Everyone is Losing it Over the The Last Jedi‘s Porgs

As the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer was winning the internet yesterday, one particular new member of the galaxy was drawing the most heat—porgs. Like BB-8 in The Force Awakens, Ewoks in The Return of the Jedi, and, of course, R2-D2 in the very first A New Hope, there’s always an inhuman star of any new film in the franchise,

New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Images Highlight Trailer’s Most Thrilling Moments

Still reeling from that delicious Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer? Yeah, us too. Writer/director Rian Johnson looks to have crafted something truly epic with his middle-of-the-trilogy installment, and the latest trailer highlighted the galaxy’s potent new countervailing forces; Rey (Daisy Ridley), and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Much of what’s to come is clearly riding on their shoulders, and the new trailer made it clear that while Ren has rage and power to spare,

Mysterious Boy Haunts Leven Rambin in New Tatterdemalion Trailer

If snakes and spider and bears won’t do it, Tatterdemalion is bound to scare you out of the woods once and for all.

EW premiered the creepy trailer today and it’s super unsettling. This one will take you back to the days of trying to scare your friends at camp outs with the scariest urban legend you know.

Leven Rambin, who you know from The Hunger Games and True Detective,

You Can Live in the House Where Voldermort Killed Harry Potter’s Parents

There are a lot of ways to get the full Harry Potter experience – take the studio tour in London, visit the Orlando theme park, spend two days watching the Cursed Child stage play. Now you can add live in the house where the boy who lived got his name.

The English cottage featured in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One where Voldemort killed James and Lily Potter is up for sale.

Talking With the Editor of the Cannes Palme d’Or-Winning The Square

This year’s Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival was the sharp, provocative satire The Square, written and directed by Ruben Östlund. It is the story of a museum curator surrounded by ultra-modern art who creates personal and professional chaos with some impulsive decisions. In part one of a two-part interview, the film’s editor Jacob Secher Schulsinger talked about his work in shaping the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKDPrpJEGBY

How did Ruben Östlund describe the film to you?

Sylvestor Stallone Returning to the Director’s Chair for Creed 2

Sylvester Stallone’s career took off after he wrote and starred in the boxing masterpiece Rocky, a film that launched an entire franchise and, some39 years later, inspired one of the best reboots of the decade, Creed. Now, Stallone has announced he’ll end this the way he started it – in charge.

The star announced he would be directing and producing the sequel to the 2015 smash starring Michael B.

Raw Power on Display in Sensational new Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

At long last, Disney released a new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi during last night’s Monday Night Football game, and it will obviously win the Internet today. This extended look at writer/director Rian Johnson‘s highly anticipated follow-up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens delivers the goods.

The trailer opens, much like The Force Awakens’ did, with voice over from the new trilogy’s big bad, Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis).

First Thor: Ragnarok Reactions Tease Hilarious, Thrilling Cosmic Adventure

While the review embargo for Taika Waititi‘s Thor: Ragnarok hasn’t been lifted, critics who have seen the film are allowed to react via social media (as they did for Blade Runner 2049), and those initial reactions are all hugely positive. Film critics are praising Waititi’s intergalactic romp as one of the funniest, most visually audacious Marvel films yet, which is precisely what we imagined would be the case when the super-talented Waititi came onboard. 

Recapping The 55th Annual New York Film Festival

Given the precarious state of the New York City subway system, I’ve been dreading the commute from my apartment to Lincoln Center, the home of the New York Film Festival. However, the selections that I’ve seen at the 55th edition of the festival thus far have, by and large, been so good that I find myself patiently enduring delays and smiling benevolently at people who accidentally jostle me. Here are some brief mid-festival accolades.

Best of (My Personal) Fest

The Square,

New Justice League Trailer Boasts Most Detailed Look at Super-Sized Film

This past weekend’s New York Comic-Con boasted some fairly fantastic stuff, and probably nothing was quite as big as the new Justice League trailer that Warner Bros. released, showing the most extended look at what director Joss Whedon has been up to since taking the reigns from Zack Snyder. The new trailer is more than 3 minutes of action, beginning with a haunting vignette that situates the film in the larger context of the DC Universe;

A New Day Dawns for Rick in The Walking Dead Seaon 8 Teaser

Last season of The Walking Dead took a major emotional toll on us all. I don’t know if we can take losses like that again, but here we go.

The season 8 teaser just dropped, and it’s looking far more optimistic than the opening of the previous season. Any signs of positivity are difficult to believe on a post-apocalyptic show where half the characters have died over the show’s run, but the 15 second clip does not reach the depths of despair Rick and the gang faced in season 7.

Blade Runner: 2049‘s Dave Bautista Set to Star in His Own Film

Whether or not you are a fan of the WWE, you have to thank them for the star power they’ve put on screen. Dwayne Johnson, John Cena, and now Dave Bautista – among many others – all segued from the ring to the red carpet. Bautista soared to stardom with his role as Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy. He’ll reprise the role in Avengers: Infinity War and apparently puts on a show stopping performance in Blade Runner 2049 that was released today.

NYCC 2017: Keanu Reeves Returns to Sci-Fi Roots With Chilling Replicas

At New York’s Comic-Con on Thursday, Keanu Reeves unveiled the first Replicas trailer alongside the films executive producer Clark Peterson and director Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Reeves, no stranger to science fiction films such thanks to starring in the game-changing The Matrix and, years earlier, the lovable Bill & Ted franchise, plays Will Foster, a neuroscientist in Puerto Rico whose wife and children suddenly die in a tragic car accident. Desperate to bring them back to life,

Gore Verbinski in Talks to Direct Channing Tatum in X-Men Spinoff Gambit

A new director is currently in negotiations to bring the mutant powered, card throwing superhero, Gambit, to life in an upcoming Marvel comic’s motion picture. Gore Verbinski, most known for his direction of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, is in talks to direct the X-Men series spinoff starring Channing Tatum, Deadline reports.

Verbinski plans to fill this coveted spot after Rise of the Planet of the Apes director,

Production Designer Serves up History in Battle of the Sexes

Oscar-nominated for her production design on American Hustle, which takes place in 1978, Judy Becker also designed The Fighter (set in 1976), Feud (1962) and Hitchcock (1960). Now she’s brought her retro touch to Battle of the Sexes, focused on Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) as she discovers her own sexuality in the run-up to her historic 1973 tennis match against self declared “male chauvinist”

Will the Green Lantern Cameo in Justice League?

The members of the Justice League have gotten some pretty cool solo spotlight leading up to the film’s release, like these dynamic posters. Fans have noticed one hero, however, seems to be missing in action.

Ok, not THAT hero. Henry Cavill’s Superman hasn’t been seen in any of the promotional materials, but we know where he is. His logo is included in the poster set and we fully expect his return from the dead to be a major plot point in Justice League.

Tom Cruise Back to Work on Mission: Impossible 6 After Broken Ankle

Tom Cruise may be one of the biggest stars in the history of Hollywood, but that doesn’t mean he takes it easy. Just seven weeks after breaking an ankle on set, the Daily Mail reported that Cruise has returned to filming Mission: Impossible 6.

Production had to be put on hiatus during Cruise’s recovery, but Cruise is back to his Ethan Hunt-level insane stunts in a role that has made the actor synonymous with risk taking.

Blade Runner 2049‘s Sylvia Hoeks, Ana De Armas & Mackenzie Davis on Living up to Iconic Original

How do you interview actors from a film in which you can’t really talk about the plot at all? This has been the central conundrum facing anyone doing interviews with Blade Runner 2049 stars ahead of the film’s October 6 premiere. Whether its Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, or Robin Wright, the stars of the film have focused on the exacting craft that went into making what’s already been hailed as a masterpiece (with special attention paid to the work of cinematographer Roger Deakins),

Here’s a Wild Justice League Rumor Concerning Superman

Here’s the thing about film merchandise; you can read into it like a crazy person (like we enjoy doing), or, you can just say, hey, this is nothing more than stuff and it doesn’t actually mean anything. Take, for example, this piece we published about how a Game of Thrones themed mug on sale at the HBO store had led to some confusion over what, exactly, the blue stuff Viserion shoots out of his mouth actually is.

New Justice League Trailer Dropping Sunday, new Posters Revealed

We’re inching closer to Justice League‘s premiere (a mere six weeks away), which means Warner Bros. is going to step up their promotional game. With that in mind, the studio has announced that a new trailer is arriving Sunday. This is the first new trailer since July, when they finally gave fans a glimpse at the action at San Diego Comic-Con. Since then a lot has happened with Justice League,