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Watch This Fascinating Video Interview With Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill

He might not be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens for all that long, but Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker is who drives the entire narrative—everybody in The Force Awakens is looking for him, and we know he'll be a huge part of Episode VIII. In this 70-minute interview with the Oxford Union, Hamill discusses his frustration with the end of Return of the Jedi (he ...

By  |  March 22, 2016

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SXSW 2016: A Q&A With Long Nights Short Mornings‘ Director & Star

Writer/director Chadd Harbold’s Long Nights Short Mornings stars Shiloh Fernandez (We Are Your Friends, Evil Dead) as James, a young man looking for love (or perhaps just sex) in New York through a series of connected vignettes, each titled with the name of the woman he's courting (I use this term loosely). These vignettes unfold over the course of what ...

By  |  March 22, 2016

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Alexander Skarsgård Reveals his Wild Side in The Legend of Tarzan Trailer

Still probably best known for playing the hunky bloodsucker Eric on True Blood, Alexander Skarsgård will likely get a few more fans once  The Legend of Tarzan bows.  Based on the iconic Edgar Rice Burroughs character, director David Yates (a Harry Potter maestro) has Skarsgård's jungle's prince now going as a man named John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, who's enjoying a life of ...

By  |  March 17, 2016

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Join Jack Huston for a Deadly Chariot Race in 1st Ben-Hur Trailer

Hoo-boy! Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch), a man who knows his way around an action film, sure looks like he had some fun filming Ben-Hur.  Paramount Pictures just released the first trailer for the film, which opens on August 12, and appears to be a visceral remake of the 1959 classic. Ben-Hur is a legendary tale of ...

By  |  March 16, 2016

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SXSW 2016: Writer/Director Joey Klein, Tatiana Maslany & Tom Cullen on The Other Half

Joey Klein’s The Other Half manages to be both a beautifully shot tone poem about grief and loss, and a deftly written drama about two people at loose ends who find in each other a glimmer of hope. The lead performances from Tom Cullen and Tatiana Maslany are outstanding, and writer/director Klein allows them plenty of room ...

By  |  March 16, 2016

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Steven Spielberg & Harrison Ford to Reunite for Indiana Jones

Disney just broke the big news—Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are reuniting for Indiana Jones, with The Force Awakens super producer Kathleen Kennedy on board to produce. This is pretty major news. Here's the full presser: SPIELBERG AND FORD REUNITE AS INDIANA JONES RETURNS TO THEATERS JULY 19, 2019 Indiana Jones will return to the big screen on July 19, 2019, for ...

By  |  March 15, 2016

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SXSW Alumni: Ed Helms’ Start in Austin

Ed Helms is yet another actor who can credibly claim his career started at SXSW. The star of The Office and The Hangover movies made his acting debut in Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, which was released at the 2004 South by Southwest Film Festival and won the Audience Award. The film is an improvisational ...

By  |  March 15, 2016

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SXSW 2016: Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele’s Keanu Brings Down the House

If fans had it their way, Key & Peele would have probably never ended. Yet when it did, after five seasons, all you could do was applaud; here were two guys going out on top after creating one of the best comedy sketch shows of all time. Before their feature film debut, Keanu, played here as a work-in-progress, a great documentary ...

By  |  March 13, 2016

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Hilarious NSFW Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Trailer Debuts

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the 10 Cloverfield Lane of comedies; it came out of nowhere and now it feels like an absolute must see. We're not saying this is the most hilarious trailer ever, but, it sure looks like one of the most hilarious of this young year, which is not surprising considering it's coming from The Lonely ...

By  |  March 10, 2016

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John Travolta Goes John Wick in I Am Wrath Trailer

John Travolta is looking credibly hard in this new I Am Wrath trailer, a revenge pic directed by Chuck Russell that's a little John Wick-like, only Travolta's Stanley Hill is avenging a lot more than a beloved puppy. Stanley Hill is a man whose life is upended when his wife Vivian (Rebecca De Morna) is brutally murdered by a ...

By  |  March 10, 2016

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New 10 Cloverfield Lane Clip Pits Mary Elizabeth Winstead Against the World

This Friday, March 11, all the speculation about 10 Cloverfield Lane will end and we'll finally know for certain what is happening on this now infamously sketchy street. Has the monster from Cloverfield returned (this new clip once again seems to suggest that John Goodman's character isn't the only thing that's menacing our heroine), or, has something else, tangentially related to ...

By  |  March 9, 2016

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Team Iron Man v Team Captain America in Two New Teasers

Although we're still two months away from the May 6 premiere of Captain America: Civil War, that hasn't stopped Marvel and Walt Disney Pictures from whetting our appetite for the ultimate superhero brawl. We published the new photos and poster they dropped just this past Monday, and now there's two new clips, highlighting the division between Captain America (Chris ...

By  |  March 9, 2016

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Watch the new International Trailer for Ghostbusters

We were thrilled when the first official trailer for Paul Feig's Ghostbusters dropped on March 3. Frankly, if you're not excited about watching Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones battle the supernatural in New York, well, maybe you need to have your head examined (or you're a humorless ghost). The new Ghostbusters movie, directed by Feig from a script he co-wrote with ...

By  |  March 9, 2016

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Game of Thrones Drops Epic Season 6 Trailer

We've got just a bit more than a month left before Game of Thrones season 6, finally begins on April 24. The big question, of course, is the fate of Jon Snow. In this new, ripping trailer for the season, GOT wastes exactly zero seconds putting the loveliest crow of them all right in center frame. There he is, just ...

By  |  March 9, 2016

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Leads MTV Movie Awards Noms

Star Wars: The Force Awakens will not be leaving the 25th annual MTV Movie Awards emptied handed. J.J. Abrams' galaxy dominating film leads the pack with 11 nominations, including one for movie of the year. It'll be competing against Avengers: Age of Ultron, Creed, Deadpool, Jurassic World and Straight Outta Compton. That's not all—the principals in The Force Awakens have also been recognized in ...

By  |  March 8, 2016

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SXSW 2016: A Brief List of Some of the Narrative Features We’re Excited About

This week we're headed to the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, where we'll once again run around like lunatics, trying to figure out how to parse 139 features (52 of them from first-time filmmakers), 89 World Premieres, 13 North American Premieres and 8 U.S. Premieres. This is to say nothing of the TV lineup, which has grown in recent years, ...

By  |  March 8, 2016

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Captain America: Civil War Drops Awesome New Poster, Images

Anthony and Joe Russo’s highly anticipated followup to their best in class Captain America: The Winter Soldier is, as you of course know, Captain America: Civil War. The film bows on May 6, and it promises to be an even more bruising superhero-v-superhero battle than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which pits “only” two ...

By  |  March 7, 2016

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10 Cloverfield Lane Drops Two New IMAX TV Spots

In one week, on March 11, the enigmatic 10 Cloverfield Lane will be roaring into theaters, which is exactly when (and not a moment before) we'll finally figure out what Dan Trachtenberg's film is all about. Today, Paramount Pictures (via IMAX) has released two new 10 Cloverfield Lane  IMAX TV spots. What we do know is it's not a proper sequel to Cloverfield,  We've ...

By  |  March 4, 2016

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Jennifer Lawrence Narrates Gorgeous A Beautiful Planet Doc

A Beautiful Planethas a bunch of things going for it; a stunning portrait of our marvel of a planet, an extremely potent visualization of the effect humans are having on Earth, and the narration by one of the most beloved actresses on the globe, Jennifer Lawrence .Walt Disney Studios and IMAX released the trailer for their new nature documentary, and ...

By  |  March 4, 2016

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Patriots Day Starring Mark Wahlberg Gets Prime Awards Season Release

Director Peter Berg's Patriots' Day, starring Mark Wahlberg and J.K. Simmons, centered on the horrific 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, has been slated for a December 21 release, a slot reserved for prestige films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The joint CBS films and Lionsgate project looks at the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the ...

By  |  March 3, 2016