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Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs?! By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2017 7:30 am EST Netflix has announced that they have plans to replace user star ratings on the company’s popular streaming service. The personal star ratings allowed the service to personalize the movie and television selections for Netflix users. So what will come in place of Netflix’s star rating system? Let’s talk about it below. In place of the star system will be a simpler Pandora-like thumbs ups and thumbs down rating system....

Netflix’s ‘Maniac’ Will Bring Together Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, And Cary Fukunaga This Summer By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2017 11:30 am EST Director Cary Fukunaga may have left HBO’s True Detective after its acclaimed first season, but he’s definitely not done with television. About a year ago, we heard he was getting the pieces in place for Maniac, a dark comedy to star Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, and now it’s moving full speed ahead with a start date and everything....

Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ Casts Helena Bonham Carter As Princess Margaret By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 5, 2018 10:30 am EST If the critical raves surrounding the first two seasons of The Crown weren’t enough to get you to watch, maybe the casting of Helena Bonham Carter will. The Ocean’s 8 actress is in talks to take over the role of Princess Margaret, which was originated by Vanessa Kirby in the lavish Netflix series....

New ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Images And Story Details Tease The Other Marvel Sequel Of 2018 By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2018 7:30 am EST There’s a huge Marvel movie coming out soon. A Marvel film untold millions have been clamoring for. A Marvel film that will change everything. I’m talking, of course, about Ant-Man and the Wasp. Some new Ant-Man and the Wasp images have just crawled their way online, along with details about the super-sequel....

New ‘Power Rangers’ Poster Hides Zords In The Mist, New Photo Shows Off More Rita Repulsa By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2016 4:30 pm EST Even though we got quite a lengthy teaser trailer for the latest big screen iteration of Power Rangers, we still haven’t seen the titular teenage superheroes in action on screen yet. So far only still images of the Power Rangers in their signature suits have been provided online, and we’ve seen even less of their massive robot companions known as Zords, but now we get a somewhat better glimpse at the latter....

New ‘Terminator’ Sequel Adds ‘Hunger Games’ Writer Billy Ray, New Character Details Emerge By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 18, 2017 12:00 pm EST Against all odds, the Terminator franchise is being kept alive thanks to producer James Cameron. The crippled sci-fi film series now has a home at 20th Century Fox, and Cameron is hoping to spark the beginning of a new Terminator trilogy, complete with original stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton reprising their roles as the T-800 killing machine and Sarah Connor respectively....

By Angie Han/Feb. 10, 2017 6:00 am EST Set in the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles, Too Old to Die Young will “explore various characters’ existential journeys from being killers to becoming samurai in the city of angels.” I couldn’t tell you exactly what that means, and yet it sounds exactly like something that’d be up Refn’s alley. I mean, what else would you expect from a guy who’s made three films about “a mythological creature that has a mysterious past but cannot relate to reality because he’s heightened and pure fetish,” played by three completely different actors in otherwise unrelated storylines?...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’ Gets A Full Synopsis, First Trailer Coming Soon By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2017 12:00 pm EST The end of this year will mark what is supposed to be the final performance from Daniel Day-Lewis in a film that reteams him with There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson (seen together above). As we recently found out, Phantom Thread is the name of the film, and now we have an official synopsis to provide us with some insight into the story....

Rogue One Bits: New Toys Revealed And Reviewed, ‘Rogue One’ VR Game, And A ‘Star Wars’ Fan’s Dying Wish By Jacob Hall/Aug. 22, 2016 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Let’s kick things off with these very cool fan-made posters from artist Orlando Arocena, who decided to mash up Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with Stanley Kubrick’s classic Vietnam War drama Full Metal Jacket....

Sony Picks Up Jason Reitman’s Upcoming Film, Neon Acquires ‘Border’ By Ben Pearson/May 13, 2018 8:00 am EST Juno and Up in the Air director Jason Reitman’s new movie Tully hit theaters only about a week ago, but the director has already locked down worldwide distribution for his next movie, a political drama called The Front Runner that stars Hugh Jackman. Meanwhile, the relatively new distribution company Neon – which has distributed movies like Ingrid Goes West, Revenge, and I, Tonya, – has acquired a “troll love story” called Borders after its premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival....

Universal And Sony Also Interested In Buying Fox, Could Conceivably Combine X-Men And Spider-Man Universes By Ben Pearson/Nov. 20, 2017 1:30 pm EST But hey, while Hollywood as we know it enters into a possibly unrecoverable downward spiral, at least we might get to see some unexpected comic book movie crossovers! X-Men and Spider-Man in the same movie, anyone? Okay, now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about some of the comic-book movie results that could come from these potential deals....

Videos Of The Day: J.J. Abrams And Paul Rudd Dish Out ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Ant-Man’ Details On HBO’s ‘Night Of Too Many Stars’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 20, 2017 9:00 am EST HBO’s Night of Too Many Stars, a live benefit that supports programs that aid people with autism, lived up to its name, using its star-studded line-up to tease spoilers for the highly anticipated Star Wars: Episode IX and Ant-Man and the Wasp....

‘5th Passenger’ Trailer Assembles Fan-Favorite ‘Star Trek’ Actors Doug Jones, Marina Sirtis, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 6, 2018 5:30 am EST Star Trek fans, this one is for you. 5th Passenger is a crowd-funded film from Epic Pictures that assembles a who’s who of Star Trek fan-favorites, from Star Trek Discovery’s Doug Jones, to Deep Space Nine’s Armin Shimerman, to The Next Generation’s Marina Sirtis. They boldly go deep into this space thriller about a crew that must survive a vicious life form....

‘Atlanta’ Season 2 Teaser: Get Ready To Put The FX Show On Heavy Rotation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2018 10:00 am EST Donald Glover is continuing the pattern of releasing enigmatic, moody teasers for the second season of his hit FX show Atlanta, otherwise known as the Atlanta Robbin’ Season. The teasers remain as cryptic about the plot as the creators are, with Glover describing the season as an examination of the time of year between Christmas and New Years when people have packages stolen from their front steps....

‘Deadpool’ Animated Series Loses FX And Donald Glover Over Creative Differences By Ethan Anderton/March 24, 2018 6:53 pm EST News of the Deadpool animated series canceled comes from Variety, who confirmed that FX, Marvel and Donald Glover have all parted ways on the project. However, this doesn’t appear to create a rift between FX and Marvel because they will still collaborate on the FX series Legion from Noah Hawley. FX reportedly said “creative differences” were the reason for the shake-up, but it’s not clear where those differences came from....

‘Doctor Who’ Season 11 Trailer: Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Wants To Be Your New Best Friend [Comic-Con 2018] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 19, 2018 2:00 pm EST “All of this is new to me. New faces, new worlds, new times. So if I asked really, really nicely, would you be my new best friends?” That’s the question Jodie Whittaker poses to her three new companions played by Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, and Tosin Cole in the first official Doctor Who season 11 trailer, but it’s also a question directed at us longtime Doctor Who fans who are always a little wary whenever the Doctor regenerates and a new actor takes on the beloved role of the time-traveling alien....

By Jacob Hall/June 11, 2018 10:20 am EST If you’re going to make a new Green Lantern movie, you might as well get the guy responsible for the definitive comic book run of the character to steer the ship. Earlier today, it was announced that Geoff Johns was stepping down from his position as president and chief creative officer of DC Entertainment. But the popular and influential comic writer wasn’t being cast out into the void....

‘I, Tonya’ Release Date Proves Margot Robbie Is Going For Oscar Gold By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 22, 2017 3:00 pm EST Watch your kneecaps – I, Tonya is going for the gold. I’m talking about Oscar gold, that is, as the official release date for Craig Gillespie’s satirical look at the fallen figure skater’s life is proof-positive that the filmmakers are hoping for some award season love. See the details of the I, Tonya release date below....

‘Incredibles 2’ Review: A Superior Pixar Sequel That Can’t Quite Match The First One By Josh Spiegel/June 11, 2018 9:00 am EST Now, we have Incredibles 2, whose writer/director Brad Bird is only a few years removed from the live-action flop Tomorrowland. So, it’s not wrong to wonder if the new adventures of the superheroic Parr family would feel creatively uninspired. Happily, while Incredibles 2 doesn’t reach the same heights as the 2004 original, it’s more intelligent than other recent sequels....

‘Mowgli’ Trailer And Featurette: Andy Serkis’s Long-Delayed Version Of ‘The Jungle Book’ Is Here By Ben Pearson/May 21, 2018 11:38 am EST Andy Serkis is best known for his work in front of the camera in franchises like The Lord of the Rings and Planet of the Apes, but now Serkis is stepping behind the camera to direct his version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. This one’s called Mowgli, and it has a much more tactile feel to it than Jon Favreau’s largely CG Disney version from 2016....