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Benedict Cumberbatch To Play A Con Man In ‘The Man In The Rockefeller Suit’ By Ben Pearson/April 13, 2017 4:00 pm EST This project has been kicking around Hollywood for a good while now. Back in 2011, when Seal’s book was first published, Crazy Heart helmer Scott Cooper was attached to direct it. In 2013, Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road) took over, and this film is still listed as “announced” on his IMDb page....

Cool Stuff: Funko’s Savage World ‘Thundercats’ Are Classic Beefcake Action Figures By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2018 11:00 am EST Last week, you might have been weirded out by Funko’s release of a certain set of action figures in their Savage World line-up that turned iconic slashers like Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees into post-apocalyptic, pulp fiction style action figures with some of the biggest muscles you’ve ever seen. The line is inspired by the classic Masters of the Universe figures from decades ago, and thankfully, a more appropriate brand name is getting the Savage World treatment for fans to collect....

Jeremy Renner Fractured Both His Arms While Filming New Line Comedy ‘Tag’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 8, 2017 10:00 am EST Hawkeye may or may not be sidelined (again) in Avengers: Infinity War, but it won’t be because Jeremy Renner injured himself during a stunt for the Marvel superhero film. Renner said Friday that he “broke his arms” on the set of the New Line comedy film Tag, which, like Infinity War, is currently filming in Atlanta....

Netflix’s ‘Dirty Money’ Trailer Takes On Greed And Corruption By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 10, 2018 11:30 am EST Corporate con artists and swindlers have a spotlight turned on them by Netflix’s new documentary series Dirty Money. Documentary filmmaking machine Alex Gibney and others helm six episodes that tackle corporate greed and corruption and the depressing reality that is the modern world as we know it. The exciting Dirty Money trailer awaits you below....

Netflix’s ‘Travelers’ Trailer: The Future Likes To Get Its Hands Dirty By Jack Giroux/Dec. 21, 2016 7:00 am EST Last week Netflix unveiled their new sci-fi series, The OA. This week, they’re giving their customers another sci-fi series, titled Travelers, a time travel show from the co-creator of Stargate SG-1 and creator of Stargate: Atlantis, Brad Wright. Wright’s new project stars Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) as an FBI special agent who leads a team of “travelers” from the future....

New ‘Da Vinci Code’ Sequel ‘Origin’ Will Hit Shelves In 2017 By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2016 1:00 pm EST With next month’s Inferno, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks will have adapted three of the four existing novels in Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series, which hit peak popularity 2003’s The Da Vinci Code. But lest you worry they’ll run out of material, Brown has another Robert Langdon book is on the way....

New ‘Justice League’ Aquaman Video Gives You A Crash Course On The Character By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 12, 2017 10:30 am EST In preparation for the upcoming Justice League, a new feature video highlights Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, giving you a quick history lesson of the character, his origins, and his powers. Watch the new Justice League Aquaman video below. As a character, Aquaman has often been the butt of a few good natured jokes....

Olivier Megaton Directing Keanu Reeves In NASCAR Movie ‘Rally Car’ By Jack Giroux/Feb. 11, 2017 10:00 am EST Keanu Reeves is going to play an American NASCAR driver down in the dumps. Almost a year and a half ago, the John Wick: Chapter Two star became interested in Rally, an action-comedy prominently set in China. Reeves’ character gets a second chance at greatness when he enters an international race across China....

Shane Black Is Writing A Reboot Of The 1960s ‘The Avengers’ TV Show By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 12, 2018 6:30 am EST Shane Black has worked with one kind of Avenger in Iron Man 3, but he may be setting his sights on a different Avengers team. The Nice Guys director, who is currently knee-deep in post-production on The Predator, has reportedly co-written a script for a TV reboot of the British 1960s spy series The Avengers....

Spider-Man Spin-Off ‘Silk’ In Development, Featuring A Korean-American Superheroine By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2018 1:40 pm EST We could soon be getting our first Korean-American superhero on the big screen. And not just that, our first female Korean-American superhero. Sony is reportedly developing a Silk movie, a new Spider-Man spin-off centered around the Marvel Comics superheroine Silk. Deadline reports that producer Amy Pascal is in early development on a movie adaptation of Silk, the Korean-American superheroine created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos....

The Real Johnny Depp Showed Up As Jack Sparrow On Disneyland’s ‘Pirates’ Ride By Ben Pearson/April 27, 2017 2:00 pm EST In 2006, when Disney parks began adding characters from the Pirates of the Caribbean films into the theme park attraction that inspired the successful film series, fans were impressed with the level of realism the Imagineers achieved. But even the coolest animatronics pale in comparison to the real thing, and attendees at Disneyland in Anaheim, California yesterday were surprised to discover actual Pirates star Johnny Depp incorporated into the ride in full Captain Jack Sparrow costume....

The Weekend Read: Every /Film Original From The Past Week By /Film Staff/March 24, 2017 6:00 pm EST If you’re looking for something to read over the weekend, we’ve got you covered. Here’s every review, editorial, list, feature, column, and rant published by the /Film staff and our team of freelancers over the past week. Josh Spiegel went deep on how the new Beauty and the Beast compares to the 1991 animated classic....

VOTD: Explore The Various Musical Tributes And Homages From ‘La La Land’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 27, 2017 6:00 am EST When the Academy Awards are presented on February 26 on ABC, we’ll see how many awards La La Land can take home out of the record-setting 14 nominations the film received earlier this week. If you haven’t seen the movie yet (it’s my favorite of 2016), it’s playing in theaters everywhere and you need to see it immediately....

VOTD: How ‘Deadpool 2’ Should Have Ended Involves The Perfect ‘Infinity War’ Crossover By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 8, 2018 6:00 am EST Normally superheroes movies take themselves seriously enough that they’re easy targets for cracking jokes from the people behind How It Should Have Ended. But when you’re dealing with a wise-cracking, fourth wall-breaking, self-aware character liker Deadpool, you’ve gotta raise the bar a little bit. Thankfully, even though the jokes don’t land as well as those in Deadpool 2, the imagined scenes that might have made things a little easier on all our characters keep it from being a dud....

Watch The First 15 Minutes Of ‘Dietland,’ Marti Noxon’s Feminist Revenge Fantasy Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 1, 2018 4:00 am EST Dietland, which follows an insecure and overweight ghostwriter for a New York fashion magazine who joins a vigilante feminist cabal, is sure to court more than a little controversy. But that’s what showrunner Marti Noxon is good at. The co-creator of the sharply feminist UnReal and the writer behind the polarizing sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Noxon has apparently done it again with the upcoming revenge fantasy perfectly timed to the #MeToo movement....

‘Allied’ Trailer: Brad Pitt’s New Movie Looks Like ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ As A World War II Drama By Angie Han/Sept. 20, 2016 4:40 pm EST Unless you’ve spent the entire day sleeping under a rock at the bottom of the ocean, you’ve probably heard that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are over. And unless you’ve also spent the past decade-plus sleeping under that same rock, you probably recall that rumors about that relationship first began around the release of Mr....

‘Aquaman’ Pushed Back Two Months, Will Go Head To Head With ‘Spider-Man’ By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2017 1:30 pm EST Warner Bros is shifting the release of James Wan’s Aquaman, pushing the DC comics adaptation back two months to Christmas 2018. Find out moire details about the new Aquaman release date, after the jump. Aquaman was originally scheduled to hit theaters on October 5, 2018, but instead now will be hitting theaters a couple of months later on December 21, 2018, a date formerly occupied by Avatar 2....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Honest Trailer: There’s A Lot Of Movie Packed Into This Movie By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 15, 2018 6:00 am EST Now that Avengers: Infinity War has come home for you to watch over and over again, it’s time to crack some jokes at the expense of what will likely be the most successful movie of 2018, even if it didn’t make quite as much in the United States as Black Panther did on his first solo outing....

‘Bad Moms’ Spin-Off ‘Bad Dads’ Opens In Theaters Next Summer By Jack Giroux/Oct. 10, 2016 3:31 pm EST Bad Moms was a breath of fresh air this past summer. Co-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore made an original comedy which, instead of following around a bunch of normal man-children, starred women having fun and getting up to a little debauchery. But part of what was appealing about Bad Moms may not apply to the hit film’s spin-off, Bad Dads, which STX Entertainment has scheduled to open in theaters next summer....

‘Brawl In Cell Block 99’ Trailer: Vince Vaughn Goes To Prison By Jack Giroux/Aug. 30, 2017 6:30 am EST Vince Vaughn looks like a force to be reckoned with and just an absolute beast in Brawl in Cell Block 99. Vaughn is a big guy with a towering presence, so he looks more than suitable to play the role of a former boxer trying to survive prison in writer and director S....