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The Belko Experiment Trailer #3 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2017 12:00 pm EST The third trailer for Wolf Creek director Greg McLean’s new thriller The Belko Experiment has been released online. Written and produced by Guardians of the Galaxy series helmer James Gunn, the story follows 80 Americans who are locked in a high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia as part of a twisted social experiment. They are ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate “in a deadly game of kill or be killed....

The Morning Watch: The Origins Of Time Travel, How To Fix ‘Jurassic World’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 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, a video essay traces the origins of time travel in fiction, giving us the roots of the sci-fi genre in cinema....

VOTD: Harvard Honors John Williams With An A Cappella Medley Of ‘Star Wars’, ‘Indiana Jones’ & More By Ethan Anderton/May 29, 2017 7:00 am EST It’s graduation season, and though we’ve already seen one spectacular musical performance as part of Will Ferrell’s outstanding commencement speech for this year’s graduates at the University of Southern California, we have a new favorite moment from this year’s round of college grads. Over at Harvard University, John Williams was given an honorary doctorate in music for his lifelong work as a composer of motion picture scores....

VOTD: Stunning 2018 Oscars Montages Honor Cinematic Dreams, Representation & The Military By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2018 6:00 am EST The Oscars have come and gone, with The Shape of Water winning Best Picture and Guillermo del Toro winning Best Director. But for those of you who were maybe too busy to watch the entire ceremony, or just want to know about the good bits, you’ll want to check out these fantastic montages from the broadcast....

‘Aquaman’ Toys Confirm He’ll Wear His Comic Book Suit In The Movie, Plus A Look At Black Manta And More [Comic-Con 2018] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 19, 2018 6:30 am EST San Diego Comic-Con International is up and running, and we’re about to get a barrage of new teases about a handful of highly-anticipated upcoming superhero movies. Warner Bros.’ Aquaman is set to debut its first trailer in the coming days, but in the meantime, some toy displays on the show room floor have revealed more details about the upcoming movie....

‘Ben-Hur’ Will Be Summer 2016’s Biggest Box Office Bomb With $120 Million Loss By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2016 12:00 pm EST Summer 2016 has seen a fair share of box office disappointments and bombs, but the biggest loser is Timur Bekmambetov’s remake of Ben-Hur which will see a projected loss of over $120 million. Learn more about the biggest money losers of this summer, after the jump. The number comes thanks to multiple box-office analysts consulted by The Hollywood Reporter....

‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Reboot May Actually Be A Sequel Series With All-New Characters By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 26, 2018 11:00 am EST But Owusu-Breen, who has been brought on board to shepherd the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer, suggests the project may actually be a sequel series. In a statement just posted to Twitter, Owusu-Breen touched on her own personal history with Buffy, before hinting that the series could introduce a brand new slayer played by a black actress....

‘Cycles,’ Disney Animation’s First VR Short Film, Is Debuting Next Month By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2018 3:00 pm EST Walt Disney Animation is well known for its work in both traditional and CG animation, and now the company is breaking new ground (at least for them). The animation studio will premiere its first virtual reality short film, Cycles, next month at the SIGGRAPH 2018, a conference dedicated to VR, augmented reality, and mixed reality....

‘Genius’ Trailer: Geoffrey Rush Is Albert Einstein In The Ron Howard-Produced Series By Jack Giroux/Jan. 7, 2017 9:00 am EST If you’re going to cast someone as brilliant as Albert Einstein, Geoffrey Rush, an actor who exudes intelligence and wisdom, isn’t a bad choice. Rush stars in National Geographic’s first scripted series, Genius. The anthology drama will depict world’s greatest innovators, and season one starts with the legendary Noble Prize-winning physicist....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Super Bowl Spot: An Awesome Mix Of Badass Cosmic Action By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2017 7:45 pm EST The Super Bowl is the perfect place for Marvel Studios to push the arrival of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in just a few short months. Millions are watching, and the excitement surrounding the game makes for plenty of hype to be transferred over to one of the most anticipated blockbusters of 2017 (it’s certainly on my list, second only to Star Wars: The Last Jedi)....

‘Halloween’ Trailer: Jamie Lee Curtis Faces Her Fate, And The Return Of Michael Myers [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 5, 2018 12:20 pm EST Update: Another new trailer with a ton of new footage has arrived and you can now watch it below. The Halloween hype is already through the roof, and you probably don’t need to be sold on it anymore. But just in case you do, here’s an exciting new trailer ahead of the film’s upcoming TIFF premiere....

‘Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle’ Sequel Hitting Theaters In Winter 2019 By Chris Evangelista/April 24, 2018 9:30 am EST You knew it was coming. It was inevitable. Another Jumanji sequel is on its way. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, both a sequel and a reboot of the original Jumanji, was a massive hit for Sony, and they can’t say no to a good thing. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle racked up good reviews and even better box office – it grossed more than $956 million worldwide – so it was only a matter of time before Sony went ahead and gave it a sequel....

‘Mr. Mercedes’: How The Stephen King Series Can Continue [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/July 26, 2017 9:00 am EST “Obviously we have to see how it performs, but that is the plan,” Long said. “I think the plan is to go into the other two books.” Bender confirmed the first season is focused on the story of the book Mr. Mercedes. Hodges never solved the case of a killer who ran over people in line at a job fair with a stolen Mercedes....

New Mutants Adding a Character in Reshoots You might remember that New Mutants was pushed back from its initial theatrical release this April all the way to early 2019. Word on the street has been New Mutants will be undergoing significant reshoots this summer. Those rumors have signaled that the reshoots are pretty drastic because the test screenings were not satisfactory and the movie needed to be scarier. Cast member Maisie Williams has refuted those claims, but she could easily be partaking in carefully planned damage control....

‘Riverdale’ Season 2 Teaser Trailer: Archie Andrews Wants Revenge By Jack Giroux/Aug. 20, 2017 10:00 am EST Two seasons of Riverdale in a single year is a kind gift from The CW. The series, based on the famous Archie comics, quickly found its groove in season one and kept getting better and better. The finale ended season one on a high note with a few surprises and shocks tying up loose ends and setting up storylines for season two – which looks like it’s going to get a little darker....

‘Second Act’ Trailer: Jennifer Lopez Scams Her Way To Her Dream Job By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 19, 2018 2:30 pm EST Just when you thought the rom-com was dead and buried in the ground, Jennifer Lopez swoops in to help revitalize it. The queen of rom-coms is back with Second Act, which is not a sequel to Sister Act, despite appearances. In what feels like a spiritual sequel to her other iconic rom-com Maid in Manhattan, Lopez stars as a working-class woman who scams her way to the top of a cushy corporate job....

‘Sesame Street’ Movie In The Works At Warner Bros. By Angie Han/Nov. 16, 2016 8:30 am EST The way to Sesame Street will soon run through your local theater. Warner Bros. is moving ahead with a Sesame Street movie, setting Night at the Musuem: Secret of the Tomb scribes David Guion and Michael Handelman to write the script. Shawn Levy, whose recent producing credits include Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and Netflix’s Stranger Things, will produce....

‘Solo’ Super Bowl Spot: New ‘Star Wars Story’ Footage Finally Revealed By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 4, 2018 3:53 pm EST Finally, here’s proof that Solo: A Star Wars Story is a real movie: a Solo Super Bowl spot. This quick look at the upcoming Star Wars Story film will likely serve as a tease for a longer trailer airing on Good Morning America tomorrow. After an unusually long delay, the first Solo: A Star Wars footage has arrived in the form of a new Solo Super Bowl spot....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Has Already Been Pulled From Chinese Theaters By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 6:30 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi wasn’t the movie that Chinese audiences were looking for. The science-fiction sequel tanked in China, following up a disappointing $28.7 million debut with one of the worst second-weekend declines the Chinese box office had ever seen. To kick the movie while it was down, it came in second that weekend to the third film in a sexist domestic romantic-comedy series, The Ex-File 3: The Return of the Exes....

‘The Defenders’ Trailer: The War For New York Is Here By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2017 6:32 am EST The streetwise heroes of New York finally meet in the trailer for The Defenders, the miniseries that every Marvel-Netflix series has been building up to since Season 1 of Daredevil dropped in 2015. Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Danny Rand (Finn Jones), meet in a clash of fists and personalities, brought together by nurse Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson) and Stick (Scott Glenn) to defend New York against The Hand and a mysterious villain played by Sigourney Weaver....