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‘Widows’ Trailer: Steve McQueen Is Back With A Cast To Die For By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2018 6:30 am EST Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen is back with Widows, his first feature film since 2013’s 12 Years A Slave – and he’s lined-up a cast to die for. Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Ervio play the widows of criminals who band together to pull off a heist to pay off their dead husband’s debts....

AMC Announces 88-Hour ‘Walking Dead’ Marathon By Angie Han/Oct. 11, 2016 3:30 pm EST We are less than two weeks away from the season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead, which is great news if you’re all caught up and eager to finally get resolution on that controversial season 6 finale. It’s maybe less good news if you’ve been meaning to check out the show, but haven’t quite gotten around yet, and are now realizing you have to somehow get through six seasons in about twelve days....

By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 31, 2016 7:00 am EST If you’re one of those fans who is still disappointed that we won’t get a sequel to Dredd, we have a couple cool pieces of artwork that might help you feel a little better. Vice Press has announced the impending arrival of two new Judge Dredd prints created by Tom Whalen and Matt Ferguson, two of our favorite artists. Whalen opted to create a bright and bold design showing Dredd doing what he does best while Ferguson created a print in the form of a propaganda poster that you might see in the world of Mega-City One....

Spheres Trailer The synopsis describes Spheres as a “three chapter virtual reality journey to uncover the hidden songs of the cosmos. Space is not silent. In fact it is full of sound. For thousands of years we’ve looked to the stars to find our place in the Universe, but for the first time we listen to its music.” Per Variety, “Antoine Cayrol, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart and Fred Volhuer at Paris-based outfit Atlas V produced Spheres in collaboration with Aronofsky and Ari Handel, who exec produced for Protozoa....

Doug Liman Will Direct Justice League Dark Movie; Will No Longer Direct ‘Gambit’ By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2016 10:48 am EST Rudin gave the project a boost when he signed on last year. He’s an intriguing addition, as superhero movies aren’t generally his thing. He’s better known for prestige pics like Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young, and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, although a Zoolander 2 will occasionally slip in there....

Emily Blunt Boards Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ With Dwayne Johnson By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2018 10:00 am EST Jungle Cruise, the latest Disney theme park attraction to get the big screen treatment, just added a new passenger: Emily Blunt. Blunt will co-star alongside Dwayne Johnson in the upcoming film helmed by Orphan and The Shallows director Jaume Collet-Serra. Turning a theme park ride into a movie may not sound like the most rewarding of cinematic endeavors, but Disney has had some success here before: they adapted Pirates of the Caribbean into a multi-billion dollar film franchise....

FX Is Adapting ‘The Changeling’ TV Series Based On The Fairy-Tale Novel By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 14, 2018 7:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. FX is adapting The Changeling for TV after winning the rights in an intense bidding war between multiple outlets, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Kelly Marcel (Venom, Fifty Shades of Grey, Terra Nova), the series will be a co-production between FX Productions and Annapurna Television, the television branch of the studio known for award-winning fare like Phantom Thread and behind Netflix’s upcoming scripted anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from the Coen brothers....

Hear The New ‘Muppet Babies’ Theme Song From ‘Hamilton’ Star Renée Elise Goldsberry By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 15, 2018 7:30 am EST You can’t have a Muppet Babies reboot without bringing back its iconic theme song, and who better to do that than the star of one of Broadway’s biggest hits, Hamilton? If anything, this Muppet Babies reboot theme song will leave you perfectly satisfied. Renée Elise Goldsberry got to revive the iconic Muppet Babies theme song, giving the legendary tune a modern spin....

Michael K. Williams’ Role Cut From ‘Han Solo’ Movie During Reshoots By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2017 11:18 am EST Michael K. Williams has been cut from the Han Solo movie amid reshoots with new director Ron Howard. The Emmy nominee for The Night Of and The Wire alum was a last-minute addition to the Star Wars standalone movie, with his casting announcement only being revealed in March of this year....

New Willy Wonka Movie Might Be An Origin Story By Angie Han/Nov. 8, 2016 7:00 am EST A few weeks ago, we got word of another Willy Wonka movie in the works from Warner Bros., with Harry Potter’s David Heyman producing. So naturally, when I had the chance to sit down with Heyman at the recent Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them junket, I had to ask him about it....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Avengers: Infinity War Sweepstakes, Black Panther Karaoke & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2018 5:30 pm EST Here are all the times movies based on DC Comics made you think a character was dead when they really weren’t. Director Chris McKay Warner Bros. would have to fire him in order for him to leave behind the Nightwing movie. Fire and ice, anyone?...

Superhero Bits: Life-Size Iron Man Suit, Supergirl And The Flash Midseason Trailers & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2016 4:00 pm EST Which comic book movies have been shortlisted for Academy Awards in visual effects and make-up? Want to see the first footage from Kevin Smith’s episode of Supergirl coming in January? How much will you have to spend to get your own life-size, robotic Iron Man suit from China? Kevin Smith has a theory that Darkseid will show up in Justice League?...

The ‘Doctor Who’ Season 10 Trailer Is Here By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2017 2:30 pm EST BBC America has released the official trailer for the tenth season of Doctor Who. Watch the Doctor Who season 10 trailer now embedded below. Doctor Who Season 10 Trailer Now, I’m going to kill some of my geek cred here but I am not a Doctor Who fan. I tried giving the first season of the modern reboot a try a few years ago and it was just too silly for my tastes....

The ‘Tremors’ TV Series Finds A Director In Vincenzo Natali By Jacob Hall/Aug. 22, 2017 6:52 pm EST In 2017, beloved movies and television shows don’t die – they just hibernate. We knew that Tremors was coming back as a television series on Syfy and we knew that it would see the return of Kevin Bacon’s Valentine McKee, but now we know who will help usher forward the small screen continuation of this (pretty darn great) horror adventure: director Vincenzo Natali....

‘Avengers 4’ Title Won’t Be Revealed Until Long After You’ve Digested ‘Infinity War’ By Ben Pearson/April 16, 2018 4:00 pm EST We’re only a few days away from the release of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War. Many people – myself included – predicted that because Infinity War and the still-untitled Avengers 4 were essentially shot back to back, Infinity War might feature a quick teaser (or maybe even a whole trailer) for Avengers 4 that would reveal the title to the world....

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Trailer: Is This The Real Life, Is This Just Fantasy? By Chris Evangelista/July 17, 2018 6:24 am EST An all-new Bohemian Rhapsody trailer is here. It’s a bit better than the previous one, but it still looks to be buried under the weight of biopic cliches. At the very least, it’s clear Rami Malek is going to make a great Freddie Mercury. Watch the Bohemian Rhapsody trailer below....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Concept Art Reveals We Almost Got A More Comic Book-Accurate Zemo By Angie Han/Oct. 13, 2016 1:00 pm EST In the end, all those rumors about Daniel Brühl playing Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War turned out to be true. However, the version of Zemo we saw onscreen wasn’t much like the one we know from the comics. He had a completely different backstory and a completely different look....

‘Christopher Robin’ Trailer: What If Christopher Robin Grew Up? By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2018 9:06 am EST Disney is taking a Hook-like approach to the Winnie the Pooh series with Christopher Robin. The new live-action film asks the question: what would happen if Winnie’s best human buddy Christopher Robin grew up? The Christopher Robin trailer below provides an answer. Christopher Robin is the latest Disney film to take a classic animated property and give it a live-action spin....

‘Incredibles 2’ Blu-Ray And Digital Release Dates Revealed For Fall By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 20, 2018 10:30 am EST Incredibles 2 will make its way to home video this October and November. The long-awaited Pixar sequel was a summer hit, and soon audiences will be able to enjoy Brad Bird’s latest from the comfort of their own homes, free of the sound of children running up and down the movie theater aisle like little monsters....

‘It’ Pennywise Featurette Focuses On Bill Skarsgard’s Unpredictable Performance By Ben Pearson/Sept. 22, 2017 4:00 pm EST For one generation, Tim Curry’s performance as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the made-for-TV adaptation of Stephen King’s It will always be the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the character. But I’d venture to say with the popularity of director Andy Muschietti’s new film version of the classic horror novel, actor Bill Skarsgard’s take on the shapeshifting entity is going to burrow its way into peoples’ minds and give Curry a run for his money in the long-term....