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‘Orange Is The New Black’ Star Joins ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ As The Tinkerer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2016 3:30 pm EST Michael Chernus has joined the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming, and will play one of the film’s villains. Chernus, best known for playing Cal Chapman on Orange Is The New Black, is set to play Phineas Mason aka the Tinkerer in the film. Learn more, after the jump.Deadline broke the news that Chernus would be joining the Jon Watts-directed film, playing a second villain opposite Michael Keaton’s Vulture....

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Writer & Producer Reunite For Miniseries About 2016 Election By Angie Han/Feb. 15, 2017 4:30 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter writes that Boal will write the as-yet-untitled series, and produce it through his Page 1 production company. That company is financed by Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures. A group of journalists is being assembled by Hugo Lindgren, a Hollywood Reporter editor and New York Times Magazine alum who is also president of Boal’s Page 1, to act as investigative reporters for the project....

Busy Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro Re-Upps Deal With Dreamworks Animation By Chris Evangelista/April 19, 2018 2:00 pm EST What’s Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro going to do next? Whatever the hell he wants, apparently. The filmmaker just signed an exclusive deal with Dreamworks Animation to write, produce, and direct animated family films. Of the deal, Chris deFaria, President of DreamWorks Animation Film Group, said: Del Toro added: “We are thrilled that Guillermo is adding a film partnership to the already successful television relationship he has with DreamWorks Animation....

By Ben Pearson/Jan. 28, 2018 12:00 pm EST Regular movies tend to come and go, but Jordan Peele’s astonishing directorial debut, the four-time Oscar nominated Get Out, is more than just a regular movie. It’s a cultural touchstone with imagery that instantly became iconic, a deeply layered satire, and an exploration of race and relationships that has made an indelible impact on the world in the year since it debuted....

CW Seed To Introduce First Gay Superhero Lead, ‘The Ray’; The CW Talks ‘Supergirl’ Ratings [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 11, 2016 11:00 am EST CW President Mark Pedowitz was very enthusiastic about picking up Supergirl from CBS when he spoke to the Television Critics Association this morning. However, he was also frank about the show’s prospects. The CW generally gets lower ratings than any of the big four networks, so Pedowitz does not expect to match even Supergirl’s lowest CBS ratings....

John Travolta Will Stalk Devon Sawa In Thriller From Director Fred Durst By Ethan Anderton/March 7, 2018 3:30 pm EST Though you may remember Fred Durst from his days as the front man for the rap rock group Limp Bizkit, you may not know that Durst has dabbled in being a director. In addition to directing music videos for his own band, as well as videos for Korn and Staind, he’s also went behind the camera for the comedy The Longshots and the indie drama The Education of Charlie Banks....

LOL: ‘Deadpool’ Bloopers Have Tons More Filthiness From The Merc With A Mouth By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 2017 12:00 pm EST The big screen adaptation of the Marvel Comics title Deadpool was already pretty raunchy when the R-rated action comedy hit theaters early in 2016, but it turns out there was plenty more filthiness from Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth that we didn’t get to see. Deadpool was a highly improvised movie that allowed Ryan Reynolds to ad lib a bunch of his lines, and the result is endless alternate takes and jokes, many of which didn’t end up in the final movie for one reason or another....

Mark Wahlberg Creating ‘Alien Bounty Hunter’ Comic, Just So It Can Become A Movie By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2017 3:00 pm EST We have seen countless movies based on comic books. In almost all cases, those comic books existed independently of the film adaptation and they just happened to land a movie deal. However, there have been some instances where comic books were created with the sole purpose of being a pitch for a major motion picture....

Mel Gibson Discusses ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel ‘The Resurrection’ By Jack Giroux/Sept. 1, 2016 6:30 am EST Earlier this summer, screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) revealed he was writing a sequel to The Passion of the Christ for Mel Gibson. The two longtime collaborators are in very, very early stages of working on the film. Wallace stressed the sequel wasn’t guaranteed when he first mentioned it, and Gibson clearly isn’t in a rush to make the movie, titled The Resurrection, considering it’s been 12 years since Passion of the Christ came out and based on his comments on the sequel....

Multiple ‘Star Wars’ TV Shows In Development For Disney’s Streaming Service By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 6, 2018 4:24 pm EST How about some more Star Wars news? On the heels of the announcement that Game of Thrones creators are developing a new series of Star Wars films comes a tease of the franchise’s small screen future. There are multiple Star Wars TV shows currently in development for Disney’s upcoming streaming service....

Sterling K. Brown Joins Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2017 1:03 pm EST With shooting on track for an early 2017 start, Black Panther is making one more addition to its cast. Sterling K. Brown, who currently stars in the hit NBC drama This Is Us, has joined the Marvel superhero movie alongside Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, and more. Ryan Coogler is directing. Marvel officially announced the Black Panther Sterling K....

Superhero Bits: The Joker Origin Movie Rumors, Cloak And Dagger Season 2 Hints & More By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2018 6:00 pm EST What Oscar-winning actress has already passed on a role in The Joker movie with Joaquin Phoenix? What shade did Edward Norton throw at Marvel Studios recently? Has The Dark Knight done more harm than good to the comic book genre? Which actress is playing roles in both Aquaman and Shazam?...

The ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ Director Has Been Fired From The Film By Chris Evangelista/May 9, 2018 2:30 pm EST The Six Billion Dollar Man movie needs a new director. Reports indicate Damian Szifron has been fired from the Mark Wahlberg movie, an adaptation of the 1970s TV show The Six Million Dollar Man. Deadline says Damian Szifron has been fired from The Six Billion Dollar Man movie due to creative differences and, possibly, a “language barrier....

The Morning Watch: More ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ VFX, Remembering Neil Simon & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 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, another Avengers: Infinity War visual effects reel shows off more of the extensive, impressive post-production work....

This Tommy Wiseau Joker Audition Tape Is The Most Terrifying Thing You’ll See All Day By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 12, 2018 10:30 am EST Oh hi, Batman. It’s your worst nightmare. The Room star/director/writer/producer is a multi-hyphenate of his own making, but Tommy Wiseau wants to add one more title to that list: Joker. The Hollywood curiosity has been repeatedly campaigning for the role in Warner Bros.’ DC movies for months. And now, he finally gets to live his dream — sort of....

‘Altered Carbon’ Featurette: ‘Blade Runner’ Meets ‘The Matrix’ In Netflix’s New Sci-Fi World By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 23, 2017 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Netflix continues to expand their roster of original programmer, taking bigger and bigger risks. This time, they’re trying to build their own sci-fi world in the vein of Blade Runner and The Matrix with a new series called Altered Carbon....

‘Captain Marvel’ Fan Theory Suggests This ‘Civil War’ Line Is More Important Than We Thought By Ben Pearson/Sept. 14, 2018 11:30 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is overflowing with easter eggs and references to its comic book counterparts, but putting aside the obvious cameos and plot links that are baked into the stories, there are more subtle winks as well. Now one fan thinks they may have found a link between Captain America: Civil War and next year’s Captain Marvel in a throwaway piece of dialogue....

‘Christopher Robin’ Won’t Be Released In China Amid Censorship Crusade Against Winnie The Pooh By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 3, 2018 8:30 am EST Just when you thought 2018 couldn’t get any stranger, Winnie the Pooh has become a polarizing political figure…in China? And it’s not because of his lack of pants, nor his habit of stealing honey from bees (what’s up with that, Pooh!), but because he apparently has a striking resemblance to the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping....

‘Dunkirk’ Trailer: A New Look At Christopher Nolan’s World War II Epic By Jacob Hall/Dec. 14, 2016 7:05 am EST The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk consisted of only a few shots, with one stand out in particular: a group of British soldiers looking skyward as the sounds of German planes grew louder and louder. It was a teaser in every sense of the word, existing merely to announce the film’s presence to general audiences....

/Film Visited The ‘It’ Experience In Hollywood And Lived To Tell The Tale By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2017 12:30 pm EST An empty parking lot once sat at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, but a two-story haunted house now towers above tourists as they traverse that intersection. This is The It Experience: Neibolt House Hollywood, an elaborate recreation of the house that will appear in the upcoming movie adaptation of Stephen King’s It, and we have video from inside....