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Exclusive: The ‘Shaft’ Remake Is an Action-Comedy With A Role For A Strong Woman By Fred Topel/Aug. 8, 2017 7:45 am EST Tim Story was at Showtime’s Television Critics Association party. He directed the pilot and several episodes of Jay Pharoah’s new half hour series White Famous. /Film had the opportunity to speak with Story about the feature film remake of Shaft, which he signed on to direct in January. As the director of Ride Along, Barbershop and other comedies, Story confirmed he is not doing Shaft as a straight action movie....

Find Out Which Supporting Character On ‘The Simpsons’ Talks The Most & More [Infographic] By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 29, 2016 4:00 am EST The Simpsons just began its 28th season this past weekend, which is quite an achievement. Though the show is named for the family who acts as our main characters, The Simpsons has a cavalcade of supporting characters who have appeared throughout the show’s long history. Surely one of you out there once wondered which of those characters outside The Simpsons themselves talked the most, and now we have an answer....

How Winnie The Pooh Has Changed In The ‘Christopher Robin’ Trailers By Chris Evangelista/July 10, 2018 4:00 pm EST Christopher Robin looks charming as hell, the type of film even the most cynical of folks might flock to with some hope of rekindling the magic of their childhood. But since the debut of the first Christopher Robin trailer, the CGI Winnie the Pooh at the center of the film has been undergoing a subtle change....

Jerry Bruckheimer Says The ‘Pirates’ Franchise Won’t Go On Without Johnny Depp By Ben Pearson/May 26, 2017 11:00 am EST Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth movie in Disney’s long-running film franchise, was being prepped way back in 2013. Maybe back then, the national consciousness was more open to the idea of another chapter in the continuing adventures of Johnny Depp’s buffoonish scalawag Captain Jack Sparrow....

LOL: Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Stranger Things’ Parody Finally Delivers Justice For Barb By Angie Han/Sept. 1, 2016 1:00 pm EST Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer were promising “justice for Barb” in season two before Netflix even got around to confirming there’d be a season two. But it looks like Jimmy Fallon beat the Duffers to the punch. In a Tonight Show parody, Barb returns to the Wheelers’ basement to give Mike, Eleven, and the rest of the gang a piece of her mind....

Rick Roman Waugh To Direct Gerard Butler In ‘Angel Has Fallen’ By Jack Giroux/July 27, 2017 4:00 am EST Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) has a lot more bones to break in his future. The unstoppable bodyguard is returning for Angel Has Fallen, which will have him beating death for the third time. And again, a new director is boarding this strangely charming franchise. The director behind Felon and Snitch, Ric Roman Waugh, will helm Banning’s next outlandish adventure....

Robert Downey Jr.’s ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’ Picks Up ‘Rogue One’, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Writers By Angie Han/Oct. 27, 2016 4:30 pm EST Iron Man may be Robert Downey Jr.’s most famous role, but you may recall that it’s not his only ongoing franchise about an arrogant genius. He’s also the star of Warner Bros.’ Sherlock Holmes movies — not to be confused with BBC One’s Sherlock TV series, which features a different Marvel actor as the famed detective....

Rumor: Luke And Snoke May Share A Connection In ‘The Last Jedi’ Novelization By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 28, 2018 10:30 am EST Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis) cut an ominous figure in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Scarred and disfigured, this character had managed to rise to power and amass a tyrannical army in the span of 30 years. That’s astonishing, even in a story as fantastical and far, far away as Star Wars....

Simon Pegg Pitched Edgar Wright A ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Sequel With Vampires By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 25, 2017 8:30 am EST Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg are both very big names in show business right now, with Pegg having worked on the Star Trek franchise and Wright recently releasing the box office hit Baby Driver. But in the early 2000s, they were primarily known for their work on the cult TV show Spaced....

Superhero Bits: ‘Black Panther’ Oscar Campaign Planned, Captain Marvel’s New Origin & More By Ethan Anderton/March 7, 2018 6:00 pm EST What will Captain Marvel’s new origin story in Marvel Comics entail? Want to see what John Boyega might look like at Blade? What does Ghost Rider director Brian Taylor think of the version of the character on Agents of SHIELD? Are you happy to hear that Disney plans to campaign for Black Panther to get Oscar nominations?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Edition - Visual Effects Reel, Russo Bros. Detail Every Hero & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 15, 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....

The Morning Watch: What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Smart People, ‘American Beauty 2’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 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 explores what Hollywood gets wrong about their portrayal of smart people, and it’s not as pretentious as it sounds....

Watch The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Gag Reel And Rocket & Groot Recording Sessions By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2017 10:00 am EST Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is coming to Digital HD on August 8th and will follow on Blu-ray and DVD on August 22nd. The home video release of the Marvel Studios sequel will be chock full of special features for fans to dig into, and some of those supplementary materials are making their way online in an effort to convince you to add it to your library....

Watch The Ending Of ‘Jurassic World’ Without Any VFX Dinosaurs By Chris Evangelista/June 19, 2018 12:30 pm EST Ever wonder what a big special-effects driven blockbuster might look like before the effects get added? Wonder no more! A video showcasing Jurassic World without visual effects is here to make you feel awkward! Special effects have become so commonplace and so advanced that sometimes it’s easy to forget that much of what we see on movie screens isn’t really there....

‘Dark Phoenix’ Trailer: The X-Men Face Their Greatest Challenge By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 26, 2018 9:51 pm EST Dark Phoenix’s long road to the big screen is almost over. After a long delay, the latest X-Men film is hitting theaters February of 2019, and the first official trailer is finally here. The film adapts Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s famous Dark Phoenix Saga, in which powerful mutant Jean Grey transforms into a very powerful, and very dangerous, destructive force....

By Josh Spiegel/June 30, 2017 7:00 am EST In just seven years, Illumination Entertainment has turned the grouchy, pointy-nosed villain Gru and his yellow Minions into some of the most recognizable characters in all of pop culture. They’ve starred in multiple movies, they show up in theme parks, you can buy their toys, and so on. The characters are ubiquitous. This feat of marketing is even more fascinating in its success considering that the Despicable Me franchise has yet to produce a truly good film, a streak sadly continued by the latest, Despicable Me 3....

‘Fences’ Trailer: Denzel Washington & Viola Davis Already Look Oscar Worthy By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2016 7:00 am EST We’re almost in the thick of awards season now that it’s officially fall, and that means we’ll start seeing more trailers for the films hoping for Oscar glory early next year. Paramount Pictures has just thrown one of their entries into the ring with the first trailer for Fences, an adaptation of August Wilson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name....

‘Fifty Shades Darker’ Trailer: Love In An Elevator By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 3, 2017 6:30 am EST Sequels to romances are few and far between, but Fifty Shades of Grey isn’t your average romance. Based on E.L. James’ erotic thriller of the same name, the film adaptation was a box office sensation pulling in over $571 million on a budget of just $41 million. However, the sequel Fifty Shades Darker isn’t just a result of the big box office, because there was a whole trilogy of books before the first movie even got off the ground....

‘Godzilla: Resurgence’ Trailer: The King Of The Monsters Is Bigger And Meaner Than Ever By Jacob Hall/Aug. 15, 2016 12:00 pm EST The problem facing Godzilla as a character, as giant radioactive lizard who makes a habit out of turning cities into piles of dust and rubble, is that time has the nasty habit of sanding the rough edges off of just about anything. We’ve watched it happen to other famous movie monsters – as the decades pass, formerly terrifying creations become mascots....

‘Incredibles 2’ Director Brad Bird Says Not To Get Your Hopes Up About ‘Iron Giant 2’ Or ‘Ratatouille 2’ By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2018 4:30 pm EST Brad Bird has a new sequel hitting theaters soon, the long-awaited Incredibles 2. That’s exciting, but if you were hoping for more Bird sequels – specifically Iron Giant 2 or Ratatouille 2 – you shouldn’t get your hopes up. It took 14 years for Brad Bird to bring a sequel to The Incredibles to theaters....