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By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2015 5:00 am EST Academy Originals’s Creative Spark series profiles screenwriter John August’s creative process. August’s list of credits include Go, Charlie’s Angeles, Big Fish, Frankenweenie and many other films. He’s probably best known for his adaptations and his collaborations with director Tim Burton. We have often featured August on the site because we’re fans of his work (Go is in my top 10 of all time) and he puts himself out there to help aspiring screenwriters learn about the craft and how the business works — we sometimes point to the instructional content he produces....

Watch: Martin Starr Tries To Keep Up In Short Film ‘Leonard In Slow Motion’ By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2015 5:00 am EST After years of supporting roles, Martin Starr takes the lead in not one but two films you can watch right now. The first is Amira & Sam, a charming full-length feature currently in theaters and on VOD. The other is the short film Leonard in Slow Motion, and you can see it right here....

What If ‘Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone’ Was R-Rated? By Ethan Anderton/July 1, 2015 4:30 am EST No, we’re not talking about a porn parody, but instead, a more violent, even vulgar version of Harry Potter. Fine Brothers Entertainment have imagined what that would be like with an animated example of what Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone would have been liked if it had an R-rating. There’s cartoon blood and swearing, so it’s somewhat NSFW....

‘Batman V Superman’ Turkish Airlines Spots Emphasize The Charms Of Metropolis And Gotham City By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2016 4:15 pm EST We’ve heard that Warner Bros. didn’t actually buy any airtime during Super Bowl 50, but that doesn’t mean Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was left on the sidelines during Super Bowl Sunday’s big ad bonanza. Thanks to partner Turkish Airlines, they managed to drop not one, but two promos today, and pretty clever ones at that....

‘Better Call Saul’ Video Has New Footage And A Super-Catchy Tune By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2014 6:30 am EST The Breaking Bad spin-off show Better Call Saul doesn’t premiere until February. (And we don’t even know precisely when in February.) But promotions for the show are already starting. A Breaking Bad marathon on AMC was capped off this weekend by this new Better Call Saul video featuring a song that could well be the show’s theme tune....

‘Fargo’ Season 2 Teaser Trailers: Break Time And Curl Up & Dye By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2015 4:00 pm EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: FX has released two new teaser trailers for my favorite currently-running television series Fargo. The new teasers give us a better look at Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) and Sheriff Hank Larsson (Ted Danson). Hit the jump to watch them now. Fargo Season 2 Teaser: Break Time...

‘Manglehorn’ Trailer: Al Pacino Wants To Start Fresh By Angie Han/May 15, 2015 11:45 am EST David Gordon Green is back this year with Manglehorn, a bittersweet drama about a cranky and lonely dude who starts to realize that maybe he doesn’t have to be so cranky and lonely anymore. Al Pacino plays the title character. Watch the Manglehorn US trailer after the jump. It’s not a bad trailer so much as a boring one....

‘Narcos’ Season 2 First Look: Pablo Escobar Is Running Out Of Time By Angie Han/July 20, 2016 3:00 pm EST Since Netflix’s Narcos is based on historical events, all it takes is one quick Wikipedia search to figure out where the show is headed next. But getting there is the fun part, of course, and it looks like we can look forward to plenty of drama and intrigue in the next run of episodes....

‘Penny Dreadful’ Season 3 Trailer: Darkness Will Soon Be Upon Us By Jack Giroux/April 9, 2016 12:00 pm EST Below, watch the Penny Dreadful season three trailer (spoilers for season one and two follow). The trailer opens with Ethan Chandler (Josh Harnett) back in New Mexico, where he grew up and was attacked by a werwolf. Ever since we started seeing footage from season three, I’ve been curious how much we’ll see of Ethan back home in America....

‘Robin Hood: Origins’ Adds Jamie Foxx As A “Battle-Hardened” Little John By Angie Han/Jan. 11, 2016 3:30 pm EST Jamie Foxx, last seen ferrying Quevenzhané Wallis around town in the Annie reboot, is preparing to take on another classic character. He’ll play the Little John to Taron Egerton’s Robin Hood in the upcoming Robin Hood: Origins, which as you’ve probably gleaned from the title is the “gritty origin story in the vein of The Dark Knight” version of the classic English folk tale....

‘The Conjuring 2’ Set Photo Welcomes Back Ed And Lorraine Warren By Jacob Hall/Oct. 8, 2015 7:00 am EST No horror film in recent memory has demanded a sequel more than The Conjuring. James Wan’s 2013 haunted house extravaganza remains one of the smartest, spookiest, and classiest mainstream genre films of the past few years, with husband-and-wife paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren being the most exciting horror protagonists to emerge in quite some time....

‘The Magnificent Seven’ Trailer: Denzel Washington And Chris Pratt In The Wild West By Angie Han/April 20, 2016 5:00 am EST Yesterday brought us our first look at Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven in the form of some photos, and today the very first trailer has ridden into town. Denzel Washington leads the Western as Sam Chisholm, a gunslinger hired to protect a small town from a ruthless industrialist (Peter Sarsgaard)....

‘The Martian’ Early Buzz: Ridley Scott And Matt Damon Fly High By Angie Han/Sept. 11, 2015 12:30 pm EST The early trailers have looked very promising, as has that cast – but then, you could’ve said the same thing about any of his last few misses. Now that The Martian has finally made its world premiere at TIFF, the first reactions to the movie itself are rolling in. Get The Martian early buzz after the jump....

Comedian Pete Holmes To Lead Judd Apatow’s HBO Comedy Pilot ‘Crashing’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2015 2:00 pm EST Comedy director Judd Apatow already has firm footing at HBO as the executive producer of the network’s hit show Girls from writer, director and star Lena Dunham, and now he’s hoping to add another show to the cable giant’s comedy line-up. Comedian Pete Holmes, former star of his own TBS late night show, will star in a semi-autobiographical series called Crashing, playing a version of himself....

Cool Stuff: ‘Ghostbusters’ Potato Heads Actually Aren’t Ugly Little Spuds At All By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2016 5:00 am EST Ray Stantz insulted the ghoul known as Slimer in the original Ghostbusters by calling him an ugly little spud, just before he goes out of his way to slime Peter Venkman. But now it’s the Ghostbusters’ turn to be little spuds, because PPW Toys has just announced a couple new Mr....

Cool Stuff: First Posters From Mondo’s ‘Batman 75’ Gallery Show By Germain Lussier/Oct. 17, 2014 3:30 pm EST Have you ever heard of this character Batman? I hear he’s pretty popular. They’ve made a few movies about him, a few TV shows, and apparently a few comic books. 2014 is the 75th anniversary of this incredibly obscure, niche character, which apparently is why the team at Mondo is doing a full gallery show of original art and posters based on him and his gallery of characters....

Cool Stuff: See A LEGO Ewok Village As Tall As An Ewok By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 1, 2016 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Fans of Star Wars and LEGO must be some of the most dedicated and patient people. Star Wars fans have waited 10 years for the franchise to return on the big screen and LEGO fans spend hours putting together building brick sets....

Diablo Cody Probably Won’t Direct A Movie Ever Again By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 2015 11:00 am EST Cody attempted to broaden her horizons a bit by getting behind the camera for the first time with the 2013 movie Paradise, starring Julianne Hough, Russell Brand and Octavia Spencer, but the movie was skewered by critics after getting a DirectTV release. And it seems Cody doesn’t have much faith in her directing skills either as she recently said that she likely won’t ever direct another movie....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Collider’ Is Getting A Rewrite From ‘The Revenant’ Scribe By Angie Han/Aug. 11, 2015 1:00 pm EST Edgar Wright is currently prepping Baby Driver, described as “the ultimate rock-and-roll car chase film,” but one of his next directorial efforts is taking a step forward in the meantime. Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) has just been tapped to do a rewrite on Collider, a Paramount project produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot....

Helen Mirren Wants To Be In A ‘Fast And Furious’ Movie By Germain Lussier/March 30, 2015 3:30 pm EST When Furious 7 opens this weekend, one big question fans will be asking is “How can the franchise possibly top the action in that?” Looking backwards, one of the ways Furious 7 ups the ante from Fast and Furious 6 is by casting bigger actors and better fighters. Kurt Russell, Jason Statham, Ronda Rousey and Tony Jaa are just a few of the new famous faces that join the cast for this latest installment in the mega action franchise....