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‘Alien: Isolation’ Digital Series Trailer: In Space, No One Can Hear Ripley’s Daughter Scream In 2014, the video gameAlien: Isolationintroduced the worldto Amanda Ripley, the daughter ofSigourney Weaver’s cinematic heroine Ellen Ripley, in a horror-soaked survival thriller set fifteen years after the events ofRidley Scott’s original 1979 movie. Now, 20th Century Fox is expanding Amanda’s story by incorporating the cut scenes from the game into anAlien: Isolationdigital series, complete with “new story beats”....

‘Assassination Nation’ Trailer: Ultraviolent Feminist Thriller Teases A “Trigger Warning” NEON is certainly making a name for itself as a distributor of edgy indie movies, often with a feminist bent. And the studio’s newest film,Assassination Nation, looks like it checks all those boxes. NEON and GOZIE AGBO have released the first red band teaser trailer for the Sundance breakout film, which follows a group of four high school girls who band together after their small town of Salem, Massachusetts descends into madness and violence after an anonymous hacker targets the private lives of all the residents....

‘Black Widow’: How The Limited Time Frame Influenced Ray Winstone’s “Cowardly” Villain After over a year’s delay,Black Widowis finally here! That means we also have a new Marvel Cinematic Universe villain to add to the rosters. Given the movie’s short timeframe between the end ofCaptain American: Civil WarandAvengers: Infinity War, creating that villain had a unique set of challenges. /Film talked with the movie’s screenwriter,Eric Pearson,about how he created the insidious Dreykov (Ray Winstone), including how he made sure the Red Room leader’s evil machinations made sense in the MCU world....

‘Flight Of The Conchords’ Teaser Announces Live Special Coming To HBO In October It’s finally business time again. You might remember back in January when news broke thatFlight of the Conchordswould be coming back to HBO. The titular New Zealand folk music and comedy duo portrayed byJemaine ClementandBret McKenziehave been on tour, and part of that tour was going toinclude a live concert specialthat would air on the cable network in May....

‘Logan’ Star Hugh Jackman Also Wishes Wolverine Could’ve Been An Avenger AlthoughHugh Jackmanhas made it very clear thatLoganwill be his last movie as Wolverine, he’s not above indulging in some what-ifs. He hedged his bets when asked about a potentialWolverine / Deadpool movie, and now he’s entertaining the hypothetical possibility of a Wolverine / Avengers movie. No, it’s never going to happen — but Jackman admits that hemighthave been tempted to stick around if it had been an option....

‘Loki’ TV Spot: The Clock Is Ticking On Marvel’s New Disney+ Show The clock is ticking on Marvel’s newest Disney+ series, but it seems like the premiere ofLokiis still so far away. We’re still a week and a half away from the premiere ofLokion Disney+, but the Disney marketing machine is in full force, churning out TV spot after TV spot, and teasing the charismatic performance ofTom Hiddleston, reprising his longtime role as the God of Mischief....

‘Murder On The Orient Express’ Remake Adds ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Writer Over a year has passed sincewe last heard aboutthe 20th Century Fox remake ofMurder on the Orient Express. At that time several big name producers were attached – includingRidley ScottandSimon Kinberg– but no one else. So it took a while, but now there’s a writer too. It’sMichael Green, the TV vet who wrote the 2011Green Lanternand co-wrote the upcomingBlade Runnersequel....

‘Run’ Review: Sarah Paulson And Kiera Allen Are Equally Strong In Aneesh Chaganty’s Relentless Thriller Sarah Paulsongives new meaning to the overprotective mother inRun, the latest fromSearchingdirectorAneesh Chaganty. In a thriller that seems at least partially inspired by the true story of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Paulson plays Diane, a smothery mom from hell – a woman who will stop at nothing to keep her daughter from the outside world....

‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Trailer Shows The Potential For Original, Standalone Movies One of the chief concerns fans had about the direction of theStar Warssaga over at Disney and Lucasfilm was that the companies might not take advantage of how expansive the galaxy far, far away can be. While it makes sense thatStar Wars: The Force Awakenswould continue the legacy and story of the main characters from the previous two trilogies,Rogue One: A Star Wars Storyis still playing things rather safe by focusing on a plot tied directly to the events of the first movie....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’: New Clip Showcases The Song Lin-Manuel Miranda Helped Create HamiltonandIn the HeightscreatorLin-Manuel Mirandahad a cameoinStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeras a Resistance fighter, but now you can hear his musical cameo in the movie as well. The officialStar WarsTwitter account has shared a clip from the movie showcasing “Lido Hey,” a song which Miranda helped create that’s heard during the movie’s Pasaana celebration sequence. Listen to the song in the clip below....

‘The Assistant’ Director Kitty Green On The Banality Of Evil In #MeToo Workplace Drama [Interview] It’s a little over two years following the culture-shifting reporting that sparked the #MeToo movement, and we’ve finally gotten the first truly great movie about the culture in need of dismantling.Kitty Green’sThe Assistantfollows a single day in the life of Julia Garner’s Jane, a new employee working for a Harvey Weinstein-like bullying boss. We inhabit her state of mind not through what she says or thinks but rather through what she does – primarily, dreary office tasks....

‘The East’ Is A Tense Eco Thriller About Infiltrating Fight Club’s Project Mayhem [Sundance 2013 Review] Zal BatmanglijandBrit Marlingmade huge names for themselves at Sundance a couple years back with the release of his low budget sci-fi thrillerSound of My Voice.I loved the film, and while it got a small release by Fox Searchlight, not many people saw it in theaters (the horrible title probably didn’t help). It definitely wasn’t a movie for everyone — the story followed a couple who infiltrates a cult run by a leader who claims to be a time traveler from the future, and the execution played on the many mysteries in the same way the television show Lost did, sometimes not offering answers....

‘The Hunger Games,’ ‘John Wick,’ And ‘Mad Men’ NYC Entertainment Centers Scrapped By Lionsgate Drop your dreams of riding aJohn Wick-themed shooting ride or flying in aHunger Gamessimulator attraction: the ambitious Lionsgate entertainment center that was set to open in New York City’s Time Square has been scrapped. Varietyreports that the Lionsgate-branded indoor entertainment center, dubbed Lionsgate Entertainment City, has been abandoned by the studio. This center was one of several branded indoor entertainment centers planned by Lionsgate and the Madrid-based Parques Reunidos that would be themed around the studio’s films likeThe Hunger Games, John Wick,andDivergentas well as shows likeMad Men,and built in high traffic urban areas in major U....