‘The Underground Railroad’ First Look: Barry Jenkins' First TV Series Is Unveiled Barry Jenkinsis a busy man. In addition to preparing to take the helm for Disney’sThe Lion Kingfollow-up, the Oscar-winning director ofMoonlightandIf Beale Street Could Talkis making his foray into television. Amazon Studios unveiled the first images from Jenkins' first-ever TV seriesThe Underground Railroad, a drama based on Colson Whitehead’s novel of the same name. SeeThe Underground Railroadfirst look images below....

‘Transformers’ Star Jack Reynor Is The Latest Subject Of ‘Star Wars’ Rumors [Updated] The list of confirmedStar Wars Episode VIIactors still hovers around zero, but the list ofrumoredstars seems to grow longer every week. The latest subject of speculation and gossip isJack Reynor, who’s probably best known for a role that hasn’t even hit theaters yet — he’s the star of upcomingTransformers: Age of Extinction. More on this story after the jump....

/Answers: Sequels We Like More Than The Original Every week in/Answers, we answer a new pop culture-related question. In this edition, tying in with the release ofDeadpool 2, we ask,“What sequel do you like more than the original?” Chris Evangelista: The Dark Knight Is it basic AF to pickThe Dark Knightfor this? To hell with it, I’m pickingThe Dark Knight. In 2005, Christopher Nolan rebooted theBatmanfranchise as a more “realistic” action-drama, giving audiences a chance to see how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) first became Batman....

2021 PGA Nominations Push ‘Nomadland’, ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’ To The Front Of The Oscar Season Pack We’ve reached an important foothold in the awards season race. The Producers Guild of America Awards has often been a great litmus test for the Oscar front-runners, with the PGA award winner often going on to win that coveted Best Picture Academy Award (see:Green Book, The Shape of Water,Argo, and more in recent years)....

Ben Mendelsohn Rumored For ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ We knowFelicity Joneswill be taking a tripto a galaxy far, far away in 2016’sStar Wars: Rogue Oneand now her first co-star may have been revealed. Word has itBen Mendelsohncould be joining the cast. Mendelsohn is currently starring in Netflix’sBloodlinebut was also seen inAnimal Kingdom, The Place Beyond the Pines, and a small role inThe Dark Knight Rises, among other films. Read more Ben Mendelsohn Star Wars news below....

Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 7 “One Minute” Delivers A Buzzing Mid-Season Climax, But At The Expense Of Realism? /Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season ofBreaking Bad. Aspoiler warningapplies after the jumpfor the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, clickhere. With"One Minute,“the most engrossing arc of the third season has landed inHank’s lap like a decapitated, shrunken head exported from Juarez....

Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon Wasn’t Inspired By Other Kung-Fu Movies “Enter The Dragon” rules. There’s simply no other way to put it. It’s the final film in the late, great Bruce Lee’s filmography and is often the film that springs to mind when people mention him in conversation; it managed to blend a mixture of genres including martial arts, espionage, and blaxploitation; and it’s inspired a number of martial arts films and characters — including Marvel’s own “Master of Kung-Fu"Shang-Chi, who recently was the star of his own martial arts epic “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings....

Cool Stuff: ‘Animal House’ And ‘Stripes’ Funko POPs Celebrate Slobs Beating The Snobs Since the characters ofCaddyshackhave already been given theFunko POPstreatment, it’s time for the other movies in the “slobs vs snobs” subgenre of comedies to get their due. Thankfully, Funko will keep them coming with new collectible vinyl figures dedicated to the military comedyStripesdirected by and starring the lateHarold Ramis, as well as the John Landis-directed fraternity comedy that theGhostbustersstar penned,National Lampoon’s Animal House....

Daredevil Rights Will Return To Marvel, Watch Sizzle Reels From Joe Carnahan’s Unmade Adaptation Would-beDaredevildirectorJoe Carnahanrecently tweeted that his “Serpico-styled” take on the blind superhero wasjust about dead, so this next bit of news doesn’t come as much of a surprise. But in case there was any doubt about it, various outlets are now reporting that the Daredevil rights will indeed revert back to Marvel Studios (which is part of Disney)....

Dark Horse Comics Bringing ‘Umbrella Academy’ And ‘Concrete’ To TV Dark Horse ComicsandUniversal Cable Productions(Mr. Robot,The Magicians) have made a deal to turn a bunch of Dark Horse titles into TV shows. One of the first developments is based on one of the very first Dark Horse Comics. That title isConcrete, created, written and drawn byPaul Chadwick, which tells a story that is basically “what if The Thing lived a non-superhero life?...

David Fincher Says ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ Likely To Be 70% CG David Fincheris a forward-thinking kind of guy. In the ’90s, when digital effects were still relatively young, he put CGI to work inAlien 3, and heavily used digital images to journey through the brain (and the apartment) of Tyler Durden inFight Club. He has embraced digital cinematography and the various benefits it provides, and employed such extensive CGI work onThe Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonthat the skinny version of young Steve Rogers inCaptain Americais referred to by many as the Ben Button version of Chris Evans....

Early ‘Harry Potter’ Films Being Converted To 3D By Company Responsible For ‘Clash Of The Titans’ 3D Were you as excited as I was when Warner Bros.nixed plansto rush a post-converted 3D version ofHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Iinto theaters? Judging by the comment thread on that article, I’d say yes. But 3D is still in Potter’s future. The Potter films have had partial 3D renders in the past for IMAX releases, and a 3D version of the second part ofDeathly Hallowswill be released next year....

First Look: ‘The Thing’ Prequel, Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead And Joel Edgerton A few months back Universal invited a handful of web editors to the set of the prequel to John Carpenter’sThe Thing. This new film, also calledThe Thingfor the time being, is directed byMatthis van Heijningen Jr.and starsMary Elizabeth Winstead,Joel Edgerton,Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeandEric Christian Olsen. We weren’t able to make it up to Toronto for the set visit, but can now pass along the first eight shots, courtesy of Universal....