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‘The Flash’ Director Teases New Costume With A Revised Lightning Logo Production onThe Flashis currently underway in the U.K. It’s the first solo adventure forEzra Milleras the Scarlet Speedster, and he’ll have some exciting company with him in the form ofMichael Keatonreturning as Tim Burton’s version of Batman. DirectorAndy Muschiettirecently teased The Dark Knight’s suitfrom the set of the DC Comics movie, and now he’s given the Crimson Comet the same courtesy, revealing a tease of theFlashmovie costume, including a revised lightning logo....

‘The Turning’ Trailer: Mackenzie Davis Is A Nanny At A Haunted House Henry James’The Turn of the Screwis going to be all the rage next year. Not only is Mike Flanagan using the book as inspiration for the second season ofThe Haunting of Hill House, but there’s a new movie based on the book as well. The movie isThe Turning, and it starsMackenzie Davisas a nanny who ends up at a potentially haunted house....

‘Vice Principals’ Season 2 Trailer: Gamby Wants Answers While the first season ofVice Principalswas inspired by the films of John Hughes, season 2 of the HBO comedy is influenced by Brian de Palma.Jody HillandDanny McBride’s series is about to take a more sinister turn, as Mr. Gamby (McBride) takes matters into his own hands and looks for the person who shot him last season. One suspect is obvious, but season one ofVice Principalsrarely went where we expected....

10 Movies To Watch If You Loved Ambulance There’s something weirdly comforting about a Michael Bay film. Sure, they’re corny at best and ham-fistedly pro-military at worst — but when it all comes together, they’re delightfully uncomplicated and effortlessly cool. Bay’s latest, “Ambulance,” is certainly that kind of film, though it still manages to get a few heartfelt licks in between its gratuitous drone shots. And whether you’re ready to admit that you actually enjoyed “Ambulance,” it’s okay to acknowledge that these films can be fun....

Adam Sandler Traps Jennifer Hudson In His Next Netflix Movie It’s hard to tell ifAdam Sandler’s four-picture deal withNetflixrepresents him being ahead of the curve in a major way or it it represents some sort of decline. Right now, making movies directly for a streaming service can’t help but feel like a descent into direct-to-video territory (although the independent productions Netflix routinely acquires don’t carry that possibly imaginary stigma), but who knows how future generations will feel on the matter....

Alex Kurtzman And Roberto Orci Re-Writing ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2;’ Filming Could Start Early 2013 They’ve tackledTransformers, Star Trek, Mission: Impossibleand now another franchise can be added to the impressive resumes of producers/screenwritersAlex KurtzmanandRoberto Orci:Spider-Man. They’ve just been hired to Sony to rewrite the script ofThe Amazing Spider-Man 2, the sequel to Marc Webb’s reboot which hits theaters on July 3. Read more after the jump. Deadlinebroke the news of the hiring, which shows confidence in Webb’s film, as Kurtzman and Orci are highly sought after writers....

Better Call Saul: AMC Considering ‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff Walter White’s torturous journey will come to an end one way or another this summer, asBreaking Badconcludes its fifth and final season. But one of his business partners could stick around AMC a little while longer. The cable channel is reportedly eyeing aBreaking Badspinoff series centered on Saul Goodman, the sleazy but competent lawyer played byBob Odenkirk. This development comes months after series creatorVince Gilliganfirst floated the idea....

Cannes Winner ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ Gets A Beautiful Poster By Chris Ware How do you sell a strange, very art-oriented movie that primarily appeals to a small, if dedicated audience? A great poster doesn’t hurt. Back in the ’90s it seemed likeChris Warewas everywhere. As his comic The Acme Novelty Library gained huge, unexpected popularity, you could see Chris Ware work all over the place. He didbook jackets, magazine work andposters....

Charlie Kaufman And Catherine Keener Teaming Up For HBO Comedy Series Technically, HBOistelevision, no matter what their highfalutin slogan claims, but when they make room for wonderful ideas like this one I can kind of see their point.Charlie KaufmanandCatherine Keener, who last worked together on Kaufman’s directorial debutSynecdoche, New York, are set to team up at the premium cable channel for a new half-hour comedy. Keener is set to star and produce, while Kaufman will write, direct, and executive produce....

Cool Stuff: The ‘Ones That Got Away’ Posters Most filmmakers have projects they want to make but never get around to. Maybe they can’t get the funding together, maybe they lose the rights or maybe they pass away. There are famous examples of this all the way through history from Stanley Kubrick’sNapoleonand Orson Welles’sDon Quixoteto newer projects like James Cameron’sSpider-Man, Tim Burton’sSupermanand Peter Jackson’sHalo. The list goes on and on....

Delayed ‘Slender Man’ Movie Being Shopped To Other Studios Hey, remember thatSlender Manmovie? The one that was supposed to come out in May, but got pushed back to August? It looks like the producers are quietly shopping it around Hollywood, unhappy with Sony’s current plans for the film. Slender Man, the film based on the popular Creepypasta character, was supposed to unleash its jump-scares upon audiences on August 19, 2025. But Sony pictures bumped it back to August, and that raised a few eyebrows....

Did ‘Game Of Thrones’ Use Arya Stark To Solve One Of The Show’s Biggest Mysteries? This article containsmajor spoilersforGame of Thronesseason 8.For eight seasons,Game of Thronesbuilt up the confrontation between the Night King and the champions of the living. Since the pilot episode, the undead have been a slow burn threat creeping closer to take out those who cannot put aside their petty differences and ally themselves against the Night King’s existential threat....

Discovery Shareholders Vote To Approve Merger With WarnerMedia One of the biggest and most fascinating big media deals to come around in some time is getting near the finish line as Discovery has cleared a major hurdle on the road to its merger with WarnerMedia. The company’s stockholders have officially voted to approve the merger, per a press release, which means they are mere weeks away from finalizing the deal that wasfirst announcedin May of 2021....