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Final ‘Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters’ Trailer: It’s Godzilla’s World, We All Just Live In It By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 8, 2018 10:00 am EST Are you ready for some kaiju carnage set to the soaring notes of an ebullient J-pop song? If not, then too bad, because Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters is coming soon to a Netflix screen near you. The final trailer for the Godzilla anime has hit the internet a little more than a week before its worldwide release on the streaming platform....

How And Why ‘Mute’ And ‘Moon’ Take Place In The Same Universe By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 23, 2018 11:30 am EST Easter eggs are in nearly every movie these days — heck there’s a whole film coming out that’s one giant Easter egg — so you can’t blame a director for dropping in a reference to his most beloved movie. Moon was the breakout directorial debut for Duncan Jones, winning him the attention of Hollywood and the ardor of sci-fi fans who quickly labelled the 2009 movie as a modern classic....

It’s Jennifer Lawrence Versus Gravity In The First ‘Passengers’ Clip By Jacob Hall/Nov. 17, 2016 11:30 am EST It’s a grand tradition for the first clip released from an upcoming movie to be an odd choice, selected for reasons that we mere mortals cannot comprehend. This applies to the first Passengers clip, which feels like it was selected by a computer program that searched the film for keywords like “Jennifer Lawrence,” “special effects set piece,” and “bathing suit....

Must Watch: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Featurette Gets Us Excited For The War Ahead By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2017 5:51 pm EST Marvel Studios and Disney have released a featurette for Avengers: Infinity War which gives us our first glimpse of this upcoming epic crossover event. The featurette not only shows us behind the scenes footage from the first couple weeks of filming, but also provides some clues as what we should expect from the story....

New ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Featurette Shows Off Practical Stunts And Ancient Cities By Jacob Hall/Oct. 26, 2016 1:00 pm EST We’re two months away from the release of Assassin’s Creed, the latest film that everyone is hoping will finally break the video game movie adaptation curse. A new featurette for the film has arrived, showcasing the film’s focus on practical effects and live stunts and Michael Fassbender stunt doubles doing parkour across ancient cities....

The ‘Troll Hunter’ Remake Is Dead By Jack Giroux/Nov. 10, 2016 6:00 am EST Over five years ago, director Chris Columbus’ production company, 1492 Pictures, secured the remake rights to André Øvredal’s Troll Hunter, an entertaining and imaginative found footage monster movie. It had been a while since we heard anything about the remake, and Øverdal has now confirmed it’s no longer moving forward. Below, learn more about the squashed Troll Hunter remake....

The Morning Watch: ‘Dunkirk’ Anatomy Of A Scene, How ‘Sesame Street’ Puppets Are Controlled & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 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, Christopher Nolan breaks down a key sequence from his World War II drama Dunkirk....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Defenders’ Easter Eggs, Where ‘Finding Dory’ Went Wrong & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 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, despite Pixar’s track record, a video essay explores how they think Finding Dory went wrong....

Viola Davis Joins Steve McQueen Heist Thriller ‘Widows’ By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2016 4:00 pm EST Today is a great day to be Viola Davis. Well, actually, every day is probably a great day to be Viola Davis, because she gets to wake up each morning as one of the most reliably excellent actors currently working. But today especially, everything’s coming up Davis. This morning Paramount Pictures debuted the first trailer for Denzel Washington’s Fences, featuring what looks like another powerhouse performance from Davis....

VOTD: How ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 14, 2017 6:00 am EST With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 available now on Digital HD and coming soon to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD, you just know the folks at How It Should Have Ended couldn’t resist giving the Marvel Studios sequel a different conclusion. Though there may not be multiple credits scenes, there are various tangents that the HISHE crew goes on that shake up the kind of trouble our ragtag team of space criminals get themselves into....

VOTD: ILM’s ‘Rogue One’ Visual Effects Reel Shows Off Planetary Destruction By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2017 6:00 am EST The visual effects of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story were quite the topic of discussion once fans saw that actor Peter Cushing was recreated by way of a motion-capture performance and digital effects. However, that’s not the only reason that the film ended up with an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects....

Whoa: ‘Halo’ TV Show Coming To Showtime, Starts Filming In 2019 By Ben Pearson/June 28, 2018 10:13 am EST According to a press release, Kyle Killen (Awake) will executive produce, write, and serve as the series’ showrunner. Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) will direct multiple episodes of the show and executive produce. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television will produce alongside Showtime and Microsoft/343 Industries. Showtime has ordered 10 hour-long episodes for its first season....

‘An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn’ Trailer: Aubrey Plaza Is At Her Weirdest In This Magical Rom-Com By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 16, 2018 4:30 pm EST The romantic-comedy has never been so absurd as it is in An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn. But hey, when you have Aubrey Plaza and Jermaine Clement in a movie together, what do you expect? Plaza is basically a real-life witch taken form, while I’m convinced that What We Do in the Shadows star Clement is an actual vampire....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Clip Features Spider-Man Making A Stealthy Escape By Ethan Anderton/April 9, 2018 8:30 am EST We’re just about two weeks away from the release of Avengers: Infinity War, and that means more footage from the Marvel Studios sequel will inevitably be surfacing online. We’re not at a point where the footage is getting too spoilery, but a new clip has appeared online that answers one of the questions we had from the last trailer....

‘Hereditary’ Is A24’s Biggest Box Office Hit Worldwide By Chris Evangelista/July 28, 2018 1:00 pm EST Much was made about Hereditary’s very negative CinemaScore, but it seems that was much ado about nothing. Because the terrifying horror film has become indie powerhouse A24’s highest grossing film worldwide. Audiences really wanted to see Toni Collette lose her mind on screen! Ari Aster’s received almost universal critical acclaim, and the early festival buzz sent the hype for the indie horror film through the roof....

‘Little Evil’ Trailer: Adam Scott And Evangeline Lilly Raise The Antichrist By Jack Giroux/Aug. 22, 2017 3:30 pm EST Below, watch the Little Evil trailer. Little Evil looks as funny as it sounds. There’s a lot of great lines and gags in the trailer, including a bit with a burnt clown and a reference to a Kevin Costner classic. Bridget Everett (Patti Cake$), in particular, looks like she could steal the movie....

‘Okja’ Trailer: Family Adventure Meets Corporate Espionage In Bong Joon-Ho’s New Netflix Film By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2017 11:30 am EST There have been plenty of movies where an unsuspecting kid stumbles upon some kind of friendly creature, only to have the government or some greedy corporation want it for their own purposes. However, you’ve never seen that story in the hands of a director like Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer). Okja can best be described as E....

‘Red Sonja’ Movie Hires ‘X-Men: First Class’ Screenwriter Ashley Edward Miller By Chris Evangelista/April 4, 2018 3:30 pm EST After Wonder Woman cleaned up at the box office, studios began to catch on that female-driven superhero stories can turn a serious profit. Millennium Films wants in on this action, so they’re going to bring the 1970s comic book character Red Sonja to the screen, and they think they’ve found the right writer to make it happen....

‘Shirkers’ Trailer: A Singaporean Director Goes Searching For Her Missing Film In Mysterious Netflix Documentary By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 19, 2018 3:30 pm EST When Sandi Tan was a teenager in 1992 Singapore, she decided to make her first movie. It was to be a slasher road movie and it was going to be Singapore’s first indie cult hit — if it ever made it to the screen. But it never did....

‘Stranger Things’ Easter Egg Takes Netflix And Spotify To The Upside Down By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 26, 2017 8:00 am EST You may not have heard this, but Stranger Things is back for season 2 this week! Netflix’s hit nostalgia-tinged series that’s like a cross between Steven Spielberg and Stephen King is about to take viewers back to the strange town of Hawkins, and the excitement-level has reached a fever-pitch. To better get fans into the Stranger mood, Netflix has hidden a neat little Stranger Things Easter Egg on the show’s page....