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‘Han Solo’: Donald Glover Officially Cast As Lando Calrissian In ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff Disney’sHan Solospinoff has found its Lando Calrissian. Over the summer word got out thatDonald Gloverhademerged as the frontrunnerto play Han’s smooth-talking, sweet-space-cape-wearing buddy, and today Lucasfilm has made it official. Glover joinsAlden Ehrenreich(Hail, Caesar!), who was announced to play Han Solo at Star Wars Celebration a few months ago. See the Han Solo Donald Glover announcement below....

‘Mission: Impossible 5’ Climbs Up To Summer 2015; ‘Monster Trucks’ Moves To Christmas Ethan Hunt will be embarking on his next adventure a bit earlier than expected. Paramount has bumped upMission: Impossible 5by five months to summer 2015. Meanwhile,Monster Trucksis being delayed by seven months so it can takeMission: Impossible 5’s old Christmas 2015 berth. More details on theMission Impossible 5release date change after the jump. Paramount announced today thatMission: Impossible 5will now openJuly 31, 2015, opposite Antoine Fuqua’s boxing dramaSouthpaw, Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi thrillerSelfless, and thePoint Breakremake....

‘Monsters University’ Trailer #3: Let The Scare Games Begin Disney haskind ofa big movie opening next week, and is using it to promote the other big movies they have coming up next. We’ve already seen the first trailer forThor: The Dark Worldand now Disney has released a final trailer for Pixar’s 2013 film,Monsters University. In this trailer, we get our first glimpse at the film’s bigRevenge of the Nerdshomage, the Scare Games....

‘Mr. Robot’ Season Two Trailer: It’s Time To Change The World Mr. Robotreturns to USA in less than two months. TheSam Esmail-created drama was a hit with both audiences and critics, and season two left the door open just wide enough with some mysteries that’ll keep fans coming back for more. Season one ofMr. Robotended with a major surprise, which, based on the lasttrailerwe saw, we’ll see explored further in the upcoming season of the acclaimed drama....

‘One More Time With Feeling’ Trailer: Andrew Dominik Directs Nick Cave In A Doc Playing For One Night Only Nick CaveandWarren Ellis' score forAndrew Dominik’sThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fordis astonishing. Once you’ve heard it, the duo’s beautifully haunting piece of music is impossible to shake. Almost a decade after Cave and Dominik collaborated on that epic, they’ve reunited forOne More Time With Feeling. The filmmaker directed a doc partially about the making of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' new album, Skeleton Tree....

‘Penny Dreadful’ Season 3 Trailer: You Think You Know Evil? Because I don’t really follow the Golden Globes or other awards coverage that much, I didn’t knowEva Greenwas nominated for best actress in a TV series forPenny Dreadful. It was delightful to learn she was, though, because Green is terrific in the Showtime drama. The show didn’t score any other nominations, but at least the actress' ferocious and heartbreaking performance was recognized for the excellent second season....

‘Pose’ Renewed For Season 2 At FX Get ready to strike aPosefor a second season. The critically acclaimedRyan Murphyseries about the rise of the ball culture world in 1980s New York has been renewed for season 2 by FX. And now that FX has renewedPosefor season 2, it creates an exciting new precedent for major TV dramas lead by a majority transgender cast. Just asPoseis about to close out itscritically acclaimed first season, FX has renewed the dance musical series for a second season, according toVariety....

‘Shoplifters’ Director Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Next Film Is A Korean Drama Starring ‘The Host’ Co-Stars Song Kang-Ho And Bae Doona Hirokazu Kore-edahas been diligently crafting award-winning fare in Japan for nearly 30 years, culminating with his recent heart-wrenching Palme d’Or winnerShoplifters. Lately, he’s begun to test the waters with international productions, first making the French co-productionThe Truth,a drama starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke, which marked his first project not in the Japanese language....

‘The Bad Batch’ Trailer: Keanu Reeves And Jason Momoa Go A Little Mad Max A one-armed protagonist sporting a Magnum revolver and smiley face pants, a pack of hungry cannibals, and a cult leader played byKeanu Reevesare the stars ofAna Lily Amirpour’s sophomore effort as a filmmaker,The Bad Batch. Needless to say, for a whole mess of reasons, we’re excited about her follow-up to her enchanting debut film,A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Featurette: How The VFX Team Pulled Off The Action Scenes The Falcon and the Winter Soldierlooks and feels like a Marvel movie, especially in its action scenes. And those high-flying action sequences couldn’t have been done without a grade-A VFX team. The Marvel VFX team gets the spotlight in the newestThe Falcon and the Winter Soldierfeaturette, which delves into the effects — digital and practical — that went into making the Marvel Disney+ series....

‘The House’ TV Spots: Jeremy Renner Stops By Will Ferrell & Amy Poehler’s Illegal Casino In just a couple weeks,The Housewill be open for business as the R-rated comedy starringWill FerrellandAmy Poehlerhits theaters. The film follows two suburban parents faced with the prospect of having no money to send their daughter to college, so their friend Frank (Jason Mantzoukas) helps them open an illegal, underground casino in his house for a month in order to make enough money to afford tuition....

‘Thor’ To Be Boycotted By ‘Conservative Citizens’ Group Anyone who has ever seenIdris Elbaact, be it in something brilliant likeThe Wireor even something awful likeTakers, knows he’s reason enough to buy a ticket for a movie. His inclusion inKenneth Branagh’sThoris one of the film’s most exciting pieces of casting, in my opinion. However, that opinion is decidedly not shared by theCouncil of Conservative Citizenswho plan to boycott the upcoming Marvel film because Elba plays the Norse god Heimdall who is generally depicted as being white....

‘Vivo’ Trailer: Lin-Manuel Miranda Stars In A Musical Love Letter To Cuba Is it just me, or has it been a while since we all went on an elaborate adventure with a cute, animated animal? Well, never fear, Disney isn’t the only one who can make us fall in love with animals — Netflix is fully in on animated musicals, as they’re proving with the first trailer for their upcoming release,Vivo....