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‘The Suicide Squad’ Is James Gunn’s Twist On ‘Dirty Dozen’ For The R-Rated Superhero Era [Set Visit Report] If there was a way to physically walk intoJames Gunn’s mind, the folks at the set ofThe Suicide Squadmight have figured it out. Or at least, they put on a good show for me and the group of journalists who had the chance to visit the set of Warner Bros.' latest DC comic book movie in Atlanta, Georgia in November 2019....

‘The Vault’ Trailer: James Franco Unlocks The Horror In A Bank Heist Thriller “Crime does not pay,” the trailer forThe Vaultham-fistedly declares. But it’s probably a very accurate description for the heist thriller-turned-horror-movie that isThe Vault. InJames Franco’s one-millionth project this year (does the guy never sleep?), he stars as a mild-mannered bank manager with a mustache who finds his bank being robbed by two sisters (Taryn ManningandFrancesca Eastwood). But this this isn’t just a nuts-and-bolts thriller as the tables are turned when Franco’s manager unlocks the true horrific nature ofThe Vault....

‘You’re Next’ Team To Spin ‘Dead Spy Running’ For Warner Bros. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s a good week to beSimon BarrettandAdam Wingard. The writer/director combo who’ve collaborated onA Horrible Way To Die, You’re Nextand sections ofV/H/SandThe ABC’s of Deathgot a release datefor their latest feature, have another filmhitting theaters soon, a third playing theToronto International Film Festival. Now they’ve booked a studio gig at Warner Bros....

Bela Lugosi Is Dracula Again In New Comic Arriving This October Bela Lugosiwill rise from the grave to play Dracula once again – in comic book form. Legendary Comics will release a new comic adaptation of Bram Stoker’sDraculawith the Count drawn to resemble Lugosi exactly, with cooperation from the Lugosi family. The adaptation of Stoker’s novel comes from Robert Napton, with art by El Garing and Kerry Gammill serving as art director....

Bill Maher Teams Up With Larry Charles Several Months ago it was announced that Bill Maher would be making a documentary on religion titled A Spiritual Journey. It was since announced that Seinfeld writer/Borat director Larry Charles would be directing the doc. The first details have emerged from this year’s Berlin Film Festival and its adjoining European Film Market, and I can’t wait to see this one. Variety reports in theirFest Central Blog: Charles and Maher have already been shooting for some time below the radar in the Mid-East and London, but footage is being kept tightly under wraps....

Cool Stuff: Mysterio’s Iron Man Illusion From ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Is Now A Haunting Statue One of the most memorable and visually arresting sequences from Spider-Man: Far From Home was the nightmare illusion sequence that Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) uses to disorient the webslinger. Easily the most haunting image from the tricky villain’s manufactured hallucinations is using a zombified Iron Man to scare the hell out of Peter Parker, who has been having a hard time dealing with the death of Tony Stark....

Ethan Hawke Accepted His Role In The Black Phone As Creepily As Possible When “Doctor Strange” director Scott Derrickson returned to the horror genre with his frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill to adapt “The Black Phone,” he knew he needed exceptional elements to elevate Joe Hill’s original source material to something as outright terrifying as Derrickson and Cargill’s 2012 chiller, “Sinister.” The Universal-Blumhouse effort concerns a young man named Finney Shaw (played by Mason Thames) who finds himself in the lair of a masked child killer dubbed The Grabber, played by Ethan Hawke....

Fear The Walking Dead Season 7 Trailer: The Apocalypse Was Bad Before The Nukes If you grew up in the ’90s and you had phenomenal taste in film soundtracks, you might have owned a scratched-up CD of “Batman & Robin: Music from and Inspired by the ‘Batman & Robin’ Motion Picture.” Therein, just before Bone Thugs-n-Harmony insisted that you “Look Into My Eyes,” The Smashing Pumpkins tapped into the caped crusader’s goth angst with the banger track, “The End Is the Beginning Is the End,” earning them a Grammy for brooding alongside Gotham’s greatest defender....

Fire Island Trailer: Bowen Yang Stars In A Silly Yet Heartfelt LGBTQ Rom-Com - And It’s About Time It’s high time we get some solid mainstream LGBTQ rom-coms in rotation on the regular in Hollywood, wouldn’t you say? Searchlight Pictures is clearly interested in leading that charge with the release of the first trailer for their upcoming film"Fire Island." The “Fire Island” trailer gives us a glimpse into the funny, yet poignant world of the film, which, believe it or not, isa modern day retellingof the classic book “Pride and Prejudice....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities: Netflix Announces Star-Studded Anthology Series From The Master Of The Macabre Netflix is firmly remaining in the Guillermo del Toro business. After their prior collaboration on the animated “Troll Hunters” show, the major streamer is once more reteaming with the esteemed filmmaker for “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” in what should be a must-watch anthology series of horror stories, described in no uncertain terms as “genre-defining....

HBO Has Scrapped Some Of Its ‘Game Of Thrones’ Spin-Off Shows, One Aiming For A 2019 Production Start [Update] Update: We’ve now learned that Deadline’s report is incorrect. When HBO president Casey Bloys was asked if he scrapped the otherGame of Thronesspin-off projects entirely or if he might go back to them at some point, Bloys said “a combination,” implying that they were not all dead for good. Our original article can be read below....

How Sam Raimi Took On The Censors And Changed Horror Forever Sam Raimi has returned to the big screen this week with the newest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.” It’s a major step back to the world of blockbusters for the director who helped to define the modern superhero movie with his “Spider-Man” trilogy. But for many film lovers, Raimi will forever be a maestro of horror, the man responsible for one of the all-time great gore trilogies of the 20th century: “The Evil Dead....

How The Harder They Fall Reinvents, And Remains True, To The Classic Western Saddle up for"The Harder They Fall,“a new Netflix Western that puts a fresh twist on an old genre that has traditionally been dominated by white actors like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. The film stars Jonathan Majors and Idris Elba as cowboy gang leaders embroiled in a feud that is sure to have deadly consequences. Regina King is a member of Elba’s gang, and she already appeared in a show that brought attention to one Black cowboy: the real-life historical figure of deputy U....