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‘Blade Runner 2049’ Trailer: Welcome Back To The Future By Jacob Hall/Dec. 19, 2016 7:35 am EST A sequel to Blade Runner can’t help but feel like folly. How do you make a follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic, which redefined is genre in ways that are still being felt today, without constantly being stuck in the shadow of its predecessor? We actually have an answer to that largely rhetorical question: you drag Harrison Ford back into the mix and you hire someone like Denis Villeneuve to direct....

‘Daddy’s Home 2’ Trailer: A Christmas Comedy At Maximum Volume By Jacob Hall/Nov. 1, 2017 6:42 am EST The new Daddy’s Home 2 trailer makes two things immediately clear. First, this is very much a holiday movie, a comedy that leans heavily into its Christmas iconography and looks to attract families who want to sit in silence and not talk to each other for a few hours. Second, this movie looks loud....

‘Deadpool 2’ Writers Are Getting Some Help From Drew Goddard By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 23, 2017 11:30 am EST Last night, our friends at Collider landed a big scoop about The Grey and A-Team director Joe Carnahan being brought in to write the developing X-Force movie at 20th Century Fox. The mutant team includes Deadpool at the heart of the crew, and he’s frequently accompanied by characters like Cable and Domino, who are supposed to be part of Deadpool 2....

‘Fabled’ Trailer: Zosia Mamet And Gugu Mbatha-Raw Put A Feminist Twist On Fairy Tales By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 10, 2018 3:30 pm EST Once upon a time, Jennifer Morrison starred as the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. Now, she directs a feminist revisionist take on fairy tales in the fantasy anthology series Fabled. The Fabled trailer promotes the first episode of the new anthology series, directed by Morrison and starring Zosia Mamet and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as two young women who dream big and witness even bigger, magical miracles....

‘Golden Exits’ Trailer: Emily Browning Sings “New York Groove” For About Two Minutes By Jacob Hall/Jan. 24, 2017 1:00 pm EST Alex Ross Perry remains a filmmaker to watch, even if he is threatening to make a live-action Winnie the Pooh movie inspired by A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. But before we get to that, we have the first trailer for his fifth feature film as a director. There’s not too much in the Golden Exits teaser Perry posted on his own personal YouTube page, but some of you may consider two minutes of Emily Browning singing “New York Groove” to be of interest....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Vol. 3 Will Set Up Next 20 Years Of Marvel; Next Awesome Mix Will Be All Yondu By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 23, 2017 8:00 am EST There’s no question that Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 will rock the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it, but it won’t be until Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 hits our theaters sometime in 2020 that the MCU will be forever changed....

‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ Trailer: Dracula Goes On A Cruise And Hijinks Ensue By Jacob Hall/Nov. 16, 2017 9:30 am EST What happens when Dracula needs to get away from it all? If “he goes on a cruise” wasn’t the first thing to spring to mind (and it shouldn’t have been, because, well, sunlight), then you may be surprised by the Hotel Transylvania 3 trailer, which is all about the world’s most famous vampire and his extended clan going on a vacation....

‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Trailer: Peter Dinklage And Elle Fanning Are The Last People On Earth By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2018 2:00 pm EST Post-apocalyptic dramas are a dime a dozen, but Emmy-winning director of The Handmaid’s Tale Reed Morano offers something a little different in I Think We’re Alone Now. The Sundance special jury prize winner follows the last man on Earth with a peculiar mindset: he likes being alone....

‘Jay And Silent Bob’ Are Back – In A Virtual Reality Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 5, 2018 2:00 pm EST Jay and Silent Bob are striking back, again. But this time, you can see them in virtual reality. Writer-director Kevin Smith is reviving his iconic cinematic slacker duo for 2018 in a Jay and Silent Bob VR series.Jay and Silent Bob VR will be a live-action comedy series written and directed by Smith, the Tracking Board reports....

‘Legally Blonde 3’ Is Totally Happening With Reese Witherspoon Set To Return By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2018 11:00 am EST Oh, (bend and) snap! Legally Blonde 3 is moving forward at MGM, which is in talks with Reese Witherspoon to reprise her role as the fabulous, pink-clad law student and feminist icon Elle Woods. Legally Blonde 3 will come more than 17 years after the original film’s release, and 15 years after its politically-themed sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde....

‘The Deuce’ Pilot Is Now Streaming On HBO Go A Few Weeks Early By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 25, 2017 10:43 am EST Update: The pilot episode of The Deuce is now streaming on HBO Go several weeks ahead of its official debut. If you want to get a taste of the show now, this is your chance. You can also watch a new trailer below. Police corruption, prostitution, twins, and lots and lots of nudity....

Celebrate The 40th Anniversary Of ‘Carrie’ With A 1970s Prom & Cast Reunion By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 13, 2016 5:00 am EST On November 3rd this year, it will have been 40 years since Brian De Palma’s classic thriller Carrie, based on Stephen King’s book of the same name, hit theaters. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the film starring Sissy Spacek, a special prom even is being put together by Scream Factory, who has a brand new two-disc special edition of Carrie coming out on October 11th....

By Angie Han/Sept. 20, 2016 2:30 pm EST Before The Knick or Children of Men or Inside Man or even The Bourne Identity, Clive Owen was best known to U.S. audiences as The Driver, the nameless and unflappably cool hero of BMW’s short film series The Hire. The projects yielded eight installments in total, released from 2001 to 2002, and attracted a variety of high-profile filmmakers from Ang Lee to Alejandro González Iñárritu....

Cool Stuff: ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Annotated Screenplay Is Coming This Fall By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2018 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you love the hit Sundance comedy Wet Hot American Summer, and you’ve always wanted some insight into the creation of the film’s script, an annotated version of the screenplay will be released this fall. Wet Hot American Summer: The Annotated Screenplay will provide commentary and details from behind the scenes of the cult favorite comedy....

Cool Stuff: New Hot Toys Life-Size Baby Groot Is Rockin' By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2018 6:00 am EST Hot Toys and Sideshow Collectibles already debuted an adorably awesome life-size Baby Groot figure not long after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit theaters. But their new figure of the tiny little plant creature from the Marvel Studios sequel is even better. A new version of Baby Groot from Hot Toys is also life-size, but his body is newly developed so that you can recreate the scene from the opening of the movie where he busts a move to Electric Light Orchestra’s hit song “Mr....

Director Duncan Jones Starts Shooting ‘Mute’ Next Week By Jack Giroux/Sept. 21, 2016 1:00 pm EST Mute has been a longtime passion project for Duncan Jones. The director wanted to make the Berlin-set sci-fi film, which he co-wrote with Michael Robert Johnson, his directorial debut, but it got put on hold for Moon. Still struggling to get Mute financed, Jones then made Source Code his sophomore effort. Then he went on to direct Warcraft....

Director Roland Emmerich Will Craft Some ‘Dark Matter’ By Jacob Hall/Dec. 15, 2016 12:30 pm EST But Emmerich has other interests, too, like trying to prove that Shakespeare didn’t write his plays and making hideously awful movies about important events in LGBTQ history and, apparently, reading the work of author Blake Crouch, since he’s in currently looking to adapt his 2016 novel Dark Matter. Variety reports that Emmerich is in negotiations to helm the science fiction thriller, which follows a college physics professor who wakes up one day to find his entire world changed: his wife is not his wife, his child doesn’t exist, and he’s a world-famous genius who has discovered how to journey to other dimensions....

Enjoy A Jump-Scare Laden Visit To ‘Castle Rock’ At Comic-Con 2018 By Chris Evangelista/July 20, 2018 2:30 pm EST In honor of their big Stephen King-inspired series Castle Rock, Hulu put together a big, spooky San Diego Comic-Con 2018 activation that enables guests to check into the Castle Rock Bed and Breakfast and have the crap scared out of them. A little bit of Maine was transported to San Diego for Hulu’s Castle Rock activation....

Episode 8 Bits: Rian Johnson’s BNAT Surprise, Daisy Ridley’s Seen Some Footage, And John Williams Has Begun His Work By Jacob Hall/Dec. 15, 2016 7:30 am EST In this edition of Episode 8 Bits: Star Wars: Episode 8 director Rian Johnson made an interesting request at this year’s BNAT. Daisy Ridley has seen some, but not much, Episode 8 footage. John Williams has begun work on his Episode 8 score....

Guillermo Del Toro Teases Antifascist ‘Pinocchio,’ First ‘The Shape Of Water’ Clip Revealed By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 31, 2017 3:00 pm EST Guillermo del Toro has a tendency to juggle several passion projects before some of them make it to the theater after an excruciating wait, and others fall by the wayside. (RIP Hellboy 3.) But with his newest film The Shape of Water receiving rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival this week and coming to theaters later this year, the Mexican auteur can finally turn his eyes to his next dark fairy tale: Pinocchio....