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By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 13, 2017 9:30 am EST The Addams Family is about to get re-animated for a feature film by Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon. That pun is about more than me just trying to get a joke in about the macabre horror-comedy. Though popular culture mostly knows The Addams Family from a pair of darkly comic films from the ’90s starring Anjelica Huston and Christina Ricci, the supernatural series has actually been in animated form just as often as it has been depicted by live-action actors....

‘The Mighty Ducks’ TV Series In Development By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 23, 2018 8:30 am EST For many ’90s kids, The Mighty Ducks were in a league of their own. Disney’s inspirational youth hockey movie about how you too could be cool like Emilio Estevez is reportedly getting a modern makeover as a TV series — though probably without Emilio Estevez. A Mighty Ducks TV series is in early development ABC Signature Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter....

‘The Purge 4’ Gets A Summer 2018 Release Date, But Needs A New Director By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 19, 2017 1:00 pm EST Even though last year’s The Purge: Election Year wrapped up the series pretty nicely withe a political victory being the first step into having The Purge abolished and the New Founding Fathers of America put in their place, it still left the window open for chaos to return to the streets when those in support of The Purge were said to be taking to the streets with violent protest....

‘The Shack’ Trailer: Sam Worthington Stars In His Own ‘Collateral Beauty’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2016 6:00 am EST Even though Sam Worthington is the star of the highest grossing movie of all time, James Cameron’s Avatar, he’ll never quite be the box office draw as an actor like Will Smith. But it looks like he’ll try to follow closely in his footsteps on the dramatic side of things by starring in a movie that is basically his own Collateral Beauty....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ TV Spot: Who Is The Strongest Avenger? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 13, 2017 11:30 am EST It’s fairly common knowledge who the weakest Avenger would be (sorry Hawkeye, I love you!), but have we ever settled the debate of the strongest Avenger? The latest Thor: Ragnarok TV spot answers that question, and even gives us a glimpse of that highly-anticipated gladiatorial fight between Thor and the Hulk on the planet of Sakaar....

‘Westworld’ Secret Website Reveals 6 Total Parks; See The Alternate Trailer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 6, 2018 8:30 am EST These violent delights aren’t coming to an end any time soon. HBO is amping up its viral marketing for Westworld season 2 with a new secret website teasing five other parks outside of Westworld, as well as an alternate trailer to the spot that debuted during Super Bowl Sunday. Plus, we get a peek at the mysterious founder of Delos Inc....

Antoine Fuqua Returning To Direct ‘The Equalizer 2’; Filming To Begin Next Year By Jack Giroux/Sept. 22, 2016 2:30 pm EST Denzel Washington is starring in the first sequel of his career with The Equalizer 2. Washington was doing just great without a franchise, but he found a potentially good one in Sony’s remake of the 1980s CBS television show. Months before The Equalizer came out, the studio got the ball rolling on a follow-up film, tapping the original film’s screenwriter Richard Wenk to pen the sequel....

Can There Be Redemption For Kylo Ren After ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’? Rian Johnson Responds By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2017 11:00 am EST There’s no doubt that Kylo Ren is the clear villain of the new Star Wars trilogy the began with The Force Awakens and continued this year with The Last Jedi. However, simply because he’s the antagonist of this series doesn’t mean that there isn’t hope for him to see the error of his ways and come back to the light, right?...

Dave Bautista To Lead Action Comedy ‘My Spy’ For ‘Get Smart’ Director By Ben Pearson/Aug. 1, 2018 3:00 am EST After helming the 2008 film adaptation of the spy comedy series Get Smart, director Peter Segal is heading back to the spy movie genre with a new action comedy called My Spy. Wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, Spectre) is set to play the lead role opposite a 9-year-old girl, and you know what that means: it looks like Bautista is barreling straight into territory that Arnold Schwarzenegger visited in the 1990s and Dwayne Johnson visited in the mid-2000s....

David Fincher Shot 75 Takes For One ‘Mindhunter’ Scene, Because Of Course He Did By Chris Evangelista/June 5, 2018 5:30 am EST David Fincher’s love of shooting many, many takes of one scene until he gets what he wants is well-documented. While discussing his Netflix serial killer series Mindhunter, Fincher revealed he shot one nine-minute scene a whopping 75 times. Filmmaker David Fincher knows what he wants, and he’ll shoot as many takes as it takes to make his vision a reality....

Exclusive: Mondo Reveals Two New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Posters From Their Nickelodeon Gallery Show By Jacob Hall/Dec. 6, 2016 9:30 am EST Last week, Mondo announced a gallery show themed around the new and classic shows from Nickelodeon, premiering posters for Ren & Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Today, we’re pleased to premiere two new posters from the show, both from Ciro Nieli and both centered around the network’s TMNT series and both a significant departure from what you’d expect from a typical pop culture poster....

James Gunn Says There Will Probably Be A ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3,’ But It’s Not Official Yet [Updated] By Jacob Hall/March 17, 2017 9:22 am EST UPDATE: James Gunn has clarified his statements on Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and we have updated the post below. There are few sure things. The Earth is round. The sky is blue. The Pope is Catholic. Marvel Studios always has another sequel up their sleeve....

Milla Jovovich Recaps The Entire ‘Resident Evil’ Franchise In Under Three Minutes By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 20, 2017 5:00 am EST Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is hitting theaters next week. It’s likely that no one who hasn’t seen the previous movies will be taking a chance on seeing this one out of the blue. But maybe franchise fans will be bringing someone with them who has never suffered through any of the other installments....

Netflix Pushes Back ‘Castlevania’ Season 2 Release Date To October 2018 By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 6, 2018 5:00 pm EST After months of bated breath, Castlevania fans can finally rest easy: a season 2 release date has been announced. Following months of teasing from Powerhouse Animation, the Netflix series will be coming back for its second season in October of this year, showrunner Adi Shankar announced. But it’s a few months later than initial reports that claimed the acclaimed anime series would hit the streaming service this summer....

New ‘Alien: Covenant’ Photos Go A Long Way To Confirming That R-Rating By Jacob Hall/Dec. 22, 2016 11:00 am EST The steady stream of Alien: Covenant news over the past few days suggests that we’ll be seeing the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel soon enough (perhaps as soon as this weekend, if rumors are true). In the meantime, we can just enjoy these new images, one that teases a familiar location and one that seems to make good on the early word that this will be an R-rated motion picture....

The Morning Watch: How Comic Book Storytelling Is Changing Movies, ‘Little Mermaid’ Drawn In VR & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 26, 2017 6:00 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 dives into how the rise of comic book movies is changing how Hollywood is trying to tell stories....

Watch: Chris Pratt Solves A Rubik’s Cube During A ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Interview By Ethan Anderton/May 2, 2017 6:00 am EST Plenty of people already love Chris Pratt because he’s charming and perfectly plays the sarcastic, occasionally reckless cosmic superhero known as Star-Lord. So it’s just icing on the cake to find out that in addition to being a solid actor and an all around great guy, Chris Pratt can also do a little bit of a parlor trick while fulfilling his promotional duties of participating in publicity interviews for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Why Are Dark Side Lightsabers Red? New Star Wars Canon Answers The Question By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 18, 2016 10:30 am EST As most dedicated Star Wars fans know, all the details that were previously revealed in various novels, comic books, video games and more were redacted and relegated into what we now call Star Wars Legends. Since then, Disney and Lucasfilm have created a story group responsible for ensuring that almost everything that references and takes place in the Star Wars universe is canon....

‘Ant-Man’ Concept Art Reveals The Scrapped Return Of Arnim Zola By Jacob Hall/Nov. 11, 2016 4:00 pm EST One of the strangest surprises to come out of Captain America: The Winter Soldier was the return of Toby Jones’ Arnim Zola, who had managed to negotiate his way into the good graces of the American government after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger before uploading himself into a computer to achieve post-human immortality....

‘Captive State’ Trailer: Rupert Wyatt’s New Film Is About Alien Occupation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2018 8:05 am EST Matt Reeves got all the glory for the rebooted Planet of the Apes movies, which pushed the boundaries for what a genre film about talking apes could accomplish. But nestled alongside Reeves’ masterful Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes was Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a morally complex blockbuster directed by Rupert Wyatt....