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‘The Batman’ Reveals First Look At The New Batmobile (And It’s Cool As Hell) By Chris Evangelista/March 4, 2020 9:59 am EST Matt Reeves went ahead and dropped our first look at The Batman Batmobile, and it looks…awesome? It doesn’t really look like any Batmobile we’ve seen on screen before, and that’s fairly exciting. The images also give us yet another (and better) look at Robert Pattinson’s Batman. See the images below in all their moody, stylish glory....

‘The Forever Purge’ Won’t Open This Summer As Universal Pulls It From The Release Calendar By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 15, 2020 1:00 pm EST Universal has pulled The Forever Purge off its summer calendar altogether. The fifth installment in Universal-Blumhouse Purge series, The Forever Purge was originally dated for July 10 but now has no set date. It’s unclear if the film will go direct to PVOD or if Universal will delay it for a later theatrical release date....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Producer On What To Expect From The Season 3 Finale And The Upcoming Season 4 [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/July 30, 2019 3:00 pm EST On Friday, Hulu announced it had renewed The Handmaid’s Tale for a fourth season during their Television Critics Association session. Later, Handmaid’s Tale producer Warren Littlefield happened to be on a panel for his new Hulu show Reprisal. After the Reprisal panel, Littlefield spoke with reporters further about Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale....

‘The Social Network’ Sequel: Aaron Sorkin Still Wants To Write It, On One Condition By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2020 3:00 pm EST The Social Network is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and a lot has changed in the world – and the world of Facebook – since the film’s release. Since then, the social media giant has only gotten worse, becoming a kind of petri dish for insane conspiracy theories and election meddling that has significantly weakened American democracy....

‘The Stand’ TV Series Reveals Cast, Confirms New Stephen King-Approved Ending [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Aug. 2, 2019 7:00 am EST CBS All Access confirmed the first four leads of its adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand for its streaming service. The Stand is considered by many to be King’s definitive book. Well, it’s either The Stand or It, as both are over 1000 pages and have been adapted as miniseries in the past....

‘Thirtysomething’ Sequel On ABC Will Be Called ‘Thirtysomething(else)’, Casts Major Role By Ben Pearson/Feb. 7, 2020 4:00 pm EST Before the phrase “streaming service” was a twinkle in anyone’s eye, network television ruled the airwaves in the U.S. and an ABC drama called Thirtysomething was a big deal. Now, decades after that show was cancelled, ABC is moving forward with a sequel series called Thirtysomething(else), which will feature the return of several key cast members and a new slew of actors playing the original cast’s kids, who are now in their thirties themselves....

‘Trial 4’ Trailer: Netflix Tackles Police Corruption In Docuseries About A Wrongfully Convicted Man By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 2, 2020 5:00 pm EST Netflix’s latest true crime docuseries tackles an upsettingly relevant topic and a distressingly urgent deadline. Trial 4 is an upcoming eight-part documentary series that tells the story of Sean K. Ellis, who has spent 22 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted at age 19 of the 1993 murder of Boston police detective John Mulligan....

Andrew Scott Trades Hot Priest For Hot Mystery Explorer Role In ‘His Dark Materials’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 19, 2019 3:30 pm EST You’ve met Hot Priest, now meet…Hot Mystery Character That We Can’t Reveal Too Much About Yet. But either way, Andrew Scott will be making much use of his brand of hot dishevelment as the newest addition to the His Dark Materials cast for the second season of the HBO/BBC fantasy series....

Blumhouse Television And Quibi Are On The Case For A New Murder Mystery Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2020 3:30 pm EST With all of the star power behind it and millions of dollars sunk into it, why isn’t Quibi a success? Well, Blumhouse Television is on the case — with a murder mystery series being developed for the mobile streaming platform. Blumhouse TV and Quibi are teaming up to produce a new scripted murder mystery series from prolific U....

Fantasia Film Festival Dispatches: ‘The Oak Room’, ‘12 Hour Shift’, ‘Climate Of The Hunter’, ‘Class Action Park’, ‘Dinner In America’ By /Film Staff/Aug. 25, 2020 10:00 am EST Usually, the genre-heavy Fantasia International Film Festival is held annually in Montreal, but with things the way they are this year (terrible), the festival has gone virtual. This year, Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato are covering Fantasia for /Film, firing off dispatches featuring capsule reviews of the titles we’ve watched from the safety of our own homes, all while dreaming of poutine....

How ‘Mulan’ Approaches Its LGBTQ Romance [Set Visit] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2020 9:45 am EST Disney has been championing more progressive diversity representation in their films in recent years, but have tread lightly when it comes to LGBTQ elements making their way into international releases. So that makes the live-action remake of Mulan a bit of a conundrum. In the original 1998 animated film, the central romance was between Mulan, disguising herself as a man, and her commanding officer Li Shang, who was implied to be attracted to Mulan despite thinking her to be a man....

Mondo Unleashes Universal Monsters Figures, Pins, And Tiki Mugs By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 28, 2020 7:30 am EST With Halloween just around the corner, Mondo’s Monster Mash continues, with a slew of new Universal Monsters items, including figurines, pins, and Tiki mugs of the Creature From the Black Lagoon, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, and more. Mondo has just unleashed several new Universal Monsters items, including the first-ever 1/6 scale figure of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, as well as its Silver Screen Variant....

Netflix Adapting Sci-Fi Young Adult Novel ‘The Upper World’ Into A Movie Starring Daniel Kaluuya By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 14, 2020 11:30 am EST Daniel Kaluuya’s career skyrocketed after starring in Jordan Peele’s incredible horror movie Get Out. Since then, he’s been relegated to key supporting roles in the likes of Black Panther and Widows, and an unfortunately overlooked but fantastic lead performance in Queen & Slim. But Netflix might be able to help Daniel Kaluuya get more attention since they’ve just picked up the movie rights to an adaptation of Femi Fadugba’s debut sci-fi young adult novel The Upper World, in which the actor is slated to star and produce....

By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2020 3:00 pm EST The Universal monster mash continues! After The Invisible Man broke the box office and garnered great reviews, Universal is amping up to make more and more monster flicks, and here comes another one. James Wan is teaming with the studio to develop a new movie that sounds at least partially inspired by Frankenstein, while not being a direct adaptation. Wan will produce while Supernatural writer Robbie Thompson is penning the script....

Gone Girl Now Streaming on Hulu Release Date: 2014Genre: Mystery-DramaDirector: David FincherCast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Carrie Coon, Tyler PerryDavid Fincher is back this year with Mank, but the last film he made was 2014’s Gone Girl, which is now streaming on Hulu. Fincher and writer Gillian Flynn take Flynn’s page-turner and work it into something wickedly funny and delightfully twisted. Cheating layabout Nick (Ben Affleck) becomes the prime suspect when his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing....

Paramount Sets Release Dates For ‘Snake Eyes’, New ‘Scream’ And ‘Paranormal Activity’ Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2020 12:00 pm EST There has been an endless amount of shuffling of movie release dates this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the bigger movies that was originally intended to arrive this fall was Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins from Paramount Pictures. The action adventure movie based on the Hasbro toyline would have hit theaters in October, but the studio chose to remove it from the 2020 release calendar altogether....

Revisiting ‘White Fang’, Disney’s Mostly-Forgotten “Boy And His Dog” Adventure Movie Starring A Young Ethan Hawke By Josh Spiegel/March 23, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Walt Disney was famously not a cat person, which is as important to note as the fact that he liked dogs. Think of how cats are portrayed in some of the films released by his animation studio....

See ‘The Goonies 2’ Concept Art Created For Adam F. Goldberg’s Pitch For The Sequel By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2020 1:30 pm EST For years and years, fans have been asking for the beloved 1985 adventured movie The Goonies to get a sequel. The film from director Richard Donner and producer Steven Spielberg is one of the most beloved movies to come out of the 1980s, and it’s always felt ripe for a legacy-quel introducing a new cast of kids and bringing back all of the stars from the original movie, now all grown up....

See A Completed ‘Jurassic World 3’ Animatronic Baby Dinosaur Ready To Start Shooting By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2020 11:00 am EST Jurassic World 3 is very close to the start of production. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard were recently joined by returning cast members Jake Johnson and Omar Sy from the original Jurassic World, and now director Colin Trevorrow is showing off a completed animatronic baby dinosaur from behind the scenes of the blockbuster sequel....

Superhero Bits: ‘Hellboy’ One-Shot Comic Coming, Vanessa Kirby Addresses Catwoman Rumors & More By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2019 6:00 pm EST Who does Mark Millar think will play Wolverine? Ready for a Hellboy one-shot comic coming this fall? Why is this season of Arrow the end? How did Sam Raimi react to a certain moment in Spider-Man: Far From Home? Have you noticed how similar Aquaman is to The Lion King?...