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‘The Commuter’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Wants To Stop This Train, Now By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 14, 2017 2:30 pm EST Here’s a nice distraction from current events: a final trailer for The Commuter. Liam Neeson, action star, is back once again with lurid, style-overload director Jaume Collet-Serra for a whole new ridiculous thriller. This final trailer is loaded with some shaggy CGI, a quick shot of Sam Neill with a mustache, and explosions....

‘The Magic Order’ Is Mark Millar’s First Comic Book For Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 7, 2017 10:00 am EST Writer Mark Millar has had a hand in creating Kick-Ass, Wanted and Kingsman, and he’s continuing his comic book journey with Netflix’s The Magic Order. When Netflix purchased Millarworld, the small comic book imprint Millar co-owns with his wife Lucy Millar, the expectation was that Netflix would be focused on both developing original programming and publishing new titles penned by Millar....

‘The Monster’ Trailer: Zoe Kazan’s Late Night Road Trip Takes A Nasty Detour By Jack Giroux/Oct. 6, 2016 2:30 pm EST Bryan Bertino made a memorable debut with his 2008 horror film, The Strangers. There are some genuinely unsettling sequences in that notable box office hit. Then it took six years for us to see another movie from Bertino. His sophomore effort was 2014’s Mockingbird, a found-footage horror movie released on VOD....

‘The Mummy’ Trailer: Tom Cruise Unleashes An Ancient Power And Wants To Paint It Black By Ethan Anderton/April 2, 2017 8:57 am EST The first trailer for Universal’s remake of The Mummy only gave a hint of the horror in store for Tom Cruise in the first installment of the new Universal Monsters shared universe. But now a new trailer offers a further glimpse at the return of an ancient princess who was imprisoned in a tomb and left to die, and now she’s out to destroy the modern world so she can rule over the world she once knew....

‘The Ticket’ Trailer: Dan Stevens Was Blind, But Now He Can See By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2017 1:00 pm EST Millions of us hope that one day we’ll win the lottery, thinking that it might make our lives easier. But when James (Dan Stevens), a blind man, wins his own lottery by suddenly waking up with his sight restored, all it does is make things more complicated. The Ticket is a new drama from director Ido Fluk that played at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the first trailer for the drama just arrived, showing us that getting the one thing that we want so desperately may not make us as happy as we initially thought....

Disney Unveils First Images From Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ By Ben Pearson/July 12, 2017 11:30 am EST Selma and 13th director Ava DuVernay is making history as the first black woman to make a $100 million movie with Disney’s live-action adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time. Now the Mouse House has unveiled some dazzling first-look images from the movie, and from these photos alone, it’s clear the director put every penny of that budget to good use....

Eddie Murphy To Play Blaxpoitation Icon Rudy Ray Moore In Netflix’s ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2018 4:30 pm EST Dolemite is his name, and Eddie Murphy is game to take on the role of the famous blaxpoitation star Rudy Ray Moore. Murphy is set to star in the Netflix biopic Dolemite is My Name, which will chronicle the life of the star of the blaxploitation Dolemite films....

Exclusive: Why The Original ‘Rogue One’ Ending Didn’t Work, According To Director Gareth Edwards By Jacob Hall/March 14, 2017 1:00 pm EST Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards is a SXSW regular at this point. His first film, Monsters, premiered at the fest years ago. The first footage from his Godzilla screened there alongside a repertory screening of the 1954 original. And now, he’s back in Austin, Texas to deliver a keynote speech…and to answer questions about the upcoming home video release of the first Star Wars spin0ff....

Go Inside ‘Westworld’ With New Season 2 Video By Ben Pearson/March 22, 2018 2:30 pm EST HBO’s Westworld has an interesting series of challenges when it comes to creating its sets. There’s a unique mix of western and futuristic elements at play, and now that the upcoming second season is going to open up the world even more, things are about to get a lot more complicated. In this new Westworld season 2 video, the show’s set decorator explains how she and her team visited an “airport graveyard” to find the pieces they needed to build the futuristic machines that create the android hosts....

James Cameron Isn’t Happy With The State Of The ‘Alien’ Franchise By Jack Giroux/Jan. 27, 2017 2:30 pm EST James Cameron is skeptical about the Alien franchise. In the 30 years since Cameron made Aliens, the series has repeatedly failed to live up to the high expectations set by Sir Ridley Scott’s original film and Cameron’s sequel. The sixth installment in the franchise comes out this summer, Alien: Covenant, which Cameron will line up to see opening day, despite his reservations about another Alien sequel....

Julie Andrews Will Not Appear In ‘Mary Poppins Returns,’ Here’s Why By Ben Pearson/June 9, 2017 12:30 pm EST It’s been a good week for fans anxiously awaiting any snippet of information they could find about Walt Disney Pictures’ Mary Poppins Returns. The studio released a batch of new photos from the movie showing off Emily Blunt as the new (and perfectly cast) Ms. Poppins, as well as our first look at the rest of the cast, which includes Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, and more....

Matt Reeves Teases An “Emotional” Batman Movie And Praises Christopher Nolan By Ben Pearson/July 5, 2017 2:00 pm EST Part of the reason Matt Reeves’ take on the Planet of the Apes movies works so well is that as Caesar reluctantly fights his way through various conflicts with humans, you can feel the filmmaker’s distaste for war permeating the story. He’s able to successfully balance blockbuster spectacle with genuine emotion and makes us care about the characters, an important aspect of storytelling that can often get lost in films of that scale....

See More Modern VHS Covers For ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Ready Player One’, ‘Creed’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2016 4:00 am EST Even though VHS tapes have long been dead, there are plenty of people who miss the unique cover art that used to come with them. There was something special about the VHS covers that we would see lined up on the shelves of our local video stores, and it’s just not the same with all the glossy, Photoshopped covers we see on most Blu-ray and DVD releases today....

Shane Black’s ‘The Predator’ Will Be Scary And Funny And Reference The Original By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 2016 2:00 pm EST Now Shane Black has opened up a bit about The Predator in a couple recent interviews where he talks about what a Predator movie should be, the casting of Boyd Holbrook in the lead after Benicio del Toro exited the project, and why the movie absolutely had to be R-rated....

Superhero Bits: Genndy Tartakovsky’s Superman, Stephen King’s Batman Short Story & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2016 4:00 pm EST Want to see concept art from Genndy Tartakovsky’s abandoned Superman short? What is Stan Lee’s favorite Marvel cinematic universe cameo? Did you know co-director Joe Russo originally had a cameo in Captain America: Civil War? Want to hear a Batman-centric short story written by Stephen King? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

Supreme Leader Snoke Has A Tortured History In ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 22, 2017 10:30 am EST Disfigured, crippled, and cruel, Supreme Leader Snoke cuts an intimidating figure. In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he will be finally rendered in the flesh after making a brief holographic appearance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But there may be more to him than his opulent throne room and gaping maw suggests....

The Morning Watch: Guillermo Del Toro’s Color Palette, The Best Of 2017 Cinema & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 13, 2017 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, a video essay shows how you can use color in film like The Shape of Water and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro....

Win A ‘Downsizing’ Prize Pack, Including A 4K Blu-Ray By Chris Evangelista/March 19, 2018 6:30 am EST Alexander Payne’s Downsizing hits Blu-ray this week. In honor of the release, we have a prize pack for those of you who enjoy free things. See the details for the Downsizing contest below. If you’d like to get your hands on a Downsizing Blu-ray, or some other Downsize-related items, today is your lucky day....

‘Alien’ Alternate Ending: Ripley Was Originally Supposed To Die By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 4, 2017 2:00 pm EST But director Ridley Scott, who is promoting his return to the Alien franchise with the upcoming Alien: Covenant, had in mind one more body to add to that death toll: Ellen Ripley. The de facto star of the following Alien movies was never originally intended to survive beyond the first film, according to a recently revealed alternate ending....

‘Ant-Man’ Director Peyton Reed Still Wants To Make A ‘Fantastic Four’ Movie By Ben Pearson/June 25, 2018 12:30 pm EST In an interview with CinemaBlend, Reed was asked if his Fantastic Four script could one day be resurrected in the MCU. “Well, I have been known to mention Fantastic Four in conversations that may or may not have happened in the Marvel hallways. It’s all a giant question mark at this point, because no one knows if this merger is going to happen....