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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Reveals A Young Newt Scamander Who Isn’t Eddie Redmayne By Ethan Anderton/July 12, 2018 11:00 am EST Hey, did you forget that there’s another installment of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them coming this fall? The second chapter of what is intended to be a five-part film franchise is called Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and it will introduce us to the youngest version of Albus Dumbledore we’ve seen yet (played by Jude Law)....

‘His Dark Materials’ Casts James McAvoy As Lord Asriel, Clarke Peters As Lyra’s Guardian By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 8, 2018 12:30 pm EST The His Dark Materials cast is becoming absolutely divine. The upcoming BBC series has just cast James McAvoy (Split) and Clarke Peters (The Wire, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) in key roles in Tom Hooper’s highly anticipated adaptation of Philip Pullman’s beloved YA novels. They’ll join an already stacked cast including Logan’s Dafne Keen and Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda....

‘In The Fade’ Director Fatih Akin To Helm Stephen King’s ‘Firestarter’ Remake For Universal And Blumhouse By Chris Evangelista/June 28, 2018 4:00 pm EST Sooner or later, the Stephen King adaptation bubble is going to burst. For now, though, studios are moving full steam ahead to cash-in on the King kraze. Variety is reporting that filmmaker Faith Akin will direct a remake of King’s Firestarter for Universal Pictures, Akiva Goldsman, and Blumhouse Productions....

‘Star Wars’ And Marvel Films Are Officially Moving Off Netflix, Onto Disney’s Streaming Service By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 7, 2017 10:00 am EST Star Wars and Marvel films will no longer be available on Netflix after the streaming deal ends in 2019, with Disney officially moving the properties to its own streaming service set to launch the same year. This concludes several weeks of discussion between Netflix and Disney after the studio announced plans to launch its own streaming service featuring original Disney films and shows....

‘The Greasy Strangler’ NSFW Trailer Will Intrigue Fans Of The Gross And Outré, Repulse Everyone Else By Angie Han/Aug. 30, 2016 6:30 am EST Swiss Army Man made a lot of headlines for sparking walkouts at Sundance, but as the generally positive reviews for that one showed, plenty of critics were won over by Daniel Radcliffe’s farting corpse. No, in my experience, the film at this year’s festival that really repulsed people was The Greasy Strangler....

By Ethan Anderton/March 28, 2018 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Three-Body Problem TV Series For those who don’t know, The Three-Body Problem is a sci-fi novel by Liu Cixin that was published in 2008. It’s the first in a series of novels (followed by The Dark Forest and Death’s End) that has come to be known as The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy....

Andy Serkis-Directed ‘Jungle Book’ Movie Retitled ‘Mowgli’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 20, 2017 7:30 am EST In the stare-down between two competing film adaptations of The Jungle Book, Warner Bros. was the one that had to blink. Warner Bros.’ Jungle Book film will be released two years after Disney’s 2016 live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book helmed by Jon Favreau, but it seems that in an effort to differentiate the two, the version directed by Andy Serkis has been retitled to Mowgli....

Before ‘Pitch Perfect 3’, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson & More Recap The Whole Franchise By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2017 6:00 am EST This weekend brings Pitch Perfect 3 to theaters, offering a different kind of musical opposite Hugh Jackman’s circus extravaganza in The Greatest Showman. So just in case you haven’t seen the first two installments of the a capella franchise, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Chrissie Fit, Hana Mae Lee, and Ester Dean took the time to run through both Pitch Perfect movies in under seven minutes....

By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2016 1:30 pm EST All we previously knew about the show’s story was that it would see Jack Ryan uncovering a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale. But now John Krasinski has revealed some more details about the show, including where inspiration for the story will come from and just what kind of series we’re looking at in terms of scale....

New ‘Logan’ Photo Offers A Closer Look At The Villain By Angie Han/Nov. 16, 2016 2:30 pm EST A recent photo from Logan showed us the mutant hero after a battle, and now another photo offers a better look at what exactly Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine will be doing battle against. Click through to get up close and personal with one of the Reavers — a team of cyborg criminals under the leadership of Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook)....

New ‘Wolverine 3’ Photo Shows How Much Professor X Has Aged By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 2016 12:15 pm EST This week has been chock full of updates regarding Wolverine 3. After Hugh Jackman promised a reveal regarding the X-Men spin-off sequel earlier this week, we got a teaser poster with an official title and some intriguing plot details. The film is called Logan, and it will see the mutant known as Wolverine aged, not healing as quickly or efficiently as he used to, and he’s drinking all the time....

Rumor: ‘Green Lantern’ Shortlist Includes Tom Cruise, Bradley Cooper, And Ryan Reynolds By Jack Giroux/Jan. 21, 2017 8:00 am EST Green Lantern likely won’t appear until 2019’s Justice League: Part Two. We still don’t know which version of the character we’ll see first in the DC Cinematic Universe, but producer Charles Roven has said the character’s (or characters’) role in part two is tentative. We may not even see Hal Jordan or Jon Stewart until Green Lantern Corps in 2020....

The Morning Watch: How ‘The Incredibles’ Should Have Ended, Jim Henson Exhibition Tour & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 17, 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, find out how Pixar’s The Incredibles should have ended....

VOTD: Marvel’s Kevin Feige & DC’s Geoff Johns Unite To Honor ‘Superman’ Director By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2017 6:00 am EST Today comic book movies are all the rage. In fact, there are so many that every now and then there’s a thinkpiece talking about the possibility of superhero fatigue, though the box office shows that seems to be more of a wish from certain critics rather than something that’s actually happening....

Who Are The Highest Paid Actors In Television? By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2016 5:30 am EST With television being in a new golden age, the stars of some of the biggest TV shows are getting paid quite a bit of money per episode. You might remember that it was a huge deal when the entire primary cast of Friends signed a deal for $1 million per episode in 2002. That’s far from the norm even in today’s new peak time for television, there are a few cast members from one of today’s hit TV shows making that much money per episode, making them the highest paid actors in TV....

‘Aquaman’ Cast Adds Randall Park During Reshoots By Chris Evangelista/April 13, 2018 7:30 am EST James Wan’s Aquaman is currently undergoing some reshoots, and in the process, the film has added a new cast member: Randall Park. Park will play Dr. Stephen Shin.Aquaman is due out this winter, but there’s plenty of time to fit in some reshoots. And that’s exactly what director James Wan is doing right now as he preps the latest DCEU film....

“Not Our Movie” You called Thanos an amoral philosopher, and I’m curious because I don’t think he’s literally talking to the Devil and you don’t need to confirm or deny that, but he’s not just going to be spouting his philosophy out. Can you say anything about who’s Thanos’ supporting cast? How did you crack that?Stephen McFeely: Yes, you needed to make sure that he wasn’t just all by himself. It also means that he didn’t have the same scene over and over again as he went collecting stones and knocked people around....

‘Deadpool 3’ Will Introduce X-Force By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2016 1:30 pm EST The X-Force are a team of superpowered mutants not unlike the X-Men, but with a darker, meaner, and more aggressive edge. We’ll have to wait and see which characters get chosen for the X-Force in the movie, but team members in the comics have included Psylocke (who was played by Olivia Munn in this summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse), Deadpool and Colossus (who were in Deadpool), and Cable and Domino (who’ll be in Deadpool 2)....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Will Use James Gunn’s Script, According To Sean Gunn By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2018 11:00 am EST James Gunn may no longer be directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but he’ll still play a part in how the film turns out. Brother Sean Gunn, who plays Kraglin and provides motion-capture for Rocket Raccoon, has confirmed rumors that Gunn’s Guardians 3 script will still be used in the film, whenever it gets made....

‘Justice League’ Soundtrack: Listen To A Track From Danny Elfman’s Score By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 26, 2017 9:00 am EST Danny Elfman created some of the most iconic superhero soundtracks of all time when he worked with Tim Burton on Batman and Batman Returns, as well as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. Now Elfman is back on the superhero beat with the score for the highly-anticipated Justice League, and you can now listen to a full pulse-pounding track from Danny Elfman’s Justice League soundtrack....