‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Director James Gunn Explains Ego’s Powers By Jacob Hall/March 16, 2017 12:00 pm EST In the Marvel comic book universe, Ego the Living Planet is exactly what his name suggests: he is a literal living planet, with a face and everything, who can travel throughout space and get involved in all kinds of shenanigans. The character will make his cinematic debut in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....
‘Karate Kid’ Actor Martin Kove Joins ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 2 Cast As Series Regular By Ben Pearson/May 25, 2018 3:30 pm EST The ruthless and stoic John Kreese was one of the main villains in 1984’s The Karate Kid, and 35 years later, actor Martin Kove will be reprising that role once again on the YouTube Red series Cobra Kai. A new report says Kove has officially joined the Cobra Kai season 2 cast as a series regular....
‘New Mutants’ Director Josh Boone Pitched A Trilogy, Talks Demon Bear By Angie Han/Dec. 16, 2016 3:30 pm EST Oh, and speaking of that first film, Boone dropped a little hint about what we can expect. Last month we got word Demon Bear was likely to be the villain of New Mutants, and now Boone’s new comments suggest that is indeed the case. Boone dished on New Mutants during a longer, wider-ranging conversation with Creative Screenwriting....
By Jacob Hall/Oct. 26, 2017 3:19 pm EST Praise the lord! Or hail Satan! Or just say thanks to the suits at AMC. Preacher season 3 is officially going forward, which is excellent news for those still watching the blasphemous and incredibly entertaining comic adaptation about the super-powered preacher, his criminal ex-girlfriend, and their vampire buddy who go on a quest to literally find God. At the very least, their journey will continue for at least one more year....
Red Sparrow TV Spots Red Sparrow, helmed by Hunger Games franchise director Francis Lawrence and based on the novel by former CIA operative Jason Matthews, looks like a moody, suspenseful spy film that will inevitably draw comparisons to the Marvel character Black Widow because of the similarities in their origins: a beautiful Russian dancer becomes trained in a brutal espionage program that transforms her into a deadly and seductive weapon — until she meets an American agent who may get her to change her colors....
‘Stranger Things’ Video Game Coming From Telltale Games By Chris Evangelista/June 13, 2018 3:30 pm EST Telltale Games will bring the Upside Down to a game console near you with a Stranger Things video game. Netflix’s nostalgia-laced hit has already inspired books, board games and more, and now fans will have a chance to enter an interactive Hawkins, Indiana. Netflix is teaming up with Telltale Games to adapt Minecraft: Story Mode into a five-part adventure in the fall....
‘The Big Lebowski’ Spin-Off First Look: Jesus Quintana Is Bowling Again By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 28, 2016 10:00 am EST Even though Joel & Ethan Coen were expressly against the idea of The Big Lebowski 2, they are totally cool with John Turturro creating a spin-off focusing on his character, the purple-clad, bowling-ball-licking Jesus Quintana. After all, Turturro had created the character before The Big Lebowski was even a movie, so why not?...
‘The Post’ Featurettes Look At Steven Spielberg’s Vision, Recreating The Washington Post Offices & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2018 2:00 pm EST Check out The Post featurettes below. First up, this featurette focuses on how The Post isn’t just about The Washington Post standing up to the government, but it’s also about a woman taking a stand in a man’s world. Meryl Streep plays the first female publisher of a major American newspaper who had to face skepticism at every turn simply because she was a woman....
‘Wish Upon’ Trailer: Joey King’s Deadly Wishes Brings Death And A BMW By Jack Giroux/May 23, 2017 4:00 pm EST If you cross Joey King, get ready to pay the consequences. That’s basically the premise of Wish Upon, in which the The Conjuring, White House Down, and Wish I Was Here star gets seven wishes to do as she pleases, like making a bully rot. A pretty sweet deal for a teenager quickly goes terribly wrong in director John R....
Ben Mendelsohn In Talks For ‘Captain Marvel’ Villain By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 24, 2017 4:58 pm EST Ben Mendelsohn, a great actor who lately seems to specialize in playing bad guys, is in talks to play the villain in Captain Marvel. If Mendelsohn took the role, it would reunite him with his Mississippi Grind directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Details below. Ben Mendelsohn stole most of the show as the gloriously caped bad guy in Star Wars: Rogue One, and now he might be moving from one Disney property to the next....
Bing! Watch Every Day In ‘Groundhog Day’ Played Simultaneously [VOTD] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2017 6:00 am EST Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ‘cause it’s cooooold out there today. It’s coooold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach? No matter if Punxsutawney Phil tells us we’re getting six more weeks of winter or an early spring, we still get to enjoy the magic of Groundhog Day....
Darren Aronofsky’s Next Film Could Be A Courtroom Drama Involving Artificial Intelligence [Updated] By Ben Pearson/July 18, 2017 3:30 pm EST Update: Aronofsky clarified today that he hasn’t officially signed on to a new directorial project yet. Our original story follows. just to clarify: i have not committed to anything as a next picture. — darren aronofsky (@DarrenAronofsky) July 18, 2017 Three years will have elapsed between the release of Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky’s 2014 movie Noah and his upcoming horror thriller mother!...
Frank Miller’s ‘Superman: Year One’ Isn’t A Retelling Of Supe’s Origin Story By Jack Giroux/Aug. 15, 2017 9:00 am EST Comic book writer and artist Frank Miller believes he’s never had a “meaningful crack at Superman.” He’s now taking his shot with a new Superman project. The author of The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and Batman: Year One is revolving his Superman story around the Man of Steel’s younger years....
J.J. Abrams Developing His First Sci-Fi TV Series Since ‘Fringe’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 10:30 am EST J.J. Abrams’ name may be inextricable from the Star Wars franchise now, but it was in TV where the writer/director first found major success. And now, seven years after he last created a TV series, Abrams is making a long-awaited return to the small screen. But don’t worry, Star Wars fans. As famous as Abrams is for spearheading wildly ambitious and influential series like Felicity, Alias, LOST, and Fringe, he’s just as famous for sticking around for only the pilot before jetting off to his next project....
Scarlett Johansson Drops Out Of ‘Rub And Tug’ Following Backlash By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 13, 2018 3:00 pm EST Johansson has dropped out of Rub & Tug, in which she was set to play the transgender man Dante “Tex” Gill, who rose to infamy as crime boss who ran a string of massage parlors in the 1970s and ’80s that doubled as prostitution hubs. “In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project,” Johansson said in a statement to Out....
Superman Prequel ‘Krypton’ Premiere Date Revealed Along With A New Image By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 29, 2017 8:00 am EST Not content to simply tell a Superman origin story, Syfy’s Krypton will take things back two whole generations into Superman’s lineage. The new series focuses on past events set on the Man of Steel’s doomed planet and follows Superman’s grandfather Seg-El. A new promo video reveals the Krypton premiere date for 2018, and a new image gives us a glimpse of the series to come....
The Morning Watch: ‘Game Of Thrones’ VFX, History Of ‘Star Wars’ Toy Releases & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 5, 2017 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, get a close look at the visual effects that went into the last couple episodes of the seventh season of Game of Thrones, specifically the battles with the Night King ans his massive army....
By Ethan Anderton/April 2, 2018 5:00 am EST Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One is chock full of plenty references to video games, movies, TV shows, comic books and much more. But there are so many that it’s hard to keep track. So IGN did their best to track down as many Easter eggs and references as they could, coming out with 138 of them. Some are pretty obvious, others are a little more obscure....
Watch Trey Parker Coax His Daughter Into Delivering Ike’s Dialogue For ‘South Park’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 17, 2016 5:30 am EST Much like Saturday Night Live, the mere existence of a new episode of South Park is a bit of a miracle. Just like the late night sketch show, a new episode of South Park is completed in just six days, which is almost unfathomably fast for an animated comedy series....
‘Alien: Covenant’ Trailer: In Space, No One Can Hear You Step Away From Your Holiday Party To Watch This Trailer By Jacob Hall/Dec. 24, 2016 9:00 pm EST Few films have divided movie fans quite like Prometheus, the Alien prequel that answered too much while saying too little. It remains one of the more maddening studio films I’ve ever paid to see in the theater: an impeccably made, stunningly designed, ambitious as hell…misfire?...
