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Why Are There So Few Action Franchises Led By Black Actors? Quick, what’s your favorite action franchise (two films or more) starring a black lead? Without knowing your exact pick, I’m going to do a little prognosticating and guess that you’ve gone with an action/comedy. If I’m wrong, it’s either because you’re old and have chosen something from the ’70s or you’ve pickedBlade.This week’s biggest new release sees the return of Denzel Washington’s Robert McCall inThe Equalizer 2, and not only is that good news for action fans – the movie’s a solid character piece punctuated with thrilling action beats – it’s also something of a milestone for black-led action franchises....

Zola Star Taylour Paige Has Joined The Cast Of Tony Kaye’s The Trainer The cast list for Tony Kaye’s (“American History X”) newest project has grown one name longer. “The Trainer” might have been floating around Hollywood for the last 10 years (and it may keep on floating, you never know what will happen these days), but its cast is starting to feel surprisingly modern. The latest starto join the wild party of a movieis Taylour Paige, who mesmerized in A24’s Twitter-inspired film “Zola” as the one and only title character....

‘Black Adam’ Will Introduce The DC Supervillain Group Intergang Black Adamis bringingDwayne Johnsoninto the big-screen worldof DC Comics as the titular anti-hero who was granted powers by the wizard Shazam thousands of years ago. Joining him will be the superhero team known as Justice Society, but they won’t be the only DC Comics team making an appearance in the movie. According toBlack Adamco-starSarah Shahi, the supervillain team Intergang will be making their debut inBlack Adam....

‘Clerks 3’ Will Be Scored By My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, According To Kevin Smith Things seem to be moving fast forClerks 3just a few weeks after we learned thatKevin Smithwasbreathing new lifeinto the long-abandoned sequel. The writer and director is currently on the road promotingJay and Silent Bob Reboot, but he took the opportunity to give an update onClerks 3— specifically, the score. Former My Chemical Romance frontmanGerard Way, who has taken a break from the music industry to pursue a career in comic book writing, will be scoringClerks 3, according to Smith....

‘Coming Home In The Dark’ Trailer: Intense Sundance Thriller Comes Out This Fall Coming Home in the Dark, a low-budget New Zealand horror thriller that debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is one of the most suspenseful films I’ve seen in years. It’s the feature directorial debut ofJames Ashcroft, and it’s one of those debuts that is so assured that it practically forces you to take note of the director’s name so you can pay attention to whatever they do next....

‘Furious 8’: Jordana Brewster Addresses Potential Return Jordana Brewsterwas on a Television Critics Association panel for the second season ofSecrets and Lieson ABC, in which she will play a murdered wife seen in flashbacks. After the panel, Brewster spoke with reporters about the status ofFurious 8. SincePaul Walker’s death necessitated retiring his character Brian O’Conner, it’s been unclear whether Brewster’s characterMia Torettowould have to be retired as well. Brewster spoke with us about the possibility of her return....

‘Holy Motors’ Trailer - Leos Carax Returns With Cannes 2012’s Most Insane Film We haven’t talked much aboutLeos Carax’sHoly Motorsin the run-up to its Cannes debut, but now that the festival’s underway it’s already emerging as a strong candidate for the most buzzed-about title of this year’s event. Since premiering on Wednesday, Carax' first feature since 1999’sPola Xhas drawn tons of fervent admiration and a bit of withering scorn — but the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that it’s totally freaking off-the-wall insane....

‘Icarus’ Trailer: Learn How Russia Cheated At The Olympics For Decades While the United States is still trying to determine how/if Russia tampered with the presidential election of 2016, Netflix has a new original documentary from Sundance that will show how the nation has been corrupting the athletic world by cheating at the Olympics for decades. Icarusis a new documentary that set out to investigate doping in sports, but found so much more....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Comic Book Prequel Cover Art Revealed Twenty years will have passed between the timeIndependence Dayhit theaters andRoland Emmerich’s sequel,Independence Day: Resurgencegets released on June 24th 2016. What happened in that time? Titan Comics will be publishing a prequel to the upcoming movie, which they are teasing as “a rich psychological prison drama”. Preview the first couple covers of the Independence Day: Resurgence comic book and learn more about the series, after the jump....

‘Parasite’ Streaming Exclusively On Hulu This April Parasite, the Oscar-winning movie everyone keeps talking about, is headed to Hulu. The streaming service landed the exclusive streaming rights to Bong Joon-ho’s acclaimed film, and will debut the movie this April. The Neon-released movie raked-up a wealth of awards during awards season, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, along with the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the SAG Award for Best Ensemble Cast and the Palme D’or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Redesign Is Done, Presumably Removing Sonic’s Terrifying Human Teeth For Good At the end of April, the first trailer for theSonic the Hedgehogmovie zoomed online, and terrified us all. Viewers werenothappy with the design of Sonic, which was an absolute nightmare from top to bottom and included giant human teeth for some reason. In an unprecedented move, the makers ofSonicdecided to go back to the digital drawing board and redesign the character to make him less horrifying....

‘Ted Lasso’ Trailer: Jason Sudeikis Takes A Job As The Wrong Kind Of Football Coach In Apple TV+ Series Some things can get lost in translation across the pond. The biggest being the word “football,” which refers to very different sports in America and the the rest of the world. And it’s that confusion that may be the basis ofTed Lasso,the new Apple TV+ comedy series starringJason Sudeikisas a small-town American football coach who takes a job as coach for a British football team — AKA soccer....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Will Reinvent Characters From The Earliest Marvel Movies, Says Writer Derek Kolstad We’re still not sureexactly whenMarvel Studios’The Falcon and the Winter Soldieris heading to Disney+, but here’s another reason to be intrigued by the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe series. In a new interview, writerDerek Kolstad(John Wick) revealed that the series is going to revisit – and reinvent – some characters who appeared in early MCU films....