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The ‘Blair Witch’ Viral Marketing Has Begun With A Creepy New Video 17 years later,The Blair Witch Projectisn’t just one of the most influential horror movies of all time – it’s a great film, a “found footage” movie that actually feels like an actual lost document. Unlike its often too stylized successors, it’s easy to understand why the original could actually inspire many viewers at the time to wonder if what they were watching was actually real....

The Book Of Boba Fett Navigates The Wild, Crime-Ridden ‘Streets Of Mos Espa’ This article containsspoilersfor the new episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” Robert Rodriguez returns to the director’s chair for the third episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” dubbed “The Streets of Mos Espa.” Wherelast week’s episodekept us rooted mostly in the past, this episode brings us back into the present where Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) struggles with the respect required to control a place as wild as Mos Espa....

The Dark Rambo Alternate Ending You Likely Haven’t Seen The character John Rambo has appeared in five Sylvester Stallone films, and during his heyday as an ’80s action icon, he even had his own animated series and toy line. However, if “First Blood” director Ted Kotcheff had gone with his original plan, Rambo might have been a one-and-done. Quentin Tarantino isn’t the only filmmaker who’s envisioned a Rambo movie that would becloser to David Morrell’s novel, “First Blood....

The Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Soundtrack Features Arcade Fire Covering ‘Baby Mine’ A collection of words that seem as if they don’t belong together:Arcade Firehas recorded a cover version of “Baby Mine” for the live-actionDumbosoundtrack. The song appeared as a lullaby in the original animatedDumbo, and the Arcade Fire’s cover will play during the end-credits ofTim Burton’s live-action remake, due out this month. You can hear a snippet of the cover below....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Boys’ Season 2 Bloopers, Reviewing The Portrayal Of Real Presidents In Movies & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a bunch of flubs and mistakes in theThe Boysseason 2 blooper reel....

The Morning Watch: The Grinch Was Right, What You Need To Remember For ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a refresher reminds you of all the important details you need to remember from theHarry Potterfranchise forFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Aggretsuko’ Adorably Rages Against The Workplace Machine (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series:AggretsukoWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty, turns one of its mascot characters into the cutest symbol of female rage with a surprisingly insightful anime comedy series about a mild-mannered office drone who vents about her frustrations about her oppressive corporate life through death metal karaoke....

The Rise Of Self-Awareness In Cinema: Is Film Doomed To Become A Mockery Of Itself? Cinema has entered a new dawn. It arrived a while ago, actually, and you may not have even noticed. I’m not referring to the recent surfeit of remakes, sequels and adaptations, or the rebirth and subsequent profusion of superhero movies, or even the resurgence of 3D. No, I’m talking about the evolution of a burgeoning subgenre in cinema:meta films, aka movies about movies....

The Scrapped Gambit Movie Would Have Been ‘Mutant Goodfellas In New Orleans’ In the list of movies I’d like to have seen, the Channing Tatum-led “Gambit” is up there. One, because Tatum has enough charm to pull off my favorite character from “X-Men: The Animated Series,” and two, because of what “Gambit” co-writer Reid Carolin toldThe Playlist(viaHeroic Hollywood) about the story we would have seen in the film. Scheduling conflicts and rewrites for “X-Men: The Last Stand” and “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” kept him out of an ensemble picture, before finally the solo “Gambit” film was scrapped after time spent in development hell....

The Worst Episode Of ‘Stranger Things 2’ Has Me Slightly Worried About ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Warning: This article containsspoilersforStranger Things 2. Proceed with caution if you haven’t finished watching the new season yet. The seventh episode ofStranger Things 2, entitled “The Lost Sister,” is the show’s largest divergence thus far. In it, Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) travels to Chicago to seek out her “sister,” a young woman named Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) who has “008” tattooed on her arm in the same place Eleven has her “011” and was also experimented on at the Hawkins Lab....

The Writers Had Much Grander Plans For Star Trek: First Contact “Star Trek: First Contact” — released in November of 1996, and the second “Star Trek” film to feature the “Next Generation” cast — was the best-received of the NextGen-based “Star Trek” feature films. Boasting some pretty great special effects, a good deal of action, and a plot featuring fan-favorite villains the Borg, “First Contact” was a big hit (at the time, it became the second-highest grossing Trek film after “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”)....

Watch A New ‘X-Files’ Trailer; Chris Carter Had Written A Third Movie Before The New Series Fox presented a panel onThe X-Filesto the Television Critics Association for the new six-episode event premiering this month. Discussing how he thought about bringing back FBI agents Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny), series creatorChris Carterrevealed he had actually written a screenplay for a third movie before the limited series was greenlit. Also revealed from theX-FilesTCA panel was a new trailer for the upcoming revival, which you may watch below....

Watch Ben Affleck Surprise Fans In The Batmobile On The WB Studio Tour Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticestarBen Afflecksurprised fans on the Warner Bros Studio Tour in the new Batmobile and the whole thing was captured on video as part of one of Omaze’s charity fundraising campaigns. Hit the jump to see the new Batman surprise fans on the studio tour. Here is the video of Ben Affleck surprising fans on the WB Studio Tour in the Batmobile:...