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Weinstens Assemble Legal Team To Challenge ‘Blue Valentine’ And ‘The Kings Speech’ Ratings The Weinstein Company is moving ahead with an attempt to appeal the ratings given toBlue Valentine(a commercial prospect-dampening NC-17) and Oscar faveThe King’s Speech. The irony is that appealing the NC-17 forBlue Valentinemeans accepting it; otherwise there’s no rating to appeal, and the choice would be to release the film unrated. In a statement today titled “The Weinstein Company Accepts NC-17 Rating on Blue Valentine to Appeal It” the company announces the hire of star lawyersBert Fields,Alan FriedmanandDavid Boisto lead the appeals....

Which Characters Are Returning For ‘Star Wars Episode VIII’? Star Wars: The Force Awakensdid a bang-up job of bringing us back to the galaxy far, far away. It did justice to our favorite classic characters while introducing fresh faces to fall in love with, including Rey and Finn and Poe. So now that Lucasfilm has us invested in this whole new generation of heroes and villains, what’s next? Who’s coming back inEpisode VIII?...

WTF: Watch A 72-Minute Trailer For The 720-Hour Long Movie ‘Ambiancé’ Three years ago Danish artist collectiveSuperflexcreatedModern Times Forever, a 240-hour film which broke the record for the longest movie of all time. Well if a 10-day long movie wasn’t enough, Swedish artistAnders Webergis hoping to break that record with his 720-hour long movie,Ambiancé. That’s right, a movie with a running time of 30 straight days — and you thoughtTransformers: Age of Extinctionfelt long?...

‘Avatar’ Re-Release Has Outgrossed ‘Mulan’ In China Since its re-release in China earlier this month,Avatarhas already seen sky-high success — winning back its title ashighest-grossing movieof all time, and adding tens of millions to is already absurd $2.83 billion total haul. One more achievement to add to the 10-year-old movie’s list: surpassing Disney’s live-action remake ofMulan, which was generally rejected by Chinese audiences when it hit theaters last year. The Wrapreports that in just 10 days, theAvatarre-release has already grossed more thanMulandid in its entire run in China....

‘Bad Santa 2’ Has More Heart, More Story, More Nastiness, Says Billy Bob Thornton [TCA 2016] Billy Bob Thorntonwas on a Television Critics Association panel for his upcoming Amazon original seriesGoliath, in which he plays an alcoholic lawyer seeking redemption in a new case. The legal drama was co-created byBoston Legal,The Practice, andAlly McBealcreatorDavid E. Kelley. After the panel, Thornton stayed to talk to reporters further. We asked him about the long-awaited sequelBad Santa 2, which finds his raunchy department store Santa Claus return 13 years after the original was released....

‘Black Is King’ Trailer Shows Off More Of Beyoncé’s ‘Lion King’ Inspired Visual Album Coming To Disney+ Beyoncéis basically the queen of visual albums thanks to the collections of music videos she created for her musical albumsBeyoncéandLemonade. So it’s only appropriate that the queen is given usBlack is King, a visual album based on the music ofThe Lion King: The Gift, a collection of music inspired by remake of the Disney classic....

‘Deadly Class’ Syfy Pilot Coming From The Russo Brothers Well, it looks like thoseRusso Brothersare at it again.Avengers: Infinity Warhelmers Joe and Anthony Russo will executive produce a new pilot for Syfy based on the comicDeadly Class. TheImage Comicseries is set in the “most brutal high school on Earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained.” Learn more about the Russo Brothers Syfy pilot below....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 To Start Filming Soon, But Probably Won’t Air Until 2019 The night is long and full of hiatuses.Game of Thronesseason 8 will finally wrap up HBO’s epic fantasy series, and although the episode order is shorter, the break between this year’s 7th season and the final season is much, much longer. Because of the length of the six final episodes, and the recently revealed shooting schedules for the cast members, it looks like we won’t getGame of Thronesseason 8 until 2019....

‘Krypton’ Promises Doomsday, The Phantom Zone And Time Travel [TCA 2018] Syfy presented a panel forKryptonto the Television Critics Association. Creator David S. Goyer, showrunner Cameron Welsh, DC President Geoff Johns and actor Cameron Cuffe discussed the show, which is set 200 years before Superman’s birth and the destruction of Planet Krypton. Johns said this setting would allow for Doomsday and other cosmic DC characters to appear on the show....

‘Salt’ May Get A Sequel, But Phillip Noyce Will Not Direct It TheAngelina JoliethrillerSaltmay have come and gone in the minds of some viewers. — neither of Jolie’s big films this year seemed to get much traction — but with a nearly $300 million worldwide take, the film is hardly a flop. Once marketing and everything else is factored in, the $110m film might be just breaking even, but that’s before DVD and all other ancillary revenue streams flow in....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Deleted Scene Explained By Phil Lord And Chris Miller [Exclusive] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Versecame to 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD with an “Alternate Universe Mode,” extending the film with some of the scenes deleted before they were fully animated.Spoilersfor some of the deleted scenes included inSpider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseAlternate Universe Mode follow in case you haven’t seen them yet.One of the deleted scenes has Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) watch aSpider-Manmovie to figure out how to use his new powers....

‘Stretch Armstrong’ Moves To Relativity In 2014, Taylor Lautner Out Yet another Hasbro-based movie has bitten the dust at Universal. But this one, unlikeClue,Ouija, MonopolyandMagic The Gathering, immediately found a new home.Stretch Armstrong, whichwas originally set upto starTwilight-phenomTaylor Lautnerandbe directed byRob Letterman (Gulliver’s Travels), has been dropped by Universal and picked up by their most-of-the-time partner in crime, Relativity Media. That company has already locked in a release date, August 26, 2025, but both the star and director are out....

‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Is Getting A Sequel Titled ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ Here’s your most eagerly anticipated news to come out of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival:The Hitman’s Bodyguardis getting a sequel! And it’s got an even clunkier title to boot! AHitman’s Bodyguardsequel is in the works with the focus turning from the dynamic duo ofSamuel L. JacksonandRyan ReynoldstoSalma Hayek’s character in a film titledThe Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. Millennium Films announced the development of aHitman’s Bodyguardsequel titledThe Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguardat Cannes this week, according toThe Hollywood Reporter....