gives? What finally got Murray to change his mind and return to the franchise? Murray explains after the jump. The Bill Murray Ghostbusters cameo was explained in an interview with Vulture....

Catherine Hardwicke Directing ‘Love Letters To The Dead’ By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2015 1:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Most Young Adult fiction feels like it’s very much directed at a specific, young, audience, but by including these other famous people from throughout history, Love Letters to the Dead feels like it has a broader appeal. I’m very interested to see what Hardwicke does with the material....

Danny Boyle Has A ‘28 Months Later’ Idea By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2015 6:00 am EST For years, there has been the potential for some combination of director Danny Boyle, screenwriter Alex Garland and producer Andrew Macdonald to return to the story they originated in 28 Days Later. That film, a “viral outbreak” zombie story set in London and the English countryside, was an early example of digital cinematography and a big influence on the explosion of interest in zombie films....

Danny McBride Talks ‘Alien: Covenant’; Behind-The-Scenes Video Showcases Practical Effects By Jack Giroux/July 7, 2016 6:00 am EST This is a pretty good summer for Danny McBride. He has his latest HBO show, Vice Principals, premiering soon, and he’s currently shooting Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant in Australia. Co-creating another potential success like Eastbound & Down and getting to work on an Alien movie? That’s hardly a bad way to spend the summer....

Disney’s ‘Star Wars Land’ Will Have A Cantina, Allow Guests To Fly Millennium Falcon [D23 Expo 2015] By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2015 12:45 pm EST Today at the D23 Expo 2015 Disney announced not one, but two Star Wars Land expansions for Disney parks, one at Disneyland park in Anaheim, CA, and another at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL. Both versions will be the largest-ever park expansions, at 14 acres each....

Find Out When ‘American Crime Story’ And Zach Galifianakis’ ‘Baskets’ Will Premiere On FX By Angie Han/Nov. 12, 2015 1:00 pm EST Most of the FX and FXX shows you’re currently following, including American Horror Story and Fargo, will be wrapping up their current seasons in the next couple of months. But don’t let that get you down — it just means they’re clearing the calendar for other shows to come your way....

Hasbro Expects 2017 Transformers 5 Release Date By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2015 3:23 pm EST Now that we know Transformers is becoming a larger cinematic universe, the importance of the next film increases drastically. The filmmakers will need to make sure their story not only works individually, but also sets up the world moving ahead. Because of that, thing are going to take a bit longer than expected. Though rumors initially suggested Transformers 5 could come out in 2016, now Hasbro believes 2017 is more realistic....

HBO Orders Family Drama Pilots From Kathryn Bigelow And Adam McKay By Angie Han/June 7, 2016 10:00 am EST Game of Thrones may still be going strong, but not even Daenerys’ magical dragons can carry on forever. As the race for the Iron Throne nears an end, HBO is looking to shore up its drama slate with some fresh material. The premium cable network has just ordered two promising-sounding pilots from high-profile talents: Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s Succession, about a (fictional) global media dynasty; and Kathryn Bigelow’s Mogadishu, Minnesota, about a Somalian family in Minneapolis....

Melissa McCarthy Will Star In Marielle Heller’s Adaptation Of ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ By Jack Giroux/May 31, 2016 4:31 pm EST Below, learn more about the potential Marielle Heller film. The Hollywood Reporter says Can You Ever Forgive Me?, based on a true story, is expected to shoot early next year. McCarthy will play Lee Israel, who was a struggling writer but a successful forger. In 1993, she pleaded guilty and briefly lived under house arrest....

Michael Jackson Goes ‘Off The Wall’: Spike Lee’s Sundance Doc Debuts First Trailer By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 13, 2016 11:30 am EST In just one week, some of the /Film crew will be heading to Park City, Utah to partake in some independent cinema at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. We’ll have plenty of coverage from the mountains about what will be worth seeing later this year, what gets picked up at the fest and much more....

New ‘Indiana Jones’ Theory Might Make You Forgive Nuking The Fridge By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2016 6:00 am EST Even though Harrison Ford has proven to be rather resilient in his old age, bouncing back from both having his leg broken on the Millennium Falcon and a plane crash on a golf course, that hasn’t made fans any more forgiving of what some consider to be one of the most egregious scenes in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....