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By Jack Giroux/Dec. 7, 2016 6:30 am EST Below, learn more about the Emily the Strange movie. Emily the Strange is an inventive goth 13-year-old girl who hangs out with her four cats — Sabbath (the troublemaker), Nee-Chee (the schemer), Miles (the creative), and the leader of the group, Mystery — and wears the same black dress every day. Her adventures range from defeating boredom to accidentally making another version of herself....

‘Justice League’ Promo: Wonder Woman Is The Glue Holding The Team Together By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 26, 2017 1:00 pm EST The Justice League promotional rollout just got a little more wonderful. Capping off “Cyborg and Wonder Woman Week” is a new Wonder Woman-centric “First Look.” The two-minute featurette explores Diana of Themyscira’s role in the League, and how she helps assemble the team of superheroes. There’s also a ton of new footage featuring her in action....

‘Manifesto’ Trailer: Cate Blanchett Plays 13 Different Roles By Jack Giroux/Jan. 13, 2017 7:30 am EST She’s convincingly played (a version of) Bob Dylan, Katherine Hepburn, the wicked stepmother in Cinderella, Queen Elizabeth I, and Galadriel, the royal elf of the Noldor and the Teleri. Listing off those few roles barely begins to scratch the surface of Blanchett’s talents. Most film fans are likely in agreement she can do it all, like, say, play 13 different roles in Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto, which debuts this month at the Sundance Film Festival....

‘Rogue One’ Star Alan Tudyk Reveals His Deleted Live-Action Cameo By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2016 2:00 pm EST It’s no secret Alan Tudyk has a role in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As we’ve discussed extensively, he plays mo-cap character K-2SO, an Imperial droid reprogrammed by Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) to work for the Rebel Alliance. But it turns out he almost had a second, live-action role in the movie as well....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’: Doug Jones Explains His Character’s Alien Origins By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2017 12:00 pm EST You probably know Doug Jones as the man who played Abe Sapien in Hellboy, the Faun and the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth, and the Silver Surfer in 2007’s otherwise-forgettable Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. But very soon, you might know him best as Lieutenant Saru, a character on the upcoming CBS All Access drama Star Trek: Discovery....

A ‘Pretty Woman’ Musical Is Walking Down The Street To Broadway By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 27, 2017 12:30 pm EST It seems like every beloved romantic-comedy from the last two decades is getting the Broadway treatment, and it looks like it’s Pretty Woman’s time for a makeover. Pretty Woman: The Musical is about to be the kind of musical you’d like to meet with Les Miserables’ Samantha Barks taking on the role of the prostitute with a heart of gold originated by Julia Roberts and Once musical lead Steve Kazee stepping into Richard Gere’s shiny shoes....

Carrie Fisher Has Died By Angie Han/Dec. 27, 2016 10:30 am EST It is with extreme sadness that we report to you Carrie Fisher has died. Her family confirmed her passing in a statement through a spokesperson. The Star Wars actress had recently suffered a heart attack on a flight. She was 60 years old. Simon Hall announced Fisher’s passing on behalf of her daughter, Billie Lourd: It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning....

Cool Stuff: New Life-Size LEGO Porg Probably Won’t Taste Very Good By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 2018 6:00 am EST There are plenty of Star Wars LEGO sets out there, but there has never been one as adorable as this. LEGO is bringing a life-size, building brick version of the flightless bird known as a Porg to shelves this fall, and there’s no way Chewbacca is going to be eating this thing....

Deadpool Live Tweeted The Super Bowl, Because Of Course He Did By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2018 3:30 pm EST That rascal Deadpool was nowhere to be seen on TV during the Super Bowl, but everyone’s favorite vulgar superhero took some time out of his busy life to live tweet the big game. The Deadpool Super Bowl live tweets are, predictably, full of the type of bawdy humor Deadpool fans know and love....

Homeland Season 6 Teaser Trailer Looks Forward To New York City Setting By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2016 7:00 am EST Showtime has released the first teaser trailer for season six of their hit political drama series Homeland. The teaser trailer consists mostly of intense footage from last season, intercut with critic quotes and award wins. But the conclusion of the trailer teases the show’s relocation to New York City. Hit the jump to watch the first Homeland Season 6 teaser trailer....

Is “Ozymandias” The Best ‘Breaking Bad’ Episode Ever? [Video Essay] By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2016 6:30 am EST This week marks the three-year anniversary of the end of Breaking Bad — which seems crazy because it feels like in that time, we’ve never stopped talking about it. While lots of great shows have run out of steam or even faded into obscurity by the end, Breaking Bad stayed strong through the finish, delivering one of the most satisfying endgames in recent memory....

Live-Action ‘The Jetsons’ Pilot Officially Ordered At ABC [Updated] By Jack Giroux/Aug. 17, 2017 10:33 am EST Update: Variety reports that ABC has officially ordered a live-action The Jetsons pilot. Robert Zemeckis is still set to executive produce. Our original story follows below. Discussions about a live-action movie based on Hanna-Barbera’s 1960s cartoon, The Jetsons, began in the 1990s. Most recently, an animated version at Warner Bros. picked up some momentum with the hiring of Sausage Party co-director, Conrad Vernon....

McDonald’s Has Enough Szechuan Sauce For All ‘Rick And Morty’ Fans Starting This Month By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 22, 2018 1:30 pm EST McDonald’s really pissed off Rick and Morty fans last fall. The fast food chain released limited quantities of their beloved and desired Szechuan dipping sauce that debuted as part of a cross-promotion with Mulan in 1998 after the third season of Rick and Morty made such a big deal out of it....

Rainn Wilson Joins ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ As An Original Series Character By Jacob Hall/March 31, 2017 12:00 pm EST Star Trek: Discovery takes place a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series and you know what that means: we’re going to see some familiar faces. Specifically, we’re going to see some new actors playing familiar faces. We already knew that Sarek, the father of Spock, is going to have a role on the show and that he would be played by actor James Frain....

Rob McElhenney’s ‘Minecraft’ Adds ‘Pan’ Screenwriter Jason Fuchs By Jack Giroux/Oct. 14, 2016 2:16 pm EST Jon Spaihts (Passengers) recently wrote a draft of director Rob McElhenney’s (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) Minecraft, a live-action adventure film based on the game that allows players to build, explore worlds, and fight monsters. Now, a new draft of the script is coming from screenwriter Jason Fuchs (Pan). Fuchs wrote drafts of Wonder Woman and Lobo, so he’s no stranger to working on large-scale Warner Bros....

Sequel Bits: ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’, ‘Dundee’, ‘Bumblebee’, And More By Ben Pearson/Feb. 10, 2018 11:00 am EST Let’s kick things off with Pacific Rim Uprising, the unlikely sequel to 2013’s Pacific Rim that’s coming soon from Legendary and Universal. Empire has a batch of new posters that show off the film’s new Jaegers, including this one: Gipsy Avenger, a reworked take on the original’s Gipsy Danger. Head to that site to see a couple more....

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ Will Use Motion Capture For OASIS Sequences By Jacob Hall/Jan. 18, 2017 1:00 pm EST The set of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One has been pretty quiet aside from a handful of set pictures showing a grungy dystopia where the vast majority of people spend as much time as possible living in a virtual world called the OASIS. Now, we know a little more about how the film will portray this virtual world: it will be created through motion capture and 60% of the film will take place there....

Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie Returning For ‘Avengers: Infinity War’? By Ben Pearson/May 5, 2017 12:00 pm EST At this point, it’s probably easier to list all of the Marvel Studios characters who won’t be showing up in Avengers: Infinity War, Anthony and Joe Russo’s gargantuan superhero team-up film that will feature Marvel’s greatest heroes facing off against the ultimate big bad, Thanos. Now it looks like we can add one more character to the seemingly endless cast list: Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie, who will first appear on screen later this year in Thor: Ragnarok....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Predator’ Franchise Recap, Meet The Voice Of ‘Winnie The Pooh’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 10, 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, get caught up on the Predator franchise before the latest installment arrives in theaters this week....

Tom Hardy And ‘Locke’ Director Reunite For BBC Adaptations Of Charles Dickens Novels By Ben Pearson/Nov. 28, 2017 10:30 am EST Are we in the middle of a Charles Dickens renaissance? (A Dickenssance?) The Man Who Invented Christmas – a movie about the creation of Dickens’ classic novel A Christmas Carol – is in theaters now, a David Copperfield movie adaptation is in the works, and now a new batch of Dickens adaptations is coming to the small screen courtesy of actor/producer Tom Hardy and his frequent collaborator Steven Knight, the writer/director of the Hardy vehicle Locke and creator of shows like Peaky Blinders....