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‘Narcos’ Season 3 Teaser And New Photos Shift The Focus To A New Cartel By Ben Pearson/July 14, 2017 1:30 pm EST Narcos has been sitting in my Netflix queue since the day season 1 premiered, but I’ve never been inspired to watch it because I’ve seen the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar on screen so many times before. The excellent documentary Cocaine Cowboys, ESPN’s 30 for 30 entry The Two Escobars, heck, even one of Entourage’s fake movies covered it....

‘Nightflyers’ Trailer: Step Into George R.R. Martin’s Sci-Fi World [Comic-Con 2018] By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2018 3:53 pm EST Years before publishing the detailed world of Westeros in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Game of Thrones mastermind George R.R. Martin wrote Nightflyers, a futuristic novella about a crew trapped inside a spaceship. Now the show is being turned into a Syfy series, and a new trailer just debuted at San Diego Comic-Con International....

‘Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi’ Honest Trailer: The One Where Boba Fett Goes Out Like Wile E. Coyote By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 13, 2017 6:00 am EST This weekend brings the next installment of the Star Wars saga with Mark Hamill returning to the role he originated for the first time over 40 years ago. But before that, let’s flashback to the time Mark Hamill returned as Luke Skywalker in 1983, as a full blown Jedi....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Images Show Off Two New Characters By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 16, 2017 3:00 pm EST We’re getting closer and closer to Star Wars: The Last Jedi and two new images from the film have arrived. The images give us new looks at new characters Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo (Laura Dern) and Rose (Kelly Marie Tran). In a new interview to accompany the images, Dern and Tran reveal some details about their new additions to the Star Wars universe....

‘The Lovers’ Trailer: Debra Winger & Tracy Letts’ Extramarital Affairs Save Their Marriage By Angie Han/Jan. 4, 2017 12:00 pm EST Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a longtime couple finds that the spark has gone out of their marriage, and begin seeking satisfaction in outside affairs. One thing leads to another, the new relationships grow more serious, and it looks like the marriage is about to be over for good....

Another ‘The Conjuring’ Spin-Off Is Coming With ‘The Crooked Man’ By Jacob Hall/June 14, 2017 2:30 pm EST While Universal struggles to get their “Dark Universe” of monster characters off the ground, Warner Bros. and director/producer James Wan have been quietly building a horror movie universe based around creatures and concepts introduced in The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2. A fourth spin-off movie, titled The Crooked Man and based on the creepy villain from the second movie, is now in the works....

Another Adaptation Of John Grisham’s ‘The Rainmaker’ In The Works At CBS By Jack Giroux/Oct. 14, 2016 6:30 am EST The 1990s was a good time to be a John Grisham fan. For a decade or so, the author had many of his novels successfully adapted. From The Client, A Time to Kill, The Firm, to even Robert Altman’s shaggy but atmospheric The Gingerbread Man, Hollywood was making some good dramas with Grisham’s material, and audiences were responding to them....

Apple Watch Movie Theater Mode Coming In New Update By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2017 10:00 am EST It has been rumored, that the next Apple iPhone will introduce a new feature called Movie Theater Mode which hopes to make phone use less of a distraction in movie cinemas. I’m actually hopeful about this new mode as I just don’t believe we can change people’s behaviors and the bright screens are what distracts me, but it seems like a lot of people disagree....

Chris Hemsworth Has No Idea What’s Going On With Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Movie By Jacob Hall/Jan. 8, 2018 8:00 am EST One moment, you’re planning to boldly go back to the science fiction movie series that helped launch your career and the next…well, you’re lost in space. Chris Hemsworth knows as much about Quentin Tarantino’s planned Star Trek movie as you do, which means “not much.” Surely, this doesn’t bode well for the original Star Trek 4 pitch, which involved the return of Hemsworth’s George Kirk....

Dan Harmon Lays Into Sexist ‘Rick And Morty’ Trolls For Harassing Female Writers By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 22, 2017 10:30 am EST Behind every powerful woman are legions of disgruntled male trolls trying to tear her down. It’s unfortunately a common sight on the internet: a female writer, social media personality, or women in the limelight find themselves subject to increasingly violent threats for a misspoken statement or badly-received work. It’s even worse when it’s in a traditionally male sphere, like the case of Rick and Morty’s new female writers....

Disney Streaming Service Gets An Official Name, Will Cost Less Than Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2018 8:00 am EST Ever since Netflix changed the game by offering loads of streaming content in the form of movies and TV shows, both syndicated and original, everyone else has been rushing to catch up. The result is a barrage of subscription streaming services that fans get to pick and choose from. Soon Disney will be joining the game in 2019 with their own branded streaming service, and we have some new details on it from Disney CEO Bob Iger....

James Wan To Produce ‘Train To Busan’ Remake From ‘The Nun’ Writer Gary Dauberman By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 25, 2018 3:00 pm EST James Wan and The Nun writer Gary Dauberman are on board to bring the hit South Korean zombie action thriller Train to Busan to the United States. Wan is set to produce the Train to Busan remake, while Dauberman is set to pen the American version of the flick which has garnered a cult following since its release in 2016....

Joss Whedon Won’t Direct ‘Batgirl’ Film After All By Ben Pearson/Feb. 22, 2018 12:52 pm EST Joss Whedon’s Batgirl is no more. After moving from Marvel Studios to Warner Bros. and DC last year in the hopes of writing and directing a movie based on Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl), the writer/director has officially exited the project, leaving it without a filmmaker at the moment. Read Whedon’s comments about parting ways with the film below....

LOL: Samuel L. Jackson Tries To Recreate His Most Iconic Roles In 11 Minutes By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 2017 6:30 am EST While James Corden’s most viral contribution to late night television is undoubtedly Carpool Karaoke, which will be getting its very own series soon on Apple Music, he’s also known for having some fun recreating the movies of some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. The Late Late Show has seen James Corden team up with the likes of Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger to deliver cheap and quick recreations of their most iconic roles....

Margot Robbie To Star In ‘Marian,’ Yet Another ‘Robin Hood’ Movie By Jacob Hall/March 6, 2017 1:30 pm EST Maybe it’s because we’re living in an era where people all over the world feel disenfranchised and powerless in the face of ever-widening income gape, but there are a whole bunch of Robin Hood movies in development at the moment. Hollywood seems to be betting on people wanting to see stories about a charming rogue stealing from the rich and giving to the poor....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 30, 2017 1:30 pm EST Netflix’s newest comic book adaptation is only getting more super, with a cast rounded out with stars from Game of Thrones, Hamilton, Misfits, and more. The Umbrella Academy series has found its main cast, adding Tom Hopper as Luther, Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison, David Castañeda as Diego, Robert Sheehan as Klaus, and Aidan Gallagher as Number Five. They join Ellen Page (who joined the series last month), who plays Vanya....

Netflix Will Complete Orson Welles’ Last Film ‘The Other Side Of The Wind’ By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2017 3:30 pm EST Filmmaker Orson Welles has left behind two holy grails for film aficionados to chase. One is the footage cut from his original version of The Magnificent Ambersons, which as far as anyone can tell, doesn’t exist anymore. The other is The Other Side of the Wind, which is the long-uncompleted final film from Welles....

New ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Details Tease Finn’s Mission And A Certain Cameo By Jacob Hall/Feb. 15, 2017 2:00 pm EST Just the other day, we were talking about the arid, empty, Tusken Raider-inhabited planet that is Star Wars movie news in February 2017 – it’s a bit of a wasteland out there. And right on cue, the universe has delivered some new Star Wars: The Last Jedi material for us to sink our teeth into....

New Mitch Hedberg Stand-Up Material May Get Released Sometime Soon By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2018 2:30 pm EST Mitch Hedberg’s widow Lynn Shawcroft has been sitting on a treasure trove of new material in various forms. For years, she has found it hard to pour over this material, but now she’s decided “to become a better widow” and is working with a Los Angeles production company to digitize new material in the form of notebooks, hotel note pads, scribbled napkins, cassette tapes, and even 16mm footage, all featuring never before seen or heard material from Mitch Hedberg....

Sam Worthington Promises ‘Avatar 2’ Is Gonna Be ‘‘Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen’’ By Jack Giroux/Feb. 14, 2017 9:00 am EST The four Avatar sequels turn Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) into a family man. Director James Cameron called the sequels “more of a family saga about the struggle with the humans.” In Avatar 2, Sully and his family visit unexplored parts of Pandora, according to Sam Worthington. The actor recently talked about that eight-year gap in the story and the current shooting schedule....