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Interview: Damon Lindelof Discusses What ‘The Leftovers’ Is Really About The Leftoversis never afraid of showing a little soul-crushing drama. The HBO show is often bleak, but it is about loss and suffering, so why wouldn’t it be? Perhaps the finest and most grueling scene inThe Leftoversseason two features Nora Durst (Carrie Coon) and Erika Murphy (Regina King), slowly poking each other’s wounds, and directorCraig Zobel(Z for Zachariah) uses some striking close-ups to fully convey their pain....

Is ‘Cloverfield Station’ The Title Of The Next ‘Cloverfield’ Movie? The nextCloverfieldsequel has kicked off a cryptic viral marketing campaign, which includes at least two websites that fans can scavenge for clues. A release date for the film has also been confirmed for the spring, after being pushed back from February. But the one thing the thirdCloverfieldfilm is missing is a title. TheCloverfieldmovies have always been veiled in secrecy, but the mystery of the third untitledCloverfieldhas been the most infuriating, if only because its tentative title,God Particle, was already pretty darn good....

Joe Manganiello Is Deathstroke In Ben Affleck’s ‘Batman’ Solo Film [UPDATED] Two weeks agoBen Affleckshared a brief video revealing Deathstroke as the villain for the star/producer/director’sBatmansolo film. Later that day, fans picked up on some clues that led them to believe that Magic Mike actorJoe Manganiellomight be the person under that Deathstroke mask. And now we have a confirmation that Joe Manganiello is Deathstroke. Our August 29th 2016 story follows with updates:08...

Kevin Smith Finds Funding For Red State? Will Wil Wheaton Hit Somebody? It’s been two and a half years sinceKevin Smithfirst mentioned plans of writing and directing a low budget horror movie. But is has been over a year sinceRed Statewasgiven a passby The Weinstein Co. Havey Weinstein called the film “quite disturbing and challenging, a departure from” Smith’s previous screenplays. Smith has alsosaidthat the project is “decidedly non-commercial, it’s really f’n bleak and dark, so bleak that it makesThe Dark Knightlook like Strawberry Shortcake....

Kristen Bell Wants A ‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Enough To Finance It Herself (Or Maybe A Web Series) Or so a headline trumpets in The Hollywood Reporter. Veronica Marsis the TV-to-film project that has been the subject of nearly as much speculation asArrested Development, but every time creatorRob Thomasand starKristen Belltalk about a possible film, it always comes down to one thing: Warner Bros. holds the rights to the series andisn’t interested in making the film....

Marvel’s Animated ‘Tigra And Dazzler Show’ Loses Showrunner And Entire Writing Staff In “Creative Overhaul” At the beginning of the year, we learned that Marvel Television was teaming with Hulu onfour new animated showsinspired by various characters from Marvel Comics. There’sM.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, Marvel’s Tigra and Dazzler Show, andHoward the Duck. Despite the recent shift in power as Jeph Loeb steps down from Marvel TV and Kevin Feige starts to oversee both the film and television sectors of Marvel Entertainment, almost all of the shows remain on track at Hulu....

More Early Praise For ‘The Master’ After Chicago 70mm Screening Paul Thomas Andersondid another early screening of his new filmThe Masterin 70mm last night at Chicago’s Music Box Theater, to follow on the Santa Monica showing that took place a couple weeks ago. Just about the only people who seem to be unhappy about that are officials at film festivals, as praise for various aspects of the film is pouring in via Twitter and a few reviews....

New ‘Hunger Games’ Image Shows Jennifer Lawrence The Archer Sound the alarms! It’s beenalmost two weeks sincewe posted anything aboutThe Hunger Games! Thankfully, a new image from the film has surfaced and you can once again breathe easy. In all seriousness,Gary Ross' film about a dystopian future where children are forced to kill each other for sport is getting closer and closer to its March 23 release and you get the sense Lionsgate is getting ready to let the flood gates open....

Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Series: ‘King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword’ Scribe Takes Over As Writer Joby Harold, whose writing credits includeAwake,King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and Zack Snyder’s upcomingArmy of the Dead, has been hired as the new writer of the untitled Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+. Get the details below.Varietyhas the news, reporting that Harold is taking over as the show’s writer after the show wasshut down earlier this year....

Sam Mendes Says ‘Spectre’ Will Be His Last Bond Film Daniel Craigis contracted for one more Bond film afterSpectre, butSam Mendeswon’t be returning with him. The director, who also helmed 2012’sSkyfall, says he’s done with the franchise after this year’sSpectre. Read the Sam Mendes last Bond film comments after the jump. To be sure, Mendes saidsimilar thingsaround the release ofSkyfall, only to return forSpectre— as he readily acknowledges to theBBC. “I said no to the last one and then ended up doing it, and was pilloried by all my friends,” he said....

See New Photos From M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘After Earth’; New Trailer Revealed Tomorrow M. Night Shyamalan’s stock as a director has steadily declined since his breakoutThe Sixth Sense, but with some luckAfter Earthcould be the film to turn that trend around. For one thing, it’s tough to go lower than the 6% RT score he got forThe Last Airbender. For another, the marketing materials so far look genuinely striking, with a rich, detailed universe for the leads (Will SmithandJaden Smith) to play in....

See The New ‘Power Rangers’ Megazord And Get A Closer Look At The Power Suits It remains to be seen if the nostalgia will bring the now grown up children of the 1990s and early 2000s into theaters to see the newPower Rangersmovie coming next spring, or if Lionsgate is banking on the younger, newer fans of the various television incarnations to drag their parents to theaters. Either way, this movie is coming, and it’s offering a whole new spin on the long-running property....

Sequel Bits: James Wan And Leigh Whannell Back For ‘Insidious 2’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ On Track To Shoot This Year AnInsidioussequel has been all but inevitable ever since the film grossed $97 million worldwide on a $1.5 million budget, putting cartoon dollar signs in studio execs' eyes. We got our first sign that the wheels were in motion when Sonylocked downrelated domain names like insidious2movie.com late last year, and now things are officially moving forward....