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‘La La Land’ Honest Trailer: Sorry, There’s Been A Mistake By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2017 5:00 am EST La La Land became the most Oscar nominated film of all time this year, but it made an even bigger splash at the Academy Awards when it was mistakenly given the award for Best Picture when it should have gone to Moonlight. That’s something that the folks at Screen Junkies didn’t forget when they put together the Honest Trailer for the musical sensation, which takes an interesting twist about three-fourths of the way through and doesn’t waste any time leaning into Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling’s characters for apparently not knowing how to compromise....

‘Legion’ Season 2 Premiere Date Set For April By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 6, 2018 2:30 pm EST Get ready to get weird all over again: Legion season 2 is coming this spring. The hit FX series will return for an all-new mind-blowing season very soon. Legion, FX’s take on the Mutant anti-hero from Marvel comics, is gearing up for another season full of gif-able Aubrey Plaza moments. FX confirms the series will be back on April 3, 2018....

‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Sequel Coming In 2018 Without Rooney Mara By Jack Giroux/March 13, 2017 1:02 pm EST The stars of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, are not returning for the sequel. Sony is moving forward with director Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe) and a new cast. Alvarez’s adaptation of David Lagercran’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web opens in theaters October 5, 2018....

‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Season 4 Trailer: Netflix’s Comedy Returns For Its Final Season By Chris Evangelista/May 16, 2018 4:30 pm EST Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is about to return for its fourth and final season. In anticipation of the impending release, the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 4 trailer has arrived, and it’s predictably silly. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 4 Trailer When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt first launched on Netflix in 2015, I was hooked....

‘Under The Silver Lake’ Is A Messy, Troublesome, And Sometimes Fascinating Neo-Noir [Fantasia Film Festival] By Sarah Foulkes/July 23, 2018 12:00 pm EST When you hear neo-noir, what do you think of? The dark underbelly of a city? A detective with a broken moral compass? Illusive women? Venetian blinds? Well, Under the Silver Lake has all of that. And more. Much, much more.But contrary to the film’s marketing, Under the Silver Lake is not like Mulholland Dr....

‘Wonder Woman’ Sequel Title Revealed, First Look At Steve Trevor’s Return By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 13, 2018 7:00 am EST The Wonder Woman sequel officially has a title. And plenty of big hair and sweatsuits. The sequel to the best DCEU movie is leaning into its ’80s setting with a very fitting title: Wonder Woman 1984. But along with that title comes an even greater reveal — Chris Pine is back as Steve Trevor!...

‘Wonder Woman 2’ Will Be The First Film To Adopt New Anti-Sexual Harassment Guidelines By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 23, 2018 6:30 am EST Wonder Woman has been an inspiring figure to women for decades, and she continues to inspire now that she’s made the leap to the big screen. Wonder Woman 2 has become the first film to implement the new anti-sexual harassment guidelines released by the Producer’s Guild of America....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 9, 2018 11:30 am EST Denis Villeneuve is in the sci-fi community’s good graces after tackling the behemoth that was Blade Runner 2049 with elegance and nuance. For his next project, the French-Canadian director has long set his sights on an even more daunting project: Dune. First brought to the big screen by David Lynch in 1984’s poorly received adaptation, Frank Herbert’s novel is considered one of the greatest works of science-fiction, and one that is essentially unfilmable....

How Luke Skywalker Learned About Rogue One; Joseph Gordon-Levitt Defends ‘The Last Jedi’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 9:30 am EST When Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) delivered the fatal blow into the thermal exhaust port that would detonate the gargantuan Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope, he was unaware of the lives that had been lost to deliver the plans that led to that assault. We didn’t learn ourselves until 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story delved into the small, scruffy team that nobly gave their lives in honor of a greater cause....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 13, 2017 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s Friday the 13th and it’s been a long week. Let’s all unwind with some scary music. In the spirit of the season and the day, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have released a cover version of John Carpenter’s famous Halloween theme song. Listen to the Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Halloween theme below....

Matt Damon To Be ‘The King Of Oil’ For John Krasinski By Ben Pearson/July 2, 2018 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. John Krasinski shocked the world with his low-budget horror hit A Quiet Place, and we’re all eagerly awaiting his next effort as a director. It’s still unclear whether he’ll step behind the camera for a new film called The King of Oil, but Krasinski will produce the movie and may even reunite with frequent collaborator Matt Damon for it, too....

Michael Bay Is Making A Movie For Netflix, Ryan Reynolds To Star By Jacob Hall/May 22, 2018 12:03 pm EST Michael Bay, the director of great trash (The Rock, Armageddon) and bad trash (most of the Transformers movies) alike, has always been the kind of filmmaker who shoots his films for the biggest, loudest screens possible. Good or bad or something in-between, his films have been blockbusters in the truest sense of the word – you want them to fill your vision and overwhelm your pitiful, human senses....

Optimus Prime Confirmed For ‘Bumblebee’ Spin-Off By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 2, 2017 2:00 pm EST Transformers: The Last Knight, the latest in Michael Bay’s monstrous Transformers franchise, may be one of the worst-reviewed films of 2017, but you can’t keep those Autobots down. Bumblebee, the first in a probably endless series of Transformers spin-offs, is currently in production. And it looks like a familiar character is following Bumblebee into the spin-off: Optimus Prime will be bringing his big, bulky body along for the ride....

Poptheatr Lets You Watch Movies With Your Head In A Bag By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 31, 2018 8:00 am EST If you like watching movies but long for a cinema experience that’s similar to being encased in a body bag, you might want to check out Poptheatr, a Kickstarter project that strives to provide the user with a distraction-free movie viewing experience in the comfort of your own home. With a big bag on your head....

Report: Here Are The Movies Coming To Hall H For Comic-Con 2018 By Ben Pearson/June 19, 2018 4:00 pm EST With Marvel Studios and HBO sitting out this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the playing field has been leveled a bit. Which studio will be able to fill that showmanship gap and create the convention’s most memorable panel? Read on to find out which movies will take the stage in front of SDCC’s biggest crowds this year....

Shane Black’s ‘Predator’ Won’t Star Benicio Del Toro, Will Star Boyd Holbrook By Angie Han/Oct. 11, 2016 6:56 pm EST Holbrook falls into the category of actors you might not know by name, but probably will soon. He’s a particular favorite of 20th Century Fox, who’s behind the new Predator — he’s starred in Gone Girl and Morgan and will be seen next year as the villain in the Wolverine X-Men spinoff Logan....

The Morning Watch: ‘Deadpool 2’ Trailer Easter Eggs, ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Weta Workshop Featurette & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2017 5:00 am EST In this edition, take a much closer look at the Easter eggs in the Deadpool 2 teaser trailer. Plus, watch a Thor: Ragnarok featurette showing off the amazing work that Weta Workshop did in creating the various pieces of armor and weapons and watch a video essay examining how Logan and Children of Men treat their protagonists on the path to redemption....

The Weinstein Company Files For Bankruptcy As Sale Talks Fail By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2018 9:30 am EST The Weinstein Company will declare bankruptcy following last-ditch attempts to sell its assets to an investor group. The talks with the group, led by former Obama-era Small Business Administration head Maria Contreras-Sweet, have failed, leading the company’s board of directors to announce that they are filing for bankruptcy. The embattled company was set to be sold to the investor group led by Contreras-Sweet for $500 million....

Trailer Round-Up: ‘UFO’, ‘Hunt For The Skinwalker’, And ‘Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story’ By Ben Pearson/July 8, 2018 9:00 am EST It’s time for another trailer round-up, in which we take a quick look at a few upcoming movies or TV shows that have slipped through the cracks. Today, we’re highlighting UFO, a paranoia thriller about alien spacecraft appearing on Earth; Hunt for the Skinwalker, a documentary about “the Area 51 of the paranormal”; and Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, a six-part docu-series produced by Jay-Z about the teenager whose murder made national news and sparked a revolution....

By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2016 9:00 am EST In January 2012, Variety reported that screenwriter Max Landis had sold a pitch to Walt Disney Pictures for an “untitled space adventure” pitch with the potential to be a film franchise that could “benefit all of the company’s divisions.” A few months later it was reported that screenwriter Max Borenstein was hired by the mouse house to write his own “space-set sci-fi adventure” called Paladin for Tron: Legacy producer Justin Springer....