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Director Jon Favreau Shares The Jungle Book Teaser

Director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) shared a little peek at his upcoming The Jungle Book on Instagram, whetting the appetite of fans of Rudyard Kipling’s stories and Disney’s own classic animated film. Favreau's The Jungle Book is a live-action film, and from this teaser (a full trailer is expected today), there's reason for excitement. The Jungle Book centers on Mowgli (newcomer Neel ...

By  |  September 14, 2015

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Wicked Good: Black Mass, Spotlight & 7 Killer Boston Films

This movie season it’s the city of Boston that’s a major scene stealer What are the signs that we’re shifting out of sluggish summer into tweedy autumn? Changing leaves, cool nights and, of course, early Oscar forecasting. Coming straight out of the festival circuit two films—Black Mass and Spotlight—are attracting awards chatter that’s threatening to ...

By  |  September 14, 2015

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The Visit & 23 More Great Horror Films About Crazy Family Members

With M. Night Shayamalan’s The Visit opening today, his take on creepy, murderous grandparents terrifying the grandkids, we thought to take a look at movies that explore the most horrifying horror of all: family horror. Horrible Hubbies and Dastardly Dads: Do husbands really have to try so hard to make their wives go nuts? In ...

By  |  September 11, 2015

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Lady Gaga Terrifies in American Horror Story: Hotel Teaser

The hallways and rooms of the Hotel Cortez are alive in the new teaser for Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Hotel. The 30-second sneak peak gives us our first look at all the major characters. The teaser is titled ‘Hallways,” and as we take a trip through those creepy corridors we are introduced to the ...

By  |  September 11, 2015

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Meet the First Order

With more information trickling onto StarWars.com’s massive, universe-spanning database, we’re starting to get a clearer picture of the pecking order of the First Order, the latest iteration of the Galactic Empire. In The Force Awakens, it's the First Order that will be giving the Jedis and other assorted good guys (we're looking at you, Han, Chewy, R2D2, C3P0 ...

By  |  September 10, 2015

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Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett Smolder in Carol Trailer

Today the Weinstein Company released their first full-length trailer for director Todd Haynes’ Carol, the studio’s Palme D’Or competition entry at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (earning co-star Rooney Mara a tie for Best Actress with Emmanuel Bercot for Mon Roi.) An Official Selection for competition at the New York Film Festival and the BFI London ...

By  |  September 10, 2015

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A Sizzling Teaser for Season 2 of The Flash

The Flash returns to the CW Network on October 6, bringing back our favorite lightning-struck superhero Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) for season two. Here comes Jay Garrick, the first Flash (?), who has come to warn the current Flash and everybody else that their world is in danger! This prompts the reasonable question from Cisco ...

By  |  September 9, 2015

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Room Will Likely Break Your Heart

For readers of Emma Donoghue’s novel of the same name, the idea of watching a film adaptation of a book that was at turns devastating and impossible to put down begs the question; can I put myself through this again, but also, how could I not? Director Lenny Abarhamson’s Room premiered to some pretty spectacular ...

By  |  September 9, 2015

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Jake Gyllenhaal Loses it All in Demolition Trailer

Jake Gyllenhaal plays an investment banker on the brink after losing his wife in director Jean-Marc Vallé’s (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club) latest film, Demolition. Only it’s not quite as simple as that sounds. With a script from Bryan Sipe, Demolition looks at a man who finds that he wasn’t paying close enough attention to life, ...

By  |  September 9, 2015

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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Era Gets Off to Great Start

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert started with a bit of The Colbert Report patriotic absurdity—there was our host, joining Americans from all over the country in a duet of “The Star Spangled Banner,” from bowling alleys to mechanic shops to baseball fields—ending with an umpire yelling “play ball!” The umpire? Watch and see who it ...

By  |  September 9, 2015

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Watch This Avengers: Age of Ultron Blooper Reel

If you're curious how they were able to actually make Avengers: Age of Ultron, look no further than our interview with the film's production designer, Charles Wood, right here. If you're wondering what prominent authors and scientists think about the possibility of an sentient artificial intelligence becoming Ultron-like (evil, that is), you can read this piece ...

By  |  September 8, 2015

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Everest Opens Venice Film Festival With Thrills & Chills

The 72nd Venice Film Festival got off to a thrilling, chilling start with Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest. The 3D drama premiered out of competition at the festival, the first of several high-profile U.S. films playing alongside films by a slew of international superstar directors. Described by The Hollywood Reporter’s chief critic Todd McCarthy as a “gripping ...

By  |  September 3, 2015

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Three Seriously Talented Actresses on Star Wars: Episode VIII Shortlist

The folks over at The Wrap reported that Oprhan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s Olivia Cooke are all on the shortlist for Star Wars: Episode VIII. The film, to be directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, Brick) and set for release on May 26, 2017, ...

By  |  September 2, 2015

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Michael Fassbender & Marion Cotillard are Electric in Macbeth Trailer

Some roles are cast so well you cannot imagine another person playing them—in Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth, the two leads fit this phenomenon perfectly. Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in this decidedly dark (even for Macbeth) take on Shakespeare’s tale of a man destroyed by ambition and desire. Kurzel places these iconic ...

By  |  September 1, 2015

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The Danish Girl Looks Utterly Moving

The word “Oscar” has been unavoidable ever since people learned Eddie Redmayne would be starring in Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, playing transgender artist and pioneer Lili Elbe. Fresh off his Oscar win for his astonishing transformation into Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, all anybody needed to hear was "Redmayne" and "transgender artist" to grant ...

By  |  September 1, 2015

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Will Smith’s Concussion Trailer Drops Right in Time for NFL Season

As millions of fans get psyched up for the start of the 2015 NFL season, the sport’s brutality, and its subsequent, lasting effect on the players, is a fact that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore. And now comes writer/director Peter Landesman’s film Concussion, starring Will Smith’s as the real life forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, ...

By  |  August 31, 2015

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We Are Your Friends & the History of DJs in Film

Inventing the next big app and selling it to Facebook for umpteen billion dollars is so last year. If We Are Your Friends, opening today and starring Zac Efron, is to be believed, contemporary, money-minded millennials would rather make it big throwing the party, rather than get rich in order to get into it. Coming ...

By The Credits  |  August 28, 2015

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The Joker Comes to Gotham

“The laugh is fabulous. Use that.” This comes from Theo Galavan (James Frain) as he gives some advice to a young, increasingly psychotic Jerome (Cameron Monaghan), who is sliding, gleefully, into the man he will become—the Joker. Gotham is back for season 2, and at its best, the show has given the villains—all a lot ...

By  |  August 24, 2015

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Matt Damon’s the “Greatest botanist on this planet” in New The Martian Trailer

As we wrote the last time 20th Century Fox released a trailer for The Martian, there’s some very real science behind sending a manned mission to the red planet. A fantastic story appeared in the April 20th issue of The New Yorker, reported by Tom Kizzia, entitled “Moving to Mars,” about a group of NASA recruits ...

By  |  August 19, 2015

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Things Go Bump in the Night in 1st Victor Frankenstein Trailer

James McAvoy is Victor Von Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe is his loyal assistant Igor in 20th Century Fox's Victor Frankenstein. So that’s a pretty good start there. Told from Igor’s perspective, this seemingly kinetic take on Mary Shelley’s deathless classic looks like good fun. At 1:30 in, your first glimpse at a now very much alive ...

By  |  August 18, 2015