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Matt Reeves hints at Batman: Year One connection
Matt Reeves took to Twitter yesterday to celebrate the birthday of Bruce Wayne, who is portrayed by Robert Pattinson (The Lighthouse) in Reeves’ upcoming The Batman, and in doing so shared a panel from the iconic comic story arc “Year One.” With his film reportedly set to explore the hero in his younger years, this Tweet appears to be Reeves potentially hinting at a connection between Frank Miller’s story and the

Family Jewels reuniting First Wives Club’s Hawn, Midler & Keaton
It’s time to break out your copies of The First Wives Club for a rewatch to prepare for the reunion of stars Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton in the upcoming Christmas comedy Family Jewels for New Republic Pictures, according to Deadline.
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Family Jewels will see Hawn, Midler and Keaton star as

Keegan Allen joins Jared Padalecki’s Walker reboot at The CW
According to Variety, Keegan Allen (Pretty Little Liars) has been added to the cast of The CW’s Walker reboot, joining Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) and Lindsey Morgan (The 100).
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Walker follows Cordell Walker (Padalecki), a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, on

The Unbearable Weight of a Massive Talent to recreate scenes from Nicolas Cage’s movies
In a recent interview with Empire, Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Mandy) has finally opened up about his involvement in Lionsgate’s highly-anticipated film The Unbearable Weight of a Massive Talent, where Cage is set to portray two fictionalized versions of himself: a present-day version and a younger one. He further revealed that the upcoming meta film will be

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Exclusive: Chris Sanders discusses success of live-action The Lion King
Prior to making his directorial debut in the 2002 hit Lilo & Stitch, Chris Sanders worked with Disney in the storyboard and production design departments on various films, including the 1994 classic The Lion King, which saw a live-action remake hit the big screen last year. Whilst talking with ComingSoon.net about his latest big-screen effort The Call of the Wild, Sanders reflected on seei

Anthony Hopkins signs on for biopic of Mike Tyson’s trainer Cus D’Amato
After being nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year for his performance in Netflix’s The Two Popes, Anthony Hopkins has found his next project in the form of the upcoming biopic Cus and Mike following Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer Cus D’Amato, according to Deadline.
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The projec

The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash! Ride Opening in March at Universal Studios
The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash! ride opens at Universal Studios Hollywood on March 27, bringing an astounding 64 animated figures to this all-new tech-savvy ride based on Illumination’s blockbuster The Secret Life of Pets films, which answer the question, “What are your pets really doing when you’re not at home?”
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Lana Wachowski reuniting with Brian J. Smith for The Matrix 4
Even amidst filming, it appears the cast on the highly-buzzed about The Matrix 4 is never going to stop growing as Brian J. Smith has signed on to appear in the fourquel, reuniting the Sense8 star with co-creator of the former Netflix series Lana Wachowski, according to Deadline.
RELATED: New The Matrix 4 Set Videos Feature Keanu Reeves & Carrie-Anne Moss
Lana Wachowski co-wrote the script with Aleks

Tom Holland teases production start date for Sony’s Uncharted
Despite going through a lot of major setbacks during its pre-production stage, it looks like everything is now on track for Sony Pictures’ long-in-development film adaptation of the popular video game Uncharted with Spider-Man: Far From Home star Tom Holland revealing that production is scheduled to begin soon. Speaking with IGN, Holland has confirmed that they will start filming the action-adventure film in fou

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Interview: Chris Sanders on The Call of the Wild
ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with director Chris Sanders about bringing the iconic American adventure novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London to life in his solo directorial debut led by Harrison Ford (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker).
RELATED: New The Call of the Wild Clip: Harrison Ford Wants to Go On an Adventure
Adapted from the beloved literary classic written by Jack London in 1903, The Call

Eli Roth to direct Borderlands movie adaptation for Lionsgate
Lionsgate has announced that Eli Roth (Hostel, Death Wish, The House with a Clock in Its Walls), is set to helm the motion picture adaptation of Borderlands, based on the bestselling PC and console gaming experience from developer Gearbox Software and publisher 2K.
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As director, Roth joins the team led by producers Avi Arad and Ari Arad, who produce thr

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Apple TV’s ReRUN trailer starring Christopher Lloyd
Stonestreet Studios has announced that their latest feature film ReRUN​, starring Emmy winner Christopher Lloyd (Taxi, Road to Avonlea, Back to the Future franchise), is set to hit Apple TV on Friday, February 21. You can check out the trailer for the movie in the player below, as well as photos in the gallery!
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Directed by Alyssa Rallo Bennett

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ILM gives behind-the-scenes look at production of The Mandalorian
Fans are still waiting with bated breath for the second season of Disney+’s hit Star Wars spin-off series, The Mandalorian, but in the meantime, ILM and the streaming service have debuted a behind-the-scenes featurette showing the production that went into bringing the first season to life. Check out the featurette in the player below!
RELATED: The Mandalorian Season 2 Release Date Reveal

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Ryan Murphy’s New Miniseries Hollywood Sets Premiere Date in First Poster
Netflix has released the first key-art poster for award-winning creator Ryan Murphy’s newest limited series Hollywood, which is described as Murphy’s love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown. Featuring an ensemble cast led by Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, and Samara Weaving, the seven-episode series will be available for streaming on May 1. Check out the full poster below!
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My Brilliant Friend Season 2 trailer: Growing up doesn’t mean letting go
HBO has released the official trailer for the upcoming second season of Italian drama series My Brilliant Friend, which will be based on Elena Ferrante’s second novel in the Neapolitan book series titled The Story of a New Name. Featuring the return of Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace as Elena and Lila, the series is set to return on Monday, March 16. Check out the video in the player below!
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Full cast of Reno 911! set to return for season 7 at Quibi
Quibi has announced that the full cast of Reno 911! is set to return for the show’s seventh season. Joining stars and co-creators Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, and Kerry Kenney-Silver are Niecy Nash, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Cedric Yarbrough, and Carlos Alazraqui. Ian Roberts, Joe LoTruglio, and Mary Birdsong will also be featured.
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Garant, Kenne

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Westworld Season 3 trailer: The hosts have found the real world
HBO has debuted a new full trailer for the highly-anticipated third season of HBO’s Westworld teasing a thrilling new installment in which the hosts have made their way to the real world and everybody finds themselves on new, explosive paths of destiny. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!
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The series is scheduled to return with

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Exclusive Trailer for Chuck Berry Tells the Story of The Original King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer for Chuck Berry, the official documentary, which is embarking on a theatrical event tour beginning with Boston (Regent Theatre) this Friday, courtesy of MVD Entertainment. You can check out the trailer in the player below, as well as the full poster in the gallery!
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Exclusive Chuck Berry trailer: The Original King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer for Chuck Berry, the official documentary, which is embarking on a theatrical event tour beginning with Boston (Regent Theatre) this Friday, courtesy of MVD Entertainment. You can check out the trailer in the player below, as well as the full poster in the gallery!
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Chuck Berry tells the stor

Martin Scorsese has written a heartfelt letter to director Bong Joon-ho following the huge success enjoyed by the latter’s film Parasite at the Oscars 2020.
Parasite won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film at the ceremony earlier this month, while Bong triumphed in the Best Director category.
Read more: Join the Bong Hive — a guide to Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s films
Speaking at a recent press conference in South Korea, Bong rev

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Little Fires Everywhere trailer: Every family has secrets
Hulu has released the full trailer for their upcoming limited series adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere, featuring new footage which gives us a better idea of what to expect in the new series. Starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, the series will be available for streaming on March 18. Check out the video in the player below!
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Run Trailer: Sarah Paulson stars in Lionsgate’s new horror thriller
Lionsgate has released the official trailer for director Aneesh Chaganty’s upcoming horror thriller film Run, featuring a sheltered daughter who discovers the terrifying truth about her mother. Starring Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actress Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story, Bird Box) and newcomer Kiera Allen. the film is scheduled to make its debut on May 8. Check out the video in the player below!
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Alamo Drafthouse introduces Season Pass program in all locations
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has announced that its Season Pass program is now in use at all 41 locations across the country. Season Pass is the only subscription program that allows guests to have the Alamo Drafthouse cinematic experience every single day, all for one low monthly fee. The membership provides one regularly priced ticket per day, with reservations available up to seven days in advance.
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George MacKay, star of Oscar-winning First World War movie 1917, has spoken of his desire to play Rick Sanchez in a future live-action film version of the hit animated series Rick and Morty.
Rick and Morty, which airs on Channel 4 in the UK, follows the exploits of a super-intelligent physicist and his intellectually-challenged grandson Morty. Together, they travel the universe solving apocalyptic problems while moving backwards and forwards in time.
Speaking at the UK premiere for his latest fi

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New The Call of the Wild clip: Harrison Ford wants to go on an adventure
Ahead of its theatrical release tomorrow, 20th Century Studios has released a brand new clip from their upcoming adventure film adaptation of The Call of the Wild, featuring Harrison Ford’s John Thorton as he plans to take Buck on an adventure through the Canadian Yukon. Also starring Dan Stevens and Karen Gillan, you can check out the video in the player below!
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The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez trailer previews Netflix’s new true crime docuseries
Netflix has released the official trailer for their newest true crime documentary series titled The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, which offers an in-depth look at the murder case of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez where the government was also put on trial for failing to protect the boy despite gathered evidence of abuse. The six-part docuseries will be available for streaming on February 26. Check out the vi

Liam Neeson to star in English remake of Dutch film The Memory of a Killer
According to Deadline, Academy Award-nominated actor Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Taken) has officially signed on for the lead role in Casino Royale director Martin Campbell’s newest action-thriller film titled Memory, which will be an English-language remake of the 2003 Dutch film The Memory of a Killer. This marks Campbell’s latest action film after three years since directing the Jackie Chan and Pi

William Brent Bell to direct Orphan prequel Esther
William Brent Bell, director of The Devil Inside, The Boy, and Brahms: The Boy II, will helm the Orphan prequel Esther for eOne, according to Deadline. The script was written by David Coggeshall (Watch Over Me, PREY).
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In Esther, Lena Klammer orchestrates a brilliant escape from a Russian psychiatric facility and travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy f

Paul Feig’s 1970s comedy series Minx gets pilot order at HBO Max
According to Deadline, HBO Max has officially given a pilot order to executive producer Paul Feig’s newest half-hour comedy series titled Minx, which hails from writer Ellen Rapoport. This marks Feig’s second collaboration with the upcoming streaming service as he is also currently an executive producer on the romantic anthology series Love Life starring Anna Kendrick.
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"I can't get involved in some kind of conspiracy." Vertical Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for an indie drama titled Human Capital, which initially premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and it also played at the Hamptons Film Festival. The lives of two different families collide when their children begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident. The film seems to also be a bigger commentary on how money is often valued more than humanity, and how this can lead to

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Jason Blum Says Halloween Kills Feels Like a Complete Movie
When Blumhouse Productions and director David Gordon Green announced that the next Halloween film would actually be two films — titled Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends — the feeling was that both films would serve as two halves of one large story. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that, but for those of you who prefer your movies served up complete, Jason Blum is here to brighten your day. In a re

The Elvis Presley live film That’s The Way It Is is set to be re-released in April to mark its 50th anniversary.
Originally released in November 1970, the Denis Sanders-directed documentary was filmed during a series of shows Elvis played in Las Vegas in 1970.
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A synopsis for the film promises that it “crosses the footlights” to “reveal the legendary singer as a man prepa

Disney+ titles for March 1 to March 31 revealed!
Disney+ has unveiled its full list of titles that are set to debut between March 1 and March 31, including Black Panther, the premiere of Stargirl, and new episodes of the seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. You can check out the full list below!
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Available March 1
Doctor Dolittle 2
Ice Age
Available March 4
Black Panther
Available March 5
Bedtime S

Wes Ball Says New Planet of the Apes Film Will Continue Caesar’s Legacy
Wes Ball is clearly excited about his new Planet of the Apes film. He already teased how awesome it will be, but recently tweeted something that’s sure to make fans happy, especially after some media outlets reported the new series would be a fresh reboot.
“It’s never been easier for film journalists to actually get in touch with the actual people who actually know … but maybe it’s the p

"How long would the others look for me?" Berlinale has debuted a promo trailer for the highly anticipated Colombian feature called Los Conductos, which premieres this month in the Berlin Film Festival's new "Encounters" section. It's described as "visionary, physical and elastic as the 16mm celluloid on which it was shot." The film is set in Medellin, Colombia and is about a man on the run named Pinky. "The deeper Los Conductos dives into the nightmarish and the hallucinatory, the tougher, more

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Venom’s Scott Haze joins Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World 3
Following the recent addition of Australian actress Dichen Lachman (Animal Kingdom, Altered Carbon), Deadline reports that another cast member in the form of Venom actor Scott Haze has been added to the ensemble cast of Universal Pictures’ highly-anticipated third installment to the Jurassic World franchise. Haze will next be seen in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming supernatural horror film Antlers

Universal boss Donna Langley has spoken in a new interview about the failure of the studio’s ambitious ‘Dark Universe’ franchise.
The studio’s attempt at establishing a cinematic universe based on its classic ‘Universal Monsters’ film series kicked off in 2014 with the release of Dracula Untold.
However, the second ‘Dark Universe’ release, the Tom Cruise-starring reboot of The Mummy in 2017, was critically panned upon release and posted a disappoin

Dev Patel prepares for dramatic thriller Flash Crash
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oscar nominee Dev Patel (Lion, Slumdog Millionaire) has signed up for the dramatic thriller Flash Crash, based on the upcoming book by Liam Vaughan, Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History.
The novel tells the true story of Navinder Singh Sarao, a brilliant man who figured out how to beat the stock market, earning millions in the process. Things take

"You need me." Lionsgate has revealed the first trailer for a psychological thriller called Run, the second feature film made by filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty, who broke out big a few years back with the fantastic screen-based thriller Searching. His next film is about a home schooled teenager named Chloe, who begins to suspect her mother is keeping a dark secret from her. Starring Sarah Paulson as the mother, and Kiera Allen as the daughter, along with Pat Healy and Erik Athavale. The way the aspe

Sumo: Armando Iannucci reuniting with Yann Zenou for wrestling comedy
Deadline is reporting that Veep creator and Oscar nominee Armando Iannucci (In the Loop, The Death of Stalin, The Thick of It) is teaming up with producer Yann Zenou (Intouchables, The Death of Stalin) on Sumo, a coming-of-age comedy that takes place in the world of amateur Sumo wrestling.
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The film follows the story of Jonah, The film follows the story of Jonah, a silver-tongued

Christian Bale has revealed that a number of his American Psycho castmates thought that he was “the worst actor they’d ever seen” during filming.
The acclaimed Mary Harron-directed 2000 movie, which starred Bale as the psychotic investment banker Patrick Bateman, was an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel of the same name.
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Speaking to MovieMaker for a feature which looked back o

Executives from Sony and Disney have spoken about the future of the Spider-Man movies following last year’s U-turn over its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The two parties fell out in August over the future movie rights to the Marvel superhero, dumping Spider-Man out of the MCU. A month later, however, a new agreement was reached — with Spider-Man actor Tom Holland reaching out to both Sony’s Tom Rothman and Disney CEO Bob Iger in an effort to restart negotiations.
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"I didn't give you the itch, I just helped you scratch it." A short film with some style! But perhaps just a tad too much style? Give it a watch! Scratch is a slick, compelling 10-minute short film directed by New York-based filmmaker Ronan Jorah, dipping his toe into filmmaking again after helping in post-production for years. Here is the quick pitch for this: "On the night of a double murder, a mysterious patron of a roadside diner has a date with the Devil." It's described as boasting a "Sin