Rogue One Writer Tony Gilroy Joining Cassian Andor Star Wars Prequel Series

Rogue One‘s co-writer Tony Gilroy will be writing the pilot for a prequel series centered on one of that film’s characters, Diego Luna’s heroic Cassian Andor. Not only that, but Gilroy will be directing multiple episodes of the series, which he’ll be working on with showrunner Stephen Schiff.

Variety broke the story that Gilroy will be working on the still-untitled show that will focus on Luna’s Rebel agent in the years leading up to the events in Rogue One,...

A new Bombshell Trailer Reveals Star-Studded Fox News Drama

A fresh trailer for Jay Roach’s star-studded Fox News drama Bombshell is here, and it’s a doozy. Charlize Theron is really, really convincing as former Fox News superstar Megyn Kelly, and she’s hardly the only big name in the cast. This is not the first depiction of the toxic environment women faced behind-the-scenes at Fox News—Showtimes’ recent series The Loudest Voice, based on Gabriel Sherman’s book—depicted the many allegations of sexual harassment against Fox News’...

Watchmen Reactions Tease HBO’s Newest Thrilling, Epic Saga

The first reviews for Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen for HBO are in, and it’s time to get very excited about HBO’s next big series. It seems like the key to adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s iconic “Watchmen” graphic novel was to be as bold as they were in creating their 1986 masterpiece. IndieWire‘s Ben Travers writes that “HBO’s stunning sequel series wrestles with big questions about American identity without sacrificing big-scale entertainment.” ...

Ryan Reynolds Teases Unfortunate Conclusion to his Marvel Meeting

There are few actors in the business who have more fun with their own persona than Ryan Reynolds. Whether he’s in a years-long feud with Hugh Jackman, mocks the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s supervillain Thanos, or brilliantly skewers himself in various Deadpool promos, Reynolds is a one-man joke machine, making the most of his good fortune—and great instincts—as his career continues to soar.

Now he’s teasing a meeting he had with Marvel,...

Zoe Kravitz Will be Catwoman in The Batman

The cast for Matt Reeves The Batman just got even better. Variety reports that Reeves has cast Zoe Kravitz to play Catwoman, one of Gotham’s most intriguing characters, and a sometime antagonist, sometime love interest of Batman himself. The Big Little Lies star had stiff competition for the role; Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Joker, Deadpool 2), Eliza Gonzalez (Baby Driver) and Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) were all eyeing the role...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s Light Saber Duel Took Six Days to Film

There will be no spoilers here. We all already know there’s going to be an epic lightsaber duel between Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It was right there in the footage we saw that Disney and Lucasfilm released during the D23 Expo. It’s also right there in the poster. Rey and Kylo Ren have it out in epic fashion atop a ship on some storm-lashed planet...

The Second Frozen II Trailer Reveals New Powers for Elsa

We’ve heard a snippet of some of Frozen II‘s music, we’ve seen a meaty first trailer, and now we’re getting another look at co-writer/director Jennifer Lee and co-director Chris Buck’s sequel to their 2013 mega-hit. Disney has just released a second trailer for Frozen II, which reveals more of Elsa’s mysterious powers. It looks like the Queen of Arendelle is even more magical than we believed, and she’ll need every last bit of her new powers if she and her loyal sister Anna are going to make it through their perilous journey...

Here’s the First Trailer for Robert Downey Jr. as Dolittle

Robert Downey Jr. is back in his first major role since he hung up the arc reactor as Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame. Downey stars in the upcoming Dolittle, from co-writer and director Stephen Gaghan, as the man who could talk to animals. Dolittle is actually Downey’s first non-Marvel role since he starred in The Judge in 2014 (!!), and the first trailer reveals our first look yet at this reimagining of the classic story...

You Need to Watch SNL’s Instant Classic Digital Short Grouch

Sometimes you just know it immediately when Saturday Night Live has pulled off an instant classic. On this past Saturday night’s episode, host David Harbour became Grouch in a pitch-perfect parody of Todd Phillips’ Joker. It was the kind of video that highlights some of SNL‘s most potent strengths, which includes taking some hugely popular or talked about piece of the zeitgeist and distilling it down to its most absurd elements...

Zombieland: Double Tap Early Reactions Hype Hilarious Return to Zombie-Killing Form

We were pretty excited when we heard the gang is back for some fresh, and most importantly funny, zombie-killing antics. We were especially tickled when the first trailer revealed that our favorite zombie-slayers have been spending their downtime at the White House. Director Ruben Fleischer returns, along with his core cast of Emma Stone as Wichita, Abigail Breslin as Little Rock, Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee, and Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus in Zombieland: Double Tap. ...

Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Jake Bernstein on The Laundromat

Steven Soderbergh’s new film The Laundromat boasts a stellar cast. Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, and Gary Oldman are all part of Soderbergh’s latest, which is currently streaming on Netflix. Though shown through a decidedly absurdist lens, the film is based on some very serious and true stories about how the rich and powerful of the world manipulate and perpetuate a corrupt financial system. Longtime Soderbergh collaborator and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns adapted the script from the book “Secrecy World”...

Go Behind-the-Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

For Breaking Bad fans, finding out about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was like hearing from a long lost friend you had assumed was gone for good. Vince Gilligan’s twitchy, tumultuous five-season series was about as perfect as any show has any right to be. It is rightfully considered one of the best shows of the century, period. It left us with Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) gleefully, tearfully tearing away from hell in an El Camino...

It’s David Harbour Versus a Peacock in SNL Promo

We’ve already been enjoying the 45th season of Saturday Night Live, which started off the year with two great hosts; Woody Harrelson and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It’s also been fun watching newcomer Bowen Yang, who seems like a legitimate star-in-the-making. For the season’s next episode, your third host is Stranger Things star David Harbour. While the fate of his Stranger Things character Jim Hopper is a big unknown at the moment,...

It’s Road Trip Time in the First Official Trailer for Pixar’s Onward

They were last seen together battling side-by-side in both outer space and upstate New York in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, but now Chris Pratt and Tom Holland have an entirely different kind of epic quest to take on. Pratt and Holland play a pair of elf brothers who launch themselves on a mission to find their father’s missing remains—well, half of them—in Pixar’s latest Onward, from writer/director and longtime Pixar creative Dan Scanlon (Monster’s University)...

The Matrix 4 Adds Aquaman‘s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

The news surrounding The Matrix 4 keeps getting better and better. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who was so compelling as Black Manta in Aquaman and in this past season of Black Mirror‘s best episode, “Striking Vipers,” will be joining the rebooted Matrix franchise. Not only that, Variety has learned that Adbul-Mateen II has landed a lead role. He’ll be starring alongside returning champs Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss,...

Alicia Vikander is a Haunted Ex-Pat in First Earthquake Bird Trailer

Well here’s a delicious-looking new thriller. Netflix has just released the first look at writer/director Wash Westmoreland’s Earthquake Bird (produced by Ridley Scott, no less). The film is based on Susanna Jones’ novel and stars Alicia Vikander as Lucy Fly, an ex-pat living in Tokyo in 1989 who gets involved with a photographer named Teji (Naoki Kobayashi). At first blush, Lucy and Teji’s relationship seems to be that off two very intense oddballs who have found each other and eagerly embark on one of those edgy,...

Apple Lands A Christmas Carol Starring Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell

You can expect more stories like this now that Apple is in the original content game. The newest players in the streaming content world have just landed the rights to a live-action musical based on Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. The new film will be directed by Daddy’s Home duo Sean Anders and John Morris. Apple managed to best Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros. for the film,...

Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals First Look at Laurie Strode in Halloween Kills

There are few horror film characters more indomitable than Laurie Strode. As embodied by Jamie Lee Curtis, Strode has seen a shocking amount of carnage and horror thanks to that lumbering super-killer Michael Myers. Over the years, she’s become Michael’s main obsession and pluckiest adversary. Now we’ve got our first look at Curtis as Strode in this new image from Halloween Kills. Curtis shared this shot of herself on the set of the sequel to last year’s smash hit Halloween reboot. ...

The Female-Led John Wick Spinoff has Found a Director

While John Wick 4 is coming to theaters in May of 2021, Lionsgate is teasing out a female-led spinoff that will further expand the world of the titular super-assassin. Deadline reports that director Len Wiseman has been tapped to lead the upcoming film, titled Ballerina, which will focus on a young female assassin seeking revenge against the monsters who murdered her family. There’s already a script, by Shay Hatten (he wrote John Wick: Chapter 3 –...

Daybreak Trailer Reveals Netflix’s new Post-Apocalyptic Series

Netflix‘s upcoming teen apocalypse series has a little something for everyone. Fans of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Alexander Payne’s Election, iconic 1980s flick Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and pop music, in general, are going to find something they like in Daybreak. Netflix has gotten good—very good—at creating series based on teenagers en extremis. The Society, 13 Reasons Why and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before are well well-crafted and wildly different. ...