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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Casts Its Own Captain Pike With ‘Hell On Wheels’ And ‘Inhumans’ Star Anson Mount By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 9, 2018 11:30 am EST Star Trek: Discovery has founds its Captain Christopher Pike. The lauded predecessor to Captain Kirk on the USS Enterprise, Captain Pike has been a mainstay of Star Trek since the scrapped TV pilot for the original ’60s series. The new Pike will be played by former Hell on Wheels and Inhumans star Anson Mount....

‘The Secret Scripture’ Trailer: Rooney Mara Navigates Love & Tragedy In 1940s Ireland By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2016 9:30 am EST Rooney Mara has had a very busy fall, with not one, not two, but three separate films playing at TIFF. Today we’ve got the trailer for one of them, Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture. Based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture chronicles the loves and losses of a young woman named Rose (Mara) in 1940s Ireland....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Box Office: Yet Another Smash Hit For Marvel By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2017 10:00 am EST Have you heard of this little indie movie company called Marvel Studios? I think they’re going places. Case in point: their latest small, art-house film Thor: Ragnarok just cleaned up at the box office. The successful Thor: Ragnarok box office intake is good news for Marvel and even better news for the film’s director, Taika Waititi, who should probably have free rein to make whatever film he wants now....

‘What We Do In The Shadows’ TV Show In Development, Says Taika Waititi By Jacob Hall/Oct. 26, 2017 1:30 pm EST Before he somehow tricked Marvel Studios into handing him a couple hundred million dollars to make Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi co-directed the vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows. If you haven’t seen that movie, you should change that – it may very well be one of the funniest movies of the past decade....

Classic Monsters Maze Coming To Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights; Six Flags Launches Hell Fest By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2018 10:00 am EST Theme park Halloween events are more aliiiive than ever. This year’s theme park horror events are stepping up their game, with Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights resurrecting cinematic icons through a classic monsters maze and Six Flags partnering with the upcoming movie Hell Fest. Universal Studios Hollywood Resurrects Cinematic Icons in All-New “Halloween Horror Nights” Maze Inspired by the Original Universal Monsters....

Cool Stuff: Gallery 1988’s ‘Versus’ Art Show Pits Tom Whalen Against Dave Perillo By Ethan Anderton/June 11, 2018 6:00 am EST This past weekend Gallery 1988 unveiled a whole new show titled Versus. As you might have guessed, the show features pieces that depict some of the biggest rivalries in film, television and video games. However, this show was made all the more interesting by having artists Tom Whalen and Dave Perillo take shots at each other leading up to the show....

Cute Overload: Newborn Golden Monkey Experiences Snow For The First Time In ‘Born In China’ Clip By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2017 11:30 am EST Disneynature’s movies are underrated, and we don’t see enough movie blogs talking about these animal documentaries. For those of you who don’t know, Disney has been continuing the legacy that Walt Disney began by releasing new nature documentaries on a yearly basis to coincide with Earth Day....

Get A First Look At Djimon Hounsou’s Fisherman King In ‘Aquaman’ [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 13, 2018 9:30 am EST Update: James Wan has shared some interesting information about how this character was brought to life on Twitter.Djimon Hounsou is going to be in every superhero movie soon. Days after the news that Hounsou had joined the Shazam cast hit the web, Warner Bros. is here to remind you that the Gladiator and Guardians of the Galaxy actor had already made the leap from Marvel to DC with Aquaman....

Hank Azaria Addresses ‘The Simpsons’ Apu Controversy: “I’m Perfectly Willing To Step Aside” By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 25, 2018 11:30 am EST Azaria stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night to promote the new season of his IFC comedy Brockmire, but the conversation naturally turned to Apu, the heavily accented Kwik-E-Mart owner that Azaria has voiced for 20 years. And Azaria officially addressed the whirlwind of controversy around his character....

James Gunn Trolled This Fake Kevin Feige Account And It’s The Greatest By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 16, 2017 11:30 am EST This fake Kevin Feige Instagram account would’ve found out about all of Marvel’s well-kept secrets and gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids! Well, more like if James Gunn hadn’t realized immediately that it was a troll account and started trolling back in kind. It’s always a fun day on the Internet when Gunn decides to go, as he says it, full “twelve year old” and troll a fake account posing as Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige that had direct messaged him on Instagram....

Jon Favreau Voicing Alien In ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 16, 2018 9:57 am EST Update: Jon Favreau and EW have both confirmed that the briefly-seen alien in the Solo trailer is the character Favreau is voicing. You can see an image below. #Solo #StarWars pic.twitter.com/IFovO3mGm0 — Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) February 16, 2018 The original story follows below. Director and Star Wars fan Jon Favreau is going to be voicing an “important alien” in Solo: A Star Wars Story....

LOL: ‘Doctor Strange’ Gag Reel Has Benedict Cumberbatch Bust A Move By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 13, 2017 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Tomorrow, Marvel’s Doctor Strange will be available to download on Digital HD if you can’t wait for the Blu-ray and DVD to hit shelves in a couple weeks. The home video release will be chock full of bonus features, and one of the most entertaining bits on from all the extras is always the gag reel....

LOL: ‘Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith’ Dubbed With Bootleg Subtitles Is A Magical Thing By Jacob Hall/Jan. 3, 2017 2:00 pm EST Ah, slow news days like these are the perfect time to share some “new to us” YouTube videos. Today’s weird video has been making the internet rounds these past few days and while it’s a few years old, this is my first time seeing it and, well, it’s kind of magical....

LOL: Captain “Sully” Sullenberger Stars In ‘Hanks’, A Tom Hanks Biopic By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 9, 2016 12:30 pm EST This weekend brings the true story Sully to the big screen. The film directed by Clint Eastwood stars Tom Hanks as real life airline pilot Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the man who landed a passenger plane in the Hudson river after something went terribly wrong shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport. The movie has been received fairly well with an 83% on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing (though our own David Chen didn’t find it wholly compelling), but it appears there may be a more interesting biographical drama on the horizon....

Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America’ Season 2 Might Happen After All [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 28, 2018 9:53 am EST Update 8/28: Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Showtime has yet to officially cancel Who is America, despite Cohen claiming that the most recent episode would be “the last EVER show”. I guess the joke’s on us and there’s still a chance the series could return for a second season after all....

Tim Burton’s ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’ Needs More Peculiarity [Review] By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2016 5:00 pm EST In short, it has all the makings of a big hit that brings some much-needed quirkiness back to the multiplex. So why, then, does it all feel so… uninspired? So familiar? So not-very-peculiar? Miss Peregrine opens in sleepy suburban Florida, where teenage Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield) lives a life so unremarkable he might as well not exist at all....

‘Annihilation’ Director Alex Garland’s Haunted House Script ‘The Toymaker’s Secret’ Is Getting Made By Ben Pearson/April 11, 2018 1:30 pm EST Alex Garland is known for directing heady sci-fi movies like Ex Machina and Annihilation, but his latest project marks a shift in the career of the English filmmaker. TriStar Pictures has acquired the rights to The Toymaker’s Secret, a haunted house script written by Garland that’s being described as “family friendly,” which is not exactly the first thing you think of when you think about his existing movies....

‘Arrival’ Trailers: Denis Villeneuve Sends Amy Adams To Talk To Aliens By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2016 7:30 am EST What with all the Blade Runner 2 news swirling around, it’s been easy to forget that Denis Villeneuve has another, very different sort of sci-fi film coming out in the meantime. But over the past few weeks, Paramount has made a concentrated effort to get Arrival on moviegoers’ radars, and after seeing some intriguing footage earlier this month, we won’t be forgetting about this one again....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Almost Had A Different Title That Tied Into The Source Novel By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 14, 2017 10:00 am EST Blade Runner 2049 is currently dividing audiences, who aren’t sure if the sequel is a masterpiece or a mess of style over substance. While it might not have changed anyone’s opinion, it seems the film almost had a completely different title – one that tied directly into the source material that inspired the first film....

‘Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul’ Trailer: The Family Film Franchise Gets A New Cast By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2017 11:00 am EST The Diary of a Wimpy Kid film franchise was one that families enjoyed for three years – there was Diary of a Wimpy Kid in 2010, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules in 2011 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days in 2012. But it’s been five years since the last movie, so the young cast members who played lead characters Greg (Zachary Gordon) and his best friend Rowley (Robert Capron) are too old to keep the series going....