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‘Slice’ Director And Cast On Their Wild And Weird Horror Comedy [Interview] One of the most talked about streaming releases of the weekwas dropped on the unsuspecting public on Mondaylike a new album by Beyonce, Radiohead or Kanye West, with nearly identical fanfare, due in large part to it being the big-screen acting debut ofChance the Rapper(or as he’s credited in the film,Chance Bennett). The film in question is a horror-comedy offering calledSlice, the feature writing/directing effort fromAustin Vesely, who has worked previously with Chance and some of his label mates on music videos over the last few years....

‘Southpaw’ Trailer #3: New Eminem Track Fuels Jake Gyllenhaal’s Boxing Comeback So far the marketing machine forAntoine Fuqua’s boxing flickSouthpawhas really hit hard. Driven by a pounding soundtrack provided byEminem, the film starringJake Gyllenhaallooks like a familiar but powerful drama. Now yet another new trailer has arrived, fueled by another new track by Eminem. This one featuresGwen Stefani, and is called ‘Kings Never Die.’ Will Gyllenhaal find redemption and become king of the ring again?...

‘The Master’ Teaser #2 - Philip Seymour Hoffman Is A Hopelessly Inquisitive Man ThatThere Will Be BloodhelmerPaul Thomas Andersonis back with a new feature after five long years is exciting enough. Toss in the fact that his latest reunites him with frequent collaboratorPhilip Seymour Hoffman, and it’s no wonderThe Masteris one of our most highly anticipated movies of the year. Thefirst teaserwas a beautifully crafted, deeply unsettling clip centered on a Navy man named Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix), and the second offers us a much better look at the titular Master himself, religious leader Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman)....

‘The Mortal Instruments’ Prequel Already In Motion Here’s an example of great optimism: while the first film based onCassandra Clare’sThe Mortal Instrumentsnovels hasn’t even opened yet, Constantin Films is already putting together a prequel. Clare has written a related series of books calledInfernal Devices, andStephanie Sanditzhas been hired to script a film based on the first one. While the primeMortal Instumentsstory follows a teen girl who learns of her half-human, half-angel heritage, and of the war between light and shadow into which she has been born, the prequel will be set in England during the Victorian Era, with a different teen female heroine, Tessa, an orphan who is in search of her missing brother....

‘The Shining’ Prequel Will Be “Its Own Film” When a prequel toThe Shiningwas announced, it didn’t sound like such a hot idea. That changed whenMark Romanekbecame attachedto the project — a real-deal director, not some run-of-the-mill work-for-hire. The director behindOne Hour PhotoandNever Let Me Gois a filmmaker with a vision, and according to the producer ofThe Overlook Hotel,The Shiningprequel will only move forward with Romanek if he gets the opportunity to make hisownmovie....

‘This Is Us’ Renewed For Two More Seasons; Katie Couric And Brian Tyree Henry Guest-Starring Soon Before season one ofThis Is Usends this March, NBC has already ordered two more seasons of the hit drama, which will soon featureKatie CouricandBrianTyree Henry(Atlanta) as guest stars. After receiving great reviews and being greeted by a passionate audience, season one was extended to 18 episodes. Season two and three are 18 episodes a piece as well....

‘Wormwood’ Review: Errol Morris' Netflix Project Hauntingly Blends Fact And Fiction WithWormwood, documentary filmmakerErrol Morriscreates his boldest, most thought provoking film yet. A delirious, haunting blend of talking-head documentary and narrative reenactment; a true crime saga that doubles as a government conspiracy polemic. A saga wrought with mystery, grief, scandal, and puzzlement. There’s never really been anything quite like this. Dramatic reenactments of real-life moments are so commonplace in documentaries now – particularly true crime documentaries – that it’s easy to forget that there was a time when they were considered taboo....

10 Storylines To Expect From The Han Solo Star Wars Spin-Off Movie Update From Editor Peter Sciretta:The following post was published on February 7th 2013 afterwe first learnedthat Disney was developing aStar Warsspin-off standalone film that would follow a young Han Solo, set betweenEpisode III: Revenge of the SithandEpisode IV: A New Hope. Now that it has been confirmed that a Star Wars Anthology film following a young Han Solo will be directed by Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller for a Summer 2018 release, I thought this might be worth republishing....

3 High Resolution Photos: Let Me In Overture Films have sent over high resolution digital files of the first three photos from theLet The Right OneIn remake/adaptationLet Me In, directed byMatt Reeves(Cloverfield) and starringKodi Smit-McPhee(The Road),Chloe Moretz(Kick-Ass) and Oscar®nomineeRichard Jenkins(The Visitor). As you may recall, we posted these images over the past few days in low res (and in one case, a magazine scan). Check out both images in pristine quality, after the jump....

Apple And Amazon Emerge As New Bidders For James Bond Film Rights TheJames Bondfranchise is one of the longest-running film franchises of all time, and it’s no secret that Hollywood’s current business model holds bankable franchises in particularly high esteem. That’s why nearly every major studio has, at one time or another in the past few years, been vying for the distribution rights to the Bond movies after MGM and Eon Productions' deal with Sony Pictures lapsed afterSpectre....

Artist Dave Gibbons Thinks ‘Watchmen’ Would Work Better As A Miniseries When it comes to HBO’s potential adaptation ofWatchmen, artistDave Gibbons"[knows] as much as the next person." Gibbons was involved with directorZack Snyder’s 2009 adaptation, making appearances and promoting the movie and he remains pleased with it. Gibbons fully supported the film, and it sounds like he’d do the same for the miniseries. The project is inveryearly stages, so the artist doesn’t know what the future holds, but he always thoughtAlan Moore’s 12-issue story would work better as a show than a movie....

Channing Tatum And Steven Soderbergh Return For Magic Mike’s Last Dance Great news — Channing Tatum hasn’t hung up his rip-away track pants just yet. The actor, who starred as “Magic” Mike Lane in “Magic Mike” and “Magic Mike XXL,” is going to reprise the role one more time for “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” Better yet, franchise creator Steven Soderbergh is returning to the director’s chair. (He shot and edited the sequel “Magic Mike XXL,” but it was helmed by Gregory Jacobs....

Christian Bale “Jealous” Of Batfleck; Emily Blunt “Loves” ‘Captain Marvel’ Fan Casting WhenBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceopens in 2016,Ben Affleckwill be only the fifth actor to portray the Caped Crusader on the big screen. He’ll also be the first new Batman sinceChristian Bale’s reign from 2005-2012, and Bale admits he felt a bit “jealous” seeing his signature role go to someone else at first. Eventually, though, he came around and even offered Affleck some advice....