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‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Pedro Pascal Boards Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ After spending the past season onGame of Thronestrying to exact revenge for the death of his sister,Pedro Pascalis skipping over to Netflix to try and bring a different bad guy to justice. Pascal is set to star in Netflix’s Pablo Escobar dramaNarcos, oppositeWagner Moura(Elysium).Jose Padilha(Robocop) is directing. Get more details on the show after the jump. The show will chronicle the real-life spread of drug cartels around the world, and the law’s attempts to stop them....

‘Good Boys’ Review: Humor And Heart Headline This Maturely Childish Riot [SXSW] There is, despite countlessAmerican PieandRoad Tripspin-offs arguing otherwise, an art to shaping R-rated comedies. Rawdog raunchiness and “F-bombs” alone don’t equate to laugh-a-minute genius.Take a movie likeGood Boys.Gene Stupnitsky’s hilarious adolescent comicality boasts heart, message, and humor in the precisely right places. Lesser creators would’ve leaned heavily on cursing “tweens” thinking with their pre-pubescent naughty parts, yet Stupnitsky and co-writerLee Eisenbergdare to focus on a heartwarming story about coming of age with sixth-grade understanding, andthenfill in the anecdotal kinky playthings and pornography gags....

‘Iron Man 3’ Co-Writer Drew Pearce Will Make His Directorial Debut With ‘Hotel Artemis’ In 2013, it was reportedIron Man 3co-writerDrew Pearcewould make his feature directorial debut withThe Long Run, an originalaction comedy. We’ve yet to hear more about that project since its announcement, but Pearce is now working on another film, titledHotel Artemis, which he intends on directing. Pearce also wrote the script, which is described as having shades ofLooper,Ex Machina, andDrive....

‘Kick-Ass’ Writer Mark Millar Goes Family-Friendly With ‘Kindergarten Heroes’ There probably isn’t much thatMark Millar, the writer behind dark, R-rated superhero fare likeWantedandKick-Ass, could do to shock his fans. But his latest move may just do the trick. Millar is foraying into kiddie territory withKindergarten Heroes, a children’s movie based on his book of the same title.Carter Blanchard(Spy Hunter,Glimmer) is set to pen the script for Fox. Hit the jump for plot details and more....

‘Lethal Weapon’ Replaces Fired Actor With Seann William Scott; ‘Gotham’ Returns For A Final Season TheLethal WeaponTV series ran into trouble recently when lead actorClayne Crawfordwas fired for poor on-set behavior. Now, Crawford has been replaced by actorSeann William Scott. Plus, theBatmanprequel seriesGothamis coming back for a fifth and final season. Last week,Lethal WeaponTV series actor Clayne Crawfordwas officially firedfrom the show due to his on-set behavior. Crawford was apparently behaving in a way that made cast and crew uncomfortable, to the point where it became irreconcilable....

‘Pet Sematary’ Soundtrack From ‘Helllraiser’ Composer Christopher Young Now Available To Stream Pet Sematary is now playing everywhere, and with it comes a spooky, atmospheric score fromChristopher Young. That name will likely sound familiar to horror fans – he composed the music forHellraiser, along withSinister,Drag Me to Helland more. Sometimes, horror movie scores can be a touch generic, relying heavily on loud stings. But Young’sPet Sematarysoundtrack bucks that trend, creating a haunting, unsettling soundscape that immediately gives you the creeps....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ May Bring Back Another Franchise Star, But It’s Kind Of A Spoiler Production onPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth film in the multi-billion dollar franchise, has been done for awhile now. But it appears there may be one more addition to the cast that we hadn’t heard about, someone from one of the previous films in the franchise who will be brought back alongside other returning cast members likeJohnny Deppas Captain Jack Sparrow andOrlando Bloomas Will Turner....

‘Prospect’ Trailer: A Treasure Hunt On A Remote Alien Moon Goes Horribly Wrong After playing the SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, the indie sci-fi projectProspectfrom Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label DUST is finally coming to theaters and VOD. Prospectfollows a father and daughter (Jay DuplassandSophie Thatcher) who venture out for some valuable gems on a remote alien moon but soon find they aren’t the only ones trying to track down the profitable items....

‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Interviews: Guillermo Del Toro And André Øvredal On Which Stories Made It In, The Rating, ‘Haunted Mansion’, ‘Mountains Of Madness’, And More Guillermo del Torohas been a fan of theScary Stories to Tell in the Darkbooks since he was in his early teens, when he stumbled across them in a bookstore and was struck by the perfect title and creepy artwork. “It really was like having a campfire between those two covers,” he explained at a press event for the film in Hollywood yesterday....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Extended Clip: Call Me By Mysterio Sony is giving fans a lot of Spidey lately, which is good considering the webslinger’s future is uncertain in the aftermath of the Sony/Disney fallout. But not only did we get to seeTom Holland’s Spider-Man in an extended cut ofSpider-Man: Far From Homein theatersfor a few days, we’re also getting a wave of Spider-Man clips on the internet in anticipation of the film’s home video release....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Breakdown: The History And Details That Enrich “The Bad Batch” It’s been a long road waiting for these last twelve episodes ofStar Wars:The CloneWars, but now that we have them, it’s time to look at the lore they’ve drawn from or added to. This first episode, “The Bad Batch,” takes place shortly after the beginning of the Outer Rim sieges and I would guess between six and eight months beforeRevenge of the Sith....

‘The Terror’ Review: ‘Gore’ Unleashes A Monster Welcome to our weekly recaps of AMC’s new historical horror showThe Terror. ThisThe Terrorreview takes a look at the second monstrous episode, “Gore.“Spoilersfollow. Travel Well In episode two ofThe Terror, things finally start to go right for the men of theErebusandTerror!Oh wait, no, I’m sorry. What I meant to say is things get evenworse. It’s been eight months since the ships became trapped in ice, and there’s no sign of improvement....

‘Transformers: War For Cybertron’ Animated Series Will Explore The Origins Of The Autobot And Decepticon Battle WhenBumblebeehit theaters towards the end of last year, one of the most exhilarating sequences for fans of the originalTransformerswas finally seeing Cybertron in all its wartorn glory. Helping that sequence stand out was an assembly of Autobots and Decepticons with their G1 character designs intact. There have been rumors of an animated movie tackling Cybertron at some point, but it sounds like a new animated series from Netflix and Hasbro might get there first....