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Marvel Studios Begins Celebrating 10th Anniversary With A Massive Cast Class Photo By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 8, 2018 10:30 am EST You might remember some of the cast members of various films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe posting to social media last year about a celebratory photo shoot featuring just about everyone who has worked with Marvel Studios. Now, the time has come to find out what that’s all about. This year, Marvel Studios is celebrating their 10th anniversary, and to kick off the festivities, they’ve revealed a huge Marvel Studios class photo featuring dozens of actors and the filmmakers who turned them into comic book icons....

Neill Blomkamp Cancels His Crowdfunded Movie ‘Firebase’ [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2018 3:01 pm EST Update: That was fast. After planning to crowdfund his new movie Firebase, director Neill Blomkamp has decided to nix the whole idea. Blomkamp took to Twitter to announce that the idea was dead after not raising enough funds. I’m assuming Blomkamp will try something again, soon. The original story follows below. After a stint making movies the traditional way, Chappie director Neill Blomkamp wants to turn to crowdfunding to make his next film, Firebase....

New ‘Avatar’ Land Videos: Walk Through A Science Fiction Landscape By Jacob Hall/March 17, 2017 12:30 pm EST Oh, man. Theme park construction news grows up so fast. It seems like only yesterday we were scrutinizing blurry images from Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar. Now, full-blown videos walking us through this meticulously designed theme park land have arrived. I feel like I’m waving goodbye to a child as it drives to college, ready to finally complete its transformation from dirt pile to multi-million dollar tourist attraction....

New ‘Cars 3’ Clip Only Makes The Sentient Car Universe More Complicated By Ethan Anderton/June 1, 2017 2:30 pm EST With the release of Cars 3 just a couple weeks away, Disney is ramping up the marketing for the Pixar Animation’s new sequel, which will focus on Lightning McQueen as we’ve never seen him before: old and outdated. Cars 3 puts Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) in a tough spot as he’s faced with the challenge of being beaten by a brand new advanced race car on the scene named Jackson Storm (voiced by Armie Hammer)....

Rumor: Marvel Studios Is Developing An ‘Eternals’ Movie By Ben Pearson/April 14, 2018 11:00 am EST For years, Marvel Studios made waves by announcing its movies years in advance, building hype like no other studio and giving fans plenty of teases of what was coming. But Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 are almost certainly going to feature some major deaths that drastically change the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and since the studio wants to keep those deaths a secret for as long as possible, it’s been announcing future release dates but not telling the world what their upcoming film slate looks like....

Stephen King Poem ‘The Bone Church’ Is Becoming A TV Show By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2018 12:00 pm EST The blockbuster success of It has turned Stephen King adaptations into a hot commodity. There are a wealth of new King films in the works, as well as the Hulu series Castle Rock. Producers are hungry for King adaptations, but most genuinely good King works have already been adapted. No matter – there’s still several pieces written by the prolific writer to snap up....

The Crown Trailer: Netflix’s Epic Series Provides A Look Behind The Curtain At Queen Elizabeth II By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2016 10:45 am EST It seems like every week now, Netflix releases a new trailer for a new original television series that seems too good to be true. The level of talent and material they are producing is just unmatched, even by HBO at this point. Today’s trailer is for The Crown, a new original series which reunites Academy Award-nominated writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) with three-time Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and producer Andy Harries (The Queen)....

The CW’s Arrowverse Adds Dolph Lundgren & Lance Henriksen, Announces Gay Character & More [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 11, 2016 12:30 pm EST The CW held a panel with the producers of its four DC Comics superhero shows which comprise the Arrowverse — Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl – and started with a series of exciting announcements. Join us below for all the big news from the panel, including announcements about a gay character, big-name casting, character confirmations, and more....

The Hidden Text On The ‘Black Panther’ Suit Is Actually Really Sweet By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 27, 2018 12:30 pm EST Even six months after the release of Black Panther, fans are still uncovering all kinds of Easter eggs and hidden messages. The latest discovery hidden in this Marvel Studios movie will say nothing of the Marvel universe at large, but it is insanely cute. T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) got an upgrade in Black Panther, with a suit specially designed by his tech genius sister Shuri (Letita Wright) to absorb kinetic energy and do a cool glow-y thing....

The Marvel Symphonic Universe: Why Can’t You Remember A Single Marvel Score? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2016 12:45 pm EST The latest episode of Tony Zhou’s fantastic video essay series Every Frame a Painting takes a look at one of Marvel Studios’ biggest problems. While Marvel gets a lot of things right that others don’t, one aspect consistently criticised of their films is the lack of iconic theme music. But why hasn’t Marvel been able to produce a movie with a theme song that you can remember?...

Where Were The Knights Of Ren In ‘The Last Jedi’? By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 18, 2018 2:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a very expansive movie, full of multiple characters stretched across multiple storylines. But one set of characters who didn’t make an appearance were the Knights of Ren. These characters, teased in The Force Awakens, had been expected to appear in the highly anticipated sequel, but they were a no-show....

‘A Christmas Story: Live’ Songwriter On New Songs And Adding More Mom [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/Aug. 9, 2017 7:00 am EST “The telecast will start in a more contemporary place and will go back into the past, and back to a contemporary setting,” Pasek told reporters after the panel. “One of the songs we’re most excited about is a contemporary Christmas song. We’re really leaning into writing a contemporary Christmas song that we didn’t have permission to write for the Broadway show because we went right away back in time....

‘American Gods’ Cast Adds Three New Regulars For Season 2 By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2018 3:00 pm EST The American Gods cast is growing. Three new regulars have been added to the Neil Gaiman adaptation for season 2: Dean Winters, Devery Jacobs and Kahyun Kim. American Gods has undergone some changes in between seasons. Original showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green have departed, and Jesse Alexander, who has worked on Hannibal and Star Trek: Discovery, has been hired to take their place....

‘Early Man’ Trailer: Aardman Animations Takes Us Back To The Stone Age By Jacob Hall/March 16, 2017 6:30 am EST Aardman Animations may have entered the crowded CG animation world with films like Flushed Away and Arthur Christmas, but the creators of Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Wallace and Gromit will forever be known for their stop-motion movies. Their latest project, Early Man, looks to be very much in line with their most popular work, taking their instantly identifiable style and applying it to a tribe of none-too-sharp prehistoric people....

‘Fifty Shades Darker’ Honest Trailer: A Horrifying Reminder That Your Aunt Loves This Stuff By Ethan Anderton/May 10, 2017 5:00 am EST The phenomenon that was the Fifty Shades of Grey book series doesn’t seem to be faring quite as well as a film franchise, at least not with all the readers who touched themselves while reading this book written by a Twilight fan fiction writer. Though the first film was a massive success that pulled in over $571 million worldwide, the sequel Fifty Shades Darker made significantly less with just $378 million raked in at the global box office....

‘Gemini’ Trailer: Zoe Kravitz, Lola Kirke, John Cho Star In A Dreamy Neo-Noir By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 17, 2017 3:30 pm EST Combine the talents of rising indie star Lola Kirke, talented genre actress Zoe Kravitz, and the endlessly watchable John Cho, and you’ve already got a great set-up for a movie. Place them in a dark Los Angeles-set neo-noir, and well, you have one of the most intriguing indie films of the year....

‘Han Solo’ Stars Alden Ehrenreich & Donald Glover On Their History With ‘Star Wars,’ Auditions & Action Figures By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2016 10:30 am EST Even though we’re not going to see Han Solo’s own A Star Wars Story until the summer of 2018, plenty of buzz around the movie has been building thanks to the recent casting of Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian alongside Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo....

‘Jurassic World 3’ Won’t Feature Hybrid Dinosaurs By Chris Evangelista/May 7, 2018 3:30 pm EST Good news for people who hate hybrid dinosaurs: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will apparently be the last entry in the franchise to feature hybrid dinos. Director Colin Trevorrow says Jurassic World 3 will be hybrid dinosaur free. Are you sick of all the super-charged hybrid dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise? Jurassic World had the Indominus rex, and the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has the Indoraptor....

‘Mr. Mercedes’ Trailer: Stephen King Adaptation Will Be An AT&T Original Series…Seriously By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 13, 2017 9:30 am EST It seems like even cellular networks are getting into the TV streaming game. And surprisingly, AT&T looks like it has a pretty solid first offering. Stephen King’s hardboiled 2014 detective novel Mr. Mercedes will be adapted into an AT&T original series, with reputable names behind and in front of the camera, including Big Little Lies creator David E....

‘Nightwing’ Movie Added To DCEU Slate; ‘Lego Batman’ Director Chris McKay In Talks By Angie Han/Feb. 23, 2017 12:56 pm EST Dick Grayson will be following his famous mentor right into the DC Extended Universe. Warner Bros. is plotting a Nightwing movie, with Chris McKay in talks to direct. McKay actually has some very recent experience with the character: he last helmed The Lego Batman Movie, which prominently featured Dick Grayson (voiced by Michael Cera) as Batman’s overeager sidekick....