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How The Failure Of ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Changed ‘The New Mutants’ Any film franchise that goes on as long as Fox’s X-Men movies is going to encounter some speed bumps. And perhaps some giant, vehicle-consuming holes in the road. WhileX-Men: Apocalypsewasn’t a financial disaster (it made a solid half a billion dollars worldwide), the film was a creative flop of the highest order, earning scorn from critics and casual audiences alike. The film’s mind-numbing tone and generic plot were especially jarring considering whatLoganandDeadpoolwere doing with the franchise at that same point....

Hunger Games Filmmaker Francis Lawrence To Direct Sci-Fi Film Stalag-X Never one to stick with a single genre, director Francis Lawrence has attached himself to a new project in the form of “Stalag-X,” a sci-fi film based on the 2018 graphic novel of the same name written by Kevin J. Anderson and Steven L. Sears (with Mike Ratera providing the artwork). For those who don’t know his name right off the bat, Lawrence is a former music video and commercial director who made the jump to helming feature-length movies with 2005’s “Constantine....

If Marvel’s Characters Can’t Suffer Long Term Loss, What’s The Point? (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: How Marvel’s episodic treatment of their characters undercuts the larger dramatic arc.) The events ofThor: Ragnarokhad some enormous consequences that should have lasting effects on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But will those events really mean anything if they are just going to get retconned in the next film?...

LOL: Macaulay Culkin’s ‘Home Alone’ Sorta-Sequel Reveals What Happened To Kevin McCallister ‘Tis the season to look back on all our favorite holiday classics… and maybe realize that some of them are way more messed up than we realized as kids. LikeHome Alone: Underneath all that wacky physical comedy is a harrowing tale about a little boy left to fend for himself against two adult burglars, and the shockingly sadistic measures he resorts to in order to keep them out....

Mark Romanek To Direct ‘Locke & Key’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As you know by now, Fox has handed in a series commitment to theAlex KurtzmanandRoberto Orci-produced small screen adaptation of the graphic novel,Locke & Keyby Stephen King’s son,Joe Hill. Steven Spielberg is involved (via: DreamWorks Television), andJosh Friedman(Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, War of the Worlds) is penning the teleplay and will be the showrunner on the series....

Martin Scorsese Pens Essay Calling Rotten Tomatoes ‘Hostile To Serious Filmmakers’ The animosity between the film industry and internet “aggregators” has been simmering since the summer, but it’s just kicked up a notch with the introduction of legendary directorMartin Scorseseinto the fray. Scorsese penned an excoriating essay against Rotten Tomatoes, Cinemascore, and other digital aggregation sites, calling them “hostile to serious filmmakers,” and a bane on the film criticism community. It’s another entry in the ongoing debate over the influence Rotten Tomatoes has overfilm studios and the box office....

Marvel Adjusted The ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Poster To Include Danai Gurira’s Name Well, this has to be a first. After online backlash arose surrounding the absence ofDanai Gurira’s name on the top of theAvengers: Endgameposter, Marvel put together a new poster to include her. This is not something that typically happens, so it’s worth bringing attention to. The question is: will this now be the real, official poster, or is it something Marvel did for use online to stymie more backlash?...

Marvel Trying To Convince Disney To Re-Hire James Gunn For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Another day, another detail regarding the uncertain status of directorJames Gunnand the future of theGuardians of the Galaxyfranchise that he shepherded to success. And this one at least has some semblance of hope. There are currently “back channel conversations” happening between Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Company as the comic book movie studio tries to convince the House of Mouse to hire back James Gunn as the director ofGuardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Marvel’s ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Gets New Poster; Joss Whedon Talks Daily Involvement And Story Context Marvelfans need only wait another few weeks before the latest addition to their favorite universe. No,Thor: The Dark Worldhasn’t been moved up from its November opening. The ABC showMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premieres September 24 and as that date slowly approaches, more and more information on the show is revealed. Peter’salready seen the whole pilotand, this weekend, it screened again at the Television Critics Association event....

Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Offered Female Lead In Transformers 3 Last weekMegan FoxleftTransformers 3(or was not asked back, depending upon which report you believe) and immediately rumors began to swirl about her replacement. Names of a few actual actresses were floated as vague rumors (like Gemma Arterton) but then speculation focused on models, with one Victoria’s Secret model,Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, as the most possible successor. (Michael Bay, don’t forget, has directed Victoria’s Secret commercials, so he’s had time to estimate various models', um, acting chops....

Netflix Will Campaign Delroy Lindo For Best Actor For ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Delroy Lindogives one of the year’s best performances inDa 5 Bloods, so it’s only fitting that Netflix has decided to push for a Best Actor Oscar nomination. The streaming service could’ve hedged their bets and tried to campaign Lindo for Best Supporting Actor, but will instead save that for the rest of the film’s cast:Jonathan Majors,Clarke Peters,Norm Lewis,Isiah Whitlock, Jr....

Neveldine/Taylor’s Game: Italian Movie Trailer An Italian movie trailer forGamehas shown up online. The new movie fromMark NeveldineandBrian Taylor– the madmen that brought usCranktakes us to the sci-fi future world where prisoners do battle in a real life video game. The trailer looks pretty insane, gritty action mixed with sci-fi futuristic tech overlays. And the sci-fi concept is the kind of impossible crazy that could lend it self to a kick ass action flick....

New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Trailer: The World Is Divided Into Butchers, And Meat We knew that greatGame of Thronesposter featuring Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) staring up at one of Daenerys' dragons was just a preface to seeing the real scene in action, and the incredible newGame of Thronesseason 5 trailer does not disappoint. In addition to giving us the moving version of that poster, there’s all sorts of great new footage here, including (but hardly limited to) the “breaking the wheel” monologue from Daenerys, in which she promises doom for the cycle of family violence that has defined politics in Westeros, and more footage ofJonathan Pryce’scharacter the High Sparrow....