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Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Spider-Man PS4 Featurette, New Mutants Footage Description & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 11, 2017 5:00 pm EST Mads Mikkelsen said in an recent interview with IGN Japan that he’s love to play an older version of Spider-Man.Shazam director David F. Sandberg promises plenty of new casting announcements are on the way very soon. The King of Asgard keyframe I illustrated on #ThorRagnarok....

Ubisoft Netflix TV Series May Be Coming, But Which Video Game Property Will It Be? By Jacob Hall/Nov. 9, 2016 11:00 am EST Nobody outside of Netflix knows exactly how many people watch anything on everyone’s default streaming service, but the numbers are high enough for everyone involved to keep investing in original shows and movies. They’re also large enough to attract major talents. Netflix is responsible for an upcoming Will Smith movie....

VOTD: What Does An Editor Do On An Animated Movie? By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2017 6:00 am EST Everyone knows that the job of an editor on any movie is to take all the footage that was shot during production and attempt to assemble it into the motion picture that we’ll see playing on the big screen in front of us. But when it comes to an animated movie, what exactly does an editor do?...

Watch Kelly Marie Tran’s Audition For ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Opposite John Boyega By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 21, 2017 1:00 pm EST One of the many cool new additions to the Star Wars franchise in The Last Jedi is Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose. The character isn’t Force sensitive, or a big player in the Resistance, yet she makes a huge difference anyway, and Tran’s performance is worth paying attention to. A new behind-the-scenes video reveals Tran’s audition with Star Wars actor John Boyega, and it’s a must-watch....

‘47 Meters Down’ Trailer: When Hungry Great White Sharks Attack Mandy Moore By Jack Giroux/May 16, 2017 3:00 pm EST It’s summertime, which means it’s the time of the year to hit the beach with your family and friends. Of course, maybe you won’t want to pay a visit to the beach if you have sharks on your mind. If 47 Meters Down is an effective shark movie, then maybe a few of us might think twice before swimming out too far from shore this summer....

‘Altered Carbon’ Featurette Explores The History Of Immortality By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 1, 2018 4:00 pm EST Altered Carbon, Netflix’s big, weird new science fiction series, arrives this weekend, and in anticipation of this, the streaming service has released an in-depth Altered Carbon featurette that looks at the way the series treats life and death.Altered Carbon is, for the most part, a strange show. There’s a lot of rich, complex mythology in the series, and it doesn’t spoon-feed its audience....

‘Cannonball Run’ Remake Reels In Director Doug Liman For The Cross-Country Race By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 2018 11:30 am EST The 1981 film Cannonball Run followed a cavalcade of stars like Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Adrien Barbeau, and Dom DeLuise as teams of people who enlist in an illegal cross country race called the Cannonball Run. The teams pull no punches when it comes to winning, and that includes sabotaging each other along the way....

‘King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword’ Featurette: Jude Law Is Hungry For More Power By Jack Giroux/May 11, 2017 4:30 pm EST Initially scheduled to come out almost ten months ago, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword finally opens in theaters this Friday. Unfortunately, it’s going up against Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 without the most promising buzz. Early reviews haven’t been kind to the film, and box-office analysts don’t see it going beyond $25 million this weekend....

‘Nerdland’ Red-Band Trailer: Paul Rudd And Patton Oswalt Lend Their Voices To An R-Rated Animated Comedy By Jack Giroux/March 31, 2016 10:30 am EST Sausage Party isn’t the only R-rated animated film featuring a standout cast we’ll see this year. Next month, Nerdland will make its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the voice cast includes Paul Rudd, Patton Oswalt, Mike Judge, Hannibal Buress, Molly Shannon, and Kate Micucci. For some, this film may have come out of nowhere, but if you’re always keeping an eye on what screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) is working on, then you might’ve already heard about this adult animated feature....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Trailer: Are All Pirates This Stupid? By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2017 9:00 am EST Because box office is king, we’re getting another Pirates of the Caribbean movie whether we like it or not. The jury is still out as to whether this will be the last film in the franchise or if Disney is just on the verge of relieving Johnny Depp of his nautical duties as Captain Jack Sparrow and handing the film series off to new blood instead....

‘Rings’ Trailer: Samara Hasn’t Forgotten About This Movie, Even If You Have By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2017 10:00 am EST Rings has been pushed back so many times at this point that there’s a very good chance you forgot it was coming at all. But you know who doesn’t forget about these things? Creepy little girls trapped in wells who wreak vengeance via viral video. A new Rings trailer sets up the next chapter in the horror franchise, which reveals that Samara’s managed to catch up with the times and give her tape a digital upgrade....

‘Sorry To Bother You’ Featurette: Meet The Super Talented Cast Of Your New Favorite Social Satire By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 6, 2018 4:00 pm EST One of the first things you notice about Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley’s new social satire that is sparking conversations about black identity, is how stacked its cast is. And a new featurette highlights the character actor-studded cast. Atlanta breakout LaKeith Stanfield leads a cast filled with everyone’s favorite rising stars, including Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, and Steven Yeun....

‘The Looming Tower’ First Look: Hulu’s New Counterterrorism Miniseries By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2017 4:00 pm EST The events leading up to 9/11 will soon be dramatized in Hulu’s new miniseries The Looming Tower. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright, the series will follow the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the 1990s, and how a rivalry between the FBI and CIA may have inadvertently contributed to a failure to prevent the 9/11 terrorist attacks....

‘War On Everyone’ Trailer: Alexander Skarsgård And Michael Peña Play The Cops From Hell By Jacob Hall/Aug. 12, 2016 12:40 pm EST I like to imagine Martin McDonagh and John Michael McDonagh in a constant state of sibling rivalry, with each brother looking to top the other with every project. Martin wrote the masterful stage play The Pillowman (among others) before making one of the best crime comedies of the past decade with In Bruges....

‘Westworld’ Season 2 May Introduce More Parks, Is Still Confusing Ed Harris By Jacob Hall/Oct. 5, 2017 3:30 pm EST The first season of Westworld was built as a puzzle box. The series never went out of its way to explain what you were looking at, demanding your patience as it slowly unrolled the necessary details to figure who was who, what was what, and when was when. Showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy kept it up until the final scenes of the season finale…before they finally unleashed hell....

A ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie Starring John Cena Is Hollywood’s Latest Bad Idea By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 23, 2018 8:00 am EST Remember Duke Nukem? The video game in which a muscle-bound bro fights aliens with a rotating arsenal of weapons, occasionally stopping to quote They Live and Army of Darkness? Well, now that Hollywood has officially run out of ideas, they’ve decided to turn it into a movie, and they want wrestler and baggy suit enthusiast John Cena to play the part....

Aquaman Had An Offscreen Meeting With Superman In ‘Man Of Steel’ According To Jason Momoa By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 15, 2017 10:30 am EST The world (or ocean) of the DC Extended Universe may be a lot smaller than we anticipated. The shared cinematic universe was born fairly recently, launched from Zack Snyder’s 2013 Superman origin movie, Man of Steel. But it turns out Snyder was laying the ground for Justice League and beyond, with a secret (so secret you don’t even see it!...

Can The ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Prequels Continue Without Caesar? By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2016 9:30 am EST The first intelligent ape has been an emotional anchor for the whole series since it began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but eventually he’ll have to die, whether at the hands of a human, or just because of old age. So when that time comes, will that be the end of the new Planet of the Apes prequels?...

Chris Hardwick Loses Talk Show On AMC After Abuse Allegations, Won’t Be Moderating Comic-Con Panels By Ethan Anderton/June 17, 2018 10:00 am EST Update: The Wrap reports that Chris Hardwick will not moderate the Warner Bros. panel at Comic-Con this year. He previously moderated the studio’s Hall H presentation in 2017 and 2014. Just before the weekend, comedian and television personality Chris Hardwick had some serious allegations tossed his way when ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra penned a detailed and disturbing essay laying out his pattern of emotional and sexual abuse throughout their three-year relationship....

By Angie Han/Nov. 23, 2016 8:13 pm EST Of course, if there’s one thing we know about Avatar 2, it’s that an official release date is no guarantee we’ll actually get a movie on said release date. Remember, this film was originally scheduled to open in 2014. But it’s gotta come out eventually, so who knows, maybe this deadline will be the one Cameron finally manages to hit. And if not, maybe he’ll pop back up in a couple of years to promise yet another Avatar sequel....