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30 Coins Season 2 Heads Into Production, Promising Us More Bonkers Religious Horror Álex de la Iglesia’s utterly bonkers horror series “30 Coins” is coming back for a second season. The show, which blends action, religious horror, folklore, and just all sorts of gonzo mayhem, follows the struggle between forces of good and evil as demons attempt to gain control of our world. It was a series that had everything – gun-toting priests, babies that turn into giant spider monsters, evil mirrors, invisible force fields, and so on....

Bryan Singer Confirms Superman: Man Of Steel Sequel To Superman Returns Some major developments for the sequel toSuperman Returns, tentatively titledSuperman: The Man of Steel, hit the web today in quick succession. First,IESBreports that they’ve received “100%” confirmation thatBryan Singerwill return to direct the flick and they’ve also heard that writersRoberto OrciandAlex Kurtzman(Transformers,J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek) are in major talks to replaceReturnsscribesMichael DoughertyandDan Harris. And then, later todayEmpireactually chatted with Singer, who not only confirmed his “intent” to direct, but once again defendedReturns' poor critical, fanboy and box office reception, while playing up action in the sequel…...

Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, And Michael B. Jordan Team Up For ‘Triple Nine’ Three of this year’s hottest stars are teaming up for directorJohn Hillcoat.Chiwetel Ejiofor,Michael B. Jordan, andCasey Affleckhave just boarded Hillcoat’s crime dramaTriple Nine, joining the previously announcedChristoph WaltzandCate Blanchett. That’s a cast to rival Hillcoat’s last star-studded affair, the bootlegging picLawless. Which is really saying something, since the roster for that one included Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Dane DeHaan, and Guy Pearce....

Charlie Robinson, Best Known As Mac From ‘Night Court,’ Dies At 75 Charlie Robinson, best known for playing Mac the court clerk on the 1980s and 1990s sitcomNight Court, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. The actor passed away at age 75 from cardiac arrest with multisystem organ failure due to septic shock and metastatic adenocarcinoma, a type of glandular cancer. Robinson leaves behind a legacy that spans five decades....

Christoph Waltz Eyed For ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ As More Plot Details Revealed Since his breakout turn in 2009’sInglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz has become one of Hollywood’s favorite go-to baddies. He’s terrorized superheroes inThe Green Hornet, circus workers inWater For Elephants, swashbucklers in TheThree Musketeers, and tiny warriors inEpic. Now he may do the same for Captain Jack Sparrow inPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Waltz is reportedly being eyed to play Captain Brand in the high seas adventure, whileRebecca Hallis wanted to play Jack’s love interest Carina....

Clickhole’s Video Essay Will Change The Way You Watch ‘The Dark Knight’ Since we’re obsessed with all things cinema, we love stumbling across a good video essay that takes a closer look at a good movie. There’s no better way to examine a movie than in a medium that allows us to actually see clips from the movie being discussed as they’re being explained. But some movies have been examined so thoroughly that there doesn’t seem to be much else to discover....

Cool Stuff: McFarlane Toys New DC Comics Figures: Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Harley Quinn & More McFarlane Toys, Warner Bros. Consumer Products, and DC Comics have revealed the first wave of figures in their new DC Multiverse line of toys. This is a new series of 7-inch figures that will feature DC Comics characters from comics, animated shows, movies live-action TV shows, graphic novels, and much more. The first wave covers everything fromBatman: The Animated SeriestoArrow, the first series in what would become the interconnected Arrowverse, and much more in between....

Disney Exec Says Tentpole Movies Are About Spectacle, Not Story. Is He Right? Think back to the last movie you paid to watch in theaters. What inspired you to shell out your hard-earned cash for two hours' entertainment when you could’ve easily saved money by exploring your Netflix queue at home? If you said “the story,” Walt Disney Animation Studios chief technical officerAndy Hendricksonhas one word for you: “Bullshit.” In Hendrickson’s view, what draws in paying audiences is “spectacle,” not storytelling....

Exclusive Images And Storyboards From The Malaysian Kickboxing Film ‘Bunohan’ Ghosts, kickboxing, Shakespeare and sibling rivalry are all at the center ofBunohan, a Malaysian film that had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival over the weekend and have its U.S. premiere atFantastic Festlater this month. Written and directed byDain Said,Bunohan(also calledReturn to Murder)is the story of how three brothers, each with a murderous profession, flee their home country and family only to find themselves back together in the titular small border town where they’re forced to deal with their pasts....

Exclusive: The Films Of Quentin Tarantino Art Series By Tim Doyle Part 1 Opening next week at the Bold Hype Gallery in New York,Spoke Art’sQuentin vs. Coensart show is shaping up nicely. We’re already showed youone batch of imagesand premiered anawesomePulp Fictionposterbut now we’ve got an exclusive set of seven imagesbyoneofourfavoriteartists,Tim Doyle. He’s recreated an iconic image from each of Tarantino’s films and, today, we reveal the first four. Tomorrow, you can see the full set....

Fantasy Novel Series Raybearer Is Becoming A Netflix Show - Here’s What Makes It Special Author Jordan Ifueko’s “Raybearer,” a West African-inspired young adult fantasy novel, is getting adapted for television at Netflix. Gina Atwater (“Westworld,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) will be leading the project as part of her multi-year deal with the streaming platform. Atwater’s focus at Netflix will be to foster series and features that put traditionally underrepresented characters front and center....

First Look: Gary Oldman Transforms Into Winston Churchill For ‘Darkest Hour’ My second favorite thing aboutGary Oldmanis that he’s not picky, which means we’re always getting a new Gary Oldman performance on a fairly regular basis. He’ll play heroes and villains, spies and politicians, wizards and comic book characters. He’s fought hyper-intelligent apes, the Joker, and an on-the-spectrum hitman played by Jean Reno. He’s done it all. My favorite thing about Gary Oldman is that he’s done all of this without ever phoning in a performance, offering the same kind of gravitas to B-movie junk food likeCriminaland thoughtful thrillers likeTinker Tailor Soldier Spy(which earned him his sole Oscar nomination)....

How Bullet Train Shifted From A Dark, Hard-R Action Film To A Comedy, According To Aaron Taylor-Johnson The first trailer for “Bullet Train"showed what looked like a “John Wick” style action thriller, but with the kind of humor you’d expect from the director of “Deadpool 2.” Sure, there are assassins on a bullet train trying to murder each other, and there seems to be quite a lot of violent action, but they also respect the quiet cart and fight to the rhythm of “Stayin' Alive....