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HBO Still Isn’t Ruling Out That ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel By Jacob Hall/Nov. 14, 2016 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Picture David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the showrunners on HBO’s Game of Thrones. Picture them working on season 7. Picture the lines around their tired eyes, the grey invading the beards they haven’t had time to shave. Picture them hunched over a monitor or a schedule or the coffee that offers them respite during their busy days on set and picture them trying to solve whatever new issue has invaded their always ambitious, globe-trotting production....

J.J. Abrams Teases ‘‘Crazy’’ 90-Minute ‘Westworld’ Season Finale With An Ominous Clip By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2016 7:00 am EST The season finale of Westworld is just a couple days away, and soon we’ll get to see how many of the ever-growing list of theories about the show actually turn out to be true. The most recent episode of Westworld already confirmed one major theory that has been kicking around since the season premiere, and the finale will likely confirm or debunk the popular but controversial theory that Jimmi Simpson’s character William is actually a younger version of Ed Harris’ character The Man in Black....

Jared Leto Was Almost In ‘Tron Legacy,’ Promises That ‘Tron 3’ Is Still Happening By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 23, 2017 9:00 am EST There was a crack in the code for Tron: Legacy, and it was that Tron super fan Jared Leto didn’t get to appear in the sequel to the Disney cult classic. That is, according to Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinksi. But that will all be remedied soon when Tron 3 finally moves along, which has had Leto attached to star for several years now....

Kimberly Peirce To Direct Holocaust Drama ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ By Jack Giroux/Nov. 18, 2016 7:30 am EST We wish we saw more movies from writer-director Kimberly Peirce. One would guess following her excellent directorial debut, the highly acclaimed Boys Don’t Cry, we would’ve seen her direct more features, but it took nine years for us to see her sophomore effort, Stop-Loss. Five years later, she directed the Carrie remake, a movie she had a disagreement or two with studio executives on....

Olivia Cooke Is Contracted For ‘Ready Player One’ Sequels (But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Happening) By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 23, 2018 3:30 pm EST Ready Player One was a hit, so could sequels be inevitable? It’s certainly possible, especially now that co-star Olivia Cooke has revealed she’s contracted for more films. Are you ready to return to the OASIS and be bombarded with even more pop culture references and CGI? Ready Player One was the first Steven Spielberg movie to make more than $300 million at the box office since 2011 (as of now its box office total is $582 million)....

Superhero Bits: ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Deleted Scenes, Gal Gadot Visits Children’s Hospital As Wonder Woman & More By Ethan Anderton/July 9, 2018 6:00 pm EST Want to see a stop-motion short with Superman taking on T-1000 and teaming up with RoboCop? Could the quantum realm be the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the Negative Zone? Are animals in danger from the snap of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War? What can we expect from the Ant-Man and the Wasp deleted scenes that will be on the home video release?...

‘28 Weeks Later’ Director To Helm Disney’s Live-Action ‘Sword In The Stone’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2018 6:30 am EST In Disney’s never-ending quest to reboot their animated films in live-action, they’ve now moved onto a live-action The Sword in the Stone remake. The retelling of the story of King Arthur is moving ahead at the House of Mouse, and the film just knighted its director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the filmmaker behind the horror sequel 28 Weeks Later....

‘Green Room’ Director Jeremy Saulnier Making ‘Hold The Dark’ Next For Netflix By Jack Giroux/Jan. 25, 2017 2:30 pm EST Thankfully, it didn’t take director Jeremy Saulnier too long to get his next project up and running. Saulnier is coming off Green Room, a movie seemingly beloved by most people who saw it. Saulnier is following up that intense thriller with Hold the Dark, which is a bloody and violent tale prominently set in Alaska....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Clip: Drax’s Thick Head Goes Up Against A Monster’s Thick Neck By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 18, 2017 10:30 am EST It’s that time of the press tour — we’re getting an influx of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 material, and it won’t stop until we’re foaming at the mouth screaming “I am Groot” and/or we finally see the movie when it drops in theaters in two weeks....

‘I Love You, Daddy’ Trailer: Louis C.K. Does His Best Woody Allen Impression By Jacob Hall/Oct. 18, 2017 8:30 am EST In FX’s Louie and the digitally distributed Horace and Pete, stand-up comic Louis C.K. revealed himself to be one of the most inventive, malleable, and downright unpredictable filmmakers working at the moment. Not bad for a guy whose last feature film as a director was 2001’s Pootie Tang. His new movie, I Love You, Daddy, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and was immediately scooped up by The Orchard for release later this year....

‘It’ Floats Onto Digital In December And Blu-Ray January By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 15, 2017 8:00 am EST Andy Muschietti’s It ended up joining the ranks of the best Stephen King adaptations in recent memory. The pulse-quickening scares and the incredibly likable cast combined to create one of the best horror films of 2017, and ended up being a smash hit at the box office, breaking multiple records. Now, the film is getting ready to hit home video....

‘Mandy’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Battles A Nightmarish Cult By Chris Evangelista/June 27, 2018 8:50 am EST Nicolas Cage. Andrea Riseborough. The director of Beyond the Black Rainbow. Evil cults. Chainsaw fights. What more do you need?Mandy is the latest stylish nightmare from Beyond the Black Rainbow filmmaker Panos Cosmatos, and it looks delightfully deranged. In the film, Cage plays a man on a quest for vengeance, battling cultists and supernatural creatures....

Red Sparrow Super Bowl TV Spot The past few trailers operated like tone poems, with Lawrence’s Dominika Egorova barely breaking out her shaky Russian accent, but the TV spots have leaned more into bombast. The Super Bowl spot certainly leans toward the latter, and it makes sense since commercials can cost up to $5 million each during this event. The tense, rapid spot delves into Dominika’s reason for entering the Sparrow program: “I saw something I was not supposed to....

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 2, 2017 6:30 am EST Star Wars fans were caught by surprise over the summer when Lucasfilm fired directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller from the Star Wars spin-off film Solo: A Star Wars Story. Lord and Miller were replaced with Ron Howard, who reshot a large chunk of Solo, but Lord and Miller’s work will apparently still have a presence in the film: co-star Thandie Newton has just confirmed that at least 90% of her scenes were shot by the duo....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Deleted Scene Takes Us On A Splashy Han And Qi’ra Chase By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2018 1:30 pm EST Solo: A Star Wars Story introduced us to a young Han Solo who was a bit wet behind the ears. But in a deleted scene from the Star Wars standalone film, the film takes that quite literally. A Solo deleted scene gives us an extended look at Han and Qi’ra’s early chase scene through the streets of Corellia, as the pair escape from Proxima’s gang members....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Tickets Are On Sale Now, See A New Clip, TV Spot, Poster & More By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2018 7:34 am EST May the Fourth be with you! It’s officially Star Wars Day, and to celebrate, Disney and Lucasfilm have put tickets for Solo: A Star Wars Story on sale today. But that’s not all. A new Solo A Star Wars Story clip has surfaced online featuring a fantastic exchange between Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) and Chewbacca....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Discards A Long-Standing ‘Trek’ Rule, Gets New Photo And Uniform Infographic By Ben Pearson/June 23, 2017 9:30 am EST It was a rule that plagued writers of previous Star Trek TV shows: in order to better represent Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s idyllic vision of a utopian future, writers were strongly encouraged to avoid having Starfleet crew members in conflict with each other. But that won’t be the case on Star Trek: Discovery, because showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J....

‘The Hate U Give’ Recasts Male Lead With ‘Riverdale’ Star After Controversy By Ben Pearson/April 4, 2018 12:00 pm EST After wrapping production last November, the movie has hit a slight bump in the road, and The Hate U Give cast is now being shaken up: a new report says the film’s male lead is being replaced after a controversial video of him surfaced online. Lawley, who was dropped by his agency after the racial slur videos resurfaced, is being replaced by K....

‘The King Of Kong’ Musical In The Works By Jack Giroux/May 26, 2017 4:00 pm EST We’re still waiting on New Line’s remake of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Seth Gordon’s excellent 2007 doc about Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell competing over the world record for Donkey Kong. Gordon, who went on to direct Horrible Bosses and Baywatch, has been wanting to dramatize their rivalry in a feature film for years now – but that’ll have to wait until he’s done adapting the doc for the stage....

‘The Leftovers’ Season 3 Trailer: It’s Getting Downright Apocalyptic Out There By Jacob Hall/Feb. 18, 2017 12:00 pm EST In its second season, HBO’s The Leftovers reinvented itself. While the first season, noteworthy for its unrelenting grimness and incredible sense of dread, made for gripping and divisive television, the second season did something remarkable: it became fun. And more importantly, it became fun without sacrificing that uncomfortable tone and those complicated characters and the overwhelming sense that nothing is okay and it never well be okay and everyone is going to die....