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By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2018 8:30 am EST Urban will play Billy Butcher, the leader of a team of agents who monitor fame-hungry superheroes. THR says the show’s take on the character is being described as someone “mysterious and brutal with a personal but secret agenda” who “approaches Hughie (Jack Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie’s rage over his girlfriend Robin’s (uncast) accidental death at the hands of Superhero A-Train (Jessie T....

L.A. Theater Hands Out Barf Bags At Screenings For Cannibal Movie ‘Raw’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 22, 2017 4:30 pm EST The critically acclaimed cannibal coming-of-age movie Raw became one of the genre darlings of the film festival circuit last year. It has also become infamous for causing audience members to faint, with its scenes of gore reportedly inducing spells of nausea and vomiting. But one Los Angeles theater has the remedy to that: barf bags....

Michael B. Jordan To Produce ‘The Liberators,’ A World War II Drama About Black Combat Unit By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 20, 2018 3:00 pm EST Fresh off his powerhouse performance in Black Panther and coming off his ascent as the internet’s latest boyfriend, Michael B. Jordan is jumping behind-the-scenes. Jordan will produce The Liberators, a World War II drama about the all-black combat unit who helped lead to military desegregation, through his Outlier Society Productions....

New ‘Stranger Things 3’ Character Descriptions Surface By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2018 1:00 pm EST When Stranger Things 2 debuted on Netflix last fall, the memorable cast of characters from the first season of the sci-fi horror series was joined be several new, key characters. The likes of Sean Astin, Brett Gelman, Dacre Montgomery, Sadie Sink and Paul Reiser expanded the world of Stranger Things and each character was key to the latest peculiar happenings in Hawkins, Indiana....

New ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ Clip Has A Meth-Fueled Car Chase By Chris Evangelista/July 4, 2018 12:00 pm EST The Spy Who Dumped Me may not be the most buzzed-about movie of the summer, but the comedy looks like it could be a lot of fun. In a new Spy Who Dumped Me clip, stars Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon hop in a cab to get away from some gun-toting guys on motorcycles....

POTD: See Ryan Gosling As ‘Doctor Strange’ In Some Pre-Production Concept Art By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2017 8:30 am EST Even though Marvel Studios ended up picking Benedict Cumberbatch to play the title role of Doctor Strange in the second theatrical release this year, there were several options that were on the table at various times. Actors like Joaquin Phoenix, Jared Leto and Ryan Gosling were once in the running, and now we get to see what it might have been like to have one of those actors wearing the cape of The Sorcerer Supreme....

Superhero Bits: Hellboy Joins Injustice 2, More Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 Bloopers & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2017 5:00 pm EST Are you ready to have Hellboy fighting against all of the DC Comics heroes in Injustice 2? What happened to the spider that bit Peter Parker and turned him into Spider-Man? Does a rumored Justice League soundtrack entry hint at an appearance by Green Lantern? Is The Joker origin movie a good idea or a bad idea?...

Superhero Bits: Injustice 2 Gameplay, Michael Keaton Quoted Batman On Spidey Set & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 30, 2017 5:00 pm EST Why does Stan Lee think that comic books need to have some kind of message or stand on social issues? What would Mahershala Ali look like as Green Lantern? Which comic book character would Taron Egerton like to see crossover with Kingsman: The Secret Service? Want to see a really weird version of the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer?...

Superhero Bits: More Injustice 2 Characters, Captain Marvel Production Start & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2017 5:00 pm EST Which new ladies from the DC Comics universe have been confirmed for Injustice 2? What’s the title of the season finale of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? When might Captain Marvel start production? Which Riverdale star wants to play Nightwing? Who has been added to the cast of Cloak and Dagger? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

This Week In Trailers: Rikers, Betting On Zero, Magicians, Fraud, Almost There, Keep In Touch By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 12, 2016 9:00 am EST If you haven’t, check out this week’s Last Week Tonight to get up to speed. Knowing that this is coming to us by way of the producer of Undefeated and Deep Web made me instantly interested in the material. Director Ted Braun has some gnarly subject matter to wade through to get us instantly connected but the trailer does a bang up job in establishing who the players are, why we should care and, most importantly, what’s at stake....

VOTD: See Rare Footage Of ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Recording Sessions For ‘‘Be Our Guest’’ By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2018 6:00 am EST Though you may not know Howard Ashman by name, you’re undoubtedly familiar with his work as one of the lyricists behind the original songs for Disney’s animated classics Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. Unfortunately, Ashman passed away far too young at 40 after a battle with AIDS....

Wolverine Has A Really Crummy Job In A New ‘Logan’ Clip By Jacob Hall/Feb. 9, 2017 10:00 am EST Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Ten years ago, Wolverine was a member of the X-Men, saving the world on a daily basis and slicing through hordes of bad guys as if they were made out of butter. But in the upcoming Logan, it looks like all of that hard work has amounted to a crummy job and a desperate phone call about wanting to buy a used boat for lower than the listed price....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Won’t Have Narration By Jack Giroux/July 29, 2017 12:00 pm EST When it comes to the voiceover from Blade Runner, some people love it, most people don’t. While the director of the sequel, Denis Villeneuve, is a huge fan of the original cut and the narration’s “film noir quality,” there will be no voiceover guiding the audience in Blade Runner 2049. For the Arrival and Sicario director, a voiceover would not have worked – but that didn’t stop him from joking about it with star Harrison Ford a few times....

‘Bright’ Trailer: Will Smith Is Not Here To Make Friends [Comic-Con 2017] By Jack Giroux/July 20, 2017 4:12 pm EST David Ayer is no stranger to depicting cops on film. He’s made some good, gritty and dirty crime thrillers with End of Watch and Street Kings. Cops and Los Angeles fit comfortably in the filmmaker’s wheelhouse. It’s a world and genre he knows well. Ayer has now made another cop movie, Bright, which stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton....

‘Catch-22’ Miniseries On The Way; George Clooney To Star And Direct By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 2017 9:30 am EST Nearly two decades after George Clooney left the seminal medical drama ER, the actor is making a return to the small screen — and the only catch is the one in the title. Clooney will be directing and starring in a miniseries adaptation of Catch-22 from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content. There is no network currently attached to air the miniseries....

‘First Man’ Trailer: Ryan Gosling Finally Says Neil Armstrong’s Iconic Quote In The Best Trailer Yet By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 19, 2018 9:30 am EST We’re still a few weeks away from the release of First Man, which will be one of the first major Oscar contenders to arrive in theaters this awards season. That’s wholly appropriate since the entire movie is about NASA’s attempts to be the first astronauts on the moon....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Script Is Finished; Filming Begins Early 2019 By Chris Evangelista/June 25, 2018 3:00 pm EST Are you ready to find out what tunes appear on Star-Lord’s Zune? James Gunn has turned in a draft of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 script, and filming is expected to begin on the sequel in early 2019. Come and get your love. Avengers: Infinity War is in the past....

‘Jungle Cruise’ Adds ‘Breaking Bad’ Star Jesse Plemons As Another Villain By Chris Evangelista/April 19, 2018 1:00 pm EST How many villains does Disney’s Jungle Cruise need? At least two, it seems, because Variety reports Breaking Bad, Game Night and Fright Night Lights actor Jesse Plemons has joined the Jungle Cruise cast as yet another villainous character. This news comes a day after it was announced that Edgar Ramirez had also joined the cast as a villain....

‘Rogue One’ Sequel: This Star Wars Standalone Movie Will Not Get A Follow-Up By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2016 10:30 am EST We’ve already begun to learn about the success of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Fandango sold hundreds of thousands of tickets in the first few minutes, and last week box office tracking services estimated the opening weekend box office could hit the high $120 million range to the near $150 million range....

‘The Week Of’ Trailer: Adam Sandler & Chris Rock Tolerate Each Other For Their Kids’ Wedding By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2018 9:30 am EST Adam Sandler and Chris Rock have gotten together for a handful of comedies like Grown Ups and The Longest Yard, but they’ve never really shared a lot of screentime together. But in a new Netflix original film, they’ll be spending plenty of time getting on each others’ nerves....