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‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Finds Its Roman Polanski With Polish Actor Rafal Zawierucha By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 28, 2018 9:30 am EST Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has found its Roman Polanski. Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha will play the infamous filmmaker, whose wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson’s cult followers in 1969. Also joining Zawierucha in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie are Danny Strong and Sydney Sweeney, once again expanding the ever-growing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood cast....

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Tracking For $130 Million Opening Weekend By Angie Han/Nov. 22, 2016 2:00 pm EST In many ways, Rogue One is different from all the other Star Wars movies. It’s the first spinoff, centered on a bunch of characters we’ve never heard of before and may never hear about again. It’s the first without an opening crawl and the first without a John Williams score. It’s described as a “darker” affair, more akin to a war drama than a lively space adventure....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Lines Up Two New Head Writers By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2016 12:00 pm EST Earlier this week, Saturday Night Live made some personnel changes by confirming that six-year cast members Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam would not be returning to fulfill the last year of their standard seven-year contract. In addition, featured player Jon Rudnitsky, who just joined last season, was also not being asked to return. Now there’s another change in the ranks at SNL this time regarding the position of head writer....

The Hate U Give Clip ‘The Hate U Give’ Release Date Moved Up, Watch A New Clip And Featurette By Ben Pearson/Sept. 11, 2018 1:30 pm EST The Hate U Give Clip The Hate U Give Featurette This looks like a powerful adaptation of author Angie Thomas’s best-seller, and considering the book was such a powerhouse, it’ll be interesting to see if A) the movie is any good, and B) if the book’s success will translate into impressive box office numbers....

‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ Trailer: LEGO Ninjas, LEGO Dragons And A Real Cat [Comic-Con 2017] By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2017 11:00 am EST Everyone who enjoyed The LEGO Movie saw the animated building brick world become even bigger with The LEGO Batman Movie earlier this year. Now it will expand into a totally different arena with yet another LEGO branded adventure. The LEGO Ninjago Movie takes one of the building brick company’s most popular toylines, one that already has its own animated series on TV, and brings the action to the big screen with a completely new story and an all-star comedy cast....

‘The Ritual’ Trailer: Just Stop Going Into The Woods By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2018 2:00 pm EST Folks, can we all agree to stop going into the woods? Nothing good comes of it – especially in horror movies. Take The Ritual, for example. This new horror movie, premiering on Netflix next month, follows a group of friends who venture into the woods and almost immediately regret it. Watch The Ritual trailer below....

By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 22, 2018 8:00 am EST The Top Gun 2 cast continues to fill out by adding a whole slew of fresh-faced youngsters to star along old man Tom Cruise. Cruise returns for the sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, but it’s clear from this recent casting that the film is going to be focused on a much younger generation. Various publications are reporting some young whippersnappers are taking the highway to the danger zone to join the Top Gun: Maverick cast....

‘Vice Principals’ Season 2 Trailer: Revenge Is In Session By Jacob Hall/July 6, 2017 12:30 pm EST HBO’s Vice Principals is a brilliant comedy gem just waiting to be discovered by an audience that can appreciate it. Jody Hill and Danny McBride’s evil, pitch-black and surprisingly soulful comedy series didn’t leave much of an impression on pop culture at large when it debuted last year and that’s a shame. This feels like the culmination of their work together, taking what they learned on The Foot-Fist Way and Eastbound & Down and polishing it to perfection....

Bryan Singer Will Be The Credited Director On ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2018 10:30 am EST Could it be that there was some contention as to whose name should go on the billing after original director Bryan Singer left partway through production and was replaced by Dexter Fletcher? Perhaps at the time — but now those issues are resolved. Singer will reportedly retain his title as the director of Bohemian Rhapsody....

Cool Stuff: Sphero Turns Lightning McQueen Into The Ultimate Interactive Racing Toy By Ethan Anderton/May 30, 2017 5:00 am EST If you haven’t heard the name Sphero before, they’re the company that came out with the frequently in-demand, app-controlled, interactive toy version of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens droid BB-8. The high-priced item was a popular Christmas gift that flew off the shelves, and it even received a cool update not too long ago that allows users to control the droid like they’re using the Force....

First Look: Hailee Steinfeld’s ‘Bumblebee’ Character Is Pure 1980s Rock By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 7, 2017 12:00 pm EST Production is now underway on the next installment of the Transformers, but it’s going to be much different from the movies we’ve been seeing from director Michael Bay for the past decade. After launching in 2007, the Transformers film franchise has grown to be a convoluted mess of too many stories interspersed with huge, explosive action sequences....

Henry Cavill Exits Superman Role As Warner Bros. Shakes Up DC Universe [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 12, 2018 7:46 am EST Henry Cavill is parting ways with Warner Bros. after negotiations for him to make a cameo appearance in Shazam! fell through, according to The Hollywood Reporter. After contract talks between Cavill’s WME reps and Warners broke down, talks eventually spiraled into Cavill leaving the role for good. Now, the studio is planning to bench any potential Superman appearances in future DC films, on account of the upcoming Supergirl movie....

How Does The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Runtime Compare With Other Superhero Movies? By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 23, 2017 6:30 am EST “We’re really gonna be able to jack up our prices if we’re two-time galaxy savers.” Like their prices, it looks like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will be jacking up their runtime, too. With less than two months to go before it hits theaters, the sequel to the runaway 2014 Marvel hit revealed its official runtime — the latest piece of new info after those new stills from the other day and a sneak peek into the visual effects behind Kurt Russell’s character, Ego the Living Planet....

Jane Fonda Says The Modern Workplace Is Worse Than In ‘Nine To Five’ And The Remake Will Address This [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/July 25, 2018 1:30 pm EST Jane Fonda was on stage for the Television Critics Association for the HBO airing of the documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts. When a journalist asked her about the reboot of her ’80s classic Nine to Five, which is currently in development, Fonda had some strong words to say about corporate America and how the new film would be able to address it....

Jimmi Simpson Discusses Possible Return For ‘Westworld’ Season 2 By Jacob Hall/March 8, 2017 3:30 pm EST Westworld was one of the things I loved most 2016, a remarkable, weird, and so very smart science fiction series that managed to be about running a futuristic robot theme park and the evolving nature of interactive entertainment and philosophizing about man’s inhumanity to man. We know that a second season is on the way, but we also know that it won’t arrive for some time....

Must-Watch: 14-Minute Video About ‘Game Of Thrones’ Epic Battle On Last Night’s Episode By Ben Pearson/Aug. 7, 2017 3:55 pm EST Last night’s Game of Thrones episode, “The Spoils of War,” took fans by surprise and unleashed another of the show’s trademark battle sequences, but with an important addition: this time, there was a freaking dragon involved. HBO has released an in-depth video featurette that dives into the impressive way the show’s production team managed to accomplish the impossible, and how they broke a television record in the process....

New ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Photos Show Off The Rebel Team And Director Krennic By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 2016 12:00 pm EST There’s about a month left until this year’s Force Friday unveils a bunch of new details about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on merchandise shelves all over the world. On that day, new action figures, books, shirts and tons more will give us a better look at some of the characters, vehicles, settings and more from the first Star Wars spin-off from Lucasfilm....

Rian Johnson Reveals Name Of New ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Planet By Ben Pearson/April 14, 2017 12:30 pm EST Tatooine. Geonosis. Hoth. Alderaan. Naboo. Coruscant. The names of the Star Wars planets have become so embedded in fans’ collective consciousness that I’d guess many of us could name more attributes about these fictional locations than we could about actual countries on Earth. Now Rian Johnson, the writer/director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has revealed a new name for fans to commit to memory....

The Morning Watch: Rotten Tomatoes Scores Explained, ‘Baby Driver’ Easter Eggs & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 12, 2017 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, a new video explains why the Rotten Tomatoes scores that are thrown around don’t really mean what you might think they do....

Watch Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Destiny 2 Trailer That’s Nathan Fillion as Cayde-6, and the stunning visuals you see are courtesy of Ken Seng, the cinematographer from Deadpool. And just like the first Destiny commercial used Led Zeppelin’s famous “Immigrant Song,” this advertisement uses a signature Beastie Boys song to drive the commercial with the perfect blend of humor and awesome visuals. We reached out to Jordan Vogt-Roberts to talk about the challenge of visualizing the vibrant world of Destiny in a live-action environment and creating something that feels like a true short film rather than just your average advertisement trying to sell the masses a new video game....