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Help Kickstart A Permanent Jim Henson Exhibition At The Museum Of The Moving Image By Ethan Anderton/April 12, 2017 1:00 pm EST The Muppets have been a beloved part of pop culture since Jim Henson created the characters back in 1955. Since then, they’ve spanned every kind of media you can think of, from movies to TV to video games and more. However, some of Jim Henson’s creations need a permanent home where fans can see these characters from decades past in all their glory, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York is hoping to provide that....

Here Are Letterboxd’s Highest Rated Movies Of 2017 By Ben Pearson/Jan. 8, 2018 6:30 am EST While many of the choices align with movies that are in the midst of the awards conversation right now, two entries in its top 10 stand out: a sci-fi film and a superhero movie. What are they, you ask? Check out the full list of Letterboxd highest rated movies to find out. As Indiewire helpfully points out, to be considered for this list, “films had to be feature-length, watched by at least 500 members, and be released in theaters or via streaming in the U....

Lois Lane And Lex Luthor-Centric ‘Metropolis’ Series Coming From DC Digital Service By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 30, 2018 12:00 pm EST But here’s the catch: Superman is nowhere to be seen. Instead, Metropolis will follow the adventures of Lois Lane and Lex Luthor, inexplicable partners who “investigate the world of fringe science and expose the dark and bizarre secrets of a pre-Superman Metropolis.” Yes, you read that right. DC and Warner Bros....

More ‘Hunger Games’ And ‘Twilight’ Movies May Happen If Lionsgate Gets Its Way By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 9, 2017 3:30 pm EST Lionsgate may volunteer the Hunger Games and Twilight franchises as tribute to reboot mania. Both franchises wrapped up their stories before cinematic universe fever broke, and Lionsgate is itching to fill the hole — first by exploring a John Wick universe that spans movies, TV, and comic books, and now by revisiting their most popular and lucrative franchises....

Reed Morano Confirms Meeting With Lucasfilm, But Denies ‘Star Wars’ Directing Rumors By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 23, 2018 9:30 am EST You can stop grilling Reed Morano about Expanded Universe trivia: she’s not directing Star Wars. After The Handmaid’s Tale director emerged from a two-and-a-half hour meeting with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennnedy earlier this week, the Star Wars community was abuzz with speculation over whether Morano would be the first female director to helm a Star Wars franchise film....

Samuel L. Jackson Insists That Mace Windu Is Alive And Ready To Return By Jacob Hall/April 13, 2017 9:30 am EST When we last saw Jedi Master Mace Windu, his arm had just been chopped off by Anakin Skywalker and his body was flung into the Coruscant skyline by Chancellor Palpatine’s Force lightning blasts. And while we never saw a body, everyone assumed that he was dead – that’s not something you walk away from, right?...

Superhero Bits: Marvel 10th Anniversary Posters, Ant-Man And The Wasp Prelude Comic & More By Ethan Anderton/March 1, 2018 6:00 pm EST What big twist is coming on Gotham that connects The Joker and Jerome? When does the first Ant-Man and the Wasp prelude comic come out? What would Kristen Wiig look like as Cheetah? Would Okoye in Black Panther win in a fight with Wonder Woman? Should Marvel Studios movies start creating more of their own characters?...

Superhero Bits: New Mutants Rumors, Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite Gameplay Trailer & More By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2017 5:00 pm EST What’s Lucy Liu doing on the set of the second season of Luke Cage? What’s with the awful white spider symbol on the Spider-Man PS4 suit? Will Dr. Poison return in Wonder Woman 2? Which characters can be glimpsed in DC Entertainment’s new production logo? Will Magik & Karma appear in New Mutants?...

This Major MCU Character Was Recast For ‘Infinity War’ By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2018 1:30 pm EST There are a lot of surprises in Avengers: Infinity War, and I’m not just talking about which characters live or die. Below, learn which surprising MCU character ended up being recast for Infinity War. And, of course, beware of spoilers. SPOILER ALERT I made that spoiler alert above as big as possible, so please don’t yell at me!...

TV Bits: Michael Shannon Teams With Park Chan-Wook, Helen Mirren Is ‘Catherine The Great,’ And More By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 25, 2018 3:45 pm EST Here’s some extremely excellent news: Michael Shannon has joined Park Chan-wook’s new AMC spy series The Little Drummer Girl. Michael Shannon and Park Chan-wook are both two people worth paying attention to, and the two of them working together is an absolute dream. THR reports Shannon will join a cast that includes Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgard....

VOTD: How ‘Rogue One’ Parallels The Visual Grammar Of The Original ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy By Ethan Anderton/March 28, 2017 11:30 am EST Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is now available for digital download, and next week it will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on April 4. That means fans are really starting to dig into the first Star Wars spin-off, and that includes making close comparisons between the visuals in Rogue One and the films of the original trilogy from 1977, 1980 and 1983....

WB Has Two Competing ‘Birds Of Prey’ Scripts In The Works By Ben Pearson/April 19, 2018 1:30 pm EST Ever since Suicide Squad made $745 million in theaters, Warner Bros. has been searching for a way to get Margot Robbie back in her Harley Quinn costume for another movie. They’ve seemingly found it: word came out earlier this week that up-and-coming filmmaker Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) would direct Robbie in a film that sounded like a mix of Birds of Prey and Gotham City Sirens....

Will Quasar Appear In ‘Guardians 3’? James Gunn’s Tweet Causes Fan Speculation By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2017 11:00 am EST Guardians of the Galaxy series director James Gunn posted a tweet yesterday that is leading fans to speculate that the character Quasar might appear in the third installment of Marvel’s cosmic franchise. Was the tweet a sly tease, an unintentional slip-up, or just an observation completely unrelated to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

‘A Family Man’ Trailer: Gerard Butler Isn’t An Action Hero By Jack Giroux/March 16, 2017 2:30 pm EST We’ve seen Gerard Butler save the President twice, play a God, and soon we may even witness him discover a way to defeat a Geostorm in this year’s Geostorm. Butler is typically a powerful, bone-breaking presence on the big screen, but he isn’t playing an action hero in A Family Man. In the drama, which co-stars Alison Brie, Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina, Butler is a success hungry headhunter in Chicago who has trouble balancing his work and family life, until everything changes....

‘Better Call Saul’ Season 4 Premiere Date Announced By Chris Evangelista/June 1, 2018 9:30 am EST Better Call Saul season 4 now has a premiere date. The Breaking Bad spin-off will return for another anxiety-inducing season on AMC starting August 6, 2018. And if you had any lingering questions about the season 3 finale, the official season 4 synopsis will clear them up real quick. Time for a confession: I think Better Call Saul is a better show than Breaking Bad....

‘Birds Of Passage’ Review: A Thrilling And Refreshing Take On The Drug Trade [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 18, 2018 9:00 am EST Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s film takes the form of a plaintive remembrance and meditation on past events. Each “song” that structures the narrative of Birds of Passage provides further insight into how the Wayúu tribe moved away from their cosmic purpose and further into a racket of organized crime....

‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Reboot Is Happening With A Black Lead, Joss Whedon Involved By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2018 5:08 pm EST Plus, this time Buffy is going to be a black woman. Read more about the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot below. Here’s a quick statement from the producers: “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today....

‘Free Fire’ Trailer: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson & More Let The Bullets Fly By Ethan Anderton/March 14, 2017 6:00 am EST This year has already brought us the brutal gunplay of John Wick: Chapter 2, but there’s another shootout on the way this spring. Free Fire is the latest film from director Ben Wheatley (High Rise, Sightseers, Kill List), and it looks like his most accessible, too. Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Noah Taylor, Sam Riley, Michael Smiley and Jack Reynor all find themselves in a grimy warehouse with a weapons deal gone wrong, resulting in a feature-length shootout that is just as hilarious as it is energetic and wild....

‘High Maintenance’ Trailer: HBO Examines The Life Of A Pot Dealer In New York City By Jack Giroux/Aug. 12, 2016 7:00 am EST High Maintenance is coming to HBO. Created by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, the web series has already released 19 episodes about a nameless weed dealer who resides in Brooklyn, and HBO will make all of those past episodes available before the new season starts. Sinclair stars in the series, which shows him coming in and out of the lives of his customers — some of them played by recognizable faces like Dan Stevens (The Guest) — in every episode....

‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Trailer: A Showtime Series Set In The World Of 1970s Stand-Up Comedy By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2017 8:30 am EST There have been plenty of great series on Showtime. However, personally, I’ve never felt compelled to subscribe in order to watch any of them. That might change with the cable network’s new series set in the world of 1970s stand-up comedy. I’m Dying Up Here follows a group of stand-up comedians (played by Clark Duke, R....