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Warner Bros. Turning ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ Game Series Into A Film By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2015 5:00 pm EST Mobile gamers have probably either played or heard of the Five Nights at Freddy’s game series, if only because they’ve been scoring good placement on app stores. The games are essentially survival horror, with the player cast as a security guard who must survive a work week doing night shifts in a twisted version of a Chuck E Cheese or Showbiz Pizza Place joint, dealing with animatronic animals who are prone to killing security guards....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6 Teaser Brings The Death And Decapitation And Destruction And Dragons And… Bran By Jacob Hall/Dec. 3, 2015 12:30 pm EST When the fifth season of Game of Thrones concluded with a main character lying dead on the ground, countless fans took to social media to express their disgust, declaring that they would never watch the show again. The very next day, they all started counting down the days until the next season....

‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ Trailer: Jane Austen’s Classic Meets Hordes Of The Undead By Angie Han/Oct. 9, 2015 7:30 am EST Jane Austen adaptations and zombie actioners are a pretty common sight at the box office. A Jane Austen adaptation that’s also a zombie actioner, though? Now that’s not something you see every day. Directed by Burr Steers and based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is exactly what it sounds like — Austen’s classic of love and social status in Regency-era England, only with more hordes of the undead....

‘Race’ Trailer: ‘Selma’ Star Stephan James Breaks Barriers As Jesse Owens By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2015 11:00 am EST Amid the usual fall crush of biopics comes a trailer for an especially promising one that’s opening next year. Focus Features has just put out the first promo for Race, starring Selma’s Stephan James as Olympic athlete Jesse Owens. Still considered one of the greatest track and field stars in history, Owens struck a blow to the notion of Aryan supremacy when he dominated at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Getting A Live-Action Hybrid Movie At Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 10, 2016 10:30 am EST You remember Sonic the Hedgehog, right? The speedster was one of SEGA’s cash cows when the 16-bit video game system arrived, and he’s enjoyed a legacy of video games since then. However, the blue blur has come under hard times in recent years, with last year’s title Sonic Boom being the worst-selling game in the franchise....

‘Star Trek Beyond’: World Premiere Coming To Comic-Con With A Special Live Concert By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2016 1:00 pm EST Last night the latest Star Trek Beyond trailer debuted online after screening at a special fan event with director Justin Lin and some of the cast in Los Angeles. And along with all the new footage in the trailer, a big announcement was made that will please fans who are headed to San Diego for a certain comic book convention this summer....

By Angie Han/May 6, 2015 4:30 pm EST The deluge of superpowered TV shows isn’t letting up anytime soon. CBS has just given a series order to Supergirl, the DC Comics adaptation starring Melissa Benoist as Superman’s less famous, but similarly superheroic cousin. Meanwhile, Sony has just announced that it is renewing Powers, which follows two detectives in a supowerpowered world, for a second season. More details on the new Supergirl CBS series and the Sony Powers renewal after the jump....

Benicio Del Toro Confirms ‘Star Wars Episode VIII’ Villain Talks By Russ Fischer/Aug. 14, 2015 11:45 am EST Now that we know not only the major cast members for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but also their character names and some of the ways they fit into the story, it’s time to actually see that film, right? Well, yes, but because LucasFilm is already moving forward with not only the first Star Wars Anthology film, but the next proper episode in the series, we also have Episode VIII news to contend with....

Brian Henson Gets Another Shot At Dark Puppet Comedy ‘The Happytime Murders’ By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2015 6:00 am EST Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson, is getting another chance to make a darkly comic puppet noir called The Happytime Murders. The story, which is designed as something like an LA Confidential-type riff on The Muppets, or a Muppet equivalent of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, with a human and puppet detective team investigating the murders of former cast members of a kids’ TV show....

Bruce Willis Suddenly Drops Out Of Woody Allen’s New Movie, But Why? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2015 10:00 am EST Just a few weeks ago, the full ensemble cast of Woody Allen’s untitled 2016 movie was revealed as production was close to beginning in Los Angeles and New York. But one of those cast members has suddenly departed the movie. Bruce Willis was named as being part of the movie along side the likes of Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Anna Camp and more....

Christopher Nolan Has Finished A Script For His Next Project By Angie Han/July 10, 2015 1:30 pm EST As Ben Affleck preps his own Batman movie, the guy behind the last set of Batman movies is pushing onward with his post-Bat career. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has reportedly finished a “comprehensive draft” of a screenplay for his next project, though details are still hard to come by at the moment. More about the new Christopher Nolan movie after the jump....

Disney Infinity ‘Star Wars’ Trailer And Featurette Take Us To Another Universe By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2015 3:00 pm EST Dozens of Walt Disney’s trademark characters have already become part of Disney Infinity, the open-world, figure-based video game from The House of Mouse. Mostly the game has focused on Pixar characters from Cars, Toy Story The Incredibles and Monsters Inc., as well as Walt Disney Animation hits Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ Picks Up Jamie Foxx By Angie Han/Sept. 8, 2015 9:00 am EST Baby Driver has just picked up an Oscar winner. Jamie Foxx is in talks to board the Edgar Wright project, described as “the ultimate rock-and-roll car chase film.” He joins Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars) and Lily James (Cinderella). Get all the details on the Jamie Foxx Baby Driver casting after the jump....

First Look: Sony’s Animated ‘Get Smurfy’ Starring Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson And Mandy Patinkin By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2015 8:00 am EST Sony Pictures previously revived The Smurfs in two live-action/computer animated hybrid adventures. But now the studio is having its Sony Pictures Animation division take a crack at the little blue creatures in a fully computer animated feature film that will harken back to creator Peyo Culliford’s original animation style....

By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2016 8:30 am EST Movie studios aren’t the only ones obsessed with remaking anything and everything. Television networks have jumped on board the lack-of-creativity train and have been working on recycling plenty of movies for the small screen. FOX has no less than three different remakes coming for the upcoming 2016-2017 season and they come in the form of TV shows for Lethal Weapon and The Exorcist as well as a TV movie version of the cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2014 6:00 am EST Nothing guarantees that Serkis will even get the nod, but Fox’s thinking is likely based on the idea that he’s a lot more likely to get the nomination in the Supporting Actor category than as a lead. Remember, the Oscars are all about campaigning and visibility. The Academy and the industry in general has been slow to recognize performance-capture work with the same accolades it gives to traditional performances, despite the fact that studios sure do love the money brought in by films featuring performance-capture work....

Go Behind The Scenes Of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ With New “Legacy” Featurette By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2015 2:38 pm EST We’ve gotten just about all the footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens that we can handle, and with just about 12 days left until the film is unleashed in theaters everywhere, I’d be fine if there wasn’t another minute from the film posted. After all, we’ve already seen a total of six minutes from the film, and that barely shows anything beyond the first half....

Japanese ‘Tomorrowland’ Trailer Reveals Walt Disney/Disneyland Connection By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2015 9:00 am EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: The Tomorrowland Japanese trailer looks to now be officially released, you can watch it embedded after the jump. The new trailer reveals one of the biggest secrets of Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland — the movie’s connection to Walt Disney and Disneyland. Germain Lussier’s original March 12th 2015 story follows: One of the biggest secrets of Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland was revealed overnight as a Japanese trailer for the film made its way online....

Lionsgate Is Exploring Ways To Make More ‘Hunger Games’ Movies By Germain Lussier/Feb. 6, 2015 9:30 am EST The Hunger Games films have been almost unfathomably successful for Lionsgate. The last two movies alone each became the highest grossing film of the year, and the first movie wasn’t that far behind. This November brings the fourth and final film based on the Suzanne Collins books, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2....

Sharon Stone Will Help James Franco Make A Movie About The Making Of ‘The Room’ By Angie Han/Dec. 17, 2015 8:30 am EST Tommy Wiseau’s infamous cult favorite The Room features a no-name cast of first-time actors, starting with Tommy Wiseau himself — the director / writer / producer cast also himself as the lead, despite a total lack of professional experience on every single one of those fronts. James Franco’s making-of movie about The Room, on the other hand, is turning out to be quite the star-studded affair....