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How Jake Gyllenhaal Inadvertently Helped Make Barry Jenkins’ ‘If Beale Street Can Talk’ Happen By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 16, 2018 11:00 am EST On top of being an uber-talented actor and the thinking girl’s heartthrob, Jake Gyllenhaal has now ascended to becoming this fall movie season’s behind-the-scenes hero. Gyllenhaal made headlines earlier this summer for having a part in getting Jamie Lee Curtis to return as Laurie Strode for the Halloween reboot, which helped make it one of the most anticipated movies of the season....

James Cameron Talks Lessons From ‘Avatar’ And The Young Cast Of ‘Avatar 2’ [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 14, 2018 8:00 am EST Director James Cameron appeared on a Television Critics Association panel this weekend for his upcoming AMC docuseries James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. Inevitably, the panel ended with a question about the new Avatar sequels. As always, Cameron’s response was an interesting one, and he also discussed the young new cast members who will make their first appearance in Avatar 2....

MoviePass CEO Wants Moviefone To Be Their Own Rotten Tomatoes By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 11, 2018 3:30 pm EST MoviePass wants to become your one-stop shop when it comes to going to the movie theater. The movie theater subscription service has already gotten the ticket-buying market cornered — to the joy of some and the chagrin of others in the industry — and now it wants to become a source of movie reviews....

Ridley Scott Is Apparently Ready To Make ‘Alien’ Movies Until He Dies By Jacob Hall/March 6, 2017 8:30 am EST Ridley Scott is 79 years old and he has directed five movies in the past six years. He’s the human equivalent of the bus from Speed – he can’t slow down. More than that, he’s making the rest of look bad. In the time it takes me to write an introductory paragraph about upcoming Alien movies, Scott has probably signed on to producer another half dozen movies....

See Inside The Fake X-Men Comics Of ‘Logan’ By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2017 10:00 am EST While Logan, Professor X and the young mutant experiment named Laura (aka X-23) are on the run from the dangerous foes of what few mutants are surviving in the world, we learn that the deadly little girl is a fan of X-Men comics. It’s not unlike how Rey and Finn have heard about the stories involving the heroics of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

Sony Cut Several Disturbing Scenes From ‘Slender Man’ Before Release By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2018 4:00 pm EST The delayed Slender Man movie finally hit theaters last week, and was met with mostly silence. The film wasn’t screened for critics, and didn’t scare up much box office. Before Slender Man arrived, rumor had it that Sony and the producers were clashing over the content of the fright flick. Now word comes that Sony snipped several scary scenes, mostly out of fear of backlash....

Superhero Bits: Manga Marvel Zombies, Armie Hammer Addresses Green Lantern Rumors & More By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2017 5:00 pm EST Is Josh Brolin the right choice to play Cable in Deadpool 2? When will New Mutants start production? Do you want to read a popular manga featuring Marvel zombies? Who does Supergirl star Katie McGrath, aka Lena Luthor, want to see playing Lex Luthor? Can Deadpool grow back a certain, personal part of his anatomy?...

Superhero Bits: Tom Holland Gets Pranked, ‘Infinity War’ May Break ‘Star Wars’ Records & More By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2018 5:30 pm EST What prank did some British web personalities pull on Tom Holland during the Avengers: Infinity War press tour? Will Avengers: Infinity War break box office records set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Where the hell is the Soul Stone and will we see it in Avengers: Infinity War?...

The Most Rented Redbox Movies Reveal That America Is Basic AF By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 30, 2017 10:30 am EST Movie theaters may be losing audiences at an alarming rate, and the streaming service field may be increasingly cluttered, but at least we’ll always have home video, right? Right…? Renting a physical DVD or Blu-ray of your favorite movie still hasn’t lost its magic, even when the renting process shifted from your local rental store (RIP) to the bright red kiosk that populates every superstore or drug store....

There Are Now Six Thai Cave Rescue Movies In The Works By Chris Evangelista/July 20, 2018 1:30 pm EST Movie-goers can’t resist a true story of triumph, which might explain why there are now six new Thai cave rescue movies in the works. You read that right: six. You likely know the story by now, even if you don’t know all the details: twelve young soccer (well, technically, football) players and their coach entered Tham Luang cave in Thailand and became trapped after heavy rains flooded the cave....

Timothy Olyphant Eyeing Role In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ By Chris Evangelista/May 11, 2018 11:00 am EST Yet another impressive actor is eyeing a part in Quentin Tarantino’s impeccable Once Upon A Time In Hollywood cast. Timothy Olyphant has tossed his hat in the ring and may co-star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Burt Reynolds and more. Who will be next to join Tarantino’s rapidly growing Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?...

Uma Thurman Turned Down A Role In ‘Lord Of The Rings’ By Jacob Hall/Feb. 23, 2017 7:30 am EST Here’s some trivia for you: while appearing as a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Uma Thurman revealed that she was offered a key role in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and regrets turning it down. While Thurman was technically on the show to promote her new Bravo series, Imposters, Colbert led with a piece of trivia that will get any geek to take notice – the Pulp Fiction star was offered the role of Eowyn, but she declined the offer....

Watch ‘Star Wars: Forces Of Destiny’ Season 2, Featuring ‘Last Jedi’ Stars Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Kelly Marie Tran, John Boyega & Lupita Nyong’o By Ben Pearson/March 19, 2018 12:30 pm EST Of the many ways Disney builds their Star Wars brand outside of the theater, Star Wars: Forces of Destiny may be one of the best. It’s a campaign made up of animated shorts, toys, and kids’ books that are all intended to bring some extra attention to the franchise’s female characters....

Watch Gameplay From The ‘GoldenEye 007’ HD Video Game Redux We Never Got To Play By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2016 4:00 am EST Plenty of gamers and movie fans will agree that GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64 is the best video game based on a movie ever made. The first person shooter based on the James Bond movie of the same name fro 1995 is still played to this day by those who were smart enough to hold on to their system from the late 90s....

Why Some Movie Theaters Are Refusing To Play ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 1, 2017 10:47 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi is poised to be a box office juggernaut and will almost certainly be one of the biggest movies of 2017 by the time the year ends. So why are some movie theaters refusing to screen the film for audiences? A new report from The Wall Street Journal explains that the Walt Disney Company, buoyed by the purchases of Marvel and Lucasfilm, has become the most successful movie studio today and therefore wields tremendous power over exhibitors who wish to screen their films....

‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ Will Get Naughty For The Holidays In 2017 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 26, 2016 1:00 pm EST After Bad Moms took ins over $180 worldwide earlier this year at the box office, on a budget of just $20 million, STX Entertainment made the decision to quickly keep the franchise alive with a spin-off focusing on the other parents. Bad Dads was set for release on July 14, 2017, and it felt like an odd way to capitalize on the success of the film, especially without any of the original cast or writers/directors Jon Lucas & Scott Moore involved....

‘A Christmas Story: Live’ Adds ‘30 Rock’ And ‘Silicon Valley’ Stars By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 18, 2017 2:00 pm EST 30 Rock alum Jane Krakowski will be tapping into her character’s theatrical persona in A Christmas Story: Live!, alongside Silicon Valley star Chris Diamantopoulos, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Krakowski will play Ralphie’s teacher Miss Shields, while Diamantopoulos will take on the role of Ralphie’s dad. While Krakowski played a semi-musically gifted diva in 30 Rock, she is in fact a Tony winner for Nine, and recently appeared in She Loves Me....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’: James Gunn Gives Rave Review, Marvel TV Crossover Impossible By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 22, 2018 11:00 am EST Avengers: Infinity War is poised to take over the world when it hits theaters in April. And it already has a rave review from one Marvel director.Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn ushered his motley crew of galaxy-saving heroes into the MCU, turning them into an uber-popular team that threatened to dethrone the Avengers....

‘Iron Sky: The Coming Race’ Trailer: Space Hitler Is Back, With A Dinosaur By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 10, 2017 4:30 pm EST Iron Sky, which followed two American astronauts who land on the moon only to find it occupied by the descendants of Nazis who escaped in 1945, was a movie that existed. And now, a sequel to the 2012 cult hit is going to be released. With more space Nazis. Oh, and dinosaurs this time....

‘King Kong’ TV Show In The Works By Jack Giroux/April 18, 2017 2:30 pm EST Following the global box-office success of Kong: Skull Island, there’s some proof the big ape’s name still carries some weight with audiences. He’ll wrastle Godzilla in 2020, but before that showdown happens, we might see Kong back on the small screen. IM Global Television and MarVista Entertainment are now working on a series called King Kong Skull Island....