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Marvel Studios Pushing ‘Black Panther’ For Best Picture, Won’t Just Settle For New Popular Film Oscar By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2018 12:00 pm EST There’s been a lot of talk about the creation of a new category at the Academy Awards which will be dedicated to “outstanding achievement in popular film” and how the Academy could use that as a way to honor Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther instead of giving it a Best Picture nomination....

NBC’s Horror Series ‘Cul-De-Sac’ Could Be First TV Show Under New ‘Blumhouse Presents’ Brand By Ben Pearson/May 31, 2018 5:00 pm EST Looks like a new brand is moving into the neighborhood. Not content with upending traditional Hollywood business models with his micro-budget, auteur-driven horror films, producer Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions are branching out into television with a new brand called Blumhouse Presents. Now a new report pegs a possible new NBC series called Cul-De-Sac as the first contender to be slapped with the fledgling brand’s label....

Patty Jenkins Is On Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ List; Robert Zemeckis Takes A Meeting For ‘The Flash’ By Jack Giroux/April 28, 2017 7:30 am EST Dwayne Johnson starts shooting Jungle Cruise spring of next year. Who’s someone the wildly charismatic actor wouldn’t mind behind the camera on the Disney project? Wonder Woman helmer Patty Jenkins. Speaking of the DCEU, Robert Zemeckis has had a meeting or two about Barry Allen (Ezra Miller)....

POTD: Neill Blomkamp Teases A New Project As He Waits For ‘Alien 5’ To Happen By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2016 6:00 am EST However, when Scott decided to get his follow-up to the Alien prequel Prometheus off the ground quickly, the project that has become known as Alien 5 was put on the backburner. The good news is that leaves Blomkamp with some spare time to work on something completely different, and he just teased a new project with a photo on Instagram teasing some kind of grotesque, deformed human or monsters....

Simon Pegg Explains Why ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Failed At The Box Office By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 27, 2018 2:30 pm EST So what was the reason for Star Trek Beyond’s box office disappointment? Star Simon Pegg has an explanation: the marketing. Simon Pegg told Geek Exchange that he believed the poor marketing was to blame for the movie’s disappointing box office haul: But Pegg has one specific gripe to pick with Paramount’s Star Trek Beyond marketing team....

The Morning Watch: Jeff Goldblum Edition - Career Reflection, Playing With Puppies & More By Ethan Anderton/March 30, 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, we shine a spotlight on Jeff Goldblum as he sits down for a career retrospective from his decades spent on the big screen....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2017 3:30 pm EST With his new Netflix series Mindhunter creating quite a stir, David Fincher seems to be everywhere lately, expounding on both the show and his career. Over the course of the Mindhunter promotional tour, Fincher took time to point out the problems with modern movies. And since he’s very good at what he does, his is an opinion probably worth listening to. David Fincher doesn’t seem to be a fan of superhero movies....

VOTD: Take A 20-Minute Tour Of Pixar Animation Studios By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 22, 2017 6:00 am EST Back in the fall of 2015, one Disney fan was able to record a private tour of the Pixar Animation Studios campus. They weren’t granted access to some areas to avoid any possible spoilers for their upcoming projects at the time, but it was cool to see how welcoming and playful the environment for Pixar’s employees was all over campus....

Watch: Mads Mikkelsen Is An Assassin In Jake Scott’s Short Film ‘Le Fantôme’ By Jack Giroux/Oct. 22, 2016 11:00 am EST Sir Ridley Scott has quite the talented family. His three children have all directed feature films. The last feature Scott’s eldest son, Jake Scott, directed was Welcome to the Rileys, a compelling drama with memorable performances. The director made his feature filmmaking debut with the little-known Plunkett & Macleane, which, even in Jake Scott’s eyes, is a very rough around the edges first movie....

Why Carrie Fisher’s Death Didn’t Change Leia’s ‘Last Jedi’ Story [Interview] By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2017 12:00 pm EST Every moment featuring Carrie Fisher as General Leia in Star Wars: The Last Jedi is far more emotional than it’s intended to be. The passing of the actress after production ended means that we’ll never see her reprise the iconic role in future Star Wars films, and Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy has already said that they have no intention on bringing her back to life using CG....

‘Aliens’ Honest Trailer: It’s Like A Sex Toy Factory Made Out Of Scorpions By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2017 6:30 am EST This week brings Alien: Covenant to theaters, and fans will get to see how the horror style of the original Alien meshes with the more scientific side of Prometheus that attempts to explain the origin of the monstrous xenomorphs who love killing space colonists. That means there’s no better time for the folks at Screen Junkies to deliver their send-up of James Cameron’s sequel Aliens, which really upped the ante from what Ridley Scott created with the original Alien....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Trailer: Ryan Gosling And Harrison Ford Can’t Outrun The Truth By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 17, 2017 5:57 am EST The newest Blade Runner 2049 trailer is out, and it reveals more than we’ve seen yet. The trailer hit the internet after it premiered on Good Morning America, and this is certainly a good morning for us. Not only do we see more of the rich, neon-lit world brought to life by famed cinematographer Roger Deakins, we also get more insight into Officer K’s (Ryan Gosling) mission, and how it leads him to drag Harrison Ford’s former android-hunting police officer Rick Deckard out of hiding....

‘Collateral’ Trailer: Carey Mulligan Heads To Netflix To Solve A Murder By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 19, 2018 2:30 pm EST Everyone wants in on that sweet Netflix original series action, including Carey Mulligan. The Drive actress is the latest big name to appear in a Netflix series as she headlines Collateral, a new drama which originally debuted on BBC Two. Below, the Collateral trailer sets up the central mystery of the show: the murder of a pizza delivery driver....

‘Desierto’ Trailer: Jeffrey Dean Morgan Hunts Down Gael García Bernal By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2016 12:30 pm EST Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s got villainous swagger to spare, as anyone who’s seen his introduction in The Walking Dead can attest. And this fall he’ll put it to good use on the big screen in Desierto. Produced by Alfonso Cuarón and directed by his son Jonás Cuarón, Desierto stars Morgan as a gun-toting vigilante who drives out to the U....

‘Kong: Skull Island’ Honest Trailer: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Mocks His Own Movie This Time By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2017 6:00 am EST Not too long ago, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts went on a lengthy rant about the sin against cinema that is Cinema Sins and their ongoing “Everything Wrong with…” web series that puts together painfully long videos that attempt to be clever while pointing out all the things that are “wrong” with big Hollywood movies....

‘Less Than Zero’ TV Series In Development At Hulu By Chris Evangelista/April 25, 2018 3:30 pm EST Brett Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero is coming to the small screen. Hulu is currently developing a Less Than Zero TV series that will adapt Ellis’ 1985 novel (which was previously made into a 1987 film) about a group of detached college students. Hulu is continuing to increase their original content. They already have The Handmaid’s Tale, The Looming Tower and the upcoming Catch-22 and Castle Rock....

‘Life Of The Party’ Trailer: Melissa McCarthy Gets Wild At College By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2018 4:30 pm EST We haven’t seen Melissa McCarthy on the big screen since the Ghostbusters reboot arrived in theaters in the summer of 2016. But now she’s back with a new summer comedy that will take her back to school. Life of the Party finds Melissa McCarthy playing a housewife named Deanna who just got dumped by her husband....

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Charles Manson Actor Is Also Playing Manson In ‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 30, 2018 8:30 am EST Damon Herriman is about to carve out a niche for himself playing Charles Manson. The Justified actor was just announced for the part of the notorious cult leader in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Now comes word that Herriman will play Manson again in Netflix’s serial killer series Mindhunter....

‘Rogue One’ Images: Jyn Erso, Orson Krennic, And Cassian Andor Are Ready For Their Closeups By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2016 3:30 pm EST As we saw last year with The Force Awakens, the Star Wars marketing team knows how to reveal tons of imagery, footage, and juicy detail without giving away much at all. Now, as Rogue One enters the final weeks of its promotional campaign, it seems to be sticking to a similar formula of intense secrecy combined with total ubiquity....

‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Scene Delivers The Final Commands Of Emperor Palpatine By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2017 1:00 pm EST One month before Star Wars: The Last Jedi continues the story of the Skywalker saga, the canon of the Star Wars universe will expand with a new story that fills in the gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Star Wars Battlefront II will include a new campaign mode that tells a canon story in the Star Wars universe from the perspetive of Iden Versio, the leader of a band of Imperial troops known as Inferno Squadron tasked with carrying out the last orders of Emperor Palpatine, left behind in the event of his death....