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Elizabeth Banks In Talks To Produce And Direct ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Reboot By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2015 3:30 pm EST Elizabeth Banks scored a great opening weekend and a tremendous overall success with Pitch Perfect 2. Now Banks is moving forward to her next feature directing gig, and it’s a revival of a name that everyone recognizes. Sony’s latest version of Charlie’s Angels is about to fall into her hands, and that’s a great thing....

Emma Watson To Lead Disney’s ‘Beauty And The Beast’ By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2015 8:30 am EST Emma Watson will be Disney’s next fairy tale princess. The Harry Potter alum has just signed on to lead Beauty and the Beast, which Bill Condon is directing from a script by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spilotopoulos. If the news is giving you déjà vu, that’s because Watson was previously attached to star in a competing Beauty and the Beast project over at Warner Bros....

Get A First Look At Judd Apatow’s Netflix Series ‘Love’, Premiering In February By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2016 11:30 am EST After directing Trainwreck starring and written by Amy Schumer last year, Judd Apatow doesn’t have a comedy feature coming up just yet. But that’s mostly because he’s been busy with his new Netflix series Love, which has just been given a premiere date next month along with a teaser and a couple of first-look photos....

Han Solo Spinoff: Everything We Learned From The Star Wars Celebration Panel By Jack Giroux/July 17, 2016 9:18 am EST Two months ago, Alden Ehrenreich was cast as the young Han Solo. The actor will star in Phil Lord & Chris Miller’s Star Wars spinoff, which Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan co-wrote. Little is known about the story, and unfortunately, no new major details were shared during the Future Filmmaker panel at Star Wars Celebration (which Peter has been covering in London)....

Netflix Gets Into The YouTube Personality Business With Miranda Sings’ ‘Haters Back Off’ By Angie Han/Jan. 15, 2016 6:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ten years ago, the sentence “YouTube star to get Netflix series” would have been literally incomprehensible. YouTube was barely a year old, and Netflix was still a DVD-by-mail service. But in the year 2016, it feels like an inevitability. Of course it was only a matter of time before streaming giant Netflix started plucking talent from fellow streaming giant YouTube....

Netflix Is Making More ‘Black Mirror’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2015 2:00 pm EST The first two seasons of the terrific UK series Black Mirror are on Netflix, and now the streaming giant is reportedly making a deal to bring more of the show to audiences. Netflix isn’t adding the 2014 Christmas Special (yet, sadly) but is doing something even more exciting: making new episodes. We’ve heard rumors in the past of a possible continuation of the TV series....

New ‘Entourage’ Trailer And Poster: “Dream Large, Live Larger” By Germain Lussier/March 24, 2015 5:01 pm EST Vincent Chase and the boys from Queens are back in the second Entourage trailer. The film, written and directed by show creator Doug Ellin, opens June 5. It brings back to the screen the entire original cast including, but not limited to Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and Jeremy Piven....

Nostalgia Awakens: Watch 14 Minutes Of Vintage ‘Star Wars’ Toys Commercials By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 10, 2015 4:00 am EST The onslaught of Star Wars: The Force Awakens merchandise kicked off back in September with a little event called Force Friday, and every week there’s always something new promoting next month’s release of the first chapter in the new trilogy. If that’s just too much, maybe you’d rather go back to a time when there was a little less merchandise on the shelf....

Peyton Reed Spills Details On ‘Ant-Man’ Alternate Ending By Angie Han/July 21, 2015 7:30 am EST Like all Marvel movies, Ant-Man tries to stand on its own while also laying the groundwork for future films. The latter part of that equation is especially visible toward the end of the movie, as the ending itself and the two credits scenes that follow set up developments that’ll (presumably) pay off later on....

Superhero Bits: Loki Wields Thor’s Hammer, Black Panther Scratches Cap’s Shield & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 4, 2015 4:00 pm EST How does Loki wield Thor’s hammer in a deleted scene from Thor: The Dark World? Can The Flash and Supergirl legally crossover if producers ever wanted it? Which DC Comics hero is getting a Telltale Games adaptation in 2016? What does Aquaman’s action figure for Batman v Superman look like?...

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 68 - Circle Of Causation By David Chen/Feb. 2, 2015 6:00 pm EST The only difference between mystery and certainty is that everyone loves a good mystery. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. You can e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com....

Toby Kebbell Sets Sail For ‘Kong: Skull Island’ By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2015 1:00 pm EST Fresh off a trip to Planet Zero, Toby Kebbell is preparing to set sail for Kong: Skull Island. The Fantastic Four baddie joins a high-profile cast that also includes Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kings of Summer) is directing. Learn all about the Kong Skull Island Toby Kebbell casting after the jump....

Today In Good And Unexpected News: ‘The Rocketeer’ Sequel In The Works At Disney By Jacob Hall/July 28, 2016 9:30 am EST When The Rocketeer was originally released in 1991, it was a box office flop. Now, over twenty years later, it’s clear that it was simply a few decades ahead of its time. Joe Johnston’s film, an adaptation of Dave Stevens’ comic book series of the same name, is earnest, adventurous, silly, and impossibly nerdy....

VOTD: Final ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer Gets Sweded By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2015 5:00 am EST Last night we were caught off guard by the unveiling of a new TV spot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This time the focus was on Finn, likely as a way of keeping fans guessing as to whether it will be John Boyega’s Finn or Daisy Ridley’s Rey who becomes the new new hope of the Star Wars saga....

Watch: Kermit The Frog And Miss Piggy Discuss Their Break-Up On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2015 3:30 pm EST I’m excited because tonight is the first episode of The Muppets’ new ABC prime time television series. We’ve shown you the trailers and the early pitch video, so you probably know by now that Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have broken up. Well now that Kermit and Piggy are out promoting their new show, they are being forced to talk about their storyline relationship implosion....

‘Batman V Superman’ Preview To Air With The ‘Gotham’ Midseason Finale On Monday By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 28, 2015 9:00 am EST With the Captain America: Civil War trailer arriving just last week, comic book movie fans are now hungry for a look at the other big superhero battle coming in 2016. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice delivered a full trailer this past summer at Comic-Con and online at the same time, but with the movie just a few months away, fans want to see more....

‘Doctor Who’ Could Visit ‘The Lego Movie Sequel’ By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2015 3:30 pm EST Steven Moffat has been very clear that there are no plans for a Doctor Who movie. But the Doctor, clever creature that he is, may have found another way to make it to the big screen. All it requires is that he take on yet another new form, this time as a tiny plastic minifig....

‘Floyd Norman: An Animated Life’: Learn About Disney’s First African-American Animator By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2016 4:30 pm EST Back in 1956, Floyd Norman became the first African-American animator hired by Disney. But in his mind, he was just an artist looking for a job. Having worked on classics such as Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians and The Jungle Book, Norman is a veteran of the animation industry who spent his glory days at the studio, even making the jump from 2D animation to Pixar Animation to work on Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc....

‘Full House’ Goes ‘True Detective’ In New Spin-Off With John Stamos, Bob Saget & Dave Coulier By Ethan Anderton/March 3, 2016 2:30 pm EST If you thought Fuller House was the only spin-off sequel series to the cheesy ’90s sitcom Full House we were going to get, you thought wrong. Hot on the heels of a second season order for Fuller House, yet another spin-off series has been revealed. Full House Nights follows Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos), and Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) after they put the girls to bed in the original series....

‘Keanu’ Alamo Drafthouse PSA Pits Key Against Peele By Angie Han/April 25, 2016 11:00 am EST When Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele announced the end of their Comedy Central show Key and Peele last year, the official line was that they just wanted to move on to other things. But maybe the real reason for their professional breakup was something much more sinister. Maybe their relationship was irreparably damaged when it turned out one of them is – gasp!...