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‘Ammonite’ Theatrical Release Date Set For November, On Demand In December Ammonite, the romantic period piece starringKate WinsletandSaoirse Ronan, now has a release date. In fact, it has two release dates. The film will hit theaters (assuming any are still open) this Friday. However, if you’re able to’t or won’t return to a theater, never fear – the flick will find its way to premium on-demand in December. InAmmonite: “In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis....

‘C.B. Strike’ Trailer: J.K. Rowling’s Crime Novels Are Now A Cinemax Miniseries In 2013,Harry PotterauthorJ.K. Rowlingreleased a book calledThe Cuckoo’s Callingunder the pseudonym “Robert Galbraith.” It was the first in a series of crime novels following the adventures of a private investigator named Cormoran Strike, a former member of the Royal Military Police, and now Cinemax has adapted the first three novels into a miniseries. Watch the firstC.B. Striketrailer below....

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Filmmakers Turned Down A Giant Payday From Netflix To Go Theatrical Warner Bros. is hoping to shake things up this month withCrazy Rich Asians, the first Asian-American-focused studio movie in more than two decades. But the reason the movie is coming to theaters in the first place is because of a key decision made by authorKevin Kwan, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, and directorJon M....

‘Emma.’ Review: An Ultra-Stylish Jane Austen Adaptation As Sharp As Its Punctuation Mark It’s often overlooked how adept a satirist Jane Austen was, with most adaptations of the English literary icon’s works favoring the swooning romances and feminist themes of her novels. But more than any other past adaptation, barring the wildly underrated and wildly funnyLove & Friendship,Emma.captures that tongue-in-cheek and whip-smart tone of Austen’s work. “Emma Woodhouse: handsome, clever, and rich,” the film declares right at the outset, quoting Austen’s opening words of her 1815 novelEmma....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Reveals Full Awesome Mix Vol. 2 Tracklist Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2is one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, and while seeing the next chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the biggest draw of the sequel, the film’s soundtrack is also a big deal for fans. We’ve gotten a tease of some of the songs that will be in the movie by way of various trailers and TV spots, butJames Gunnhas cautioned thatnot all of those songs will be on the soundtrackor Star-Lord’sAwesome Mix Vol....

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Dominates The Critics' Choice Awards, But ‘Spotlight’ Is Truly Shiny And Chrome The Critics' Choice Awards don’talwaysreflect what eventually goes down at theAcademy Awards, but they reflect it just often enough to go under the microscope of hungry awards season analysts. If this year’s winners do predict the big winners at the Oscars next month, it’s awfully hard to argue with these picks.Mad Max: Fury Roadswept through the awards, snatching technical wins left and right....

‘Maleficent 2’ And ‘Justice League Dark’ Move Forward With New Writers What doMaleficent 2andJustice League Darkhave in common beyond an interest in the fantastical and supernatural? Well, they both just reminded us of their very existence because their respective studios have hired new writers to tackle their screenplays. Someday, these movies could exist. Maybe! Maleficent 2 The Tracking Boardreports that Disney has hiredJez Butterworthto rewrite the sequel to their 2014 hitMaleficent, stepping in for original screenwriter Linda Woolverton....

‘Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again’ Trailer: A Sequel And A Prequel All At Once You probably know right away if you’re the target audience for aMamma Miasequel. And that audience is pretty big: the 2008 original made $609 million worldwide, so a follow-up feels like a license to print money and please the fans. So here we are, 10 years later, with the original cast reunited to once again sing ABBA songs and look pretty and get involved in drama that’s soapy enough to warm your heart but pleasant enough to not get that heart racing too hard....

‘Narcos’ Season 3 Teaser And New Photos Shift The Focus To A New Cartel Narcoshas been sitting in my Netflix queue since the day season 1 premiered, but I’ve never been inspired to watch it because I’ve seen the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar on screen so many times before. The excellent documentaryCocaine Cowboys, ESPN’s 30 for 30 entryThe Two Escobars, heck, even one ofEntourage’s fake movies covered it....

‘Our Idiot Brother’ Trailer #2 The titleOur Idiot Brotheris just about the perfect description of this movie.Paul Ruddstars at Ned, a nice but naive man who, despite his best intentions, continually causes problems for his very different and more traditional sisters played byElizabeth Banks, Zooey DeschanelandEmily Mortimer. Written and directed byJesse Peretz, the comedysold for big bucksat Sundance andplayed pretty uniformlyfor the /Film team. We agreed that it’s entertaining, worth seeing, but ultimately sort of forgettable....

‘Red Sonja’ Movie Hires ‘X-Men: First Class’ Screenwriter Ashley Edward Miller Millennium Films has found a screenwriter for their big screen take on comic book characterRed Sonja.Ashley Edward Miller, who wroteX-Men: First Class, will pen the script for the sword and sorcery epic. More on theRed Sonjamovie below. AfterWonder Womancleaned up at the box office, studios began to catch on that female-driven superhero stories can turn a serious profit. Millennium Films wants in on this action, so they’re going to bring the 1970s comic book characterRed Sonjato the screen, and they think they’ve found the right writer to make it happen....

‘Solo’ Screenwriters Reveal Chewbacca’s Lines Are Written Out, And More ‘Star Wars Story’ Details SoloscreenwritersLawrenceandJonathan Kasdansat down for a new interview and dished on some interestingStar Wars Storytidbits. Most surprising of all: the father/son screenwriting duo confirm they actually write lines for Chewbacca, even if we can’t understand them.Solo: A Star Wars Storylooks like a lot of fun, and much of that fun could be the result of the script courtesy of father/son screenwriting team Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan....

‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Review: Humanity Leaps Off The Screen In Peter Jackson’s Vivid World War I Documentary When I was handed a pair of 3D glasses to watchThey Shall Not Grow Old, I rolled my eyes. How could a tired theatrical gimmick possibly add anything to a documentary about World War I? But 15 minutes into Peter Jackson’s vivid documentary, the glasses stopped digging into the sides of my head and instead helped transport me into the dazzling, achingly human archival footage that the Oscar-winning director so brilliantly restored....