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Cool Stuff: Mondo’s Gorgeous ‘Anomalisa’ Pop-Up Vinyl Soundtrack By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2017 5:00 am EST Mondo has been knocking it out of the park lately when it comes to their line-up of exclusive, collectible vinyl soundtrack releases. In the past few weeks alone, they’ve featured outstanding vinyl releases for the soundtracks to Atomic Blonde and Hot Fuzz, but now they’ve got a vinyl release with one of the coolest album covers and gatefolds that I’ve ever seen....

Cool Stuff: Scratch-Off Movie Poster Tracks Which 100 Essential Movies You’ve Seen By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2017 6:00 am EST Pop Chart Lab has created a scratch-off movie poster that allows you to track how many of the “100 Essential Films” you’ve seen on the poster, ranging from Taxi Driver to The Matrix and a bunch of classics in between. Once you’ve seen a movie, just scratch it off like a lottery ticket to reveal the hidden image....

Dave Bautista Is Working On Valiant’s ‘Eternal Warrior’ Movie By Ben Pearson/Aug. 1, 2017 12:30 pm EST Valiant Entertainment owns the largest independent superhero universe in comics, and they’ve been attempting to get a Valiant Cinematic Universe off the ground for years. But after a handful of stops and starts, it seems like they’re finally gaining some momentum: Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) was recently pegged to play the comic assassin Bloodshot and now Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) is developing an Eternal Warrior movie about an immortal character who must protect the Geomancer, an oracle born with the power to speak for the Earth itself....

FX Orders ‘Charles And Diana’ For Ryan Murphy’s ‘Feud’ Season Two By Jack Giroux/March 1, 2017 8:00 am EST Before season one of Feud even debuts, FX has already ordered a second season. The first season of the new Ryan Murphy anthology series depicts the famous quarrels between actresses Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon). Season two of the series is leaving Hollywood and heading overseas. Murphy will next tell Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana’s story in Feud: Charles and Diana....

Shailene Woodley Isn’t Interested In That ‘Ascendant’ TV Movie, Thank You Very Much By Jacob Hall/Sept. 9, 2016 10:00 am EST The future of the Divergent film series remains uncertain. In February, director Robert Schwentke stepped away from the franchise after helming The Divergent Series: Insurgent and The Divergent Series: Allegiant (he was replaced by Toland Krieger). A month later, Allegiant hit theaters and was a box office bomb, grossing half of what the previous film had made at the domestic box office....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man Can Beat Superman, Hulk’s Glamorous Bed In Thor: Ragnarok & More By Ethan Anderton/May 26, 2017 5:00 pm EST Could Wally West end up being the lead speedster in the fourth season of The Flash? How will Ant-Man be linked to Captain Marvel besides the obvious Marvel Cinematic Universe connection? Want to see what Hulk’s bed looks like in Thor: Ragnarok? How did Stephen Amell do on the American Ninja Warrior course?...

T.J. Miller Won’t Be In ‘Deadpool 3’; Jeffrey Tambor Will Be In ‘Arrested Development’ Season 5 By Chris Evangelista/May 5, 2018 10:00 am EST Here’s an update on future projects involving controversial figures. While he’s still appearing in the upcoming Deadpool 2, T.J. Miller will not be in future Deadpool films. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Tambor will still be involved in Arrested Development season 5. T.J. Miller Won’t Be In Future Deadpool Movies...

The Third Installment Of The ‘Kickboxer’ Reboot Trilogy Has A Title And Start Date By Angie Han/Sept. 1, 2016 4:30 pm EST This weekend’s Kickboxer: Vengeance reboots the martial arts franchise that began in 1989, with Alain Moussi replacing Jean-Claude Van Damme as the new Kurt Sloane and Van Damme himself stepping into the role of Kurt’s mentor Durand. The film is meant to kickstart a new trilogy, and the producers are wasting no time....

The Weird Reason Johnny Depp Nixed A Female Villain For ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ By Ben Pearson/May 19, 2017 4:30 pm EST Yes, there’s somehow a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie coming out later this month. But somehow, despite the fact that it’s been six years since the fourth film was released and On Stranger Tides seems to have left absolutely no cultural footprint whatsoever, the upcoming Dead Men Tell No Tales is apparently surprisingly good....

UPDATED: Is This Our First Look At Alden Ehrenreich In ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’? By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2017 12:00 pm EST We’ve heard plenty about next year’s new Star Wars spin-off focusing on Han Solo. After a troubled production saw directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller let go from the project, only to be replaced by director Ron Howard, the film wrapped back in October and was finally given the official title of Solo: A Star Wars Story....

Will ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Box Office Top ‘The Force Awakens’ Opening Weekend? By Ethan Anderton/April 25, 2018 12:30 pm EST Quietly debuting in theaters this weekend is a little movie called Avengers: Infinity War. Thanks to a grassroots effort from several independent financiers and even some crowdfunding, the little comic book movie that could is getting a wide release and it could make a million dollars! Who’d have thunk it?...

‘American Assassin’ First Look: Dylan O’Brien Is Mitch Rapp By Jack Giroux/Sept. 12, 2016 4:00 pm EST Actor Dylan O’Brien still has work to finish on The Maze Runner series, but he recently attached himself to another potential franchise. Based on Vince Flynn’s best-selling book series, O’Brien will play CIA black ops recruit Mitch Rapp. Director Michael Cuesta’s (Kill the Messenger) thriller also stars Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch, and Sanaa Lathan....

‘Death Kiss’ Trailer: A Charles Bronson Lookalike Blasts Through Criminals By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2018 5:00 pm EST Legendary film star Charles Bronson starred in five Death Wish movies over the course of his career, but the actor passed away in 2003. There have been dozens of knock-off films since then (and even a remake starring Bruce Willis earlier this year), but none like Death Kiss, a new low-budget affair that appears to resurrect Bronson from the grave for another round of revenge against the scum of the streets....

‘Isle Of Dogs’ Featurette: See The Work That Goes Into Creating These Very Good Dogs By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2018 12:00 pm EST Wes Anderson’s stop-motion Isle of Dogs wasn’t easy to make. A whole team of animators worked obsessively to bring the detailed, animated world of the film to life. A new Isle of Dogs featurette takes you behind the scenes of Anderson’s latest, and shows the meticulous work that went into creating these very good dogs....

‘Jurassic World 2’ Photo Teaser: The Egg Comes Before The Dinosaur By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2017 9:00 am EST Just like how you need to break a few eggs to make an omelet, Colin Trevorrow knows you need to smuggle out a few dinosaur eggs to make a sequel. In a cryptic new photo from Jurassic World 2, Trevorrow — who yields the director’s chair this time around to A Monster Calls’ J....

‘Kevin Smith: Silent But Deadly’ Teaser: Kevin Smith’s Stand-Up Show From The Night Of His Heart Attack Is Coming To Showtime By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 30, 2018 2:00 pm EST Two months ago, we almost lost a comedy great. But Kevin Smith is recovering from his brush with death and better than ever, adopting a plant-based diet and losing 32 pounds since his massive heart attack in February. But before we move forward, Showtime wants us to look back — at the night that Smith suffered his near-fatal heart attack....

‘Mary Queen Of Scots’ First Look: Saoirse Ronan And Margot Robbie Get Royal By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 12, 2017 12:30 pm EST Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, two actresses at the top of their game right now, are teaming for the lavish historical costume drama Mary Queen of Scots. The upcoming film from director Josie Rourke finds Ronan playing the Queen of Scots herself, while Robbie plays her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I....

‘Sense8’ Season 2 Trailer: Netflix’s Strange Science Fiction Series Is Back By Jacob Hall/April 10, 2017 9:30 am EST I’m a huge fan of just about everything Lana and Lilly Wachowski have touched (yes, even the Matrix sequels), but I never got around to watching Sense8, the science fiction series they co-created with J. Michael Straczynski for Netflix. However, the arrival of the trailer for the second season may be the kick in the butt I need to get around to this one....

‘Stronger’ Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Plays An Inspirational Boston Bombing Victim By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2017 12:30 pm EST Peter Berg’s Patriots Day earned solid reviews when it hit theaters last year, but the way that movie invented a single character who appeared at all of the major turning points of the 2013 Boston bombing struck me as disingenuous. Now, director David Gordon Green is here with Stronger, a film that tells the true story of one of the bombing’s survivors, Jeff Bauman, played here by Jake Gyllenhaal....

‘The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson Talks About His Original Pitch To Kathleen Kennedy By Ben Pearson/Jan. 24, 2018 2:30 pm EST Back in 2014, before the title had even been revealed for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Looper and Brick director Rian Johnson got a call from Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy asking if he was interested in making that film’s sequel. So what did Johnson say that convinced her to hand him the keys to one of the world’s largest movie franchises?...