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‘The Gifted’ Teaser: Bryan Singer Brings The X-Men To Fox By Jacob Hall/May 9, 2017 2:58 pm EST You can watch the first teaser below. Perhaps the strangest thing about this teaser is that there’s no mention of the X-Men anywhere. If not for the small Marvel logo at the bottom of the title screen, you could think this was just another TV show about kids with superpowers going on the run from the government with the help of their parents, which is an entire subgenre at this point....

‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ Trailer: Mila Kunis And Kate McKinnon Are Tangled In A Conspiracy By Ben Pearson/May 10, 2018 1:15 pm EST Paul Feig’s 2015 action comedy Spy did a tremendous job of delivering both action and comedy, and it looks like director Susanna Fogel (Life Partners, Chasing Life) is looking to do the same thing with the upcoming film The Spy Who Dumped Me. This one stars Mila Kunis (Bad Moms) and Kate McKinnon (Ghostbusters, Saturday Night Live) as a pair of best friends who are thrust into an international conspiracy after they learn that one of their boyfriends is a secret agent....

‘Tomb Raider’ Clips: Alicia Vikander Recreates Action-Packed Scenes From The Video Games By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 8, 2018 11:30 am EST New Tomb Raider clips have been released from the Alicia Vikander-fronted reboot of the popular video game franchise. And as you’d expect, they are packed full of action. Vikander stars as Lara Croft, the iconic action heroine from the long-running video game franchise Tomb Raider. The games were adapted to films once before, with Angelina Jolie in the lead role....

‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ TV Spot: Eat Some More Of Luc Besson’s Eye Candy By Jack Giroux/June 11, 2017 10:00 am EST The last trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was the best one yet. There was very little dialogue – it just shined the light solely on the huge world director Luc Besson ,and countless artists have carefully crafted, based on the comic books by Pierre Christin and illustrator Jean-Claude Mézières....

‘Wonder Woman’ Trailer Breakdown: A Frame-By-Frame Look At Diana Prince’s Origins By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2017 7:30 am EST In our Wonder Woman trailer breakdown below, we take a much closer look at the new footage on display. So let’s see what this first adventure for the Goddess of Truth has in store for us. But beware of possible spoilers if you want to go into the movie completely blind....

26 New ‘Star Wars’ Stories Have Been Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 14, 2017 3:15 pm EST Each story is told from the perspective of background characters from A New Hope – “from X-wing pilots who helped Luke destroy the Death Star to the stormtroopers who never quite could find the droids they were looking for.” And with the October release date quickly approaching, Del Rey Publishing has begun unveiling some of the short stories that will be featured in this collection....

Bryce Dallas Howard To Direct ‘Sorta Like A Rock Star’ By Jack Giroux/July 30, 2017 11:00 am EST Below, learn more about the potential Bryce Dallas Howard directorial debut. Here’s the book’s synopsis: Over a year ago, Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl) was attached to direct with a script from Ol Parker (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Whether Howard is sticking with Parker’s script isn’t mentioned in Variety’s report. Over the years, Howard has done great work in front of the camera, but she’s been directing for a while now....

Daniel Craig Still The “First Choice” To Play James Bond By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2016 10:30 am EST It’s been fun to speculate about who the next James Bond could be, especially since the current Bond has said on the record that he’d rather slash his wrists than play Bond again. However, any predictions may be premature at this point. According to Callum McDougall, who’s executive produced all the Daniel Craig Bond films to date, Craig remains “absolutely the first choice” to play 007 in the next film....

Ewan McGregor To Star In ‘The Shining’ Sequel ‘Doctor Sleep’ By Chris Evangelista/June 13, 2018 3:00 pm EST Yet another Stephen King adaptation has landed an exciting actor. Variety confirms that Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of Doctor Sleep, a direct sequel to The Shining. McGregor will play the adult Danny Torrance, who you might remember as the kid shrieking “redrum” over and over again in the Stanley Kubrick adaptation of King’s classic tale of terror....

Gareth Edwards Rogue One Cameo Finally Revealed; Learn His Top 10 Films Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2017 11:00 am EST Last month on the Empire Podcast, director Gareth Edwards teased that he had a brief cameo in one of the final scenes of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It has taken fans a couple of weeks to find it, but now the Gareth Edwards Rogue One cameo has been fully revealed....

Jake Gyllenhaal Is Responsible For ‘Halloween’ Casting, Danny McBride Wanted Back-To-Back Sequels And Other New Details Revealed By Chris Evangelista/June 12, 2018 2:30 pm EST I don’t know about you, but I’m still buzzing about last week’s exciting Halloween reboot trailer. October can’t get here soon enough. If, like me, you’re hungry for even more Halloween treats, some new details about the reboot have been revealed by the cast and crew....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 27, 2018 9:30 am EST Created and written by Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List), the Cortes miniseries will follow Hernán Cortes as he leads a “rebellious expedition” to King Montezuma II’s Aztec empire. Cortes was famous for bringing about the fall of the Aztec Empire and leading the first phase of the colonization of the Americas by Spanish conquistadors. The project is based off a long-gestating script by the late Dalton Trumbo....

Martin Scorsese Might Make A Movie With Leonardo DiCaprio And Robert De Niro By Ben Pearson/April 24, 2017 12:30 pm EST If Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, or Robert De Niro become involved with a new movie, cinephiles perk up. Well, maybe not as much for De Niro in the past few years, but with The Wizard of Lies on the way, maybe that’ll change. When all three of those guys are mentioned as possible collaborators on the same project?...

Marvel Moves Up ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Release Date To April 27 By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 1, 2018 12:46 pm EST Ask, and ye shall receive a faster release of Avengers: Infinity War. At least, you will if you’re Robert Downey Jr. In an unforeseen turn of events, the Avengers Infinity War release date has been moved up from its initial May 4 date to April 27, 2018. Merely three months before Infinity War was scheduled to fly into theaters, Marvel Studios has bumped up the release date for the ensemble superhero sequel to April 27....

More Avengers Were Originally Going To Appear In ‘Spider-Man Homecoming’; See The Concept Art By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2017 2:00 pm EST Spider-Man: Homecoming was Spider-Man’s big break into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, thanks to a deal between Sony and Marvel Studios. And it was milked as much as possible. Not only did Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark play a pivotal role in Spider-Man: Homecoming, acting as a reluctant mentor to Tom Holland’s teen Peter Parker....

See How ‘Searching’ Immerses You In A Screen-Based Thriller Through A Complex Editing Process By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 31, 2018 4:00 pm EST Searching isn’t the first movie to be told entirely through computer and mobile screens, but it might be the first movie to take advantage of the narrative format in such a clever and impeccable fashion. Now you can see how the movie came together in post-production and how complicated it is to bring a movie like this to life and make it feel authentic....

Superhero Bits: How Agent Carter Set Up Civil War, Anne Hathaway Up For Catwoman Spin-Off & More? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 9, 2016 5:00 pm EST What if DC’s Legends of Tomorrow had the opening credits of Power Rangers: Time Force? Is Anne Hathaway up for a Catwoman spin-off? How did Agent Carter set the stage for the conflict between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark in Captain America: Civil War? How did Supergirl get permission to use Superman on the show?...

Superhero Comedy ‘Super-Normal’ Goes To Netflix; Josh Gad, Daisy Ridley, And Luke Evans On Board By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 2017 7:30 am EST If the proliferation of Olaf merchandise wasn’t a sign that Josh Gad is fast becoming one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood, then the Netflix superhero comedy that he’s producing could be. I exaggerate, but Josh Gad has certainly become one of the hardest-working people in Hollywood in the past few years since he broke into mainstream success with Frozen, quickly accumulating movie credits like Beauty and the Beast and Murder on the Orient Express....

The Morning Watch: A ‘Stranger Things’ Reunion, ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ LEGO Trailer & More By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a couple stars from the second season of Stranger Things have a therapeutic reunion....

VOTD: ‘Being Batman’ Documentary Short Profiles A Real Life Dark Knight By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 6, 2017 5:00 am EST What kind of person decides to put on a superhero suit and patrol the streets of their hometown? You would think that it’s only in comic books and movies that these kind of people exists, but there are real people out there who take it upon themselves to suit up like superheroes and fight crime....