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Robert Downey Jr. And Richard Linklater Team Up For Con Man Tale Based On ‘Reply All’ Podcast By Angie Han/Feb. 14, 2017 3:30 pm EST Robert Downey Jr.’s got a lot of Iron Man coming up on his to-do list, but his next new role’s got nothing to do with Marvel at all. He’ll be teaming with director Richard Linklater for an adaptation of the Reply All podcast, specifically the episode titled “Man of the People....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Black Panther’ Box Office Predictions, John Cena Joins New ‘TMNT’ Series By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2018 6:00 pm EST John Krasinski responded to a fan’s rendering of The Office star as Reed Richards in Fantastic Four. Wait… how did you get this picture??? Only my wife knows what I wear to bed! https://t.co/uzx8800gYg — John Krasinski (@johnkrasinski) January 12, 2018...

Superhero Bits: Behind The Scenes Of Captain Marvel, Venom Symbiotes & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2018 6:00 pm EST Could Disney’s streaming service kill off Agents of SHIELD? How many views did the Captain Marvel trailer get in its first 24 hours? Why do the symbiotes in Venom come to Earth? What would it take for Ryan Gosling to play Batman? What does Ruben Fleischer think of Venom operating on his own without Spider-Man around?...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: New ‘Swamp Thing’ Series Details, Batman Vs John Wick & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2018 6:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Batman might have met his match in this fanmade trailer that puts The Dark Knight up against John Wick. Marvel Comics writer Gary Friedrich, co-creator of Ghost Rider and Son of Satan, passed away on Tuesday....

The Morning Watch: ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Scene Breakdown, ‘Inspector Gadget’ Retrospective & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 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, director J....

The Morning Watch: Breaking Down RomCom Statistics, Editing ‘Dunkirk’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 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 examines the evolution of romcoms over the years, including statistics of tropes spread across 79 of them....

The Morning Watch: Creating ‘Saturday Night Live’, David Harbour Breaks Down ‘Stranger Things Theories & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 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, David Harbour addresses some wild fan theories about the Netflix series Stranger Things....

VOTD: Learn The Differences Between ‘Jaws’ And The Book That Inspired It By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2016 4:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Jaws is one of the most well known movies of all time, right down to the iconic theme music composed by John Williams. However, there are likely plenty among general audiences out there who don’t know that the 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg was based on a book by Peter Benchley....

Watch: How Scientifically Accurate Is ‘Arrival’? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 30, 2016 6:00 am EST Not only is Arrival one of the best films of the year, it’s also a thoughtful sci-fi film that takes an intellectual approach to the arrival of extra terrestrial life on our planet. There’s a lot of talk about real science and linguistics. But this is a Hollywood movie, and sometimes liberties must be taken with real science for a filmmaker to tell the story they want to tell....

You Can Now Own This Ill-Fitting Paramount Pictures T-Shirt For $590 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 16, 2018 5:30 am EST Lord knows that here in the year 2018 we all have a ton of extra cash sitting around. What better way to get rid of that surplus of money than by dropping almost 600 clams on a baggy T-shirt with the Paramount Pictures logo emblazoned across it? That’s right, for more than half-a-grand, you can look like you just dug something out of the Goodwill donation bin....

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Adds ‘Luke Cage’ Villain Mahershala Ali By Angie Han/Oct. 3, 2016 2:30 pm EST If you spent all weekend binging Luke Cage, as we did, you probably came away marveling at Mahershala Ali. While he’s been doing fine work for years, 2016 seems destined to go down as the year he really broke out, between his Marvel villain turn and his highly praised performances in films like Moonlight....

‘Bleeding Steel’ Trailer: Jackie Chan Stars In A Totally Bonkers Techno Action Thriller By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2018 11:30 am EST While Jackie Chan may not be as popular in the United States these days as he was during the late 1990s and early 2000s, he’s still churning out plenty of action movies over in his native Hong Kong. Chan may not be a box office draw here in the US, but every now and then one of his movies ends up getting a domestic release, and his latest looks completely bonkers....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Honest Trailer: A Remake Of A Film That Was Ripped Off For Decades By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2017 5:00 am EST There was plenty of controversy stirring around Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of the anime Ghost in the Shell. Most of it was because of the continued whitewashing of source material, but aside from that large complaint, the movie really just wasn’t all that remarkable. Even if the lead weren’t played by white Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson, it would still have been quite the disappointing adaptation of a beloved piece of anime....

‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ Trailer: Keanu Reeves Is Back In Action By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2016 12:15 pm EST John Wick was one of the most pleasant surprises of 2014, a lean, mean thriller that delivered stylish action and a fantastically fun leading performance from Keanu Reeves. So naturally, John Wick: Chapter 2 has been high on the list of our most anticipated films of 2017. Earlier this week Lionsgate offered a small slice of footage from the sequel, and today they’ve served up a full-fledged trailer....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Clip: Spidey Has Trouble Sneaking Around By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2017 5:37 pm EST The MTV Movie & TV Awards draws in the ideal audience for big summer blockbusters, so it should come as no surprise that Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios decided to roll out a new sneak preview for Spider-Man: Homecoming. Not too long ago, a new trailer for the webslinger’s first solo adventure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe revealed that Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is having some trouble holding back his desire to be a superhero worthy of being on The Avengers, and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr....

‘Star Wars Episode 9’ Won’t Separate Finn And Rey, John Boyega Confirms By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 1, 2018 10:00 am EST Finn and Rey are the heart and soul of the new Star Wars trilogy. When Daisy Ridley and John Boyega literally crashed into each other in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, they instantly had so much charm and chemistry that it was no question that they were fit to lead Star Wars into a new era....

‘Superman: The Movie’ Three-Hour Extended Edition Is Coming To Home Video This Year By Ben Pearson/Sept. 20, 2017 3:00 pm EST Look! Up in the sky! It’s a three-hour extended cut of Richard Donner’s 1978 classic Superman: The Movie! But what’s it doing up there? Oh, I see now, it’s preparing for its long-awaited home video release later this year. Naturally. Warner Bros.’ Archive Collection has finally decided to give Superman fans the chance to own this rare, newly-remastered extended edition for themselves, and considering how Henry Cavill’s modern cinematic interpretation of the Man of Steel isn’t exactly cheery, it seems like a great time to bring Christopher Reeves’ smiling, unabashedly positive take on the superhero back into our lives....

‘The Commuter’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Runs Into Train Trouble By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 23, 2017 11:30 am EST You don’t know the train commute from hell until you’ve been blackmailed into identifying a hidden passenger who is being targeted by an elaborate criminal conspiracy. So, thank goodness that it’s Liam Neeson at the center of The Commuter trailer, and not you. Because you can always count on Liam Neeson to do what he does best, while you would likely send a strongly worded tweet at the MTA....

‘The Gifted’ Season 2 Will Have Less Strucker Family, More Deep Dive Episodes [Interview] By Fred Topel/Sept. 25, 2018 12:00 pm EST The Gifted spent the summer buttering up those fans with information about the second season. The show announced Reeva Payge (Grace Byers), Erg (Michael Luwoye) and the Morlocks at Comic-Con, and revealed footage of a very pregnant Polaris and Andy Strucker (Percy Hynes White). Tonight we finally see how the second season begins....

‘The House With A Clock In Its Walls’ Trailer: Enter Jack Black And Cate Blanchett’s Spooky House By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 27, 2018 8:31 am EST Who’d have thought it would be Death Wish director and horror maestro Eli Roth who would be reviving that good ‘ol Steven Spielberg magic? But he seems to be doing just that in the new fantasy-horror film The House with a Clock in Its Walls, an adaptation of a beloved, spine-tingling gothic children’s novel....