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‘Little Things’ Trailer: Denzel Washington Is Trying To Track Down A Killer And Jared Leto May Be The Culprit It’s been a couple of years since we last sawDenzel Washingtonon the big screen, delivering justice on the streets inThe Equalizer 2. Now he’s back laying down the law as a county sheriff called in to help with a string of grisly murders. The Little Thingsfinds Denzel Washington asKern County Deputy Sheriff Joe “Deke” Deaconas he’s asked to assist a Los Angeles detective (Rami Malek) in his pursuit of a murderer who is terrorizing the city and killing women over and over again (that murderer may or may not beJared Leto)....

‘On Chesil Beach’ Review: Dominic Cooke’s Adaptation Is Dead On Arrival [TIFF] A novel is a novel, and a movie is a movie. A novel can be turned into a movie, but to do so successfully, it must surrender certain properties of the page to better suit the screen. This seems obvious, but it bears repeating because this common sense seemed to escapeIan McEwanwhen adapting his own novellaOn Chesil Beachfor the cinema....

‘Rogue One’ Featurette: Diego Luna Takes You To A Galaxy Far, Far Away In the months leading up to the release ofRogue One: A Star Wars Story, it feels like we’ve talked about every character in the movie exceptDiego Luna’s Captain Cassian Andor, whose role appears to be “straight-laced soldier who has to wrangle together all of those strange rebel misfits.” Since I like Luna quite a bit and am eagerly awaiting to see him contribute to the Star Wars universe, this new featurette focusing on his experiences on the set of the film feels like it arrived at the just the right time....

‘Spider-Man’ Casting: Peter Parker’s Parents And A Second Villain HeatVisionhas learned thatCampbell Scott(Roger Dodger, The Spanish Prisoner) has signed on, andIrrfan Khan(Slumdog Millionaire, The Darjeeling Limited),Annie Parisse(Rubicon, National Treasure) andJulianne Nicholson(Kinsey, Little Black Book) are in talks to join the cast ofMarc Webb’s 3DSpider-Manreboot. Find out which character they will play, after the jump. Scott and Nicholson will play Parker’s parents, Richard and Mary Parker, who leave their son an orphan....

‘Star Wars’ Series ‘Ahsoka’ On The Hunt For A Live-Action Sabine Wren First it was the belovedStar Warscharacter Ahsoka Tano who made the jump from animation to live action. Now she’ll be having some interesting company of her own, as the similarly fan-favoriteSabine Wrenlooks to be following in her footsteps in a development that’s sure to be a crowd-pleaser for fans of the animated shows. In a larger article about Brad Winderbaum’s plans as the head of streaming, television and animation at Marvel Studios,The Hollywood Reporterincludes a fascinating tidbit about Lucasfilm’s intentions for Sabine Wren (previously voiced byTiya Sircar), a character long-rumored to star in a live-action series of her own after initially exploding onto the scene in the popularStar Wars Rebelsanimated series....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Box Office: Second Biggest Thursday Ever, Could Score $100 Million Opening Day The Force is definitely strong withStar Wars: The Last Jedi. Aside from being a creative success withwildly positive reviews, it’s also well on its way to becoming a box office juggernaut, pulling in $45 million domestically in Thursday night preview screenings. That’s still not quite at the level of 2015’sStar Wars: The Force Awakens, which reinvigorated the franchise after a decade-long slumber, but analysts are predicting thatThe Last Jedicould earn as much as $100 million on its opening day alone....

‘The Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed’, And Gina Rodriguez Wants To Stop Them Sometimes all you need is a memorable title to sell your project. Perfect example: Paramount just bought a comedy spec script calledThe Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed, and it’s hard to argue with a title like that. The story follows a pair of marijuana growers who discover that aliens are on Earth, and are – you guessed – stealing our weed....

‘The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift’: The Moment The Series Found Its Groove Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Driftis maybe the purestFast and Furiousmovie. For starters, there’s a real passion for driving inJustin Lin’s sequel; it’s not about saving the world. It’s still a crime story, but a crime story with a whole lot of impassioned drifting – all of whichVin Dieselwas originally meant to perform. ScreenwriterChris Morganhas recently explained theFast and Furious Tokyo Driftorigin story and it’s a fascinating one....

‘The Good Place’ Season 3 First Look: What The Fork Happened At The End Of Season 2? The season 2 finale ofThe Good Placeleft many fans wondering, “What the fork just happened?” What’s reality? What’s a dream? What new heights is this show taking us to? Mike Schur’s wildly ambitious NBC comedy never ceases to surprise us, which is what makesThe Good Placeseason 3 all the more anticipated. But the plot of the third season still remains a mystery, even after NBC has dropped a “First Look” at the season....

‘Troy: Fall Of A City’ Trailer: The Trojan War Comes To Netflix The epic story of the Trojan War gets the Netflix treatment withTroy: Fall of a City. The new series takes aGame of Thrones-style approach to the saga, and throws in some murky cinematography for good measure. Watch theTroy Fall of a Citytrailer below. The tale of the Trojan War was once chronicled famously by Homer inTheIliad, and not-so-famously by Wolfgang Peterson’s snooze-festTroy....

‘Uncharted’ Movie Back On Track With ‘Bumblebee’ Director Travis Knight Taking Over Not long ago, the long-developing adaptation ofUnchartedset up at Sony Pictures hit yet another speed bump by losing directorDan Trachtenberg. The filmmaker behind10 Cloverfield Laneleft the project in August, though no reason was given for his departure. It was the second blow for a Sony project starringTom Hollandafter Sony and Marvel were having trouble negotiating a new deal to share the rights to Spider-Man and keep him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

/Film Editor-In-Chief Peter Sciretta Named One Of The Most Influential People In Film Let’s do a mental exercise. Picture the most influential people in movies today. A few directors would probably come to mind: Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Danny Boyle, Michael Bay, David Fincher, Judd Apatow, JJ Abrams, the Coen Bros, etc. It might also occur to you to throw some actors into the mix as well; Matt Damon, George Clooney, Christian Bale, and Will Smith would be just a few of the folks that would make it onto your list....

Abandoned ‘Terminator Genisys’ Sequel Plot Focused On Cyborg John Connor RememberTerminator Genisys? TheTerminatorsequel no one liked? Well, there were originally plans for a direct sequel to that 2015 film – plans that have since been abandoned. Those plans involved a story focused on the cyborg version of John Connor (Jason Clarke). Keep reading to hear all about the abandonedTerminator Genisyssequel. TheTerminatorfranchise will return, again, with anew filmfromDeadpooldirectorTim Miller, produced by originalTerminatorcreatorJames Cameron....