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‘Havoc’, The New Gareth Evans Action Movie Starring Tom Hardy, Adds Forest Whitaker To The Cast By Chris Evangelista/March 22, 2021 5:00 pm EST Havoc, the new Netflix action movie from The Raid franchise director Gareth Evans, has added Forest Whitaker to its cast. Whitaker joins the previously-announced Tom Hardy in the film, which follows a detective working his way through a criminal underworld to find a politician’s estranged son following a drug deal gone bad....

‘Red Dawn’ Trailer: Chris Hemsworth Creating Chaos By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2012 11:00 am EST Whether or not you like the original Red Dawn, a product of Walter Sobchak inspiration and notable Hollywood conservative John Milius, it at least has a specific ideology beyond the basic concept of “blow s*** up real good.” (Part of that ideology is a strong anti-gun control sentiment, as invading forces use firearm purchase records to find potential resistance, and of course the Wolverines triumph in part because they have weapons....

‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 Trailer: Everyone Looks Miserable In The Second Season Of The Hit Apple TV+ Show By Chris Evangelista/June 14, 2021 8:51 am EST Things are tense and everyone looks unhappy in the first The Morning Show season 2 trailer. The Apple TV+ series that stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon is returning in September, and based on this trailer, none of the characters are enjoying themselves. There’s even a creepy, slowed-down version of “New York, New York,” as if this were a horror movie....

‘Tower Of Terror’ Movie In The Works At Disney With Scarlett Johansson Set To Star By Chris Evangelista/June 23, 2021 10:20 am EST Disney has another ride they want to turn into a movie: Tower of Terror. The studio is reuniting with Scarlett Johansson, who will produce and star in a feature film inspired by the drop tower dark ride located at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Tokyo DisneySea, and Walt Disney Studios Park (it used to be at Disney California Adventure, too, before being turned into a Guardians of the Galaxy ride)....

‘Turning Point: 9/11 And The War On Terror’ Trailer Explores One Of The Country’s Defining Moments By Ben Pearson/Aug. 18, 2021 1:54 pm EST With the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks less than a month away, Netflix is looking to capitalize on the moment by releasing at least two projects that deal with that topic head-on. One is Worth, a drama starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci that deals with how the victims’ families were treated by the government in the aftermath of the tragedy....

Adam Driver Stars In Jim Jarmusch’s Upcoming Film ‘Paterson’ By Jack Giroux/Dec. 1, 2015 3:00 pm EST Learn more about the project after the jump. Not much is known about Paterson, but Jarmusch says the film has some comedic elements, which is expected from the director. He discussed the project with Indiewire while promoting Only Lovers Left Alive, and here’s what he had to say: Any Jarmusch fan knows the director has a real talent for selecting atmospheric music....

Avengers Actors Will Assemble For New ‘Interactive Dining Adventure’ On Disney Cruise Lines Disney Parks By Vanessa Armstrong/Oct. 25, 2021 3:15 pm EST The new Disney cruise ship, the Disney Wish, will have a lot of extra bells and whistles once it sets sail in the summer of 2022. In addition to a Star Wars-themed bar, the vessel will also boast a Marvel cinematic dining experience. This experience, dubbed “Avengers: Quantum Encounter,” is advertised as an ambitious dining event where Ant-Man and The Wasp kick off their first speaking engagement as official Avengers and show off some growing and shrinking objects before being interrupted by an heretofore unknown villain....

More than Rock’em Sock’em Robots According to The Hollywood Reporter, “BattleBots” will return to Discovery Channel with a season premiere at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, January 6, 2022. The bots, helmed by teams of human builders and drivers, will face off in the “BattleBox,” the caged fighting arena where these competitions take place. They will fight in a series of round-robins, eliminating bots in their class down the line until only two remain and a final championship can be held....

Bo Burnham Filmed A Musical Comedy Special During The Pandemic, And It’s Coming To Netflix Soon By Ben Pearson/April 28, 2021 2:00 pm EST Bo Burnham, the promising young man who recently co-starred in Promising Young Woman, is returning to his comedy roots. Today, Burnham revealed that he has filmed a new musical comedy special over the last year during the pandemic, which is fittingly called Inside. He says the special is “almost finished,” and it’s coming to Netflix soon....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 9, 2021 10:30 am EST Deadline has the scoop on Blue Sky Studios shutting down. They report that due to COVID-19, the “past year has been challenging for Disney on many fronts, of course due to the pandemic, not just on the studio side but with theme park closures and cruise line dockings as well,” and that operating a “third feature animation studio was no longer viable for Disney given the current economic realities caused by COVID....

Emilio Estevez Not Returning For Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Season 2 Over Vaccine Requirement Disney By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 5, 2021 5:57 pm EST Bad news, hockey fans — Gordon Bombay won’t be back for season 2 of “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.” According to Deadline, Emilio Estevez, who returned as the classic character from the 1990s “Mighty Ducks” movies in the sequel TV show, allegedly declined to follow COVID-19 vaccination policies and was removed from the second season of the Disney+ series as a result....

Everything We Know About The Donkey Kong Movie So Far Nintendo By Miyako Pleines/Nov. 23, 2021 9:01 pm EST Sometimes miracles do happen, and if you’re as big a fan of Donkey Kong as I am, then there is no doubt you are busy smashing barrels and stealing bananas with excitement over the chatter around an original Donkey Kong animated movie. The news, originally first reported on over at Giant Freaking Robot, comes on the heels of the upcoming “Super Mario Bros....

The Ghost of Egon Columbia Pictures “Afterlife” is the first foray into franchise filmmaking for Reitman, a director with a background in comedy-dramas like “Up in the Air.” In addition to that, it’s a movie arriving in a world that has been rocked by a pandemic over the last two years. Stiels continued: “One thing that is timely about the movie is yes, it is a comedy, but it is also about loss and grief....

HBO Max Offering Select Episodes For Free For Potential Subscribers By Marisa Mirabal/Aug. 3, 2021 6:29 pm EST Starting today, HBO Max is offering a new special feature to potential subscribers. The streaming service is attempting to increase viewership by revealing its slate and offering select episodes to stream for free. In case you’re an elder millennial like me who doesn’t know much about Snapchat, this essentially allows Snapchatters to watch free episodes of HBO Max programming along with their friends within Snapchat....

James Cameron Defends ‘Titanic’ Ending, Says Mythbusters Is ‘‘Full Of S***’’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2017 6:00 am EST If there’s one detail in Titanic that has been scrutinized over and over again, it’s the ending that sees Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) freezing to death in the water while Rose (Kate Winslet) sits safely on top of a door floating in the ocean. Physicists have attempted to determine whether or not the door was bouyant enough to support both Jack and Rose while others have tried to determine if Jack and Rose could both even fit on the door....

Kate McKinnon’s ‘Joe Exotic’ Series Casts John Cameron Mitchell As Its Tiger King By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 19, 2021 12:30 pm EST Variety reports that the Joe Exotic limited series starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin has cast John Cameron Mitchell to play the titular “Tiger King” himself. Mitchell will play Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel, the convicted felon and big cat owner in Oklahoma whose rivalry with Carole Baskin, the owner of Big Cat Rescue would become the subject of many a podcast and TV series, most notably Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness docuseries, which became a viral sensation early in the pandemic and prompted Hollywood to scramble to greenlight as many Joe Exotic projects as possible....

Kevin Smith’s Top 10 Movies Of 2006 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 6:02 am EST Everyone and their mother has posted their Top 10 Movies of 2006. Add writer/director Kevin Smith to that elongated list. While the director has only seen 85 of the 300 or so big releases of 2006, his list looks much like everyone else’s. THE DEPARTED: The One Everybody Else Liked Too LITTLE CHILDREN: The One That Would’ve Won Best Picture If Harvey Weinstein Had Released It Four Years Ago, Circa Miramax HALF NELSON: The One That Made Me Ashamed I Was Ever Identified as an Independent Filmmaker, Because This is Real Independent Film CLERKS II: The One I’ll Take S*** For, Pt....

Knives Out 2 Just Finished Filming (But Rian Johnson Really Wants You To Watch Annette) Lionsgate By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 13, 2021 2:37 pm EST “Knives Out 2,” the sequel to Rian Johnson’s delightful murder mystery, has just wrapped up filming. Johnson is understandably excited about that, but he’s also excited about other cinematic things not of his own making. Knives Out 2 Is Done and Annette is Good (According to Johnson)...

Marvel Superheroes Say You Should Get F**king Vaccinated In New Comic Marvel By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 26, 2021 1:38 pm EST In an ideal world, everyone would listen to science and respect the advice of their doctors — particularly when it comes to holding up our end of the bargain on an individual basis and behaving responsibly in the midst of a pandemic. That’s sadly not the reality we live in (maybe there’s an alternate universe out there where we all safely moved past this by, I don’t know, summer of 2020?...

Michael Scott’s 12 Most Redeeming Moments On The Office NBC By Scott Thomas/Oct. 21, 2021 7:33 pm EST In an exceptional article for Stereogum about Chris Brown and other “villainous” pop stars, Michael Nelson turned his eyes — briefly — to television. “We’re long past good guys in white cowboy hats and bad guys in black cowboy hats,” Nelson writes. “Now we root for charismatic protagonists from Tony Soprano to Don Draper even as they exploit, abuse and even murder those close to them....