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‘Tully’ Trailer: Charlize Theron Gets A Life-Saving Nanny In Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman Drama Charlize Theronis a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown in theTullytrailer. The Sundance favorite about an exhausted mother of three (Theron) who resorts to hiring a night nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis) has dropped a new trailer. Tully Trailer Charlize Theron has battled warlords, secret agents, and huntsmen. But this time, she takes on motherhood....

34% Of Star Wars Fans We Polled Said This Was Their Favorite Jedi From The Movies It’s quite simply an unspoken fact that every “Star Wars” fan has a favorite Jedi. Whether you’re just a lover of the films or someone who devours every bit of canon and non-canon lore they can get their hands on you absolutely have an answer to this question. With the “Star Wars” universe growing with each new series it seems more and more likely we’ll see new Jedi characters introduced....

34% Said This Is Their Favorite Star Trek TV Series - Here’s Our Vote (Welcome toSurvey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) Forget the BFI’sSight & Sound Poll, theNobel Prizenominating committee, theThe U.S. Census, or theNickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, /Film has just received information on the single most important poll ever conducted: A casual poll run on SurveyMonkey haphazardly asking readers which “Star Trek” series they liked the best without any qualifications or comments....

A ‘Wicked’ Movie Will Try Defying Gravity In 2019 There has been talk of bringing the beloved Broadway musicalWickedto the big screen for years now. Once upon a time (actually 2010), J.J. Abramswas supposedly in the running to make it. A year later, it had somehowtransformed into a television miniseries. A year after that, director Stephen Daldrywas being courted to take the helm. In 2015, producer Marc Platt talked aboutwanting go have a movie version in theaters by 2016and that certainly didn’t come together....

A Dead-Eyed Look Back At The Creepy Killer Dolls Of Cinema Dolls can be inherently creepy, particularly ones made to resemble us. From their glass eyes and rictus grins to their stubby fingers and obvious maliciousness, dolls suggest a soulless reproduction simply biding their time until they can strike at our kneecaps or steal our breath while we sleep. They’re empty vessels, and while we can ostensibly fill that hollow void with the emotion or action of our choosing – aggressive combat tactics for our Barbies, deciding what tactical gear to pack for our G....

Box Office Tracking: Bedtime Stories Could Be The Biggest Christmas Day Opening Of All-Time In the movie business, there are no real holidays, and tonight, while the studio executives are nestled all snug in their beds, visions of big Christmas Day box office receipts dance in their heads. Five major wide releases arrive in shiny new packages for the holiday, plus there are three strong holdovers from Friday. In the final pre-Christmas industry tracking, the three movies that appear ready to pop big are Bedtime Stories (Disney), Fox’s Marley & Me and Best Picture front-runner The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount), but the big winner will clearly be Sandler with his family-friendly fantasy/comedy....

Coens True To True Grit Varietyare reporting that theCoen Brothers' adaptation ofTrue Gritis set to be their next movie. WhyThe Yiddish Policemen’s Unionwon’t be next out of the traps, as we had previouslybelievedit would be. I suspect it’s simply that the script isn’t in shape yet. For all we know, Joel and Ethan might have hit one of their legendary skid-patches of writers block with that one. TheTrue Gritremake first bobbed up, though wasn’t widely reported, a year or so ago –The Daily Mailhad the scoop then, I think, but The Daily Mail being what they are, it was easy to dismiss the whole report....

Cool Stuff: Watching The Watchmen Book We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons has released a wonderful table top book collecting the art behind the making of what many consider to be the greatest graphic novel of all time – The Watchmen. Don’t get me wrong, this is not an art of the making of the movie – this is a unprecedented behind the scenes look at the making of the comic book....

Cronenberg And Mortenson Reteaming For Eastern Promises Sequel MTVhave had a chat withDavid Cronenbergand gotten the good stuff on his plans for anEastern Promisessequel. You may recall the end of the first film, or you may not – to reveal it here would be a spoiler, so I’ve tucked it under the crease with – but you probably weren’t expecting a sequel either way. According to MTV, Cronenberg andViggo Mortensonwill reteam with Steven Knight, the screenwriter; Paul Webster, the producer; and Focus Features....

Former WB Employee Says ‘Wonder Woman’ Is “A Mess”; Director Patty Jenkins Responds A pattern is emerging from Warner Bros.' DC universe movies, and it’s not an encouraging one. FirstMan of Steelgot the franchise off to a shaky start, drawing mixed reviews and polarizing fans.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justicewas supposed to get the series back on track, but instead just seemed to derail it further. So pressure fell onSuicide Squadto turn things around… only forSuicide Squadto prove just as divisive as its predecessors....

How Did This Get Made: Lifeforce, The Original “Shlockbuster” (A Literary Documentary) We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Space Vampires + Nudity – Coherent Plot =How Did This Get Made?!?! Nobody sets out to make a bad movie. But the truth is, it happens all the time. And every time it does, there’s a fun misadventure or cautionary tale that led to its creation. This is that story for the 1985 summer shlock busterLifeforce....

How Sam Mendes' Grandfather Helped Inspire 1917’s Story I still remember not being able to remove myself from my seat after seeing “1917” in theaters for the first time. I felt a mixture of overwhelming exhaustion and awe over the storySam Mendeshad laid out for us in nearly real-time. I had also gone into the film relatively ignorant about Mendes beyond the handful of films I’d seen by him — including his twoJames Bondfilms....

Is Universal Attempting A 3D Reboot Of ‘Doom’? When a reboot of theSpider-Manfranchise was announced a mere ten years after the first one was released, plenty of fans rolled their eyes. Now it seems the reboot cycle is getting even faster, with a 3D reboot of 2005’sDoomrumored to be in the works. Forget that movie ever existed? Yeah, so did I. Read more after the jump. It’s not surprising that someone would take another stab at making a successfulDoommovie....