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‘Ready Player One’ Likely To Have Spielberg’s Biggest Opening In A Decade By Chris Evangelista/March 28, 2018 2:19 pm EST Steven Spielberg is about to have his biggest box office opening in 10 years. Tracking for Ready Player One indicates it will be Spielberg’s best opening weekend since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. More on the Ready Player One box office below. While early tracking indicated that Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One may be falling a bit short at the box office, a new report indicates it will be Spielberg’s biggest opening in a decade....

This Is Me – Live Adapting movies to the stage is nothing new. Recently, Frozen and Mean Girls made the leap from screen to stage. Frozen was already a musical, while new songs were written for Mean Girls. The Greatest Showman already has the benefit of having a complete soundtrack full of well-liked songs, and the very nature of the story – which is heavily focused on big, showy productions – lends itself perfectly to the stage....

The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 Trailer The trailer begins with plaintive narration from Offred, echoing her first submissive monologue in the show’s first episode. “Wear the red dress, wear the wings, shut your mouth, be a good girl, roll over and spread your legs. Yes ma’am. May the lord open,” she intones. Suddenly, she interrupts herself: “Seriously, what the actual f—?” It’s a jarring and disturbing trailer that shows harrowing images of a bloodied Offred/June, a terrified Ofglen, Serena Joy slapping Offred, and haunting images of the cursed red uniform worn by the Handmaids....

Bradley Cooper Reveals Eddie Vedder’s Surprising Influence On ‘A Star Is Born’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 26, 2018 2:00 pm EST Bradley Cooper may have perfectly nailed the part of an aging rock star, but it turns out that one of the biggest detractors of A Star is Born was Cooper’s own rock star friend, Eddie Vedder. Thankfully, Vedder’s warnings to Cooper fell on deaf ears, but the Pearl Jam frontman ended up influencing Cooper’s performance as Jackson Maine in a different way....

Chris O’Dowd Will Star In The ‘Get Shorty’ TV Series By Jack Giroux/Aug. 23, 2016 3:30 pm EST Earlier this summer, EPIX started working on a Get Shorty television show, reportedly based on both Elmore Leonard’s novel and Barry Sonnenfeld’s excellent adaptation. Unlike the source material and the 1995 film, Ernest “Chili” Palmer isn’t the protagonist of this story. EPIX’s adaptation centers around Miles Daly, a former member of the Nevada crime syndicate who will be played by Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd)....

Chris Rock Working On Two New Stand-Up Comedy Specials For Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 2016 12:31 pm EST Netflix has become a great place for stand-up specials to find a much bigger audience than they used to. Tons of the latest specials from the likes of John Mulaney, Hannibal Buress, Morgan Murphy, Louis CK, Mike Birbiglia, Maria Bamford, Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt, Jen Kirkman and more all have some outstanding comedy available to stream....

Colin Firth Joins Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2016 6:00 am EST Mary Poppins Returns just got even more British. Colin Firth has signed on for the Disney sequel, joining Emily Blunt as the practically perfect nanny and Lin-Manuel Miranda as her lamplighter buddy Jack. Also starring are Meryl Streep, Ben Whishaw, and Emily Mortimer. Find out which character Firth is playing below. Variety reports Firth is in negotiations to play William Weatherall Wilkins, president of the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank....

Cool Stuff: Life-Size Baby Groot Replica From Hot Toys By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2017 10:00 am EST When I was on the set of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, we were talking to the propmaster Russell Bobbitt who was letting us wear Starlord’s headphones when I asked “are there any cool new props we can see from this movie?” He knew exactly what I would want to see. He turned on his radio and made that call “Bring out Baby Groot”....

By Ben Pearson/April 30, 2018 2:30 pm EST Meanwhile, Trachtenberg directed the suspenseful 10 Cloverfield Lane and a video game-centric episode of Black Mirror called “Playtest” back in 2016. He’s a young filmmaker, but has proven capable of crafting a wonderful sense of atmosphere – and that extends all the way back to his short film Portal: No Escape, which took the internet by storm in 2011. He’s an intriguing choice to take on The Boys, an uber-violent, filthy comic that creator Garth Ennis once said would “out-Preacher Preacher,” referring to his acclaimed comic series from the 1990s....

Disney’s ‘Avatar’ Theme Park Officially Opening Summer 2017, New Rides & Photos Revealed By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2016 5:00 pm EST For now, we’re expecting to see Avatar 2 released sometime in 2018. However, since the sequel to the 2009 international blockbuster has been delayed for years now, we’re not holding out breath. But the good news is, fans of James Cameron’s sci-fi world Pandora won’t have to wait that long to return to the lush forest planet....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 27, 2018 6:46 am EST In the place of X-Men: Dark Phoenix’s November 2018 release date will be the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. X-Men: Dark Phoenix, The New Mutants, and Bohemian Rhapsody were all bumped back a few months, with Bohemian Rhapsody taking Dark Phoenix’s initial slot of November 2, 2018. Dark Phoenix will now open on February 14, 2019, and The New Mutants has moved from February 2019 to August 2, 2019....

Jake Gyllenhaal Will Star In Leonard Bernstein Biopic For Director Cary Fukunaga By Chris Evangelista/May 6, 2018 1:00 pm EST Leonard Bernstein, famous for composing the music for West Side Story and for being the only lyric anyone can remember from R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”, is getting a biopic courtesy of Cary Fukunaga. Now, it looks like Fukunaga has found his leading man: Jake Gyllenhaal....

Kevin Hart Will Lead ‘Uptown Saturday Night’ Remake Without Will Smith Or Denzel Washington By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2018 3:00 pm EST It’s been years since we heard about the gestating remake of Uptown Saturday Night. But the project appears to be back on track, albeit with some changes behind the scenes and in front of the camera. The original 1974 comedy Uptown Saturday Night starred screen legend Sidney Poitier and sexual assaulter Bill Cosby as two friends who sneak out to visit a high-class but illegal club, and it ends up bringing them more trouble than fun....

Listen To The New Voice Of Kermit The Frog By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 29, 2017 8:30 am EST A month after longtime Kermit performer Steve Whitmire was fired by Disney, the new voice of Kermit the Frog has debuted in an online clip. Matt Vogel just made his first public debut as the voice of Kermit, a role that has long been held by Whitmire since Jim Henson passed away in 1990, in a brief YouTube clip for the “Muppet Thought of the Week....

LOL: Tommy Wiseau Stars In Russia’s ‘Transformers’ Ripoff ‘CAR BOTZ!’ By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 2017 5:00 am EST Even though Transformers may be a worldwide box office sensation, it should come as no surprise that there are international rip-offs of big franchises like this. However, Russia seems to be a little further behind the times when it comes to making their own Transformers as evidenced by the trailer for the their own alien automobile franchise known as CAR BOTZ!...

Mark Hamill Ponders Who ‘The Last Jedi’ Could Be By Jacob Hall/Jan. 26, 2017 9:00 am EST Hamill was at Sundance to promote his new movie Brigsby Bear (which our own Ethan Anderton saw and loved), but since the fest coincided with the reveal of the Star Wars movie title, every interview eventually finds him returning to the familiar waters of George Lucas’ science fiction universe. The best of these interviews I’ve seen so far is over at Uproxx and it concludes with Hamill discussing who “the last Jedi” could be:...

Martin Scorsese To Digitally De-Age Robert De Niro In ‘The Irishman’ By Jack Giroux/Dec. 20, 2016 3:15 pm EST Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are getting back together, and this time it’s not to shoot commercials for casinos in Manila, Philippines. For a while now we’ve heard rumblings about The Irishman, a Scorsese gangster film starring De Niro as real-life mob hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran. Sheeran murdered 25 people and claimed to have had a hand in the famous disappearance of the union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, who went mysteriously missing in 1975....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 23, 2018 3:30 pm EST Folding Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe was one of the best decisions that Marvel (and Sony) ever made. But it also may have just messed up the tightly-plotted MCU timeline for good. Is there any way to explain away the timeline inconsistencies caused by the eight-year time jump in Spider-Man: Homecoming? Well, Avengers: Infinity War co-director Joe Russo is going to try....

Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’ Hires Marvel’s ‘Iron Fist’ Showrunner Scott Buck By Angie Han/Dec. 6, 2016 2:00 pm EST Last month Marvel announced plans for an ABC series centered around the Inhumans, a superpowered group that will be familiar to Marvel Comics readers, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. watchers, and probably not many others. So to help launch this new small-screen property, they’re calling upon some help from an old friend. Scott Buck will serve as showrunner on Inhumans, after fulfilling the same role for another upcoming Marvel drama, Netflix’s Iron Fist....

More Details About ‘The Thing: Infection At Outpost 31,’ Mondo’s First Board Game By Ben Pearson/May 4, 2017 6:30 am EST John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic The Thing is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I’d jump at any opportunity to return to the film’s paranoia-fueled research station. Looks like I better start stretching and put on my jumping shoes (that’s a thing, right?), because Mondo, the company largely responsible for the rise of poster art over the past decade, is breaking into the board game business, and their first game is called The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31....