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This Week In Trailers: The Preppie Connection, Departure, My King, The First Monday In May, Ukraine Is Not A Brothel By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 28, 2016 9:00 am EST My love knows no bounds. I mean, just how French is this plot? From the movie’s description: Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious skiing accident....

VOTD: The Wilhelm Scream And Nine Other Reused Sound Effects In Movies By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 31, 2015 6:00 am EST In the world of motion pictures, there is an entire team of people whose job it is to create sound effects. This work ranges from duplicating the sounds of the real world, such as shoes stepping on pavement or gun shots, to creating sounds like no one has ever heard before, such as the engine of the Millennium Falcon or a flying dragon....

Watch A Snarky Breakdown Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2015 10:00 am EST Even if you’re a fan of Marvel Studios movies since they created their own cinematic universe that began with Iron Man in 2008, there’s still some pretty confusing elements that have surfaced throughout the first two phases of these interconnected comic book franchises, especially if you’re not a die hard Marvel fan. Thankfully, YouTube user Garcatch has decided to put together an unhelpful, overly snarky, breakdown of the entire Marvel cinematic universe so far....

What Are The Most Pirated Movies Of 2015? By Angie Han/Dec. 28, 2015 3:00 pm EST Generally speaking, studios, filmmakers, and stars are happy to see their films land on awards shortlists or critics’ top 10s. But then there are the lists they’d probably rather not be on, like this one of the most pirated movies of 2015. To be sure, most of these movies did just fine even without the pirates’ box-office dollars....

‘Furious 7’ Title Confirmed; See The First Poster And Get Trailer Release Details By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2014 11:34 am EST The marketing campaign for the next Fast & Furious movie has officially kicked into high gear. Today Universal finally confirmed the Furious 7 title by revealing the first Furious 7 poster. Additionally, they’ve confirmed details on next weekend’s Furious 7 trailer release, which will be an interactive fan event. Get all the details after the jump....

‘Key & Peele’ Is Ending After The Current Fifth Season By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2015 4:24 pm EST Over the past few years, fans have come to love the comedic stylings of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as seen in their self-titled Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. Today, co-creator, co-star and recent Emmy nominee Keegan-Michael Key revealed that the current fifth season of the show will be the last....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Officially Has The Biggest US Box Office Opening Of All Time By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 20, 2015 10:00 am EST Experts have been analyzing and predicting the box office performance of Star Wars: The Force Awakens for months, but now we have hard numbers that give the sci-fi sequel the biggest domestic box office opening of all time. That’s just one of the records that The Force Awakens box office numbers smashed into oblivion, and it seems bound to potentially smash a few more as well....

‘X-Men: Apoclaypse’ Featurette: The Four Horsemen Are Unleashed On The World By Ethan Anderton/April 4, 2016 1:00 pm EST Here’s the new X-Men Apocalypse featurette (via JoBlo): There aren’t any big revelations about the story in this featurette, but it does have some talking heads from two of the horsemen, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and Olivia Munn as Psylocke, as well as director Bryan Singer. The other two recruited mutants are Alexandra Shipp as Storm and Ben Hardy as Angel, and we get to see some quick new shots of all of them in the video....

Adam Sandler Traps Jennifer Hudson In His Next Netflix Movie By Jacob Hall/July 22, 2016 12:30 pm EST It’s hard to tell if Adam Sandler’s four-picture deal with Netflix represents him being ahead of the curve in a major way or it it represents some sort of decline. Right now, making movies directly for a streaming service can’t help but feel like a descent into direct-to-video territory (although the independent productions Netflix routinely acquires don’t carry that possibly imaginary stigma), but who knows how future generations will feel on the matter....

Animated Marvel Cinematic Universe Project In The Works By Angie Han/April 7, 2015 5:00 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is already dominating at the box office and kicking ass on the small screen, and this weekend they’ll push into streaming with Netflix’s Daredevil. Now the next realm they’re looking to conquer could be animation. At a recent event, a Marvel exec revealed that an animated MCU project is in development, though naturally he wouldn’t go into too much detail....

Composers Revealed For ‘Fantastic Four’ And ‘Ant-Man’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2015 10:30 am EST On Fantastic Four, which is directed by Josh Trank, they’ve hired Marco Beltrami. He’s no stranger to the superhero genre having scored The Wolverine, Hellboy and Blade II. Recently, he did the score for Snowpiercer but is probably best known for his work on the Scream movies. For Ant-Man, directed by Peyton Reed, Christophe Beck will provide the score....

Daisy Ridley Will Star In Doug Liman’s ‘Chaos Walking’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 5, 2016 6:00 am EST Now that The Hunger Games franchise is most likely finished — and with the Divergent series limping towards its conclusion — Lionsgate is seeking a new YA franchise. With the help of director Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley, they may get their wish. Ridley has signed on to star in Chaos Walking, an adaptation of part one in author Patrick Ness’ trilogy....

Darren Aronofsky’s Company Developing ‘The Good Nurse’ Adaptation [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Dec. 11, 2014 11:00 am EST What will Darren Aronofsky do to follow Noah? What does one do after releasing the film they’ve been dreaming about, in some form, for much of their life? The writer/director has a couple things developing, such as an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam for HBO. Now he’s connected to The Good Nurse movie adaptation, based on the novel by Charles Graeber which follows the true story of a nurse who was also a nightmarishly prolific serial killer, implicated in the deaths of hundreds of people....

Does This Video Prove All Movie Trailers Are The Same? By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2015 7:00 am EST Over a year ago, we featured a 15-minute video essay that dove into the history of the movie trailer. Where did it come from? Why are they called trailers? How have they changed over the years? Well, the answer to that last question might actually be, “They haven’t.” Below we have a video that uses a bunch of movie trailers to basically prove that all movie trailers are the same, and it’s hard to argue once you’ve seen the evidence....

Final Two ‘Divergent’ Films Get New Titles, Logos, And Taglines By Angie Han/Sept. 10, 2015 3:00 pm EST The Divergent Series did a very typical thing when it decided to split the last book Allegiant into two movies, following the precedent set by Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. But now it’s taking a cue from its feisty heroine and bucking convention. Rather than simply attaching “Part 1” and “Part 2” to the final two films — again, like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games — it’s renaming them....

Geek Deals: X-Men: Days Of Future Past Blu-Ray, The Shield, Person Of Interest And $1.99 DVDs By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2014 1:13 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Its Black Friday week and the Blu-ray and DVD sales have already begun: The Shield: The Complete Collection is on sale for only $24.99, 62% off the $66 msrp. Person of Interest: Season 3 Blu-ray for only $14....

J.K. Simmons And Spider-Man: Actor Hints At J. Jonah Jameson’s Return By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2015 3:30 pm EST When it comes to superhero movies, fans are sticklers. They don’t want the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man films to link to the Tobey Maguire films. That wouldn’t make sense. They get angry when a studio casts the Human Torch as Captain America. How can one actor be both? The lone exception in all of this might be J....

John Williams Will Record ‘The Force Awakens’ Score In Los Angeles By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2015 4:00 am EST John Williams had a personal issue that caused him to back out of scoring Steven Spielberg’s new film Bridge of Spies, breaking their long-running collaborative pattern. But Williams is still composing the Star Wars: The Force Awakens score, and now he’s planning to record it in Los Angeles, making it the first Star Wars score to be recorded in the United States....

Kathleen Kennedy Talks Boba Fett, And Rey’s Fighting Style In ‘The Force Awakens’ By Germain Lussier/May 18, 2015 11:00 am EST Several weeks back, very soon after Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley did a press conference in Japan. We mentioned it on the site, but didn’t elaborate further simply because the videos were in Japanese. Now that someone has translated everything said by the two ladies, we know there were a few interesting things said about a galaxy far, far away....

Marvel Going After Source Of ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Trailer Leak; Plus How The Trailer Should Have Ended By Germain Lussier/Nov. 6, 2014 8:30 am EST Marvel played it super cool when a bootleg copy of the first Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer hit online. The official Twitter page joked about HYDRA being responsible for the leak, and hours later the official version was up, days ahead of schedule. They even released a new version the following week on Agents of S....