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Superhero Bits: Meet The Immortal Wonder Woman, Wesley Snipes Refutes ‘Blade: Trinity’ Story & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2020 6:00 pm EST Who is the Immortal Wonder Woman coming in DC’s Future State comic event? Why did Zack Snyder’s Justice League trailer get pulled from YouTube? What scared executives into recutting Suicide Squad? What did Wesley Snipes say about the story of him trying to choke the Blade: Trinity director?...

That Mind-Blowing ‘Castle Rock’ Twist: Let’s Talk About How It Changes The Game For Hulu’s Stephen King Series By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 21, 2019 8:00 am EST Stephen King fans, if you haven’t been keeping up with Castle Rock this season, now might be a good time to do an emergency binge-watch. Like The Leftovers, Hulu’s streaming series — which is set in the ever-expanding King multiverse — may have alienated some viewers in its first season, even as it managed to serve up episodes of great television like the Sissy Spacek showcase, “The Queen....

The Margot Robbie ‘Barbie’ Movie Will “Truly Honor The IP,” So We Can All Relax By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 25, 2020 7:00 am EST I don’t know about you, but whenever there’s a movie adapted from some other source material on the way, my one and only thought is: “Will this movie honor the IP?” That’s all that matters. Art be damned, I just want to make sure the intellectual property is being treated like some sort of sacred text!...

The Morning Watch: Brie Larson Gets Spicy On ‘Hot Ones’, Examining Christopher Nolan’s Visual Style & More By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2020 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, watch a video essay exploring the visual style of director Christopher Nolan and how IMAX has only bolstered his work....

The Morning Watch: Triumph Goes To Comic-Con 2008, Jeremy Renner’s Music Video & More By Ethan Anderton/July 15, 2019 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, watch a flashback from Late Night with Conan O’Brien when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog went to Comic-Con back in 2008....

Tim Miller’s ‘Deadpool 2’ Would Have Featured The Thing From Fantastic Four By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 31, 2019 3:30 pm EST During a conversation on The Playlist’s Fourth Wall podcast, Tim Miller opened up a bit about what his Deadpool 2 might have looked like. For one thing, Miller claims that he “cracked the secret to the Vanessa storyline.” Vanessa is Deadpool’s girlfriend, played by Morena Baccarin. In the Deadpool 2 that was eventually released, Vanessa gets killed off before the credits roll – something that didn’t sit too well with some folks, since it fits into the fridging trope of bumping off female characters just to give male characters some sort of motivation....

Video: The Secrets Of Dok Ondar’s Den Of Antiquities In ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2020 2:00 pm EST In the latest episode of Ordinary Adventures, Peter & Kitra take a virtual field trip to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge to explore Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities! Dok-Ondar is a proprietor of the most notorious antiquities shop in the galaxy (located at Black Spire Outpost on the planet of Batuu)....

Vin Diesel’s ‘Bloodshot’ Gets A New Release Date, Valiant Superhero Video Game Series Announced By Jacob Hall/Dec. 23, 2019 3:30 pm EST Were you ready to watch Vin Diesel launch the new Valiant superhero universe in two months? Well, you’ll have to be patient for just a little bit longer, as Bloodshot has been pushed and given a new release date. But it’s not that much of a delay and fans of the character can take solace in today’s other big Valiant news: a series of video games based on the comic publisher’s characters are on the way....

Watch: ‘One Cut Of The Dead Mission: Remote’ Short Film Brings Back The Cast Of The Cult Comedy For A Virtually-Shot Sequel By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 18, 2020 2:30 pm EST Nobody knows better about how to pull off a piece of entertainment with limited resources than the cast and crew of One Cut of the Dead. The 2019 mega-hit at the Japanese box office and cult hit everywhere else was a love letter to the can-do spirit of filmmaking, even if things go horribly, hilariously wrong....

Will Smith To Play Infamous Crime Boss Nicky Barnes In ‘The Council’ At Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2019 10:52 am EST Will Smith has fought the scum of the universe, a spider-loving paraplegic from the wild west, a horde of vampires, a swarm of robots, and in a few weeks, he’ll be fighting himself in Gemini Man. But soon enough he’ll take on some rival crime syndicates as the boss of one of the most notorious mobs in New York City....

‘Avengers: Endgame’: All The Coolest Trivia, Photos, & Videos From The Watch Party With The Directors And Writers By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2020 9:00 am EST Last night brought one of the best watch parties yet since the coronavirus pandemic quarantine began. Directors Anthony & Joe Russo and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely hopped online to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Avengers: Endgame by live-tweeting the entire movie. The filmmakers posted bits of trivia from the movie’s development, including alternate ideas and scenes, showed off photos and videos from behind the scenes, and cracked some solid jokes....

‘Descender’ And ‘Ascender’ Sci-Fi Comic Books Are Getting Turned Into A TV Series By Ethan Anderton/June 17, 2020 11:30 am EST A few years back, Sony Pictures was developing a feature film adaptation of the Image Comics series Descender. The sci-fi story by bestselling author Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer) and artist Dustin Nguyen (Batman: Streets of Gotham) follows TIM-21, a companion robot who is thrust into a hostile cosmos where androids are outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet....

‘Doctor Sleep’ Director Mike Flanagan On Reconciling King And Kubrick, Finding Hope In Horror, And Why His Work Is Full Of Hand Injuries [Interview] By Jacob Hall/Nov. 8, 2019 7:00 am EST With Doctor Sleep, writer/director Mike Flanagan finds himself serving three masters. First, there’s Stanley King, who penned The Shining and its literary sequel, the subject of this new film. Then there’s Stanley Kubrick, whose iconic 1908 film adaptation of The Shining has legions of fans but remains hated by King himself....

‘From A Certain Point Of View: The Empire Strikes Back’ Reveals Audiobook Cast, New Excerpt By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 22, 2020 2:30 pm EST From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back hits bookshelves this November, marking the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars sequel. And ahead of the anthology book’s release, StarWars.com is teasing new details of Episode V’s From a Certain Point of View, including a brand-new excerpt from the book and the cast of the audiobook....

‘Harry Potter’ Pop-Up Bar Experience Lets You Brew Your Own Alcoholic Potion By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2019 11:00 am EST There are plenty of adults out there who still want to feel like a kid again, and a new Harry Potter-themed pop-up bar experience in Los Angeles hopes to bring a little childhood magic back to your grown up antics. The Wizard’s Cauldron is an unofficial but cool lesson in magic and mixology that makes you feel like you’re taking a potions class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....

‘Impractical Jokers: The Movie’ Trailer: The Hidden Camera Prank Show Is Coming To Theaters By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2019 4:30 pm EST Impractical Jokers is a hidden camera prank show following comedians Joe Gatto, James “Murr” Murray, Brian “Q” Quinn and Salvatore “Sal” Vulcano as they compete in various challenges with the goal of embarrassing each other. Every episode features several different gags where each guy has to do what the others tell them, or they risk the chance of getting humiliated at the end of the episode....

‘It: Chapter Two’ Looks To Float To A $120 Million Opening Weekend At The Box Office By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2019 11:00 am EST Back in 2017, New Line Cinema’s adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel It surprised everyone by opening with a massive $123.4 million, and it rode that wave to a $327.4 million domestic total, and a $700.3 million global total. That was enough to make it the highest grossing horror film of all time, not to mention having the biggest opening weekend ever for September and the entire fall season....

‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ Review: Often Fun, But A Big Step Down From The First One By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 10, 2019 9:00 am EST The 2017 film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ended quite definitively for a brand extension. A quartet of teenage heroes, having survived the experience of being sucked into the video-game version of the mysterious and malevolent Jumanji, take a bowling ball to the 90s-era game cartridge in the hopes of ensuring that it never bothers them again....

‘Leverage’ Reboot Headed To IMDB TV Without Original Star Timothy Hutton By Chris Evangelista/April 23, 2020 4:00 pm EST Deadline has the scoop about the Leverage reboot, describing it as “a fresh update of the original concept, about reformed crooks using their unique skills to right corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on common citizens.” The original show – which I kid you not, I have never heard of – ran for five seasons, and followed “a five-person team: a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens....

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’: Hayden Christensen Joins Cast Of Disney+ Series By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2020 3:34 pm EST Hayden Christensen is heading back to a galaxy far, far away. At today’s Disney investor presentation, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced that Christensen “will return in the role of Darth Vader” in Obi-Wan Kenobi, the prequel series which also features the return of Ewan McGregor in the titular role. He better hope the action isn’t set on Tatooine (because there’s so much sand there, you see, and that guy really hates sand)....