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TIFF Review: ‘The Fifth Estate’ Doesn’t Manage To Rise Above Soap Opera Level We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Fifth Estateis an extremely strange movie. That’s fitting, perhaps, given the central focus of the film: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. StarBenedict Cumberbatchis his normal awesome presence, but the story itself should have been redacted. As a story attempting to encapsulate massive cultural questions regarding government secrecy, privacy rights, dictators, and the misuse of power, it would seem thatThe Fifth Estatehad everything teed up to be a vitally important film....

Tommy “Tiny” Lister, ‘Friday’ And ‘The Fifth Element’ Co-Star, Has Died At 62 Tommy “Tiny” Listeris a longtime character actor who you may not know by name, but you would undoubtedly recognize his face, commanding stature, and deep voice from his appearances in various movies and TV shows over the years. Lister is best known for his appearances in theFridaycomedy franchise, the sci-fi action movieThe Fifth Element, and Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight, and he was still working regularly to this day....

Trailer Round-Up: ‘7 Guardians Of The Tomb’, ‘Genesis 2.0’, ‘Journey’s End’ And More To save you the trouble of clicking on multiple pages, we’ve compiled a whole bunch of trailers in on convenient location via a new trailer round-up. You’re welcome. Here we haveKelsey Grammervs. spiders with7 Guardians of the Tomb, the documentariesGenesis 2.0andDo You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, the World War I dramaJourney’s End, and the U.K. comedyFinding Your Feet....

TV Bits: ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’, ‘Preacher’, ‘House Of Cards’, ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ And More In this edition of TV Bits: Zachary Levi, who will soon be seen in the superhero filmShazam, just landed a part on the second season of Amazon’sThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The show is about a 1950s housewife who discovers her true calling is stand-up comedy, and starsRachel Brosnahan.THRsays Levi will play an “eclectic Manhattan doctor who suddenly starts orbiting the Weissman/Maisel world....

Updated: Will Green Lantern Move From Australia To New Orleans? Update:Not long ago a source mentioned thatGreen Lanternmight be doing some scouting in Louisiana, and I completely spaced it this morning. Same source wrote in just now to say that in fact, the production will shoot in the States next year, likely in or around New Orleans. Does that mean all the work is going to happen here? Not necessarily, but it is a sign that WB at least has a contingency plan....

Why ILM Was Different Whenever George Lucas Was In The Office Thebiggest revealsand mosthighly-anticipated updatesmay have been announced already, but Star Wars Celebration is still going strong through the upcoming weekend and there’s no lack of fascinating tidbits to uncover. The convention is held annually in Anaheim, California, with fans across the globe coming together to celebrate one of the most popular franchises to ever hit the big screen. /Film’s Ethan Anderton has been covering the event extensively, attending various panels and reporting back to share the most newsworthy items with the rest of us....

Why It Took Jonathan Glazer A Decade To Make Under The Skin Jonathan Glazer isn’t exactly the most prolific director. Terence Malick, who famously took a 20-year break between “Days of Heaven” and “The Thin Red Line,” is churning them out these days compared to him. Just three movies in 22 years have added an air of mystery to the idiosyncratic director. When will he strike next? What will it look like?...

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Is Streaming On Disney+ With Different Deleted Scenes Than The Blu-Ray It’s no surprise that Disney and Marvel made sure thatAvengers: Endgame, the highest-grossing movie in modern history, was available to stream on Disney+ on the new service’s first day. But it is actually a bit surprising to see that Disney+ is offering some new special features that didn’t appear on the Blu-ray, including deleted scenes involving an alternate version of the movie’s epic final battle, Tony Stark meeting with an adult version of his daughter (played byKatherine Langford) after his big snap at the end, and more....

‘Castlevania’ Producer Adi Shankar Making ‘Devil May Cry’ TV Show Set In Same Multiverse Last month, producerAdi Shankar(The Grey, Dredd, Lone Survivor)teasedthe following message: “I can confirm that I’m working with an iconic Japanese gaming company to adapt one of their iconic video game series into a series.” One of the trades reported that he was hyping aThe Legend of ZeldaTV show, but that was incorrect. Instead, Shankar revealed today that he’s working on aDevil May CryTV show based on the popular video game and that it will “be a part of a multiverse with” his Netflix animated seriesCastlevania....

‘Catfish’ Filmmakers To Adapt ’70s Satire ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ Henry JoostandAriel Schulman, who made the Sundance 2010 hit/talking pointCatfish, and went on to directParanormal Activity 3, are now set to write and directThe Monkey Wrench Gang. The film is an adaptation of a 1975 novel byEdward Abbeythat has been in development for over a decade. It’s a weird book, following a quartet of misfits who attempt to stymie industrial development in the southwest US by employing some unusual sabotage....

‘De Palma’ Trailer: The Influential ‘Scarface’ Director Recounts His Career In A New Doc DirectorBrian De Palmais one of the most influential and iconic directors that cinema has ever seen. His body of work includes films such asScarface, Carrie, Blow Out, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission: Impossible, Snake Eyes, The Black Dahlia, Carlito’s Wayand most recently,Passion. Now the filmmaker himself dives into his impressive ouvre in a documentary simply titledDe Palma....

‘Detective Pikachu’ TV Spot Reveals More Pokemon, Makes Pikachu Fart Detective Pikachu, a movie I still can’t quite believe exists, has a new TV spot, featuring more Pokemonandmore flatulence.Ryan Reynoldsis the voice of the lead character, a Pokemon who is trying to help a young man find his missing father. Oh, and I guess he farts, too. What is this movie? I don’t really know. Watch the newDetective PikachuTV spot below!...

‘Good Omens’ Season 2 Confirmed, With David Tennant And Michael Sheen Set To Return As The Divine Duo How do you adapt a book likeGood Omens? The Apocalyptic satire byNeil GaimanandTerry Pratchettwas one of those books saddled with the “unadaptable” label, but through divine intervention, and maybe some off-the-charts chemistry between leadsDavid TennantandMichael Sheen, Gaiman himself did it a few years ago. The Amazon-BBC series was a monumental success, so much so that a second season is on the way....