‘Star Wars Rebels’ Renewed For Season 4 By Jacob Hall/March 3, 2017 12:30 pm EST According the internet rumor mill, which is always entertaining if often unreliable, Star Wars Rebels was probably going to end after season 3, with a new animated series taking its place. And now, we can safely file that rumor away with the rest of the rejects because the popular Disney XD series has been renewed for a fourth season....
‘Star Wars Rebels’ Trailer: The Final Episodes Begin In February By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2018 12:48 pm EST The end is nigh for Star Wars Rebels: the show’s final episodes will begin on February 19, leading up to a 90-minute conclusion on March 5. Details about the final Star Wars Rebels episodes have been released, to prepare you for the end. More on the final Star Wars Rebels episodes, including a new trailer, below....
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Trailer: The Emmy-Winning Drama Returns This April By Ben Pearson/Jan. 14, 2018 10:48 am EST The Handmaid’s Tale continued its successful awards run at the Golden Globes last weekend, with the Hulu original series taking home trophies in two drama categories: Best Television Series, and Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series for star Elisabeth Moss. Today, the streaming service has unveiled our first look at The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 with a brand new trailer, and they also confirmed the release date for the new season....
‘Westworld’ Season 2 Premiering Early Next Year, Says Evan Rachel Wood By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 7, 2017 7:00 am EST Other than a brief teaser, we’ve had very little word on the second season of HBO’s hit sci-fi drama Westworld. While details of the highly-anticipated new season are still being kept under lock and key, we at least now know when we’ll be seeing Westworld season 2, thanks to star Evan Rachel Wood....
‘Wish Upon’ Trailer: Joey King Has A Few Deadly Wishes By Jack Giroux/Feb. 9, 2017 7:00 am EST Actress Joey King gives an excellent performance in The Conjuring. The sense of fear and terror she expresses is unsettling, especially during the “there’s someone behind the door” sequence. Not all actors are believable acting scared, but she can pull it off. Now she’s back in the horror genre with Wish Upon, which reunites her with The Conjuring’s cinematographer, John R....
A ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Sequel Is Moving Forward With Jon M. Chu Returning To Direct By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2018 7:30 am EST Crazy Rich Asians is getting a crazy fast sequel. Just a week after the groundbreaking Asian-led romantic-comedy opened in theaters, Warner Bros. is moving forward with a Crazy Rich Asians sequel with director Jon M. Chu and the first film’s writers on board to return. After Crazy Rich Asians made a dazzling debut last week, raking in $34 million during its five-day opening, Warner Bros....
A Massive Indoor Drive-In Movie Theater Is Coming To Nashville By Jack Giroux/Feb. 7, 2017 4:00 pm EST Nashville is a great city. If you’re ever there for a weekend, there’s plenty to do and see. And starting in the spring of 2018, you might be able to check out the August Moon indoor drive-in when you’re there — which has modified classic cars to sit in, dining food, a bar, and even bleachers....
Blake Lively To Star In Spy Thriller ‘The Rhythm Section’ From James Bond Producers By Jack Giroux/July 13, 2017 4:00 pm EST Blake Lively, who killed it in The Shallows last summer, is attached to star in a spy thriller from the producers behind James Bond and the director of Meadowland, Reed Morano. The fully-financed project, The Rhythm Section, is based on part one of author Mark Burnell’s four-part series. Production is scheduled to begin this Fall....
Chadwick Boseman Says ‘Black Panther’ Will Explore The Character’s Origins By Jacob Hall/Sept. 20, 2016 9:30 am EST Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa may have made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, but he raises many questions that are still unanswered when the credits roll. Some of this is due to him being a supporting player in a movie that is really about Captain America and Iron Man, but much of it has to do with the fact that he’s going to be the subject of his own solo adventure, due out in 2018....
Christian Bale Has Not Seen Ben Affleck’s Batman Movies Yet By Ben Pearson/Jan. 2, 2018 3:30 pm EST After a long day of transforming himself into former Vice President Dick Cheney on the set of an upcoming movie, it’s hard to imagine The Dark Knight star Christian Bale rushing out to catch a screening of Justice League so he can compare his take on Batman with Ben Affleck’s. And as revealed in a new interview, Bale hasn’t gotten around to seeing any of Affleck’s portrayals of the character yet – and it doesn’t sound like he’ll be sitting down for a marathon of them anytime soon, either....
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Get A New Look At Ironheart, Marvel’s Female Iron Man By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 14, 2016 10:30 am EST Back in July, Marvel Comics announced that Tony Stark would be stepping down from the mantle of Iron Man and passing it off to a 15-year-old black girl named Riri Williams. Since the Iron Man title didn’t really apply anymore, she was revealed to take on the name of Ironheart. Tony Stark already encountered Riri Williams in Invincible Iron Man #12 after the MIT prodigy reversed engineered an old Iron Man suit and used it to stop a prison break, but an upcoming issue of the comic gives us a little more insight into her backstory, including a glimpse at one of her suits....
Jeremy Renner Could’ve Had A Cameo (And Died) In ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 1, 2018 1:30 pm EST After playing significant roles in the two previous entries in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Jeremy Renner’s intelligence analyst character William Brandt isn’t referenced or mentioned at all in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. We knew his scheduling requirements for the Avengers movies kept him on a short leash, but now writer/director Chris McQuarrie has revealed that Fallout nearly had a Jeremy Renner cameo in which Brandt was killed off....
Kathleen Kennedy Describes The Han Solo Movie As A ‘‘Heist’’ And ‘‘Western’’ Movie By Jacob Hall/Nov. 22, 2016 9:43 am EST The most exciting aspect of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is that it represents an opportunity for Lucasfilm and the various creative people in its employ to break the mold on what a Star Wars movie can be. Freed from the obligation of carrying on the core saga, these spin-off movies have the potential to hire interesting directors with unique takes on the material who want to color far outside of the lines....
Max Greenfield Was Willing To Play A Familiar Character in ‘What Men Want’ To Support Female Films By Fred Topel/Aug. 8, 2018 2:00 pm EST Taraji P. Henson stars in the upcoming What Men Want, a gender flipped remake of the Nancy Meyers comedy What Women Want. The original starred Mel Gibson as a sexist playboy executive who gains the power to hear women’s thoughts. At first, it helps him placate them to serve his own needs, but ultimately he comes to understand women and become a better man....
Michael Haneke, Master Of Bad Feelings, Is Making A TV Show By Jacob Hall/Jan. 29, 2018 1:30 pm EST After 44 years of work, director Michael Haneke has mastered the art of making you feel drained and defeated over the course of an agonizing two-hour movie. And I mean that as high praise! The director of Funny Games, Caché, Amour, and The White Ribbon is the master of feel-bad cinema, telling stories that are generally free of hope and easy answers…and are made all the more powerful for it....
Netflix Introduces ‘Bright’ Fireplace For The Holidays And It’s A Literal Garbage Fire By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 21, 2017 9:00 am EST In what is surely the most important story of the year, Netflix has released a brand new Fireplace for Your Home to honor the release of their blockbuster new release Bright. Unlike traditional televised yule logs, the Bright fireplace is literally a garbage fire. This holiday season, gather around the TV and share this special moment with the people you hold dear....
POTD: Samuel L. Jackson Begins Recording Dialogue For ‘The Incredibles 2’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2016 6:00 am EST Fans of Pixar Animation’s family superhero movie The Incredibles have been waiting over a decade for a sequel to get off the ground. Many have been clamoring for The Incredibles 2 ever since the end of the first movie teased another outing for the super-powered family, albeit in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, and now the movie is finally in production....
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Victims” Pile Up Ahead Of ‘Who Is America?’ Premiere By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 13, 2018 1:30 pm EST Nothing says a new Sacha Baron Cohen show like a slew of outraged conservative figures crying “victim” after being duped by the comedian/actor. And the number of Sacha Baron Cohen victims is starting to balloon as we get closer to the premiere of his Showtime comedy interview series Who is America?...
Superhero Bits: ‘Deadpool 2’ Trailer Release, The Joker Is Coming To ‘Gotham’ Soon & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 24, 2018 5:00 pm EST How did Black Lightning fare in the ratings for the show’s second episode? When is the Deadpool 2 trailer arriving in theaters? Does James Gunn have any interest in bringing X-Men characters into Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3? Is The Joker finally coming to Gotham this season?...
