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Stephen Gaghan’s ‘Gold’ Opening Wide A Month Later Now Harvey Weinstein’s name is synonymous with the Academy Awards. The producer has had films famously dominate the awards ceremony before. This year he’s pushingLionandThe Founderas serious contenders, and hopefullySing Streetwill get more attention come awards season. Another Oscar hopeful for Weinstein’s isStephen Gaghan’s new filmGold, which based onthe trailers, also has a chance of finding an audience when it goes wide at the end of January....

Street Fighter Legacy Teaser Trailers Over the past two decades,Street Fighterfans have been subjected to at least two, terrible live-action adaptations of the acclaimed video game series:Street Fighter, with Jean Claude Van Damme, andStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun Liwith Kristin Kreuk. In fact, the latter was consideredone of the worst films of 2009. Will we ever get a decent Street Fighter movie? Tired of waiting around for someone else to do it, actorJoey Ansahmade one himself....

Superhero Bits: Xfinity Dunks On ‘Dark Phoenix’, Mahershala Ali Passed On Commissioner Gordon & More Why did a little girl get escorted to school byBatman? What advice didRobert Downey Jr.give toTom Holland? What recent record didAvengers: Endgamejust break? CouldCaptain Marvelmake an appearance in theShang-Chimovie? IsMysterioreally dead or could he return as part ofSinister Six? How did Xfinity dunk onDark Phoenixin their cable guide? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

The 20 Best Keanu Reeves Movies Ranked Keanu Reeveswas one of the most exciting movie stars of the 1990s. Now, he’s more popular than ever. Although there was a brief period where his films were not as successful, Reeves had a major career comeback in 2014. He starred in the action film “John Wick,” which was directed by the stuntmen Chad Stahelski and David Leitch. “John Wick” proved that Reeves hadn’t lost any of the charisma that had made him so beloved in the first place....

The Best Movies And TV Shows Coming To Netflix January 2022 The nightmare that is 2021 is almost over. Who knows what fresh horrors 2022 will bring?! Not me! But I can tell you what freshcontent2022 will be bringing to Netflix. Specifically, January 2022. The streaming service just revealed its lineup for the first month of the new year, full of new and familiar titles and, as usual, plenty of Netflix originals....

The Morning Watch: John Oliver Grills Dustin Hoffman, The Making Of A Chewbacca Mask & 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,John Oliverturns a Q&A aboutWag the Doginto an opportunity to questionDustin Hoffmanabout sexual harassment accusations made against him....

This Week In Trailers: Frankie, Midnight Traveler, Shut Up And Play The Piano, So Long, My Son, Chained For Life 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?...

Trivia: French Visionary Alain Resnais Planned Two Films With Stan Lee Want a real-life story worthy of Marvel Comics' long-running seriesWhat If?The current wave of Marvel movies could have happened a lot earlier, or much differently, if plans begun in the early ’70s had come to fruition. The late French directorAlain Resnais, who died just a week ago, was responsible for some of the most powerful films in French cinema. The concentration camp documentaryNight and Fogled toHiroshima Mon Amour, which developed a narrative take on memory and relationships that deepened inLast Year at MarienbadandJe t’aime Je t’aime....

Underrated Comedy Stars That Don’t Get Enough Praise Comedy is an inherently subjective genre. Even if a film is well-produced and acted, it won’t matter unless viewers find it funny. Not every film fan’s sense of humor is the same, and there are countless subgenres of comedy movies. They come in all shapes and sizes: Some comedies are massive star vehicles, and others are smaller, independent features produced on a shoestring budget....

VOTD: ‘Hunger Games’ Fan-Made Short Film Someone is gunning for your job, Gary Ross. Or, at least trying to do your job for you. A group of talented filmmakers from the Utah based production companyMainStay Productionsshot at 10 minute short dramatizing a moment fromThe Hunger Games, a book bySuzanne Collinswhich is currently being adapted into a major motion picture from Lionsgate withGary Rossattached to direct. The book is about a government organized, televised, battle to the death in which one boy and girl from each district are required to participate and kill each other....

Why The Last Duel Is Matt Damon And Ben Affleck’s First Script Together Since Good Will Hunting “Good Will Hunting” helped launch Matt Damon and Ben Affleck into stardom, and won them a Best Original Screenplay Oscar in the process. But despite that success, the two haven’t written a screenplay together in 25 years. That finally changed with “The Last Duel,” the new Ridley Scott film Damon and Affleck wrote with Nicole Holofcener....

Zoe Aggeliki In Talks To Play Johanna Mason In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ One of the big new characters in theHunger GamessequelCatching Fireis Johanna Mason, and for the past few weeks we’ve seen quite a list of actresses who have been considered for the role. HugeHunger GamesfanKristen Bellwanted the gig, but actresses likeMia Wasikowska,Jena Malone, and model/actressZoe Aggelikiwere the ones whoseemed to have the best chance of getting the job....

‘Agent Carter’ Synopsis Reveals Peggy’s Secret Missions For Howard Stark The 2014-2015 season has already seen the returns ofAgents of SHIELDandArrow, as well as the debuts ofGotham,The Flash, andConstantine. But there’s still one major comic book series that has yet to launch. Agent Carterdoesn’t premiere until early next year, and as such it’s the show we currently know the least about. Happily, that’s starting to change. Marvel released a lengthy, detailed Agent Carter synopsis today that reveals exactly what Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) is doing for Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper), how Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy) gets involved, and much more....