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‘The Good Lord Bird’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is Abolitionist John Brown In This New Showtime Series Ethan Hawkegetsintensein the first trailer forThe Good Lord Bird. The new Showtime series has Hawke playing abolitionist John Brown during Bleeding Kansas, “a time when the state was a battleground between pro- and anti-slavery forces.” The seven-episode limited series drops on Showtime this August. For now, watchThe Good Lord Birdtrailer below. The Good Lord Bird Trailer Well, this looks wild....

‘Wonder’ Trailer: The New Movie From The Director Of ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’ Five years after making his directorial debut, the author and director of"The Perks of Being a Wallflower,“Stephen Chbosky, has his sophomore effort coming out. His new movie is an adaptation ofR.J. Palacio’s New York Times bestseller,Wonder, and starsJacob Tremblay(Room),Julia Roberts, andOwen Wilson. Although Chbosky didn’t adapt the material himself, the trailer shows off his warmth as a storyteller....

2016 BAFTA Winners: ‘The Revenant’ Wins Big Again, ‘Brooklyn’ Gets Some British Love, Too Last night, our friends across the pond handed out their equivalent of the Academy Awards with the British Academy of Film and Television handed out their awards known as theBAFTAs. Taking home another big prize wasThe Revenant, winning Best Film, along with directorAlejandro G. Iñárritutaking home Best Director. This doesn’t necessarily change its chances for Oscar glory in a couple weeks, but it certainly doesn’t hurt them....

2017 SAG Awards Nominations: ‘Manchester By The Sea’ Leads The Pack Continuing our push through awards season, theScreen Actors Guildannounced their nominations for the 23rd annual SAG Awards, honoring achievements in acting as voted on by film, television, radio, commercial and other media professionals. The2017 SAG Awardsnominations this year give plenty of love toManchester by the Seawith four total nominations, though films likeLa La Landgot plenty of love as well. We’re also starting to seeHidden FiguresandCaptain Fantasticget some more awards love asMoonlightdidn’t score quite as many nominations as we’ve been seeing in other awards....

A24 Films Schedules Kevin Smith’s ‘Tusk’ For Third Quarter 2014 Kevin Smith’s online ad- turned- podcast turned- screenplay turned- horror movieTuskhas just been picked up for distribution.A24 Films, the team behindThe Spectacular NowandSpring Breakers(and whichrecently signedan exclusive deal with Amazon), will give the film a wide release in the third quarter of 2014. Read the full press release below. Here’s what A24 has to say: A24 and Demarest Films have teamed up on Kevin Smith’s latest film TUSK....

Amblin Entertainment Is Turning Akira Kurosawa’s Classic ‘Rashomon’ Into A TV Show ARashomonTV show is in the works at Amblin Entertainment, proving once again that no property, not even an acclaimed classic, is safe. Read more about the new adaptation of directorAkira Kurosawa’s 1950 masterpiece below, which is being described as a “dramatic mystery thriller series.” Kurosawa’s movie is almost universally hailed as one of the premiere pieces of Japanese cinema, and it’s widely considered one of the best films ever made....

Arclight Cinemas Expands Outside Los Angeles; Coming To San Diego Late 2012 Being bi-coastal has allowed me to visit the best movie theaters America has to offer and, in those travels, my two favorite chains are the Alamo Drafthouse andArclight Cinemas. The Alamo has amazing repertory programming, expansive in-theater dining and Mondo, among other things. If it wasn’t for the fact that I’m rarely in their home state of Texas, it would be numero uno....

Casting Notes: Jennifer Hudson Is Winnie Mandela; Winnie The Pooh Voice Cast; Eric Dane In Burlesque; Stephen Root Gets Two Gigs Jennifer Hudsonmade a splash onAmerican Idol, then quickly went on to win an Oscar for her debut role inDreamgirls, but we haven’t seen much of her onscreen since. Now she’s got a follow-up role to her big breakthrough: inWinnie, she’ll play Winnie Mandela, wife to South African president Nelson Mandela....

Don’t Believe The Bad Takes: 2018 Has Been A Great Year For Horror Movies (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: don’t believe the hype – 2018 did not kill the horror genre. And why do we have to have this conversation every year?) Blame a man’s foolhardy optimism, but part of me believed 2018 would close without an obscene end-of-year horror genre hot take shouted from left field....

Early Buzz: ‘Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark’ Screens At Virginia Film Festival /Film reader Dustin E caught a screening of theGuillermo del Toro-written/producedTroy Nixey-directed horror thriller Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark at a special screening presented during the Virginia Film Festival. Dustin says the film is “a great little throwback horror flick that will definitely please fans of the genre.” Hit the jump to read his full review....

Eva Green In Talks For Tim Burton’s ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’ Eva Greenshowed up in the last live-action film fromTim Burton,Dark Shadows, and now she’s in talks to star in the movie he’s almost ready to make. Burton is directing a film adaptation of theRanson RiggsnovelMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and Green is in talks to play the title character, who oversees a sort of orphanage for kids who could be characters out of myth or fables....

Evangeline Lilly Celebrates Jack Kirby’s Birthday With A New ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Photo Today would have been the 100th birthday of Marvel Comics legendJack Kirby, a man who co-created some of the greatest superheroes to ever grace the page and whose artwork is a guiding force behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it today. While filmingAnt-Man and The Wasp, actressEvangeline Lilly(the titular Wasp) paid tribute to Kirby’s birthday and released a new image of herself in costume – or at least, in partial costume....

First Look: Kevin Smith’s Unproduced ‘The Bionic Man’ Movie Turned Comic Book Anyone who has a fun, unproduced screenplay out there could learn a lesson fromKevin Smith: change the medium. Smith wrote a screenplay forThe Green Hornetand when that film went in the Seth Rogen direction, Smith’s version got turned into a comic book. The same thing is about to happen with a script Smith wrote forThe Six Million Dollar Man....