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Jessica Chastain Officially In Talks For ‘It’ Sequel By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 20, 2018 11:24 am EST Good news, horror fans: after months of speculation and fan-casting, Jessica Chastain is officially in talks to join the It sequel. Chastain previously worked with It director Andy Muschietti on the horror film Mama. If the actress joins the sequel, she’ll play the adult Beverly Marsh, originally played by Sophia Lillis in the 2017 horror blockbuster....

John Krasinski Lines Up ‘Life On Mars’, His Sci-Fi Follow-Up To ‘A Quiet Place’ By Ben Pearson/April 11, 2018 6:03 pm EST Former The Office star John Krasinski surprised a lot of people – us included – with A Quiet Place, his terrific new horror film that cost $17 million to make but has already grossed $85 million worldwide. We expect Paramount to green light a sequel any day now, but Krasinski isn’t interested in waiting around....

Listen: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 And Samantha From ‘Her’ Argue Like A Married Couple By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 3, 2017 5:00 am EST The more advanced our technology gets, the more stories we’ve gotten about artificial intelligence. However, sci-fi narratives about artificial intelligence have started to grow more complex and interesting as the real-life technology advances and influences our ideas. While Westworld is telling a much bigger, longer story involving some of the most advanced androids we’ve ever seen becoming self-aware of their abilities and questioning their purpose and existence, movies like Ex Machina and Her have give us very different portraits of artificially intelligent creations....

LOL: ‘Chappelle’s Show’ Characters Return In Hilarious ‘The Walking Dead’ Spoof On ‘SNL’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 13, 2016 8:00 am EST Last night brought Dave Chappelle to Studio 8H in 30 Rockefeller Plaza to host Saturday Night Live. This was a huge return to sketch comedy for the comedian who stepped away from a $50 million contract at Comedy Central, and the result was an outstanding episode of SNL overall. We’ll get to that later today, but first, there’s a sketch that you just have to see as soon as possible....

Netflix Making ‘Seven Seconds’ With ‘The Killing’ Creator Veena Sud And Director Gavin O’Connor By Jack Giroux/Oct. 5, 2016 5:30 am EST Below, learn more about the Veena Sud Netflix project, and get the latest update on O’Connor’s FIFA scandal movie with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Collider had the opportunity to see speak with O’Connor while he was promoting The Accountant. During the interview, the Miracle and Warrior director broke the news about Seven Seconds, which begins filming in January....

New ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Trailer: Warren Beatty’s Long-Awaited Return Is Almost Here By Jack Giroux/Sept. 30, 2016 7:00 am EST Rules Don’t Apply brings Warren Beatty back to us. Beatty, who hasn’t directed since 1998’s hilarious Bulworth, has returned with a movie that defines “longtime passion project.” Ever since seeing Howard Hughes in-person in 1973, Beatty has wanted to make a film about the man. He finally did it with Rules Don’t Apply, although it’s less a biopic, more of a romance between Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich’s characters....

Paul Thomas Anderson Writing New Movie With His Daughter By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 22, 2018 4:30 pm EST Phantom Thread director Paul Thomas Anderson is already working on something new, and here’s a twist: he’s writing the script with his 8-year-old daughter. More on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie below. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is nominated for six Academy Awards this year, but he’s not content to sit back and rest on his laurels....

See The New Trailer For ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Fourth And Final Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 2, 2017 1:13 pm EST The Rebellion is far from over, but it’s time for Star Wars Rebels…to end. The Disney XD series will wrap up its fourth and final season, following the weary and embattled crew of the Ghost as they finally join up with the larger Rebellion that we know from the original trilogy....

Superhero Bits: Powerless Creator Exits Show, Doctor Strange Rating, LEGO Supergirl & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2016 5:00 pm EST Why has the next issue of Civil War II been delayed? Why has Powerless creator Ben Queen departed the NBC superhero comedy series? What rating did Doctor Strange get from the Motion Picture Association of America? Why does Joel Kinnaman thinks negative reviews actually ended up helping Suicide Squad? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

The ‘Molly’s Game’ Trailer Bets It All On Jessica Chastain’s Incredible Performance By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 5, 2017 7:00 am EST Aaron Sorkin, master of rapid-fire dialogue and idealist characters who like to walk and talk, writer of films like The Social Network and Steve Jobs and the TV series The West Wing, makes his directorial debut with Molly’s Game, based on the true story of “poker princess” Molly Bloom. A new fast-paced trailer for Molly’s Game has arrived to give you a better look at both Sorkin’s feature directorial debut and Jessica Chastain’s incredible lead performance....

The ‘Toni Erdmann’ Remake Casts Kristen Wiig And Drags Jack Nicholson Out Of Retirement By Jacob Hall/Feb. 8, 2017 7:30 am EST So what does it take to drag the great Jack Nicholson out of retirement? A remake of a critically acclaimed German-Austrian comedy about a hardworking woman and her practical jokester father, apparently. Paramount is remaking Toni Erdmann, which is currently nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and has cast Nicholson and Kristen Wiig in the lead roles....

Video: Snoke’s Connection To Darth Vader, Darth Sidious And More Revealed By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2017 6:30 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi is now playing everywhere, and the film features some very surprising moments involving Supreme Leader Snoke, the weird throne enthusiast with a dent in his head. A new video – which is free of Last Jedi spoilers, so you can relax – puts forth some theories involving the Snoke backstory, and his connection to other big bads in the Star Wars saga....

Yup, Cyborg Is The Third Mother Box In ‘Justice League’ By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2017 8:30 am EST The Cyborg Mother Box connection was confirmed in the latest issue of Total Film (via Heroic Hollywood). To back up a bit, Mother Boxes are strange but immensely powerful devices that come from the planet Apokolips, which in the comics is ruled by Darkseid. Justice League villain Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) also hails from the planet, and serves as a military leader....

‘Gone Baby Gone’ TV Pilot Has Been Ordered At Fox By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 2, 2018 1:30 pm EST Written by Black Sails creator Robert Levine, the pilot will be a one-hour drama following private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, who are “armed with their wits, their street knowledge and an undeniable chemistry” as they attempt to tackle cases that the law can’t in the working-class Boston borough of Dorchester, according to Variety....

‘Han Solo’: Donald Glover Officially Cast As Lando Calrissian In ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff By Angie Han/Oct. 21, 2016 2:12 pm EST Disney’s Han Solo spinoff has found its Lando Calrissian. Over the summer word got out that Donald Glover had emerged as the frontrunner to play Han’s smooth-talking, sweet-space-cape-wearing buddy, and today Lucasfilm has made it official. Glover joins Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!), who was announced to play Han Solo at Star Wars Celebration a few months ago....

‘Legion’ TV Spot: FX’s ‘X-Men’ TV Series Gets A Little Crazy By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2016 11:30 am EST At San Diego Comic-Con 2016, FX premiered a trailer for Legion, their upcoming series based on Marvel’s X-Men comics from Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley. If that didn’t have you excited for this new show, we’ve since learned that the show might connect with future X-Men movies, will likely feature an appearance from Professor Xavier and Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement has joined the cast for a multiple-episode arc....

‘Pet Sematary’ Remake Back From The Dead With ‘Starry Eyes’ Directors By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 31, 2017 6:30 am EST Nothing can stop the Stephen King renaissance! After It scared up boffo bucks at the box office, the rate of new King adaptations are only going to increase with the hopes of scaring up another horror blockbuster. The newest King adaptation will be a Pet Sematary remake, helmed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, directors of the indie horror film Starry Eyes....

‘Rampage’ Director Brad Peyton Explains How You Adapt A Video Game With No Plot By Jacob Hall/Nov. 30, 2016 9:30 am EST Adapting a video game with no story must be simultaneously freeing and terrifying, a chance to use a few basic building blocks to tell the story you want to tell while also having no established foundation to build upon. Maybe that’s why it has taken five years for a movie based on the 1986 arcade semi-classic Rampage to come together – giant monsters destroying cities is an inherently cinematic concept, but there is literally no story present here beyond “giant beasts punch skyscrapers into dust....

‘Shazam!’ Will Be The Next DC Film To Start Shooting, But Dwayne Johnson Won’t Be In It [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 21, 2017 11:25 am EST Update: DC’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns says Dwayne Johnson will not appear in the Shazam! movie. “We haven’t announced any casting yet,” Johns told Yahoo Movies. “But Dwayne isn’t going to be in this movie. He’s still doing Black Adam, but he won’t be in Shazam!...

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Theater Standee Puts You In The Millennium Falcon Cockpit By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 12, 2018 8:30 am EST What would it be like to ride in the cockpit alongside Han Solo, Chewie, and Lando Calrissian? You’ll probably never know, but at least you’ll get a little taste of it thanks to a new Solo: A Star Wars Story cardboard standee. The Solo Millennium Falcon standee was revealed by Disney last week, previewing the cockpit of Han Solo’s famous spacecraft just as it’s about the jump into hyperspace....