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‘Suicide Squad’ Director Posts Tease Of Jared Leto’s Joker By Germain Lussier/April 9, 2015 9:18 pm EST Wednesday the writer and director of Suicide Squad, David Ayer, posted an almost complete image of his cast. There were even some new faces we hadn’t yet heard were in the movie. One man who was noticeably absent though was Jared Leto, who is playing the Joker. Never one to disappoint his fans, Ayer followed up Wednesday’s tweet with an early glimpse at Leto’s Joker....

‘The Crow’ Returns From The Brink Of Death, Again; Shooting To Begin In 2016 With Director Corin Hardy By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2015 1:00 pm EST Much like its hero, Relativity’s The Crow reboot has been badly beaten. Fortunately, also like its hero, it has a real knack for not staying dead. The project looked doomed last month, as Relativity ran into money troubles and director Corin Hardy eyed the exit....

‘Wolverine 3’ Eyes R Rating After ‘Deadpool’ Success By Angie Han/Feb. 16, 2016 1:00 pm EST Naturally, Hollywood has taken notice. For the past several days, the question has been whether Deadpool could spark a whole new wave of R-rated superhero movies. And while it’s too early to tell, it seems like 20th Century Fox, at least, is ready to take the plunge again. Rumor has it the studio is considering an R rating for the upcoming Wolverine movie, to be directed by James Mangold and star Hugh Jackman....

‘Wonder Woman’ Casts Connie Nielsen As Wonder Woman’s Mom, Hippolyta By Angie Han/Jan. 15, 2016 1:45 pm EST Few details have been revealed about the plot of the movie, though there are plenty of rumors swirling about. However, Pine has confirmed that at least part of the film takes place during World War I. “It’s a period we don’t see often; it’s usually World War II,” he said. “Our costume design is incredible....

A New Wes Anderson Stop-Motion Movie Is On The Way By Jack Giroux/Oct. 12, 2015 11:00 am EST Wes Anderson’s lovely adaptation of Road Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox wasn’t a box-office smash. Anderson himself has admitted if a studio adapted the story as a CG-animated movie, it probably would’ve been more financially successful. Creatively speaking, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a home run, a movie that won back a lot of fans for Anderson after the mixed responses to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited....

Alfonso Cuarón Is Helping Andy Serkis With ‘The Jungle Book’ By Angie Han/April 21, 2016 9:30 am EST For some time now, Andy Serkis has been working on his directorial debut The Jungle Book, a “dark” take on Rudyard Kipling’s source material. The film was originally supposed to open in 2016, but was pushed to 2017 and then to 2018. Clearly, Serkis is willing to take the time to get it right....

Brad Pitt, Christian Bale And Ryan Gosling Starring In ‘The Big Short’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2015 1:45 pm EST Let’s just put all the good-looking, well-established movie star types in one movie. Maybe that’s the secret to success for a financial downturn movie. Adam McKay is writing and directing The Big Short, based on the book written by Michael Lewis of Moneyball fame. The book is the story of “the build-up of the housing and credit bubble of the 2000s,” so it may be quite a departure from McKay’s typical comedies....

Bradley Cooper Attached To ‘A Star Is Born’ As His Directorial Debut By Russ Fischer/March 25, 2015 5:00 am EST Anyone who has been following along with Bradley Cooper’s career knew that he had higher ambitions than being one of the biggest actors in Hollywood. He has started to achieve that first goal. Then his work producing American Sniper led that film to being the highest-grossing studio film of 2014, and an awards contender as well....

Cool Stuff: Mark Englert’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Print By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 1, 2015 5:30 am EST Even though Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur wasn’t able to beat out The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 for the holiday box office last weekend, it still took the #2 spot. And if you fell in love with the dinosaur Arlo and his new friend Spot, Mark Englert has delivered a lovely The Good Dinosaur print that you might want to hang out your wall....

David Fincher’s ‘Utopia’ And ‘Video Synchronicity’ Both Dead At HBO By Angie Han/Aug. 10, 2015 11:30 am EST The combination of David Fincher and HBO sounds like a match made in heaven, but so far the reality has proven much more disappointing. Weeks after we heard that his shows Video Synchronicity and Utopia were in trouble at the network, new reports have emerged claiming they’re both dead, with the actors released from their contracts....

Emma Stone Passed On New ‘Ghostbusters’ By Germain Lussier/June 17, 2015 8:30 am EST Fan casting for Paul Feig’s female Ghostbusters reboot almost always included Emma Stone. Fans wanted her in the film, and Stone has proved time and time again that she has not only dramatic chops, but a spot on comic sensibility, too. Seeing her busting ghosts seemed like a no-brainer. Then, when the four main leads were announced, Stone wasn’t there....

Hey All You Lawbreakers, ‘Magic Mike’ Live Is Coming To Las Vegas By Jack Giroux/May 7, 2016 11:00 am EST Sadly, we’ve yet to hear much news regarding a potential Magic Mike XXXL. Despite the fact Magic Mike XXL was slightly less successful than its predecessor at the box-office, it was every bit as entertaining as Steven Soderbergh’s film. If for some awful reason we never see if Mike makes it big as a custom furniture designer, then at least we have Magic Mike Live to look forward to, which will make its debut in Las Vegas next year....

Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb On Fox’s “Reimagined” ‘Hellfire Club’ Series, ‘Cloak And Dagger’, And More [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 8, 2016 9:30 am EST Marvel’s Most Wanted was designed to be a spin-off of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC. Since ABC passed, would Loeb shop it around to other networks? “I never say never, but we designed that show to do a very specific thing,” Loeb said. “The network decided that that thing was not something that they wanted to do....

Meryl Streep Thinks Rotten Tomatoes Needs More Female Critics By Jack Giroux/Oct. 9, 2015 6:00 am EST Meryl Streep (Adaptation) isn’t a feminist. In her own words, she’s a humanist, a comment which drew some flack, as did a recent photo shoot she did to promote her newest picture, Suffragette. In the photo, Streep wore a shirt with the slogan, “I’d rather be a rebel than slave,” an arguably tone deaf and outdated line from Emmeline Pankhurst, the women’s right activist portrayed by Streep in the film....

Netflix Officially Raises The Price Of Its Most Popular Plan By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 8, 2015 3:00 pm EST Back in July, we learned that a Netflix price hike was coming, but that it wouldn’t be anything dramatic. At the time, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings confirmed the prices of current subscriptions wouldn’t be changing this quarter and price increases would actually happen gradually over the next 10 years. But it’s a new quarter now, and lo and behold, a Netflix price increase has just been announced for the service’s most popular subscription plan....

New ‘Preacher’ Photo Reveals First Look At “Arseface” In The AMC Series Adaptation By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 2016 12:00 pm EST We won’t get to see the supernatural comic book Preacher hit the air until May, but the word out of the pilot’s premiere at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this month is that the series is an outstanding adaptation of the source material from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, perfectly balancing the line between “delightfully visceral and absurdly cartoonish....

Nicole Kidman Joins Season 2 Of Jane Campion’s ‘Top Of The Lake’ By Angie Han/Sept. 11, 2015 7:30 am EST Season 2 of Jane Campion and Gerard Lee’s Top of the Lake is slowly but surely coming together, and now it’s made a high-profile new addition. Nicole Kidman has signed on to star in the crime drama, joining returning star Elisabeth Moss. More on the Nicole Kidman Top of the Lake casting after the jump....

See The First Images From Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2015 11:30 am EST Over the last few months Martin Scorsese finally shot Silence, the adaptation of the Shûsaku Endô novel that chronicles two Portuguese Jesuit priests as they journey to Japan in the 17th century. At the time, Christians were suffering persecution and had been driven underground. The lead character, Father Sebastian Rodrigues (played by Andrew Garfield) and a companion arrive in that hostile environment to investigate reports that Rodrigues’ mentor has become an apostate....

Sony Launching Cloud-Based Playstation Streaming Service By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2014 1:00 pm EST Sony’s press release has details on Vue, for which Sony has made deals with networks such as Viacom companies CBS, MTV, and Comedy Central, and also with Fox, NBC, and their subsidies. There’s no deal yet with ABC and Disney, which cuts out a lot of potential content (notably from ESPN). That means Vue won’t be a one-tool-fits-all service, at least not at the outset....

The ONLY ‘Back To The Future’ Link/Photo/Video Round-Up You Need To Read On BTTF Day By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2015 3:00 pm EST All that and more. Hit the jump to hit 88 miles per hour to see some “serious shit.” The piece of art above is by FringeFocus, a new edition to his famous desks series: I love how FringeFocus’ desk series crams so many Easter eggs and references from the respective films into one panoramic image....