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The Water Cooler: Seeing ‘Hamilton’ In L.A., An Enthralling Japanese Reality Show, And A Puppy Named Gizmo By /Film Staff/Oct. 20, 2017 2:00 pm EST Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Peter Sciretta adopts a new puppy, Ben Pearson sees Hamilton, Hoai-Tran Bui checks out a relaxing Japanese reality show, Chris Evangelista searches for spooky fun, and Jacob Hall buys some irresponsible Anchorman art....

Theme Park News: Universal Studios May Close ‘The Revenge Of The Mummy’ And Open A ‘The Secret Lives Of Pets’ Ride By Jacob Hall/Dec. 30, 2015 10:00 am EST With Disney theme parks are currently undergoing their most radical changes in decades to accommodate new Star Wars-themed attractions, and you just know that their chief rival, Universal Studios, must have a few big plans up its sleeve. A new version of their massively popular Wizarding World of Harry Potter at the Hollywood park is not enough....

This Week In Trailers: Little Men, Thank You For Playing, My Love, Don’t Cross That River, The Land, Chasing Asylum By Christopher Stipp/May 14, 2016 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?...

This Week In Trailers: True Trans With Laura Jane Grace, Chasing Notes, Here Comes The Night, Filmage: The Story Of Descendents/All, Money For Nothing: A History Of The Music Video By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 6, 2014 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?...

This Week In Trailers: We Were Here, Sidewalls, The Road, Keep Our Secrets, Elevate, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 29, 2011 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TV Bits: ‘Game Of Thrones,’ ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Fear The Walking Dead,’ ‘American Gods’ By Jacob Hall/March 25, 2016 1:00 pm EST In today’s edition of TV Bits: Entertainment Weekly celebrates the women of Game of Thrones. Go behind the scenes of Fear the Walking Dead. A new The Walking Dead teaser reveals Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan. American Gods casts three new cast members. The first season of Fear the Walking Dead concluded with the cast conspiring to get on a boat and escape the zombie apocalypse by heading out into the Pacific Ocean....

UPDATE: Mark Wahlberg Donating ‘All The Money’ Reshoots Paycheck To #TimesUp Legal Fund By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 13, 2018 10:15 am EST UPDATE: The controversy behind this pay discrepancy has come to an end with Mark Wahlberg doing the right thing. Read the full update at the end of our story. As the pay gap debate continues to gain steam in the wake of news that Michelle Williams was paid less than 1% of Mark Wahlberg’s paycheck for the All the Money in the World reshoots, more details emerge about Wahlberg’s deal over his fee....

Why ‘Redwall’ Should Be The Next Huge Movie Series By Josh Spiegel/April 19, 2017 9:30 am EST In an ideal world, Hollywood would focus entirely on wholly original films, from low-budget dramas to big-budget action/adventure/science-fiction stories. When the industry does go back to original storytelling, it can often yield major successes; we’re only a couple months removed from the low-budget original horror smash Get Out, released by Universal Pictures. But hoping only gets you so far....

Yoda’s Past Adventures Will Finally Be Explored In New ‘Star Wars’ Comics By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2016 8:00 am EST When it was first revealed that Disney would be making standalone anthology movies in the Star Wars universe, one of the many rumored projects in development included a Yoda film which would have been focused on the master Jedi in his early years. We even heard rumors of filmmaker Zack Snyder pitching Lucasfilm on a Seven Samurai-style movie which would have featured a younger Yoda....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Sneak To Air On ABC In March By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2014 10:08 am EST Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron won’t be out for 14 months, but audiences will get their first sneak peak on TV in 3 weeks. ABC will air a one-hour special called Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe on March 18 at 8 p.m. In it, fans will get an inside look at the studio, including sneak peaks of their next three films: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and, yes, Avengers: Age of Ultron....

‘Black Klansman’ Trailer: Spike Lee And Jordan Peele Unite, And The Early Reactions Are In By Ben Pearson/May 14, 2018 1:08 pm EST Focus Features has just unveiled the first trailer for a new undercover thriller called Black Klansman – or BlacKkKlansman, if you prefer its stylized title. John David Washington (Ballers) stars alongside Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in this incredible true story of a black police officer who infiltrated the notorious Ku Klux Klan hate group in the 1970s, and that’s not the only notable pairing of this film – it also teams producer Jordan Peele (Get Out) with director Spike Lee....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Trailer Breakdown: Here’s What You May’ve Missed By Jacob Hall/May 8, 2017 12:30 pm EST The Blade Runner 2049 trailer arrived earlier today and it is a glorious thing. Filled with stunning and beautiful moments, the film being advertised here certainly looks like a worthy successor to 1982’s Blade Runner, which is nothing short of a masterpiece. And since there’s so much going on here, there’s only one thing to do – we must go through the whole thing frame-by-frame....

‘Free Fire’ Clip: Sharlto Copley Has Some Nice Cardboard Armor By Ethan Anderton/April 21, 2017 2:30 pm EST If you’re lucky, this weekend brings the action shoot’em up flick Free Fire to a theater near you. It’s the latest film from High Rise and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley. But don’t worry if you think the filmmaker’s work is a little too weird or twisted for your tastes, because this is easily his most accessible film yet....

‘Little Birds’ Trailer - Juno Temple Wilts In Former Gang Leader’s Sundance Hit By Angie Han/April 9, 2012 4:00 pm EST For the past several years, Juno Temple has alternated between mainstream projects and indie fare. And though 2012’s shaping up to be her biggest year yet, her basic M.O. is no different. Temple is poised to make her biggest splash yet in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises as Catwoman pal Holly Robinson, but first, she’ll be leading the indie coming-of-age tale Little Birds....

‘Logan’ Screenwriter Scott Frank On Finishing His Debut Novel ‘Shaker’ Fifteen Years After He Began [Interview] By Jack Giroux/March 14, 2017 9:00 am EST Oh, great, that’s the idea. You’re supposed to feel for that poor guy. Did you first start with the character or the story? I started with him, with somebody who grew up to be the person that they were totally not supposed to be. I thought that would be kind of interesting and so I started with that....

‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Early Buzz: Chris McQuarrie Does It Again With Another Wildly Entertaining Sequel By Ben Pearson/July 9, 2018 1:30 pm EST Until now, each entry in Tom Cruise’s ongoing Mission: Impossible franchise has been directed by a different person. But that changes with this month’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the first entry to bring back a returning filmmaker in writer/director Christopher McQuarrie. This is one of /Film’s most anticipated movies of the year, and now the first Mission Impossible Fallout early buzz has arrived from the film’s premiere in Paris....

‘Piercing’ Review: A Kinky Tale Of Murder Plans Gone Awry [Sundance] By Steven Prokopy/Jan. 27, 2018 10:00 am EST It’s clear from the very beginning of director Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing that he wants us on edge. He opens with a shot of a new father Reed (Christopher Abbott) standing over his infant son with an ice pick just inches from the child’s face. Reed snaps himself out of what seems like a trance and finishes packing for what he tells his wife (Laia Costa) is a business trip but is, in fact, a carefully planned and well-rehearsed killing of a total stranger, complete with a murder kit that we get to know well over the course of the film....

‘Sharp Objects’ Inches Us ‘‘Closer’’ To The Truth By Meredith Borders/Aug. 6, 2018 7:00 am EST “Closer,” last night’s episode of Sharp Objects, dropped a shoe that we’ve been waiting to see fall since Camille first arrived in Wind Gap, Missouri. Her article about the dead girls of Wind Gap has been published, and while her angelic editor (he calls her ”cubby” – can you think of anyone less suited to a nickname like ”cubby” than Camille Preaker?...

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Character Bios Tease Fascinating Plot Hints By Ben Pearson/Oct. 24, 2017 12:30 pm EST We’re less than two months away from the release of Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and it won’t be long before we’ll be all caught up with the adventures of Luke, Leia, Rey, Finn, Poe, and the rest of the gang in a galaxy far, far away. We already know a considerable amount about what to expect from the new film thanks to an extensive EW cover story and our breakdown of the most recent trailer, but some new character bios from the film’s official Japanese website have surfaced and they tease some intriguing plot hints that are worth further examination....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Reveals A New Look For Eleven, New Plot Details By Jacob Hall/Feb. 9, 2017 9:00 am EST Everyone who binged the first season of Netflix’s Stranger Things last year probably walked away with a favorite character (I’m partial to David Harbour’s weary Sheriff Jim Hopper), but there was one character who left the biggest thumbprint on pop culture in 2016: Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven. The Eggo-loving, telekinetic government test subject was the perfect blend of innocent and badass, winning over the hearts of just about everyone with a Netflix login....