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‘Venom 2’ Officially Locks Down Andy Serkis To Direct [Updated] Update:It’s official – Andy Serkis will direct Venom 2 for Sony, viaThe Hollywood Reporter. Beyond the news that he’s locked down the gig, no other details are available at this time. Sony Pictures is on the hunt for aVenom 2director, and the studio recently met with three high-profile contenders for the job. Rupert Wyatt, who directed the surprisingly greatRise of the Planet of the Apes, is in talks, and he’s competing withBumblebeehelmerTravis Knightas well asAndy Serkis, the actor who portrayed the villainous Ulysses Klaue in Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Westworld’ Season 3 Adds ‘Breaking Bad’ Star Aaron Paul Westworldseason 3 may have just gotten a lot more interesting.Aaron Paul, who broke out in AMC’sBreaking Badand has since gone on to star in shows like Netflix’sBoJack Horsemanand Hulu’sThe Path, has officially joined the cast of HBO’s high-profile sci-fi show for its third season. Read more about theWestworldAaron Paul casting below.Deadlinebrings the news about Paul’s addition, saying that while the producers won’t reveal details about the actor’s role on the show, he’ll be a new series regular....

‘What If’ Trailer: Daniel Radcliffe Goes RomCom With Zoe Kazan We’ve seenDaniel Radcliffeas a hero, we’ve seen him in period pieces, some have even seen him naked on stage. But now theHarry Potterstar takes on his most “normal” role to date, as a simple guy trying to win the affections of a girl. Radcliffe is the star ofWhat If, a romantic comedy directed byMichael Dowse. He plays Wallace, a medical school drop-out who meets a cool girl named Chantry (Zoe Kazan)....

14 Movies Like Encanto You Should Definitely See M. Night Shyamalan’s “Unbreakable” does not make the list of 14 movies like “Encanto” we think you should see, but the two have more in common than you might think. “Unbreakable” is a secret superhero film, an origin story for Bruce Willis' David Dunn that disguises its most recognizable trappings in mystery MacGuffins. “Encanto,” which is directed by “Zootopia” writers Bryon Howard and Jared Bush with music from Lin Manuel-Miranda, is similarly sly in how it initially presents the tale of Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz), her magical family, and the labyrinthian home they occupy....

Carla Gugino And More Are Returning For ‘Wayward Pines’ Season Two Wayward Pinesis returning to Fox. Produced byM. Night Shyamalanand created byChad Hodge, the show was originally planned as a 10-episode series. After it performed well with viewers, Fox decided to bring the show back, but only a few cast members are returning. If you haven’t seen all ofWayward Pinesseason one, thenspoilersare ahead. I only got halfway through season one, but from what I’ve heard, most of the main cast did not survive....

Day Of The Dead Season 1: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) The zombie business is still a-boomin' if SyFy has any say in the matter. Their latest series, dropping mid-October, is an homage to the late, great “Godfather of the Dead,” George A....

Director Robert Rodriguez Is Going Low-Budget Again With His Next Film Robert Rodriguezlaunched his career with the ultra low-budget filmEl Mariachi,made for only $7000. Since then, Rodriguez’s budgets have substantially risen, but now theSin Cityfilmmaker is returning to his low-budget roots with his next film. The film will be made as part of the unscripted seriesRebel Without a Crew. Details about Robert Rodriguez’s new film are below. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is one of the few directors with a place in the Guinness Book of World Records: his debut filmEl Mariachiholds the record as the lowest-budgeted film ever to gross $1M at the box office....

Disney Infinity ‘Star Wars’ Trailer And Featurette Take Us To Another Universe Dozens of Walt Disney’s trademark characters have already become part ofDisney Infinity, the open-world, figure-based video game from The House of Mouse. Mostly the game has focused on Pixar characters fromCars, Toy Story The IncrediblesandMonsters Inc., as well as Walt Disney Animation hitsFrozenandWreck-It Ralph. But things have gotten really interesting for the game lately with Marvel heroes entering the mix....

Disney Serves Up New Images From ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’, ‘Zootopia’, ‘The Jungle Book’, And More Right now, I imagine everyone at the Disney lot, based in Burbank, California, is currently swimming in money, eating nothing but money, and dressed to the nines in money, because they damn well should be. With the ongoing success ofStar Wars: The Force Awakens, the studio ended 2015 on a high note — a note that’ll keep playing well into 2016....

Facebook Watch Cancels ‘Sorry For Your Loss’ And ‘Limetown’ As It Scales Back Scripted Content Facebook Watch is pivoting to unscripted content. The tech giant’s streaming service has just cancelled two of its most acclaimed series in a scaling back of its scripted titles in favor unscripted shows. The acclaimed Elizabeth Olsen-starring dramaSorry For Your Lossand the Jessica Biel seriesLimetownboth got the axe. Deadlinereports that Facebook Watch has cancelledSorry For Your LossandLimetownin its first push to scale back scripted content....

First Look: Jack Black In Richard Linklater’s ‘Bernie,’ Film Will Premiere At LA Film Fest I’m hoping that the reunion ofRichard LinklaterandJack Blackturns out to be a very good thing. The picture above is the first still fromBernie, the director’s new film in which Jack Black plays a small-town mortician who befriends an old woman (played byShirley MacLaine) and then… well, I’ll give you slightly more spoilerish info after the break, but all you really need to know is that Mr....

First Look: Red Tails We’ve heard a couple ofrumorsaboutRed Tails, the World War II flick about the Tuskegee Airmen produced byGeorge Lucasand directed byAnthony Hemingway. But until now we haven’t seen any photos or images. you may see a few behind the scenes shots after the break, culled from a large collection of photos that are meant to show off the digital imaging tech used to shoot the feature. CHUDfound these images at the website for Munich camera and gear rental companyFGV Schmidle....

Hank Azaria Wants To Apologize To “Every Single Indian Person In This Country” For Voicing Apu On ‘The Simpsons’ Over a year ago,Hank Azariastepped down from voicing Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the heavily accented Kwik-E-Mart owner onThe Simpsonswhom he had voiced for 30 years, winning several Emmys for his performance in the process. The decision came after the outcry over his voicing Apu had reached a boiling point in the wake of a documentary calledThe Problem with Apu, which criticized the character’s outdated stereotypes....