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Nicolas Winding Refn’s Spy Thriller ‘The Avenging Silence’ Gets A Full Plot Synopsis By Jack Giroux/Jan. 11, 2017 4:30 pm EST Director Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon) has teamed up with screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, best known for their extensive work on the James Bond franchise, for his Tokyo-set thriller, The Avenging Silence. Refn will again follow a man of few words with his next film. Based on its early plot synopsis, The Avenging Silence is about a mute former spy assigned with killing the head of a Yakuza family....

Sorry, Cool Kids: ‘Venom’ May Be PG-13 After All By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 9, 2018 12:22 pm EST When Sony first announced that it was developing a Venom movie, the descriptor “R-rated” immediately followed. Venom was touted as Sony’s first R-rated Marvel film, an intriguing draw for the infamous antihero character. Without the kid-friendly Spider-Man dragging Venom down, the comic book movie was to be Sony’s grasp at being taken seriously. And coming off the heels of the success of Fox’s Logan, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable goal....

The Magic Of Harry Potter Is Coming To Barge Ladies Cruise Lines By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2018 5:30 am EST If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Harry Potter fans who have always wanted to sail across the Great Lake on the way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, you can now get one step closer. Barge Ladies cruise company has put together an enchanting new vacation opportunity for Harry Potter fans to enjoy late this summer....

Tour Walt Disney World’s ‘Avatar’ Land With This New Video By Jacob Hall/Dec. 26, 2016 12:00 pm EST For theme park fans, Walt Disney World’s Pandora: The World of Avatar has long existed as a series of rumors wrapped in photos taken from a distance, a handful of intriguing promises that didn’t quite line up with the fact that the Animal Kingdom theme park’s newest themed land has looked like a construction site for most of the past year....

Watch: ‘Girls Trip’ Star Tiffany Haddish’s 18-Minute NYFCC Acceptance Speech By Ben Pearson/Jan. 5, 2018 3:00 pm EST Tiffany Haddish had a heck of a year in 2017. After working on the stand-up comedy circuit and scoring small roles in films and television shows, the actress broke out in a huge way with her performance in Girls Trip last year. She was so good in that movie that the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle honored her with their Best Supporting Actress award, meaning that she beat out contenders like Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), and Mary J....

Watch Mike Myers As ‘The Gong Show’ Host Tommy Maitland On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ By Jack Giroux/May 4, 2017 2:30 pm EST We’re soon going to see more of Mike Myers. His last appearance in a live-action film (without counting documentaries) was Inglorious Bastards, in which he played a British general under heavy prosthetics. Now, he’s playing a British comedian under prosthetics in ABC’s reboot of The Gong Show, once hosted by the recently departed Chuck Barris (who was played by Sam Rockwell in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)....

Whatcha Gonna Do When ‘Bad Boys 3’ Loses Director Joe Carnahan By Jacob Hall/March 8, 2017 6:30 am EST We should have known something was up when director Joe Carnahan announced that he was working on an American remake of the Indonesian action classic The Raid. Wasn’t he supposed to be directing the third Bad Boys movie, otherwise known as Bad Boys For Life? Was he going to make them back-to-back?...

Will Ferrell And Kristen Wiig Are Developing An Original Musical All About Industrial Musicals By Jack Giroux/Dec. 16, 2016 6:30 am EST Former SNL stars and frequent collaborators Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig may reunite for an original musical. They’re attached to develop an adaptation of Steve Young and Mike Murphy’s book, Everything Is Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age Of Industrial Musicals, which is about the musicals corporations used to put together to inspire their workers....

‘Adrift’ Trailer: Shailene Woodley And Sam Claflin Really Should Have Checked The Weather Report By Ben Pearson/March 14, 2018 12:00 pm EST If you thought The Perfect Storm was intense, wait until you get a load of this. In a new survival thriller called Adrift, Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin play a real-life couple caught in what would become the largest storm to ever hit the Pacific Ocean. Check out the jaw-dropping first trailer below....

‘Beautiful Boy’ Trailer: Timothée Chalamet Gives Another Oscar-Worthy Performance By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 19, 2018 7:30 am EST That’s not to say that Steve Carell, who plays his father, isn’t receiving raves himself — the buzz around Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen’s English-language debut is all about both beautiful boys. Beautiful Boy Trailer Based on the memoirs written by Nic Sheff and his father, David Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the relationship between Chalamet’s Nic as he spirals into meth addiction, and his disappointed father David (Carell), who attempts to reach out to his son and help him recover....

‘Godzilla: King Of Monsters’ Brings In ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Star O’Shea Jackson Jr. By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 2017 2:30 pm EST Following Straight Outta Compton, the stars who played the core members of the groundbreaking rap group NWA became quickly rising stars. Jason Mitchell played Eazy E, Corey Hawkins played Dr. Dre and O’Shea Jackson Jr. stepped into the shoes of his father as Ice Cube. Since then, Hawkins went on to lead 24: Legacy while Mitchell took a solid supporting turn in the comedy Keanu and made a huge splash with an award-worthy performance in the Sundance selected Mudbound....

‘Iron Fist’ Trailer: Danny Rand Embraces His Destiny By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2017 8:00 am EST As hyped as we are for Marvel’s The Defenders, we’ve still got one last stop before we get there. Next month brings Iron Fist, which introduces Danny Rand (Finn Jones) as the fourth and final Defender and brings some magical martial arts into the mix. The new trailer plays kind of like a lighter Batman Begins, with Danny — the long-lost scion of a multibillion-dollar corporate enterprise — returning with some mysterious powers to reclaim his place in society and beat up lots of bad guys along the way....

‘It’ Star Bill Skarsgård Joins Hulu’s Stephen King Multiverse Series ‘Castle Rock’ By Ben Pearson/July 11, 2017 3:30 pm EST Hulu’s upcoming TV show Castle Rock, a psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, has been slowly filling its lead roles as the show heads toward production. They’ve managed to snag some pretty awesome cast members so far – any show that prominently features Melanie Lynskey, Andre Holland, and Jane Levy is worth getting excited about – but now Carrie star Sissy Spacek won’t be the only actor who’s actually appeared in a movie based on a King novel: Bill Skarsgård, who is playing the terrifying-looking Pennywise the Clown in the upcoming adaptation of It, will be heading to Castle Rock as well....

‘Jumanji’ Concept Art Reveals The Rock Playing An Indiana Jones-Type By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2016 1:30 pm EST Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has posted the first piece of concept art from the reboot/sequel to the beloved family film Jumanji. The concept art reveals that The Rock will be playing a character that looks to be very inspired by Indiana Jones. Hit the jump to find out what The Rock is cooking....

‘Memento’ Honest Trailer: The Memory Mockery Unfolds In Reverse By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2017 5:00 am EST With Dunkirk hitting theaters this weekend, everyone is talking about the filmography of director Christopher Nolan. That’s why Screen Junkies has taken aim at the filmmaker’s breakthrough film Memento for their latest edition of Honest Trailers, and they’ve taken a cue from the narrative style of the film to structure their video. Watch the Memento Honest Trailer down below....

‘Paddington 2’ Is The Best Reviewed Movie Of All Time On Rotten Tomatoes (For Now) By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 18, 2018 2:30 pm EST Paddington 2, a film about a very polite bear who has to face-off against Hugh Grant in a bunch of wigs, is now the best reviewed movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes. For now. This will change! But at this very moment in time, the film has held fast to its 100% rating....

‘Sharknado 5: Global Swarming’ Is Coming This Summer, Read The List Of Cameos By Ben Pearson/June 1, 2017 4:00 pm EST The world was a much simpler place back in 2013 when the first Sharknado movie debuted on Syfy and took social media by storm. Remember the days when we’d gather around the digital campfire just to make fun of a cheesy movie, not to commiserate about the potential end of the world as we know it?...

‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Gets A Spooky New Poster And Official Release Date By Ethan Anderton/July 11, 2017 6:44 am EST With San Diego Comic-Con coming next week, the news about your favorite upcoming movies and returning TV shows is going to be heating up. Staying ahead of the game, Netflix has just released a brand new poster for the second season of Stranger Things, and not only is that poster really spooky and absolutely gorgeous, but it gives us the official release date for the show’s return as well....

‘Truth Or Dare’ Trailer: ‘It Follows’ Meets ‘Final Destination’ In Blumhouse’s Latest Scare By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 3, 2018 9:30 am EST The game of truth or dare comes up in every teen’s life when hormones, underage drinking, drugs, and stupid decisions brought about by all of the above are involved. It’s usually embarrassing and risque, but Universal and Blumhouse Pictures are about to make it deadly. Truth or Dare is the latest horror film from Jason Blum, the producer of Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Get Out, and it looks like the movie could have teens swearing off playing the game ever again when it turns on a group of friends, forcing them to ruin each others lives by either revealing their darkest secrets or killing them....

‘Twilight’ Is Returning To Theaters For Its 10-Year Anniversary By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2018 10:30 am EST Twilight is coming back to life in theaters. The hugely popular teen vampire romance franchise celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first movie this year with a re-release in movie theaters nationwide. But unlike the immortal lives of Edward and the Cullens, the re-release has a short lifespan: Twilight will only be screening for two days....