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‘Tenet’ TV Spot Offers New Time-Bending Footage In What Christopher Nolan Calls His Most Action-Packed Movie Yet So many questions surroundChristopher Nolan’sTenet. Just what the heck is the movie about? If it’snotabout time travel, how does all the time-bending we see in the trailer work? And will the movie actually open in theaters in July? These questions still remain unanswered, but one thing we now know about the flick, directly from Nolan himself, is that it’s action-packed....

‘The Iron Lady’ Teaser - Meryl Streep Clutches Her Pearls We’ve already seenMeryl Streepdressed upas British Prime MinisterMargaret ThatcherforThe Iron Lady, and a new teaser for the biopic offers our first glimpse at Streep-as-Thatcher in action. In the clip, two of her colleagues discuss her image before Thatcher cuts in to let them know exactly where she she is and isn’t willing to negotiate. The whole scene is set to, of all things, Clint Mansell’s score forMoon....

‘The Lone Ranger’ Got Really, Really Expensive Once Again Remember months ago when Disney put the development ofGore Verbinski’sThe Lone Rangeron icebecause the budget had ballooned up to $250m or more? The studio is probably having flashbacks to that point, because the film is reportedly now over budget to the point where it is going to cost $250m or more; part of that budget overage has to do with the film being way behind schedule....

‘The Simpsons’ Renewed For Two More Seasons, Heads For Record Books In TV years,The Simpsonsis already the equivalent of the Grail Knight fromIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the series isn’t giving up its post any time soon. The all-time record for a scripted prime-time TV series is 635 episodes, held byGunsmoke,which ran from 1955 to 1975.The Simpsonshas already run far longer thanGunsmokedid, as the show is currently in its 26th season....

‘Train To Busan’ Follow-Up ‘Peninsula’ Is Coming To VOD Just In Time For Halloween Peninsulais making the stop to VOD much earlier than anticipated.Yeon Sang-ho’sTrain to Busanfollow-up is set to be available on Digital onOctober 27, just before Halloween. ThePeninsulaVOD debut is set a month before it heads to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD in November. Earlier this summer, film distributor Well Go USA made the odd decision of releasingTrain to Busan Presents: Peninsulain U....

‘Trust’ Teaser: Donald Sutherland Is J. Paul Getty If you thoughtAll The Money In the Worldwas the only J. Paul Getty-related drama on the horizon, guess again: FX has an entire TV series about the Getty family coming up. TheDanny Boyle-directed series, calledTrust, featuresDonald Sutherlandin the role of cold-hearted billionaire J. Paul Getty, and the firstTrustteaser gives us a look at his sure-to-be-memorable performance. Ridley Scott’sAll The Money In the Worldmade headlines recently when Scott decided to remove scenes involving actor Kevin Spacey and reshoot them with Christopher Plummer....

‘V/H/S/2’ Red-Band Trailer: Blood And Mayhem Anthologies of any kind run the risk of unevenness, just because they’re composed of so many disparate parts. But the red-band trailer forV/H/S/2, at least, looks consistently terrifying. It’s two minutes of great, gory scares, with tons of blood and a smattering of nudity — which means, yes, that it’s very muchNSFW. Watch at your own risk, and get an eyeful of some new pics, after the jump....

15 People We’d Love To See Host The 2016 Oscars Hosting the Oscars is no easy task. You have to be entertaining, funny, and upbeat, but not too offensive. Pop culture savvy, smart, engaging, but not off-putting. Plus you have to do it in front of literally the most famous audience of people ever assembled, every single year. Many have tried and succeeded. Others have crashed and burned. Some do fine, and then quietly go off into the sunset....

AMC Hosting Pre-‘Deathly Hallows’ Harry Potter Marathon November 18 Though a good number of fans have already purchased their tickets to seeHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1at midnight on November 19, most of us have not. Two weeks away still feels a little too early to make plans. Well, AMC has upped the ante with an event that’s sure to sell out from coast to coast. They’ve announced a mini Harry Potter Marathon at over 140 theaters on November 18 leading up to the opening ofDeathly Hallows Part 1....

Bond Watch: Danny Boyle Is The Front-Runner To Direct ‘James Bond 25’ Danny Boylecould be theJames Bond 25director. While no formal offer has been made yet, theT2: TrainspottingandSteve Jobsdirector is reportedly MGM and Eon’s top pick to helm the next installment of the long-runningJames Bondseries, which will featureDaniel Craig’s last stint in the tuxedo. Varietyreports that MGM and Eon are eying Boyle as the director for the untitledBond 25. No formal offer has been made, but Boyle is reportedly “high on their list” to helm the film....

Disney’s Princess And The Frog Gets Limited Release In November, Wide Release In December It looks like those of you who are eagerly waiting for Disney’sThe Princess and the Frog, which represents a return to Disney’s traditional hand-drawn animation, won’t have to wait as long as originally thought: Disney is now moving up the film’s wide opening date and staggering its release, with a limited run in New York and LA starting onNovember 25th, followed by a wide release onDecember 11th....

Dr. Evil’s Super Bowl Ads Have To Be Worth One Million Dollars Sometimes I sit back and think about the fact that we have teasers for commercials and wonder how we got here. Maybe it’s best not to dwell on that for too long. General Motors has been tweeting out teases (viaAV Club) for itsSuper Bowlcommercial, and they’re eeevil. Dr. Evil, in fact.Mike Myersis back as the villain from the “Austin Powers” movies, and his pinkie is up and ready for some dastardly doings....

HBO Max’s ‘The Flight Attendant’ Pilot Is Now Free To Watch On YouTube After more than a decade of playing the girl next door on the mega-popular sitcomThe Big Bang Theory,Kaley Cuocois taking to the skies in a new thriller series for HBO Max. InThe Flight Attendant, she plays a hard-drinking flight attendant who flies to Thailand, lives it up with a handsome traveler (Game of Thrones’Michiel Huisman), blacks out, and then wakes up to discover that he’s been murdered....