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‘NOS4A2’ TV Show Coming To AMC Based On Joe Hill’s Horror Novel By Ben Pearson/April 10, 2018 9:30 am EST Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland....

‘Shock And Awe’ Trailer: Woody Harrelson And James Marsden Investigate The Iraq War By Chris Evangelista/May 19, 2018 8:00 am EST In 2003, the Bush White House sold America on the Iraq War under the pretense that Iraq was harboring weapons of mass destruction. Not long after, we all learned that claim wasn’t true, but at the time, most journalists didn’t seem to realize the truth. Shock and Awe is about a two journalists who did....

‘The Mummy’ Honest Trailer: A Loose Connection Of Studio Notes Masquerading As A Movie By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 13, 2017 6:00 am EST Even though Universal’s latest attempt to remake The Mummy only just came out this past summer, the movie was so painfully bad and forgettable that it feels like it’s been much longer. Thankfully (or maybe unfortunately), the folks at Honest Trailers are here to remind us of all the missteps taken by this tragically misguided attempt to turn The Mummy into an action adventure franchise....

Alamo Drafthouse Announces ‘Titanic’ Screening On The Queen Mary, Is Just Asking For Trouble By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2018 2:30 pm EST Hey, you remember Titanic, right? It’s that movie James Cameron directed about a blossoming, forbidden romance on the most famous ocean liner disaster in history. Well, now you can relive all the magic of that ill-fated relationship on another ocean liner, one that is far less likely to sink....

Fred Armisen Bringing ‘Los Espookys’ Spanish-Language Comedy Series To HBO By Ethan Anderton/July 4, 2018 4:00 pm EST HBO is a prime destination for great comedy with shows like Silicon Valley, Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show and more in the cable network’s roster. But their new collaboration with Fred Armisen and Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels is something much different. HBO has given the greenlight to a new half-hour comedy series called Los Espookys that will follow a group of friends in a strange and dreamy version of present-day Mexico turning their love for horror into a peculiar business....

FX Reveals ‘Mayans MC’ Trailer, Teases ‘Fargo’ Return In 2020 By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 8, 2018 1:30 pm EST The FX TV show slate is looking strong, even as the cable network series pushes back the return of one its most acclaimed series. The network’s new Sons of Anarchy spin-off, Mayans MC, has released its first teaser trailer, promising even more biker gang brutality and hyper-masculinity. But as FX looks to revive the Sons of Anarchy franchise, one of its flagship shows has just been delayed a little longer....

Guy Ritchie’s ‘Aladdin’ Casts Mena Massoud As Aladdin, Naomi Scott As Jasmine [D23 Expo 2017] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 15, 2017 12:02 pm EST At the D23 Expo, we learned that live-action adaptation of Aladdin has found the stars it was reportedly having so much difficulty casting. Aladdin has cast Mena Massoud as the titular Aladdin and Power Rangers’ Naomi Scott as his love interest and the princess of Agrabah, Jasmine....

How Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ Got To Reference A Beloved Pixar Movie By Jack Giroux/July 6, 2017 10:00 am EST Edgar Wright drops a few references during Baby Driver. His new thriller tips its hat to a few titles and even has movies play a unique, surprisingly substantial role in his new film. One of those movies is a Pixar film that’s thematically related to Wright’s story of a silent, music-loving getaway driver....

Richard Donner’s ‘Superman’ Flies Back To Theaters For Its 40th Anniversary By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2018 3:00 pm EST It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Richard Donner’s Superman flying back to theaters in honor of its 40th anniversary! The superhero movie that started it all, Superman celebrates 40 years since it first hit theaters in 1978 with a theatrical re-release this November. No hero has stood the test of time like Christopher Reeve’s Superman, the earnest hero at the heart of Donner’s 1978 classic....

See The Trailer For The Best Magic Movie Of The Year, Then Go Watch The Film By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2016 12:30 pm EST /Film’s David Chen has said that half of his top ten list this year will probably be populated by documentaries. There have been some real fantastic documentary films in 2016, and I want to add a new one to your to-do list. It is called Magicians: Life in the Impossible....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man And The Soul Stone, Possible Justice League Unlimited Reunion & More By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2018 6:00 pm EST Is Mark Hamill up for a Justice League Unlimited reunion? Is Tony Stark somehow linked to the Infinity Stone in Avengers: Infinity War? How will the time jump impact characters in Legion season two? Where is the Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel shooting on location? What are the 10 coolest gadgets from Agents of SHIELD?...

The ‘Justice League’ Blu-Ray Includes Only One Bonus Scene By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 1:00 pm EST Try as they might, Zack Snyder fans won’t be getting the director’s special cut of Justice League they’ve been demanding. They may not even get the extended cut that was rumored to be included in the movie’s Blu-ray release. Instead, it seems like fans will have to content themselves with only one bonus scene that wasn’t included in Justice League’s theatrical cut....

The Avengers React To The ‘Justice League’ Trailer In Mash-Up Video By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 27, 2017 6:30 am EST The new Justice League trailer declares itself to be the coming of the age of heroes, but there’s another group of superheroes who aren’t too happy to see the DC comics legends team-up on the big screen. At least, that’s what this fan video imagines, in a mash-up of the Justice League trailer and Avengers: Age of Ultron footage....

Vera Farmiga Is A “DJ For The Monsters” In ‘Godzilla 2’ By Chris Evangelista/July 11, 2018 3:30 pm EST Vera Farmiga has offered some strange insight into her character in Godzilla 2, aka Godzilla: King of the Monsters. According to Farmiga, her character can both communicate with and possibly control the big, city-leveling monsters in the film. A movie where Vera Farmiga talks to big monsters? This is now a must-see....

Watch Actors Improv The ‘Doctor Strange’ End Credits Scene By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2017 4:30 pm EST Disney has been releasing clips of some of the bonus features in promotion for the home video release of Doctor Strange. They’ve released deleted scenes, a gag reel and now we can finally see some behind the scenes footage of the filming of the Doctor Strange end credits scene. The featurette, which shows Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, alongside another Marvel hero, improving a scene for the end credits tag....

‘Captain Marvel’ Will Be A Prequel Set In The Early ’90s, Samuel L. Jackson Confirmed To Co-Star [Comic-Con 2017] By Jacob Hall/July 22, 2017 6:35 pm EST The Marvel Studios panel at Comic-Con 2017 couldn’t feature footage from Captain Marvel (because it hasn’t started filming yet), but it could reveal a number of tantalizing details about the Brie Larson-starring superhero movie due out in 2019. First, we learned that the rumors are true: Samuel L....

‘Carrie Pilby’ Trailer: Bel Powley Is Much Smarter Than You, Also Unhappy By Jacob Hall/Feb. 22, 2017 6:30 am EST Welcome the museum of American Independent Film. Have you been here before? Oh, good! Then you know that the Middle-Aged Sad Sack Comedian wing is to the left and the Quirky New York Girl Learns How To Break Out Of Her Shell wing is to the right. May I recommend a visit to the latter?...

‘Cars 3’ Trailer: This Is Pixar’s Version Of ‘Rocky IV’ By Ben Pearson/May 10, 2017 9:30 am EST Sylvester Stallone turned the training montage into a staple of the sports movie genre with his Rocky films, but it looks like the people at Pixar are big fans of Rocky IV in particular. The brand new Cars 3 trailer that just debuted looks like this movie is essentially a remake of Stallone’s sequel, and Cars 3 even has its own version of Dolph Lundgren’s steroid-fueled Russian boxer Ivan Drago: a sleek new car named Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer)....

‘Happy Death Day’ Trailer: ‘Groundhog Day’ With A Lot More Murder By Jacob Hall/June 15, 2017 4:00 pm EST It’s official: Groundhog Day has officially become a template for other movies to borrow. The short-lived television series Day Break took the concept of a character reliving the same day over and over again and made it a police procedural. Edge of Tomorrow retooled it for a (pretty fantastic) science fiction action movie....

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