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‘Deep Blue Sea’ Honest Trailer: The Sharks Are Smart, But The Movie Is Dumb By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2018 6:00 am EST With The Meg chomping into theaters this weekend, you can’t help but think back on all the other shark movies that come along every few years, each trying to put their own creative spin on what Steven Spielberg already perfected with Jaws. And in the case of Deep Blue Sea, what we got were intelligent sharks that weren’t going to be duped by chum and barrels....

‘Don’t Knock Twice’ Trailer: Katee Sackhoff Versus An Evil Witch By Jacob Hall/Jan. 6, 2017 9:00 am EST Follow me through this inter-dimensional gateway. Trust me. It’ll only take a few minutes. Welcome to Universe 6418, one of infinite dimensions in the sprawling multiverse that makes up creation. No, no. We’re not here to see who’s in the White House. You don’t want to know who’s in there. We’re just here to take a peek at the posters at the local movie theater....

‘Mary Shelley’ Trailer: Meet The Woman Who Created Frankenstein By Chris Evangelista/April 12, 2018 4:30 pm EST The story of the writer of Frankenstein gets the biopic treatment in Mary Shelley. Elle Fanning plays the young author as she struggles with hardships and relationships, all while penning her masterpiece. Watch the Mary Shelley trailer below. Uh-oh, this looks…not great. The story of Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein, daughter of political philosopher William Godwin, and philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, is worth telling....

‘Masters Of The Universe’ Hunts For A New Director As David S. Goyer Exits By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 9, 2018 7:30 am EST Looks like Masters of the Universe will need a new master. Sony Pictures is on the hunt for a new Masters of the Universe director after talks with David S. Goyer fell through. Goyer will stay on as executive producer and screenwriter. Goyer had been in talks with Sony to direct Masters of the Universe since December, but was forced to drop out of the running due to other commitments, Variety reports....

‘Ready Player One’ Gets The Drew Struzan-Inspired Poster It Needs By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 13, 2018 10:13 am EST Every new piece of marketing from Ready Player One has felt like a game of “spot the Easter egg.” The newest poster for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s sci-fi book is an Easter egg unto itself. The latest Ready Player One one-sheet pays perfect homage to some of the most iconic 1980s movie posters from the legendary illustrator Drew Struzan....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 2 First Look: Welcome To The Enterprise By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 16, 2018 7:00 am EST Get ready to see some familiar haunts and maybe even some familiar faces in Star Trek: Discovery season 2. The first official season 2 image has been released, and it hints at the long-awaited collision between past and present Star Trek storylines. Star Trek Discovery Season 2 Image That’s right, that’s Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) on board the USS Enterprise, the ship that every Trekkie fondly remembers as the prime ship of Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew that led the original Star Trek series and the recent reboot films....

‘The Defenders’ Teaser Unites Marvel’s Street-Level Heroes, Release Date Confirmed By Ethan Anderton/April 4, 2017 7:30 am EST Now that Iron Fist is available to watch on Netflix, we have shows for all The Defenders available to stream. However, all we’ve seen of the street-level heroes together are images of Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones) that were released earlier this year....

‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Logo Reveals The Sequel’s Punny Title By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2018 11:00 am EST It’s been four years since The LEGO Movie hit theaters and surprised the hell out of everyone by being one of the most original and entertaining animated movies of the year. After the film’s success, a sequel was almost immediately announced, but since this is an animated movie we’re talking about, it’s taken some time to get it off the ground....

‘WarGames’ Reboot Teaser: The ’80s Hacker Movie Gets Upgraded As An Edgy Interactive Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 6, 2017 2:00 pm EST If you ever watched the 1983 sci-fi hacker movie starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy and thought, “I could totally beat that computer,” then you’re in luck. A WarGames reboot is coming in 2018, as an “experimental interactive series” in which the viewer can finally answer the AI’s iconic taunt: “Shall we play a game?...

‘Wonder Woman’ Director Patty Jenkins Shares Inspiring Reaction To Her Superhero Film By Ben Pearson/June 13, 2017 1:00 pm EST Jenkins has earned bragging rights because of the film’s critical reception and stellar box office returns, but the director relayed a Wonder Woman reaction to fans on Twitter yesterday that means more to her than either of those things. Check this out: My producer just sent me this… ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! This makes every hard day worth it....

‘Wonder Woman 2’ Giving Patty Jenkins The Biggest Payday For A Female Director By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 18, 2017 7:00 am EST Now, it’s been officially confirmed that director Patty Jenkins is finalizing a deal with Warner Bros. to return to the director’s chair for the sequel to the most successful DC Extended Universe film yet. And it may make her the highest-paid female director in Hollywood. According to Deadline, Jenkins and Warner Bros....

‘Zoom’ Trailer: Alison Pill Stars In An Even More Meta Take On ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2016 10:00 am EST There have been countless movies of all kinds featuring stories within stories. Adaptation, The Princess Bride, Synecdoche, New York and even Tropic Thunder all have layers of storytelling within them. Now a new film from director Pedro Morelli that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year takes that to the next level with one of the most meta narratives I’ve ever seen....

Chris Evans And Walton Goggins Join Action Ensembles, Adam Devine And Liam Hemsworth Romance Rebel Wilson By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 12, 2017 1:00 pm EST In today’s edition of “casting news pieces that aren’t quite big enough to get their own story but are certainly more interesting when lumped together”: Chris Evans leads a rescue mission in a film based on a remarkable true story; Adam Devine, Liam Hemsworth, and Rebel Wilson star in a rom-com together; The third Maze Runner is in production and the cure is more Walton Goggins....

The Fellowship of the Ring Vinyl Soundtrack Track List Disc: 1A Prologue: One Ring To Rule Them All The Shire Bag End Very Old Friends Flaming Red Hair Disc: 1B Farewell Dear Bilbo Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe A Conspiracy Unmasked Three Is Company Disc: 2A The Passing Of The Elves Saruman The White A Shortcut To Mushrooms Strider The Nazgûl Disc: 2B Weathertop The Caverns Of Isengard Give Up The Halfling Orthanc Rivendell The Sword That Was Broken Disc: 3A The Council Of Elrond Assembles The Great Eye Gilraen’s Memorial The Pass Of Caradhras Disc: 3B The Doors Of Durin Moria Gollum Balin’s Tomb Disc: 4A Khazad-dûm Caras Galadhon Disc: 4B The Mirror Of Galadriel The Fighting Uruk-hai Disc: 5A Parth Galen The Departure Of Boromir Disc: 5B The Road Goes Ever On…Pt....

Cool Stuff: Tom Whalen & Dave Perillo’s ‘Alphabitz’ Show Knows The Pop Culture ABCs By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2017 6:00 am EST Two of our favorite pop culture artists working today are undoubtedly Tom Whalen and Dave Perillo. We’ve featured their work when they’ve had shows together, and we’ve even featured them when they tackle two different animated shows for adults. Now they’re back for another team show, this time delivering the ABCs of pop culture in a new show called Alphabitz....

David Gordon Green & Danny McBride’s ‘Halloween’ Will Ignore Almost All The Sequels By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2017 2:00 pm EST A resurgence of the Halloween franchise has been expected for years now. The reboot franchise from Rob Zombie died off, but recently there was talk of the horror series coming back at Blumhouse Productions with the original film’s director John Carpenter executive producing. Oculus director Mike Flanagan was rumored to be at the helm, but that changed this past week....

DreamWorks Shuts Down Tim Minchin’s Animated Musical ‘Larrikins’ By Jack Giroux/March 9, 2017 4:00 pm EST For the last four years, Australian comedian, singer, actor, director and composer Tim Minchin has been developing the DreamWorks animation musical, Larrikins. After a couple of years of hard work and hiring Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie, Ben Mendelsohn, Naomi Watts, and Rose Byrne to provide voices for the movie, DreamWorks has shut the project down....

Exclusive ‘Winchester’ Clip Introduces You To The Recreated Winchester Mystery House By Chris Evangelista/April 13, 2018 8:30 am EST Winchester, the horror film starring Helen Mirren as heiress Sarah Winchester, arrives on digital and Blu-ray very soon. In anticipation of the home video release, we have an exclusive Winchester clip that takes you behind-the-scenes of the haunted house film. You probably could’ve guessed this, but most of Winchester was shot on sets, not in the actual Winchester Mystery House....

Move Over, Porgs: Baby Nifflers Are Coming To ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2018 11:00 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi introduced us to one of the most adorable creatures in pop culture with the little island-dwelling birds known as porgs. But when there’s a franchise with the title Fantastic Beasts, the battle for cutest fantasy creature isn’t an easy one, and that’s especially true with the inclusion of baby Nifflers in this fall’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald....

Superhero Bits: Civil War Airport Brawl Deleted Scene, Flashpoint Teaser, Young Justice & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2016 4:30 pm EST Are there talks with Netflix for a third season of Young Justice yet? Want to see Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston being wonderful by visiting a children’s hospital in Australia? Want to see more of the Captain America: Civil War brawl? Would you sign a petition for ABC to release the Marvel’s Most Wanted pilot?...