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‘Blade Runner 2049’ Photos: Harrison Ford And Ryan Gosling On The Run With directorDenis Villeneuve(Arrival) and cinematographerRoger Deakinsbehind the camera forBlade Runner 2049, you can bet even photos from theRidley Scott-produced film have a little “wow” factor. Two visionaries stepping into the stunning, highly influential world Scott and his team created 35 years ago – that’s most going to yield some gorgeous results. Based onthe trailersand everything we’ve seen so far from the sequel, Deakins and Villeneuve have made the iconic world familiar, new, and even more hostile....

‘Charlie’s Angels’ Reboot Wants Kristen Stewart And Lupita Nyong’o In Lead Roles Charlie’s Angelsmay be getting a punk-pop makeover.Elizabeth Banks' upcoming reboot of the action-comedy is reportedly eyeing indie favoriteKristen Stewartas well as Academy Award-winning actressLupita Nyong’ofor the lead roles. The action series already received a campy modern reboot in the early 2000s with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu donning the wings, but it may be time for some new stars to take on the mantle first originated by Farrah Fawcett and her glorious feathered hair....

‘Creed’ Trailer: There’s A New Fighter In Town Creedmarks a new chapter in the longRockystoryline, and the film is both a sequel and, in a way, a reboot. Rocky is still around, still played bySylvester Stallone. But this time, he’s in the corner as a trainer for a young fighter, and that fighter is the son of his old foe Apollo Creed.Michael B. Jordanplays Adonis Creed, a promising slugger who will also be the true star of the new film....

‘Friday The 13th’ Producers Exploring “Found Footage” Sequel Ideas When the reboot ofFriday the 13thmade $40 million on its opening weekend in 2009, a sequel seemed inevitable. The film only cost $20 million and the franchise has been known to spit out a follow-up or ten. But four years have passed and there’s been very little movement. In 2010, the producersall but declared the sequel dead. Then, this past Summer, Paramountregained full rights to the filmon the condition a sequel get made in the next five years....

‘I Know This Much Is True’ Trailer: It’s Double The Mark Ruffalo In The HBO Adaptation Of The Best-Selling Book Mark Ruffaloand Mark Ruffalo star inI Know This Much is True, a new HBO limited series directed byDerek Cianfrance(The Place Beyond the PinesandBlue Valentine). Adapted from the book by Wally Lamb, the story follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers, both played by Ruffalo. The cast also includesMelissa Leo,Imogen Poots,Rosie O’Donnell, andKathryn Hahn....

‘Paterson’ Trailer: Adam Driver Drives A Bus For Director Jim Jarmusch I do not envy anyone tasked with cutting trailers forJim Jarmuschfilms. How do you take the work of a filmmaker known for observational storytelling, small moments, and offbeat touches and sell that you a mass audience? How do you create the illusion of a narrative for a film by a director who has the habit of rejecting narrative whenever he feels like it?...

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Concept Art Reveals Insane New Lightsaber Battle, New Line-Up Of Books Announced Before the release of every episode of the primaryStar Warssaga, there’s a collection of books leading up to the arrival of the film itself. This year is no different as theJourney to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerline-up of books has just been announced. But that’s not what the coolest revelation is today....

‘The Magicians’ Looks Forward, And Tries To Move On, With “Magicians Anonymous” After three episodes of dealing with (and for the most part, dealing with it well) the impact and ramifications of the Season 4 finale, this week’s episode ofThe Magicians, “Magicians Anonymous,” focused more on looking forward than dealing with the pain of the past. This shift in focus also caused the episode to be more plot-driven than character-based, but the change in pace is a good one, and the episode moves each storyline forward while setting up the Armageddon-level stakes for the rest of the season....

‘Venom’ Makes A $10 Million Killing At Thursday Box Office, ‘A Star Is Born’ Sings With $4.6 Million Venomis proving to be the opposite of box office poison. The Sony comic book movie just clocked a record-shattering Thursday night opening, raking a whopping $10 million in 3,543 locations. That makesVenomthe best Thursday night preview in October of all time, beating outParanormal Activity 3’s $8 million record. ButVenomwasn’t the only box office star at the Thursday night previews....

Al Pacino And Barry Levinson Teaming For ‘The Humbling’ Before ‘Gotti’ Barry Levinsonis going to directAl PacinoinGotti: Three Generations, but before that picture shoots they’ll also do another film.The Humblingis an adaptation of the novel of the same name byPhilip Rothfrom Millennium/Nu Image. This will make three films in a row for the Levinson/Pacino team, beginning with the acclaimed portrait of the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian,You Don’t Know Jack. In addition, Barry Levinson has quite a lot to say about the John Gotti movie that heinheritedwhen Nick Cassavetesvacatedthe director’s chair....

Back To The Future And Jurassic Park Video Games In Development Telltale Games will be developing a series of episodic video games based off theJurassic ParkandBack to the Futuremovie franchises, in a deal with NBC Universal. For those of you who don’t recognize the name of the company — Telltale Games is a video game developer founded in 2004, consisting of a group of former LucasArts employees who worked on the Monkey’s Island and Sam & Max games....

Crime Scene Doughnuts And Hurricane Heists: The Best Trash Movies Of 2018 To quote the poet Oscar the Grouch, “Oh, I love trash.” There’s a soft-spot in my heart for trash movies. The trashier the better. I’m not talking about the worst movies of the year. Nor am I talking about movies that are so bad they’re good. Instead, I’m referring to a special type of a film – one that is perfectly content to be, well, garbage....

Damon Lindelof Begins Work On His ‘Watchmen’ TV Show For HBO Earlier this year,news brokethatLostandThe Leftoversco-creatorDamon Lindelofwas in talks with HBO to adapt Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal superhero graphic novelWatchmeninto a TV series. About a month later, Lindelofdeniedhaving met with HBO about the project…but now, thanks to an Instagram post from the man himself, we know that he’s officially begun work on theWatchmenTV show. Here’s Lindelof’sInstagram postannouncing today as the first day of work on the project:...