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Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Reboot Finds Its Director In Bassam Tariq By Chris Evangelista/July 19, 2021 12:53 pm EST The Blade reboot set to star Mahershala Ali as the ass-kicking Daywalker himself has found a director. Bassam Tariq, who helmed the upcoming Riz Ahmed film Mogul Mowgli, is in talks to take on the Marvel movie. Stacy Osei-Kuffour is penning the script, which will resurrect the half-human/half-vampire Blade within the continuity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Movie Budgets: How Much Did ‘The Hobbit’ Trilogy Cost To Make? By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2014 9:30 am EST A movie’s budget has little correlation to success or quality. Films that costs just tens of thousands of dollars have gone on to great success; probably more films that cost tens of millions of dollars have failed horribly. It’s when films that cost hundreds of millions of dollars fail horribly that studios start worrying about their well-being....

Pen15 Creators Maya Erskine And Anna Konkle Explain Why They’re Ending The Show Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 3, 2021 8:52 am EST Earlier this week the heartbreaking news was announced that after two seasons, the Hulu coming-of-age comedy “Pen15” was coming to an end. Created by and starring Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as their 13-year-old selves, “Pen15” was a nostalgic journey back to the middle school experience of the 2000s, capturing all of the cringeworthy landmarks of puberty and transitioning into the terrifying world of our teen years....

Superhero Bits: William Shakespeare’s Avengers, Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie Would Have Had Batgirl & More By Ethan Anderton/March 25, 2021 6:00 pm EST Will you read William Shakespeare’s version of the Avengers movies? Want to learn how to drawn Daredevil? Who is playing Black Mask in the second season of Batwoman? Want to see a WandaVision credits sequence in the style of the sitcom Friends? How would Batgirl have popped up in Ben Affleck’s abandoned Batman movie?...

The Batman Official Synopsis Calls Bruce Wayne A ‘Disillusioned, Desperate Vigilante’ Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 4, 2021 2:12 pm EST Imagine life as Batman. You’re Bruce Wayne: wracked by PTSD, trying to do the right thing and clean up your city of rampant crime and corruption, flying around looking all cool and stuff in the middle of the night, and bam! You’re suddenly condemned to a controversial public image where people sling around hurtful words like “disillusioned, desperate vigilante” at you all the time....

The Blacklist Season 9: Release Date, Cast, And More NBC By Ryan Scott/Sept. 10, 2021 10:45 am EST NBC scored a big hit with “The Blacklist” back in 2013. Going on a decade later, the series is still going strong. Despite some big changes heading into its ninth season, such as a major cast shake-up and a change in showrunner, the ninth season is on the horizon as part of the network’s fall lineup....

The Morning Watch: A Physicist Explains The Marvel Multiverse, ‘Masters Of The Universe: Revelation’ Trailer Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2021 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, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.)...

The Morning Watch: Daisy Ridley Geeks Out Over ‘Matilda’, Celebrating 25 Years Of ‘Muppet Treasure Island’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2021 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....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Clifford’ Bombed Hard, But Charles Grodin And Martin Short Are Hysterical By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2021 7:00 am EST Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: CliffordWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Smart, hyperactive and dangerous 10-year-old Clifford (Martin Short) has a lifelong dream: to visit the Dinosaur World theme park, no matter what it takes to get there....

Website Launched For ‘Monsters University,’ The College By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2012 3:15 pm EST Monsters University is now online. The University, not the movie. Disney has launched the official “.edu” website for the university at the center of their 2013 film, Monsters University, and it’s a rich, detailed and clever take on the college website complete with some Pixar charm. Read about upcoming events, admission policies, social activities and Greek Life, purchase merch in the school store, you name it it’s probably on there....

Will There Be A Lovecraft Country Season 2? HBO By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 2, 2021 7:11 pm EST The first season of HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” received rave reviews and more than a few awards. Given the show’s popularity, it seemed like having a second season of the Misha Green-helmed show would be a no-brainer. HBO, however, passed on Green’s pitch for the second season. Does this mean that we’ll never see a season 2 of “Lovecraft Country”?...

Will There Be A Sequel To Hobbs & Shaw? Here’s What We Know Universal Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2021 2:38 pm EST (Welcome to Will There Be a Sequel?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) The “Fast and Furious” franchise has become one of the biggest box office draws of the 21st century. Reinvigorated by the arrival of Dwayne Johnson in “Fast Five” back in 2011, the “Fast and Furious” sequels that followed were box office behemoths, pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars with each new entry....

The Batman: Hush Comic is a Bona Fide Classic To understand Hush, you have to understand the comic book story arc of the same name, which ran from December 2002 through November 2003. Following a string of several years of continuity-laden major crossovers — Knightfall followed by Contagion, Legacy, and Cataclysm, followed by No Man’s Land, followed by Bruce Wayne: Murderer? and Bruce Wayne: Fugitive? — Hush served as an accessible reintroduction to the comic version of The Dark Knight....

‘Black Widow’ Pays Off A Mysterious Line Of Dialogue From ‘The Avengers’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 24, 2021 12:36 pm EST What happened in Budapest? The city in Hungary was mentioned in a throwaway line in 2012’s The Avengers and has remained a mystery of Natasha Romanoff’s past ever since. Something happened there that tied Natasha and Clint Barton together inextricably, but what that thing was, we never learned. Until now. Black Widow, a prequel in which Scarlett Johansson will reprise her role as the super-spy, will reveal what exactly happened in Budapest and why Natasha is so “haunted” by it....

‘Blacula’ Reboot Will Resurrect The Legendary Blaxploitation Horror Character By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 18, 2021 10:27 am EST Blacula is rising from the dead once again. A Blacula reboot is in the works at MGM, which is teaming up with Bron and the Hidden Empire Film Group for a “modern reimagining” of the 1972 Blaxploitation horror classic.Variety reports that MGM, Bron, and Hidden Empire Film Group’s Deon and Roxanne Avent Taylor are teaming up to reboot Blacula, a modern reimagining that will pick up where the original saga left off with 1973’s Scream Blacula Scream....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Interview: Anthony Mackie Didn’t Know He Was An Avenger Til The Last Minute By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 2016 9:00 am EST No one is happier to be an Avenger than Anthony Mackie. The guy oozes energy and charisma, and is easily the most fun to interview out of the entire cast of Captain America: Civil War. While on the set of the comic book sequel in Atlanta, Georgia, we talked to the actor who plays Captain America’s sidekick Falcon, and Mackie did not disappoint with his responses to our questions, and we even answered one of his questions....

‘Invasion’ Season 1: Release Date, Trailer, Cast And More By Shania Russell/Aug. 10, 2021 7:52 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Aliens are attacking! But have no fear, the attack is fully fictional (so far). The extraterrestrials are making their way to Apple TV+ in the upcoming series, Invasion....

‘Luz’ Director Tilman Singer On How His Student Horror Film Became A Festival Darling [Fantasia Film Festival Interview] By Sarah Foulkes/Aug. 10, 2018 3:00 pm EST Let’s be real: most film students’ thesis films are mediocre, at best. And certainly most thesis films don’t get into Berlinale or Fantasia. So let me introduce you to Luz, a 70-minute feature written and directed by Tilman Singer. He’s a young German filmmaker with a hell of a future ahead of him if he’s given the opportunity (i....

‘Never Have I Ever’ Season 2 Trailer: Devi Juggles Two Boyfriends In The Hit Netflix Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 18, 2021 6:42 am EST Rarely have we ever been as excited for the return of a Netflix coming-of-age comedy, because Never Have I Ever was a step above the rest of the streamer’s deluge of teen-centric shows. Moving, surprisingly poignant, and very, very funny, Never Have I Ever is easily producer Mindy Kaling’s best TV series yet....

Snowfall Season 4 Trailer Snowfall season 4 will arrive on FX on February 24, 2021, with the first two episodes premiering on the first night, followed by a new episode each subsequent week. In this new season, “Business is booming in season four of Snowfall. It’s January 1, 1985. Ronald Reagan has won his re-election campaign proclaiming it is “morning again in America,” but in South Central, Los Angeles, it feels more like the sun is getting low....