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Guy Ritchie’s ‘Knights Of The Round Table’ Unveils First Set Photo And Official Synopsis By Angie Han/March 11, 2015 4:00 am EST Warner Bros. has lofty ambitions for Knights of the Round Table, with six films planned in all. But every gazillion-dollar franchise begins with a single shot. Production has just begun on the first Knights of the Round Table film, with Guy Ritchie at the helm and Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur....

James Gunn Says One Big ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Easter Egg Remains Hidden By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2015 11:00 am EST Gunn was asked on Facebook if all the Guardians easter eggs have been found. Indeed, there are a lot of them. We’ve got a huge rundown here. His answer to the question was fairly surprising, given what’s been found so far. They have not all been found. No one has found the big one, really....

Leonardo DiCaprio Re-Teaming With ‘The Revenant’ Writer For ‘Conquest’ By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2016 12:30 pm EST It’s not entirely Mark L. Smith’s fault that Leonardo DiCaprio found himself chowing down on raw bison liver and risking hypothermia in freezing cold water on the set of The Revenant. But as the screenwriter, Smith definitely bears some responsibility. He’s the one who wrote Hugh Glass into a world that gets “colder, icier, more frozen and harder,” as his journey continues, after all....

Lots Of Laughs In New ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Behind The Scenes Featurette By Germain Lussier/April 2, 2015 1:03 pm EST Some say a happy set makes a good movie. If that’s the case, Avengers: Age of Ultron might be the best movie ever. A new behind the scenes featurette for the film, which opens in the US on May 1, shows the cast and crew having a great time making the movie....

Paul Rudd Getting Serious With World War II Thriller ‘The Catcher Was A Spy’ By Angie Han/April 29, 2016 3:00 pm EST In just a few days we’ll see Paul Rudd back in his superhero suit for Captain America: Civil War, but it looks like he’s headed for a big change of pace beyond that. He’s just signed on to star in The Catcher Was a Spy, based on the true story of a Major League Baseball player who became a spy for the OSS (a precursor for the CIA)....

Producers Confirm That ‘Sicario 2’ Is In The Works, Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, And Josh Brolin May Return By Jacob Hall/April 1, 2016 10:30 am EST Sicario was one of 2015’s best quiet successes. Director Denis Villeneuve’s drug war thriller never made a huge splash, but it made dozens of tiny splashes, impressing audiences and critics alike while flying under the radar. The film received enthusiastic reviews, nabbed three Oscar nominations, and grossed $80 million worldwide against a budget of only $30 million....

Ridley Scott Reveals The Opening Of ‘Blade Runner 2’ By Jack Giroux/Nov. 16, 2015 2:00 pm EST Still, Scott remains heavily involved in the project, and once again, he’s teasing the sequel’s opening sequence. Read more about it after the jump. Around two or three years Scott ago revealed the opening shot of Blade Runner 2, which is based on the original opening that was scrapped from the 1982 sci-fi film....

Rumor: Christoph Waltz Will Come Back For More James Bond, But Only If Daniel Craig Does Too By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2016 10:00 am EST Last fall brought the return of Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre, and along with him came a classic villain played by Christoph Waltz. As of now the future of the 007 franchise is uncertain, with no new movie in development and no official or unofficial sequel date on the horizon, but there may be one detail that is already set....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Gotham, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Wonder Woman By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2014 4:30 pm EST How does Iron Man’s Arc Reactor work? Was Evangeline Lilly scared to do Ant-Man once Edgar Wright left? What is Jennifer Lawrence’s favorite superhero movie? Which James Bond actor almost played Batman for Tim Burton? Will Lego do an Avengers Helicarrier set? What’s up with this Wolverine Kia? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

That Hugh Jackman PT Barnum Musical Is Still Happening By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2014 7:30 am EST The live-action movie musical is now on track for a summer start. Michael Gracey is directing from a script by Bill Condon. Hit the jump for more on the Hugh Jackman PT Barnum movie. At the same time, it’s no wonder the studio was hesitating. Original live-action musicals of the classic “sing your feelings” variety are a rarity in Hollywood right now....

Think The Crossguard Lightsaber Is Ridiculous? Check Out Star Wars Bladebuilders By Germain Lussier/Feb. 12, 2015 10:30 am EST So much — maybe too much — has been made of Kylo Ren’s cross guard lightsaber from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The discussion has been all over YouTube; it made it to Comedy Central, and even to J.J. Abrams himself. It turns out though, Kylo Ren’s lightsaber was just the beginning....

Tilda Swinton Addresses The ‘Doctor Strange’ Whitewashing Controversy By Jacob Hall/April 22, 2016 1:00 pm EST Tilda Swinton is an ethereal being who has temporarily taken on our form so she can grace us with her presence and quietly exude psychic waves that hint at the true nature of the cosmos, so it’s a bit of a shame that she’s currently at the center of a very human controversy. She plays the mystical mentor to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sorcerer Supreme in Marvel’s upcoming Doctor Strange, a character known as the Ancient One…a character who was originally depicted as an Asian man in his 1963 comic book debut....

Vin Diesel Confirms ‘xXx’ Sequel Shoots In December By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2015 7:05 am EST Vin Diesel’s longstanding dream of making an xXx sequel is finally coming true. The star has confirmed the third installment of the extreme spy franchise will shoot this winter in the Philippines, just as he teased last year. Get the latest xXx sequel update after the jump. Diesel dropped the xXx sequel news on Instagram....

Watch ‘The Muppets’ Comic-Con Panel With Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo And More By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2015 3:30 pm EST Even though fans were going crazy over the panels for shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones at Comic-Con, one panel that we didn’t get to check out that had equally rabid fans was for The Muppets and their return to television in the self-titled ABC mockumentary series....

Werner Herzog Voices A Documentary Filmmaker In ‘Penguins Of Madagascar’ Clip By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2014 10:15 am EST Werner Herzog wants to teach you about penguins. We had no idea that the filmmaker with one of the world’s best voices had lent his talents to the DreamWorks Animation spin-off The Penguins of Madagascar. And yet here he is, as the voice of a documentarian leading a crew shooting footage of penguins in their natural habitat....

‘Ant-Man’ Gag Reel Provides Sufficient Evidence That Paul Rudd Never Stops Dancing By Jacob Hall/Nov. 18, 2015 1:00 pm EST As long as grown men dancing in superhero costumes remains funny, Marvel gag reels will always be worth a watch… and the new Ant-Man gag reels contains a higher percentage of dancing than any gag reel we’ve seen in ages. If this video is any indication, Paul Rudd starts dancing at the drop of a hat and must be coerced into standing still....

‘Barely Lethal’ Trailer: Maybe Espionage Is Easier Than High School By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2015 12:45 pm EST Barely Lethal appears to fuse the high school movie with the actions sequences from an espionage thriller. Hailee Steinfeld is the orphaned and highly trained operative who escapes life as an agent in order to experience “normal” teen life. Samuel L. Jackson is the taskmaster who wants her back; Sophie Turner is the rival; and Jessica Alba is the enemy agent who provokes everyone into a frenzy....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Featurette Breaks Down The Avenger-On-Avenger Conflict By Angie Han/May 4, 2016 9:00 am EST The Avengers have never been without internal conflict. The first Avengers had the superheroes sizing each other up and getting testy with one another; the second one saw everyone getting (justifiably) pissed off at Tony for inventing a megalomaniacal killer robot. But in the end, these guys always manage to work it out....

‘Doctor Strange’ Casts Benedict Wong, Actor, As Wong, Mystical Sidekick By Jacob Hall/Jan. 21, 2016 4:45 pm EST The cast Marvel Studios and director Scott Derrickson assembled for the upcoming Doctor Strange film was already stellar before they went and tossed another wonderful character actor into the mix. Benedict Wong, best known for playing NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director Bruce Ng in Ridley Scott’s The Martian, has joined the mystical superhero adventure as Wong, Stephen Strange’s manservant and right-hand-man....

‘Dog Eat Dog’ International Trailer: Paul Schrader, Nicolas Cage, And Willem Dafoe Reunite For One Last Job By Jack Giroux/Aug. 8, 2016 8:30 am EST Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage’s previous collaboration didn’t go so well. The Cold Dying of the Light was taken from the director, butchered and then dumped into theaters. Schrader and Cage disowned the film, a mess that actually features a pretty good performance from Cage. To avoid repeating the same experience twice, they made sure to make their next film under the right circumstances....