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Drew Goddard Will Write And Direct Fox’s ‘X-Force’ Movie 20th Century Fox is moving full steam ahead with the X-Men franchise, and now one of its biggest spinoffs has found a new director. AfterKick-Ass 2’s Jeff Wadlow spent years attached, a new report says thatDrew Goddard, the man who directedThe Cabin in the Woods, will write and direct the studio’sX-Forceteam-up film, which will unite characters like Deadpool, Cable, and Domino in a Black Ops group....

Duncan Jones Explains Why He’s Wrapping Up His “Mooniverse” With A Graphic Novel It took nearly a decade forDuncan Jonesto create a follow-up to his stellar feature directorial debut,Moon. The quasi-sequel,Mute, landed on Netflix in 2018, but there won’t be another big gap between the second and third entries in his “Mooniverse”:Madi, the third part of this loose trilogy, arrives this November. But unlike the other two projects,Madiwon’t be a movie – instead, it’s a graphic novel....

First Images: Charlie Hunnam And Rinko Kikuchi In Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ With Comic Con just a week away, new looks at a lot of geek-friendly films are landing online. The latest is a new image fromGuillermo del Toro’s “giant monsters versus giant robots” moviePacific Rim. Last year at Con we knew only about casting, and the director and screenwriterTravis Beachamtalked about what they’d planned for the movie. (“The finest fing monsters ever committed to screen and… the greatest fing robots ever committed to screen,” as you might recall....

First Look: Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book Disney has released the first look at concept art forJon Favreau’s new “live-action” version ofThe Jungle Book. I use quotation marks around live action because the film will seamlessly blend live-action with photorealistic CGI animals and environments, “using up-to-the-minute technology and storytelling techniques to immerse audiences in an enchanting and lush world.” So basically imagine how James Cameron shotAvatarwith some live-action elements but mostly a computer created world populated with photo realistic animals ofLife of PiorDawn of the Planet of the Apes....

Give ‘Em Hell Malone Promo Trailer From The Director Of Highlander Russel Mulcahy(Highlander,Resident Evil: Extinction) may be one of the last directors I would ever compare toJohn Woo, but I can’t help but think of Woo when viewing this promo trailer for his upcoming filmGive ‘em Hell Malone, starringThomas Jane. Set to the tune of “Bad to the Bone” (yes it’s been a while for me too), the promo shows us a well choreographed shootout with Jayne, his big-ass gun, and baddies galore....

Harvey Weinstein Wants ‘Scream 5’ To End Series; MTV Show Will Include Supernatural Elements Scream 5has not seemed terribly likely to happen. NeitherWes CravennorNeve Campbellseem to have much faith in the idea of the film, and the mere fact that it’s barely made any progress in the past two and a half years is a discouraging sign. ButHarvey Weinstein, eternal optimist that he is, has not given up hope. He still wants to makeScream 5, so he can close out the series once and for all....

How ‘Fear Street’ Cinematographer Caleb Heymann Tied All Three Movies Together [Interview] Netflix’sFear Streettrilogy was a massive undertaking. But for cinematographerCaleb Heymann, it was downright breezy compared to his current schedule forStranger Things. But still, Heymann and the crew had a tall order to complete. The shoot lasted over 100 days and involved different period settings, a large ensemble, and three unique tones to capture. Although directorLeigh Janiak’s adaptation ofR.L. Stine’s work offers three distinct experiences, they’re all of the same piece....

Iconic Film Company Orion Pictures Returns After 15 Years In the Eighties and Nineties, theOrion Pictureslogo was like an old friend. It was in front of some of your favorite movies and was kind of a stamp of approval that you were about to see something cool. Blockbusters likeThe Terminator, RoboCopandBill and Ted’s Excellent Adventurewere Orion. Oscar-winners likeThe Silence of the Lambs, Amadeus, PlatoonandDances With Wolveswere Orion. The list goes on and on....

If You’re Enjoying HBO’s ‘Watchmen’, You’ll Love These Five Comic Books There are a lot of obvious differences between HBO’sWatchmenand its source material, the 1986 comic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.There’s also a lot of coverage out there about these differences, and I agree with the coverage that says these differences work more often than not.But even though the TV show and the graphic novel are clearly different, there are crucial similarities as well....

Jeffrey Tambor Claims Michael Cera Is In, Arrested Development Movie Will Happen This Year Plans for anArrested Developmentfilmhave been in motionfor a while. However, according to Mitch Hurwitz, they’ve been flummoxed by actor Michael Cera, who has previously been mentioned asthe lone holdoutfrom the cast who wasn’t ready to commit. This position that was buttressed recently when Cera claimed that he was holding out for a script and that the movie was “more hypothetical than you think....

Jonah Hill In Talks To Join Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Even as he continues to make audiences laugh in films like the upcomingThe Watch(formerlyNeighborhood Watch),Jonah Hillis making progress on the more serious side of his career as well. The Oscar-nominatedMoneyballstar is in talks forMartin Scorsese’sThe Wolf of Wall Street, joining lead actor (and frequent Scorsese collaborator)Leonardo DiCaprio. If Hill keeps this up, he could become an even bigger dramatic star than he is a comedic one....

Louis Leterrier Wants To Direct ‘Y: The Last Man,’ But Studio Doesn’t Know What It Wants One of the comic book adaptations that just keeps kicking isY: The Last Man. For some timeDJ Caruso(Disturbia,Eagle Eye) wanted to make the movie withShia LaBeoufstarring. He wanted to make a trilogy of films, but getting a first script New Line liked and the studio to agree to make a trilogy is something that hasn’t happened....

Marvel Comic-Con Posters Revealed: ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Us plebeians may not have gotten the chance to see the buzzyAvengers: Infinity Warfootagegifted upon Hall H-ers at San Diego Comic-Con and Mouseketeers at the D23 Expo, but we can make up for it by staring at the newly releasedInfinity Warthree-part poster for 10 minutes. The three-part poster was revealed at Comic-Con on Sunday and gives us our first look at the meet-up between Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as the foe they face....