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This Week In Trailers: MILE… MILE & A HALF: A Journey Along The John Muir Trail, The Sweeney, Anton Corbijn Inside Out, Yogawoman, Practice Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Three New Pixar Series Coming To Disney+, Including The Very Adorable ‘Up’ Spin-Off ‘Dug Days’ Pixar is set to release three new animated series, as part of theinflux of new showsheaded to Disney+. Among those three animated series isDug Days, a spin-off fromUpfeaturing breakout character Dug the dog who trades the “dangers of the South America tropics for the dangers of suburbia,” as well as a newCarsseries, and Pixar’s first longform animated series,Win or Lose....

Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara Exits Company In Wake Of Scandal After six years leading the company,Kevin Tsujiharais out as the chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment. WarnerMedia CEOJohn Stankeyreleased a statement today explaining the decision: “It is in the best interest of WarnerMedia, Warner Bros., our employees and our partners for Kevin to step down as Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Kevin has contributed greatly to the studio’s success over the past 25 years and for that we thank him....

Will The Popularity Of ‘Pokemon Go’ Fast Track A Live-Action ‘Pokemon’ Movie? It’s been just over a week sincePokemon Godebuted on mobile devices and the game has taken the world by storm (at least in the territories in which it’s been made available so far).Pokemonhas always been a popular Nintendo property, but the popularity of this game is something fascinating and wonderful. People are leaving their houses at all hours of the day, walking around their neighborhoods and cities, meeting strangers, just so they can find Pokemon....

‘2307: Winter’s Dream’ Trailer: A Sci-Fi Flick Described As “‘Mad Max’ On Ice” It’s bold and risky to hype a movie by usingMad Maxto describe it, especially after the action masterpiece that wasMad Max: Fury Roadwas nominated for Best Picture. But that’s exactly what a new sci-fi movie called2307: Winter’s Dreamis doing, and once you watch the trailer for the movie, you’ll see that it’s at least accurate in terms of the style of the movie – but unfortunately, not the quality....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Adds Broadway Star Audra McDonald Disney’s upcoming live-action remake ofBeauty and the Beastis going to be a musical. And when you’re making a musical, it never hurts to get some help from a Broadway superstar. Tony winnerAudra McDonaldhas just signed on in a supporting role, joiningEmma Watson,Luke Evans, andDan Stevens. Her casting suggests the upcoming film will be taking some cues from the stage adaptation, which includes some numbers that weren’t in the movie....

‘Call Me By Your Name’ Trailer: Summer Lovin' Happens So Fast In The Sundance Favorite While plenty of ourfavorite films from the 2017 Sundance Film Festivalhave been hitting theaters over the summer, from the odd but charmingBrigsby Bearto the breakout indie hitThe Big Sick, there are still a few that have been held back from release. One of those movies is a wonderful coming-of-age romance set in Italy in 1983, and the first trailer has finally arrived....

‘Equals’ Teaser Trailer: Kristen Stewart And Nicholas Hoult Strike Up A Doomed Dystopian Romance Kristen Stewartknows a thing or two about forbidden love. She is, after all, still best known for starring in a series of films about a girl and her vampire boyfriend. AndNicholas Hoult’s done the whole dystopia thing — he’s coming out of the toxic wasteland ofMad Max: Fury Road. Now the two of them are coming together forEquals,Drake Doremus' sci-fi love story about two lonely souls who find love in a hopeless place....

‘Gunpowder’ Trailer: Kit Harington Leads The Guy Fawkes Drama The story of Guy Fawkes is about to get thesexymelodrama treatment, folks.Kit Haringtonstars inGunpowder, a gritty new drama based upon the famous Gunpowder plot of 1605, wherein Guy Fawkes and a group of English Catholics planned to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I. TheGunpowdertrailer give us a look at this new, dirt-caked drama in all itsGame of Thrones-ish glory....

‘Holy Motors’ US Trailer: Leos Carax’s Visceral Look At Human Performance Love it or hate it,Holy Motorsis a movie that gets people talking. Alreadya darling on the festival circuit,Leos Carax’s first feature film in over a decade follows a man played byDenis Lavantwho travels in a limo going from place to place and inhabiting different characters. The connective tissue is minor, each role is radically different, some are all together disturbing, and in the end you’ll be scratching your head about what it all means more than you did atThe Master....

‘Iron Fist’ Season 2 Photos Reveal Typhoid Mary, While ‘The Crown’ Introduces The New Prince Philip Netflix has released new photos from two of their shows:Iron Fistseason 2 andThe Crownseason 3. TheIron Fistseason 2 photos featureAlice Eveas new character Typhoid Mary, whileThe Crownseason 3 image provides us with our first look atTobias Menziestaking over the role of Prince Philip from Matt Smith. A post shared by Danny Rand (@marvelironfist) Iron Fist Season 2 TheIron FistInstagram account uploaded two new images of Alice Eve as Typhoid Mary, a villain from Marvel comics making her debut on the Netflix series....

‘Legion’ Season 2 Will Feature A Big Time Jump [TCA 2018] FX introduced their TCA panel forLegionseason 2 with a clip from the season’s second episode. David (Dan Stevens) awakens in a wheat field and finds a fortune teller booth. He quickly figures out that this is Amahl Farouk, who has previously appeared as The Shadow King in season one. “That was Navid Negahban playing Amahl Farook for us,” Hawley said during the panel....

‘Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Features J.J. Abrams And Kathleen Kennedy As Playable Characters Kathleen KennedyandJ.J. Abramsmay not actually appear onscreen inStar Wars: The Force Awakens, but they’re every bit as essential to the story as Rey or Finn or Kylo Ren — arguably even more so, since they’re the architects who designed it in the first place. So why should they have to sit outLego Star Wars: The Force Awakenswhile Lego Rey and Lego Finn and Lego Kylo Ren have all the fun?...