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The Stephen King Movies That Helped Define Drew Barrymore’s Career In 1982, Drew Barrymore became America’s little sister thanks to her adorable turn as Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” But she has another Steve to thank for solidifying her child star status. “E.T.” might have made her famous, but back-to-back Stephen King films made her a star. Barrymore followed up “E.T.” with a little-remembered 1984 drama called “Irreconcilable Differences,” about a young girl suing her neglectful parents for emancipation....

This Week In Trailers: Silent Night, Summer League, Duck Beach: Mormon Spring Break, Inocente Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we’re going on spring break with some Mormons, joining a beer league, fleeing from a homicidal Santa, and taking a genuine moment to reflect on the issue of teenagehomelessness....

This Week In Trailers: The Overnighters, REC 4: Apocalypse, One Eyed Girl, The Homestretch, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Timur Bekmambetov Will Direct Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; Offers Updates On Wanted 2, Moby Dick And More We’ve wondered for quite some time what filmTimur Bekmambetovmight direct next. At one point, it seemed like he would follow his last movie,Wanted, with a direct sequel. But that is taking time to come together, and recently his prioritites have shifted to adapting the novelAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which he isalso producingwithTim Burton. Now the director confirms that as his next effort, while offering updates on quite a few other projects to which he’s been linked....

Warner Bros. Trying To Reboot ‘Gremlins’ Despite persistent rumors of another sequel, theGremlinsfranchise has somehow managed to stay clear of the current craze of remaking / rebooting / sequelizing old movies. Last year, producerFrank Marshallsaidthat he thought the films should be left alone, and that a remake was unlikely to ever get made. Fans everywhere breathed a sigh of relief, and went about their business. But Hollywood can get very stubborn when it comes to a franchise as fondly remembered asGremlinsis, and so Warner Bros....

Watch & Listen: A ‘Star Wars’ Parody Of The Entire ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Album Even if you’re not a hardcore fan ofThe Beatles, you probably know their famous albumSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Personally, I think it’s one of the band’s best albums, but some genius went and made it even better by adding more than a little Star Wars to the mix. YouTube userPalette-Swap Ninjahas taken the entirety ofSgt....

Watch Two Trailers For A Martin Scorsese Directed Short Starring Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio And Brad Pitt During periods of his career,Martin Scorsesehas enjoyed working with one lead actor over and over again. In the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, that actor wasRobert De Niro. In the last two decades, it wasLeonardo DiCaprio. However, the three have never worked together on a feature film. That’s the gag in a series of commercials for two casinos in Manila, Philippines....

‘Creed II’ Featurette Focuses On The Franchise’s Newest Director: “He Just Wanted To Go The Distance” TheRockymovies have always been about legacy.Sylvester Stallone’s underdog boxer didn’t think he was going to win in his first bout with Apollo Creed back in the original movie – he just wanted to “go the distance” to prove he could hang in there with the best of ‘em. 2015’sCreedwas about legacy too, but in a different way: legacy was a burden in that film, a shadow from whichMichael B....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ And ‘Age Of Ultron’ Spinoffs Possible; Marvel Movies Plotted Through 2028 In the past seven months,Kevin Feigehas tentatively planned out another seven years of Marvel movies. Last August, the president of Marvel Studioswas quoted as sayinghe had a tentative plan for the Marvel Cinematic Universe through 2021. That’s a lot of movies. Now, a new report says that plan has expanded through 2028. Plus, depending on the potential success ofGuardians of the Galaxythis summer, that plan might include spinoffs into solo movies focusing on either Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) or Groot (Vin Diesel)....

‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Details Revealed By Lin-Manuel Miranda When it was announced that Chicago directorRob Marshallwould behelming a reboot ofMary Poppins, I wasn’t interested. Don’t get me wrong; I like the original Walt Disney adaptation quite a bit, but for me what makes the film is the music by theSherman Brothers. And I was very skeptical that they would be able to recapture that magic, even with thepitch perfect casting ofEmily Bluntas the titular hero....

‘Suicide Squad’ Clip: Harley Takes An Eventful Elevator Ride Suicide Squadopens in just a few weeks and the best thing I can say about the movie’s marketing is that I have no idea what to expect. The trailers have been offbeat and impressive. The character designs are funky and completely out of left field. It looks hugely different in scale and intent fromBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which suggests a burgeoning DC movie universe that won’t be afraid to try different things....

‘Super Troopers 2’ Is Shooting Right Meow; See The First Set Photos Break out the maple syrup: Shooting is officially underway onSuper Troopers 2, more than 13 years after the first film hit theaters.Jay Chandrasekhar,Kevin Heffernan,Steve Lemme,Erik Stolhanske, andPaul Soterall return as Vermont’s goofiest state troopers, and Chandrasekhar once again directs. See the firstSuper Troopers 2set photos after the jump. The Broken Lizard guys have been promising aSuper Trooperssequel for years, so you’d be forgiven if you didn’t quite believe it was happening this time around either....

‘The Butler’ Trailer: We Have No Tolerance For Politics At The White House Left to his own devicesLee Danielsmakes films that are eccentric and sometimes just way the hell out there. (The Paperboy) But he has called his newest film,The Butler, “a big compromise” andexplainedthat the film might be “the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.” Does that mean that, on the relative scale of whackadoo films,The Butlerwill be far closer to “normal” than anything else he’s made?...