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Next ‘The X-Files’ Season Will Only Have Two Mythology Episodes [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/Aug. 8, 2017 12:15 pm EST “It’s going to be similar,” Madden said. “The first episode will be a mythology episode, but much simpler than last season’s because we have less to catch up on. There will be eight stand-alones.” “It’s hard because I don’t want to say they were disappointing because we have a lot of positive feedback as well, clearly 15-plus million viewers an episode,” Walden said....

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘High Flying Bird’ Sells To Netflix, Will Premiere In 2019 By Ben Pearson/Sept. 11, 2018 3:30 pm EST Steven Soderbergh has been busier than ever since coming out of his short-lived “retirement.” In the past two years, he’s released two feature films (Logan Lucky and Unsane) and seven episodes of the experimental HBO series Mosaic, and thankfully he’s showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, he’s taking another unprecedented step in his career by working with Netflix for the first time....

The Morning Watch: ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Animatronics, Evolution Of Han Solo & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 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, learn about the complicated animatronics from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom....

WTF: Why Did ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2’ Have Sausage Nunchucks Cut Out In The UK? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 8, 2017 6:00 am EST If you didn’t like the most recent big screen adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, there’s a good chance that you’re one of the many fans who preferred the original franchise iteration from the 1990s. The original movie from the beginning of the decade was surprisingly dark and gritty for a movie that ended up being a favorite of kids, but that tone changed a bit when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze was made the following year....

‘Black Panther’ Director Ryan Coogler Pens An Emotional Thank You Letter To Fans By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2018 7:30 am EST Black Panther is a box office behemoth. In its four-day opening weekend, Black Panther shattered box office records, taking in $242 million domestically and $427 million worldwide. That’s the highest opening of all time for a film in February. That’s the fifth-highest opening for a film ever. People are coming out in droves to see the newest Marvel Studios film — not simply because it’s the studio’s first solo black superhero film, but because it’s that damn good....

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Replaces Bryan Singer With ‘Eddie The Eagle’ Director Dexter Fletcher By Jacob Hall/Dec. 7, 2017 7:30 am EST It remains to be seen how much of Bohemian Rhapsody will be Fletcher’s and his much of it will be Singer’s. Only two weeks of production remained when Singer was fired when he failed to return to the London set of the film, which stars Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury....

‘Cloak & Dagger’ Trailer: Superheroes Get Split-Screened For Freeform By Ben Pearson/March 1, 2018 12:00 pm EST Marvel and Freeform (formerly ABC Family) have released a trailer for Cloak & Dagger, their new superhero series aimed at the young adult crowd. But what secrets lie within? Watch the latest Cloak and Dagger trailer below, and join us for a very serious and not-at-all-joking attempt to get to the bottom of this new show....

‘Gambit’ Movie Aiming To Begin Production This Summer, But Still Doesn’t Have A Director By Ben Pearson/May 15, 2018 1:00 pm EST Variety caught up with X-Men film producer Simon Kinberg on the red carpet of the Deadpool 2 premiere last night in New York, and managed to get an update about the status of a long-awaited Gambit solo movie. No offense, Mr. Kinberg, but at this point, we’ll believe it when we see it....

‘Hidden Figures’ Trailer: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, And Janelle Monáe Get Involved In The Space Race By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2016 7:30 am EST John Glenn might get most of the glory for being the first American to orbit Earth, but behind him were dozens of brilliant scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, and more working to make his journey happen. The new movie Hidden Figures tells the story of three of them....

‘How To Talk To Girls At Parties’ Trailer: Your Average Story Of British Punk Boy Meets Curious Alien Girl By Ethan Anderton/April 3, 2018 7:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As someone reading a movie website, you’ve surely seen a coming of age romance here and there. And you’ve probably seen an alien invasion movie as well. But now they’re about to combine in a sexy, punk acid trip of a movie in the form of an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story and graphic novel How to Talk to Girls at Parties....

‘Office Christmas Party’ Trailer: All Of Chicago Is Invited To This Insane Holiday Shindig By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2016 9:00 am EST Today the city of Chicago really does have something to celebrate with the Cubs winning the World Series last night for the first time in 108 years. However, trying to top the celebrations in the Windy City this winter will be the holiday comedy Office Christmas Party. A new Office Christmas Party trailer has just arrived, and it provides many more details about the story at the center of the comedy....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets Gal Gadot And Kumail Nanjiani As October Hosts By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 22, 2017 6:30 am EST The end of this month will bring the 43rd season premiere of Saturday Night Live, fresh off winning several Emmys recently, including Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. They’ve got a lot to live up to after last season really brought out the best in the writers room and the cast, and it sounds like they’ll be starting things off on the right foot with a great batch of hosts to start things off....

‘The Current War’ Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch & Michael Shannon Have An Electric Battle By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 7, 2017 9:30 am EST Today, electricity surges through our homes, offices and restaurants and we’re hard-pressed to get anything done without the power it provides. But back in the 19th century, electricity was in its infancy, and it was at the center of a war between two of the greatest minds of the time to see who would control the marketplace for energy....

‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Sequel Has A Villain: ‘The Square’ Star Claes Bang By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 2017 3:30 pm EST The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel is expanding its growing web of cast members, this time tapping The Square star Claes Bang as its villain. There’s no word on what role Bang will be playing in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, but it’s certain that he will be facing off against Claire Foy’s goth hacker Lisbeth Salander in some capacity....

‘The X-Files’ Is Coming Back (Again) For A 10-Episode Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 21, 2017 7:30 am EST The newest season, which is slated to start production this summer and will air during the 2017-2018 season, reunites them with series creator and showrunner Chris Carter, who also was responsible for last year’s hot mess of a 10th season. Much hoopla was made over the Season 10 “revival” of The X-Files, which saw the show return to TV screens for the first time since season 9 season ended in 2002 and after the last film The X-Files: I Want to Believe hit theaters in 2008....

‘True Detective’ Season 3 Casts Stephen Dorff As Mahershala Ali’s Partner By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 3, 2018 10:09 am EST True Detective season 3 is shaping up to be quite an impressive entry into the HBO crime anthology series. First the casting of Mahershala Ali brought back much of the goodwill that the prestige series lost during the sluggish second season, and now Ali has finally received his partner: Stephen Dorff....

‘Westworld’ Website Update Teases What’s To Come In Season 2 By Ethan Anderton/July 9, 2017 10:00 am EST Even though the first season of Westworld concluded at the end of 2016 (and is arriving on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download in November), we won’t see the second season until sometime in 2018. Fans are patiently waiting to see what’s in store for the anticipated second season of the hit HBO sci-fi series, and we’ll likely have our appetite satiated, albeit temporarily, when the Westworld panel unfolds at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, July 22....

‘Wonder Woman’ Trailer: She’s The Hero Mankind Doesn’t Deserve By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2017 6:17 pm EST Watch the new Wonder Woman trailer after the jump. The action in this trailer looks positively astounding, better than anything we’ve seen thus far in the DC Extended Universe, even though they’re still keeping Ares hidden, instead choosing to paint Dr. Poison (Elena Anaya). Beyond that the tone of this movie is lighter without feeling watered down in any way....

Ben Affleck Might Be Done Playing Batman After ‘Justice League’ By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2017 11:05 am EST How’s this for a comic book movie bombshell: a new report indicates that Ben Affleck, who has played the latest live-action cinematic version of Batman in Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, and the upcoming Justice League, is apparently being “ushered out” as the Dark Knight, meaning that it’s unlikely he’ll even reprise the role in the long-gestating spin-off movie The Batman....

Bill Condon Eyes ‘Bride Of Frankenstein’ Remake By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 14, 2017 8:00 am EST Bill Condon, whose Beauty and the Beast remake has become a box office monster with a $1 billion-plus haul worldwide, is reportedly looking to direct the remake of Bride of Frankenstein as part of the new Universal Monsters movie universe. Condon is in early talks with Universal to direct the remake of the 1935 monster movie classic, according to Deadline....