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The Morning Watch: Creating An Empathetic Villain In ‘Black Panther’, Movie Props Tour & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2018 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 explores how director Ryan Coogler created an empathetic villain for Marvel’s Black Panther....

The Official ‘Baywatch’ Trailer Is Fast And Furious In Slow-Motion By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 22, 2017 7:00 am EST It’s up to Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron to “restore the Baywatch brand.” And it seems like that brand is fast, furious and explosive in the new official trailer for Paramount Pictures’ Baywatch — with plenty of good old-fashioned slow-mo shots thrown in there as well. Directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses), Baywatch updates the sometimes beloved, often-mocked 1990s TV series for the 21st century, giving the franchise a self-deprecating and winking air in the vein of 21 Jump Street....

Watch Episode 1 Of HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’ Post-Season Show ‘The Game Revealed’, Plus Rumors Of A New ‘GOT’ Video Game By Ben Pearson/Aug. 28, 2017 3:00 pm EST HBO has been good about releasing cool behind-the-scenes videos after major episodes of Game of Thrones, but this morning, they announced a new project that takes that to a whole new level. The Game Revealed is a new post-season behind-the-scenes series for HBO subscribers that dives into the making of each episode, and the first entry is available to watch for free on YouTube right now....

Watch Michael Bay Direct The World’s Loneliest Dog In ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2016 10:00 am EST What happened when filmmaker Michael Bay read an article about “The World’s Loneliest Dog?” The action director decided to give her a role in his latest film, Transformers: The Last Knight. The homeless epileptic Staffordshire Bull Terrier named “Freya” had been passed over for adoption at the Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre more than 18,000 times over six years, despite being a “very loving dog....

‘Benedetta’ Image Reveals First Look At Paul Verhoeven’s New Lesbian Nun Film By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 30, 2018 4:30 pm EST Paul Verhoeven, director of RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Elle and more, has a new film: Benedetta. Set in the 17th century, Benedetta follows a lesbian nun who was prone to visions and displayed the stigmata – supernatural wounds that mimic the injuries inflicted on Jesus during the crucifixion. You can see the first official Benedetta image below....

‘Call Of Duty’ Will Be A “Soldier Movie,” Not A War Movie [Exclusive] By Fred Topel/June 15, 2018 1:30 pm EST Sicario: Day of the Soldado director Stefano Sollima spoke with /Film this week about the Sicario sequel. We’ll bring you the full interview at the end of June, but Sollima is attached to a movie based on the Call of Duty video game franchise. During the interview, Sollima explained how Call of Duty will differentiate itself from other video game movies and other war movies....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Marathon: Every Episode Will Play In A Movie Theater By Ben Pearson/Nov. 15, 2017 11:30 am EST Marvel Studios has been hosting marathons of their superhero movies for years. Back in 2015, watching every film released up until that point (including Avengers: Age of Ultron) took 29 hours. Adding up the runtime of the movies released since then, including Thor: Ragnarok extends the length to over 41 hours....

‘Halloween’ TV Series Could Still Happen, Says Producer Malek Akkad By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 27, 2018 10:30 am EST The new Halloween movie has everyone excited for the further murderous adventures of Michael Myers. If the 2018 film doesn’t satisfy your Halloween-cravings, more Myers might be in store: on the small screen. Halloween producer Malek Akkad says he’s keen to get a Halloween TV series off the ground, saying “it’s something we’re looking at very closely....

‘Logan’ Spin-Off Starring X-23 In The Works From Director James Mangold By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 24, 2017 11:30 am EST Logan was as much about bringing a satisfying end to the long and hard journey of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine as it was about the beginning of Laura’s (Dafne Keen) story as the fierce runaway X-23 clone. Keen stole the scenes as the stoic and bullish Laura, who becomes a surrogate daughter to Logan, and was implied at the end of Logan to shoulder his burden as the next Wolverine....

‘Lore’ Season 2 Trailer And Release Date Revealed, Gale Anne Hurd Promises Scarier Stories [Comic-Con 2018] By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2018 8:00 am EST Lore Season 2 Trailer This season looks gothic, creepy, and, yes, scary. Lore producer/showrunner Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) says that the second season is “definitely scarier” than the first season. This season the creator of the podcast, Aaron Mahnke, joined Sean Crouch (The Exorcist, Numb3rs) in the writers’ room to help decide which stories to tell on screen....

‘Maniac’ Teaser: Emma Stone And Jonah Hill Have An Unbreakable Connection By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2018 10:30 am EST Despite several trailers dropping for Cary Fukunaga’s highly anticipated Netflix miniseries, Maniac remains very much a mystery. We know that it features two former Superbad stars and that it’s about as different from Superbad as could be. And that Emma Stone and Jonah Hill play two strangers struggling with mental illness who meet at a pharmaceutical drug trial that will supposedly solve all their problems — only to be sent on a wild adventure through a shared mind-verse....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Will Likely Introduce A Mega Star Destroyer By Ben Pearson/Aug. 8, 2017 3:30 pm EST We recently learned that Adam Driver’s cranky bad boy Kylo Ren would be getting a new ship called the TIE Silencer in Rian Johnson’s upcoming sequel Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Now, it seems as if his master may be cruising the galaxy in a new ride as well. Supreme Leader Snoke’s name has been tied to a ship called a Mega Star Destroyer thanks to – what else?...

‘The Greatest Showman’ Trailer: Hugh Jackman Shows Off His Singing Chops By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2017 6:59 am EST You can’t put on a show without some music, and the new The Greatest Showman trailer is here to remind you that it is, in fact, a musical. Hugh Jackman stars as P.T. Barnum, the founder of the famous traveling circus and self-ascribed “Greatest Show on Earth,” as he risks his career and reputation to create the beloved Barnum & Bailey Circus....

‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ Trailer: Netflix Continues Its Streak Of Cute Teen Rom-Coms By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 21, 2018 2:30 pm EST With its recent streak of charming and sweet romantic comedies, Netflix has almost singlehandedly revived the dying genre. And that streak shows no sign of ending soon, with a sugary-sweet trailer for the YA novel adaptation To All The Boys I’ve Ever Loved Before. X-Men: Apocalypse star Lana Condor stars in this film, which follows an Asian-American high schooler as her romantic daydreams turn into humiliating nightmares....

‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ Will Undergo Reshoots, Three-Month Rumors Inaccurate [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 9, 2018 10:51 am EST Dark times may be ahead for the production of X-Men: Dark Phoenix. After initial photography was completed last year, it was expected that Simon Kinberg’s upcoming X-Men sequel would undergo reshoots, but new reports of a lengthy reshoot schedule suggest quite a literal rebirth for X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Why is there such a big discrepancy between the two conflicting reports?...

A City Is On The Move In Peter Jackson’s ‘Mortal Engines’ Concept Art By Ben Pearson/May 26, 2017 3:00 pm EST Author Phillip Reeve’s four-part Predator Cities book series isn’t messing around when it comes to its title: in the future depicted in the novels, cities have become actual predators. Every city on Earth is now on wheels, constantly cruising around looking for smaller cities to consume and absorb. The first book in that series, Mortal Engines, is getting a film adaptation from producer Peter Jackson and some of his The Lord of the Rings collaborators, and now Jackson has shared the first piece of Mortal Engines concept art with fans....

Original Halloween in Theaters CineLife Entertainment, the event cinema division of Spotlight Cinema Networks, has teamed up with Compass International Pictures and Trancas International Films to bring John Carpenter’s 1978 classic back to select theaters worldwide starting later this month. Halloween will be released on over 1,000 screens in more than twenty countries across the globe. As for the locations in the United States, you can head over to the CineLife Entertainment website to find out which theaters are participating....

Chris Rock’s ‘Tamborine’ Netflix Stand-Up Special Arrives On Valentine’s Day By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 13, 2018 12:15 pm EST Over Super Bowl weekend, Netflix released a mysterious teaser trailer that just featured a bunch of tambourines being played. No one was really sure what it was all about, but today we got our answer, and the payoff is coming much sooner than you think. Chris Rock’s first Netflix stand-up special is making a surprise debut tomorrow, on Valentine’s Day....

Cool Stuff: James Cameron Is Getting His Own ‘Aliens’ Action Figure By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2017 6:00 am EST When it comes to action figures inspired by fan favorite movies of the 1980s, the toy manufacturer NECA has been knocking it out of the park. They especially deserve praise for their spectacular line of toys based on both Ridley Scott’s original 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien, and their more recent ongoing line of figures inspired by James Cameron’s more blockbuster style follow-up Aliens....

David Lynch Has Apparently Opened His Own Online T-Shirt Shop By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2018 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. David Lynch doesn’t make many movies anymore – last year’s Twin Peaks revival was the first thing he’d filmed in nearly 11 years. Instead, he bides his time creating art in his studio. The art is predictably Lynchian – strange, haunting, darkly funny....