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AJ Caulfield

Zack Snyder Confirms Next Project Is Adaptation Of The Fountainhead

Zack Snyder is officially getting his Fountainhead adaptation into development. The director recently confirmed that his next project will be a take on Ayn Rand's 1943 novel The Fountainhead, which follows an individualistic architect who is unwilling to conform to appease his fellow architects.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story's Biggest Cameo Was 'Too Secret To Ever Name'

Solo: A Star Wars Story features a Game of Thrones actress in its main roster (Emilia Clarke as Qi'ra), and apparently, the creatives took a page from the HBO series' secret-holding book in keeping an ultra-tight lid on the biggest cameo in the film.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story Director Responds To Film's Underwhelming Box Office Opening

Solo: A Star Wars Story flew lower than expected at the box office this weekend, and now, director Ron Howard is addressing the situation. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, the film was projected to earn between $130 to $150 million upon launch, but only pulled in $83.3 million over the three-day weekend.

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AJ Caulfield

Avengers: Infinity War: Explaining Thor's Inconsistent Power Levels

As Thor, Chris Hemsworth is one of the musclier, more powerful, and now more comedic heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But rippling abs and a newfound ability to rip jokes weren't enough to distract from the fact that Thor's powers were kind of all over the place in Avengers: Infinity War.

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Julia Bianco

Sesame Street Sues Over Melissa McCarthy's The Happytime Murders

Sesame Workshop, the company behind Sesame Street, is suing STX Films over the marketing of their upcoming Melissa McCarthy-starring puppet detective comedy The Happytime Murders. The company alleges that the R-rated comedy could hurt their family brand.

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Julia Bianco

Solo: A Star Wars Story Has Disappointing $83.3 Million Three-Day Opening

Solo: A Star Wars Story is flying a little low at the box office. The movie opened to a disappointing $83.3 million over the three-day weekend, suggesting a $101 million four-day debut.This is severely down from initial tracking, which had the movie pegged for a $130 to $150 million debut.

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Julia Bianco

The Expanse Officially Revived At Amazon

Amazon has finalized a deal to bring The Expanse back for a fourth season after it was canceled by Syfy. Shohreh Aghdashloo, Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Dominique Tipper, and Frankie Adams star in the series.

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AJ Caulfield

The Head-Turning Solo Cameo We Weren't Prepared For

Unless everything we've learned about Han Solo was all a hoax or only half of the whole truth, what went down in Solo: A Star Wars Story shouldn't have been jaw-dropping. And yet, it was. Solo shocked viewers by including a head-turning cameo no one saw coming.

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Andrew Handley

Everything Coming To Netflix In June 2018

This June, Netflix is boosting the quantity and quality of their streaming selections.

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Julia Bianco

Alyson Hannigan Joins Live-Action Kim Possible Movie

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and How I Met Your Mother alum Alyson Hannigan has joined Disney's upcoming live-action Kim Possible film as Dr. Ann Possible, the mother of the titular teenage spy. The role was voiced by Jean Smart in the original animated series.

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Julia Bianco

Deadly Class: Russo Brothers Syfy Series Gets New Showrunner

The upcoming Syfy Image Comics adaptation, executive produced by Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo, has replaced showrunner Adam Targum (Banshee) with Shots Fired and Chicago Fire alum Mick Betancourt.

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Julia Bianco

Solo: A Star Wars Story Earns $14.1 Million In Thursday Previews

Solo: A Star Wars Story is looking to top Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End's Memorial Day box office record. The film stars Alden Ehrenreich as a younger version of the gunslinger played by Harrison Ford in the original Star Wars trilogy.

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AJ Caulfield

Daniel Craig's Bond 25 Lands Release Date, Danny Boyle To Direct

Bond, James Bond, is making a comeback soon. Bond 25 has set a debut date and confirmed Danny Boyle as its director. Daniel Craig will reprise his role as the titular super spy in the film, which marks his last go-around as 007.

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Sarah Szabo

Star Wars: Boba Fett Movie Officially Announced With Logan Director

The Star Wars stories aren't stopping, and Boba Fett is next. The next character from the original Star Wars trilogy to get a whole feature to themselves will be Mandalorian bounty hunter and right-hand to Darth Vader Boba Fett, with a movie set to be directed by Logan director James Mangold.

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Sarah Szabo

Final Sicario: Day Of The Soldado Trailer Sets The Stakes For War

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released the third and final trailer for its upcoming war-on-the-borderlands sequel to Sicario, and it's easily the most action-packed look at the upcoming off-books operation yet. Starring Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin, the movie invades on June 29.

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Sarah Szabo

Tales From The Hood Is Getting A Sequel

One of the all-time great horror anthologies, Tales from the Hood, is officially getting a sequel. Released in 1995, the horror anthology from Rusty Cundieff told four comic and spooky tales from a black American perspective, blending incisive racial commentary with horror decades before Get Out.

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Sarah Szabo

The Flash: Villain For Season 5 May Have Already Been Revealed

That was fast. Though season four of his series has only just ended, another enemy is already coming for The Flash. According to new casting reports from the CW superhero show, The Flash is seeking to add a new major character from the comics for the series' fifth season.

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AJ Caulfield

The Avengers: Infinity War Death A Marvel Executive Tried To Stop

Avengers: Infinity War didn't just kill its darlings, it straight-up annihilated them. But if one Marvel executive had persuaded directors Joe and Anthony Russo enough, the film may have gone without one major death.

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AJ Caulfield

Godzilla 2, Six Billion Dollar Man Delayed; Shining Sequel Scores Debut Date

Warner Bros. has shifted things around on its release schedule. In one fell swoop, the studio pushed back two films and mapped out a launch for a long-awaited sequel. Godzilla 2 and The Six Billion Dollar Man have been delayed, and Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, has scored a release date.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story: How Jack Nicholson Influenced Alden Ehrenreich's Performance

In Solo: A Star Wars Story, young Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich wasn't supposed to do a spot-on impersonation of Harrison Ford, but even still, hints of another famous actor made their way into Ehrenreich's performance. Here's how Jack Nicholson influenced the actor's performance.

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AJ Caulfield

Transformers 7 Pulled From Paramount's Release Schedule

Paramount Pictures has pulled its planned Transformers 7 film from its official release schedule. The film was previously slated to open on June 28, 2019.

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AJ Caulfield

The New Loki Theory That's Making Us Think About Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Infinity War and theory-crafting go together like peanut butter and jelly: it's hard to have one without having the other. And, as it turns out, the theories didn't stop after Infinity War premiered on April 27. A new theory about Loki has us rethinking the entire film.

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