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Oscar Isaac Isn’t Afraid To Get Political About ‘Star Wars’ Resistance Fighters By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 31, 2018 7:30 am EST Oscar Isaac, great actor and all-around handsome fellow, is out there promoting Operation Finale. But if you thought he’d get through this press tour without answering some Star Wars: Episode 9 questions, think again. While the actor doesn’t offer any concrete details on the next Star Wars movie, he does have some interesting thoughts on the Resistance and their methods....

Steven Spielberg Vows To Never Digitally Alter His Movies Again By Ben Pearson/March 22, 2018 5:30 am EST As the nostalgia-laden Ready Player One nears its theatrical debut, director Steven Spielberg is fielding questions about looking back on his own movies. And you can rest easy, film purists: after that debacle surrounding the re-release of E.T., The Beard has promised never to alter any of his movies again. Read the full Steven Spielberg digital alteration statement below....

Tom Cruise Could Have Played Iron Man, But He’s Not Interested In Playing A Superhero By Jacob Hall/Oct. 19, 2016 12:00 pm EST Before it arrived in 2008 to massive box office and reshaped the blockbuster landscape in ways that we’re still figuring out, Iron Man endured nearly two decades of development hell. Universal initially acquired the film rights to the character in 1990, but the film failed to find footing for years, with directors, writers, and actors cycling through the project every few years....

By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2017 11:00 am EST Over the last week, two new Star Wars movies were announced, but not by Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm. One is a spoof from the filmmakers that brought us the Scary Movie series; the other is a comedy about fans waiting in line for the next Star Wars movie in front of the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre, directed by former Leave It to Beaver star Tony Dow....

VOTD: ‘Sesame Street’ Characters Answer Frequently Asked Questions About The Show By Ethan Anderton/March 2, 2017 5:00 am EST Sesame Street has been a childhood staple that spans decades and generations of families. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that there are plenty of questions that people have about the show. In fact, it seems like people often go to Google with questions about Sesame Street, and Wired wanted to give the residents of the staple locale a chance to answer some of them....

‘Aftermath’ Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger Demands An Apology In The Darren Aronofsky-Produced Thriller By Jack Giroux/Feb. 7, 2017 2:30 pm EST Arnold Schwarzenegger has been doing some good work these past few years not enough people are seeing. The projects he’s been in – Escape Plan, Maggie, and The Last Stand – have problems, but he’s rarely one of them. He gives one of his most natural performances to date in Maggie, but the movie, like some of Schwarzenegger’s other recent projects, was overlooked....

‘Big Hero 6’ Animated Series Bringing Back Most Of The Movie’s Voice Cast By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2016 9:40 am EST Way back in the spring, we learned that Disney XD would bring back the superhero team Big Hero 6 in their own animated series. At the time, all we knew was that it would pick up shortly after the events of the first film and the series would be executive produced by Kim Possible creators Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley along with another Kim Possible vet, Nicholas Filippi, who’ll serve as supervising director....

‘Coco’ Trailer: Pixar’s Next Original Movie Reveals Its First Footage By Jacob Hall/March 15, 2017 6:01 am EST Set in a small Mexican village and starring a voice cast of actors of Latino descent, Coco is a film that sets out to explore a corner of the world and a culture that generally doesn’t often get a chance to be showcased in big-budget animated movies. Recognizable actors like Benjamin Bratt, Gael García Bernal and Renée Victor lent their voices to the film, with young newcomer Anthony Gonzalez voicing the main character, Miguel....

‘Deadpool’ Can Stay R-Rated At Disney; Other R-Rated Marvel Movies Are Possible By Jacob Hall/Dec. 14, 2017 10:30 am EST Disney CEO Bob Iger addressed the red-suited loudmouth in the room, acknowledging that yeah, Deadpool is a Disney movie now and yeah, this could mean more R-rated superhero movies from the studio in the future. In a call with investors (via The Hollywood Reporter), Iger suggested the idea of a “Marvel-R” label for future superhero movies that are made for adults-only audiences:...

‘El Camino Christmas’ Trailer: Netflix Gets In The Spirit Of The Season With A Holiday Hostage Comedy By Ben Pearson/Nov. 22, 2017 3:30 pm EST Leave it to Netflix to drop a trailer for a movie I’ve never heard of that’s coming out in just over two weeks. While Thanksgiving is upon us now, the streaming service is pushing ahead and getting into the holiday spirit by releasing a trailer for a film called El Camino Christmas....

‘Juliet, Naked’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke And Rose Byrne Have A Rockstar Romance By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 30, 2018 11:00 am EST The summer of Ethan Hawke continues with Juliet, Naked. Just three months after he played a morose preacher in First Reformed, Hawke is remind us of how much range he has by stepping back into his romantic-comedy leading man shoes. Hawke stars as an aging rock star who romances Rose Byrne, a woman who finds herself at a crossroads after spontaneously publishing a scathing music review....

‘Making A Murderer’ Sequel ‘Convicting A Murderer’ Announced By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 22, 2018 2:30 pm EST Making a Murderer became a cultural phenomenon when it hit Netflix in 2015. Audiences obsessed over the true crime series, desperate to know the truth about what happened to Teresa Halbach, and if Steven Avery was truly guilty of the crime. Now the Steven Avery story will continue with Convicting a Murderer, a Making a Murderer sequel series that will present a whole new side of the case....

‘Rampage’ Villain Malin Akerman Wants To Use Monsters For Money [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 7, 2018 4:00 pm EST Actress Malin Akerman was on a Television Critics Association panel for the upcoming third season of her Showtime series Billions (seen above). After the panel, /Film was able to ask about her role in the upcoming video game adaptation Rampage, which Akerman filmed in between seasons of Billions. She was happy to detail her character’s villainous plans, which is in stark contrast to Dwayne Johnson’s character in the film....

‘The Room’ Is Screening Nationwide To Prepare For ‘The Disaster Artist’ – And We Have Tickets To Give Away By Jacob Hall/Nov. 1, 2017 11:00 am EST Since first baffling audiences in 2003, The Room has solidified its place in the pantheon of bad movies – it’s the kind of disaster that makes you wonder if writer/director Tommy Wiseau is an alien who has never seen human beings interact before. Naturally, the story of how this movie got made is just as crazy as the movie itself and it’s told in A24’s excellent The Disaster Artist, which hits theaters in December....

‘The Terror’ Trailer: If The Cold Doesn’t Kill The Royal Navy, Something Else Will By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2018 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Most scary stories see teens or unsuspecting families terrorized by slashers, ghosts, demons or any number of horror tropes. But in AMC’s new series The Terror, it’s the Royal Navy in the 1840s who ends up at the center of a horrific tale that finds two ships dealing with not just the frigid cold of the Arctic, but also an unseen terror that hunts them in the night....

‘Westworld’ Season 2 Will Have A Few Super-Sized Episodes By Ethan Anderton/April 18, 2018 9:30 am EST It’s been over a year since we’ve seen new episodes of the hit HBO sci-fi series Westworld, and the cable network knows that fans are hungry for as much as they can get in the second season premiering this weekend. That’s why there will be a handful of Westworld season 2 episodes that will run longer than the usual one hour runtime....

‘Wonderstruck’ Review: Todd Haynes’ Latest Is One Half Of A Great Movie [New York Film Festival] By Karen Han/Oct. 16, 2017 6:00 am EST The film is adapted from Brian Selznick’s novel by the same name, and is relatively dense in a way that makes its literary origin obvious. There are two stories, set fifty years apart. In 1927, a deaf girl named Rose (Millicent Simmonds, who is notably also deaf) runs away from home in pursuit of actress, Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore)....

ABC Offers Updates On ‘The Jetsons’ And ‘Greatest American Hero’ Revivals [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 8, 2018 2:30 pm EST “We’re actually developing a reboot of The Greatest American Hero that stars an Indian American woman,” Dungey said. “That comes to us from Nahnatchka Khan.” The original series, which ran from 1981-1983, starred William Katt as a teacher who gains super powers from an alien suit. His lack of ability and finesse led to comedy....

Apple’s Original TV Series Strategy “We’re not after quantity, we’re after quality,” Cue said. That’s not much, but from the outside looking in, it actually appears to be more than just a cliche and genuinely representative of Apple’s approach. Instead of hurriedly throwing a couple of high-profile projects onto a platform and figuring it out from there, Apple is taking its time and making sure they get things right. Cue compared Apple’s approach to how Pixar takes its time making sure every aspect of their animated films has been carefully considered....

Cool Stuff: Are You Worthy Enough To Wield Thor’s Flying Mjolnir Drone? By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 14, 2017 6:00 am EST Thor’s trust hammer Mjolnir may have met its end thanks to the return of Hela the goddess of death in Thor: Ragnarok (in theaters everywhere now), but that’s not stopping one talented engineer from trying to wield the power of the godly weapon. Usually Thor’s hammer is only able to be wielded by those who are worthy....