By Chris Evangelista/March 28, 2018 12:00 pm EST The HBO adaptation of Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s best-selling book about the utter chaos and ineptitude inherent within the Trump White House, has found its director. Jay Roach, who helmed HBO’s political drama Game Change, has been tasked with turning Wolff’s book into a TV series. The troubled beginnings of the Trump administration are apparently too detailed to compress into a movie....
‘Hell Fest’ Red Band Trailer: You’re Invited To A Killer Experience By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2018 7:30 am EST Welcome to Hell Fest, an amusement park to die for. Hell Fest finds a group of foul-mouthed youths traveling through a horror-themed amusement park, only to find the horror is real. It’s a bit like the Goosebumps book One Day at HorrorLand, only with a bigger body count and more cursing. Watch the Hell Fest red band trailer below....
‘Hotel Transylvania’ Director Genndy Tartakovsky To Helm R-Rated Comedy For Sony By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 26, 2018 3:30 pm EST Sony is venturing into R-rated animation under the guidance of Samurai Jack creator and Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky. The Russian-American animator best known for creating the acclaimed Cartoon Network series Samurai Jack has signed on to helm two new feature films for Sony following the box office success of Hotel Transylvania 3....
‘Irreplaceable You’ Trailer: Netflix’s New Tear Jerker By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 4, 2018 1:00 pm EST What if you new for a fact that the person you loved would die soon? How would you approach that? And how would your dying significant other face this? These very difficult questions get the tear jerker movie treatment in Netflix’s new original film Irreplaceable You, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Michiel Huisman. Watch the Irreplaceable You trailer below....
‘Legion’ Season 2 Trailer: FX’s Wacky And Amazing X-Men Series Is Back By Jacob Hall/March 6, 2018 11:30 am EST Remember X-Men: Apocalypse? No one does. That disaster has been wiped away by the triple whammy of Deadpool, Logan, and Legion, all of which prove that the X-Men are alive and well on the big and small screen. In fact, they’ve never been better. Filmmakers have realized Marvel’s mutant characters offer a blank canvas for all kinds of wild and diverse storytelling....
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ TV Spots Have Plenty Of Praise For The Smuggler’s Origin Story By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2018 7:30 am EST The time has come for Star Wars to take back the summer. The latest offering from a galaxy far, far away likely won’t be able to top the record setting box office take raked in by Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War, but Solo: A Star Wars Story will still undoubtedly be one of the biggest movies of the summer....
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ TV Spot: Finn Awakens And Has Only One Question By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2017 10:00 am EST We’re less than a month from the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the onslaught of marketing for the next chapter of the Skywalker saga is increasing everyday. Now that all the theatrical trailers have been released, we’re starting to get tidbits of new footage by way of TV spots, and a new one has just popped up....
‘Stranger Things’ Comic Will Tell The Story Of What Happened To Will In The Upside Down By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2018 2:30 pm EST As Netflix’s wildly popular supernatural sci-fi series Stranger Things heads into its third season, some newly-announced supplementary material will fill in gaps from the show’s earliest events. We already heard about how some Stranger Things books will be coming to shelves this fall, and now a new report says Netflix has teamed with Dark Horse to create a Stranger Things comic....
‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Clip: Eleven Breaks Free Of The Upside Down By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 16, 2017 8:30 am EST How does Eleven return? Why does she have a perm? And why did she look so angry in the latest trailer for Stranger Things season 2? These are all questions that will likely be answered when Netflix’s ’80s-inspired hit returns in late October (I’m mostly curious about the perm), but you find out the answer to the first question in this new clip, which was released at the U....
‘The Predator’ TV Spot Reveals The Genetically Modified Mega-Predator By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2018 10:30 am EST The NBA Finals came to a close last night, but not before a brand new TV spot for this fall’s release of The Predator debuted. The first trailer for The Predator was a little underwhelming, especially without a big moment to entice even the biggest fans of the franchise. But thankfully this latest TV spot is a much tighter and more exciting tease of the movie, especially because it teases the genetically modified hybrid mega-Predator, and this thing looks like a beast....
A Long-Brewing ‘Cleopatra’ Movie May Have Found Its Director In ‘Blade Runner 2049’s Denis Villeneuve By Ben Pearson/Sept. 27, 2017 4:10 pm EST Director Denis Villeneuve is quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s go-to guys for major studio tentpole projects. His most recent film, Arrival, was the /Film staff’s collective best movie of last year, and his upcoming Blade Runner sequel has earned effusive praise in its early reactions. So it’s no surprise that Sony Pictures has snapped him up to direct one of their long-brewing movies....
Antoine Fuqua In Talks For ‘Scarface’ Remake By Angie Han/Aug. 10, 2016 12:50 pm EST Fresh off of one high-profile remake, Antoine Fuqua is already circling another. The Magnificent Seven director is reportedly in talks to direct a remake of Scarface. Like the 1960 Like the 1960 Magnificent Seven, the 1983 Scarface — the one everyone knows with Al Pacino — is itself a remake. The original original Scarface was a 1932 drama from Howard Hawks and Howard Hughes, and that, in turn, was an adaptation of a 1929 novel....
Christian Bale May Play Dick Cheney In Adam McKay-Directed Biopic By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 6, 2017 8:30 am EST Christian Bale’s next terrifying physical transformation may be into former Vice President Dick Cheney. The actor may be reuniting with The Big Short director Adam McKay to star in an untitled biopic on Cheney in development. Joining Bale will be his The Big Short co-star Steve Carell and also his American Hustle co-star Amy Adams, both in talks with Paramount to star in the film about the controversial right-hand man to President George W....
Cool Stuff: LEGO UCS Millennium Falcon Is The Biggest, Most Expensive Set Ever By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 31, 2017 2:30 pm EST Along with today’s slew of Star Wars: The Last Jedi merchandise revealed in honor of Force Friday II, there was another major announcement when it comes to to collectibles from a galaxy far, far away. After teasing the arrival of some kind of huge Star Wars LEGO set, today the building brick company announced the forthcoming arrival of a new Millennium Falcon LEGO set as part of their Ultimate Collector’s Series line of huge, extremely detailed building sets....
Cool Stuff: Let Mondo’s ‘Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch’ Vinyl Soundtrack Control Your Mind By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2018 6:00 am EST Halloween 3: Season of the Witch is the only chapter in the horror franchise that doesn’t feature the iconic slasher Michael Myers. Though it was disregarded for years, the film has earned a loyal following in horror circles, and those fans will undoubtedly be happy to see the film’s soundtrack composed by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth get the vinyl treatment by Mondo, complete with an incredibly designed package featuring art by Alan Hynes, and a special magic trick to astound your friends....
Damon Lindelof’s ‘Watchmen’ TV Series Officially Picked Up, Will Debut In 2019 [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2018 10:56 am EST Update: HBO has officially picked up Damon Lindelof’s new take on Watchmen, which isn’t an adaptation or a sequel as much as a remix of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic comic book series. Nothing ever ends. #WatchmenHBO #DamonLindelof pic.twitter.com/ioJU0dQipw — HBO (@HBO) August 17, 2018 Our original story about actor Jeremy Irons joining the show’s cast can be read below....
Director Gavin O’Connor Is Interested In A ‘Warrior’ Sequel By Jack Giroux/Oct. 5, 2016 2:30 pm EST Gavin O’Connor has directed two movies that should’ve had bigger audiences. Miracle did respectably at the box office, but that inspiring drama still felt slightly overlooked the year it came out. O’Connor’s 2011 film, Warrior, opened to positive reviews but a weak opening at the box office. The movie, which reportedly cost $25 million, made under $14 million in the States....
Disney’s Live-Action ‘Mulan’ Casts Donnie Yen As Mulan’s Mentor By Chris Evangelista/April 11, 2018 5:35 pm EST The coolness factor of Disney’s live-action Mulan has just increased considerably. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Donnie Yen has joined the live-action Mulan cast as a mentor to Mulan. Donnie Yen is ready to get down to business. The actor has joined the cast of Disney’s live-action Mulan, alongside star Liu Yifei....
First Look At Kylo Ren’s New Ship, Plus Rian Johnson Compares ‘The Last Jedi’ To Previous ‘Star Wars’ Movies By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2017 1:26 pm EST Adam Driver’s petulant Star Wars villain Kylo Ren spent a good portion of The Force Awakens pacing around on a Star Destroyer or traveling to planet surfaces in his shuttle, but Darth Vader’s grandson is getting a sleek new ride in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and you can see the first photos of it below....
Jyn Erso’s Mother Was A Jedi Knight In Early ‘Rogue One’ Drafts By Ben Pearson/March 22, 2017 12:00 pm EST Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first Star Wars film that doesn’t contain a single Jedi character – but that almost wasn’t the case. In a new interview, the filmmakers have revealed that in one of the early drafts of the script, Jyn Erso’s mother, Lyra (played by Valene Kane), was originally meant to be a Jedi knight who wielded a lightsaber in a fight against Ben Mendelsohn’s Orson Krennic in the movie’s prologue....
