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‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Clip: Who Is The Greatest Pilot In The Universe? By Ethan Anderton/March 12, 2017 12:00 pm EST This past weekend, Nickelodeon had their annual Kids’ Choice Awards, which meant it was a prime time for studios to advertise their latest blockbusters to the coveted younger demographic. The new footage unfurled included the newest trailer for Wonder Woman (which you can watch right here), as well as the first clip from Transformers: The Last Knight....

‘Jaws’ Is Getting The Live Film Concert Treatment Around The World By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2016 2:00 pm EST Just when you thought it was safe to go back into symphony halls, Jaws is getting the Film Concerts Live! treatment. The iconic 1975 blockbuster from a young Steven Spielberg has become the latest film to get its own touring concert event where the music of composer John Williams will be played by a live orchestra along with a screening of the entire movie....

‘Krypton’ Trailer: Superman’s Granddaddy Gets His Own SyFy Series By Jacob Hall/April 18, 2017 3:00 pm EST It’s been a few years since writer/producer David S. Goyer set out to make Krypton, a television series for SyFy that follows the grandfather of Kal-El (better known as Clark Kent, and even better known as Superman) a few centuries before his planet is destroyed. You know, as seen/referenced in just about every Superman movie....

‘La La Land’ Parodies: 8-Bit Cinema, Muppet Mash-Up And A David Lynch Thriller By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 24, 2017 5:00 am EST This coming weekend, the 89th Academy Awards will be held, and the acclaimed La La Land is expected to take home a bunch of Oscars just like it has the rest of the awards season. As more and more have seen the throwback musical romance, the film has become easier to lampoon for audiences who previously didn’t have a chance to see it....

‘Mandy’ Advance Screenings Coming To 226 Theaters, Featuring Conversation With Nicolas Cage And Director Panos Cosmatos By Ben Pearson/Aug. 17, 2018 2:00 pm EST If you’re bored with the traditional movies found in your local theater, fear not: Mandy is coming. That’s not to say that all of the films that are out right now are traditional – far from it – but Mandy, the trippy and twisted revenge thriller from director Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow), is operating on an entirely different level from anything that’s been in theaters for a long time....

‘Mindhunter’ Video Shows Cameron Britton Transforming Into Serial Killer Ed Kemper By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 2018 11:00 am EST One of the memorable aspects of the David Fincher-produced serial killer drama Mindhunter is the incredible performance of Cameron Britton. Britton plays real-life serial killer Ed Kemper, and his work on the show is chilling and attention-grabbing. In a new Mindhunter video, Britton shows us his transformation into the character. I love Netflix’s Mindhunter for many reasons (it’s impeccably directed; has great writing and pacing; it’s an inherently fascinating show), but one of the biggest standouts of season 1 was the performance of Cameron Britton....

‘Private Life’ Trailer: Paul Giamatti And Kathryn Hahn Are Desperate To Have A Kid By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 13, 2018 4:00 pm EST Being a parent is hard. But for some couples, the real difficulty is getting the opportunity just to have a kid. That’s exactly the struggle that Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn face as a fortysomething couple living in a rent stabilized apartment in New York City doing everything they possibly can to have a child....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Final Trailers: Webslinging Never Looked So Good By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 2017 5:28 am EST With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 out of the way, we can look forward to the next Marvel Studios title arriving this summer, and that’s their collaboration with Sony Pictures, Spider-Man: Homecoming. This will be the second reboot of the Spider-Man franchise in five years, but since the introduction of Tom Holland as the new webslinger in Captain America: Civil War, fans are actually excited to see the franchise start over, especially since we’re not getting the wallcrawler’s origin story again....

‘Suicide Squad’ Extended Cut Trailer: Here’s Some Of The Joker & Harley Quinn’s Cut Scenes By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 29, 2016 9:00 am EST A few days after Suicide Squad arrived on the big screen, a whole rundown of deleted scenes surfaced online, though we had no way of knowing if the list was accurate. Now that new footage is being put back into the movie by way of an extended cut coming to home video next month, we’re getting glimpses of what was left on the cutting room floor, and it includes some of the moments detailed in that list....

Al Pacino Finally Confirms His ‘Heat’ Character Was Chipping Cocaine By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2016 1:30 pm EST This year doesn’t mark a special anniversary for Michael Mann’s action-thriller Heat as it’s been 21 years since the movie starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro hit theaters. But last night, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held a special screening of the film, remastered in 4K, ironically reminding us how criminal it is that the film didn’t receive a single Oscar nomination....

Cool Stuff: Olly Moss’ Harry Potter Posters Are Beautiful By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2016 10:00 am EST In collaboration with Pottermore, artist Olly Moss is releasing seven officially licensed Harry Potter posters in a timed-edition. Last year Moss worked on a set of new Harry Potter books, giving the covers a new minimalistic look. This set of Olly Moss Harry Potter posters is being released in a timed-edition, , which means any Harry Potter fan that wants them (and has the cash) can own them....

Cool Stuff: These Matt Ferguson ‘Infinity War’ Posters Will Make You Want To See The Movie In Theaters 5 Times By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2018 10:30 am EST We’ve been covering the pop culture artwork of UK-based artist Matt Ferguson for more than half a decade at this point and are always impressed, but this might be his best piece yet. A pentaptych of five interconnected posters for Avengers: Infinity War which will be released exclusively through Odeon Cinemas....

Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Looks To ‘Mission: Impossible’ Star Rebecca Ferguson For Female Lead By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2018 7:30 am EST Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptation may have found its Lady Jessica. Mission: Impossible breakout Rebecca Ferguson is in talks to join the Dune cast as the female lead, opposite Timothée Chalamet, who has already been cast as Paul Atreides.Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel Dune is like the filmmaker’s Mount Everest — sprawling, dense, and near-impossible to adapt....

Great Snakes! ‘Tintin 2’ Is Still Happening, According To Steven Spielberg By Chris Evangelista/March 23, 2018 4:00 pm EST If you’re a fan of Steven Spielberg’s animated adventure The Adventures of Tintin, and have longed for a sequel, here’s some good news. Spielberg says the long-awaited sequel is still happening, and that Peter Jackson will direct. Great snakes! More on Tintin 2 below. Audiences weren’t exactly blown away by Spielberg’s 2011 Adventures of Tintin, which is a damn shame because the film is so much fun....

How ‘The Grinch’ Sent A Brilliant Make-Up Artist Into Therapy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 9, 2018 4:23 pm EST The make-up job for the live-action 2000 version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas was notoriously arduous. Jim Carrey compared the eight-hour process to “being buried alive,” and the production nearly came to a screeching halt because of how much the actor hated the make-up. But what about the poor make-up artist on the other side of the brush?...

Renée Zellweger To Star In Netflix Series ‘What/If’ From Robert Zemeckis By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 20, 2018 5:00 pm EST Renée Zellweger is the latest Hollywood star to make the move to TV. The Bridget Jones’s Baby actress is heading to the small screen with a Netflix series that has just as big names behind the camera as it will in front of it.What/If is a social thriller anthology series that hails from Revenge creator Mike Kelley and beloved filmmaker Robert Zemeckis....

Rob Zombie Is Making A Sequel To ‘The Devil’s Rejects’ (Despite What Happened At The End Of ‘The Devil’s Rejects’) By Jacob Hall/Oct. 25, 2017 1:30 pm EST The news that a horror movie is getting a sequel is not surprising – just about every horror movie gets a sequel and even the most undeserving get entire franchises built around them. But Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects brought the saga of the Firefly clan to a definitive close....

See How Disney’s Franchises Have Grown Throughout The Decades [Infographic] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2017 4:00 am EST Disney is home to some of the biggest franchises of all time. Their biggest franchise successes in recent years have come from companies they’ve bought such as Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm, but Walt Disney Animation and Pixar Animation has been responsible for an immense amount of the studio’s success. Now a new infographic shows how Disney’s franchises have evolved since the animation studio arrived on the scene in 1937 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs....

Steven Spielberg’s Pentagon Papers Movie Has A Ridiculously Talented Cast By Ben Pearson/June 6, 2017 3:00 pm EST Sometimes director Steven Spielberg can toil away for years trying to find the perfect combination of elements to tell a story, and other times he’s able to fast-track the entire process from idea to finished product in less than a year. He’s doing the latter with a new film called The Papers (formerly known as The Post): he signed on in March and the movie comes out this December....

The First ‘Alien: Covenant’ Poster Has One Simple Command And An Earlier Release Date By Jacob Hall/Nov. 23, 2016 3:54 pm EST And here it is. It doesn’t even need a title to get its point across – just a familiar monstrosity crawling out of the darkness, a release date, and one simple word. Although early word has suggested that the classic Xenomorph is getting a new look in Covenant, the guy on the poster looks accurate enough to the monstrosity introduced in the first movie....