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Gears Of War Movie In Development From ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Producer Universal Pictures are developing a big screen movie based on Microsoft’s successfulGears of Warthird-person shooter video game franchise. Hit the jump to learn the details. The announcement was made during a live stream for the upcoming release ofGears of War 4. It was revealed that the film is in development with producersScott Stuber(Ted, The Kingdom) andDylan Clark(the newPlanet of the Apesmovies) at Universal Pictures....

Get Your First Official Look At The ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Rogue Cut In the mutant-packed extravaganza that wasX-Men: Days of Future Past, there was one glaring omission. Fan favorite Rogue got dropped from the film, afterAnna Paquinhad already shot her scenes. But as you’ve probably already heard, she’s being reinstated in theX-Men: Days of Future PastRogue Cut, out on Blu-ray and DVD later this month. Today, we have our first official glimpse of Paquin in the movie....

High-Res ‘Hall Of Asgard’ Photo From Thor Shows Detail Of Loki And Warriors Three Well, this image shows two of the Warriors Three fromKenneth Branagh’sThor: on the right side of the steps are Fandral the Dashing (Josh Dallas) and Hogun the Grim (Tadanobu Asano). At the very far right, you can just see what I guess is the right leg of Volstagg the Valiant (Ray Stevenson). This is the same image that arrived via the LA Times over the weekend, but now in high-res....

How Ben Affleck Was Cast As Batman Afterthe stunned reactionto Thursday night’s news ofBen Affleckbeing cast asthe newBatman, everyone was filled with questions. Plenty about the film itself, of course, including Affleck as well as directorZack Snyder’s take on the character, but the behind the scenes stuff too. Like how did Warner Bros. keep a bombshell like this so quiet? How long did Affleck know, and will he play the character for more than one film?...

How M. Night Shyamalan Got Out Of His Career Slump Once,M. Night Shyamalan’s name was synonymous with box office disappointment. The horror director exploded on the scene withThe Sixth Sensein 1999, and became known for his mind-blowing twist endings. He was on a roll for a while withUnbreakableandSigns,but then something happened. His movies began to get critically panned, and he became something of a has-been director — known for his cheap twists and shoddy plotting....

Marvel Serves Up More ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Stills To Help You Pick A Side We’ve still got a couple months to go until Iron Man and Captain America face off inCaptain America: Civil War, but sooner or later you’re gonna have to pick a side. And to help you do that, Marvel’s just dropped a nice big batch of high-quality photos. Will you be swayed by the hero shot of poor sad Bucky standing in the cold without a coat?...

Mike Judge Talks New Live-Action Beavis And Butt-Head Film. Johnny Depp Hoped To Play Beavis Obama chimpt-shirts.The Love Guru.These guys. “That f’inghat.” How many words are wasted criticizing, analyzing and decrying today’s world, when all we really need is a “This sucks!” delivered by an AWOLBeavisandButt-Head? Bring ‘em back. The brilliant creator of America’s foremost juvenile delinquents,Mike Judge, tellsMTVthat he’s finally considering a newBeavis and Butt-Headfilm, albeit a live-action one…...

Mogul Mowgli Review: A Revelatory Riz Ahmed Returns To His Roots In A Surreal Rap Drama What appears to be a dimly lit forest canvas parts, revealing itself to be a green stage curtain — one from which Riz Ahmed emerges, swaying as if possessed by some religious delirium while words tumble out of his mouth like a prayer. This is his church, and rap is his religion. Ahmed stars in “Mogul Mowgli,” the debut narrative feature from documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq, as Zed, a British-Pakistani rapper who is just about to get the biggest break of his moderately successful career: he’s been asked to be the opening act for a popular artist’s international tour....

More ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Roles Possibly Revealed In typical Marvel fashion,Spider-Man: Homecominghas been shrouded in layers of intense secrecy. But details still have a way of slipping out, and yesterday we got some really juicy intel about the true identity ofZendaya’s character. And today, still more information has dribbled out about some of the other key roles in the movie. A leaked call sheet reveals the names of several characters, including ones played byBokeem Woodbine,Angourie Rice,Kenneth Choi, and more....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch When You See ‘Ad Astra’ Sure, Brad Pitt saving the galaxy from space vibrations is good, but what about Pitt fighting the crushing despair of the endless void?How fun is that? An unofficial sequel toSpace Cowboys, James Gray’sAd Astrarepresents the newest incarnation of the waxing/waning trend of interstellar travel as metaphor for mankind’s internal search for meaning – a far cry from the rubber-suited aliens of the 20th century....

Netflix Tests Queue Replacement, Sets Premiere Date For ‘Orange Is The New Black’ If, like mine, your Netflix queue is loaded with classic movies you’ve been meaning to see for months, you may want to set aside some time tonight to finally get through them. May 1 — tomorrow — marks the day that hundreds of older titles drop from Netflix’s streaming library as they become exclusive to Warner Archive Instant....

New X-Men Movie Slated To Shoot Spring 2017, But Which One Is It? Following this past summer’sX-Men: Apocalypse, many fans are hoping for a brighter future for theX-Menfranchise. However, as we heard last month, 20th Century Fox was trying to figure outhow to continue theX-Menfranchise, and it seems like we might have an answer. A newX-Menmovie has been reported to begin production next spring in Montreal, returning to MELS Studios, the same location whereX-Men: Days of Future PastandX-Men: Apocalypsewere shot....

Next ‘The X-Files’ Season Will Only Have Two Mythology Episodes [TCA 2017] Fox’s revival ofThe X-Filesin 2016 was successful enough to warrant a second season. The 2018 run will have 10 episodes, but only two will continue theX-Filesmythology directly. David Madden, President of Fox Broadcasting, told the Television Critics Association the mythology episodes would be the season premiere and finale, just like the previous revival season. “It’s going to be similar,” Madden said....