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BB-8 Featurette: Forget Finn And Rey, Here’s The Cutest New Character In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Angie Han/Dec. 17, 2015 5:00 am EST With just a few hours to go until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re all on high alert for potential spoilers lurking on the internet. But you don’t need to delve into spoiler territory to figure out that BB-8 is going to be a new fan favorite....

C3PO Actor Suggests ‘Star Wars Episode 7’ Might End Up Being A Better Sequel Than ‘Empire Strikes Back’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2014 10:00 am EST Anthony Daniels, the actor who has played the famous droid C3-PO in all of the Star Wars movies including the upcoming seventh film, took to twitter to make a bold claim. Could JJ Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII end up being the best movie sequel ever made, even better than Empire Strikes Back?...

Cool Stuff: Disney’s Cinderella Castle Gets A Massive, Magical Official LEGO Set By Ethan Anderton/July 12, 2016 5:30 am EST If you’re a fan of LEGO and Disney, then you’ll probably want to start saving your money for a massive set that will bring the magic of Walt Disney World to your collectible shelf. LEGO has just announced the arrival of a new official set that recreates Cinderella’s iconic castle out of 4,080 LEGO pieces....

First Look: ‘Strange Magic’ Is A New Lucasfilm Animated Feature By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2014 9:17 am EST We knew that Lucasfilm was making a new animated movie; now it is already set for release in January 2015. Recently rumors surfaced of a possible sequel title for Frozen, when Disney registered URLs using the title “Strange Magic.” As it turns out, Strange Magic is the name of an already-completed animated film from Lucasfilm....

Get A Great Look At Vision In ‘Age Of Ultron’ By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2015 2:19 pm EST Marvel has been really shy about showing off Vision, the new Avengers: Age of Ultron team member played by Paul Bettany. We’ve seen concept art, a few brief glimpses of the guy, and that one close-up look at his face from the third trailer. But now a new Entertainment Weekly cover gives up a full look at the guy, not in concept art form, but as he really appears in the movie....

How A Tweet Landed William Shatner The Role Of An American Legend By Fred Topel/Jan. 5, 2016 4:00 pm EST The Television Critics association winter press tour began today with panels from Ovation. One of Ovation’s series is The Artful Detective, the American airing of the Canadian detective series Murdoch Mysteries. They announced a major guest star this season, William Shatner, and showed us a clip of the Captain Kirk actor playing an American legend....

Legendary Boxer Muhammad Ali Has Died At 74 By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2016 9:00 am EST Below, we remember the boxer whose image spanned to cinema in a variety of ways, but just may have been larger than the big screen itself. The New York Times confirmed the news of Muhammad Ali dead in the early hours of Saturday morning. Ali was expecting to stay at the hospital briefly to recover from his health issues, but late Friday night his condition became grave and he just couldn’t fight back anymore....

Paul Greengrass Attached To Direct Cold War Thriller ‘The Tunnels’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 24, 2014 5:30 pm EST There may be news of Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon returning to the Bourne series, but that’s not the only thing the director has going. Greengrass (above, working with Tom Hanks on Captain Phillips) is now attached to direct The Tunnels, a film that could be based on a true story from the Cold War, in which a group of people seek to escape East Berlin in the late ’80s....

Ronda Rousey To Lead ‘Road House’ Reboot At MGM By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 9, 2015 10:30 am EST The work of the late Patrick Swayze has already resulted in a couple of reboots and remakes with Red Dawn in 2012 and Point Break coming this Christmas. And now one more is on the way, but the role originated by the late actor will undergo a major change. MGM is working on a remake of the 1980s action flick Road House, but rather than getting a young actor from today’s line-up of desired hunks, the studio has picked UFC fighter turned actress Ronda Rousey to take the lead role....

This Live-Action ‘Futurama’ Fan Film Trailer Is Impressive And Terrifying All At Once By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2016 4:00 am EST Fans of Futurama were given a glorious gift when the canceled animated comedy returned for all new episodes for a short period of time. That’s about all fans of a canceled television show can hope for outside of seeing it revived as a feature film. However, now they can have both wishes fulfilled thanks to a simultaneously impressive and fairly creepy project from the folks at Cinema Relics....

This Week In Trailers: Boy And The World, Mahana, Dixieland, Stretch And Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives, Night Owls By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 7, 2015 4:00 am EST No baggage. What I just love about director Hank Bedford’s quaint, first feature here is how there is nothing to bring into it and no mystery to solve by trying to figure out which actor is most recognizable so we know who to pay attention to the most....

VOTD: The ‘Boyhood’ Song Gets A New, More ‘Boyhood’-Centric Video By Angie Han/Jan. 16, 2015 1:00 pm EST If you follow movies, you’re certainly familiar with Family of the Year’s “Hero.” Only there’s a good chance you just know it as “the Boyhood song.” It’s the wistful ballad that plays over all the trailers, and that got played again and again Sunday night as Boyhood was celebrated at the Golden Globes....

‘Escape From New York’ And ‘Big Trouble In Little China’ Are Crossing Over…in A Comic Book By Ethan Anderton/July 12, 2016 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Thanks to director John Carpenter, we’ve seen Kurt Russell in full badass mode in both Escape from New York and Big Trouble in Little China. But you know what both of those movies could use? The answer is even more Kurt Russell, and a new comic is getting ready to deliver just that....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Maisie Williams Teases New Superhero Project And ‘The Last Of Us’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 17, 2014 7:30 am EST I’m a fan of HBO’s Game of Thrones and always think Arya Stark, played by Maisie Williams, is one of the highlights. But it wasn’t until this year’s San Diego Comic-Con that I realized just how many other people share that sentiment. Williams was one of the top five most celebrated actors at Comic Con....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Concept Art Reveals The New Team Line-Up By Jacob Hall/July 15, 2016 7:30 am EST Before we saw a single frame of actual footage from the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, we saw concept art of Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket standing in a line, adopting their most dramatic superhero poses. And now, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is following a similar path....

By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2015 12:00 pm EST The Dan Simmons novel Hyperion, along with its companion/second-half novel The Fall of Hyperion, is one of the great modern works of science fiction. With a story of seven characters on a pilgrimage to enter a time-warped tomb, the story adopts the structure of the Canterbury Tales to weave together disparate genres, the influence of poetry by John Keats, and far-flung science fiction concepts....

‘The Shallows’ Trailer #2: Blake Lively Tries To Outwit A Shark By Angie Han/May 4, 2016 7:00 am EST When it comes to underwater adventures this June, you’ve got two choices. You can cuddle up to the friendly fish of Pixar’s Finding Dory, and go home thinking about how enchanting the world under the sea is… or you can scare the crap out of yourself with The Shallows. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, the latter stars Blake Lively as a surfer who finds herself stranded off the coast of a secluded cove when a great white shark decides she’d make for a tasty snack....

‘The Space Between Us’ Trailer: Asa Butterfield Travels From Mars To Earth Just For A Girl By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 2016 10:00 am EST Matt Damon was left behind on Mars due to an accident in last year’s outstanding The Martian. This year, Asa Butterfield will be left on the red planet on purpose as the first child born on Mars in The Space Between Us. Gardner Elliot (Butterfield) has only known Mars as his home, but NASA finally decides to bring him back to Earth....

‘The X-Files’ Guest Stars Include Robbie Amell And Lauren Ambrose By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2015 4:00 pm EST The revived series will also feature Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner and Joel McHale as a conservative internet news anchor in the new episodes. Reportedly, William B. Davis will return as the Cigarette-Smoking Man. Here’s the most recent teaser for the new episodes. The X-Files returns to television on January 24, 2016....

‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Rogue Cut Coming This Summer With New Extras By Angie Han/Jan. 2, 2015 7:00 am EST Writer/producer Simon Kinberg announced last fall that the so-called “Rogue cut” of X-Men: Days of Future Past would arrive in mid-2015, and now a few more intriguing details have emerged about its release. Hit the jump for the latest on the X-Men Days of Future Past Rogue cut. @DOFPXmen Summer 2015....