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Take That, Dark Side: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Hardcover Book Not Being Released Until 2016 To Avoid Spoilers By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2015 1:30 pm EST Disney is doing everything in their power to make sure Star Wars: The Force Awakens won’t be spoiled before the movie starts playing the evening of December 17th. They’re already holding back the soundtrack until December 18th and the The Force Awakens novel adapting the film is being held from physical publication until January in order to help keep the film’s story under wraps....

The Ones Who Knock S01E06 - Five-O By David Chen/March 14, 2015 3:43 pm EST David and his brother Michael discuss Better Call Saul’s sixth episode, “Five-O.” Be sure to read up on how easy it is to implant false memories. Also: you can now follow Michael on Twitter! E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at theoneswhoknock@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at bettercallsaul....

By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2015 8:30 am EST There have probably been more art and prints released based on the Star Wars films than any other movie or film franchise. And there is a lot of great Star Wars art, from the Drew Struzan official posters, the colorful one-sheets by Noriyoshi Ohrai, Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art, Mondo’s screen printed series which included work by artists Tyler Stout, Olly Moss, Ken Taylor and Kevin Tong, to even some of the more recent work from artists such as Marko Manev and Craig Drake....

Warner Bros. Enlists ‘Black Mass’ Director Scott Cooper For ‘White Knight’ By Jack Giroux/Nov. 24, 2015 4:00 pm EST Black Mass is one of the year’s more notable disappointments. It’s far from a bad movie, although Angie Han certainly made a case for why it is one. The Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp) story is frustrating, because it has all the pieces to make for a great movie: an ensemble of excellent actors, a story loaded with potential, and a promising filmmaker at the helm....

‘Avatar 2’ Delayed, Will Not Arrive In Christmas 2017 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2016 7:18 pm EST The Wrap has the news of Avatar 2 delayed, though at this point we’re not surprised. For the past few years Avatar 2 has been rumored for 2014, 2015, 2016 and most recently 2017. But when Cameron did mention the previous Christmas 2017 target, he added that meeting that date wasn’t as important as “the fact that when we get all three films done, we drop them a year apart....

‘Eddie The Eagle’ Super Bowl Spot: Football Stars Vouch For The Inspiring Sports Tale By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 4, 2016 2:00 pm EST This weekend brings Super Bowl 50, and just as with every Super Bowl before it, advertisers will be pulling out all the stops to spend big bucks on commercials that millions will see. Even though there will be more than just hardcore sports fans watching, advertisers still know their audience....

‘Ferrell Takes The Field’ Trailer: Will Ferrell Brings Passion And Ignorance To Baseball By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2015 12:30 pm EST Earlier this month, we got a small tease of Will Ferrell making America’s pasttime even greater in the HBO documentary special Ferrell Takes the Field, featuring the comedy star playing every position in baseball, on ten different Major League Baseball teams. Now the full trailer has arrived, showing just how the Anchorman and Step Brothers star shook up the ball diamond....

By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2016 6:00 am EST Along with Maika Monroe as the daughter of President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and Jessie Usher as the son of Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and Jasmine (Vivica A. Fox) in Independence Day: Resurgence, one of the other new, young cast members on the scene is Liam Hemsworth. Like Monroe and Usher revealed in our interview with them, Hemsworth saw the movie when he was very young, around six years old, on VHS....

‘Jurassic World’ Deleted Scene: Bryce Dallas Howard Bathes In Dinosaur Poop, As You Do By Jacob Hall/Oct. 21, 2015 1:30 pm EST Since Jurassic World made over $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office earlier this summer, chances are strong that you’ve already seen Colin Trevorrow’s film and are therefore ready to check out a deleted scene. If so, you’ve come to the right place. One of the scenes that hit the cutting floor, which can also be found on the new Blu-ray and DVD, has made its way online and is currently available for your viewing pleasure....

‘Minority Report’ Pilot Gets A Director By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2015 11:30 am EST Fox’s planned Minority Report pilot has taken a step forward, as the network has announced a director for the show. Mark Mylod (Once Upon a Time, The Affair) will now helm the debut outing for the show based on Steven Spielberg’s 2002 movie. Deadline reports that Mylod will direct from the script by Max Borenstein (Godzilla). The show is meant to be a sequel to the 2002 film, set ten years later, with the “Pre-crime” unit dismantled....

‘Scream’ Mask Gets “Darker,” More “Organic” Redesign For MTV Series By Angie Han/Nov. 17, 2014 9:30 am EST What’s a Friday the 13th without Jason, a Nightmare on Elm Street without Freddy, or a Scream without Ghostface? Well, we have no idea about the first two, but we’re about to find out about the last one. Last month, word got around that MTV’s Scream TV series would not involve the iconic Ghostface mask....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Deleted Scenes Teased In New Blu-Ray Trailer By Jacob Hall/March 24, 2016 9:36 am EST It took decades for the deleted scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy to eventually emerge from the Lucasfilm vaults and watching them was a surreal experience. Here was new Star Wars footage, original trilogy footage, that we hadn’t seen a hundred times before. We can sit around all day and complain about the failings of that big Blu-ray box set, but those excised scenes made it all worthwhile....

‘Suicide Squad’ Soundtrack List Revealed: Skrillex, Rick Ross, Panic! At The Disco, And More By Angie Han/June 17, 2016 7:00 am EST Even in a year jam-packed with superhero sequels and other bloated blockbusters, Suicide Squad’s marketing has managed to stand out, and one of the reasons is the music. The promos have eschewed the traditionally bombastic action movie score for fun song choices like “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Ballroom Blitz.” And the official Suicide Squad soundtrack will keep the good times going....

‘Suicide Squad’ TV Spots: Will Smith Isn’t A Fan Of Public Displays Of Affection By Ethan Anderton/June 11, 2016 11:00 am EST The release of Suicide Squad is still a couple months away, but Warner Bros. Pictures has already begun the onslaught of marketing on television with a batch of TV spots that debuted earlier this week during the NBA Finals. There’s a lot riding on the next film from the DC Comics cinematic universe after the studio was not happy with the box office performance and reception of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice earlier this year....

‘The Flash’ Season 2: Barry Allen’s Costume Gets A Comic Book-Y Upgrade By Angie Han/July 21, 2015 9:00 am EST Change is coming to Central City. Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) is getting a new costume for The Flash Season 2, as revealed today by The CW. Well, new-ish — the most notable thing about the new costume is the way it alludes to ancient history. Check out The Flash Season 2 suit after the jump....

‘The Jungle Book’ VFX Featurette Reveals How You Build A Jungle Out Of Pixels By Jacob Hall/April 28, 2016 7:30 am EST When you’re actually sitting in a theater and watching The Jungle Book, you don’t realize that there were no exteriors shot for the entire film and that every frame was filmed on a soundstage in Los Angeles. Even though the supporting cast of talking animals were obviously created in a computer, the world on display in Jon Favreau’s film feels so real and so detailed that it’s often hard to believe that almost every element on the screen was generated by a large team of geniuses after the fact....

‘The Last Five Years’ Trailer: Anna Kendrick Has A New Musical By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2014 1:30 pm EST The Last Five Years, the off-Broadway musical from Tony-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown, is now a film from writer/director Richard LaGravenese. It stars Anna Kendrick, who is also in Disney’s musical Into the Woods, opening later this month. While this film premiered at TIFF, it won’t open in the US until February....

Animal Kingdom TV Series Will Be More Family Drama Than Crime Show By Fred Topel/Jan. 7, 2016 12:30 pm EST The 2010 Australian drama Animal Kingdom is going to become a TV series on TNT this summer. The cast and creators of the TNT show presented a panel for the Television Critics Association to discuss their adaptation, which is now American starring Ellen Barkin as the matriarch Smurf Cody. It was revealed that the Animal Kingdom tv series will be more of a family drama than crime show....

Benedict Cumberbatch To Play Tricks On Nazis In ‘The War Magician’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2015 2:00 pm EST Next fall we’ll see Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch get mystical in Marvel Studios’ Phase Three project Doctor Strange, but after that, he’s going to get magical with a true story out of World War II. Cumberbatch, who was just recently seen as a controversially androgynous model in Zoolander 2, has been attached to star in The War Magician, a thriller about a world famous magician who used his sleight-of-hand tricks and stunts to help the Allied forces defeat the Nazis....

Charlie Kaufman Wasn’t Pleased With ‘Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind’ By Jack Giroux/Jan. 12, 2016 7:00 am EST It’s not an accident Confessions of a Dangerous Mind wasn’t shown as last week’s Charlie Kaufman retrospective. Although the Anomalisa writer and co-director received sole credit on George Clooney’s directorial debut, he had very little involvement in the film, and he wasn’t happy with the end result. After the jump, read Charlie Kaufman’s thoughts on Confessions of a Dangerous Mind....