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Cool Stuff: ‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Playsets Show Off New Vehicles And A Terrifying Unikitty By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2018 6:00 am EST One of the best things about The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is that we’ll be getting a whole new slew of LEGO sets featuring the characters, vehicles and settings from the movie. While they won’t all be worth picking up from the store, the first three that have been revealed from the animated sequel certainly like they’ll make solid additions to any LEGO fan’s collection....

Dan Trachtenberg To Direct ‘The Secret Life Of Houdini’, See Concept Art From His ‘Rocketeer’ Pitch By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 28, 2016 1:30 pm EST The project has been in the works for since 2009. In 2014, Johnny Depp was attached to star in the adaptation which was then going to be directed by Dean Parisot (Red 2). Before that, Gary Ross was eyeing the film as a potential Hunger Games follow-up in 2012 and when that didn’t pan out, Joe Wright took a turn flirting with the project....

Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Remake Casts Bob Odenkirk In Unknown Role By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 24, 2018 3:00 pm EST Bob Odenkirk is trading ill-fitting suits for a frock coat. The Emmy-nominated actor of Better Call Saul is the latest high-profile star to board Greta Gerwig’s Little Women remake cast, joining the likes of Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, and Meryl Streep.Deadline reports that Odenkirk is joining the Little Women remake in a role that would reunite him with his former The Post co-star Meryl Streep, who plays the matriarch of the four March sisters who are the titular young women of the American classic....

Hulk Hogan’s Gawker Lawsuit Might Become A Limited TV Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 8, 2018 5:00 pm EST The great “privacy” or “freedom of speech” debate that played out during the Hulk Hogan Gawker lawsuit may be getting a feature film adaptation. Or at least a limited TV series. It was a scandal that rocked the journalism and wrestling worlds — two communities who don’t usually overlap. In 2012, Gawker published extracts from a sex tape between Hogan and Heather Clem, the wife of radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge....

Alien: Covenant - Katherine Waterston Interview 0:00: How Fantastic Beasts inspired Waterston’s Alien haircut. 0:39: Waterston’s transition into action stardom. 1:51: Waterston’s favorite stunt in the movie. 2:27: Working with the neomorphs. 3:31: Waterston’s inspirations for Alien: Covenant. Interview: ‘Alien: Covenant’ Star Katherine Waterston On Neomorphs And Action Stardom By Angie Han/Dec. 26, 2016 7:00 am EST Alien: Covenant introduces a new kind of xenomorph known as the neomorph. In the footage I saw, they looked small (about the size of a kitten) but more made up for their lack of size by being fast and vicious....

Is ‘Cloverfield Station’ The Title Of The Next ‘Cloverfield’ Movie? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 22, 2018 10:00 am EST The next Cloverfield sequel has kicked off a cryptic viral marketing campaign, which includes at least two websites that fans can scavenge for clues. A release date for the film has also been confirmed for the spring, after being pushed back from February. But the one thing the third Cloverfield film is missing is a title....

Jordan Peele Is Writing And Directing Another Social Thriller By Jack Giroux/May 3, 2017 4:00 pm EST Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, couldn’t have received a better reception. The film was beloved by audiences and critics, and it has made almost $200 million worldwide on a budget of $4.5 million. After making an original, socially relevant thriller, the Key & Peele co-creator started to get some big offers, like the long-in-development Akira remake....

Live-Action ‘Swamp Thing’ TV Series Coming To DC Digital Service By Chris Evangelista/May 2, 2018 1:30 pm EST DC’s digital service now has a name – DC Universe. And DC Universe now has a new addition – a live-action Swamp Thing TV series from executive producer James Wan. Wan is no stranger to DC: he’s also helming the upcoming Aquaman. If you had told me there would be a live-action Swamp Thing TV series a few years ago, I would’ve chuckled and said, “No way....

New ‘Power Rangers’ Photos Provide Another Look At Elizabeth Banks As Rita Repulsa By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 29, 2016 1:30 pm EST Way back in the spring of this year, we got our first look at Elizabeth Banks as the villain Rita Repulsa in the latest big screen adaptation of Power Rangers. She looks drastically different than she did in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series, looking less like a medieval witch and more like an alien vixen from the Species franchise....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller Met With DC About ‘The Flash’ Before Leaving ‘Han Solo’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 21, 2017 7:30 am EST The galaxy — far away and nearby — was shocked when directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were suddenly fired from Lucasfilm’s Han Solo prequel, with only several weeks left in the production. While Lord and Miller, who had previously directed irreverent comedies like 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie, were unlikely choices to helm a major Star Wars blockbuster, they seemed like a good fit — fresh blood to invigorate the old-school approach of Lucasfilm and Disney....

Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg To Direct Adaptation Of Robert Kirkman’s Comic ‘Invincible’ By Jack Giroux/April 4, 2017 4:00 pm EST After successfully adapting Preacher for AMC, a comic book property many others struggled with, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen are now taking on another well-known comic, Robert Kirkman’s (The Walking Dead) Invincible. The duo will produce, direct, and write the comic book movie for Universal. Below, learn more about the potential Invincible movie....

Shane Black’s ‘The Predator’ Adds ‘American Crime Story’ Star Sterling K. Brown By Jacob Hall/Jan. 20, 2017 10:30 am EST Sterling K. Brown is having a moment. He won a well-deserved Emmy for playing prosecutor Christopher Darden in American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, a tricky role that required him to radiate intelligence and charisma while also portraying a man who makes all kinds of poor choices. He immediately followed that with a lead role on This is Us, which has become a big hit for NBC....

The Legendary Mary Tyler Moore Has Passed Away By Jacob Hall/Jan. 25, 2017 2:34 pm EST Mary Tyler Moore, the Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated star of The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Ordinary People, has passed away at the age of 80. Moore belongs on the short list of performers whose impact on popular culture simply cannot be measured. For her, there is simply a “before Mary Tyler Moore” and an “after Mary Tyler Moore....

The Morning Watch: ‘Archer’ And ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Crossover, Young Dumbledore Auditions & More By Ethan Anderton/July 24, 2017 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, see Patton Oswalt, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza and more audition for the role of a young Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel before Jude Law got the role....

The Morning Watch: The Perfect Heists Of ‘Mission: Impossible’, One Of The Voices Of Movie Trailers & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 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....

Tom McCarthy Might Direct Disney’s ‘Timmy Failure’ Movie By Jack Giroux/April 26, 2017 6:30 am EST Tom McCarthy, the filmmaker behind Spotlight, Win Win, and The Cobbler may co-write and direct a film about an 11-year-old detective and his partner in crime, an imaginary polar bear. McCarthy is in talks to co-write and direct a live-action adaptation of Stephan Pastis’ series Timmy Failure, which began in 2013 with “Mistakes Were Made....

Vin Diesel And The Rest Of The ‘Xander Cage’ Crew Returning For ‘xXx 4’ By Jack Giroux/June 19, 2017 2:55 pm EST The man who can save the world and look dope while doing it may return. This very week meetings are going on about maybe picking up where xXx: Return Of Xander Cage left off. Director D.J. Caruso is currently working on the sequel, which the Return of Xander Cage’s ensemble cast will be back for....

Watch ‘Rakka,’ Director Neill Blomkamp’s First Oats Studios Short Film By Jacob Hall/June 15, 2017 1:00 pm EST Last month, director Neill Blomkamp officially revealed his Oats Studios project, a series of short films that would be released for free on YouTube and Steam (a wildly popular platform for PC games). The first of those shorts, titled Rakka, is online and you watch it right now. As you’d expect from a film directed by the man behind District 9, Elysium, and Chappie, this short is about as NSFW as you can get…unless your workplace is perfectly fine with harsh language and extreme violence....

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight trailer There’s a lot to unpack here. First and foremost is the fact that the usual animated Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy isn’t involved. Instead, Star Trek and Gerald’s Game actor Bruce Greenwood is providing the voice of the Dark Knight. The second thing to notice: the animation leaves something to be desired. Perhaps I’m being too picky here, but I long for the glory days of Batman: The Animated Series, where the animation was stylish and gorgeous to look at....

‘Beware The Slenderman’ Trailer Explores An Online Monster & The Gruesome Crime It Inspired By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 10, 2016 3:20 pm EST A couple years ago, two 12-year old girls from Wisconsin were arrested for allegedly stabbing a classmate 19 times. This crime is disturbing by itself, but making it even more unnerving was the fact that the two girls committed this unspeakable act of violence in order to impress an internet-created monster known as Slender Man....