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‘Fast & Furious 6’ Final Trailer: Defying Gravity TheFast and the Furiousfilms have always done well, but 2011’sFast Fivereally kicked the franchise up to a whole new level in terms of box office, critical praise, and gleefully over-the-top ridiculousness. With some luck,Fast & Furious 6could raise the bar even higher. That shot of a car shooting out of burning airplane, for example, seemed like a great start. Helmed by returning directorJustin Lin, the latest installment of the car-centric series sees Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) turning to Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker) and the rest of the gang for help in catching a dangerous mastermind (Luke Evans)....

‘Genius’ Trailer: Geoffrey Rush Is Albert Einstein In The Ron Howard-Produced Series If you’re going to cast someone as brilliant as Albert Einstein,Geoffrey Rush, an actor who exudes intelligence and wisdom, isn’t a bad choice. Rush stars in National Geographic’s first scripted series,Genius. The anthology drama will depict world’s greatest innovators, and season one starts with the legendary Noble Prize-winning physicist. Below, watch theGeniustrailer. The first season ofGeniusis an adaptation ofWalter Isaacson’s biography,Einstein: His Life and Universe, based on some of Einstein’s personal letters....

‘Ghostbusters’ And ‘Ace Ventura’ Actress Alice Drummond Has Passed Away At 88 Following the sad news that arrived Thanksgiving weekend with the deaths ofThe Brady Bunchmatriarch Florence HendersonandBarney Millerstar Ron Glass, another actress has left this world. You may not knowAlice Drummondby name, but you’ve undoubtedly seen the character actress in key roles in some very popular movies, including playing the librarian from the opening scene ofGhostbustersand Ray Finkle’s cuckoo mother inAce Ventura: Pet Detective....

‘Ghostbusters’ International Trailer Features Tons Of New Footage, Finally Lets Chris Hemsworth Talk Chris Hemsworthmay be an internationally beloved star of amulti-billion dollar franchise, but you wouldn’t know it from the firstGhostbusterstrailer. He shows up looking pretty for a shot or two, and then disappears before he even gets a line in. We imagine he’ll have much, much more to do in the movie itself, but for now it’s an amusing inversion of the usual action movie trailer dynamic, in which you’ll see male heroes running around kicking ass while female leads are reduced to simple eye candy....

‘Hannibal’ Season 3 Features Directors Vincenzo Natali And Neil Marshall HannibalSeason 3 begins on June 4, and now series creatorBryan Fulleris offering up some details on the new batch of episodes. First up, he has revealed a couple of the directors for this season. One is returning helmerVincenzo Natali, who directs the first three episodes of Season 3. Another isNeil Marshall, known for his own efforts onGame of Thronesand features likeThe Descent....

‘Ibiza’ Trailer: Netflix’s New Comedy About A Work Trip Gone Wild Netflix hasn’t released a new original movie in a few seconds, so here’s a trailer forIbiza, a new comedy about a business trip gone wild.Gillian Jacobs,Vanessa Bayer, andPhoebe Robinsonplay three friends who head to Barcelona, and get wrapped-up in all sorts of wild and crazy shenanigans. Watch theIbizatrailer below. Everyone involved with this film is very funny and very talented, but theIbizatrailer is not…great....

‘Idiocracy’ Returning To Theaters For 10th Anniversary This election season has been something else. There has been so much nonsense and stupidity thrown around in this intense political climate that many have pointed to the fact thatMike Judge’s cult favorite comedyIdiocracypredicted that this kind of thing would eventually happen. In fact, there were supposed to be someIdiocracy-themed political ads that would have went after candidate Donald Trump, butthey were axed by 20th Century Fox, and you can probably guess why....

‘Joe Exotic’ Series Starring Kate McKinnon As Carole Baskin To Air On NBC, Peacock & USA It seems like it’s been years sinceTiger Kingdominated the social media sphere, but in reality it was just at the beginning of lockdown that the Netflix docuseries became a viral sensation, prompting Hollywood to scramble to get as many Joe Exotic projects started as possible. But beforeTiger Kingthere wasJoe Exotic, a Wondery podcast that covered the same story last year and quickly got picked up for a TV series adaptation....

‘Kinyarwanda’ – ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Meets ‘Pulp Fiction’ With Less Violence [Sundance Review] Note: Though Sundance ended several weeks ago, /Film reader Thomas Oliver alerted us that a movie he produced, Kinyarwanda, won the World Cinema Audience Award at the festival. Since none of us got around to seeing it, we figured it was worth taking a slightly-belated look at. Here’s the review. In the past decade, winners of the World Cinema Audience Award, Dramatic, at the Sundance Film Festival includeAn Education, Once, BrothersandWhale Rider....

‘Red 2’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Hasn’t Killed Anyone In Months Bruce Willishas starred in many sequels over the course of his three-decade career, but in 2013 he really outdoes himself with three separate sequels and nothing else. The first of them,A Good Day to Die Hard, hits next month, followed byG.I. Joe: Retaliationin March. Bringing up the rear isRed 2, which has just unveiled a first trailer in advance of its August release....

‘Ren And Stimpy’ Will Not Be Part Of Any Nicktoons Reboot Or Movie Back in the fall of 2015, news surfaced that Paramount Pictures was working on alive-action animated hybrid moviethat would bring back some of the stapleNicktoonsfrom the ’90s era of Nickelodeon. Since then,Napoleon DynamitedirectorJerusha Hesswas brought on as director, but it’s been over a year and we haven’t heard any significant updates on the project. However, we did just find out that one Nicktoon thought to be included won’t show up in any new line-up of the cartoons....

‘Rust And Bone’ UK Trailer: Marion Cotillard And Matthias Schoenaerts Fall In Love For ‘A Prophet’ Director Jacques Audiard Three years after the excellent prison thrillerA Prophet, directorJacques Audiardis back with the romantic dramaRust and Bone.BullheadstarMatthias Schoenaertsplays a young father named Ali who meets a beautiful orca whale trainer, Stephanie (Marion Cotillard). As tragedy (or ludicrous plot twists, if you’re feeling less generous) strikes for both of them, the two imperfect beings fall in love....

‘Steve Jobs’ TV Spot: The Apple Co-Founder’s Greatest Invention Is Himself As summer winds down, we’re starting to see glimpses of the movies that will be vying for Golden Globes and Oscars this fall and winter, and one of them is undoubtedlySteve Jobs, which just debuted a new extended TV spot. The biopic from directorDanny Boyle(Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) and writer Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) starsMichael Fassbenderas Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, and goes behind the scenes of how his life’s struggles drove his ambition to make Apple something to be proud of, even to the point of ignoring his own daughter, choosing instead to raise technology as his own....