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This Week In Trailers: Amer, The Silence (Das Letzte Schweigen), Mesrine: Killer Instinct, If A Tree Falls 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Tiffany Haddish Joins ‘The Lego Movie 2’ Cast Comedy superstarTiffany Haddishhas joinedThe Lego Movie 2cast alongside original starsChris PrattandElizabeth Banks. This is yet another high-profile gig for Haddish, who broke out in a big way in last year’sGirls Trip. Everybody wants Tiffany Haddish in their film now, includingThe Lego Moviefranchise.THRreports Haddish has joinedThe Lego Movie 2cast in an undisclosed key role.Lego Moviestars Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks are returning as well....

Upcoming Tom Hardy Movies To Keep On Your Radar (Welcome toOn Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited…or not.) Tom Hardy is one of the UK’s hottest exports, bringing a bit of British charm to the big screen in some ofhis best movies. He even recently earned hisfirst writing crediton the superhero sequel, “Venom: Let There Be Carnage....

Veronica Mars/Party Down Creator Rob Thomas Heads To NBC With ‘Temps’ I’m still saddened when I think about the loss of the fantastic comedy seriesParty Down, which Starz understandably canceled when its ratings failed to reach the same heights as its critical acclaim. But now it looks as though the show may find new life, in the form of a similarly-themed show on NBC. Learn more after the break. Varietyis reporting thatRob Thomas(Veronica Mars,Party Down), along withJon EnbomandDan Etheridge(co-creators ofParty Down), got the greenlight on a put pilot order by NBC....

Vikings: Where You Can Stream Or Buy Every Season We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome toWhere to Watch, which provides a clear and simple answer to the question, “Hey, where can I watch this thing?” In this edition: “Vikings.") The History Channel series “Vikings” is — you guessed it — about Vikings. The show is a drama with political intrigue and other Viking things like waging wars and exploring new places, and it focuses on Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) and his wife, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), a Viking couple that end up having lives that go beyond their expectations of simply farming their land....

VOTD: Cast Of ‘Take Me Home Tonight’ Reenacts ’80s Movies Hey! Remember the ’80s?Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Dan FoglerandTeresa Palmerdo. They’re the cast of the upcoming comedyTake Me Home Tonight, which opens March 4 andis set in 1988. As part of the viral marketing campaign for the film, they’ve created a music video that features the whole cast, a ton of cameos and references/reenactments of upwards of 50 classic Eighties movies, all in the course of four minutes....

Watchmen 2 Looks Like A Real Possibility Why hasn’t there ever been second series ofWatchmencomics? It’s not as thoughAlan MooreandDave Gibbonsactually own the characters. Well, apparently, any talk of a sequel had been squashed, time and again, by Paul Levitz, former president of DC comics. He was very protective of the title, even denying the creators of the tie-in videogame to invent any new material at all. This was sacred stuff to him....

WTF: ‘Iron Man 3’ Nixed A Female Villain Because Her Action Figure Wouldn’t Have Sold Well There have been some disappointing decisions on the merchandise side of things from Disney and Marvel Studios, specifically with regards to their treatment of female characters. Black Widow, once the only female member of the Avengers, had a rather disappointing shortage of toys, so much thatAvengersstarMark Ruffalo lamentedthat his daughters and nieces couldn’t find many at the store....

‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ First Look: Ang Lee Unveils An Unusual Wartime Dramedy Four years after the technically audacious, jaw-droppingly gorgeousLife of Pi,Ang Leeis back this fall withBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Based on the novel byBen Fountain, the modern wartime drama follows a squad of heroic American soldiers brought home for a victory tour culminating in a showy appearance at the Thanksgiving Day game. Get yourBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walkfirst look below....

‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ First Look: Bridget Finds Herself In A Cuddly New Love Triangle Over a decade after we last saw her, Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) will return next year inBridget Jones’s Baby. And in typical Bridget form, she finds herself in another romantic quandary: she’s pregnant, and not entirely sure who the father is. Her on-again, off-again beau Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) is still in the picture, but so is a charming billionaire named Mark Qwant (Patrick Dempsey)....

‘Driveways’ Review: Hong Chau Leads A Sentimental And Lovely Coming-Of-Age Drama [Tribeca] One of the few intense moments ofDrivewayis when pranksters' firecrackers disturb the sleep of a mother and son. It startles the nine-year-old shy protagonist Cody (Lucas Jaye). Yet the sparks themselves become a sight of wonder. An idyllic coming-of-age story, the movie encapsulates the workings of a child’s head when they’re wondering how to feel about a moment.Cody has joined his single mother (Hong Chau) in a quiet suburban neighborhood as she cleans out her recently deceased sister’s home and its cesspool of knick-knacks....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Gave Jason Reitman One Of The Greatest Moments Of His Life With Father Ivan Reitman Ghostbusters: Afterlifewas meant to be released last summer, but thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the movie was pushed back to March 2021, anddelayed againto a summer release yet again in June. While we’re still waiting to see what theGhostbusterssequel will bring to the table with a story set roughly 30 years after the events of the first two movies, directorJason Reitmanmay have already gotten all the praise he’ll need for the movie from his father, original franchise directorIvan Reitman....

‘Homeland’ Season 6 Will Scale Back Its Depiction Of Terrorism Showtime’sHomelandhas always tried to do thatLaw and Order"ripped from the headlines" thing, but many fans and critics felt is may have gotten a little too real last season, with a central storyline eerily reflecting real world terrorist attacks. With season six now changing locations, showrunnerAlex Gansasays that the show will change gears, tweak its focus, and tell a different kind of story....