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The Morning Watch: Justice League Easter Eggs, Stranger Things 2 Shot References & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 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, check out some Justice League Easter eggs and references that you might have missed....

Tom Cruise Will Live Nearly 1,000 Years As ‘Methuselah’ For ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ Director By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 29, 2016 11:00 am EST After dabbling in a number of sci-fi movies like Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow while also continuing his penchant for old-fashioned action and adventure with the Mission: Impossible and Jack Reacher franchises, Tom Cruise is getting ready to head back, way back, to the past. Tom Cruise has been slated to lead Methuselah, a Biblical tale following the title character who was said to live 969 years according to the Hebrew Bible....

VOTD: How ‘Doctor Strange’ Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 3, 2017 5:00 am EST At the end of the month, Doctor Strange comes to Blu-ray and DVD, but if you can’t wait until then, you’ll be able to download it before then on February 14. But before you can sit down and scrutinize every detail of Marvel’s mind-bending superhero origin story, the folks at How It Should Have Ended have taken on Scott Derrickson’s mystical adventure....

Watch The ‘La La Land’ Opening Musical Number Rehearsal Shot On Damien Chazelle’s iPhone By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 21, 2017 6:00 am EST Even though La La Land has been sweeping up during awards season (with plenty more victories to come at the Academy Awards this coming weekend), there has been some backlash surrounding the modern romance with classical musical style. One of the lingering criticisms about the film has been the fact that despite turning in fantastic performances, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone don’t sing and dance like true musical professionals....

You Can Turn Your Internet Into ‘The Good Place’ With This Forkin’ Awesome Chrome Extension By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 3, 2018 2:00 pm EST If life is starting to feel like total bullshirt, at least your internet won’t. That is, with the help of a handy The Good Place Chrome extension. If Google Chrome is your default browser, you can transform it into the high-concept NBC comedy complete with Janet (D’Arcy Carden) taking over the Google page....

‘Bad Boys 3’ Adds ‘Spring Breakers’ And ‘Enter The Void’ Cinematographer – Check Out Some Of His Past Work By Chris Evangelista/May 31, 2018 4:30 pm EST Bad Boys 3, tentatively titled Bad Boys For Life, is ready to ride or die, and the film just landed a very impressive cinematographer. Benoit Debie, who has shot such stylish films as Spring Breakers and Enter the Void, will serve as director of photography....

‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 First Look: Slippin’ Jimmy Is Back, And So Is Cinnabon Gene By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2016 6:00 am EST Hours ago we got a peek behind the scenes of Better Call Saul season two. Now we’ve got a little look ahead at season three, which will premiere in 2017. As a spinoff to Breaking Bad, one of the most acclaimed TV dramas of all time, Better Call Saul came pre-loaded with massive hype and sky-high expectations....

‘Captain Marvel’: Agent Coulson Will Be “New Guy” At S.H.I.E.L.D. By Ben Pearson/May 18, 2018 1:00 pm EST It’s been six years since we’ve seen Agent Phil Coulson on screen in a Marvel Studios movie, but we’ll soon get a chance to see a younger version of the character in the upcoming Captain Marvel, which is a prequel set in the 1990s. Now actor Clark Gregg is talking about where we’ll find Coulson when the new movie hits next year....

‘Divorce’ Trailer: “Let’s Get This Party Started” By Jack Giroux/Sept. 11, 2016 11:00 am EST HBO has a strong fall lineup. The show most people seem to be talking about right now is Westworld, but the cable network has plenty of other shows to keep an eye on coming up, including Awkward, High Maintenance (a former fantastic web series), and Divorce. Divorce comes from actor, writer, and producer Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe), and it stars Thomas Haden Church (Killer Joe) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City)....

‘Gemini Man’ Begins Filming, Will Smith Shares A Video From The Swampy Set By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 28, 2018 11:00 am EST After years of languishing in development hell, Gemini Man has finally started rolling its cameras. Shortly after Ang Lee became attached to the project last year,the production kicked into high gear, soon adding stars Will Smith, Clive Owen, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Now, Smith has shared a charming video from the Savannah, Georgia set of Gemini Man, where the actor braves all manner of swampy wildlife to shoot the science-fiction clone thriller....

‘House Party’ Reboot Coming From Lebron James By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 13, 2018 9:30 am EST LeBron James is about to throw the biggest house party of the century. The basketball megastar is continuing to take tentative steps into the movie industry, but this time, he won’t be in front of the camera. James will be producing a reboot of House Party, the New Line comedy starring the hip hop duo Kid ’n Play....

‘Leave No Trace’ Trailer: ‘Winter’s Bone’ Director Returns With Another Survival Story By Ben Pearson/April 27, 2018 7:30 am EST It’s been eight years since Debra Granik introduced most of the world to a talented up-and-coming actress named Jennifer Lawrence in her 2010 drama Winter’s Bone. Now the filmmaker is finally back with her next directorial effort. Leave No Trace is a survival drama that stars Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, and it looks like a worthy follow-up to Winter’s Bone....

‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Teaser: Spike Lee Adapts His Debut Film For A Netflix Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 26, 2017 12:30 pm EST A short teaser was released for the television adaptation of She’s Gotta Have It, showcasing that trademark Spike Lee look: a bold style, vivid colors, and even the same graffiti-inspired title card of the original film. Eye-catching images of black kids and adults in New York flash on the screen as the captions read “A Spike Lee Joint....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Trailer: A New Animated Resistance Hero Takes To The Skies By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2018 8:19 am EST The first Star Wars Resistance trailer has arrived, giving us a first look at the anime-inspired animated series coming to The Disney Channel this fall and providing us with a whole new roster of Resistance heroes to root for. Check it out below. Star Wars Resistance Trailer New details have arrived along with the trailer, which teases the one-hour premiere titled “The Recruit....

‘The Death Of Stalin’ Trailer: ‘Veep’ Creator Brings The Funny To Russia By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 13, 2017 1:00 pm EST If you’ve ever watched Veep or The Thick of It and wished you could see them done in a post-World War II Soviet Union, you’re in luck. Armando Iannucci, creator of the above foul-mouthed political comedies and director of The Thick of It’s film spin-off In the Loop, is bringing that same brand of crass comedy to Russia, with love....

‘The Devil’s Doorway’ Trailer Unleashes Unholy Terrors By Chris Evangelista/June 15, 2018 4:00 am EST Fans of found footage horror take note: The Devil’s Doorway looks pretty darn spooky. This fright flick finds two priests in Northern Ireland doing battle with demonic possession, bleeding statues and all sorts of loaded Catholic imagery. Watch The Devil’s Doorway trailer below. The Devil’s Doorway Trailer If there’s one thing horror movies have taught us, it’s that Catholic imagery is spooky....

‘The Mummy’ Featurette Reveals The Difficulty Of Shooting In Zero Gravity By Ethan Anderton/March 20, 2017 6:00 am EST Anyone who loves Tom Cruise knows that the actor can’t help but tackle some kind of crazy new stunt for his blockbuster action movies. They’ve become a staple of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and now he’s bringing that same spectacle to The Mummy. In the new action adventure tentpole that will mark the beginning of a Universal Monsters cinematic universe, there will be a zero gravity action sequence that takes place in a cargo plane....

‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ Prequel Novel: Koba’s Revolt Lives On By Jack Giroux/June 5, 2017 2:30 pm EST There’s a two-year gap between the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes. At the beginning of Matt Reeves’ sequel, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his followers have grown stronger from the virus. War also starts with a full-on war raging between apes and the humans, which a prequel novel, in addition to some comic books, will fill in a few blanks for....

Apple Scoops Up ‘Amazing Stories’ Reboot From Bryan Fuller And Amblin TV By Ben Pearson/Oct. 10, 2017 1:00 pm EST At the end of last month, we wrote about how Apple is expanding into creating original programming for television and is poised to become one of the entertainment industry’s major players in that content space. One of the projects they were looking at was a reboot of Amazing Stories, a Steven Spielberg-created anthology series that ran on NBC from 1985-1987....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Unveils ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Hulkbuster Figure By Ethan Anderton/April 30, 2018 6:00 am EST We’ve seen Tony Stark’s big ole Hulkbuster armor before when the Hulk needed to be taken down a couple notches after Scarlet Witch messed with his head in Avengers: Age of Ultron. But a new version of the Hulkbuster armor debuted in Avengers: Infinity War to assist in the final battle in Wakanda against Thanos’ Black Order and an invading army of aliens....