And Just Like That, Michael Patrick King Explained The Necessity Of That Big Twist If you’re not caught up on “And Just Like That”, consider this your warning because this post containsspoilers. If you are caught up, let’s discuss that big twist (pun intended), shall we? In a recent interview withVariety, creator and executive producer Michael Patrick King discussed the death of lead character John “Big” James Preston (played by Chris Noth)....

Chiwetel Ejiofor Circling ‘Doctor Strange’ Marvel Studios could be setting up a12 Years a Slavereunion.Chiwetel Ejioforis reportedly circlingDoctor Strange, which will starBenedict Cumberbatchas the title character.Scott Derricksonis directing. More on the possible Chiwetel EjioforDoctor Strangecasting after the jump. TheWrapreports Ejiofor is nearing a deal for the comic book movie, and in fact has already begun turning down roles to make room for theDoctor Strangeshoot this fall. Marvel hasn’t yet confirmed the casting, let alone revealed which character Ejiofor will be playing....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys ‘Man Of Steel’ General Zod Sixth Scale Figure Sideshow Collectiblessent me a sample of Hot ToysMan Of SteelGeneral Zod Sixth Scale Figure. Lets unbox this figure and take a look at whats inside the box. After the jump you will find photos of the Hot Toys Man Of Steel General Zod Sixth Scale Figure, alongside my thoughts on the product. I enjoyedZack Snyder’sMan of Steelmore than most, enough so that we have a full-sized mondo poster hanging up in our apartment....

Donald Glover And Phoebe Waller-Bridge Teaming Up For ‘Mr. And Mrs. Smith’ TV Show At Amazon You know that unexpected burst of joy that happens when you find a $20 bill in an old coat pocket? Here’s the entertainment news equivalent of that:Donald GloverandPhoebe Waller-Bridge, who previously co-starred inSolo: A Star Wars Story, are creating and starring in a new iteration of the romantic spy thrillerMr. and Mrs. Smithfor Amazon Prime Video....

Fantastic Beasts Fan Event Coming To 18 Cities Around The Globe Warner Bros will be holding a free Global Fan Event to promoteFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The event, which is being called,Fantastic Beasts: A Return to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding Worldwill take place on October 13th, 2016 in 18 cities around the globe: Originally screenings were only scheduled for New York, Los Angeles, London, Sao Paulo, Rome, and Mexico City, but due to demand WB has expanded the promotion into the following eight North American cities have been added: San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Orlando, Washington D....

Fox Searchlight Picks Up Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ For 2011 Release Over the past week there have been rumblings that Apparition was shopping theTerrence MalickfilmThe Tree of Lifeto new distributors. There was no word on who might bite, but for the past few days it has seemed like something was about to happen. And now Fox Searchlight has announced that it will distributeThe Tree of Life, which will be released on a to-be-determined date in 2011....

Hailee Steinfeld To Star In Romantic Thriller ‘Forgotten’ Paramount Pictures isn’t lettingHailee Steinfeldget away. The young actress had her first major film role as the heroine of Joel and Ethan Coen’sTrue Grit, and landed an Oscar nomination as a result. (Best Supporting Actress, but still.) Now Paramount, the studio that releasedTrue Grit, has signed Ms. Steinfeld to play the lead inForgotten, based on a novel byCat Patrick. Deadlinehas the news about the deal, saying that Hailee Steinfeld will be “London Lane, a 16-year old whose memory is erased at 4:33 every night....

HBO’s ‘Room 104’ Season 2 Debuts November 9, Stars Michael Shannon, Mahershala Ali, Judy Greer, And More The first season of HBO’s anthology seriesRoom 104was uneven, but showed a lot of promise. Each episode takes place inside the same motel room, but that’s essentially the only requirement: genres, characters, styles, and tones are all up for grabs depending on the episode’s individual story, and season one served up a varied meal of period pieces, Mormon missionaries, an MMA-style brawl, and a pants-less Santa Claus, just to name a few....

House Of The Dragon Trailer Breakdown: Gearing Up For The Dance Of The Dragons When “Game of Thrones” closed up shop three years ago, it did so more with a whimper than with a bang, ending with a final season that left a lot of fans bewildered who had been with the show for nearly a decade. Chief amongst those complaints was the culmination of the character arc for Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen, a character who many saw as an avenging liberator that was turned to full-fledged psychopath seemingly out of nowhere by the end....

How Sam Raimi Used Live Puppetry And Performance Conferencing To Create ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Sam Raimiwas faced with a predicament. Two of the characters in his upcoming filmOz The Great and Powerfulare completely fantastical (a flying talking monkey and a foot tall talking/walking breakable china ceramic doll) but he didn’t want to have the characters to be completely created and performed in post production, and he also didn’t want to use performance capture as it sometimes results in very robotic-looking performances....

John Lasseter Says There Will Be No Marvel/Pixar Movie Only minutes after DisneyboughtMarvel, thequestions began: might we ever see Marvel Universe characters rendered by Pixar? The animation company has demonstrated an affection for Marvel-style heroes withThe Incredibles, which with a bit of tweaking could easily have been aFantastic Fourstory. And early statements on Disney’s part suggested the team-up might be a possibility. Yet despite the chain of business relationships that link both Pixar and Marvel to Disney, the chance of a Pixar/Marvel movie ever happening still seemed slim, and possibly too much to hope for....

Jurassic World: Meet Vincent D’Onofrio’s Character And A Potential Second Hybrid Dinosaur Two big new pieces ofJurassic Worldinfo have been revealed Tuesday. First up,a new viral videoreveals the character played byVincent D’Onofrio. His name is Vic Hoskins and he’s the head of InGen’s Private Security division. They’re a security force, funded by the same company as the Jurassic World park, to develop new methods of defense both for international incidents, and for anything bad that may or may not happen at the park....

NBC To Air ‘Mockingbird Lane’ As Halloween Special? I’m not sure how interested people really were in a revamped modern version ofThe Munsters, but the story around the debut (or not) of the show has become interesting. The short form is thatBryan Fullerand NBC worked together for a couple years to develop a new take onThe Munsters, which eventually becameMockingbird Lane, starringJerry O’Connellas Herman Munster,Portia de Rossias Lily Munster, andEddie Izzardas Grandpa, directed byBryan Singer....