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‘The Favourite’ Trailer: Emma Stone And Rachel Weisz Star In Yorgos Lanthimos’ Royally Insane Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2018 6:19 am EST The Oscar race just got a whole lot more interesting. Following up his unsettling masterpieces The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film is a glorious period piece perversion. Lanthimos heads to 18th century England with The Favourite, a historical drama starring Emma Stone and his The Lobster star Rachel Weisz....

‘The Last Jedi’ Featurette Reveals Rey’s Struggle With The Dark Side By Chris Evangelista/March 7, 2018 4:00 pm EST The marketing for Star Wars: The Last Jedi did a pretty good job teasing that Daisy Ridley’s Rey might turn to the Dark Side. Now, a new The Last Jedi featurette from the upcoming Blu-ray release further explores Rey’s internal Dark Side struggle in the film. Spoiler alert: Rey doesn’t turn to the Dark Side in Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

‘The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants’ Is Being Re-Fitted As A Stage Musical By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 18, 2018 4:00 pm EST Time to get the girls back together: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is being made into a stage musical. 13 years after the 2005 coming-of-age drama first hit the screens and changed millennial girls’ lives forever, a musical adaptation is being developed by Tony Award-winning theatrical producer Scott Delman....

‘Thelma’ Opening Scene Hints At The Unsettling Tone Of Joachim Trier’s Coming Of Age Thriller By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 27, 2017 3:30 pm EST In Joachim Trier’s chilling, slow-burn coming-of-age thriller Thelma, a young woman’s emotions begin to manifest themselves in supernatural ways. It’s an eerie, effective film that burns itself into your mind and lingers long after the credits have rolled. Now the Thelma opening scene has appeared online to give you a better idea of the film’s unsettling tone....

‘Trainspotting’ Author Irvine Welsh Teases Possible TV Series By Jack Giroux/Nov. 9, 2016 3:30 pm EST Just last week we saw an encouraging trailer for Danny Boyle’s T2: Trainspotting. As some of you may recall, Boyle spent many years talking about the sequel. Plenty of the 1996 film’s fans were skeptical it would ever happen, but in now less than three months, we’ll see the return of Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Johnny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle)....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 1, 2017 12:15 pm EST Here’s the premise of Black America per Deadline: “It envisions an alternate history where newly freed African Americans have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama post-Reconstruction as reparations for slavery, and with that land, the freedom to shape their own destiny. The sovereign nation they formed, New Colonia, has had a tumultuous and sometimes violent relationship with its looming “Big Neighbor,” both ally and foe, the United States....

Cool Stuff: Pop Culture Luggage Tags Take You To ‘Jurassic Park’ And Other Locales At Gallery 1988 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2018 6:00 am EST Summer might be coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean your opportunity for traveling to interesting locales has to stop with the season. In fact, Gallery 1988 wants to send you to some of the most famous locations from pop culture with Clark Orr’s new Baggage art show, creating stylized luggage tags paying tribute to the likes of Jurassic Park, Friday the 13th, The Rocketeer, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Psycho, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Shining and more....

Cool Stuff: The ‘Harry Potter’ Soundtracks Get A New Vinyl Box Set This Fall By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 2017 6:30 am EST Though vinyl is now enjoying quite a resurgence among music fans as a popular format for listening to music, during most of the time that the Harry Potter franchise was hitting theaters, it was an almost entirely dead form of media. That means most of the soundtracks for each of the movies never got released on vinyl....

Disney Wants The ‘Star Wars’ TV Rights Back From TBS And TNT, But It’ll Cost Them By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2018 7:30 am EST Back in 2016, a few years after Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the studio sold the television rights to all of the Star Wars movies, from the original trilogy to the most recent sequels and spin-offs, to AT&T’s recently acquired Turner Broadcasting. At that time, Disney hadn’t yet finalized plans for their own subscription service....

How Much Damage Has The ‘Fast And Furious’ Franchise Caused? [Infographic] By Ethan Anderton/April 14, 2017 6:00 am EST While we recently featured a round of infographics that counted a bunch of statistics from the Fast and Furious franchise, from how much screentime there is for gratuitous shots of the backsides of women to how many shots there were of odometers/tachometers, there was one thing that wasn’t counted: property damage....

New ‘Spider-Man’ Video Game Trailer Shows Off Every Conceivable Villain, Lots Of Webslinging By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2018 8:30 am EST Spider-Man is not only taking over our big screens — in both animated and live-action form — but our video game screens. The long-awaited Spider-Man PS4 video game debuted a new trailer at Sony’s E3 showcase this week, and it’s a smorgasbord of action, sleek graphics, and sinister villains. The Sinister Six, to be exact....

Sony Expands Their Spider-Verse, Hires Writer For Their ‘Kraven The Hunter’ Movie By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 2, 2018 10:00 am EST Sony has a plan. Maybe. They’re hell-bent on making their Spider-Verse – which is separate from the MCU’s Spider-Man related films – work. Tom Hardy and his big CGI tongue are coming to theaters this year with Venom. And then there’s the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, also due out this year....

Watch: ‘Black Mirror’ Marketing Gets Meta With Netflix Vista Ad By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2016 3:30 pm EST There’s always been something kind of ironic about the fact that Black Mirror is consumed through the very same technologies it’s warning us about. We’re watching it on our TVs and laptops and smartphones, and we’re discussing it with other fans on social media. To be fair, Black Mirror’s message isn’t as simple as “technology is bad” — it’s more like “technology can be bad because human nature can be bad....

Watch ‘The Nurse’, The Winner Of ‘The Conjuring’ Universe Short Film Contest By Ben Pearson/Aug. 17, 2017 5:00 pm EST Warner Bros.’ The Conjuring Cinematic Universe grew larger this month with the release of director David F. Sandberg’s spin-off prequel Annabelle: Creation. Sandberg got his start making a short film called Lights Out that he then went on to adapt as a feature. Recently, he and Warner Bros. created a similar opportunity for up-and-coming filmmakers to get their names out there by holding a short film contest for stories that would fit well into the world of The Conjuring films....

‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ Promo: ‘‘Do You Really Want To Sit Through Every Horrid Episode?’’ By Jack Giroux/Jan. 3, 2017 1:30 pm EST Not enough moviegoers embraced Brad Silberling’s A Series of Unfortunate Events movie to launch a franchise, but perhaps we’ll finally get to see entire 13-part story adapted with Netflix’s upcoming series, which continues to look promising. The marketing materials have focused a little more on the comedic and heightened elements of author Daniel Handler’s books, not so much the bleakness of the Baudelaire children’s predicament....

‘Angry Birds 2’ Will Fling Itself Into An Unstable Structure In 2019 By Jacob Hall/May 22, 2017 2:00 pm EST The Angry Birds Movie was only a modest hit at the domestic box office last year, but its international haul seemingly pleased the accountants at Sony. The studio has announced a sequel for 2019, just in case you need more stories about flightless birds voiced by comedians being flung in the direction of green pigs who live in poorly designed towers....

‘Black Adam’ Recruits ‘Undateable’ Creator Adam Sztykiel To Write The Script By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 31, 2017 12:39 pm EST The Black Adam movie just got a new writer. Undateable creator Adam Sztykiel will pen the script for the upcoming DC film for New Line, which stars Dwayne Johnson as Shazam villain Black Adam. Whether or not Johnson’s character will also be appearing in the Shazam! film remains to be seen, but for now, the Black Adam solo film is moving forward side-by-side with Shazam!...

‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’ Trailer: Simon Pegg And Nick Frost Reunite For A New Horror Comedy By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2018 3:00 pm EST Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been collaborating for decades, from the British TV series Spaced to director Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy and the Greg Mottola alien comedy Paul. But now the beloved duo have formed Stolen Picture, and they’re both co-starring in the new production company’s debut film called Slaughterhouse Rulez....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Featurette: Meet The Crew Of Scoundrels Ready For A Galactic Heist By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 2018 10:30 am EST Tonight brings Solo: A Star Wars Story to a bunch of theaters around the country as sneak preview screenings kick off the Memorial Day weekend. If you don’t have your tickets for Solo already, you might find it hard to get into a screening. So for those of you who maybe have to wait a day or two (or longer) before you see the movie, a new Solo featurette has arrived online with some new footage to hold you over....

‘Star Wars Rebels’ Final Season Will Be More Serialized, Will Provide Fans With Answers By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2017 2:30 pm EST As the animated Star Wars Rebels prepares to air its final season on Disney XD, showrunner Dave Filoni is promising fans that the show will be more serialized and provide answers to questions posed by fans. Get all the Star Wars Rebels final season details you can handle below....