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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.

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.

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.

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.

Clarence Williams III as Mr. Simms in Tales from the Hood

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.

Candace Patton as Iris West in The Flash

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.

Josh Brolin as Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War

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.

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.

Alden Ehrenreich Han Solo Solo: A Star Wars Story character poster

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.

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.

Tom Hiddleston as Loki in Thor: Ragnarok

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.

AJ Caulfield

Vin Diesel's Bloodshot Casts Eiza Gonzalez, Sam Heughan, Michael Sheen

Three actors have scored their shot at Bloodshot. Eiza Gonzalez, Sam Heughan, and Michael Sheen have been cast in Bloodshot, the Vin Diesel-starring film based on the Valiant Comics character created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton.

Sarah Szabo

It: Chapter Two Casts Grown-Up Ben Hanscom

The big It grown-ups' reunion has secured another member. Jay Ryan, a New Zealand-born actor known for Top of the Lake, Mary Kills People, and Beauty and the Beast, has joined the cast of It: Chapter Two as the grown-up version of Ben Hascom.

Sarah Szabo

Idris Elba To Star In The Hunchback Of Notre Dame For Netflix

Reader, you better get yourself prepared for a sexy Hunchback, because Idris Elba is going full Quasimodo whether you're ready for it or not. The English filmmaker will produce, direct, star in and partially score a new adaptation of the 19th century romance The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Netflix.

Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre in Watchmen

Sarah Szabo

Watchmen: HBO Announces Star-Studded Cast For Series Pilot

HBO and Damon Lindelof are bringing Watchmen to episodic television, and if the first cast members announced for the pilot are any indication, this show is not going to be what we're expecting. Reportedly, Regina King will lead a cast that includes Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., and more.

Sarah Szabo

The Expendables 4 Officially On The Way In 2019

After first being teased four months ago by series writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone, it's been announced that The Expendables 4 is officially in the works for a release in early 2019. Old man action is alive again — we're gonna need more creatine.

AJ Caulfield

Matt Groening's Netflix Series Disenchantment Sets Debut Date, Releases First-Look Images

Art thou ready for this? Netflix has dated and unveiled the first look at its newest animated series, Disenchantment. The brainchild of Simpsons creator Matt Groening, the comedy fantasy show nabbed a 10-episode order from Netflix, which will launch the entire episode collection later this year.

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones

AJ Caulfield

Emilia Clarke's Final Game Of Thrones Scene Really Messed Her Up

Game of Thrones has never been a happy-go-lucky, sunny-skies-and-tiny-puppies kind of show, but actress Emilia Clarke says her final scene as the silver-haired wannabe queen Daenerys Targaryen on the series was all kinds of shocking — enough to mess her up in a big way.

AJ Caulfield

Black Widow Movie Scores Red Sparrow Production Designer

Marvel is making moves behind the scenes of its planned Black Widow film, hiring Maria Djurkovic as its production designer. Djurkovic's name may not be familiar to the general public, but the last film she worked on should be: the Jennifer Lawrence-led spy movie Red Sparrow.

AJ Caulfield

Black Panther 2: Donald Glover Reportedly In Talks To Star

After the immense success of Marvel's Black Panther, fans have been craving a sequel — and are even hungrier for news about the impending follow-up. Director Ryan Coogler is reportedly working out the details on Black Panther 2, and if he gets his way, Donald Glover will have a starring role.

Donald Glover Lando Calrissian Solo: A Star Wars Story

AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story: Original Lando Calrissian Actor Gave Donald Glover Some 'Really Helpful' Advice

With Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover had some major shoes to fill in starring as a young Lando Calrissian, the infamous (and infamously suave) gambler originated by Billy Dee Williams. Thankfully, Williams gave Glover some sage advice ahead of playing Lando. Here's what the actor said.

Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story

AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story Tracking For $130 Million-Plus Opening Weekend

In exciting box office news, Solo: A Star Wars Story is eyeing a record-breaking $130 million-plus domestic opening over the long Memorial Day weekend. In not-as-exciting box office news, Solo is tracking for an opening that comes in lower than recent Star Wars movie releases.

AJ Caulfield

Krypton Renewed For Season 2

Krypton will live on. Syfy has officially renewed Krypton for a second season ahead of its May 23 season finale. The series, which stars Cameron Cuffe as Superman's grandfather Seg-El, will premiere its sophomore season sometime in 2019.

AJ Caulfield

Liam Neeson Cast In Men In Black Spinoff

Liam Neeson has just become one of the titular Men in Black. Neeson is in negotiations to star in Sony's upcoming Men in Black spinoff. He'll join Thor: Ragnarok costars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson for the movie, which has Fate of the Furious filmmaker F. Gary Gray on board to direct.

Dwayne Johnson in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

AJ Caulfield

Jumanji Sequel, Men In Black Spinoff Posters Unveiled

It's double the poster fun in the movie world today. During this week's Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, Sony Pictures unveiled the first posters for its Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel and its untitled Men in Black reboot spinoff film, which stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson.

Sophie Turner X-Men Dark Phoenix Jean Grey

AJ Caulfield

New X-Men: Dark Phoenix Promo Poster Hints Film Will Drop 'X-Men' From Title

Would X-Men: Dark Phoenix by any other name sound as sweet? Franchise fans would do well to start formulating their responses to that question, as an early promotional poster for the upcoming prequel film hints that it has dropped the "X-Men" label from its name.