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This Week In Trailers: Jasper Mall, Wake Up, DAVE, Run This Town, The Pharmacist 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? This week we go dead mall hunting, realize why some of us aren’t morning people, deconstruct a political mystery, get to knowLil Dickya little better, and fight a drug company....

WarnerMedia Investigating ‘Justice League’ Production, Making This Movie Somehow More Controversial Than Ever Who could have imagined that aJustice Leaguemovie would still be generating this many headlines three years after its release? The film, which has for years been the center of a loud conversation aboutZack Snyder’s “Snyder Cut,” is now also the subject of a retroactive investigation by WarnerMedia, the parent company of Warner Bros. and DC Comics. WarnerMedia is evidently investigating abuses of power made during the making of the movie – abuses which Cyborg actorRay Fishersuggests were overlooked during the merger of Time Warner and AT&T....

Watch The First 10 Minutes Of Netflix’s ‘Locke And Key’ Locke & Keyis Netflix’s latest highly anticipated new series, and you may get a sneak preview of its opening 10 minutes now. Netflix has released the first 10 minutes ofLocke & Keyon its YouTube channel, a day before the adaptation ofJoe HillandGabriel Rodríguez’s acclaimed horror comic books hits the streaming service. Locke and Key First 10 Minutes One of the best things that Netflix has done for its original shows is revive the opening credits sequence....

What LeVar Burton Could (And Couldn’t) See When He Put On His Star Trek Visor Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” ranks amongLeVar Burton’s most iconic roles, but the character’s instantly recognizable VISOR was a literal pain for the actor. The ocular device was one of the many advanced technologies in “Star Trek,” letting the blind Geordi receive visual information through the electromagnetic spectrum. Geordi’s VISOR became one of the defining symbols of not only the character, butall of “The Next Generation....

Why Das Boot’s Author Was Critical Of Its On-Screen Adaptation Wolfgang Petersen’s “Das Boot,” based on the 1973 book by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, was an enormous hit when it was released in Germany in 1981. Taking place on the real-life U-96 submarine as it patrolled the oceans during the Battle of the Atlantic in the 1940s, “Das Boot” is a realistic, tense, and action-packed look at the lives of German soldiers as they struggled to survive — both the dangers and the utter tedium — in an extreme environment....

World Trade Center Writer Penning N.W.A. Biopic The story of LA rap groupN.W.Ais a fairly short one, and has been told already through the best means available — their records and the songs and albums that members released after the group started to disintegrate. But what the hell, let’s get a biopic together, anyway.Straight Outta Compton, titled after N.W.A’s breakout album from 1988, will seek to tell the tale of N....

Your Animated Spider-Man Is ‘Dope’ Star Shameik Moore We already met a newSpider-Manin the Marvel Cinematic Universe’sCaptain America: Civil War, with Tom Holland suited up as the webslinger. But Sony Pictures also wants to give fans a version of the wallcrawler that they’ve wanted to see on the big screen for a long time. An animatedSpider-Manmovie has been in development at Sony Pictures for a little while now, and this version of the Marvel superhero will focus on Miles Morales, a popular incarnation of the webhead who was introduced to fans in 2011 and whose secret identity is a half-black, half-Latino high schooler....

‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Is Tracking For A Not-So-Quiet $60 Million Box Office Debut A Quiet Place Part IIis set to make some noise at the box office when it debuts next month. John Krasinski’s sequel to his surprise 2018 horror hitA Quiet Placeis on track to open at the box office to $60 million, surpassing the first film’s $50.2 million domestic opening. Read more about theA Quiet Place Part 2box office tracking below....

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Will Be Reborn As A Netflix Live-Action Series From The Original Creators Eight years afterM. Night ShyamalandesecratedAvatar: The Last Airbenderwith his feature film that won’t be named, Netflix has announced a second attempt to adapt the matchless Nickelodeon animated series as a live-action show. But wait — before you freak out and go into the Avatar State, there’s a silver lining to this seemingly ill-advised project....

‘Batman Vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Trailer: The Comic Heroes Collide In An Epic Showdown Last month we found out that the comic book crossoverBatman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtleswould begetting the animated movie treatmentfrom Warner Bros. Animation. Now the first trailer has arrived, showcasing the face-off and inevitable team-up between The Dark Knight and the heroes in a half-shell. And after they’re done pissing each other off, they have quite an array of super villains they’ll have to deal with from both of their universes....

‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Secret Ending Revealed, Which Leads To A Playable Game From The Movie “There are scenes that some people just will never see and we had to make sure that we were OK with that,“Black Mirror: BandersnatchdirectorDavid Sladesaid in a recent interview. Netflix’s interactive “choose your own adventure movie” experience provides a litany of options for viewers – so many, in fact, that Slade also explained that they shot a scene even the filmmakers can’t access....

‘Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story Of Roy Cohn’ Trailer: The Life And Death Of An Infamous Political Figure Roy Cohn, one of the worst people to ever live, is the subject of the new HBO documentaryBully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn. And, interestingly enough, the doc is directed by someone who has a personal connection to Cohn’s life: Ivy Meeropol, the granddaughter Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the couple Cohn prosecuted as spies, leading to their execution in the electric chair....

‘Death Of A Vlogger’ Review: ‘Paranormal Activity’ For The YouTube Generation [FrightFest 2019] Though not nearly as omnipresent as it was during the heyday ofThe Blair Witch Project,[REC]and theParanormal Activityfranchise, the found-footage sub-genre has never gone away. After all, it allows filmmakers without a huge budget to be inventive and go nuts with a high-concept horror movie. But like the zombie genre, there are far too many found-footage movies and not all of them are good....