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Red Light! Green Light! Mondo Announces ‘Mission: Impossible’ Vinyl Soundtrack Release By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2018 10:30 am EST You mission, should you choose to accept it…I wonder, did you ever choose not to? Well, when it comes to new vinyl soundtrack releases from Mondo, the answer is no, especially when it comes to Mission: Impossible. Mondo has announced a vinyl release for the original Mission: Impossible score composed by Danny Elfman for the 1996 adaptation of the classic television series....

Ridley Scott Eyeing A Remake Of South Korean Horror Film ‘The Wailing’ By Jacob Hall/Jan. 20, 2017 12:00 pm EST Unless subtitles make your eyes bleed and you hate terrifying movies, you have no excuse. Na Hong-jin’s sprawling horror epic is currently streaming on Netflix, so wait until it gets dark outside, make yourself a snack, carve out 156 minutes, and hit play. Because man, this movie is something else. I’m not even sure how to begin to describe it, but I feel confident that it’s a movie that could only be set in South Korea and made by South Korean filmmakers....

Superhero Bits: Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman Script, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 & More By Ethan Anderton/May 16, 2017 5:00 pm EST When will Luke Cage season 2 hit Netflix? Are you ready for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2? Is Robert Downey Jr.’s photo of Asgardian Iron Man armor hinting at something? Do you want to read the script for Wonder Woman written by Joss Whedon? Which actor would Dwayne Johnson like to see as Shazam?...

Superhero Bits: Suicide Squad Extended Cut Details, Justice League Dark Release Date & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 16, 2016 5:00 pm EST What are 15 of the best retcons in comic book history? Just how much new footage of The Joker is in the Suicide Squad extended cut? Who are some of the lamest superheroes ever? Which comic book movies and shows got People’s Choice Award nominations? When will Justice League Dark be available for purchase?...

Superhero Bits: Wolverine Musical, Venom Set Photos, DC Comics Panel In Washington DC & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2017 5:00 pm EST How can you see Black Lightning early in Washington DC? Does Jeremy Renner still want to make a Hawkeye movie? Why might a Wolverine musical with Hugh Jackman look like? Could Avengers 4 set up a Young Avengers TV series? Want to see Tom Hardy struggling with the symbiote suit on the set of Venom?...

The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Team Line-Up Will Evolve By Jack Giroux/April 21, 2017 3:30 pm EST Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), and Groot (Vin Diesel) make for a great team in Guardians of the Galaxy. They work so well together it’s hard to imagine one without the other. We may see them disband at some point, though, and maybe after Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which Gunn called the other day “the end of this iteration of the Guardians of the Galaxy....

The ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Spin-Off Is Starting Over From Scratch By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2017 2:30 pm EST CBS ended up passing on the pilot, but the network is apparently still keen on figuring out how to make it work as they will have a new team of writers developing the series. But now they’re starting from scratch. First up, a little background on the extensive history of development on How I Met Your Dad in the short three years it’s been in the works....

The Final ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Trailer Is The Best One Yet By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 28, 2016 6:46 am EST As a huge fan of the Harry Potter franchise, I’ve been skeptical of whether or not Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them can deliver a quality magical adventure that lives up to the hype of the primary franchise. So far the trailers haven’t indicated much about the plot, and they haven’t been particularly exciting....

The Morning Watch: ‘Pulp Fiction’ Briefcase Theory, Aspect Ratio Ignorance & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out how HBO is keeping you from seeing movies the way they’re supposed to be seen....

The Morning Watch: Bill Hader Gives The Worst Audition, ‘Coco’ Storyboard To Screen & More By Ethan Anderton/March 22, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, Bill Hader goes out of his way to give one of the worst auditions....

Unused ‘Jurassic Park’ Storyboards Reveal A Deleted Alternate Ending By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 30, 2017 6:00 am EST Jurassic Park has some of the most memorable action adventure sequences ever put to film. From the tyrannosaurus rex attack to the velociraptor pursuit in the kitchen, the movie is filled with some extremely thrilling sequences. But there was one more action sequence that we never got to see in the final cut of the movie....

VOTD: How Does The Video Quality Of The iPhone 7 Plus Compare To A Hollywood Movie Camera? By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2017 1:00 pm EST I’m always fascinated with the notion that cinema grade technology is becoming cheaper and more available. I remember attending the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and watching a movie that was shot on MiniDV, on the same camera I owned at home, and realizing that it’s becoming harder to make financial excuses....

‘24’ Spin-Off Is A Legal Thriller Set One Day Before An Execution, Was Originally Conceived During Season 3 [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Aug. 2, 2018 11:45 am EST “The other is a whole new take on the franchise set in the legal arena,” Walden said. The Jack Bauer Prequel “I think people love Jack Bauer and you would tell a story that I think the audience would very much connect with,” Newman said....

‘Civil War’ Star Chadwick Boseman Was Also Disappointed In ‘Batman V Superman’ By Angie Han/Sept. 20, 2016 3:30 pm EST Chadwick Boseman is a bonafide Marvel superhero now, having made his debut as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War in May. But he’s a superhero fan, too, and like a lot of us he set aside some time earlier this year to check out that other big superhero-on-superhero movie, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice....

‘Deadpool 2’ Loses Composer Junkie XL Following Director Tim Miller’s Exit By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2016 2:00 pm EST If you were worried about Deadpool 2 when director Tim Miller left the project not too long ago, this news isn’t going to make you feel any better. Junkie XL, aka Tom Holkenborg, made a post on Facebook today revealing that in solidarity with Tim Miller, he has also decided to leave the sequel, and his reasoning certainly adds some more cause for concern....

‘Hold The Dark’ First Look: ‘Green Room’ Director Jeremy Saulnier Promises His Highest Body Count Yet By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2018 2:00 pm EST If you’ve seen the revenge movie Blue Ruin and the Nazi punk rock thriller Green Room, you know director Jeremy Saulnier is not the type of filmmaker to pull any punches. And if you thought those were a little too savage, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet....

‘Power Rangers’ Reboot First Look: Goldar Gets Golder By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2016 4:30 pm EST All the Power Rangers characters have been given shiny new makeovers for their next big-screen outing, from the Rangers themselves to Rita Repulsa to Alpha 5. Today it’s Goldar’s turn, as a new commercial reveals what Rita’s classic henchman will look like in the upcoming film. Here’s a hint: they are really running with the “gold” part of his name....

‘Star Trek’ Fan Film Lawsuit Settled, ‘Axanar’ Will Be Released In 15-Minute Segments By Jack Giroux/Jan. 22, 2017 1:00 pm EST The Star Trek fan film Axanar is moving forward again. Axanar Productions raised $1 million via crowdsourcing to produce a feature-length fan film with production values beyond your typical fan project. After the movie had started shooting, CBS and Paramount filed a lawsuit, claiming the fan film violates the rights of their intellectual property....

‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Is A Continuation Of Stephen King’s Book Series By Ben Pearson/June 20, 2017 3:00 pm EST Longtime fans of Stephen King’s lengthy seven-book saga The Dark Tower weren’t exactly thrilled with the film adaptation’s first trailer. Instead of being a straightforward retelling of The Gunslinger, the first story in King’s saga, director Nikolaj Arcel’s movie picks and chooses aspects from multiple books in the series, leaving fans wondering what they’re in for when the movie finally hits theaters....

‘The Keepers’ Trailer: Netflix Explores A Nun’s Murder In Its Latest True Crime Series By Ben Pearson/April 19, 2017 4:00 pm EST With the rise of NPR’s popular Serial podcast, HBO’s riveting limited series The Jinx, and Netflix’s wildly addictive Making a Murderer over the span of a couple of years, the true crime genre had never been hotter. It’s cooled down a bit since 2015, but it seems like the public will always be intrigued by a murder mystery, and if a story is framed in the right way, it can still become an outright sensation....