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‘Running With The Devil’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage And Laurence Fishburne Are Running Drugs By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2019 10:00 am EST It feels like there are almost as many movies about drug trafficking as there are drugs on the streets, and one more is getting ready to hit theaters and VOD. But Running with the Devil is a little more special than your average crime thriller, because it stars Nicolas Cage and Laurence Fisburne as two pieces of a big drug trafficking organization that is on the verge of being torn apart....

‘Sator’ Review: A Creepy, Dread-Filled Movie About The Horrors Of The Human Mind [Fantasia Film Festival 2019] By Matt Donato/Aug. 5, 2019 12:00 pm EST Those of you cast under Hagazussa’s spell and blown away by The Wind, prepare yourselves for Jordan Graham’s Sator. Think Krisha meets The Blair Witch with some “gang-gang supernatural cultishness” stirred in. Graham writes, edits, gaffs, scores, produces – he does everything short of acting, no exaggeration....

‘Servant’ Teaser Touts Praise For The First Season From Guillermo Del Toro And Stephen King, Announces Season 2 Premiere Date By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 22, 2020 9:30 am EST M. Night Shyamalan brought some terror to the small screen last year with the Apple TV+ series Servant. Now the series will kick off 2021 with some frights as the second season has been slated to premiere in January. A new teaser for Servant season 2 has revealed the premiere date, and even though there’s no real glimpse of what’s to come in the new episodes, it does tout some of the praise from horror masters Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’: J.J. Abrams Explains If Force Abilities Must Come From A Character’s Bloodline By Ben Pearson/Dec. 9, 2019 5:30 pm EST Despite J.J. Abrams’ recent comments praising Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, I still find myself wondering if he plans to tweak anything Johnson established in that film with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. But one thing he definitely will not be changing is the idea that you don’t have to come from a specific bloodline to be able to tap into the Force....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3: Pre-Production Has Already Begun, And Jon Favreau Has Been Writing Scripts “For A While” Already By Ben Pearson/April 21, 2020 2:29 pm EST The second season of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian doesn’t arrive on the streaming platform for another six months, but a new report says that pre-production on a third season is already underway. Get the details below. The Mandalorian Season 3 According to Variety, sources close to the production have revealed that creator/showrunner Jon Favreau has been “writing season 3 for a while,” and the art department, led by Lucasfilm vice president and executive creative director Doug Chiang, has spent “the past few weeks” creating concepts for season 3....

‘The Wonderful World Of Mickey Mouse’ Animated Shorts Arrive On Disney+ In November By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 14, 2020 4:00 pm EST Mickey Mouse, everyone’s favorite rodent, is headed to Disney+ with the new animated shorts series The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse. The series features an art style that recalls the old school, 1920s Mickey films, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse comes from the team behind the Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts that first premiered on the Disney Channel in 2013, and inspired the new attraction, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, the first ride-through attraction in Disney history starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, now open at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 30, 2020 11:00 am EST But despite having a concept for a spin-off, Jenkins hopes to avoid helming the spin-off. “I’m not going to direct it, hopefully,” Jenkins said. “I’m going to try really hard not to. It’s not going to be easy. But [WW84 co-writer and former DC Entertainment President and Chief Creative Officer] Geoff Johns and I came up with the story, and we sold the pitch, and we’re going to get it going....

All Of ‘Parasite’ Director Bong Joon-Ho’s Movies Will Play In Theaters For Upcoming Retrospective In L.A. By Ben Pearson/Oct. 18, 2019 10:00 am EST Acclaimed Korean director Bong Joon-ho will be appearing in Los Angeles later this month for an event called “A Genre of One: The Cinema of Bong Joon-ho,” a complete feature retrospective which will see all of his movies playing on the big screen and Bong himself participating in moderated discussions and Q&As about them afterwards....

Chippendales Murder Movie From ‘I, Tonya’ Director Will Star Dev Patel By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 14, 2020 8:30 am EST I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie has a new shocking true story in the works. Gillespie will helm a pic based on the Chippendales murders, in which Somen “Steve” Banerjee, the co-founder of the male exotic dance club, ordered several of his ex-dancers killed. Dev Patel is attached to star as Banerjee, with a script by Craig Williams....

Christian Bale To Play ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Villain Gorr The God Butcher By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 10, 2020 5:51 pm EST Christian Bale has lived long enough to see himself become the villain — and a Marvel villain at that. The Ford v Ferrari actor has been confirmed to be playing the villain in Thor: Love and Thunder, Taika Waititi’s follow-up to Thor: Ragnarok. Bale will be playing Gorr the Butcher, an alien creature who sets out on a mission to kill as many gods as he can....

Cool Stuff: ‘Harry Potter’ Hogwarts House Crests Are The Next LEGO Art Sets By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2020 6:00 am EST Over the summer, new LEGO Art sets were revealed that allow fans to build pop culture portraits of characters like Iron Man and Darth Vader. Now the next wave of LEGO Art building sets has been revealed, and it’s inspired by the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Coming in January, there will be Harry Potter LEGO Art sets that will let fans build tile mosaics of all for of the houses in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....

Daisy Ridley Dives Into Disney+ Drama ‘The Young Woman And The Sea’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 10, 2020 3:30 pm EST Daisy Ridley is about to make a splash with her next project under Disney, a true-story drama about the first woman to swim across the English Channel, Young Woman and the Sea. Ridley is set to star in the Disney+ feature film as Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, who made the 21-mile swim in 1926 and set a record that stood for 81 years....

Final Season Of ‘Empire’ To End Early Due To Coronavirus Production Shutdown By Ethan Anderton/April 1, 2020 12:00 pm EST This spring was meant to see the sixth and final season of Empire come to a close. The music biz series starring Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard would have ended with the 20th episode this season, but thanks to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down production on the show earlier than planned, the series finale will also arrive ahead of schedule, and it will cut the series a little short....

FX Defends Airing ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ During Election Year [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Aug. 7, 2019 7:30 am EST Rumors of an American Crime Story season based on the impeachment of Bill Clinton have long been floating around. Yesterday, FX announced that the third season would, in fact, be Impeachment: American Crime Story, and it would premiere on September 27, 2020, just about six weeks before the 2020 presidential election....

Yellowstone Season 2 Soundtrack Lakeshore Records released Yellowstone Season 2—Original Series Soundtrack digitally on August 9, 2019. The music was composed by Brian Tyler, who called Yellowstone one of the “most creatively fulfilling projects” he’s ever worked on, adding: “Taylor Sheridan’s saga glimpses into the heart of humanity with all of its flaws and beauty. I wanted the music to reflect the emotions, the darkness, the triumphs, the tragedies, and the human spirit that these characters embody....

Laurence Fishburne Confirms He Wasn’t Invited To Return In ‘The Matrix 4’, Which Has Resumed Shooting In Germany By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 18, 2020 11:30 am EST The Matrix 4 has resumed filming in Germany after production was forced to halt due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Star Keanu Reeves and the rest of the cast and crew will be returning to shoot the long-awaited sequel, but there will be one former franchise cast member who confirmed that he won’t be back....

Mark Ruffalo Talks The Future Of Hulk In The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Ethan Anderton/April 15, 2020 12:30 pm EST Ever since Mark Ruffalo took over the role of The Incredible Hulk, the character has become a fan favorite of The Avengers. The love for the big guy grew even more when Professor Hulk debuted in Avengers: Endgame. But what does the future of the Hulk hold in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?...

Peter Sarsgaard Compares Making ‘The Batman’ To Seeing The Pixies In Concert By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 14, 2020 9:30 am EST Production on The Batman is underway right now over in London. So far, all we know is director Matt Reeves has assembled an exceptional cast to surround Robert Pattinson as the new Dark Knight. There’s Colin Farrell, who was recently confirmed to play The Penguin, Zoe Kravitz as the sneaky Catwoman, and Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon....

Spike Lee Releases Short Film ‘3 Brothers – Radio Raheem, Eric Garner And George Floyd’ By Chris Evangelista/June 1, 2020 1:30 pm EST In 1989, Spike Lee released Do the Right Thing, a galvanizing portrait of racial tensions boiling over in one Brooklyn neighborhood during one long summer day. It’s a film that remains as powerful today as it was all those years ago. It’s also still depressingly relevant, as Lee’s film ends with the police murdering neighborhood local Radio Raheem – an act that leads to a riot....

Superhero Bits: Amber Heard May Partake In ‘Justice League’ Reshoots, ‘Black Adam’ Casting Rumors & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 22, 2020 6:00 pm EST What’s in the latest update for Marvel’s Avengers? Who has just joined the cast of Superman & Lois? Could Marvel be hinting at an origin change for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver’s powers? Who might be the frontrunner to play Cyclone in Black Adam? Is Amber Heard partaking in Zack Snyder’s Justice League reshoots?...