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Netflix’s ‘Death Note’ Movie Clip: LaKeith Stanfield Sees The Light By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 17, 2017 4:30 pm EST First meetings between nemeses are often the watershed moment upon which whole movies hang: Batman and the Joker, Hannibal and Clarice — the list goes on. Could the meeting of Light, the vigilante protagonist of Netflix’s adaptation of the popular anime Death Note, and L, the idiosyncratic detective hunting him, live up to those expectations?...

Rare Cut Of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Up For Auction By Chris Evangelista/March 23, 2018 5:30 am EST A rare cut of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, featuring a deleted scene, is currently up for auction. For almost $4000, you could own a piece of film history, and make a bunch of Kubrick fans very jealous. More on The Shining alternate cut below. Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining is one of those films people obsess over....

The Morning Watch: Disney Interns’ Short Film ‘Ventana’, Different Kinds Of Time Travel & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 30, 2017 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, watch an animated short film called Ventana, created by the interns who worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios this past summer....

‘13 Reasons Why’ Season 2 Filming Halted Due To Forest Fires By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 12, 2017 1:30 pm EST Hannah’s story may not over, but it may be delayed for a little while longer. The production of 13 Reasons Why season 2 has temporarily been halted, due to the forest fires ravaging the Northern California location where the Netflix series is shooting. You don’t need more reasons than that. Deadline reported on Tuesday that Netflix series would be taking an “unplanned hiatus,” until at least Sunday due to the wildfires....

‘Gerald’s Game’ Director To Adapt ‘The Shining’ Sequel ‘Doctor Sleep’ By Jacob Hall/Jan. 26, 2018 10:30 am EST When It made $700 million worldwide last year, one thing was immediately clear: we are going to start seeing a lot more Stephen King adaptations in the years ahead. And we were already seeing quite a few, as 2017 also saw the release of The Dark Tower (bad!), 1922 (good!), and Gerald’s Game (very, very good!...

‘Mortal Engines’ Trailer: Peter Jackson Welcomes You To The Post-Post-Apocalypse By Jacob Hall/June 5, 2018 8:05 am EST I don’t envy anyone having to cut a trailer for Mortal Engines. Based on the novel by author Philip Reeve, this big-budget genre epic is set in a universe that feels like a bit of a tough sell. The world as we once knew it is gone and civilization has become mobile. Giant “traction cities” roam the wasteland, preying on each other for parts and supplies, manned like giant ships in a sea of sand....

‘Phantom Thread’ Camera Tests Take You Behind The Scenes Of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest By Chris Evangelista/April 10, 2018 2:00 pm EST Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread was one of the best films of 2017, and this brief behind-the-scenes glimpse at the film is better than most modern films in their entirety. That may sound like hyperbole, but I really do mean it. Below, watch Phantom Thread camera tests featuring commentary by Anderson himself....

‘Rogue One’ Featurette Highlights The Real Locations Used For Scarif, Jedha & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2016 2:30 pm EST Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is all the rage right now. Even the fans who weren’t as crazy about it as others can’t stop talking about it. Whether it’s looking at the footage that was left on the cutting room floor as a casualty of the reshoots or all the easter eggs in there referencing other parts of the Star Wars universe, Rogue One is a hot topic for discussion....

By Angie Han/Oct. 25, 2016 6:30 am EST Shaun the Sheep’s next grand adventure will bring him back to the big screen. The mischievous Aardman creation got his own feature film in 2015, and now he’s slated to get a sequel. Richard Starzak, who co-directed the first film with Mark Burton, will be back at the helm. Aardman and Studiocanal announced the Shaun the Sheep Movie sequel in a statement today....

‘Silicon Valley’ Season 4 Trailer: ‘I Don’t Know, I Think We Look Rad’ By Jacob Hall/March 29, 2017 11:30 am EST A few weeks ago, I called HBO’s Veep one of the funniest shows on television. The only reason I couldn’t call it the funniest show on television is because Silicon Valley, its partner in comedy on Sunday nights, is a thing that exists. Mike Judge and Alec Berg’s series about programmers and corporations and the various messy places they intersect was very funny in its first episodes, but it has only grown more confident (and bleaker) with each passing season....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Featurette: How Han Became Han Solo By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 29, 2018 1:30 pm EST Every hero needs an origin story, and every swaggering space smuggler needs a spin-off movie that shows exactly how they became a fan favorite Star Wars character immortalized by Harrison Ford. A new Solo featurette dives into its mysterious title character Han Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich, and how he comes to live up to that iconic name....

‘Solo’ Box Office Means ‘Star Wars’ May Flee The Summer For The Foreseeable Future By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 29, 2018 3:30 pm EST The box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story is so off-the-mark that it has Disney and Lucasfilm reconsidering its entire Star Wars summer release strategy. In a rare miss for Disney, Solo underperformed at the box office, raking in half as much as its spin-off film predecessor, Rogue One....

‘Stranger Things’ Originally Planned On Killing Off A Major Character By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2017 8:05 am EST Ready for more Stranger Things news? Of course you are. As the hype sort-of begins to wind-down regarding Stranger Things 2, the second season of the hit Netflix show, series creators the Duffer Brothers revealed a surprising tidbit about season 1. Specifically, the brothers Duffer confirmed that a major character was supposed to be killed off at the end of season 1, but logic prevailed....

‘The Good Cop’ Trailer: Netflix’s New Cop Comedy Stars Tony Danza and…Josh Groban? By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 31, 2018 6:30 am EST Josh Groban is setting aside his guitar and donning some nerdy glasses for his first lead role in a TV series with Netflix’s The Good Cop. But for Groban’s first venture into acting — aside from some cameos and bit parts in various series in the past — he’s in good hands....

‘The Last Word’ Trailer: Shirley MacClaine And Amanda Seyfried Get To Work On An Obituary By Jack Giroux/Dec. 11, 2016 9:00 am EST Next month Mark Pellington returns to the Sundance Film Festival. The last time the filmmaker attended the fest, he brought I Melt With You with him. That aggressive and bleak drama didn’t receive the warmest of receptions, but it had its fans at the time. Pelling’s new film, The Last Word, looks like a far more accessible movie, and it stars Shirley MacClaine and Amanda Seyfried....

‘True Detective’ Season 3 Is Losing Director Jeremy Saulnier Earlier Than Expected By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2018 10:00 am EST True Detective fans have been anticipating a redeeming third season for the crime thriller series after a rushed, disappointing second season couldn’t live up to the greatness of the first season, made great by the writing of Nic Pizzolatto and the direction of Cary Fukunaga. The hiring of Green Room and Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier gave us hope that True Detective would return to form, but it appears there may have been some trouble on set, resulting in the director leaving before finishing all his episodes....

Anne Hathaway’s ‘Barbie’ Pushed Back Two Years, ‘Slender Man’ And ‘Spider Web’ Get New Release Dates By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 24, 2018 8:30 am EST Sony is pushing the release dates of a handful of its upcoming films, some originally slated to open in theaters as soon as this summer. The biggest move is that of Anne Hathaway’s Barbie movie, a comedy that saw initial star Amy Schumer leave last March. Initially scheduled to open in August 2018, the Barbie movie has been pushed back a whopping two years....

CBS CEO Les Moonves Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 10, 2018 7:30 am EST CBS CEO Les Moonves has resigned from his position following a slew of new sexual assault and harassment allegations after initial reports of his sexual misconduct were first published in July. Moonves had been negotiating a $100 million exit package for the past few months, but a New Yorker report detailing six new women raising sexual misconduct allegations have prompted his immediate resignation without any exit compensation....

Disney Channel Planning ‘That’s So Raven’ Sequel, Raven-Symoné To Return By Jack Giroux/Oct. 27, 2016 4:00 pm EST Apparently, a lot has changed over the years for psychic Raven Baxter (Raven-Symoné). The star character of the hit Disney Channel show, That’s So Raven, is now a divorced mother of two pre-teen kids. One of those kids, like their mom, has the power to see brief visions of the future. That’s the setup for the That’s So Raven sequel, which Raven-Symoné is executive producing and starring in for the Disney channel....

Documentary Trailer Round-Up: Beach Boys, The Space Race And JonBenet Ramsey By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2017 12:00 pm EST There are so many great documentaries released each year, and it’s a shame that some don’t get seen by as many people as they should. Thankfully, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, as well as other VOD services, have made it easier for audiences to see the docs that usually don’t get a wide release in theaters....