Posts

‘Shazam’ Synopsis Revealed As Film Begins Production By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2018 3:53 pm EST Shazam!, the newest entry in the ever-changing DCEU, has begun production, and with it comes an official synopsis. Director David F. Sandberg helms the film which focuses on a young boy who is suddenly blessed with super powers. Read the full Shazam synopsis below. Production has officially begun on Shazam!, a new DCEU film that will bring the superhero formerly known as Captain Marvel (before Marvel’s Captain Marvel took that tile for good) to the big screen....

‘The Dark Tower’ Underperforms As ‘Despicable Me’ Becomes The Highest-Grossing Animated Franchise Of All Time By Jack Giroux/Aug. 7, 2017 2:00 pm EST The team behind The Dark Tower had high hopes for the franchise’s future, including sequels and a show that recently landed The Walking Dead showrunner. After an underwhelming performance at the box-office this weekend, we’ll see if those grand plans for Stephen King’s world stick. Director Nikolaj Arcel’s movie didn’t match early tracking numbers and made only $19....

‘The Defenders’ Recruits ‘Jessica Jones’ Director For First Two Episodes By Jacob Hall/Oct. 28, 2016 1:30 pm EST Everything we know for sure about The Defenders can be neatly folded into one relatively simple sentence. Here goes. Ahem: The Defenders is an eight-episode series executive produced by Daredevil’s Douglas Petrie, and Marco Ramirez will see the lead characters from Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist teaming up to take on a larger threat and a lead villain played by Sigourney Weaver....

‘The Girl In The Spider’s Web’ Trailer: Lisbeth Salander’s Past Catches Up With Her [UPDATED] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 17, 2018 11:15 am EST Update: We have added the very different international trailer to the post. You can watch it below. The marketing so far for The Girl in the Spider’s Web have been all about the titular “Girl,” Lisbeth Salander, played in this latest film by The Crown’s Claire Foy. It’s a smart move, since the role originated by Noomi Rapace in the Swedish films and Rooney Mara in David Fincher’s acclaimed U....

‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ Trailer Tease & Photos: These LEGO Ninjas Break Bricks All The Time [UPDATED] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 7, 2017 7:15 am EST This week brings The LEGO Batman Movie to theaters, but it’s not the only spin-off from The LEGO Movie we can look forward to before The LEGO Movie Sequel arrives in 2019 (which just got a new director). There’s also The LEGO Ninjago Movie, and our first look at the animated martial arts flick has just arrived....

‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ First Look: Believe It Or Not, This Movie Is Happening By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2018 11:30 am EST Heaven and hell seemed to unite in defiance of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. His repeated attempts to make the film over the last 20 years have been plagued by disasters — natural and human. But, against all odds, he may just have done it....

Resurrecting The Predator Featurette Director Shane Black calls this the scariest entry in the Predator franchise, and part of that is because they’re “upgrading the Predator to the next level of deadliness.” If you need any convincing, the final moments of the featurette show off a little bit more of the Ultimate Predator, or the Mega Predator as it’s been called previously. This thing is massive, and as you can see, it doesn’t want anything to do with the smaller, traditional Predator we’ve seen before – except to kill it....

‘Wonder Woman’ TV Spot: ‘You Will Soon Find Out’ Who Wonder Woman Is By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 2, 2017 9:30 am EST And we will, with Wonder Woman hitting theaters in a month. But first, the newest TV spot shows us more of Diana of Themyscira than we’ve ever seen before. The @WonderWomanFilm looks amazing! 💥 Here’s an exclusive first look that aired during #Gotham. pic.twitter.com/KJGn9zpgxm — Gotham (@Gotham) May 2, 2017...

Bumblebee WWII Mode Revealed In ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2017 10:30 am EST Yesterday, a new Transformers: The Last Knight TV spot revealed the Autobots’ secret history of fighting the Nazi’s during World War II. With 14 Transformers movies in development, it seems like the plan is to intertwine their story with that of the human race. Michael Bay’s new film explores how the King Arthur story combines with the Transformers mythology, and the full movie seems delve further into faux WWII history, a plot point that was criticized during production....

Cary Fukunaga Left ‘It’ Because The Studio Thought They ‘Couldn’t Control’ Him By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2018 4:30 pm EST The 2017 horror film It was a huge hit with both audiences and critics, but there was a period where the Stephen King adaptation wasn’t such a sure thing. Director Cary Fukunaga developed It for years, only to walk away from the project due to creative differences – a development that had many horror fans concerned about how the final project might turn out....

Casey Affleck Joins Robert Redford In David Lowery’s ‘The Old Man And The Gun’ By Jack Giroux/Oct. 30, 2016 11:00 am EST David Lowery signed on to direct The Old Man and the Gun and Pete’s Dragon right around the same time. It was initially unclear which movie would happen first, but when Pete’s Dragon began to pick up speed, Lowery asked Robert Redford to play Mr. Meacham, so their other project had to wait....

Cool Stuff: Mondo Bringing ‘Halloween 4’ And ‘Halloween 5’ Soundtracks To Vinyl By Ethan Anderton/July 24, 2018 6:00 am EST John Carpenter’s score for the original Halloween is iconic, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t know that signature, haunting piano theme that helps make Michael Myers so terrifying. However, some fans of the entire Halloween franchise also have an affinity for the music of the less celebrated sequels, and Mondo has a treat for them....

Emma Stone Is Now Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Actress By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 17, 2017 7:30 am EST From Jonah Hill’s teen dream to Academy Award-winning songstress, 2017 was the year Emma Stone hit it big. And what could top winning the most prestigious award in Hollywood for her role in the crowd-pleasing La La Land? A big fat paycheck, of course. Stone has been named the highest paid actress in Hollywood by Forbes magazine in their annual Tinseltown salary ranking list....

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Shape Of Water’ Officially Rated R, But It’s Not A Horror Movie By Jacob Hall/May 2, 2017 2:30 pm EST Two years ago, Guillermo del Toro’s bold and brilliant Crimson Peak failed to find an audience in theaters, leaving it to attract its inevitable future following in the world of home video. Many wondered if the film’s box office failure was due to the marketing selling a straight-up horror movie while the actual film was a stranger, slightly less accessible beast....

How L3-37 Makes Us Reinterpret A Classic ‘Star Wars’ Moment By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2018 11:00 am EST It should be no surprise that Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s droid L3-37 is one of the audience favorite characters in Solo: A Star Wars Story. But you might not realize the legacy that L3-37 has left on classic Star Wars…retconned of course. Spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story coming up… In Solo: A Star Wars Story, L3-37 is a progressive, self-made droid who has upgraded and improved herself with scraps of other droids....

Kirsten Dunst’s 1990s-Set Dark Comedy Moves From AMC To YouTube By Chris Evangelista/June 27, 2018 5:30 am EST YouTube is determined to forge their own path with original streaming content, and they just got a big boost. The streaming service has given a 10-episode order to On Becoming a God in Central Florida, a dark comedy starring Kirsten Dunst. The series was originally in development at AMC before landing at YouTube....

Mel Gibson And Vince Vaughn Teaming With ‘Bone Tomahawk’ Director For ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ By Jack Giroux/Feb. 1, 2017 3:30 pm EST Below, learn more about the Dragged Across Concrete cast. Gibson and Vaughn have signed on to play police officers and partners in Zahler’s original film. The “stolid, old guard policeman,” Ridgeman (Gibson), and his younger, hothead partner, Anthony (Vaughn), are suspended when the media gets ahold of a video displaying their"strong-arming tactics....

New ‘Solo’ Posters Show Off The Cast, Avoid Ripping Off Album Covers This Time By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 15, 2018 8:30 am EST The Solo: A Star Wars Story posters continue their trend of giving off a funky pop-punk vibe with the latest international character posters. But this time, they won’t run the risk of plagiarism. You may remember when the Lucasfilm marketing department came under fire for allegedly lifting the artwork for the first batch of Solo posters from album covers created by French artist Hachim Bahous....

Robert Pattinson Journeys To ‘The Lighthouse’ With ‘The Witch’ Director By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 20, 2018 5:30 am EST The next film from the director of The Witch is coming together nicely. Filmmaker Robert Eggers recently cast Willem Dafoe in his upcoming A24 film The Lighthouse, and now he’s added Robert Pattinson to the Lighthouse cast as well.Whatever it is Robert Eggers does next, I’m there for it. Eggers made an impressive directorial debut with his chilling horror film The Witch, and now he’s set to re-team with A24 for The Lighthouse....

Superhero Bits: Superman Vs Thor, Good Thinking Batman, Flashpoint & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 13, 2016 5:00 pm EST Want to see the God of Thunder take on the Man of Steel? How much of an impact will the Flashpoint storyline have on the future of The Flash TV series? Could Agents of SHIELD be the best part of the Marvel cinematic universe? Was Richard Pryor once slated to play Brainiac in Superman III?...