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‘Wolverine 3’ Reveal Coming Soon; Hugh Jackman Teases “Very Different” Tone By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2016 3:30 pm EST It’s hard to believe the next Wolverine movie is less than six months away, especially given how little we’ve seen or heard about it. We’ve yet to see a single teaser, poster, or official still. Heck, the movie hasn’t even revealed an official title. But we can expect a big reveal soon, according to Hugh Jackman....

Lauren Ambrose in M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple Series Lauren Ambrose, of Six Feet Under fame, is joining M. Night Shyamalan’s new Apple series, according to Deadline. The series “follows parents Dorothy and Sean Turner, who have hired young nanny Leanne to help care for their newborn child.” Since the show is being described as a thriller, I’m guessing something goes wrong. Maybe the nanny is evil. Or the parents are evil....

Cool Stuff: ‘Jurassic Park’ T-Rex Comes To Life As A Huge Chronicle Collectibles Statue By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2017 6:00 am EST We have a T-Rex! In fact, you can have a T-Rex from Jurassic Park as well if you happen to have a stack of cash lying around to spend on a fifth scale statue of the dinosaur from Steven Spielberg’s modern classic. Chronicle Collectibles is releasing the latest in their line of Jurassic Park statues for pre-order today, and it’s a gigantic statue of the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the original movie....

Cool Stuff: You Probably Won’t Fit In This Power Wheels ‘Jurassic Park’ Jeep By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 18, 2018 6:00 am EST All the coolest toys seem to be manufactured once you’re too old to play with them. Such is the case with an incredible new Fisher Price Power Wheels vehicle that Jurassic Park fans would have killed to drive around in back in 1993. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park this year, a special Power Wheels Jurassic Park Jeep is being released so kids (and adults small enough to fit in it) can outrun a tyrannosaurus rex, or at the very least the family dog....

Dave Bautista Thinks Spider-Man Rights Are Going Back To Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2017 12:00 pm EST When Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures announced a partnership that would allow Spider-Man to become part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans lost their minds. The fact that Sony had the rights to Spider-Man initially meant that Marvel Studios previously could never bring the wallcrawler into a movie with The Avengers, but Tom Holland debuted as the webslinger in Captain America: Civil War, and now he gets his own new franchise starting with Spider-Man: Homecoming in July....

Employee Picks: Giant Robots, An Underrated Revenge Thriller, And One Of Cinema’s Best-Ever Debuts By Jacob Knight/June 12, 2018 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to Employee Picks, a series where Jacob Knight uses his day job expertise as a video store manager to recommend unique and often overlooked alternative options to the big movies hitting theaters and home video.) Hello and welcome back to Employee Picks!...

Jean-Claude Van Damme On ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson,’ Playing Dual Characters, And Doing The Splits [Interview] By Fred Topel/Dec. 12, 2017 11:00 am EST Van Damme has already revealed some mild spoilers in previous appearances. Filip, the Van Damme lookalike with the funny voice whose favorite movie is Timecop, will return and there will be actual time travel. The show’s trailer also showcased part of the epic riverboat fight on the set of Huck, a gritty reboot of Huckleberry Finn, in which real bad guys come after Van Damme and the director mistakes them for stunt men....

Jon Favreau Joins ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2016 3:05 pm EST Iron Man co-star Jon Favreau will be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universal for Spider-Man: Homecoming. Favreau directed the first Marvel Studios movie Iron Man, in which he appeared as Robert Downey Jr’s character Tony Stark’s bodyguard, Happy Hogan. Favreau has reprised the role for Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3. This appearance will be the first non-Iron Man appearance of the character on the big screen....

Sorry Jack, Chucky’s Back: ‘Child’s Play’ Remake In The Works At MGM By Chris Evangelista/July 3, 2018 2:25 pm EST The Good Guy Doll is about to get a face lift. MGM is working on a Child’s Play remake, proving that nothing lasts forever. Up until now, Child’s Play had been one of the few horror franchises to stand the test of time and remain remake free. Those days are apparently over....

Superhero Bits: Luke Cage’s Ties To The Avengers, Justice Society Of America, Psylocke Training & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2016 5:30 pm EST Want to see more concept art of Ant-Man when he was considered for Team Iron Man? Are you ready to see the Justice Society of America assembled in a new photo from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? Have you seen how much training Olivia Munn did for X-Men: Apocalypse?...

TV Bits: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Renewed, ‘Scream’ Rebooted, ‘Midnight, Texas’ Trailer By Jacob Hall/March 22, 2017 4:00 pm EST The Big Bang Theory, currently on season 10, has been renewed for seasons 11 and 12. That’s 48 more episodes of a show that the internet seems to hate, but remains one of the biggest shows on television. While I’m not fan of the show (and anything I say here won’t be anything that hasn’t been said before), the interesting news here is that stars Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar agreed to take a pay cut so their underpaid co-stars, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, can make more money....

Watch A ‘Toy Story’ Screen Test With Billy Crystal As Buzz Lightyear By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2017 6:00 am EST Whenever Pixar Animation has a strong desire for an actor to lend their voice to a certain character, they like to take dialogue from one of their performances and create animation to illustrate what the character would be like with their voice. This was especially true when Pixar was looking to make Toy Story their first feature film, and they had to show actors just what the movie was going to be like with their voice attached to it....

Why CBS Moved ‘Supergirl’ The CW [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 10, 2016 3:00 pm EST Having covered the Television Critics Association press tours for some 10 years now, I remember the penultimate sessions with former CBS President of Entertainment Nina Tassler. She loved Supergirl and was proud to have it on her network, even though the producing team of Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter had their other superhero shows, The Flash and Arrow on The CW....

Will The ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Runtime Be The Longest Of MCU Movies? By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 25, 2017 8:30 am EST Avengers: Infinity War will be bigger than anything the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever seen. Bigger stakes, bigger fights, and bigger drama. That much is clear by its Comic-Con three-part poster, which is chock full of superheroes and a lot of saturation. And director Joe Russo, who is helming Avengers: Infinity War alongside his Captain America: Civil War co-director and brother Anthony Russo, hints that it may be the longest MCU movie as well....

Woody Allen Is Taking A Break From Filmmaking For The First Time Since 1981 By Ben Pearson/Aug. 28, 2018 2:30 pm EST Back in 2016, leading up to the release of Allen’s already-forgotten film Cafe Society, /Film’s Jacob Hall predicted that “A year without a new Woody Allen movie is the year Woody Allen kicks the bucket.” It was a prediction backed up by almost forty years of proof, and it was about as sure a bet as you’d find in Hollywood....

By Angie Han/Oct. 21, 2016 1:30 pm EST Captain Marvel was first announced in 2014, but it won’t hit theaters until 2019, which is why progress on the film has felt like such painfully slow going. Still, Marvel took a very encouraging step forward this summer when they confirmed Brie Larson as the lead superhero. Now the next big task will be locking down a director, which Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige says they’ll do by the end of the year....

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Trailer: The Asian-Led Rom-Com Sets The Gold Standard For Summer Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 23, 2018 6:19 am EST This is it. This is the Asian-led romantic comedy that we’ve been waiting for. And it looks fabulous. The Crazy Rich Asians trailer is wealthy in both opulence and in talent, with Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu leading an ensemble cast that includes the legendary Michelle Yeoh, comedian Awkwafina, and more....

‘Detroit’ Re-Release Trailer Makes An Oscar Push By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2017 7:30 am EST Detroit was Kathryn Bigelow’s first feature film since 2012’s acclaimed Zero Dark Thirty, but the harrowing historical drama didn’t seem to have nearly as big an impact as Annapurna Pictures had hoped. The film garnered middling box office and mixed reviews and seemed to have faded from everyone’s memory after it left theaters. Now, sensing that this year’s Oscar race is slightly underwhelming, Annapurna is giving Bigelow’s film another chance with a re-release, and a new Detroit trailer has arrived to signal the new awards season push....

‘Dying Laughing’: Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock & More Recount Nightmares In Stand-Up Comedy By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2017 11:00 am EST Following the trailer for the Showtime series I’m Dying Up Here, we have a look at another fascinating glimpse into the world of stand-up comedy, this time one from the real world. Dying Laughing is a new documentary that feels like it should have been called I’m Dying Up Here, because it features one-on-one interviews with stand-up comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Cedric The Entertainer, Russell Peters, the late Garry Shandling and more, all talking about their worst experiences on stage....

‘Ghostbusters’ Will Meet The ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Again…and Become Turtles? [Comic-Con 2017] By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2017 4:00 pm EST Though everyone is excited about all the panels for blockbuster movies and sci-fi and fantasy TV shows at San Diego Comic-Con, there’s plenty more that happens at the massive pop culture convention, and we took the time to cover a much smaller panel that deserves your attention as well....