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‘Just Getting Started’ Trailer: Morgan Freeman And Tommy Lee Jones Battle For Supremacy At A Retirement Resort By Ben Pearson/Sept. 19, 2017 3:00 pm EST Director Ron Shelton built his career making sports movies like Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, Tin Cup, and Play It To The Bone, but now his most recent feature was 2003’s Hollywood Homicide, a quasi-buddy comedy that featured the main characters butting heads but ultimately working together to achieve a goal....

‘Justice League’ Blu-Ray Special Features Announced; Sorry, Still No Snyder Cut By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 18, 2018 12:12 pm EST The other day we reported that, despite evidence of several deleted scenes from Justice League, the upcoming Blu-ray release would only feature one bonus scene. Well, I have some good news. It seems like it’s actually bonus scenes. As in plural. However, the scenes in question seem to all be focused around Superman, as they’re included in a segment called “The Return of Superman....

‘Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Trailer: The Internet Is Quite The Wild Place By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2018 9:07 am EST Disney is bringing their not-so-bad video game bad guy back to the big screen this fall. Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 brings back John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph, the arcade game villain with a heart of gold, and he’s about to find out that there’s a whole world out there that he knows nothing about: the internet....

‘She’s Gotta Have It’ TV Show First Look Photos: Spike Lee Heads To The Small Screen By Ben Pearson/Aug. 4, 2017 2:30 pm EST Filmmaker Spike Lee kicked off his career with the 1986 movie She’s Gotta Have It, and now he’s giving his feature directorial debut an update for 2017. And you know what that means: it’s now a multi-episode Netflix series. Check out some first look at some photos from the new show below....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Images Released For Awards Season By Ben Pearson/Jan. 8, 2018 1:30 pm EST With the Golden Globes now behind us, we’re now well into awards season and there’s one more huge show on the horizon: the Academy Awards. And since Oscar voters are casting their votes this week to determine the nominations in each category, Disney has updated its For Your Consideration page with a batch of new images from Star Wars: The Last Jedi in the hopes that they’ll remind voters to include the latest adventure in a galaxy far, far away on their ballots....

‘Star Wars Battlefront 2’ To Unveil New Mode That Lets You Play As An Ewok By Ben Pearson/April 15, 2018 10:00 am EST Have you ever wanted to send endless Ewoks into battle to die over and over again? Star Wars Battlefront 2 has you covered. The game is set to unveil a new Ewok mode that allows players to play as an Ewok defending its village or a raiding Stormtrooper trying to survive an ambush....

By Ethan Anderton/June 7, 2018 6:30 am EST Top Gun 2 has defied the odds, and after decades of hype and promise, the adrenaline-fueled sequel is finally in production. Tom Cruise posted a photo from the set last week, and barring some kind of insurmountable obstacle, the movie titled Top Gun: Maverick will be on the big screen for the summer of 2019. And when it arrives, it may have a new version of the signature rock song that made all the high-flying jet sequences that much more memorable....

‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ Trailer: Don’t Watch This If You’re Already Sold On The Movie By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2017 1:30 pm EST For everyone else, watch the new War for the Planet of the Apes trailer below. The trailer begins innocuously enough by including dialogue from the previous films, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but then it heads into spoiler territory by giving away a big moment that happens in the first act of the movie....

‘Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later’ is More Character, Less Nostalgia [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/July 31, 2017 8:30 am EST /Film sat down with Michael Showalter after a Television Critics Association panel for his TBS comedy Search Party, which returns for a second season this fall. With Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later premiering on Netflix this week, we had a chance to preview the follow-up to First Day of Camp as well....

Alex Winter Downplays ‘Bill And Ted 3’ Production Worries From Keanu Reeves [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/July 28, 2018 6:18 pm EST Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have been talking about doing Bill and Ted 3 for years. It finally seemed like a go when director Dean Parisot signed on and the film, titled Bill and Ted Face the Music, was greenlit for production. Then last week Reeves said he didn’t know if it would become a reality....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 15, 2018 12:30 pm EST Based off the true-life story of Willie Gary, a successful personal-injury lawyer from Mississippi, The Burial is a legal drama that follows Gary as he takes on the case of Jeremiah O’Keefe, the owner of a local chain of funeral homes who claims he had been swindled by a major funeral parlor conglomerate. Payne is currently in negotiations to direct The Burial, according to Deadline....

AMC Dials The Number For ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 4 By Jacob Hall/June 27, 2017 12:30 pm EST Better Call Saul, quite possibly the best show currently airing on television, has been renewed for a fourth season by AMC. This news comes shortly after a third season finale that summed up the show in a nutshell: it was hilarious, unnerving, inventively shot, loyal to Breaking Bad without leaning on it, and primed to give even a healthy viewer a panic attack....

An ‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game Is Looking For Some Kickstarter Support By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2017 11:00 am EST Whenever I get the itch to sit down and watch Apocalypse Now, I always lament the fact that I can’t follow it up by playing a video game that allows me to venture into the horrors of the Vietnam War, all while listening to the insane ramblings of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz....

First Look: Emily Blunt Is Practically Perfect In ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ By Angie Han/March 3, 2017 1:00 pm EST It seems like everyone in Hollywood is in the nostalgia business right now, with more remakes and reboots and reimaginings coming out than you can shake a stick at. But no one’s better at this game than Disney, who’s been revisiting what feels like every single feature in its catalogue – usually to warm reviews and smashing box office....

I Chased A Replicant In The ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Experience [Comic-Con 2017] By Jack Giroux/July 20, 2017 1:00 pm EST I’m flying around LAPD headquarters, in pursuit of a replicant. We’re both in spinners. For the most part, it keeps its distance as we fly through the rain and neon lights of Los Angeles. It’s kind of exhilarating, the kind of VR trip you absolutely want to experience if you’re in San Diego for this year’s Comic-Con....

Live-Action ‘Pokémon’ Movie ‘Detective Pikachu’ Casts Female Lead By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 30, 2017 4:00 pm EST That live-action Pokémon movie, Detective Pikachu, is still happening, no matter how strange it might seem. Detective Pikachu continues to slouch its way towards existence by casting its female lead, Big Little Lies actress Kathryn Newton. There are no details on just who Newton is playing, but it’s safe to assume she’s not playing the eponymous pocket monster detective....

LOL: Tom Cruise Falls Through A Bunch Of Movies By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2017 5:00 am EST Tom Cruise is known to run as fast as he can at some point in almost every single movie that he stars in. However, one clever video editor wanted to have a little more fun with Tom Cruise by having him fall through a bunch of movies that he doesn’t star in. Taking footage from Cameron Crowe’s 2001 film Vanilla Sky and splicing it with clips from Men in Black III, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Avengers and more, the video sees Tom Cruise free falling quite quickly....

M. Night Shyamalan Wouldn’t Mind Directing An Episode Of ‘Stranger Things’ By Jacob Hall/Jan. 18, 2017 3:30 pm EST Before they created Stranger Things for Netflix and won the hearts of everyone with a login to that omnipresent streaming service, Matt and Ross Duffer worked as writers on Fox’s Wayward Pines. And working on that series meant working with M. Night Shyamalan, who directed the pilot and served as an executive producer alongside Chad Hodge....

Michael Bay Wants To Direct A ‘Transformers’ Spinoff, Just Can’t Quit The Franchise By Ben Pearson/April 5, 2017 12:30 pm EST The first Transformers film came out ten years ago, and ever since, director Michael Bay has been threatening to walk away from the franchise. It’s a tale as old as time: boy meets intellectual property, a boy blows stuff up in a movie based on said intellectual property, boy gets huffy about returning for the sequel, the studio offers boy money, boy caves and directs sequel....

The Morning Watch: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Scene Breakdown, Academy Discussion & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 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, director Jon M. Chu breaks down a scene from the box office topping Crazy Rich Asians....