The expectation is that the upcoming 2014 San Diego Comic-Con will bring with it some big news about the Warner Bros./DC film universe, not least of all concerning the next confirmed movie, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. In the meantime, the first image has been released from director Zack Snyder’s project, showing Superman (Henry Cavill) standing in the rain – with what appears to be Gotham City (“played” by Detroit) in the background.
A newly-published USA Today article, which includes the Superman pic, says that Batman V Superman takes Cavill’s Kal-El to “new environments” such as the urban jungle that is Gotham. It’s been well-documented that Frank Miller’s “The ...
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The sequence of the new Planet of the Apes prequels is a little confusing if you think too hard about it – after all, wouldn’t it be more logical for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to come before Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Doesn’t the dawn happen before the sun rises? Perhaps to distract from this puzzling conundrum, Twentieth Century Fox has teamed up with Motherboard to answer another important question: what happened between the Rise and the Dawn?
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes picks up an entire decade after the end of the previous film, and the horrors of those ten years have been alluded to in the trailers by Gary Oldman’s character, Dreyfus: “We spent four years – four years! – fighting that virus and then another four fighting each other. It was ...
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In an unsurprising, yet what for many will still be a disappointing turn of events, the MPAA has officially bestowed a PG-13 rating on the Sylvester Stallone produced action threequel, The Expendables 3.
It was about a month ago when we first learned that Expendables 3 would be PG-13. From a marketing and profitability standpoint, it’s easy to understand why Stallone would go this route. The list of recent successful (make that $uccessful) R rated action blockbusters can be counted on one hand, while PG-13 action franchises like Fast and Furious and Transformers consistently make billion dollar worldwide profits. Making Expendables 3 PG-13 instantly opens up the film to a much wider paying audience, and makes it much more likely that Lionsgate will earn serious bank off ...
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The initial marketing push for Foxcatcher, the upcoming true story-inspired film by director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball), has struck a decidedly unnerving and often chilling tone; the latest teaser trailer (see above) is no exception, culminating with Channing Tatum repeatedly smashing his head against a mirror. As downright strange it would’ve seemed a few years back, Tatum is now a fairly respected actor – one who’s even begun to earn accolades, for his work on Miller’s upcoming movie.
Backing up a bit - Foxcatcher tells the tale of how, in the late 1980s, competitive wrestler Mark Schultz (Tatum) was recruited by billionaire heir John du Pont (Steve Carell) to train a team to compete in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. However, the relationship that formed between the two men soon became destructive – fueled in no small part by their mutual obsession with ...
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[SPOILERS for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 ahead!] - Marvel Studios and ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. concluded its first season with a fair-sized bang; most important among the future developments it set up, is Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D. from a new foundation - even as less desirable side effects from the T.A.H.I.T.I. program responsible for resurrecting him, have begun to make themselves apparent. No surprise, Gregg is now suggesting that Coulson’s evolution will continue (who knows, maybe it’ll even speed up), over the course of the show’s second season.
Throughout season 1 of S.H.I.E.L.D., many of Coulson’s old acquaintances observed that he’s “different” than the guy who hadn’t been stabbed in the ...
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![Hocus Pocus Sanderson sisters Hocus Pocus 2: Tina Fey NOT Attached as Producer [Updated]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vz0bDNmvxJ4XscRvV6QHgHEFXqkzJ1jTcxbcSe3eLySKuVcbhriHmv-3oxm5LSO3AFKE46vTwsTLDf2HCuGnh7G97GxhchMRAJ-CfeqzXUITxt0RRusvBjGLxSlg5JOEO1m5cnhnunDNdLLoNDCs8-=s0-d "Hocus Pocus 2: Tina Fey NOT Attached as Producer [Updated]")
[UPDATE: Fey is working on a witch movie for Disney, but it's not Hocus Pocus 2.] If it’s true that pop culture nostalgia runs in a 20-year cycle then the time is now ripe for a fresh celebration of Hocus Pocus, the 1993 supernatural comedy that starred Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters – three witches who are raised from the dead by an unwitting teenager, and who then hatch a plan to drain the life force of Salem’s children in exchange for eternal youth.
Hocus Pocus was a fun movie that was memorable for a lot of different reasons: Midler’s rendition of “I Put a Spell on You,” the immortal talking black cat ...
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When Bill Murray isn’t busy crashing wedding engagement photoshoots and bachelor parties, crooning karaoke with total strangers, tending bar at SXSW, rolling with the Wu-Tang, and generally being awesome, he occasionally makes movies. Given that the acting legend has turned himself into a mythical meme generator in the latter stage of his career, this may come as somewhat of a shock. But it’s true; in 2014 alone, Murray has appeared in roles big and small, ranging from the likes of The Monuments Men to The Grand Budapest Hotel.
For Murray’s devoted patrons, there’s even more of him to go around this fall, in the shape of St. Vincent. At a glance, it’s a movie that tries to have its cake and eat it too, playing off of Murray’s loveable jerk persona for a heartwarming endgame. The film’s ...
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Maybe it’s because Martin Freeman talked openly about the future of Sherlock very recently and spilled the beans about plans for a special episode that will release next Christmas, but for whatever reason the BBC One has finally decided to properly confirm that both a fourth season of the show and a one-off special are in the works – with production expected to get underway sometime next year (e.g. whenever the show’s very busy creative forces and in-demand cast leads make room in their packed work schedules). As was previously indicated by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Freeman) will indeed properly continue their adventures some two years after season ...
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Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web. Today you’ll find a Jurassic Park mashup with goats; 7 things you didn’t know about Planet Of The Apes; Mario Kart meets Grindhouse; the Hound Knight Returns; and a real life trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Madrid. All that and more on this edition of SR’s Geek Picks! If you have any Geek Picks of your own, please send them to srgeekpicks(at)gmail(dot)com and you could be featured in a future post! - Mario Kart Meets Grindhouse
He was the most reckless, badass plumber on the circuit — until one day, he unclogged the wrong pipe… - 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Planet Of The Apes
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The 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International is mere weeks away - and while official information is only now trickling out, a look at the schedule of 2015 – 2016 movie releases indicates that there could be some major reveals at SDCC ’14. From the ever-expanding DC and Marvel movie universes, to the return of beloved franchises like Star Wars and Jurassic Park, there are many geek-friendly genre films and TV shows building themselves up for big debuts – and what better time to make an impression than at Comic-Con? NOTE: Very little in this preview is OFFICIALLY confirmed to be part of Comic-Con 2014; this is a list of hot properties that could likely (and probably ...
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Never let it be said that Disney is afraid to poke fun at its own tropes. Last year’s animated hit Frozen subverted the studio’s long-established ideas of love at first sight, and back in 2007 Amy Adams played a Disney princess in a fish out of water tale in the partially-animated, mostly live-action romantic comedy Enchanted.
It was the kind of premise that could easily have turned into something horrible and cringeworthy, but Enchanted ended up enchanting both critics and audiences, grossing a respectable $340 million at the worldwide box office. A lot has happened in the interim years (including Disney acquiring Marvel and therefore the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe), but now Disney is planning to continue the Enchanted story and reveal what ...
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In Tammy, we are introduced to the film’s namesake (Melissa McCarthy) during one terrible day where she pretty much totals her car, gets fired from her job at a Topper Jack’s fast food restaurant, and goes home, only to walk in on her husband (Nat Faxon) enjoying a romantic dinner with their neighbor (Toni Collette). Fed up, Tammy packs her stuff and heads over to her parents’ place – a whopping three houses down the street – in order to borrow her mother’s (Allison Janney) car and take a road trip to… well, anywhere that isn’t her hometown, basically. Tammy’s alcoholic grandmother, Pearl (Susan Sarandon), agrees to provide the necessary vehicle and funding, on condition that her granddaughter take her along for the ride. The duo thereafter head off to Niagara Falls – a place that Pearl has ...
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Remember the days when G.I. Joe 3 had a writing and directing team in place, and wasn’t just drifting through production limbo like so much blockbusting flotsam? Not too long ago, Paramount had Jon M. Chu locked in to continue steering the Joe ship (following his efforts on G.I. Joe: Retaliation), and with Snow White and the Huntsman screenwriter Evan Daugherty putting pen to paper on the new film’s script; they made a fine franchising combo in the abstract. If nothing else, they put the movie on rails.
But then Chu got caught up with directing an update on 80s cartoon Jem and the Holograms. At the time, this didn’t strike anyone as problematic, per se – the announcement came ...
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As usual – talk about whatever you like as long as it’s related to movies, TV or Screen Rant itself – just remember to play nice. 
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