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FX’s ‘Taboo’ Trailers: Tom Hardy Comes Back From The Dead By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 29, 2016 11:00 am EST Tom Hardy has already returned to television with his acclaimed turn on the series Peaky Blinders, and now he has yet another promising series on the way in 2017.Taboo is a new series on FX that has Tom Hardy playing James Keziah Delaney, a man who was thought to be dead who returns home to take over what his left of his father’s shipping empire....

Jamie Bell Joins Cast Of Elton John Biopic ‘Rocketman’ By Chris Evangelista/June 24, 2018 11:00 am EST Jamie Bell will join Taron Egerton in Rocketman, a biopic of the life of Elton John. Bell will play Bernie Taupin, the songwriter who collaborated with Elton John on 30 albums.Variety has the story confirming Bell’s involvement in the biopic. In 1967, Bernie Taupin answered an advertisement from Liberty Records seeking new songwriters. Elton John just happened to respond to the same advertisement at the same time....

Joss Whedon Returns To TV With ‘The Nevers’, A Sci-Fi Series For HBO That May Be His “Most Ambitious Narrative” By Ben Pearson/July 13, 2018 1:00 pm EST Joss Whedon is heading back to the small screen. The director of films like The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron has signed a deal to write, direct, and executive produce a new sci-fi series called The Nevers for HBO. And in case that simple fact wasn’t enough to raise your interest, Whedon says the show could be the “most ambitious narrative” of his entire career thus far....

Kyle Chandler Joins ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ By Jack Giroux/Feb. 21, 2017 4:27 pm EST Actor Kyle Chandler will play the father of Millie Bobby Brown’s (Stranger Things) character in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The actor, known for his excellent dramatic work in Bloodline and Friday Night Lights, will co-star in Michael Dougherty’s (Krampus) monster movie, due out in 2019. Right now, Chandler and Brown are the only actors confirmed to star in Legendary’s sequel to Gareth Edward’s hit 2014 film....

Luc Besson Is Already Writing ‘Valerian 3’, And Why The First Film Can’t Bomb This Weekend By Ben Pearson/July 18, 2017 9:30 am EST French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) has Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets coming out this week, but he’s already hard at work writing the script for Valerian 3. What’s that, now? Oh, Valerian 2? Pssh, that script is already done. Who do you think you’re dealing with, here?...

Mark Wahlberg And Peter Berg Reunite For ‘Wonderland’ At Netflix By Ben Pearson/June 26, 2018 11:30 am EST Peter Berg has directed Mark Wahlberg in five movies so far, but they’re about to make it an even half dozen. Berg is getting behind the camera for Netflix to direct Wonderland, a movie in which Wahlberg will play Spenser, a Boston-based private investigator who was the subject of dozens of best-selling novels and even a 1980s TV series called Spenser: For Hire....

New ‘Power Rangers’ Posters Shows Off The Zords, Plus Read Max Landis’ Unused Script By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2017 2:30 pm EST In just a couple months, Power Rangers gets an all-new adaptation, marking the first time the property has hit movie theaters without bringing one of the TV series iterations to the big screen. This is essentially a big screen reboot of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers taking a whole new approach to the story of five teens tasked with protecting the world from evil....

New ‘Sicario: Day Of The Soldado’ Clip Has Its Eyes On The Prize By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2018 12:00 pm EST Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to the anxiety-inducing Sicario, is one of the summer’s dark horse films. No one was asking for a sequel to Sicario, but maybe it’ll turn out to be an entertaining surprise. At the very least, this new Sicario: Day of the Soldado clip indicates the film will have plenty of intense moments....

Studio Ghibli Reopens As Hayao Miyazaki Refuses To Retire — Again By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 11, 2017 11:00 am EST Miyazaki announced (for the umpteenth time) that he would retire from the grueling world of animation that he revolutionized with films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away in 2013, after the release of his World War II epic The Wind Rises. But a comeback was inevitable — a few years later it was revealed that Miyazaki was secretly working on a short film called Boro The Caterpillar....

Superhero Bits: Gotham’s New Poison Ivy, Black Manta Campaigning Begins & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2016 5:00 pm EST Which director is at the top of a new poll asking who should direct Man of Steel 2? How is the cast and crew of Justice League reacting to negative Suicide Squad reviews? Want to see the new, grown up Poison Ivy coming to the next season of Gotham? Which The Wire star is already campaigning to play Black Manta in Aquaman?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ VFX Reel, The Philosophy Of Sacha Baron Cohen & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 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, a new Avengers: Infinity War visual effects reel shows off sequences from inside Ebony Maw’s ship....

The Morning Watch: Julia Roberts Acts Out Her Film Career, A Drunk Film Extra & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 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, Julia Roberts takes just under 10 minutes to act out nearly her entire film career with James Corden on The Late Late Show....

The New ‘DuckTales’ Casts A Bunch Of Actors You Probably Really Like By Jacob Hall/Dec. 16, 2016 11:00 am EST I’ve been very curious about Disney XD’s upcoming revival of DuckTales for close to a year now, ever since they revealed the show’s terrific art style and teased imagery that suggests an adventurous tone. While I enjoyed the original cartoon as a youngster, it’s Carl Banks’ original Donald Duck comics that shine brightly for me these days – if the new show can capture the spirit of those stories, it may count me among its fans....

Barry Renewed For Season 2 Barry, HBO’s super-dark comedy that’s garnered glowing reviews, will be back for a second season. HBO announced the Barry renewal today. The series stars Bill Hader as a “depressed, low-rent hitman from the Midwest who finds himself drawn into a community of acting students while on a hit job in LA. He wants to start a new life, but his criminal past won’t let him walk away....

‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Teaser Brings Back Your Favorite “Criminal” Lawyer By Angie Han/Jan. 4, 2017 3:00 pm EST As of Better Call Saul season 2, Slippin’ Jimmy still has a ways to go before he fully transforms into Saul Goodman. Yes, he’s done some sketchy stuff, but he’s still trying to be a reasonably good person, and he’s still trying to build a respectable career as lawyer Jimmy McGill....

‘C.B. Strike’ Trailer: J.K. Rowling’s Crime Novels Are Now A Cinemax Miniseries By Ben Pearson/April 6, 2018 3:00 pm EST In 2013, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling released a book called The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pseudonym “Robert Galbraith.” It was the first in a series of crime novels following the adventures of a private investigator named Cormoran Strike, a former member of the Royal Military Police, and now Cinemax has adapted the first three novels into a miniseries....

‘Dear Dictator’ Trailer: Michael Caine Teaches A Rebel Teen How To Deal With Mean Girls By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2018 12:00 pm EST Dealing with high school is worse than ever with the advent of cell phones and social media. But what if you could deal with the worst people in your high school by getting advice from a feared international dictator? Dear Dictator follows a British-Caribbean dictator played by Michael Caine as he’s ousted from power and has only one place to flee: the suburban American home of a rebellious teenage girl (Odeya Rush of Lady Bird) with whom he’s been corresponding through letters....

‘Geostorm’ Trailer: The Most Expensive, Ill-Timed Movie About Gerard Butler Fighting The Weather You’ll Ever See By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 27, 2017 2:00 pm EST Talk about an ill-timed movie. On the tail of some of the most devastating hurricanes the United States has seen in decades, Geostorm is coming in to…regale you with an inspiring story of Gerard Butler fighting the weather? Unfortunately, it looks like he’s on the losing side in the new Geostorm trailer, which features all manner of CGI earthquakes, hail storms, tsunamis, and hurricanes....

‘Hearts Beat Loud’ Trailer: It’s Jam Sesh Time With Nick Offerman And Kiersey Clemons By Chris Evangelista/April 11, 2018 12:00 pm EST Hearts Beat Loud already has a reputation as a feel-good crowd pleaser thanks to its run on the festival circuit, and here’s the first official trailer to prove all that praise is warranted. Nick Offerman plays a single father who talks his daughter (Kiersey Clemons) into starting a band....

‘How It Ends’ Trailer: Theo James And Forest Whitaker Take The Worst Road Trip In Netflix’s Apocalyptic Action Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2018 10:30 am EST Following the runaway success of Bright, Netflix flexes its sci-fi blockbuster muscle once again with How It Ends. The apocalyptic thriller stars Divergent star Theo James as a man visiting his in-laws on the other side of the country when suddenly a mysterious apocalyptic event befalls the west coast....