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Evangeline Lilly Doesn’t Want The Wasp Going Solo, But She’s All About A Female Superhero Team-Up Ant-Man and the Waspfinally gave one of the female superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe a proper leading role, withEvangeline Lillysuiting up as Hope Van Dyne, the more capable and experienced insect-inspired partner of Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang. However, just because she’s a big part of theAnt-Manmovies, don’t expect the Wasp to spin-off into a movie of her own....

FightCast - Round 1: Hitman And The Mist The life of a movie journalist isn’t nearly as exciting as one might expect. I spend most nights traveling to and from screenings, and I often find myself on the phone with my good friend and fellow journalist Alex Billington, who runsFirstShowing. We usually have very different opinions on movies and have always joked about hosting a podcast calledFightCast, where we would fight it out over our movie views....

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Box Office Offers A Path For Hollywood’s Post-Pandemic Future This weekend brought with it the release of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” which is, in some ways, something a great many moviegoers have been waiting 30 years or so to see. As opposed to the 2016 reboot, this served as more of a proper “Ghostbusters 3,” and it proved to be a winning formula, as director Jason Reitman’s legacy sequel easily topped the box office....

How Eternals Director Chloé Zhao Got Superman Into The MCU Given how each and every movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe these days can’t seem to escape receiving an intense level of scrutiny, it has become readily apparent that there’s simply no such thing as a throwaway gag anymore. Filmmaker Chloé Zhao just might be discovering this the hard way, after a certain"Eternals" clipreleased during the film’s marketing push happened to include a seemingly innocuous Superman reference....

ILM Working On An “Unprecedented” Disney Boat Ride Attraction, Could It Be For Star Wars Land? When Disney purchased Lucasfilm, not only did they buyStar Warsbut all of the other George Lucas-owned subsidies. And that of course included Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the legendary visual effects house that began with Star Wars. So its not a surprise to learn that Walt Disney Imagineering is working with ILM on rides and experience, which may very well include the upcomingStar Wars Lands announced for Orlando and Anaheim theme parks....

IMAX To Feature Longer Cut Of Transformers 2 With “More Robot Fighting” Michael Bayhas posted a new update on hisofficial forum, confirming what I’ve heard from a variety of sources —Transformers: Revenge of the Fallenisn’t finished, even though the movie is set to premiere tonight in Tokyo, Japan. I’ve heard that the crew has been working around the clock, 7-days a week, to finish the movie and Bay says that the film is “almost finished....

J.J. Abrams On Rey’s Parents: “There’s More To The Story” In ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ It’s the question that’s been plaguing a section ofStar Warsfans sinceThe Force Awakens: who are Rey’s parents? And while it seemed as if writer/director Rian Johnson provided an answer to that question inStar Wars: The Last Jedi, it turns out that we don’t have the full picture quite yet. According to co-writer/directorJ.J. Abrams, “there’s more to the story” about Rey’s parents that will be revealed in this year’sStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

Kevin Bacon Returns To Summer Camp With Blumhouse’s Gay Conversion Horror Movie When the prolific performer who would later become the six-degree connective tissue of all of Hollywood first made a name for himself, it wasn’t with his role in “Animal House,” but a little slasher no one in the cast thought anyone would actually see: “Friday the 13th.” Now Kevin Bacon is heading back to summer camp, and this time he’ll come face-to-face with a horror truly worse than any masked killer: gay conversion therapy....

Mayans M.C. Season 4: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you may watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) With three seasons under its belt, “Mayans M.C.” has proven itself as more than a typicalspin-off. The series, which was originally conceived as an offshoot to FX’s successful crime drama “Sons of Anarchy,” has grown into a serious and compelling look at gang life....

Movie Trailer: ‘Hereafter,’ The New Film From Director Clint Eastwood Is this aClint Eastwoodmovie or one by M. Night Shyamalan? OK, I’m kidding, and now that I’ve completely stacked the deck againstHereafterby even mentioning that name I guess I should backtrack. Clint Eastwood has calledHereafterhis ‘chick flick.’ It featuresMatt Damonas a retired/reluctant psychic who brings together a boy (twinsFrankie and George McLaren) who lost his brother and a woman (Cécile De France) who nearly died in the 2004....

Netflix’s ‘High Score’ Doc Series Recalls Video Game History And Shines A Light On Lesser Known Pioneers And Players There are numerous video game documentaries out there. But the problem with a lot of them is they’re either not so easy to find on streaming services or physical media, aren’t very well-produced, or they only focus in on one small sector of the gaming world (thoughthose can also be very good)....

New Robert Redford Biography Claims William Goldman Didn’t Write ‘All The President’s Men’ The Seventies provided some of the greatest dramas of all time. Films likeThe Godfather, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestandNetworkremain as dramatic today as they were then. In that time, though, film historians have uncovered much of the behind the scenes drama that happened on these classic films and, in some cases, it’s better than what happened on screen....

No, Seriously, The ‘Book Of Mormon’ Movie Is Still A Long Ways Off Well, we did warn you it wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. Not long ago, wereportedon an eventual feature film adaptation ofThe Book of Mormon, the award-winning Broadway musical bySouth ParkcreatorsMatt StoneandTrey ParkerandAvenue Qco-writerRobert Lopez. At the time, we wrote that the movie was still several years away, but now it sounds even less solid than that. Stone and Parker have since clarified their statements, saying that the theoretical movie is not even in development at this point....