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The Strangers Director To Make Thriller Based On Dream Hoax Have you ever dreamed of the man above? Late last year people started hearing about a website calledThisMan.org, which claimed to chronicle the fact that people all over the world have seen that man’s face in their dreams. The notion was more than unlikely; it was a fabrication, seemingly orchestrated by Andrea Natella, an Italian sociologist / marketing guru. But that doesn’t mean the core idea is bad for a film....

This Week In Trailers: Bias, Find Your Groove, Stray, The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we follow a pack of good boys and girls, check our assumptions, learn a thing or two about race, catch up withIliza Shlesinger, and appreciate our music teachers....

This Week In Trailers: Black 47, Science Fair, Five Fingers For Marseilles, Minding The Gap, Anthropocene Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we find ourselves starving in Ireland, watching some remarkable teenage nerds, killing the planet some more, documenting our teen years for posterity and reflection, and catching a different kind of western....

This Week In Trailers: Weekend, To Live & Ride In L.A., Mozart’s Sister, Death In Arizona, Shaolin Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Little’, ‘Pink Wall’, ‘The Public’, ‘Poms’, ‘Sherwood’, And More There’sa lothappening in the world right now, and you can’t possibly be expected to keep up with every movie trailer released online. Can you imagine scrolling aimlessly through YouTube, searching for trailers you haven’t seen yet? Nobody has time for that! Luckily, we’re here to help with another trailer round-up, presenting fresh looks at a new Robin Hood-inspired TV series, aBig-inspired studio comedy, a new indie movie from Emilio Estevez, an animated true story, and more....

Uh-Oh: ‘World War Z’ Going In For Seven Weeks Of Reshoots? World War Zhad one rough development period, getting caught up for years in rewrites, almost-expired options, and budget troubles before finally making it in front of cameras last summer. But even though principal photography wrapped months ago, it seems the project’s troubles aren’t over. A new report indicates that theMarc Forster-directed zombie epic is now headed for seven weeks of reshoots — a troublingly long schedule that hints at major problems with the film....

Why Spielberg Traded Cape Fear To Scorsese For Schindler’s List “Schindler’s List” won Steven Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director, and it’s hard to imagine anyone else helming the film. “Cape Fear” is a little different in that Martin Scorsese’s 1991 version is a remake of a 1962 thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson. Scorsese reused the score by Bernard Herrmann and reused actors like Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck....

Zack Snyder Teases Deathstroke In ‘Justice League’ Set Photo A few weeks ago,Ben Affleckposted a brief video revealing that Deathstroke would be making his way to the DC Extended Universe. Shortly afterward,Geoff Johnsconfirmed thatJoe Manganiellohad been cast in the role for Affleck’sBatmansolo movie, which is expected outaround 2018 or 2019. But it looks like we might get to meet the villain a little bit earlier than that. DirectorZack Snyderhas posted a behind-the-scenes photo from the set of next year’sJustice League, which doesn’t look like much of anything at first glance but upon closer examination seems to suggest Deathstroke will appear in that movie....

‘13 Reasons Why’ Season 2 Filming Halted Due To Forest Fires Hannah’s story may not over, but it may be delayed for a little while longer. The production of13 Reasons Whyseason 2 has temporarily been halted, due to the forest fires ravaging the Northern California location where the Netflix series is shooting. You don’t need more reasons than that. Deadlinereported on Tuesday that Netflix series would be taking an “unplanned hiatus,” until at least Sunday due to the wildfires....

‘A Ghost Story’ Review: David Lowery’s Astounding Supernatural Rumination On Time & Mortality [Sundance] If I told you there was a movie at Sundance whereCasey Affleckappears for most of the film covered in a white sheet with black eyes like some kind of cheap Halloween ghost, you’d probably think it was some sort of quirky comedy. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. It should come as no surprise thatA Ghost Storyis about a ghost....

‘Accidental Love’ Trailer: Delayed And Disowned David O. Russell Film Has A New Name We’re about to see the final chapter in a disaster story. Back in 2008David O. Russellshot a film calledNailed, scripted by Al Gore’s daughterKristen Gore. It was a political satire in whichJessica Bielplayed a waitress who is shot in the head with a nail gun, leading to crazy sexual urges and a trip to Washington to lobby for health care and breaks for people with unusual disabilities....

‘Black Panther’ Reveals A Bright, Ambitious, And Personal Future For The Marvel Cinematic Universe (Welcome toRoad to Infinity War, a new series where we revisit the first 18 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask “How did we get here?” In this edition: we reach our conclusion withBlack Panther, a film that finds Marvel reaching its optimum.) The final stop on theRoad toInfinity WarisBlack Panther, a sprawling superhero epic the likes of which American cinema has never seen....

‘Cloak & Dagger’ Throws A Lot Of New Names At Us In “Princeton Offense” This week’sCloak & Daggerepisode, “Princeton Offense,” threw alotat us. And by “a lot,” I mean, A TON OF NAMES! And that’s not all that we were expected to catch at breakneck speed as if we were Tyrone trying to catch the basketball to shoot the winning shot. Let’s break it all down. So many names, it’s a phone book I guess with a subtitle like that, I’m showing my age – young people today don’t even know what a phone bookis, let alone what it used to be used for....