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Movie Trailer: Essential Killing, With Vincent Gallo As A Member Of The Taliban After that last big interview we posted withVincent Gallo, a lot of readers probably think he’s a total jerk, if not quite a cultural terrorist. That being the cast, perhaps his role inEssential Killingis playing directly to the audience who loves to hate him: Gallo plays Mohammed, a Taliban soldier who is captured by Americans in Afghanistan and transferred to Europe for interrogation....

Movies Sold At Sundance 2015: A Complete & Updated Guide These are the movies sold at Sundance 2015. Many of the films that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival are hoping to attract a distributor and find a bigger audience, be it in theaters around the country or distributed through digital VOD. Throughout the festival we will be reporting on all of the movies sold at Sundance 2015. This list should help give you an idea about which movies may someday be available to you either theatrically of VOD....

Oprah Winfrey And Lionsgate To Adapt New York Times' ‘The 1619 Project’ For Film And TV In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and global protests that are shaking up the current political landscape,Oprah Winfreyis teaming up with Lionsgate and Pultizer Prize-winning journalistNikole Hannah-Jonesto adapt Hannah-Jones landmark examination of racism in the U.S.,The 1619 Project, for the screen. In 2019, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones spearheaded a project for The New York Times Magazine calledThe 1619 Projectthat would extensively re-examine the legacy of slavery in the U....

Oscars So Empty: Will Smith And Mark Ruffalo May Join The Boycott If you read about movies on the internet, you’re surely familiar with the recent controversy surrounding this year’s Academy Awards nominations. But here’s the short version: for the second year in a row, every single acting nominee and four of the five directing nominees were white. This lack of representation, a symptom of an industry that is still dominated by white men, was the finally straw for many actors, filmmakers, writers, and movie fans....

Rumor: The Villain Of ‘Justice League’ Has Been Revealed Back in June, comic fans began salivating at the actual possibility of aJustice Leaguemovie. The idea of teaming DC superheroes had beenrattling aroundHollywood for years but after Marvel’sThe Avengersstarted setting all kinds of box office records, Warner Bros. finally decided to get things in order. ScreenwriterWill Beallwas revealed to be workinga new versionof the DC superhero mega film. Since then,speculation,rumorsand somelegal red-tapehave been the only real updates aboutJustice League, whichmay or may nottie into Zack Snyder’sMan of Steel....

Sequel Bits: ‘Wanted 2,’ ‘Step Up 4’ Poster, ‘Tintin 3’ Probably Based On ‘Prisoners Of The Sun,’ New ‘Evil Dead’ Logo We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With so much sequel news breaking every day, this little post we callSequel Bitsis becoming a semi-regular feature. That truth probably makes most of us feel like /Film commenter brock_rox who wrote the followingafter the last installment. “It’s sad that we live in a world where a column especially devoted to sequel news has to exist....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Producer Amy Pascal Explains How Past Actors Were Convinced To Return It’s clear that one of the cornerstones of making"Spider-Man: No Way Home"was thatseveral of the hero’s villainsfrompast incarnations of the characterreturn to fight another battle. But how do you convince an actor to give time to a cameo of their past character — especially in a superhero tentpole film where it could end up being a waste of that actor’s time?...

Teaser Trailer: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ This morning, if someone said “You’re going to be reading movie news about two films with the word “Lincoln” in the title today,” you would have laughed in their face. However, hot off the heels of the big news aboutSteven Spielberg’sLincoln,we’ve now got your first look at footage fromThe Lincoln Lawyer. Not to be confused with those little blocks you played with as a kid,The Lincoln Lawyeris a murder mystery starringMatthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe,Marisa Tomei, William H....

The Bob’s Burgers Movie Co-Director Explains How A Film Was The Next Logical Step For The Franchise [Exclusive] “Bob’s Burgers"is the latest in a long line of fan-favorite animated shows to make the jump from our TV screens to cinemas around the world. “Beavis and Butthead,” “South Park,” and “Pokemon” are just a few of the notable series that made the transition from the family television set to multiple screens at your local multiplex....

The Final ‘Peanuts Movie’ Trailer: Bringing 65 Years Of Comic History To The Big Screen It’s been 65 years sinceCharles M. Schulzfirst delivered Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy to newspapers on October 2nd, 1950. The comic would go on to span 17,897 strips through February 13th, 2000, and at its peak, ran in over 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries, translated into 21 languages. And now all that rich history is coming to the big screen withThe Peanuts Movie....

The Morning Watch: ‘Stranger Things’ LEGO Poster Timelapse, Recut In Different Genres & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a timelapse video of aStranger Thingsseason three poster created with LEGO bricks....

This Week In Trailers: Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate, Letter To The Future, Resistance, Freak Dance Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: InRealLife, This Is Martin Bonner, Herb & Dorothy 50x50, Wax Trax! Records: The Documentary Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...