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‘Glass’ International Trailer Goes For Full-Blown Horror By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2018 3:00 pm EST Another new look at Glass is here, and it’s leaning heavily into horror movie territory. It’s been interesting to watch the progression of marketing for M. Night Shyamalan’s new Unbreakable and Split sequel: some trailers have played up the superhero angle, some have looked more like mystery-thrillers, and now this, which sets out to give you the creeps....

‘Just Dance’ Is The Next Movie Adaptation To Try To Break The Video Game Curse By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2019 3:30 pm EST Just Dance is becoming a movie. You heard that right: the Ubisoft dancing game first released in 2009 will be getting a movie adaptation from Screen Gems. Maybe this will be the one to break the video game adaptation curse.Deadline reports that Screen Gems has acquired the motion-picture rights to Just Dance following a competitive bidding situation with multiple studios....

‘Maleficent 2’ Gets A New Title, New Release Date And New Poster By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2019 7:00 am EST I kind of dig that Mistress of Evil subtitle – it makes the sequel sound like a pulpy horror comic from the 1950s. As you can see above, October is when you’ll get to lay eyes on this film – October 18, 2019, to be precise. That’s a bit earlier than expected, as the original implication was that the film wouldn’t arrive until 2020....

‘Moonfall’ Will Give Roland Emmerich A Chance To Destroy Both The Earth And The Moon By Chris Evangelista/May 8, 2019 5:30 pm EST Roland Emmerich likes to destroy stuff – it’s kind of his thing. Cities, planets, Shakespeare’s career – he’s willing to blow it all up in the name of entertainment. Emmerich’s latest disaster-piece is going to give him a chance to kill two birds with one stone. Or rather, two celestial bodies with one very big stone....

‘Turn Of The Screw’ TV Series Headed To Freeform, With A Modern Day Setting By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2018 5:00 pm EST Henry James’ gothic horror novella The Turn of the Screw will be adapted into a new TV series for Freeform. So far, so good, right? Not so fast! The adaptation will also be set in modern times, which takes a little wind out of the story’s old school gothic scares....

West Side Story First Look You can practically hear the snaps echoing off this first image from West Side Story, which shows Maria (uber-talented newcomer Rachel Zegler) and Tony (Ansel Elgort) gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes as the Sharks and Jets glare at each other on opposite ends. This one image perfectly captures the gist of the musical, which tells the Romeo and Juliet-inspired story of two star-crossed lovers who navigate a romance among tension between rival gangs in the streets of 1957 New York City....

Apple’s ‘Foundation’ TV Series Loses Co-Showrunner Josh Friedman By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 19, 2019 10:30 am EST Apple’s Foundation TV series has lost one of its showrunners. Co-showrunner Josh Friedman has exited the upcoming series adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s groundbreaking sci-fi novels, leaving co-writer David S. Goyer as the sole showrunner of this ambitious, long-awaited project. The Wrap reports that Friedman has stepped down from the day-to-day responsibility of acting as a Foundation TV series showrunner, but will remain attached as an executive producer....

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ Movie Adds Olivia Wilde And Jon Hamm By Chris Evangelista/June 18, 2019 9:30 am EST Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell movie cast continues to take shape. The two leads – Paul Walter Hauser and Sam Rockwell – were added in quick succession. Now, Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm have jumped into the mix as well. Wilde will play a reporter, while Hamm will take on the role of an FBI agent....

Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Red Notice’ Moves From Universal To Netflix As Ryan Reynolds Joins Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2019 7:00 am EST One of the most expensive Hollywood packages is heading to Netflix. After a fierce bidding war last year for the Rawson Marshall-directed, Dwayne Johnson-starring heist thriller Red Notice ended in one of the biggest movie deals in years, the film is moving from Universal to Netflix. And just as this dramatic switch of distributors takes place, another high-profile star joins the cast that already included Johnson and Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot....

Lady Gaga Fans Are Trying To Sabotage ‘Venom’ Online By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2018 10:30 am EST While the early buzz from critics on Venom might be enough to keep some general audiences from heading out to see the Spider-Man spin-off this weekend, Lady Gaga fans are reportedly taking things into their own hands in an attempt to ensure the Marvel Comics movie doesn’t beat A Star is Born at the box office....

LOL: ‘Jurassic Park’ Gets Turned Into A ‘Fyre Fraud’ Style Documentary By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 7, 2019 5:30 am EST Right now you can watch two different documentaries about the disaster of an event called Fyre Festival. Netflix has Fyre, and Hulu made Fyre Fraud, and both give an extensive, laughable, and tragic look inside the work of notorious hustler Billy MacFarland and his failed upscale island. But this wasn’t the first highly publicized disaster that unfolded somewhere meant to be an incredible getaway destination....

Superhero Bits: Make A Spider-Man Mask With Moving Eyes, ‘Avengers 4’ Trailer Not Far Off & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 2018 6:00 pm EST Could the Avengers 4 trailer be arriving within the next few weeks? Want to see a Spider-Man PS4 player recreate movie posters and comic covers in the game? Did the studio have James Wan cut 20 minutes out of Aquaman? Want to make your own Spider-Man mask with moving eyes?...

The Morning Watch: ‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Design Process, THR’s Writers Roundtable & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 22, 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, go behind the scenes of the production design for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part....

Zachary Quinto Still Hopeful ‘Star Trek 4’ Will Happen Eventually [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Feb. 10, 2019 11:00 am EST At the beginning of 2019, news came that a fourth Star Trek film featuring the younger crew of the USS Enterprise had been shelved. The culprit was reportedly contract disputes involving Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth. However, not everyone is giving up hope on the sequel coming together. Star Trek franchise star Zachary Quinto was on a Television Critics Association panel for his upcoming AMC series NOS4A2....

‘Aquaman’ Gets A Spoonful Of Sugar From Julie Andrews By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2018 12:00 pm EST Aquaman has been completely finished for a little while now, with reactions from early screenings already hitting the web and other early screenings planned one week before the film officially hits theaters everywhere. But we’re only just now hearing that Julie Andrews is lending her voice to a certain character in the DC Comics adaptation....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Shot Fake Endings, Real Ending Was Planned Before Developing ‘Infinity War’ By Ben Pearson/April 9, 2019 11:30 am EST Marvel Studios rivals Star Wars and Game of Thrones when it comes to preserving the twists and turns of its stories for the public, and last year we even heard stories about how Avengers: Infinity War directors Anthony and Joe Russo went as far as to hand out fake scripts to their actors....

‘Dark Phoenix’ Clip And Featurette: Cranking Up The Tension, Leaning On Nostalgia By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2019 11:30 am EST This week, the X-Men franchise as we know it is coming to an end. Dark Phoenix will be the final installment of the comic book movie series that started all the way back in 2000. While the franchise was essentially rebooted in 2011 with X-Men: First Class, it ended up getting a deeper connection to the original trilogy of movies thanks to X-Men: Days of Future Past, making the original X-Men and the new, younger mutants intertwined in a confusing timeline of superhero spectacle....

‘Detective Pikachu’ Has Enough Foul-Mouthed Outtakes From Ryan Reynolds To Create An Entire R-Rated Cut Of The Movie By Ben Pearson/May 7, 2019 4:30 pm EST Ryan Reynolds has built an entire career out of being a charming-but-foul-mouthed wise ass on screen, so it’s not too surprising that he kept that spirit alive even while voicing a beloved children’s character. In a new interview, Reynolds has explained that there are enough profane Detective Pikachu outtakes from his recording sessions that, should the studio want to, a new R-rated cut of the movie could be created from them....

‘Jessica Jones’ Season 3 Trailer: Jessica Jones Solves Her Final Case By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2019 7:34 am EST The last of Marvel’s Netflix shows is going out with a bang. Jessica Jones returns with its third and final season this summer, bringing the era of the Marvel-Netflix partnership to a conclusive end. Watch the Jessica Jones season 3 trailer below. Jessica Jones Season 3 Trailer Jessica Jones tackles her final case in the upcoming third season of Jessica Jones, which Netflix has just announced will premiere on June 14, 2019....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Teaser: Cary Elwes’ Mayor Invites You To A Spectacular, Not At All Sinister, Carnival By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 27, 2019 9:30 am EST The small town of Hawkins, Indiana is celebrating the summer, but it wouldn’t be Stranger Things if those celebrations didn’t go…Upside Down. The third season of Stranger Things is the most festive yet, with the Fourth of July festivities promising a “spectacular time” for those attending the brand new Fun Fair introduced by Cary Elwes’ mayor in the latest Stranger Things teaser....