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The Clock Tower: Who Is Spectre And Why Does He Matter To The Arrowverse? By Amelia Emberwing/Dec. 20, 2019 5:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.)So, it’s been a week, and you’ve still got some questions on that whole Crisis on Infinite Earths situation....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Gets Animated, History Of Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin & More By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 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....

The Morning Watch: Walking On Walls In Movies, ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Meets ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 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, find out how Hollywood makes actors walk on walls in movies like Inception and TV shows like Euphoria....

‘Almost Famous’ Could Have Starred Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, And Meryl Streep By Ethan Anderton/July 15, 2020 5:00 pm EST This year marks the 20th anniversary of Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical movie Almost Famous. To celebrate the milestone, James Andrew Miller is delivering a limited podcast series called Origins: Almost Famous Turns Twenty, and it’s already yielding some interesting tidbits looking back at the film. Almost Famous features Patrick Fugit as William Miller, a young aspiring journalist who gets caught up in the world of rock and roll in 1969....

By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 21, 2019 9:00 am EST Bombshell Trailer This is the second project arriving this year focusing on Roger Ailes after Showtime previously debuted the limited series The Loudest Voice. This one looks like it will be a little more juicy and provocative, not unlike Jay Roach’s previous political drama work with Recount, the story of the botched Florida vote count during the 2000 United States presidential election, and Game Change, the story of Sarah Palin’s rise to vice presidential candidate in the 2008 presidential campaign....

‘Candyman’ Remake Won’t Be Summoned Into Theaters Until 2021 By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2020 11:00 am EST After Wonder Woman 1984 vacated the previously set October 2 release date and headed to Christmas, that left Nia DaCosta’s anticipated horror remake of Candyman as the next major theatrical release scheduled for the fall. But Universal and MGM apparently don’t want to mess with that kind of pressure, so the studios are pushing back the movie to 2021, just like many other blockbusters that were intended for release this year....

‘Euphoria’ Special Episode Trailer: You’re Getting More ‘Euphoria’ Even Before Season 2 Premieres By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 30, 2020 3:00 pm EST Euphoria, HBO’s hit series that looks like it’s designed for people much younger than me, is coming back for a second season. But before season 2 arrives, HBO is bringing not one but two different special episodes. One will be a Christmas episode arriving in December, and we’ve got our first look at that via a new trailer below....

Freaky Friday NYCC In Freaky, “High school student Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) becomes the newest target of the Blissfield Butcher (Vince Vaughn), an infamous serial killer, during her senior year. When the killer’s magic dagger causes her to swap bodies with him, Kessler discovers she has only a day to reverse the switch or else remain trapped as a middle-aged murderer hunted by the city, while the real killer – in her body – targets her classmates at Homecoming....

‘Hot Wheels’ Movie Hires Two Writers, So It’s Really Happening This Time, Right, Guys?…Guys? By Ben Pearson/Sept. 25, 2020 2:14 pm EST Hollywood has been trying to get a Hot Wheels movie off the starting line for almost twenty years, but after skidding into a roadblock or two, the project finally appears to be back on track. Warner Bros. and Mattel have hired two screenwriters for the Hot Wheels film, which means that it’s finally, definitely, probably, maybe, actually happening this time....

‘Jojo Rabbit’ Featurette: How Taika Waititi Made His Anti-Hate Satire By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 18, 2019 5:00 pm EST Jojo Rabbit Featurette But in the featurette, Waititi is aware that he walks a thin line with this satire, and that he doesn’t want the comedy to overshadow the message of love and tolerance he wants to spread. “I wanted to make sure that it didn’t just seem like I was making a weird comedy amongst a really traumatic, violent, and tumultuous time period in history,” Waititi says in the featurette....

‘Marvel’s 616’ Panel Sheds Light On The Unsung Heroes Of The Comics, Both On The Page And Behind The Scenes [Comic-Con 2020] By Ben Pearson/July 23, 2020 2:15 pm EST With the coronavirus forcing the delays of multiple Marvel Studios movies, Marvel fans have found themselves with a bit of an empty feeling lately. But the new documentary series Marvel’s 616 is coming to Disney+ soon, and the show’s Comic-Con at Home panel, which took place this afternoon, provided a look into the creation of the show and spotlighted a handful of Marvel characters fans might not be familiar with....

‘Midsommar’ Director’s Cut Will Be An Apple TV Exclusive By Ben Pearson/Sept. 5, 2019 8:30 am EST Labor Day traditionally marks the unofficial end of summer, but if you’d like to revisit writer/director Ari Aster’s shot-in-broad-daylight horror film Midsommar, his director’s cut is still playing in a few select theaters. But if you don’t want to hoof it out to a theater to check it out, the extended director’s cut is coming to home video through an exclusive deal with Apple TV....

‘Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary’ Trailer: How This ‘Star Trek’ Satire Became A Cult Classic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 17, 2019 1:30 pm EST Fans will whip themselves into a frenzy debating over the best Star Trek movie, when there is only one answer: Galaxy Quest. The Dean Parisot-helmed 1999 comedy was a parody of the Star Trek franchise and the ardor it inspired, but its affectionate and earnest approach has earned it the cult following of Trek fans and non-fans alike....

It’s the Wild West, With Parts of an Ancient Alien Civilization Waking Up and Wreaking Havoc For Good Measure Much of the season takes place on a newly discovered ring planet, a dusty-yet-habitable piece of rock named Ilus or New Terra, depending on whether you’re talking to the Belter refugees who settled there or the Earth-funded research group who have legal claim to the land. These two groups, as you can imagine, aren’t getting along very well, and so the OPA and Earth send Holden and the rest of the Rocinante crew to act as mediators....

The Fresh Prince Reunion Trailer If you thought you were jaded to the ’90s nostalgia craze, watch a beaming Will Smith step out of a cab in the Fresh Prince reunion trailer and your heart may melt a little bit. Smith dropped the trailer for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion, revealing that the special will debut on HBO Max on November 19, 2020. In the unscripted special, Smith is joined by series regulars Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Alfonso Ribeiro as well as recurring co-star DJ Jazzy Jeff for “a family reunion on set in the Banks’ home for a look back at the groundbreaking show....

‘The New Mutants’ TV Spot: The Mutants Face Their Demons By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 2, 2020 4:00 pm EST Looks like the New Mutants are facing the heat — the metaphorical heat of their demons, and the literal heat of a superpowered figure with the power to burst into flame. The recently renamed 20th Century Studios has released a new TV spot for the long-delayed The New Mutants, which features mostly the same footage we’ve been seeing for the past two years....

‘The Raid’ Star Iko Uwais Will Teach ‘Snake Eyes’ The Way Of The Sword In The G.I. Joe Spin-Off By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2019 2:30 pm EST Iko Uwais kicked so much ass in the Indonesian action movie The Raid and the even more brutal sequel The Raid 2, and we’re wondering why no mainstream action movie has yet taken advantage of his incredible martial arts skills to their full potential....

‘The Roads Not Taken’ Trailer: Elle Fanning Tries To Connect With Her Ailing Father, Javier Bardem By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 5, 2020 5:30 pm EST “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” writes Robert Frost in his famous poem. “And sorry I could not travel both.” Frost’s beloved poem ponders the ideas of choice and self-determination with a devastatingly simple metaphor. The upcoming feature film starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning grapples with those same concepts, in a slightly more complicated way....

‘West Side Story’ Star Rita Moreno Asked Steven Spielberg For Rewrites – And She Got Them [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 14, 2020 2:00 pm EST Rita Moreno was on a Television Critics Association panel for One Day at a Time. Netflix cancelled the sitcom, but Pop brought it back for a fourth season. Moreno also appears in Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story, which is noteworthy becuase Moreno won an Oscar for her role in Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ original 1961 adaptation of the musical....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Release Date Pushed To October 2020 Following ‘Tenet’ Shift By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2020 5:04 pm EST Immediately after Warner Bros. announced the two-week delay of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, the studio pushed back the release date of another highly-anticipated blockbuster. Wonder Woman 1984, which was already moved from its initial June 2020 release to August on account of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, has been pushed back yet again to a fall release date....