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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Could Feature A New Character, Say Directors By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2016 9:00 am EST Captain America: Civil War had one of the biggest casts in Marvel movie history. Not only did it bring back nearly all the Avengers, it also unveiled Spider-Man and Black Panther. And Joe and Anthony Russo’s next film for Marvel looks even bigger. Avengers: Infinity War promises to bring together the Avengers, the Guardians, and literally dozens of other existing MCU characters....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Featurette: Why Remake Something That’s Perfect? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2017 11:30 am EST Fans of Disney’s beloved animated classics from decades past consistently ask why the studio is bothering updating movies that everyone already loves. In the case of Beauty and the Beast, director Bill Condon recognizes that the original iteration of Beauty and the Beast was perfect, raising the question of why Disney is bothering to remake it at all....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Toys Reveal Our First Look At Kurt Russell’s Ego The Living Planet By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2017 11:30 am EST Funko is at it again, and by “it” we mean “offering first looks at new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 characters that the official trailers have yet to reveal.” Last week it was Elizabeth Debicki’s Ayesha, who showed up as a Pint Size Heroes figure, and today it’s Kurt Russell’s Ego the Living Planet, who gets a Dorbz figure and a Pop!...

‘Lost’ And ‘Cloverfield’ Cinematographer To Direct Killer Teddy Bear Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 15, 2018 3:30 pm EST Valentine’s Day may be over, but the nightmare of forgotten exes will never die. In fact, it may come back to stab you in the leg. Two years ago, a viral short film made in the vein of Gremlins caught the eye of the internet, and of Lost and Cloverfield cinematographer Michael Bonvillain....

‘Shazam!’ Cast Adds ‘Walking Dead’ Actor By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 24, 2017 11:00 am EST Another day, another new addition to the Shazam! cast. The latest actor to board the DC superhero flick is Cooper Andrews, who plays the character Jerry on AMC’s seemingly never-ending zombie show The Walking Dead. Andrews joins a cast that already includes Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer and Mark Strong. Read on for more details on the Shazam!...

‘Shazam’ First Look: Zachary Levi Drinks A Cola With His Best Friend By Ethan Anderton/July 11, 2018 8:55 am EST Fans have been waiting for a first official look at Zachary Levi as the DC Comics superhero known as Shazam for a long time now. We know there’s a much better sneak peek coming to San Diego Comic-Con later this month, but now we have the first Shazam photo featuring the Chuck star in costume while drinking some tasty cola....

‘Star Wars Episode 9’: Rian Johnson Takes Himself Out Of The Running (For Now) By Ben Pearson/Sept. 11, 2017 9:10 am EST When Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow parted ways with Star Wars: Episode 9, it left a vacant director’s chair for one of Lucasfilm’s biggest and most important movies yet. We offered our own suggestions of who should take over, and one of our choices was Rian Johnson, the director of this year’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the reported frontrunner for the Episode 9 directing job....

‘Wrath Of Khan’ Director Nicholas Meyer’s Secret ‘Star Trek’ Project Was A Standalone Trilogy By Ben Pearson/May 17, 2018 12:00 pm EST Nicholas Meyer was one of the chief creative forces behind the original Star Trek films. He wrote and directed several of them, including the most beloved Trek movie yet, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, so fans were eager to see what he was up to when it was announced that he was returning to the series for a secret project....

2017 Oscars Honest Trailer: Sadsville, Snot Acting & Hollywood Handjobs By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 22, 2017 5:00 am EST The Oscars will be handed out this coming Sunday to honor some of the best achievements in film from the year 2016. Of course, the Oscars aren’t necessarily always an indication of the absolute best movies from the preceding year, if only because there’s a lot of politics and money involved, making it impossible for some deserving films to get nominated....

Chris Pratt Wants Star-Lord To Meet The Punisher By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2016 10:30 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is filled with exciting possibilities. Part of the enormous fun in The Avengers films or Captain America: Civil War is seeing these heroes interact with each other, and seeing how their personalities clash in those interchanges. But if you ask Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt, the character he would be most interested in seeing Star-Lord meeting on the big screen would have to be The Punisher....

Cool Stuff: ‘Jurassic Park’ T-Rex Statue Roars To Life From Iron Studios By Ethan Anderton/March 15, 2018 6:00 am EST Since science and technology has not yet allowed us to bring dinosaurs back to life (and likely never will), but you can have the next best thing thanks to a gorgeous new statue being produced by Chronicle Collectibles and Iron Studios. Few on-screen creatures rival the terrifying presence of the tyrannosaurus rex from the original Jurassic Park....

John Boyega Has Met With Marvel Before, Would Be Open To Play A Superhero In The Future By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 2, 2018 2:00 pm EST Maybe, Boyega said at Awesome Con in Washington, D.C. The Star Wars and Pacific Rim Uprising actor hinted that he met with Marvel in the past, but would probably not play a superhero until somewhere “down the line.” Boyega already has two massive sci-fi franchises under his belt, but could he add a superhero franchise on top of that?...

Johnny Depp Will Play ‘King Of The Jungle’ For ‘I Love You Phillip, Morris’ Duo By Jack Giroux/March 29, 2017 3:30 pm EST Scott Alexander and Larry Krzyzewski’s biopics are typically great, stranger than fiction stories about artists. The duo behind Big Eyes, Man on the Moon, and Ed Wood normally don’t write about conventional figures, and that’s true for a new project they have in the works, King of the Jungle, which John Requa and Glenn Ficarra will direct, with Johnny Depp attached to star as John McAfee....

Kurt Russell Will Play Santa Claus For Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 6, 2017 10:00 am EST You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why: Kurt Russell is coming to town. Russell has just joined the cast of an untitled holiday movie in which he’ll be playing Kris Kringle himself, Santa Claus. The plot involves two kids who accidentally crash Santa’s sleigh, causing a major problem on Christmas Eve....

LOL: Anna Kendrick Wants To Join Ben Affleck’s ‘The Batman’ As Robin (Or Batman) By Angie Han/Oct. 12, 2016 4:00 pm EST The internet may be clamoring for Anna Kendrick to play Marvel’s Squirrel Girl, but it looks like the Oscar-nominated actress has her eye on a different superhero project. Kinda. You see, Kendrick stars in this weekend’s The Accountant with Ben Affleck, who just so happens to be the star and director of that Batman solo movie we keep hearing about....

Meghan Markle And Prince Harry TV Movie Coming Soon, Because Of Course It Is By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 16, 2018 5:30 am EST Move over, The Crown. The red-hot royalty-based drama people really want to watch is the love story of American actress Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the ginger-est of princes. The young couple’s love story has generated so much buzz that there’s already a Harry and Megan TV movie in the works at Lifetime, set to premiere later this year....

By Jack Giroux/March 29, 2017 10:00 am EST Below, learn more about the Nicolas Winding Refn amazon series. In addition to Teller’s casting, The Hollywood Reporter has some new details on the series and the actor’s role. Teller is playing a mourning cop, Martin, whose partner was murdered. Somehow, Martin and the man who killed his partner are pulled into a world of Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins, the Russian mob, and even gangs of teenage killers....

Netflix Unceremoniously Cancels ‘The Break With Michelle Wolf’ And ‘The Joel McHale Show’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2018 12:00 pm EST Netflix has cut down their roster of talk shows after being on the streaming service for only a matter of months. Both The Break with Michelle Wolf and The Joel McHale with Joel McHale have been canceled, but it’s the way Netflix handled the axing of the former series that is rather disconcerting....

Netflix Wants More Money, Testing Pricey New ‘Netflix Ultra’ Plan By Chris Evangelista/July 5, 2018 1:30 pm EST The all-consuming 21st century god that is Netflix demands a heftier money sacrifice! Dig deep into your coin purses, lowly mortals, and bathe the great god Netflix in your hard-earned cash! With hopes of attracting even more dollars and cents, the streaming service is testing out a Netflix Ultra plan, which asks users to pay extra for Ultra HD content....

The CW Casts Ruby Rose As The Arrowverse’s Batwoman By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 7, 2018 11:21 am EST Ruby Rose will be The CW’s Batwoman. In a piece of pitch-perfect casting, the gender-fluid and openly gay actress will be playing the lesbian caped crusader in The CW’s ever-expanding Arrowverse. Rose is set to first don Kate Kane’s mask and fiery red wig in this fall’s Arrowverse crossover event before headlining her own solo series currently in development at the network....