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The Morning Watch: Fantastic Beasts Unlocks Dumbledore’s Past, Spider-Man: No Way Home Honest Trailer & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, Warner Bros. is begging us all to forget about J....

The Three-Episode Pam & Tommy Premiere Balances Sensitivity And Sleaze Remember the ’90s? If not, you’re about to.“Pam & Tommy"debuted on Hulu today with a three-episode premiere that featured a deep dive on the stolen honeymoon tape that led to the world’s first major internet sex scandal. With “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie behind the camera, it’s no surprise that the show presents a more fully rounded portrait of the people at the center of the scandal than typical tabloid fare....

Tom Holland And Kevin Feige Open Up About The Spider-Man Deal Debacle Between Disney And Sony This past week, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe were hit with the bomb that Disney and Sony Pictures might not be able to finalize a new deal to keep sharing the movie rights toSpider-Man. That means we may not see Spidey swinging around with The Avengers anymore, and that means Peter Parker would be playing in a much different sandbox in the creative control of Sony Pictures instead ofKevin Feigeand Marvel Studios....

Tron Legacy Viral: Flynn Lives Group Invades Encom Press Conference In San Francisco On Friday night, fictional software company ENCOM held their first public press conference in years (possibly ever) in San Francisco, CA. A renegade group who believes that revolutionary programer Kevin Flynn is still alive (despite having disappeared from the public eye two decades ago), infiltrated the event and took over the press conference. Of course, this is all part of the viral marking for the upcoming Disney sequelTron Legacy....

Universal Drops ‘Clue,’ But It Still Lives On Thanks To Gore Verbinski Universal, in the conference room, with the telephone. That’s most likely how the movie studio officially droppedtheir interest in a remake/adaptationof the Hasbro board gameClue. However, Hasbro is currently so flush from films like Transformers: Dark of the Moon, they aren’t worried. They’ve gotBattleship, Stretch Armstrong, OuijaandCandylandall still in various stages of production/development and they’re lettingCluego out on its own withGore Verbinski’s production company Blink Wink....

Was That A Punisher Cameo In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’? Between Black Widow, Falcon, Nick Fury, and of course Cap himself,Captain America: The Winter Soldierhad plenty of heroes already. But there may have been one more we didn’t get to see. DirectorsJoeandAnthony Russoteased what sounds like aPunishercameo in the film, and even joke that the anti-hero could be up for his own Marvel One-Shot. Hit the jump for theCaptain America The Winter SoldierPunisher appearance details....

What Is JJ Abrams' Next Mystery Project? Mad speculation time. We’ve known that Paramount would be making newStar TrekandMission: Impossiblemovies at some point, and thatJJ Abrams, director of the last installment in each franchise, would likely be involved as producer, though possibly not as director. We also knew that the studio had picked up a couple of other options for Abrams to produce and possibly direct. Now a cryptic statement by Paramount chiefBrad Greysuggests that the next film for Abrams will indeed not be Trek or M:I, but something else altogether....

Who Will Be Baz Luhrmann’s Daisy In ‘The Great Gatsby’? Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Abbie Cornish And More Shortlisted As he’s beenworkshoppinghis script forThe Great Gatsby, directorBaz Luhrmannis still trying to find a woman to play Daisy in his new film version of theF. Scott Fitzgeraldnovel. The role was played byRebecca Hallin that recent workshop, during whichLeonardo DiCaprioplayed Jay Gatsby andTobey Maguireread narrator and onlooker Nick Carraway. But Rebecca Hall’s participation didn’t mean that she was cast (none of the actors are formally cast, in fact) and now there’s a report saying that the director is looking at a diverse lineup of actresses for the part, includingKeira Knightley,Abbie Cornishand more in addition toAmanda Seyfried, who was the first actress said to be a real candidate....

Win A Copy Of Free Guy On 4K Signed By Ryan Reynolds “Free Guy” arrived in theaters back in August and was one of the movies that helped to actually make it feel like a normal summer for a few hours. The charming, sincere, andentertaining blockbuster, headlined by Ryan Reynolds, was a win for original ideas in Hollywood, as well as a solid hit for Disney. Now, the movie has made its way to home video and we’re here to offer fans a chance to win something pretty cool....

With Your Favorite Disney Movies, Nostalgia Beats The Classics (A Not-Quite-Scientific Study) We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It all started with a tweet. Last week, after seeing a couple of other such tweets catch fire amidst the madness of real-world news, Iposeda question to the denizens of Twitter. “What are your five favorite Disney animated films?” I thought it would be fun to tally up some of the responses, and see what film takes the day in an unscientific survey....

Writing Independence Day Became A Frantic Race Against Time “Independence Day” changed the way the world looked at blockbusters. It’s responsible for jump-starting Will Smith’s movie career, to the point where Smith was nicknamed “Mr. Fourth of July” as his subsequent films ended up being box office hits that happened to open over the 4th of July weekend (the other was “Men in Black”). It positioned Roland Emmerich as a director who could bring massive action sequences to the screen — sometimes this works (see: “2012”) and sometimes it doesn’t (see: the 1998 version of “Godzilla” and most recently, “Moonfall”....

WTF: ‘Call Of Duty’ Adding Leatherface And Billy The Puppet For Halloween Gameplay Event It’s Halloween, but since full-on parties are going to be few and far between thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we’ll have to find other ways to enjoy this spooky holiday. If you’re getting sick of watching horror movies and TV shows at home, maybe you’ll want to mix it up with some gaming, and one of the more entertaining options might be playing the latest iteration ofCall of DutyduringThe Haunting of VerdanskHalloween gameplay event, because two horror icons are getting in on the action....

X-Men: First Class Will Supersede X-Men Origins: Magneto News thatBryan Singerhadsigned to directX-Men: First Classcreated a lot of excitement, but just as many questions, in the world of comic book movie fandom. We know thatJamie Mosshas been hired to write, and the director had alsorevealedthat the film would cover “the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where there [sic] relationship took a wrong turn....