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‘Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview’ Teaser ThatSony Pictures biopicof late tech giantSteve Jobsis still in the early stages of development, but Jobs' familiar facade will be gracing a small handful of screens across the country in just one week. As wereportedearlier this week, a 70-minute film titledSteve Jobs: The Lost Interviewwill be hitting certain Landmark theaters next week onNovember 16 and 17. The footage comes from a 1995 interview Jobs did withRobert X....

‘The Empire Strikes Back’ 40th Anniversary Toys Include A Black Series Snowspeeder, Probe Droid & More In case you didn’t realize, this year marks the 40th anniversary ofStar Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Regarded as one of the best sequels of all time, it’s largely considered to be the best film in the entire saga. And it wouldn’t be a proper celebration without a special line of toys being released by Hasbro to commemorate it....

‘The Last Of Us’ TV Show Casts ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Actor Gabriel Luna As Tommy Gabriel Lunais the latest actor to join HBO’sThe Last of Uscast. A new report says theTerminator: Dark FateandAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.actor will play Tommy, the younger brother ofPedro Pascal’s character, Joel. Varietyreports that Luna has come aboard HBO’s television adaptation of the popularThe Last of Usvideo game, and he’ll be playing the part of Tommy, who is described as “a former soldier who hasn’t lost his sense of idealism and hope for a better world....

‘The Lighthouse’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘The Witch’ Drives Robert Pattinson And Willem Dafoe Crazy Facial hair! Accents! A 1.19:1 aspect ratio! A heavy dose of “What the hell am I seeing?” It’s all here in the first trailer forThe Lighthouse, the latest tale of terror fromRobert Eggers, director ofThe Witch. In this black-and-white nightmare,Robert PattinsonandWillem Dafoeplay old-timey lighthouse keepers on a remote island. Things go downhill pretty quickly. Watch the incredible, creepy and incredibly creepyThe Lighthousetrailer below....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Star David Dastmalchian Is Accomplishing His Dreams, And He Wants The Same For You [Interview] What a time forDavid Dastmalchian. For starters, we’ll soon see him as Polka-Dot Man inThe Suicide Squad. What was once an obscure comic book character may soon be, thanks toJames Gunnand the actor, a character we won’t soon forget. Dastmalchian is also in the adaptation of one of the most celebrated science fiction novels of all time,Dune....

‘Yesterday’ Review: A Fresh Gimmick Is Wasted In A Generic Musical Comedy Early inYesterday,Himesh Patel’s sad sack musician-turned-unlikely-sensation offhandedly describes The Beatles as a pop group — a massively understated description for one of the most influential music groups of all time. But it’s a surprisingly fitting analog forYesterdayas a film: This is a movie as a pop song. Sweet and sentimental,Yesterdaygestures toward some greater meaning, only to fall back on lazily written tropes that fail to make anything of its clever concept....

2011 Release Dates Announced: Hanna, One Day, Jane Eyre, The Eagle Of The Ninth Focus Featureshas announced dates for their 2011 releases, which includes: Read the full press release with more information on all of the films, after the jump. FOCUS FEATURES CONFIRMS DATES FOR FOUR MOVIES FOR 2011 RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, May 26th, 2010 – Focus Features today announced the first wave of its domestic theatrical release slate for calendar year 2011....

22% Of Marvel Fans Most Want To See This Villain In The MCU (Welcome toSurvey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) With an impressive 25 movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as of this writing, there have been dozens of opportunities for the studio to introduce famous (and some not-so-famous) villains from the pages of Marvel Comics into the realm of live-action....

6 More SXSW Movie Trailers We’re back with another batch of movie trailers for some of the smaller independent films playing at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival: Barry Jenkins' meet-cute dramaMedicine For Melancholy, Jennifer Phang’s cosmic family sagaHalf-Life, Kevin Ely & Beau Leland’s rock operaRainbow Around the Sun, Harmony Korine’s celeb-impersonator fantasyMister Lonely, Marco Ricci and Michael Canzoniero’s comedyThe Marconi Bros., and a scene excerpt from Liz Mermin’s Bollywood gangster documentaryShot In Bombay....

A Possible ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 4 Was Sidelined By M. Night Shyamalan’s Movie Avatar: The Last Airbenderis a perfect TV series, full stop. No “perfect TV series for an animated show” or “perfect TV series for kids.” For three seasons,Avatar: The Last Airbenderdelivered a rich, thematically complex, gorgeously animated story about a young boy who is charged with saving the world from an oppressive, conquering empire. It’s a simple, and familiar, tale but the characters were so vibrant and the storytelling so tight thatAvatar: The Last Airbenderdeserves its place as one of the best TV shows of all time....

Case 39 Trailer Finally Leaks It has now been almost three years sinceCase 39went into production. That’s some delay and seeing as the best information we have on a release date simply indicates a vague 2010 (I’m told that you shouldn’t believe the September ‘09 you will see in some places) I’m surprised to see a trailer online at all but one has turned up unofficially within the last hour onYouTube....

Casting Notes: Selena Gomez In Teen Rom Com; The Social Network Gets New Kids; The Whistleblower Gets Proven Talent Here’s a few casting notes for you before Page 2 hits. First up isWhat Boys Want, a teen-skewed reversal of the 2000 Mel Gibson filmWhat Women Want.Selena Gomezwill star as a girl who can hear what men are thinking. Reports that the film will just be Gomez hiding in a closet for two hours may be unfounded, but you can see where the rumor might come from....

Check Out The First Trailer For Sundance Smash ‘Diary Of A Teenage Girl’ Coming-of-age indie narratives are a Sundance staple each year, and this year one of the most buzzed-about wasMarielle Heller’sThe Diary of a Teenage Girl. Based on the novel byPhoebe Gloeckner, it starsBel Powleyas Minnie, a teenager growing up in 1970s San Francisco. Minnie loses her virginity to a much older man (Alexander Skårsgard) who also happens to be dating her mom (Kristen Wiig), and her life only gets crazier and more complicated from there....