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MGM Pushes Jennifer Hudson’s Aretha Franklin Biopic ‘Respect’ For Awards Season Christmas Release By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 26, 2020 5:00 pm EST Finally, a piece of release date news that’s not a depressing coronavirus-related delay. MGM is pushing the release date of the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, which stars Jennifer Hudson as the powerful-voiced singer, for Christmas Day, with the intention of propping it up as an awards season contender. The film was originally set to arrive in October....

Oscar Isaac Will Be ‘The Card Counter’ For Director Paul Schrader By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2019 3:30 pm EST Paul Schrader is teaming up with Oscar Isaac for his next movie, The Card Counter. The story follows a gambler trying to reform a young man who is on a path to revenge. And since this is a Paul Schrader film there will probably be a lot of moments where the characters are dealing with inner turmoil and self-destruction....

San Diego Comic-Con Announces “At Home” Edition To Keep The Convention Spirit Alive By Ethan Anderton/May 9, 2020 11:00 am EST A lot of big pop culture conventions have been canceled thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But perhaps the most crushing blow was the official cancellation of San Diego Comic-Con, the biggest geek gathering in the world, covering all of your favorite movie franchises, TV shows, comics, podcasts, and more, as well as exciting new projects coming down the road....

Sequel Bits: ‘Happiest Season 2’, ‘Edge Of Tomorrow 2’, ‘Halloween Kills’, And More By Ben Pearson/Dec. 13, 2020 9:00 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Will audiences ever see Happiest Season 2? One of the stars of the original film offers an update on Edge of Tomorrow 2 Halloween Kills gets an official rating And more! Audiences flipped for Hulu’s holiday-set romantic comedy Happiest Season when it was released a few weeks ago, and now co-writer/director Clea DuVall is interested in heading back to that world for a follow-up movie....

Superhero Bits: Nicolas Cage Was Invited For ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’, ‘Joker’ Cinematography Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see a holiday episode of Big Hero 6: The Series this weekend? Want to see more from the scrapped first season finale of Titans? Was Nicolas Cage asked to be in Crisis on Infinite Earths? Could Venom 2 be R-rated thanks to the success of Joker?...

The ‘Eastern Promises 2’ Script Has Been Rewritten As An Original Film, Will Star Jason Statham By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 3, 2020 12:00 pm EST Back in 2007, Viggo Morstensen gave us one of the best performances of his career with the Russian mob thriller Eastern Promises, directed by David Cronenberg. For a long time, a sequel was in development, but it never came together. Focus Features isn’t letting the script go to waste though, because now it’s being turned into a new crime thriller called Small Dark Look that will have Jason Statham in the lead role....

The 2020 Tony Awards Might Be Canceled Because Of Coronavirus By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 6, 2020 5:30 pm EST “The show must go on” has been the resounding mantra for Broadway. But as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic reached its apex in the U.S., New York’s famous theaters went dark for public health concerns for the first time in history. However, Broadway and lovers of the stage have found ways to keep the shows going — with acclaimed composers hosting livestreams and hit musicals getting posted online....

The Ridiculously Star-Studded Cast Of ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World’ Reunite For A Charity Table Read By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 16, 2020 10:30 am EST In the 10 years since Scott Pilgrim vs. the World debuted in theaters to rave reviews and immediate cult classic status, its cast has only become more ridiculously famous. And while Avengers: Endgame can still boast about being the greatest crossover event in history, the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs....

Babyteeth If you’re going to make your first feature about coming-of-age, you better come correct, and Shannon Murphy does. When seriously ill teenager Milla (Eliza Scanlen) falls madly in love with small-time drug dealer Moses (Toby Wallace), it’s her parents’ (Essie Davis and Ben Mendelsohn) worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a renewed lust for life, traditional morals go out the window, leaving her parents wanting to hold tighter to their little girl....

Walt Disney World Officially Closing Stitch’s Great Escape, Primeval Whirl, And Rivers Of Light; Other New Projects Postponed By Jacob Hall/July 16, 2020 3:30 pm EST The axe has swung for a few deeply unpopular Walt Disney World attractions. While the writing has been on the wall for some time, the coronavirus pandemic surely hastened the demise of Stitch’s Great Escape, Rivers of Light, and Primeval Whirl, all of which are set to close....

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Live-Action TV Series In The Works At Netflix, Animated Spin-Offs To Follow By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 27, 2020 8:00 am EST Every few years, Hollywood will attempt yet again to adapt a video game for the screen, and you don’t even need every finger on one hand to count the number of times it has worked out well. One example of when it did work: Netflix’s The Witcher, the hit Henry Cavill-led fantasy adventure series based on both the popular video game franchise and books by Andrzej Sapkowski....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Almost Had One Of The Avengers Be The Soul Stone By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2020 8:30 am EST Last night, there was an Avengers: Endgame watch party featuring the involvement of directors Anthony & Joe Russo. The duo hopped on Instagram live for the first hour, but they live tweeted the movie throughout the entire three-hour runtime, which included answering some questions posed by fans. One such question resulted in the intriguing revelation that the filmmakers once considered turning one of The Avengers into the Soul Stone....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Review: An Exhausting, Rewarding Epic Worth Celebrating By Chris Evangelista/April 23, 2019 3:00 pm EST This Avengers: Endgame review will be as spoiler-free as humanly possible. That said, the marketing department for Endgame has done a great job keeping things secret, which makes nearly anything one has to say about the film a potential spoiler. You’ve been warned. “Part of the journey is the end.” So says Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame, the epic culmination of every Marvel Cinematic Universe entry that’s come before....

Black is King Teaser It wouldn’t be a Beyoncé album without a surprise release, but there are extra layers of the unexpected to the superstar’s upcoming Black is King. Inspired by her album The Lion King: The Gift, which recruited several artists to create music inspired by the music of The Lion King, the visual album looks to be an exceptionally powerful statement on the Black experience and way more radical than anything Disney+ has ever debuted....

‘Coming 2 America’ Brings Back James Earl Jones Among Other New & Returning Cast Members By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 8, 2019 10:30 am EST Wesley Snipes joined the cast of the comedy sequel Coming 2 America earlier this week. Now it seems the full supporting cast has been revealed thanks to several different reports. They not only reveal new and returning cast members, but also give us some plot details about the movie starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall....

‘Crawl’ Review: Killer Gators Go Gaga In This Gory, Mostly Enjoyable B-Movie By Chris Evangelista/July 12, 2019 7:00 am EST A congregation of hungry gators are on the hunt in Crawl, Alexandre Aja’s gory B-movie that doesn’t quite want to admit it’s a B-movie. Moving at a brisk pace, and trimmed of almost all fat, Crawl manages to make a big splash, generating plenty of disaster-movie-meets-monster-movie chills. Yet Crawl is a film with an identity crisis....

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 20, 2020 11:35 am EST ⚔️🍔 pic.twitter.com/jtC2PiwhrM — Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) November 20, 2020 Bringing in fresh writers will certainly change things up, and, just in case you’re wondering, sources say that the plan is to make Deadpool 3 R-rated just like the previous two installments. There’s no director attached at the moment, and Deadpool 2 filmmaker David Leitch has a very busy schedule. However, sources say “the door is open for Leitch’s return” since there’s no real production start right now....

‘Death Of A Vlogger’ Review: ‘Paranormal Activity’ For The YouTube Generation [FrightFest 2019] By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 30, 2019 9:00 am EST Though not nearly as omnipresent as it was during the heyday of The Blair Witch Project, [REC] and the Paranormal Activity franchise, the found-footage sub-genre has never gone away. After all, it allows filmmakers without a huge budget to be inventive and go nuts with a high-concept horror movie. But like the zombie genre, there are far too many found-footage movies and not all of them are good....

‘Dracula’ TV Series Trailer: The Creators Of ‘Sherlock’ Sink Their Fangs Into The Immortal Horror Classic By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 28, 2019 12:30 pm EST That immortal scamp Dracula is at it again, this time in a new BBC series from the creators of Sherlock. The new Dracula TV series just dropped its first trailer, and it looks appropriately bloody and sexy. Claes Bang stars at the bloodsucking count, and based on the footage below, this new take on the story isn’t going to stick too closely to the source material (I don’t remember an army of stake-wielding nuns from the book)....

‘I Know This Much Is True’ Trailer: It’s Double The Mark Ruffalo In The HBO Adaptation Of The Best-Selling Book By Chris Evangelista/March 2, 2020 11:30 am EST Mark Ruffalo and Mark Ruffalo star in I Know This Much is True, a new HBO limited series directed by Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine). Adapted from the book by Wally Lamb, the story follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers, both played by Ruffalo....