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‘The Flash’ Director Teases New Costume With A Revised Lightning Logo By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2021 10:19 am EST Production on The Flash is currently underway in the U.K. It’s the first solo adventure for Ezra Miller as the Scarlet Speedster, and he’ll have some exciting company with him in the form of Michael Keaton returning as Tim Burton’s version of Batman. Director Andy Muschietti recently teased The Dark Knight’s suit from the set of the DC Comics movie, and now he’s given the Crimson Comet the same courtesy, revealing a tease of the Flash movie costume, including a revised lightning logo....

‘The Harder They Fall’ Trailer: Regina King, Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors Lead Ridiculously Star-Studded Netflix Western By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 24, 2021 6:49 am EST Regina King. Idris Elba. LaKeith Stanfield. Jonathan Majors. Zazie Beetz. Delroy Lindo. Those names should be enough to get you excited for The Harder They Fall, the exceptionally star-studded Western from director Jeymes Samuel. But if they aren’t enough, check out the trailer for the Netflix Western, and revel in watching some of our greatest Black actors currently working today shoot up a train, a town, and plenty of other places....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Early Buzz: The Director’s Cut Leaves The Theatrical Cut In The Dust By Ethan Anderton/March 14, 2021 4:44 pm EST The first social media reactions for Zack Snyder’s Justice League have hit the web, and it sounds like fans are going to be extremely satisfied with the director’s cut of the DC Comics movie. The word “epic” and “masterpiece” are thrown around rather liberally, but even without hyperbole, the reactions are rather positive overall....

2021 Oscars Winners: ‘Nomadland’ Wins Best Picture In A Ceremony That Certainly Shook Things Up By Ethan Anderton/April 25, 2021 8:30 pm EST The 93rd Academy Awards aired live on ABC on Sunday evening, rewarding the best achievements in cinema from the past year, and what a strange year it was. Although the coronavirus pandemic certainly made the year in film much less exciting, mostly because movie theaters were closed for a large chunk of it, there were still plenty of phenomenal films that deserved our attention....

47 Ronin Sequel Starring Mark Dacascos And Anna Akana Has Started Filming Lionsgate By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 4, 2021 5:41 pm EST In 2013, Variety listed “47 Ronin” as one of Hollywood’s biggest box office bombs of the year. The film was the last Keanu Reeves vehicle to hit before “John Wick,” which birthed a new action franchise and helped bring about a career resurgence for the actor. You might not think of “47 Ronin” as a franchise in the way of “John Wick” or “The Matrix,” both of which have four-quels starring Reeves in the pipeline....

Article Round-Up: Sex And The City 2 Takedowns By David Chen/May 29, 2010 9:35 am EST Every now and then, a movie comes around that receives nearly universal derision and spawns a wealth of delightfully vicious, brutal film criticism (Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen comes to mind). This week, that film is Sex and the City 2, whose creatively written reviews seem like they’re much more fun to read than the leaden 2....

Disney Animated Movie Timeline: Chronological Order Based On Historical Setting By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2014 8:00 am EST Disney fan Aish has put together an infographic mapping most of the Disney animated movies in a chronological timeline based on the order of historical setting. The graphic sorts almost 50 films into 47 time periods. Not all of the Disney animation catalog is included, specifically the package films. Aish notes: Some films, eg The Lion King, are impossible to pin down exactly and some, like Aladdin and Treasure Planet, are anachronistic, so these are estimations....

Dune: Part Two Will Begin Filming In July 2022 Warner Bros. Pictures By Max Evry/Nov. 8, 2021 10:25 am EST While attending a special screening and Q&A for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune” at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in Los Angeles this past Saturday, The Film Stage’s Josh Encinias made note that the film’s producer Mary Parent confirmed that the recently greenlit “Dune: Part Two” will begin filming on July 18, 2022....

Edgar Ramirez, Toby Kebbell And Hayley Atwell In Talks To Join ‘Wrath Of The Titans’ [Updated] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2011 1:45 am EST Update (by editor Peter Sciretta): Now The Wrap is reporting that in addition to Ramirez, Toby Kebbell (The Sorceror’s Apprentice) is in talks to play Agenor and Hayley Atwell (Captain America), Georgina Haig (Wasted on the Young), Janet Montgomery (Black Swan), Dominique McElligott (Moon) and Clemence Poesy (Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) are on the shortlist of actresses who are actually testing for the role of Andromeda....

Elon Musk’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Had Everybody And Their Mother But Only A Couple Great Sketches By Ethan Anderton/May 9, 2021 11:37 am EST Well, Saturday Night Live was hosted by Elon Musk this weekend, and it went about as well as you’d expect when a billionaire business magnate without any real performance experience or natural charisma hosts a sketch comedy show. That’s not to say it was downright terrible. In fact, it went a little better than I expected....

Everything We Know About Last Friday So Far New Line Cinema By Ben F. Silverio/Dec. 1, 2021 3:21 pm EST For over 25 years, the “Friday” movies have been intricately woven into the fabric of pop culture. Known as the launchpad for Ice Cube’s acting career, bits and gags from the original film are used today with many not even knowing where “Bye Felicia!” even comes from. And based on the amount of reboots and revivals out there today, you would think that another “Friday” sequel would be a no-brainer....

Fast & Furious 10 Release Date Pushed Back, Will Not Open In Spring 2023 Universal By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 14, 2021 6:51 pm EST Pump the brakes, “Fast & Furious” family, because the next installment’s going to take a little bit longer. The tenth and penultimate entry in the franchise was originally planned for an April 7, 2023 release, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal is pushing back that release date by six weeks....

Golden Globes 2022: NBC Will Not Air The Award Show Because Of Controversies Surrounding The Hollywood Foreign Press Association By Ben Pearson/May 10, 2021 12:30 pm EST NBC released this statement today, revealing that it will not be involved with the Golden Globes 2022 ceremony: “We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform. However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right....

LOL: Kevin Smith Reveals Casey Affleck’s Harsh Review Of ‘Jersey Girl’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2017 5:00 am EST Though plenty of people make jokes at the expense of Kevin Smith nowadays, more often than not the filmmaker is first to poke fun at himself, especially with regards to the kinds of movies he makes. One of his favorite targets from his own career is Jersey Girl, a film released in the spring of 2004 that didn’t get very good reviews and only earned $36 million at the box office on a budget of $35 million....

Moon Knight First Look: Oscar Isaac Enters The MCU Marvel Studios By Anya Stanley/Nov. 12, 2021 1:38 pm EST Disney+ Day is finally here, a day unrolling new announcements of upcoming Disney and Marvel projects, as well as everything that falls under the Disney umbrella (she said, refreshing the page for possible “Predator” news). The streaming service is celebrating its second year running (and over 30 million downloads) with a brand new series introducing us to a long-beloved comic book character, played by a beloved actor already familiar with Disney via the “Star Wars” franchise....

Netflix Games Will Begin Its Official Rollout Tomorrow United Artists By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 2, 2021 4:27 pm EST We knew that Netflix was branching out into games, but the details have been kept quiet. Would they simply release more of their interactive content via the Netflix app, like “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” or “Escape the Undertaker”? Or would they start making true blue AAA video games to release in some other way?...

New Eternals TV Spot Highlights Its Sense Of Humor Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 5, 2021 3:54 pm EST The days are ticking down until “Eternals” releases in theaters, which inevitably means new TV spots are landing on social media on a near-daily basis. Most tend to recycle previously-released footage with one or two new shots briefly thrown into the mix. But every now and then, one stands out from the crowd — like this most recent one for “Eternals” spotlighting Marvel’s first gay couple....

Mr. Charles Clay — The Immortal Story Altura Films Welles’ adaptation of Karen Blixen’s short story is both his briefest film, at 60 minutes, and the first film he shot in color. While Mr. Clay, Welles’ wealthy merchant character, is in no way sympathetic, his story is still tragic, because he clearly yearns for something beyond the confines of the life that he’s chosen, even though his self-imposed limits won’t allow him to seek it out....

The Morning Watch: Animators React To Fantasia, Halloween Kills Honest Trailer & More Disney By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2021 8:05 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, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, see how the gang from Corridor Crew reacts to the best sequence from “Fantasia,” and a few other pieces of animation....

The New ‘Scream’ Movie Shot Multiple Versions To Kill Spoilers By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 15, 2021 5:30 pm EST Fake scripts with dummy endings is not a new trick in Hollywood, nor in the Scream franchise, which is known for having big twist endings. In fact, the production team for the new Scream movie (infuriatingly, just called Scream) led by Ready or Not directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, confirmed that they handed out several fake versions of the script to the cast during filming to keep the movie’s ending a secret....