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J.K. Simmons Joins ‘Veronica Mars’ As The Hulu Revival Wraps Its First Table Read By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 15, 2018 5:00 pm EST The Veronica Mars revival is starting to find its tempo. Hulu’s eight-episode revival of the cult mystery drama series has added a formidable new antagonist to its cast, just as the team wraps up their very first table read. J.K. Simmons is the newest actor to join the Veronica Mars revival cast, taking on the role of an ex-con working for a corrupt real estate businessman who Veronica (Kristen Bell) helps expose in season 2....

Luca Guadagnino To Direct HBO Limited Series ‘We Are Who We Are’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2019 2:30 pm EST Guadagnino is directing a new limited series for HBO titled We Are Who We Are, according to The Observer. The series follows two main characters, Fraser and Caitlin, who meet on a military base in Italy. Upon arrival at the base from New York, Fraser strikes up a romantic relationship with Caitlin, only to develop confusing feelings for an older soldier named Jason....

By Ben Pearson/Jan. 9, 2019 3:00 pm EST Taylor Sheridan, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of movies like Hell or High Water, Sicario, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado, is stepping into the world of Tom Clancy spy thrillers. Sheridan has been hired to rewrite the screenplay for Without Remorse, Paramount’s hopeful franchise-starter that has Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan attached to play the lead role. Read more about it below.Variety first reported the news about Sheridan rewriting this movie…though, strangely, I couldn’t find any mention of who wrote the initial draft of the screenplay....

Robert De Niro Becomes The Bagel Boss In Weird UK Bagel Commercial By Chris Evangelista/May 15, 2019 1:30 pm EST Robert De Niro was once hailed as the greatest actor of his generation. Now, he’s selling bagels in the UK. The acclaimed actor pokes fun at some of his famous wiseguy roles in a truly strange new commercial for British baking company Warburtons. The gist of the commercial is that New York tough guys are particularly outraged that folks across the pond would try to muscle in on America’s bagel action....

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 74 - Interpreting Donnie Darko, Responding To S. Darko, And The Southland Tales Saga (GUEST: Richard Kelly, Director Of The Box) By Slashfilmcast/Nov. 6, 2009 4:51 pm EST In this special episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley chat with writer/director Richard Kelly about his reaction to S. Darko, and about the necessity of reading the graphic novel prequel to Southland Tales....

The Morning Watch: ‘Toy Story 4’ Dialogue Recording Sessions, Tom Hanks Ruins Talking Points & More By Ethan Anderton/June 21, 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 recording sessions with the cast of Toy Story 4, including Keanu Reeves as Duke Caboom....

The Morning Watch: Doctor Who’s New TARDIS, The Water Bears Of ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2018 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, take a dive into the visual effects and concept art of the water bears from the Quantum Realm in Ant-Man and the Wasp....

This Week In Trailers: Wild Rose, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men, Ghost Town Anthology, Drunk Parents, Styx By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 27, 2019 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Secret Ending Revealed, Which Leads To A Playable Game From The Movie By Ben Pearson/Jan. 3, 2019 4:00 pm EST “There are scenes that some people just will never see and we had to make sure that we were OK with that,” Black Mirror: Bandersnatch director David Slade said in a recent interview. Netflix’s interactive “choose your own adventure movie” experience provides a litany of options for viewers – so many, in fact, that Slade also explained that they shot a scene even the filmmakers can’t access....

‘Child’s Play’ Creator Teases New Details For TV Series, Which Takes Place After ‘Cult Of Chucky’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2018 8:30 am EST While a Child’s Play remake is coming together over at MGM, the franchise’s creator Don Mancini is hard at work on a TV series that will follow the events of the most recent horror comedy installment, Cult of Chucky. Speaking at 2018 Screamfest, Mancini offered up some new details about the series....

‘In Fabric’ Trailer: Are You Ready For A Movie About A Killer Dress? By Ben Pearson/May 29, 2019 7:00 am EST Talk about a killer fashion sense: here’s a film about a dress that will literally slay anyone who wears it. The Duke of Burgundy and Berberian Sound Studio director Peter Strickland is back with In Fabric, a giallo-inspired throwback about a woman who’s lured into a department store sale and comes out with a murderous item of clothing....

‘Jay And Silent Bob Reboot’ Had More VFX Shots Than The Original ‘Star Wars’ By Ethan Anderton/July 3, 2019 3:30 pm EST When people think of Star Wars, they think of big visual effects-driven action sequences with lightsabers, spaceships and laser blasts. But the original Star Wars didn’t have nearly as many visual effects shots as the saga films of today. Many of the film’s most amazing shots were done practically without any post-production visual effects work needed....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Plot Details Emerge After Trailer Debuts At CCXP By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2018 11:00 am EST The first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home was expected to arrive online over the weekend, but Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures decided to hold off until a bit later, maybe sometime this week before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse hits theaters. However, the first trailer still played down in Brazil’s CCXP comic convention, so details about the film’s plot have emerged....

‘The Magicians’ Returns To A Forgotten Character With “A Timeline And Place” By Vanessa Armstrong/March 1, 2019 1:00 pm EST Episode 6 of The Magicians, “A Timeline and Place,” addresses the long festering question: what the hell is the original Penny (AKA the Penny from Timeline 40) doing? Last time we saw him was in Season 3, where—stuck in the Afterlife branch of the Library—he had a chat with Hades that convinced him to take on the role of a Librarian in the eternal (and infernal?...

‘What/If’ Trailer: Love Is A Game For Renée Zellweger In Netflix Anthology Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 23, 2019 2:30 pm EST What if Renée Zellweger was in charge of your destiny? It’s not as enticing as it sounds in What/If, the new Netflix social thriller anthology drama series starring the Bridget Jones’ Baby actress as some sort of omniscient chess master who loves nothing more than to play with people’s lives....

Horror Film ‘Gretel And Hansel’ Adds ‘It’ Star Sophia Lillis By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2018 2:00 pm EST Sophia Lillis is sticking with the horror genre. The It breakout actress is joining Oz Perkins’ Gretel and Hansel, a reimagining of the classic fairy tale about two youngsters who run afoul of a hungry witch. Lillis played Beverly Marsh in It, and was recently seen in HBO’s thriller series Dark Objects. More on the Gretel and Hansel cast below....

Movie Crypt Podcast 48 Hour Live Marathon Will Feature Reading Of Rare George Romero ‘Mummy’ Script And More By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 11, 2018 10:30 am EST For the third year in a row, The Movie Crypt podcast will be hosting a 48-hour live marathon. Hosted by Adam Green and Joe Lynch, the podcast has gathered together an impressive line-up of talent, and will be dishing out some goods genre fans won’t be able to resist....

Road To Endgame: ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Is A Superhero Comedy About The Horrors Of Colonialism By Siddhant Adlakha/April 16, 2019 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Endgame, where we revisit the first 22 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask, “How did we get here?” In this edition: Thor: Ragnarok reinvents the God of Thunder through a Maori lens.)Thor’s first solo film, Thor, narrowly missed a coherent character arc. His second, Thor: The Dark World, didn’t give him one at all....

Showtime’s Roger Ailes Miniseries Cast Adds Sienna Miller, Seth MacFarlane, And More By Ben Pearson/Oct. 13, 2018 12:00 pm EST Sienna Miller (Layer Cake, Lost City of Z), Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, The Orville), Simon McBurney (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Annabelle Wallis (The Mummy, The Conjuring) have come on board, joining the previously-announced Russell Crowe, who is playing the role of Ailes, and Naomi Watts, who is playing anchor Gretchen Carlson....

The Morning Watch: Old And New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogies Compared, Bill Hader Meets A Personal Hero & More By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 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....