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Superhero Bits: New ‘Ninja Batman’ Trailer, Natalie Portman Open To Returning To MCU & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 13, 2018 5:00 pm EST Is one of the stars of Arrow auditioning for the Nightwing movie? Is Natalie Portman still interested in reprising the role of Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Want to see a new trailer for Ninja Batman? Want to watch yesterday’s live Black Panther Q&A hosted by IMAX?...

This ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Poster Has To Be The Worst Poster Of The Year By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 2017 12:30 pm EST Not too long ago, the marketing campaign for Spider-Man: Homecoming made a bold entry into the running for worst movie poster of the year. But then Transformers: The Last Knight came along and said, “Hold my beer.” A new poster for Transformers: The Last Knight emerged over the weekend, and it’s quite the Photoshop disaster....

Watch All Six Episodes Of ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot’ Web Series By Angie Han/Dec. 14, 2016 10:00 am EST Last week’s “The Laws of Inferno Dynamics” was the midseason finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., meaning the show is officially done for 2016. But on its way out, it’s left us with one final parting gift. As announced last week, ABC has launched Slingshot, a spinoff web series centered around Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, played by Natalia Cordova-Buckley....

By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2017 2:00 pm EST It’s being presented as a long-lost, hard-boiled Romanian cop show from the 1980s that’s recently been found and restored by Channing Tatum, who executive produces the show and has dubbed over the lead actor’s voice with his own. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nick Offerman, Jenny Slate, Mahershala Ali, and tons of other great actors all contribute voiceovers, too. Check out the explosive first trailer below....

‘Creed 2’ Gets A New Director In Steven Caple Jr., Will Hit Theaters In 2018 By Jacob Hall/Dec. 11, 2017 1:00 pm EST A few months ago, Sylvester Stallone revealed on his Instagram page that he would be directing Creed 2, the follow-up to Ryan Coogler’s acclaimed Rocky spin-off from 2015. The silence that followed was deafening and now it seems like we know why – he’s not directing it. In fact, a brand new director whose name and work you probably don’t know is stepping behind the camera....

‘David Blaine: Beyond Magic’ Trailer Featuring Emma Stone, Margot Robbie And More By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2016 5:30 am EST David Blaine is a magician best known for making magic cool again in the late 1990’s with his street magic specials. His detour into crazy stunts that seemingly tested his body’s limits was not quite as interesting as his personal slight of hand wizardry, and in recent years he has television appearances have become rarer....

‘Frozen 2’ Will Cover An Important, Unexplored Aspect Of Elsa And Anna By Ben Pearson/March 2, 2018 10:30 am EST 2013’s Frozen became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, so it’s fair to say that expectations will be pretty high when Frozen 2 comes out next year. But even before the original became a worldwide smash hit, one of the film’s directors initially didn’t think she’d be doing a sequel at all....

‘Fugue’ Trailer: A New Thriller From The Director Of ‘The Lure’ By Chris Evangelista/May 17, 2018 5:30 am EST Agnieszka Smoczynska, director of the strange, brilliant cannibal mermaid musical The Lure, has a new film: Fugue. This thriller focuses on a woman with amnesia who would be perfectly happy to never remember her old life. Watch the Fugue trailer below. Fugue Trailer It’s hard to tell what’s going on here based on this trailer, so here’s a synopsis to help....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Box Office Tracking Indicates Another Dino-Sized Hit By Chris Evangelista/June 20, 2018 10:30 am EST The Jurassic franchise will continue to roar at the box office when Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens in the U.S. this weekend. The blockbuster sequel is tracking for a strong opening weekend…although not quite as strong as monster-hit Jurassic World. When Jurassic World opened in 2015, it surprised many by raking in a whopping $208....

‘Maniac’ Trailer: Cary Fukunaga’s Netflix Series Send Emma Stone And Jonah Hill Into A Trippy Multi-Mindverse By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 6, 2018 9:00 am EST From the mind of True Detective season 1 director Cary Fukunaga comes a new mind-bending series starring former Superbad co-stars. Emma Stone and Jonah Hill reunite in a Netflix limited sci-fi series that is (literally) worlds away from the 2007 raunchy comedy that helped launch both Oscar darlings’ careers....

‘Marvel’s Cloak And Dagger’ Sneak Peek: Love At First Pickpocket By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 19, 2018 7:30 am EST It’s a classic meet-cute: Girl spills beer on boy, girl pickpockets boy, girl accidentally blasts boy with a ray of light that activates boy’s own dark matter powers. Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger is Freeform’s first comic book series, and the network formerly known as ABC Family is leaning heavily into what it knows best: angsty teen drama....

‘Moana’ Trailer: Disney’s Next Animated Adventure Sets Sail With Dwayne Johnson & Auli’i Cravalho By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2016 6:18 am EST Disney’s next new animated adventure is preparing to set sail, and to help us all get ready for the journey they’ve released a brand-new full-length trailer. Moana stars Auli’i Cravalho as a young Polynesian princess who sets out on a daring voyage to save her people. Also along for the ride are her rooster Heihei (Alan Tudyk) and the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson)....

‘Moonlight’ Director Barry Jenkins Finally Got To Give His Best Picture Acceptance Speech By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2018 5:30 am EST It usually feels like a miracle when an Oscar winner gives a short and sweet acceptance speech. Hell, long Oscar acceptance speeches have become such a staple that 2018 Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel even created a whole new category for shortest acceptance speech. (Congratulations Mark Bridges.) But there was one speech that we wish we could have heard more of: Barry Jenkins Best Picture speech that the director would have given after Moonlight’s astonishing win at the 2017 Oscars....

‘Pitch Perfect 3’ Recruits ‘Step Up: All In’ Director Trish Sie By Angie Han/Sept. 1, 2016 3:30 pm EST The Barden Bellas have found a new leader. Trish Sie has just been confirmed to direct Pitch Perfect 3, three months after Elizabeth Banks, who’d directed Pitch Perfect 2, stepped down from the helming gig. Sie’s last feature was 2014’s Step Up: All In, but she might be even better known for her amazing music videos with OK Go including “Here It Goes Again” and “Upside Down & Inside Out....

‘Sorry To Bother You’ Featurette Introduces Audiences To Eclectic Filmmaker Boots Riley By Ethan Anderton/July 3, 2018 6:30 am EST Though the summer blockbuster season is chock full of big studio tentpoles full of explosions, jokes, superheroes, car chases and more, it’s also full of some lower key indie releases that you should be going out of your way to see. One of those movies is a wild, insane comedy that we already caught on the film festival circuit, and it’s time for you to meet the director responsible for it....

‘The Emoji Movie’ Is Officially The Worst-Reviewed Movie Of 2017 By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2017 3:30 pm EST It’s a result that shouldn’t surprise anyone: Sony Pictures Animation’s The Emoji Movie, which is in theaters today, is officially the worst-reviewed wide-release film of the year so far. While it earned the rare distinction of having a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes earlier this morning, it’s since been given a single “fresh” review, which has bumped it up to 3%....

‘The Equalizer 2’ Trailer: Denzel Washington Is The Most Badass Lyft Driver Around By Ethan Anderton/June 25, 2018 7:30 am EST Thanks to Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, and Incredibles 2 superheroes have dominated the summer box office so far. But when July rolls around, the vigilantes and spies will have their day. Tom Cruise is coming back as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Denzel Washington will also be back in the franchise that is becoming his own Mission: Impossible series....

‘The Post’ Trailer: Steven Spielberg Goes To Bat For A Free Press By Ben Pearson/Nov. 8, 2017 4:23 am EST There aren’t many filmmakers who could attach themselves to a movie in March, lock down a cast headlined by the likes of Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, start shooting in May, and have the film locked and ready for awards season that very same year. But Steven Spielberg isn’t your average director, and that’s exactly what he did with The Post, his new film about the controversial publication of the Pentagon Papers back in the 1970s....

‘The Predator’ Reshoots Included References To Other ‘Predator’ Films By Ben Pearson/July 7, 2018 12:00 pm EST Warning: possible spoilers ahead for The Predator. AvPGalaxy (via ScreenRant), a fan site that’s been covering these movies for years with a pretty reliable track record, has sources that have provided some new updates about what was changed during The Predator reshoots. They say that hybrid alien creatures and “friendly” Predators have been removed from the movie entirely, but apparently there’s a Predator dog that is still in the film....

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Story Rumor Confirmed As Production Moves To United Kingdom By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2016 8:30 am EST Even though Transformers: The Last Knight has been in production for a while now, we’re still very much in the dark when it comes to the story of the latest franchise sequel directed by Michael Bay. We’ll be able to fill in some gaps when the embargo from our set visit a little while ago is up (it keeps getting pushed back for the time being), but in the meantime, a major story rumor about the film appears to be confirmed with production moving to the United Kingdom....