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VOTD: Everything You Need To Know About All The Jobs In Movie Credits By Ethan Anderton/June 28, 2017 6:00 am EST Nowadays, audiences like to sit through the credits to movies because there’s a decent chance there will be some kind of scene that plays in the middle of them or at the end when all the names have rolled. But there’s a reason all those names are listed, and it’s because they all deserve recognition for the hard work they put into the movie....

Westworld Episode 5 Photos: “Contrapasso” By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2016 2:30 pm EST HBO has revealed a batch of photos for Westworld episode 5, which is entitled “Contrapasso.” Earlier this week, the premium cable network released a trailer which teased an epic meeting between two of the show’s biggest characters. What do the new photos tell us about the upcoming episode? Hit the jump and take a look at the Westworld episode 5 photos....

‘Bad Times At The El Royale’ Trailer: Shirtless Chris Hemsworth Has Never Seemed So Sinister… By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2018 12:30 pm EST After making a splashy directorial debut with the subversive horror film The Cabin in the Woods, not much had been heard from Drew Goddard. The longtime Joss Whedon collaborator dabbled in TV (Daredevil), and wrote some Oscar-nominated screenplays (The Martian), but he didn’t yet give fans what they wanted: his second feature film....

‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Blu-Ray Is Finally Coming In 2018 By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 10, 2017 6:30 am EST The huge success of Tim Burton’s Batman films helped bring the Caped Crusader back into the mainstream after the character had begun to fade from the forefront of the public view. Until Burton’s films, most people’s memories of Batman were courtesy of the campy, colorful Adam West TV series. Whatever their flaws, Burton’s dark, gothic movies changed that....

‘Black Mirror’ Season 3 Featurettes Tease More Technological And Social Media Horror Tales By Jacob Hall/Oct. 12, 2016 1:00 pm EST Black Mirror returns to Netflix on October 21 with its third season and I couldn’t be more excited and horrified. Charlie Brooker’s technology-centric anthology series is the closest thing we have to a modern version of The Twilight Zone, a show that blends science fiction and horror and satire and tragedy into a delicious, mortifying, and addictive stew....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 11, 2017 4:30 pm EST Here’s the official synopsis: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel)....

‘Daddy’s Home 2’ Trailer: This Fall, It’s Every Father For Himself By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 5, 2017 4:00 pm EST A couple years ago, Paramount Pictures tried to corner the market on family comedy during the holiday season by releasing Daddy’s Home in theaters just a couple weeks before Christmas. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg going head-to-head was enough to rake in over $150 million at the domestic box office, so the studio fast-tracked the sequel for release this fall, and they’re really leaning into the holiday comedy angle hard this time....

‘Hellboy’ Cast Adds Sophie Okonedo, Brian Gleeson; Scott Haze In Talks For ‘Venom’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 20, 2017 10:00 am EST While superhero movie casting news can be flooded with Marvel and DC, let’s not forget the heroes fighting crime on the fringe. Lionsgate’s Hellboy and Sony’s Venom continue fleshing out their impressive cast lists, with the former casting three key roles, and the latter keeping their newest cast member in a haze of mystery....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Reveals New Image And Plot Details By Jacob Hall/Dec. 5, 2017 10:19 am EST You’re already on an island full of rampaging dinosaurs. How do things get any worse? Simple: you add a volcano to the equation. That’s the basic gist of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the sequel to 2015’s Jurassic World. A new image from the film has been unveiled, showing off the new threats surrounding the heroes/dino snacks in the film – how do you run from hungry prehistoric beasts and dodge molten lava?...

‘Pope Francis – A Man Of His Word’ Trailer: The Pope Gets His Own Documentary By Chris Evangelista/March 14, 2018 2:00 pm EST Not to be outdone by that randy Young Pope fellow, Pope Francis is taking to the screen in a new documentary from director Wim Wenders. Wenders was given unprecedented access into the life of Francis, a figure who has often been at odds with his predecessors. Watch the Pope Francis – A Man of His Word trailer below....

‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Confirmed To Span Across All Eras Of ‘Star Wars’ By Ethan Anderton/April 12, 2017 5:00 am EST This weekend will bring a slew of major Star Wars updates thanks to Star Wars Celebration happening down in Orlando, Florida. We’ve already made our predictions about the announcements that will be made but haven’t been confirmed just yet, but there’s at least one thing that we know for sure will be revealed this weekend....

‘Suburbicon’ Trailer: Matt Damon And Julianne Moore Get Their Hands Dirty By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2017 8:00 am EST No one does black comedy better than the Coen brothers, and with their frequent leading man George Clooney behind the camera, it seems like Suburbicon will bring a whole new twist onto a classic Coen tale. A new international trailer for the Coen brothers-penned, Clooney-directed film about Suburbia Gone Wrong has arrived and it features star Matt Damon getting his hands — and face — bloodier than ever....

‘Succession’ Trailer: The HBO Dysfunctional Family Drama Sets A June Premiere Date By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 27, 2018 9:30 am EST Good news, Adam McKay fans. His new HBO drama series about a dysfunctional family who curses a lot will fill all your The Big Short needs. McKay seems to have found himself a niche with high-powered corporate drama, and he continues that with Succession, which follows a cutthroat, dysfunctional American family that happens to own the biggest media company in the world....

‘The Belko Experiment’ Teaser: James Gunn Brings A Battle Royale To The Office By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2016 12:00 pm EST While many are looking forward to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, before that we’ll get a chance to see another film that director James Gunn worked on as a writer before getting behind the camera of the Marvel Studios sequel. The Belko Experiment is scripted by James Gunn but directed by Wolf Creek helmer Greg McLean, and it takes the intensity of The Hunger Games or Battle Royale and throws it into an every day office....

‘The Rain’ Trailer: Netflix’s New Post-Apocalyptic Original YA Series By Chris Evangelista/April 24, 2018 4:00 pm EST Here’s something you don’t see every day: a new Netflix original series. The Rain is a new post-apocalyptic drama from the streaming service, set in a world where a rain-carried virus wipes out almost all humans in Scandinavia. Watch the full The Rain trailer below. I want to know: have you ever seen The Rain?...

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Extended Scene: Jeff Goldblum Goes Full Goldblum By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 16, 2018 7:30 am EST There was a lot to love about Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok, but one of the best elements of the film was Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster. Waititi is smart enough to understand all you need for cinematic gold is to point a camera at Goldblum and let him run wild. In a new Thor Ragnarok extended scene, Jeff Goldblum goes Full Goldblum™ as the Grandmaster, and it’s an absolute delight....

Beyond Fest 2017 Line-Up, Featuring In-Person Appearances From Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Edgar Wright, And More By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2017 12:00 pm EST Beyond Fest 2017 runs from September 29 to October 10 at the famous Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Here’s the poster for the event, created by La Boca: And here’s a goofy video that announces the highlights of this year’s festival: I love this statement from one of the festival’s co-founders that was included in the press release:...

Cool Stuff: Help Fund Joey Spiotto’s Storytime, A Book Of Cute Pop Culture Art By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2016 11:30 am EST We’ve written about Joey Spiotto’s artwork many times over the past five years, from Gallery1988’s Crazy4Cult art shows to the Star Wars Art Awakens gallery show, Joey’s tabletop book Alien Next Door to a series of solo exhibitions focusing of Joebot’s Little Golden Book inspired pop culture covers. Now Joey is trying to collect his famous children’s book covers into a full-color 135-page artbook, and he needs your help to do so....

Cool Stuff: New Indiana Jones Funko POP Vinyl Coming To Disney Parks By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 2016 5:30 am EST If you like to collect some of Funko’s endless array of POP! Vinyls, then you might know that there is an exclusive Indiana Jones figure available at Disney Parks stores (at the actual park) while supplies last. It’s modeled after his appearance in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with the figure holding one of the Sankara stones and a machete....

Cool Stuff: Stan Lee Gets His Own Marvel Cameo Funko POP Figures By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 23, 2017 6:00 am EST It’s hard to keep up with all the new Funko POP figures being released every month. There’s always a new movie or TV show getting a new line of the deformed but adorable collectible figures, and now one man will see multiple versions of himself turned into a new line of Funko POP figures from the Marvel Cinematic Universe...