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Donald Glover Sings, Stalks, Plays Lando & Defends ‘Jurassic World’ On A Stellar ‘Saturday Night Live’ This weekend broughtDonald GlovertoSaturday Night Liveto make his debut as both host and musical guest (under his Childish Gambino hip-hop moniker). Glover is no stranger to NBC having starred inCommunityand written for30 Rock, but he also auditioned forSNLa couple times. And when you see how well he does in this outstanding episode ofSNL, you’re going to wonder why he never made the cut as a cast member....

Exclusive ‘Maximum Overdrive’ Blu-Ray Clip Praises Stephen King’s Only Directorial Effort While he’s had his hand in several screenplays,Stephen Kingonly directed one movie:Maximum Overdrive. Widely panned when released in 1986, the killer truck film has achieved a kind of cult status, where fans admire the film for its goofball charms. Vestron Video is releasing a newMaximum OverdriveBlu-ray this week, and we have an exclusive clip for you below. Stephen King made his directorial debut in 1986 withMaximum Overdrive, an adaptation of his short storyTrucks....

First Look: Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn’ Empire Magazine teased a first look atThe Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicornall weekend. The film, directed bySteven SpielbergwithPeter Jacksonoverseeing WETA’s CGI mocap animation over the live-action footage, hasn’t been seen in CGI form, until now. That’s a look at Tintin, played byJamie Bell, above. Hit the break for some more info and a couple more shots, including one ofAndy Serkisas Captain Haddock....

Forest Whitaker Not Cool With Where The Wild Things Are Reshoots, Loves Spike Jonze’s Vision There was an instance where I was arrested at a student protest and it would have been great ifForest Whitakerhad suddenly appeared to passionately articulate and argue my case to the police rather than the guy who yelled, “Dude! Run! No! Don’t!” Whitaker, who plays one of the main Wild Things in in the notoriously delayed and troubledWhere the Wild Things Are, is backing the film’s director,Spike Jonze, and the flick 100 percent....

Hayden Panettiere Is Coming Back As Kirby For Scream 6 ATTENTION ALL HORROR FANS! ATTENTION! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL! KIRBY LIVES AND SHE’S COMING BACK FOR “SCREAM 6”! Absolutely no disrespect to the brilliant, remarkable, talented survivors of “Scream 5” who wereannounced yesterdayas returning for “Scream 6,” but hearing that Hayden Panettiere is reviving her fan-favorite role from the unfairly maligned “Scream 4” is the best possible news regarding this sequel....

How The Maltese Falcon Helped Shape Film Noir The term “film noir” brings to mind dimly lit offices of chain-smoking private eyes where window shades are barely cracked open to cautiously peer at the menacing, shadowy figures in back-alleys holding guns under their trench coats. The popular image of the film noir, with its hardboiled detective, its seductive and dangerous femme fatale, and its general cast of unsavory criminals, owes its existence to director John Huston’s 1941 classic “The Maltese Falcon....

James McTeigue To Direct Conan? A couple of days back, Empire scooped the news that Brett Ratner wasoff of theConan the Barbarianprojectand the hunt for a new director was on. Seems it was a real short chase asChudare nowalreadytelling us thatJames McTeigue, director ofV for VendettaandNinja Assassin, has been lined up to slip into the hot seat. I think it’s reasonable to assume that McTeigue was already in the frame when the “The Rat has left the building” cry went up and, had he not been, the comment would not have been made....

Johnny Depp Almost Ready To Sign For ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5;’ Has Made $350 Million From Franchise Even though I more or less was bored out of my mind duringPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, I’d show up for a fifth movie in a second. There’s just something inherently exciting about that world and that character. And despite the film being a critical flop (33%on Rotten Tomatoes) Disney knows I’m not the only one....

Lee Unkrich Announces Kristen Schaal And Blake Clark Cast In Toy Story 3; Toy Story 3D Double Feature To Stay In Theaters (Above: A sliver of one moreToy Story 3character poster, this one from over atMSNBC) TheToy Story 3media blitz continues! More and more, it seems that filmmakers are taking to Twitter to make major announcements, or just toshare some cool stuffabout the movies they’re working on. Today,Toy Story 3directorLee Unkrichused the micro-blogging service toannounce a few tidbitsabout the upcoming sequel to the Pixar classics....

LOL: ‘Jurassic Park’ Gets The ‘Dinosaurs’ Mash-Up We’ve All Been Waiting For If you didn’t live through the 1990s, then you might not know that there was an inexplicably popular sitcom on ABC calledDinosaurs. Featuring actors in big rubber suits, the series was your average sitcom, but it just so happened to follow a family of walking, talking dinosaurs living during a time when Pangea was still a thing. Now illustrator Jen Lewis has givenDinosaursthe upgrade it deserves by making the family of prehistoric beasts part of Steven Spielberg’s modern classicJurassic Park....

Matt Reeves' First Netflix Movie Will Be Science-Fiction Thriller ‘Life Sentence’ Matt Reevesis a busy man. Between prepping for the upcomingThe Batmanand vaguely hintingat anotherPlanet of the Apesmovie,the director recently signed a “first-look” deal with Netflix. And the Matt Reeves Netflix deal has already spawned its first project:Life Sentence. Reeves' first production with Netflix,Life Sentence, is a science-fiction film based on a short story penned byMatthew Baker. According toDeadline, the story is “about a futuristic program where the memories of criminals are erased, instead of sending them to prison....

Mjolnir Looks Un-Smashed In An ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Set Photo Things looked pretty dire for Thor and his hammerMjolnirduring thetrailer forThor: Ragnarok. While I have no doubt that Thor will pull through since actorChris Hemsworthappears in the upcomingAvengers: Infinity War, it didn’t seem that way for Mjolnir, which found itself smashed to pieces byCate Blanchett’s evil Hela. But with a new set photo ofInfinity Warcourtesy of directorsAnthony and Joe Russoshowing an alright-looking and fairly un-smashed Mjolnir prop, it looks like that dire fate may not be permanent for Thor’s hammer....

Nathan Lane And Robert Emms Join Tarsem Singh’s ‘Snow White’ Relativity’sSnow Whitefilm,directed byTarsem Singh, continues to add fantastic actors to its fantasy world. They’ve just cast Tony Award-winnerNathan Laneas Brighton, the Queen’s (played byJulia Roberts) servant andRobert Emmsas Renbock, Prince Alcott’s (played byArmie Hammer) valet. We all know Lane fromThe Producers, The Birdcageand more while Emms will soon be seen in Roland Emmerich’sAnonymousand Steven Spielberg’sWar Horse.Lily Collinsis playing the lead rolein the still untitled film....