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‘The Death Of Stalin’ Trailer: The Creator Of ‘Veep’ Heads To Russia By Jacob Hall/Jan. 17, 2018 2:00 pm EST Armando Iannucci, the profane genius responsible for Veep and In the Loop, has already had his way with American and English politics. So naturally, he’s set his sights elsewhere with his latest project, The Death of Stalin. As the title implies, the film takes place in the Soviet Union and tracks what goes down with the nation’s inner circle of politicians and military leaders following the death of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Deleted Scene: A Bizarre Jeff Goldblum Hologram And A ‘Dumbo’ Joke By Ben Pearson/Feb. 9, 2018 10:00 am EST After the bland Thor: The Dark World, Taika Waititi completely turned the Thor franchise around with last year’s Thor: Ragnarok by making one of the funniest films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s also one of the strangest, and as a newly-released Thor Ragnarok deleted scene reveals, it was almost even stranger....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Featurette: Cate Blanchett Is Fantastically Evil As Hela, Goddess Of Death By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2017 3:00 pm EST Earlier this week, we brought you another interview from our visit to the Australian set of Thor: Ragnarok, this time with none other than Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, playing Hela, the goddess of death. The actress is the first female villain to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she’s clearly going to create a lot of problems for the god of thunder and his homeworld of Asgard....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Set Photos Tease A Possible ‘Doctor Strange’ Connection By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2016 7:30 am EST Thor: Ragnarok has been shooting in Australia for several weeks now, and while we’ve got a while to go before we see the movie itself, director Taika Waititi and his stars have been pretty generous about sharing glimpses of the shoot. Today, a couple of new photos tease Thor’s return to Earth… and possibly an encounter with the next new Marvel superhero, Doctor Strange....

‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ Season 4 Trailer: More Voltron Action, More Razzle-Dazzle By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 20, 2017 3:30 pm EST Merely two months after the third season of Voltron: Legendary Defender premiered on Netflix, a new trailer has already been released, teasing a fourth season that’s even closer on the horizon. Anxiety over the missing fifth Paladin and a new Big Bad have evaporated — for the most part — with the team back together again and ready to give the war against the Galran Empire the ‘ole razzle dazzle....

A Look At ‘Pacific Rim’ Screenwriter Travis Beacham’s Crazy Directorial Debut ‘The Curiosity’ By Jack Giroux/Sept. 13, 2016 8:00 am EST Below, you can watch The Curiosity teaser and check out more materials from the fantasy picture. On the film’s blog, Beacham hasn’t divulged too many plot details, but the original fantasy film is about a “peculiar young woman (Ford) who finds herself a long long way from home.” The story was influenced by some Celtic mythology, a little Teslapunk, and, as far as movies go, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Prestige, and Stardust....

By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2017 10:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ringworld Lazarus While that sounds like it has the potential for Game of Thrones-level drama, the story primarily follows Forever Carlyle, who is the military leader for the Carlyle family, known for their various developments in genetic technology. This includes creating modified seeds that provide food for most of the world and altering their own genetics, which allows all of them to grow old without suffering the consequences of age....

Bloomberg Counts The Important Things In The ‘Fast And Furious’ Franchise [Infographic] By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2017 6:00 am EST With the eighth movie in the Fast and Furious franchise arriving this weekend, we’ll get all-new sequences of ridiculous action, explosions and uses of the word family. Those are just some of the things you can expect from each and every film in the franchise, and the folks at Bloomberg decided to fiercely crunch the numbers for all of the seven previous movies leading up to The Fate of the Furious....

Bradley Whitford Joins ‘Godzilla: The King Of The Monsters’ By Jack Giroux/June 3, 2017 11:00 am EST Only a few days after the addition of Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch to the cast of Godzilla: The King of Monsters, Bradley Whitford, who was recently quite terrifying in Get Out, has joined the film. Just like Middleditch, we have no clue who Whitford is playing, but we do know he’s boarding a Millie Bobby Brown-led cast that keeps on getting better....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Jurassic Park’ T-Rex Statue Doesn’t Want To Be Fed, Wants To Hunt By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2018 6:00 am EST Jurassic Park is getting all sorts of commemorative treatment this year, especially when it comes to one of the most iconic scenes in the movie. There’s a 1/10 scale diorama statue of the suspenseful tyrannosaurus rex breakout coming from Iron Studios and Chronicle Collectibles, but Prime 1 Studio is also releasing an impressive take on the iconic scene with a 1/15 scale statue of the tyrannosaurus rex escaping her enclosure....

Emma Watson Replaces Emma Stone In Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 24, 2018 3:00 pm EST Watson joins a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, Florence Pugh, and Laura Dern. Ronan was reported as playing primary character Jo March; Florence Pugh might be Amy; Meryl Streep has the role of Marmee, the matriarch of the family; and Timothee Chalamet is Jo’s friend Laurie Laurence. Sharp Objects breakout Eliza Scanlen is also in talks to play Beth....

FX To Launch Ad-Free Streaming Subscription Service By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 7, 2017 3:00 pm EST You can stream on if you think that FX won’t get in on the cord-cutting fun. The cable network responsible for such critically lauded fare like American Horror Story, Atlanta, Fargo, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and Legion is launching an ad-free subscription service called FX+. There’s a catch however, the service is only available to those who have a Comcast Xfinity subscription and who are willing to shell out an additional $5....

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’ Movie Set For 2020 Release Date By Chris Evangelista/June 7, 2018 1:30 pm EST While we all bide our time until the inevitable Hamilton movie, we can take solace in knowing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s other Broadway musical, In The Heights, is coming to the big screen. And now the In The Heights movie release date has been set: summer 2020. Before Hamilton, there was In The Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical set in Washington Heights, NYC....

By Jacob Hall/Feb. 13, 2017 12:30 pm EST Here’s what happens when Star Wars fans start getting thirsty for news and start poking around in the desert: they find tiny updates in the official StarWars.com biographies for two major characters and start to wonder what it all could mean. In this case, two small additions to the pages for Kylo Ren and Rey tease something that fans have been wondering about since Star Wars: The Force Awakens: a mysterious “connection” between the evil son of Han Solo and the mysterious desert scavenger....

Luke Perry, Dakota Fanning And Many More Join Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Cast By Chris Evangelista/June 6, 2018 3:30 pm EST The casting for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood can’t stop, won’t stop. Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Clifton Collins Jr, Keith Jefferson and Nicholas Hammond have all joined the ever-growing cast, which is led by Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt....

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Has 300 Scenes By Chris Evangelista/May 10, 2018 4:30 pm EST Eat your heart out, Avengers: Infinity War – Martin Scorsese says that his highly-anticipated Netflix movie The Irishman has almost 300 scenes. According to Scorsese, this plethora of scenes made the film one of the biggest productions of his career. Martin Scorsese isn’t playing around when it comes to The Irishman. The budget for the Netflix film skyrocketed to over $140 million, and Scorsese is employing complicated CGI to de-age several of the actors for certain scenes....

MoviePass Will Start Co-Acquiring Films For Theatrical Distribution By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 19, 2018 8:30 am EST MoviePass announced the formation of MoviePass Ventures, described as a “wholly-owned subsidiary founded to co-acquire films with film distributors” at Sundance, where the company was debuting its content series “Off-Script: The Future of Film.” MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe told the room of filmmakers, producers, directors, investors, distributors, and other industry executives: “We’ve experienced enormous success bringing people back into the theaters since our launch in August and with an influx of business from distributors, have proven the impact of our marketing over and over again, giving them an incremental lift in ticket sales....

Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ Season 4 Finds New Leads In Diego Luna And Michael Peña By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 19, 2017 12:30 pm EST Narcos will have two new leads beginning with season 4.Pedro Pascal is apparently stepping aside for Diego Luna and Michael Peña as the leads in the Netflix crime thriller. While it’s unclear whether Pascal will leave the show entirely, it’s clear that Netflix has given the series a star-studded boost thanks to Luna and Peña, who have recently appeared in big blockbuster franchises Star Wars and Ant-Man, respectively....

New ‘It’ Featurette: The Losers’ Club Confronts Darkness Together By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2017 9:30 am EST Watch Stephen King’s It featurette, but beware that is shows a large amount of new footage. But along with the coming of age story that each of these kids goes through, there’s also the horrific side of Stephen King’s book that has each of them confronting their worst fears brought to life by Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgard)....

Pixar Announces The All-Latino Voice Cast Of ‘Coco’ By Ethan Anderton/June 6, 2017 12:00 pm EST This summer will bring Cars 3 to theaters, but it’s just one of two new movies from Pixar Animation hitting the big screen this year. In fact, when Cars 3 arrives in theaters next week, it will come with a new trailer for Pixar’s 2017 release, the music-infused, Mexican-inspired animated adventure Coco. Ahead of the new trailer, Pixar Animation has announced the full, all-Latino voice cast for Coco....