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Exclusive ‘Brightburn’ Clip Focuses On The Difficulties Of Raising An Evil Superhero By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 5, 2019 11:30 am EST Brightburn is a surprisingly nasty superhero horror film that asks: “What if Superman was a total psycho?” The James Gunn-produced film hits digital this week, and we have an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the special features that zeros in on the human family trying to raise a super-powered alien. Exclusive Brightburn Clip...

Jude Law Drama ‘The Nest’ Hopes To Open In Theaters This September By Chris Evangelista/May 16, 2020 1:00 pm EST Movie theaters will probably be back open by September…right? IFC Films sure thinks so, which is why they’ve just set a September 18 theatrical release date for The Nest, a drama starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon. IFC is no stranger to releasing titles to VOD, so the fact that they’re aiming for this theatrical release means that they have a lot of faith in the film....

Margot Robbie’s ‘Tank Girl’ Reboot Targets Director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 11, 2019 3:30 pm EST Margot Robbie has tapped her Dreamland director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte to steer her Tank Girl reboot. Robbie is producing the adaptation of the Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin comic through her LuckyChap Entertainment banner and is set to star in the sci-fi action movie, with Joris-Peyrafitte now set as director.Collider broke the news that Robbie has tapped Miles Joris-Peyrafitte to direct her Tank Girl reboot....

By Chris Evangelista/July 19, 2019 3:30 pm EST The internet has a serious troll problem, something movie review sites like Rotten Tomatoes know all too well. Recently, Rotten Tomatoes had to adopt a new system to rate films in an effort to discourage trolls who would swarm en masse to give a particular film a bad score even before the film in question had been released. The sad truth is that as long as there’s an internet, there will be trolls....

Original ‘Predator’ Screenplay Is Becoming A Comic Book From Dark Horse By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 20, 2020 1:00 pm EST Dark Horse has made a habit of turning unused screenplays into comics. They previously adapted William Gibson’s Alien 3, and recently announced plans for Alien: The Original Screenplay. Now they’re adding an Alien-adjacent title to the line-up: Predator. The five-issue Predator comic will adapt the unused 1987 screenplay for the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie....

Sequel Bits: ‘Harold And Kumar 4’, ‘F9’, ‘Clerks 3’, ‘Freddy Vs Jason 2’, ‘Now You See Me 3’ By Chris Evangelista/March 22, 2020 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Kal Penn is down for Harold & Kumar 4. Vin Diesel says an Oscar-winner will appear in F9. Kevin Smith is using this time of quarantine to finish the Clerks 3 and Mallrats 2 scripts. Freddy vs Jason writers still want a sequel, and so do I....

Steven Spielberg And Tom Hanks Taking ‘Masters Of The Air’ World War II Limited Series To Apple TV+ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2019 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America—white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the “King of Hollywood,” Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men....

Superhero Bits: ‘Batman: Death In The Family’ Trailer, Celebrating The Career Of John Romita Sr. & More By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2020 6:00 pm EST Did you know Brenton Thwaites initially thought he was auditioning for a Nightwing movie instead of a Titans series? What Hulk content is Marvel’s Avengers video game and Fortnite teaming up for? Did you know fans can choose whether Robin lives or dies in an upcoming DC Comics animated movie?...

Superhero Bits: ‘Black Widow’ Action Figures, Fans Hope Dave Bautista Met WB About Bane & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see the new Black Widow action figures coming from Hasbro’s Marvel Legends line? What other characters disappeared in The Blip according to the Avengers: Endgame script? What fan theory did James Gunn just debunk about Steve Rogers and Star-Lord? Want to see nearly 60 Wonder Woman 1984 trailer Easter eggs?...

Superhero Bits: ‘Supergirl’ Season 5 Finale Rewritten, Alternate ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Posters & More By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see some alternate character posters Boss Logic created for Avengers: Endgame? Can the comic industry be saved from the struggles they’re facing right now? Why did the Supergirl season 5 finale have to be rewritten? Did you know Michael Fassbender was once considered to play Lizard in Amazing Spider-Man?...

VOTD: How ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2019 6:00 am EST Godzilla may have been King of the Monsters this past summer, but the sequel wasn’t quite king of the box office with only $110.5 million pulled in domestically after a budget of $170 million. That’s not necessarily a bomb, but it’s a little disappointing by blockbuster standards. Of course, that won’t stop Godzilla vs Kong from arriving next spring, and it certainly didn’t stop the folks at How It Should Have Ended from pointing out some of the leaps in logic to allow the human plot to unfold in the sequel....

Who Should Star In The Inevitable ‘Tiger King’ Movie? By Chris Evangelista/March 27, 2020 10:00 am EST Netflix’s Tiger King is generating a ton of buzz lately, with viewers absolutely gobsmacked by the strange, wild, disturbing docuseries. The series takes us into the surprisingly lucrative (and altogether questionable) world of big cat collectors, focusing primarily on the eccentric Joe Exotic, a private zoo owner who was convicted of ordering a contract killing on an animal rights activist....

Will Ferrell And Paul Rudd To Star In ‘The Shrink Next Door’ Limited Series Based On The True Crime Podcast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 19, 2020 12:30 pm EST Will Ferrell is reuniting with his Anchorman co-star Paul Rudd to star in the limited series The Shrink Next Door, a dark comedy based on the true crime podcast about a celebrity psychiatrist who slowly takes over his clients’ lives.Deadline reports that Ferrell and Rudd will star in in the MRC Television limited series The Shrink Next Door, based on the Wondery and Bloomberg Media podcast of the same name....

‘Da Five Bloods’ Trailer: Spike Lee Heads To Vietnam By Chris Evangelista/May 18, 2020 6:03 am EST Spike Lee is back with Da Five Bloods, his latest movie that’s headed to Netflix next month. Lee’s film follows four African-American veterans who head back to Vietnam in search of the remains of their dead squad leader – and buried treasure. Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Jonathan Majors, and Chadwick Boseman star....

‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ Will Begin Filming Very Soon By Ben Pearson/Oct. 1, 2020 1:30 pm EST Hey, did you remember that Sam Raimi is directing a new Doctor Strange movie? We could all use some good news right about now, so let’s turn our attention to just how wild, fun, and totally off the walls a Raimi-directed Strange sequel might be – especially one with a title like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

‘Doctor Who’ Tells A “Haunting” Tale With A Chilling Night With Frankenstein And Frankenstein’s Author By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 18, 2020 7:00 am EST It turns out lightning can strike twice with Doctor Who, which makes an electric return to form with “The Haunting of Villa Diodati.” Last week saw Season 12’s hot streak of episodes come to an end, but Doctor Who resuscitated its high-quality run with a perfect old-fashioned ghost story that pitted Frankenstein’s author against a modern Prometheus of Doctor Who’s own making....

‘Into The Dark’ Serves Up Another Slice Of Christmas Horror With ‘A Nasty Piece Of Work’ By Matt Donato/Dec. 10, 2019 12:00 pm EST (Blumhouse Television and Hulu have partnered for a monthly horror anthology series titled Into The Dark, set to release a full holiday-themed feature the first Friday of every month. Horror anthology expert Matt Donato will be tackling the series one-by-one, stacking up the entries as they become streamable....

‘Nomadland’ Wins TIFF 2020 People’s Choice Award, Setting The Stage For Oscar Season By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 21, 2020 12:30 pm EST Nomadland, the best movie I saw at the online version of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and one of the best films of the year, is on its way to awards season consideration. The film won big at TIFF, taking home the TIFF People’s Choice Award – usually a strong indicator of future Oscar attention....

Songbird Movie Photos Entertainment Weekly debuted these photos from Songbird, and you can see the poster over at their site if you want to check that out. Contrary to some previous reports, this movie is set in 2024, when the world is in its fourth year of lockdown due to a mutated version of the virus called COVID-23. There’s a 50 percent mortality rate, and Americans are being forced out of their homes and into quarantine camps....

‘The Mandalorian’ Delivers Epic ‘Star Wars’ Action With “The Sin” – And Makes Us See Why Director Deborah Chow Has A Future With Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Nov. 22, 2019 8:00 am EST Deborah Chow directed this third installment of The Mandalorian entitled “The Sin” and it’s yet another terrific episode of the Disney+ series.Naturally, there are spoilers ahead.It opens with Pedro Pascal’s Mandalorian character arriving back on the planet he calls home base....