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Sequel Bits: ‘Jason Bourne,’ ‘Pacific Rim: Maelstrom,’ ‘Transformers: The Last Knight,’ ‘Space Jam 2,’ ‘The Goonies 2’ By Jacob Hall/Nov. 18, 2016 1:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Matt Damon isn’t even thinking about a new Jason Bourne movie right now. A Spartacus veteran joins the cast of Pacific Rim: Maelstrom. Isabela Moner describes her crazy first day on Transformers: The Last Knight. Don’t get your hopes up for The Goonies 2....

Star Wars Bits: Pentatonix Covers Star Wars, Phasma Strikes A Pose, Google Gets The Force, And More By Angie Han/Nov. 23, 2015 3:30 pm EST After the jump: Pentatonix does Star Wars at the American Music Awards. Who’s Simon Pegg playing in The Force Awakens? Han and Leia get new Force Awakens banners, too. Captain Phasma looks super badass in a new image. See a life-size TIE fighter made of Christmas lights....

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi And Olivia Wilde Talk On Set Of ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2013 10:00 am EST One of the biggest selling points for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is its equally incredible cast. Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, and James Gandolfini are some of the most well-respected and popular actors working today. Among them there are two comedy legends, two brutal TV gangsters, and multiple award winners....

Superhero Bits: Agents Of SHIELD Season 5 Premiere, Ron Perlman Comments On Hellboy Reboot & More By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2017 5:00 pm EST Who are the best fighters in Injustice 2 and what can you expect from the first downloadable content? When will the fifth season of Agents of SHIELD debut on ABC? What did Ron Perlman have to say about David Harbour becoming Hellboy? What cameo is Arrow star Stephen Amell teasing in the season finale?...

Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, Hellboy, Community, The Avengers, WonderCon By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2011 1:00 pm EST Is Tom Hardy leaking a major Dark Knight Rises spoiler in a newly found behind the scenes pic? Will Acura be releasing Tony Stark’s car from The Avengers? Want to watch a Dark Knight/Batman Begins mash-up cut like David Fincher’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trailer? What would Hellboy look like in real life?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, X-Men First Class, The Dark Knight Returns, Man Of Steel By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2011 12:00 pm EST Why haven’t we seen many photos of Iron Man on the set of The Avengers? Curious about the Thor and X-Men: First Class Blu-rays? Would you like to have a Batman coffee table? How about look at fan art of Man of Steel, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers and The Dark Knight Returns?...

The Incredible Horror Comic ‘Harrow County’ Set To Bewitch Audiences At Syfy By Jacob Hall/Dec. 4, 2015 7:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Superheroes may be ruling screens both big and small these days, but caped crusaders and masked avengers are playing second fiddle to the little guys at your local comic book shop. While Marvel and DC continue to churn out reliably entertaining work, it’s the niche publishers like Image, Boom!...

Theme Park Bits: Guardians Appear At Disney World, Disney’s Animatronic Drones, Halloween, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit And More By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2014 1:00 pm EST Its been a while so I think its about time we catch up on the backlog of theme park news with a new edition of Theme Park Bits. In this edition: Guardians of the Galaxy costumed characters appeared at Walt Disney World Disneyland to open Frozen themed boutique Disney filed patents for a drone-powered ariel display system that could replace fireworks with animatronic flying characters....

This Year’s DC TV Crossover Is ‘Crisis On Earth-X’ With Evil Supergirl, Flash And Arrow By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2017 10:00 am EST With Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow all situated at The CW, it’s now customary to have all of the superheroes check into each others’ shows for a major crossover event. Last season was the first time Supergirl was brought into the mix, and this season, we’ll see new iterations of the DC Comics superheroes getting in on the action, this time as super-powered villains....

Why The Millennium Falcon Looks Different In ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 14, 2018 8:00 am EST Long before Luke Skywalker rudely called the Millennium Falcon “a piece of junk,” it was a sleek, clean vessel. Or at least, it was before Han Solo gets his hands on it in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story prequel film. Fans of the iconic spacecraft might have noticed how wildly different the Falcon was in the Solo trailer — white, shiny, and lacking its distinguishable mandibles....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Trailer Breakdown: Perfectly Balanced, As All Things Should Be By Ethan Anderton/March 16, 2018 11:10 am EST The brand new Avengers: Infinity War trailer debuted this morning, and it features a plethora of new footage of Earth’s mightiest heroes and the galaxy’s fiercest guardians coming face-to-face with their greatest threat yet: the Mad Titan known as Thanos (Josh Brolin). The new trailer gives us a better vibe for how the action plays out in the movie, including showing plenty more footage from the battle in Wakanda, as well as the fight on Thanos’ destroyed homeworld of Titan....

‘Avengers 4’ Will Be A “Finale” For The Current Era Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 27, 2017 7:31 am EST Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is promising something that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has never really had before: a finale. From the outside, the MCU’s future may seem uncertain, as the comic book movie studio keeps hidden the slate of superhero films that will hit theaters after the climactic Avengers 4....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Director J.A. Bayona On Bringing Suspense Back To The Franchise [Set Visit Interview] By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2018 8:00 am EST In June 2017, I traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii to visit the set of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. This week we have been running a ton of coverage from this visit. Yesterday, it began with our interview with producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley. Today, we bring you our sitdown discussion with director J....

‘Puppet Master’ Reboot On The Way From ‘Transformers’ Producer And ‘Bone Tomahawk’ Writer By Jacob Hall/May 2, 2016 1:30 pm EST In retrospect, in was inevitable. Someone, someday, was going to reboot the Puppet Master series. All long-running horror movie franchises follow the same pattern: unlikely early success leads to annualized sequels, annualized sequels lead to diminishing returns, diminishing returns lead to nostalgia-soaked sequels a decade or more after the series seeming died....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Details We Learned From The Visual Dictionary By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2017 7:00 am EST Written by the Lucasfilm Story Group’s own Pablo Hidalgo, Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Visual Dictionary is a fun book showcasing many of the characters, props, locations, and vehicles from the film. The great thing about these Visual Dictionaries is that they give us new Star Wars canon information and explanations for things that might not have been clear in the film itself....

‘The Equalizer 2’ Director Antoine Fuqua On Denzel Washington, ‘Miami Vice,’ And More [Interview] By Jack Giroux/July 23, 2018 1:00 pm EST If we’re lucky, Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington will make Equalizer movies until the end of days. In a sea of +100 million dollar franchises, Fuqua and Washington are making a series unlike any other in major theaters right now. No franchise star today is as hard-hitting, violent, and as well-spoken as Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), whose eloquent threats and promises of vengeance are as crowd-pleasing as his fighting skills....

‘The Florida Project’ Director Sean Baker On Finding The Humor In Tragedy [Interview] By Marshall Shaffer/Oct. 6, 2017 8:00 am EST At my screening of The Florida Project during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, director and co-writer Sean Baker directed a questioner to Google the film’s title to learn what it means. “It’s been harder […] to Google it since the film came out,” he admits. “Now we’re the one that comes up on Wikipedia first, which is weird....

10 Awesome Things In The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Blu-Ray Special Features By Germain Lussier/Nov. 13, 2014 8:00 am EST Just as they do with their movies, Marvel Studios likes to give audiences a little something extra with their Blu-rays. For a while, that meant One-Shots — the short films that took place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, it means a bevy of special features like those you’d find on pretty much any Blu-ray....

12 Iconic Marvel Comics Moments That ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Brings To Life By Joshua Meyer/May 2, 2018 7:00 am EST Eighteen years into the comic book movie millennium, it’s easy to take for granted that there now exists a whole cinematic universe full of characters that Marvel Comics readers could previously only dream about seeing up on the big screen. What once seemed like a fan pipe dream has now become a reality with Avengers: Infinity War, a movie that brings together heroes from at least five different film series (nine if you count the MCU characters who currently only have one solo movie under their belt)....

2018 BAFTA Winners: ‘Three Billboards’ Takes Best Film, But Guillermo Del Toro Wins Best Director By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 19, 2018 6:00 am EST This past weekend, our friends across the pond doled out the British equivalent of the Oscars with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, or the BAFTAs. The honors sometimes serve as a prognosticator of what might unfold at the Academy Awards, and since the awards for Best Film and Best Director ended up being split across two different movies, that makes the Oscar race all the more interesting....