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Marvel’s ‘The Punisher’ Casts Oscar Nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo In Recurring Role By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 26, 2017 12:00 pm EST Marvel’s upcoming Netflix series The Punisher is shaping up to be quite promising. Jon Bernthal was always a talented actor around which to center the drama, but now the dark vigilante series is getting a higher pedigree with Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo getting cast in a recurring role. Aghdashloo, an Iranian actress who received an Oscar nomination for her stunning turn in 2003’s The House of Sand and Fog, will be starring in a recurring role as Farah Madani, the mother of Amber Rose Revah’s Dinah Madani, a Homeland Security agent hunting Bernthal’s Frank Castle, the titular “Punisher,” according to Entertainment Weekly....

Michael Jackson’s Groundbreaking ‘Thriller’ Music Video Will Premiere In 3D In Venice By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 7, 2017 4:30 pm EST Michael Jackson’s Thriller is perhaps the greatest music video of all time. It was the first music video of its kind, created as a nearly 14-minute short film that happened to have a chart-topping song playing throughout. The music video was such a publicized spectacle that it premiered at the AVCO Theatre in Los Angeles in 1983 and went on to sell out every night for three weeks straight....

Netflix Might Spend $8 Billion On Content In 2018, Including 80 Original Films By Ben Pearson/Oct. 17, 2017 7:30 am EST That potential $8 billion for 2018 is a billion dollars more than Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos previously predicted the company would spend, so it seems like they’re committed to staying on top of the game and investing enough money into their programming that people will continue to come back again and again....

Rumor: The Han Solo Movie Is Looking For A Non-White Female Lead By Jacob Hall/Aug. 12, 2016 7:30 am EST The Star Wars saga has grown increasingly diverse over the past few years, which a welcome transformation for a series that has generally defaulted to one token woman and one token black guy in each trilogy. Star Wars: The Force Awakens put Daisy Ridley and John Boyega front-and-center in heroic roles and the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story features one of the most ethnically diverse casts ever assembled outside of a Fast and Furious movie....

Ryan Gosling Will Play Neil Armstrong For ‘La La Land’ Director Damien Chazelle By Jacob Hall/Dec. 29, 2016 1:00 pm EST Every year is a good year for Ryan Gosling as long as he continues to look like Ryan Gosling, but 2016 was an especially good year to be Ryan Gosling. He’s probably going to snag his second Oscar nomination for his moving work in La La Land, he turned in one of the year’s best comedic performances in The Nice Guys, and he just finished filming a Blade Runner sequel with Denis Villeneuve....

Sleight Teaser Trailer: A First Look At The Magic Movie That Wowed Sundance By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2016 2:30 pm EST Sleight was one of my favorite movies of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which is saying something because Sing Street and Hunt For The Wilderpeople were some of the other movies in Park City this past January. It’s also in my top 10 magic movies of all time. I’ve described the film as Doug Liman’s Go crossed with Now You See Me, with a side of Chronicle....

Spike Lee Is The Latest Filmmaker To Teach Through MasterClass By Ben Pearson/March 28, 2018 5:30 am EST Following in the footsteps of fellow filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, and Werner Herzog, director Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, She’s Gotta Have It) is the latest to sign up to teach classes through the online education company MasterClass. Anyone with an internet connection, an interest in filmmaking, and some cash to spare can watch videos of Lee relating his first-hand experience of making movies – including writing, financing, and more....

Superhero Bits: Inhumans Production Start, Korea’s Doctor Strange SNL Sketch, Fox’s X-Men Series & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 11, 2017 5:00 pm EST Where and when will Marvel’s The Inhumans series shoot, and how will it coexist with Agents of SHIELD? Want to see how Korea’s Saturday Night Live is using Doctor Strange for comedy? How can you read DC Comics Rebirth comics by using your library card? What’s going on with Fox’s mystery X-Men TV series?...

TV Bits: ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’, ‘Preacher’, ‘House Of Cards’, ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ And More By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2018 11:00 am EST Remember The Baby-Sitters Club? I don’t! But Wikipedia tells me it’s a series of books “about a group of friends, girls between 11 and 13 years old, who live in the fictional, suburban town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. These friends run a local babysitting service called the “Baby-Sitters Club.” The original four members were Kristy (founder and president), Mary Anne (secretary), Claudia (vice-president), and Stacey (treasurer), but the total number of BSC members varies throughout the series....

VOTD: See How ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Was Animated In An Incredible Time Lapse Video By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2016 5:30 am EST If you haven’t seen Kubo and the Two Strings yet, you’re missing our on another gorgeous, moving animated adventure from LAIKA, the studio who brought you Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls. The stop-motion geniuses have delivered some of their most beautiful work yet, and you’ll be amazed at some of sequences they pulled off....

What The ‘It’ Runtime Tells Us About The New Movie By Jacob Hall/July 31, 2017 2:00 pm EST Reporting on movie runtimes is an inherently silly thing. It’s not really news, but let’s face it: we’re all curious about which superhero movie will test our bladder next, and we’re all ready to start yelling into the void about why a movie about robots that turn into cars needs to be that close to three hours long....

‘Batman And Bill’ Trailer: The Truth About The Creation Of Batman Explained In A New Documentary By Ethan Anderton/April 23, 2017 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Everyone thinks Bob Kane is the sole creator of Batman. What the new documentary Batman and Bill presupposes is, maybe he’s not. Even though Bob Kane is frequently and historically associated with the creation of Batman, the more educated comic book fans now know that many of the signature elements of Batman’s long comic book history were created by another man named Bill Finger....

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Trailer: The Wizarding War Is Coming By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 25, 2018 5:40 am EST Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which sees the pacifist magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) become embroiled in the oncoming wizarding war. See the new Fantastic Beasts the Crimes of Grindelwald trailer below. Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer Directed by David Yates from a script by J....

‘Kong: Skull Island’ Will Have A Post-Credits Scene By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 15, 2017 1:30 pm EST In just a few weeks, audiences will see what Legendary Pictures does with the classic movie monster known as King Kong. This time we’re not getting the usual story of King Kong being brought back to New York from Skull Island. Instead we’re meeting the king of the jungle for the first time, along with a slew of other monsters (not just dinosaurs) who populate this island of mythic monsters....

Pale Blue Dot First Look The Pale Blue Dot first look shows Portman in character as Lucy Cola, sporting a bob haircut and a bright blue NASA jumpsuit. This is our first glimpse of Portman in the film after she took over the role from Reese Witherspoon. The movie centers on Portman’s character, a married astronaut who begins an affair with Jon Hamm’s fellow astronaut after she returns home from a space mission....

‘Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams’ NYCC Trailer: The Future Is Still Human By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 6, 2017 12:00 pm EST With a cast that includes Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi, Jack Reynor, Geraldine Chaplin, Anna Paquin, Greg Kinner, Mireille Enos, Richard Madden, Holliday Grainger, Jason Mitchell, Vera Farmiga, Juno Temple, Janelle Monae, Liam Cunningham, Terrence Howard, and Benedict Wong, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams looks to be giving Black Mirror a run for its money in the star power department....

‘Shazam!’ Reveals More Details About Its Villain And That Tricky ‘Captain Marvel’ Name By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2018 11:30 am EST The first Shazam! trailer lit up San Diego Comic-Con like the lightning bolt on the superhero’s chest, signaling a bright and fun future for Warner Bros.’ DC Extended Universe. And now while fans eagerly await the comic book movie’s release in 2019, director David F. Sandberg is feeding into the hype with a few more details about the film’s mysterious villain played by Mark Strong, and how they plan to circumvent that tricky situation over the hero’s original name....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Confirmed, Will Likely End After Four Seasons By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2017 8:30 am EST How much stranger can one small Indiana town get? At least four seasons worth, according to the creators and showrunners of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things. Matt and Ross Duffer said they don’t plan on keeping Stranger Things running past four seasons, keeping the story as tight and well-plotted as they possibly can....

‘The Red Turtle’ Trailer: Studio Ghibli’s First International Co-Production Is A Wordless Wonder By Angie Han/Sept. 22, 2016 9:30 am EST Studio Ghibli is venturing into new territory. The animation house’s first international co-production is The Red Turtle, a gorgeous fable from Dutch animator Michaël Dudok De Wit. While not a Studio Ghibli release per se, this wordless wonder is certainly worthy of standing with the Japanese giant’s other titles. The story and art are deceptively simple, spinning a tale of an unfortunate man stranded on a desert island, but what eventually emerges is a moving meditation on the cycle of life....

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ IMAX Featurette: How Michael Bay Shot The Sequel In 3D By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 2017 2:30 pm EST No matter how much shade gets thrown at Michael Bay, you can’t deny that the director knows how to create big screen spectacle. It may not always come with a coherent story, especially in the Transformers franchise, but the filmmaker uses state of the art tools to create some of the most bombastic blockbuster action that the big screen has ever seen and IMAX helps him make the wild images in his head a reality....