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‘Marshall’ Trailer: Chadwick Boseman Brings Justice As Thurgood Marshall In Biopic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 1, 2017 4:00 pm EST Chadwick Boseman can’t seem to get enough of playing prolific black historical figures in biopics. After putting on his dancing shoes as James Brown in Get On Up, Boseman’s latest turn is as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the simply titled Marshall, when he was just a strapping young lawyer who can punch guys....

‘Our Souls At Night’ Trailer: Robert Redford And Jane Fonda Feel The Love By Jack Giroux/Aug. 10, 2017 1:30 pm EST Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are working together for the fourth time in their careers. They most famously starred in Gene Saks’ Barefoot in the Park, but they first appeared together in Arthur Penn’s The Chase. In 1979, they both starred in The Electric Horseman. Next month, we can see the two acting titans back together in a new movie from Netflix, Our Souls at Night....

‘Snatched’ Clip: Goldie Hawn Gives Amy Schumer A Special Whistle By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2017 1:30 pm EST Summer movie season is right around the corner. It unofficially begins in April with The Fate of the Furious, but really swings into gear at the beginning of May with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. While summer is a place for big screen spectacle, there will be some blockbuster comedies hoping to make a dent as well, and the first one comes from Amy Schumer....

‘Spider-Man’ To Have Storyline Spanning Five MCU Films By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 5, 2017 8:30 am EST Of all the guardians of the galaxy and Earth’s mightiest heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it will be teen wunderkind Peter Parker who will be guiding us through the climactic Avengers: Infinity War and untitled Avengers 4 before bringing us into the mysterious fourth phase of the MCU. The next four Marvel films will telegraph Peter’s journey as Spider-Man, after the character was first initiated into the cinematic universe in Captain America: Civil War....

‘The New Mutants’ Will Be The First In A Trilogy Of X-Men Horror Movies By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 16, 2017 7:30 am EST In the superhero genre, where films are planned years in advance, this is nothing new. But Boone’s pitch for a New Mutants trilogy revolves less around plot ideas than it does genre ideas — with each New Mutants movie taking around a different horror subgenre. So if you’re not on board with the Nightmare on Elm Street meets Stranger Things supernatural horror of the trailer, don’t worry: you’ll have plenty to look forward to....

‘The Pirates Of Somalia’ Trailer: Evan Peters Gets In Over His Head By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 14, 2017 6:30 am EST Evan Peters and his fake beard might be in trouble in The Pirates of Somalia trailer. In the drama inspired by a true story, Peters plays a journalist who hopes to investigate Somali pirates, only to get more than he bargained for. The new film from The Bronze director Bryan Buckley also stars a very sleepy looking Al Pacino and Captain Phillips break-out Barkhad Abdi....

‘Toy Wars’ Limited Series Coming From Josh Gad, Josh Schwartz & ‘King Of Kong’ Director By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2016 4:00 pm EST Hasbro is the company behind toy franchises like GI Joe, Transformers, and My Little Pony, while Mattel produces Fisher-Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls and board games. Anyone who knows anything about the battle between these two toy companies during the 80’s and 90’s knows that there is a compelling story to be told in a television series....

Apple Orders Sara Bareilles Musical Series ‘Little Voice’ From J.J. Abrams And Bad Robot By Chris Evangelista/June 6, 2018 5:00 pm EST Apple continues to cultivate an impressive list of actors and filmmakers for their upcoming streaming service. J.J. Abrams and Sara Bareilles are the latest names to sign on – the pair will collaborate on a half-hour musical comedy series Little Voice. Deadline reports that J.J. Abrams and the Waitress duo of Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson are joining forces for a show that will debut on Apple’s streaming service....

Cool Stuff: ‘Jurassic Park’ Funko POP Jeep Must Go Faster, Must Go Faster By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2018 6:00 am EST The Jurassic Park line of Funko POP figures hit shelves earlier this year, including an extremely popular and hard to find sexy version of Jeff Goldblum as an injured Ian Malcolm. But one of the characters missing from the line-up, much to the chagrin of Laura Dern fans, was paleobotanist Dr....

Cool Stuff: Factory Entertainment’s 1966 ‘Batman’ Batcave Is One Cool SDCC Exclusive By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2017 1:00 pm EST Next month, the /Film crew will be making their annual trip to San Diego Comic-Con. Even though we’ll be waiting in long lines to make sure we can cover the biggest panels at the convention and get all the latest news about upcoming movies and all our favorite TV shows, we also like to wander the show floor to see what kind of cool stuff we can get our hands on....

Dave Filoni Explains Why ‘Rogue One’ Battle Of Scarif Will Not Be In ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Finale By Chris Evangelista/March 5, 2018 3:30 pm EST The Star Wars Rebels finale airs tonight, but if you were expecting the animated show’s conclusion to tie directly into the ending of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, think again. In a video interview, Rebels creator Dave Filoni offers up the reasoning behind not including the Rogue One Battle of Scarif in the Star Wars Rebels finale....

Listen to the Phantom Thread Mixtape As you can see, there’s some classical tracks on there, including Bernard Hermann, but then there are some amusing selections like “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon, and songs of devotion and passion like “Stay” by Rihanna and “XO” by Beyonce. There’s also The Everly Brothers and Bruce Springsteen. Thanks to the folks at TIFF for bringing this collection of music hand-selected by Paul Thomas Anderson....

Multiple ‘Star Trek’ Scripts Are Being Written Now By Chris Evangelista/April 3, 2018 5:30 am EST What the heck is going on with the Star Trek film franchise? All was quiet on the Trek front following Star Trek Beyond. Then word broke that Quentin Tarantino was developing an R-rated Star Trek film. Now, Nu-Spock himself, Zachary Quinto, has provided yet another update: multiple Star Trek scripts are in the works....

Netflix Announces Two New Shows As Peak TV Continues By Ben Pearson/June 13, 2018 4:00 am EST In the latest step in Netflix’s plan for world domination (or at least their plan to dominate all of our free time), the streaming service has announced two new original TV series will be coming to the platform. One is called Away, a sci-fi romance set during a mission to Mars that’s being produced by War for the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves....

New ‘Annihilation’ Featurette Highlights The All-Female Cast By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 14, 2018 6:30 am EST Alex Garland’s Annihilation already has folks heralding it as a modern sci-fi classic. In anticipation of the upcoming release, a new Annihilation featurette takes a quick look at the nearly all-female cast of the film.Annihilation is a big, audacious sci-fi film that also happens to have an all-female cast (give or take an Oscar Isaac or two)....

New ‘Aquaman’ Image And Details: Rival Atlantean Armies Face Off While Riding Sharks And Sea Dragons By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 15, 2018 9:30 am EST There’s more to Atlantis than meets the eye. A new Aquaman image reveals that the glorious, underwater kingdom is not the shining city on top of a coral reef that mythology would have you believe. Instead, the Atlantis in Aquaman seems to be subject to the same rival rulers and political turmoil that have plagued human history — just with more great white sharks and sea dragons....

New ‘Ghostbusters’ Crossover Comic Has The 1984 Crew Meet The 2016 Team By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2016 11:00 am EST It’s probably a safe bet that we’ll never see the return of Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore on the big screen as the original Ghostbusters. Not only have we lost one of the original cast members (RIP Harold Ramis), but the reboot has established itself as existing in an entirely different universe, despite the many similarities and borrowed elements between the reboot and the original, making a crossover essentially impossible....

POTD: This Unused ‘Alien’ Title Treatment Is Pure H.R. Giger By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 14, 2016 6:00 am EST As simple as they are, the opening credits for Alien are rather iconic. All the important names of the cast and crew appear on screen as the title is slowly revealed piece by piece. It appears in the movie exactly as it did in the posters leading up to the release of the film....

Steve Ditko, Co-Creator Of Marvel’s Spider-Man And Doctor Strange, Has Died At 90 By Ben Pearson/July 6, 2018 5:52 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter spoke with the New York Police Department and got confirmation that Ditko was found dead in his apartment on June 29, though authorities believe he actually died two days before that. No cause of death was listed (though, again, he was 90), and he left behind no known survivors....

Superhero Bits: Cyborg Superman, Ron Perlman For President, Arrowverse Crossover Photos & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 10, 2016 5:00 pm EST Why did Doctor Strange wear an eye patch at one point in a Marvel Comics story arc? Is Ron Perlman seriously announcing his candidacy for president in 2020? Do you agree with Tom Holland that Spider-Man could beat Batman in a fight? What did Supergirl executive producer Andrew Kreisberg reveal about Cyborg Superman?...