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‘Sextuplets’ Trailer: Marlon Wayans Is Making Movies That Feel Like ‘Tropic Thunder’ Trailers By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2019 1:30 pm EST Eddie Murphy is the master of playing multiple roles in movies, ranging from Coming to America to The Nutty Professor, even if the latter started to veer away from the comedian’s sharp wit of the 1980s. Now Marlon Wayans is trying to follow in his footsteps with a new Netflix comedy, and the results are embarrassing as hell....

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Will See The Return Of Brent Spiner As Data, Jeri Ryan As Seven Of Nine And More ‘Next Generation’ Veterans [Comic-Con 2019] By Jacob Hall/July 20, 2019 1:11 pm EST A new Star Trek: Picard trailer premiered before a packed Hall H crowd at Comic-Con 2019 and it brought with it a number of massive surprises. In addition to shedding some new light on the still-mysterious plot, it revealed the return of two fan-favorite Star Trek characters: Brent Spiner’s Commander Data and Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine....

‘Superintelligence’ Review: Maybe Melissa McCarthy Should Stop Letting Ben Falcone Direct Her Movies By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 25, 2020 9:00 am EST The first thing you should know about the new film Superintelligence is that it’s being distributed by the WarnerMedia empire. Second, you should know that WarnerMedia does not have ownership in The Late Late Show with James Corden, though the very existence of Superintelligence would seem to imply otherwise. Ostensibly, this comedy is about an average citizen being thrown into a situation where only she can save humanity from a mysterious artificial intelligence....

‘Tenet’ Deals With Spies, Physics And Entropy, And A Global Threat To The World By Chris Evangelista/June 18, 2020 10:30 am EST Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is bathed in mystery. Among the questions that surround the film are “Will this really open in July” and “What the hell is this movie even about?” While the question of the July release still hangs in the air, a new, somewhat in-depth profile of the film has shed some light on what Nolan and company have coming our way....

‘Tenet’ Opening Scene Now Available Online – Watch It Here By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 15, 2020 7:30 am EST Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s latest big, slightly confusing sci-fi action extravaganza, hits 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital this week, so Warner Bros. has gone ahead and released the opening scene online. Nolan’s action-packed prologues have become their own mini-movies in some ways – the opening scenes of both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight rises were released theatrically months before either of those titles opened, and this Tenet prologue played in certain IMAX theaters before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

Proto-Miller Wreaks Havoc and then Dies to Save Holden (And to Stop Being a Pawn of the Protomolecule) One of my favorite Expanse characters is Detective Miller, and I was elated to have him remain on the show, albeit in proto-Miller form, for the last two seasons. At the end of this season, sadly, we had to (probably) say goodbye to Miller for good. The former detective, turned protomolecule Investigator, turned rogue proto-powered being, went out with style....

‘The Outsider’ Trailer: A Baffling Mystery Plagues Ben Mendelsohn In This Stephen King Adaptation From HBO By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 17, 2019 10:32 am EST The Stephen King adaptation craze keeps on keepin’ on with The Outsider, a new HBO series base on one of the Master of Horror’s recent novels. The story concerns what appears to be an impossible murder: after a child in a small town is killed, a mountain of evidence points towards one man....

‘Y: The Last Man’ TV Series Recruits ‘Warcraft’ Star Ben Schnetzer To Replace Barry Keoghan By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 29, 2020 12:00 pm EST It’s been a long road for FX’s series adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s award-winning sci-fi graphic novel Y: The Last Man. The project has been in the works for years, hitting speedbump after speedbump, and with production right around the corner in April, it looked like the series had a big problem with star Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk) departing the lead role....

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Recruits ‘Yesterday’ Star Himesh Patel By Ben Pearson/Aug. 27, 2019 12:00 pm EST Yesterday, British actor Himesh Patel was just the star of Danny Boyle’s Beatles-inspired summer movie, Yesterday. Today, Patel is the latest addition to Christopher Nolan’s Tenet cast. This guy’s star is clearly on the rise, but as you might expect, details about his role in Nolan’s new action film are being kept secret. Here’s what we do know about the movie so far....

Cool Stuff: NECA Puts Animated ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Villain Metalhead Up For Pre-Order By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2020 6:00 am EST Hot on the heels of the massively successful pre-order for NECA’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II action figures of Tokka and Rahzar, another TMNT pre-order has opened up, this time with a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. One of the more formidable villains faced by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their animated series was Metalhead, a robot imbued with the thoughts and memories of all four of the heroes in a half-shell and equipped with plenty of weapons within his robot body....

Guillermo Del Toro Provides Updates On ‘Nightmare Alley’, Stop Motion ‘Pinocchio’, And Getting Back To Work By Ethan Anderton/July 2, 2020 8:30 am EST Nightmare Alley is based on William Lindsey Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, and it follows Bradley Cooper as a carnival worker who becomes a skilled mentalist/spiritualist and teams up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) to trick rich people people into giving them money. But as he falls for this woman, she becomes far more dangerous than he could ever imagine....

Lilly Wachowski Hopes WB’s New ‘Matrix’ Movie Is “Better Than The Original” [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Aug. 2, 2019 2:20 pm EST Lilly Wachowski, one half of the directing duo behind the original The Matrix, was on a Television Critics Association panel for her Showtime series Work in Progress, which she produced and co-wrote with co-creators Abby McEnany, who stars, and Tim Mason, who directs. After the panel, /Film had a chance to ask her about Warner Bros....

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Will Premiere At The New York Film Festival; See First Look Images By Chris Evangelista/July 29, 2019 9:35 am EST Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated The Irishman will have its world premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival. There was some question about whether or not Scorsese’s crime epic would be a part of festival season, as the filmmaker was still putting the finishing touch on extensive VFX work for the movie....

Netflix True Crime Trailers: ‘Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer’ And ‘Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 20, 2020 12:00 pm EST Netflix has really cornered the market on true crime docuseries and documentaries. And the streaming giant is adding one more of each to its collection, with Netflix true crime trailers for the docuseries Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer and the documentary Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy....

New On Blu-Ray: ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’, ‘1917’, ‘Come To Daddy’, ‘The Grudge’, ‘A Hidden Life’ By Chris Evangelista/March 31, 2020 9:00 am EST Welcome to another week in quarantine! As we continue to find ourselves sequestered in our domiciles, there’s never been a better time to block out the horrors of the real world and kick back with some movies. And while streaming is great – and convenient – you just can’t beat the quality of physical media, folks....

Quentin Tarantino Says He’s At “War” With Blockbusters By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 23, 2020 4:30 pm EST Following Quentin Tarantino’s swan song to Old Hollywood, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director is declaring war on the blockbusters that rule New Hollywood. Tarantino is throwing his support behind Martin Scorsese’s ongoing criticism of Marvel films and their domination of the pop culture landscape, suggesting in a new interview that there is a “war for movies” taking place between “original” filmmaking and the “commercial product” owned by conglomerates....

Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge At Disney World Will Serve Alcohol Outside Oga’s Cantina, Unlike Disneyland By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2019 11:00 am EST When Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge opened in Disneyland this summer, it was groundbreaking for a few reasons. Not only was it the first theme park expansion dedicated entirely to Star Wars, but Oga’s Cantina marked the first time that alcohol would be available in the park outside of the the exclusive Club 33 and other private events on park grounds....

Superhero Bits: ‘Dark Avengers’ Rumor, Wonder Gal Peek Leaked, Black Adam Waiting For ‘Shazam 3’ & More By Ethan Anderton/July 15, 2019 6:00 pm EST Why will we have to wait until Shazam 3 for Black Adam to square off with Zachary Levi? How close is Avengers: Endgame to surpassing Avatar at the global box office? Do some inactive Facebook pages hint at what Marvel is announcing at Comic-Con? What deleted scene from Avengers: Infinity War featured a trippy Guardians of the Galaxy moment?...

The Best Movies And Shows Leaving Netflix In May 2020 By Chris Evangelista/April 24, 2020 3:00 pm EST April is coming to an end, but we’re all still stuck inside. Which means there’s still time to watch stuff on Netflix – but you better move quick, because some titles are about to leave. These are the TV shows and movies leaving Netflix in May 2020. The Place Beyond the Pines...

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Netflix In July 2020 By Chris Evangelista/June 26, 2020 5:30 pm EST I know it’s very hard to keep track of time these days, but trust me on this one: June is almost over. Which means Netflix will be adding new titles in July. But it also means certain titles will be leaving, so you might want to catch up on them before it’s too late....