‘Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions’ Spoiler Review: A Fun Time That Won’t Let The Mystery Be B-rated horror movies are cinematic junk food. For every slow-burn drama and genre-bending surprise, it’s nice to cleanse the palette with something easy, clever, and earnestly ridiculous. They come in all shapes and sizes, but their simple premises tend to bubble down to a single, weirdly specific question. Here’s an example: what if escape rooms were deadly?...

‘Ford V. Ferrari’ Sends Christian Bale And Matt Damon On The Race Of A Lifetime [CinemaCon 2019] Christian BaleandMatt Damonare out to build a Grand Prix-winning car inFord v. Ferrari, the latest fromLogandirectorJames Mangold. Based on the true story of Ford’s attempt to build a car to beat Ferrari at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France, the biographical drama also starsCaitriona Balfe,Jon Bernthal,Josh Lucas,Tracy LettsandNoah Jupe. /Film’s Peter Sciretta and Ben Pearson were on hand at CinemaCon 2019 to watch the first footage from the film and it certainly sounds intense....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Clip: It’s Time For A Water Fight At the very least, perhaps we can expect the upcomingGhost in the Shellto be mostly pleasing to the eyes and ears. DirectorRupert Sandershas exhibited a sharp eye in his commercial work and even his underwhelming directorial debut,Snow White and the Huntsman, looked great. Accompanying Sanders' high-tech futuristic eye candy isa scorefrom none other thanClint Mansell(Moon). Their work hand-in-hand could be quite an experience on the big screen....

‘Gone Bamboo’ Crime Novel From Anthony Bourdain Being Turned Into A TV Series In addition to being a renowned chef, journalist, non-fiction writer, and TV host, the lateAnthony Bourdainalso wrote novels. One of his books, a comedic crime thriller calledGone Bamboo, is now becoming a TV series from producersWebster StoneandRobert Stone, whose credits includeThe Conspirator, Gone in SixtySeconds, andThe Negotiator.The story follows a former CIA-trained assassin who enters the Witness Protection Program, only to have his past come back to haunt him....

‘Happy People’ Trailer: Werner Herzog Takes His Camera To Remote Siberia I’ll listen toWerner Herzogread any script — even the lightly written villain role inJack Reacher— and so the appearance of a new Herzog documentary is a thing of many pleasures. First, there’s his extraordinary ability to capture documentary subjects. Then there’s his tendency towards the pursuit of “ecstatic truth,” which isHerzog’s termfor a depiction of reality thatisn’t true, strictly speaking, but uses the false to probe towards an inaccessible truth....

‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Film Based On ‘The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ Will Begin Shooting Next Year Have you heardThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes? They’re singing it over atLionsgate, where an adaptation of theSuzanne Collinsnovel of the same name is gathering steam. Collins, of course, is the author of the YA book seriesThe Hunger Games.Three of the four books in that series became a franchise of four films starringJennifer Lawrence....

‘I.T.’ Trailer: Pierce Brosnan Will Punch Your Connected Lifestyle Right In The Face Pierce Brosnan’s post-James Bond career is an endless source of fascination. Sure, he’s done his fair share of the expected “aging action hero” junk likeThe November ManandSurvivor, but he’s at his most interesting when he’s teetering on the edge of his cool-and-composed onscreen persona. He was a bright spot of lunacy in the otherwise turgidNo Escape, an inspired comic presence in Edgar Wright’sThe World’s End, and the snippets we’ve seen of his performance in the upcoming drug thrillerUrgelook like my kind of bonkers....

‘Lord Of The Rings’ Audiobooks Will Be Read By Gollum Himself, Andy Serkis Add the nameAndy Serkisto the growing list of actors turned audiobook narrators. This September, the actor who portrayed Gollum via motion capture in Peter Jackson’sLord of the Ringsmovie trilogy is lending his voice to a new recording ofJ. R. R. Tolkien’s original book trilogy forHarperCollins. Revisit Middle-Earth with Andy Serkis The Booksellerreports that Serkis is recording an unabridged audiobook version ofThe Lord of the Rings....

‘No Time To Die’ Delayed Again To October 2021 It’s déjà vu all over again.No Time to Diewas one of the first blockbusters to be pushed back in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many thought the situation would be better by now, including MGM, who initially pushed the movie back to November 2020, only todelay it again to April 2021. Now the James Bond sequel has been given a fall release date again as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the United States and many parts of the world....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Box Office Sets New Records, ‘Midsommar’ Has Biggest Indie Opening Of The Year Marvel and Sony’s release ofSpider-Man: Far From Homehad no problem taking over the box office this past weekend. But rather than having a gigantic three-day weekend, the blockbuster release spread out the box office love across the holiday week thanks to an early opening on July 2. That allowed the movie to break several records thatAvengers: Endgamewas not able to shatter....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 Ordered By CBS All Access, With New Showrunner Joining The Team Star Trek: Discoveryseason 3 is officially happening, and the CBS All Access series is getting a new showrunner, to boot.Michelle Paradisewill now work alongsideAlex Kurtzmanto captain the prequel series, which is set a decade before the originalStar Trek. Expect to seeStar Trek: Discoveryseason 3 sometime in 2020. CBS All Access wants to be the home of all-thingsStar Trek, so there was no way they were going to give up onStar Trek: Discovery....

‘Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith’ Original Ending Had Padmé Make Some Bold Moves Even thoughStar Wars: Revenge of the Sithis the best of the prequel trilogy in the Star Wars saga, it’s still a far cry from measuring up to the original trilogy. One of the biggest issues with the final chapter in the story of how Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) became Darth Vader is how the former Jedi’s relationship with his secret lover Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) comes to an end....

‘The Accountant 2’ Might Not Happen Now, But A TV Show Is Still A Possibility Will we ever seeThe Accountant 2: Crunch Those Numbers? TheBen Affleckmovie was a surprise hit, and back in 2017, word surfaced that Warner Bros.was developing a sequel. But we haven’t heard much about it since then. So what’s up? According toThe Accountanthimself, Ben Affleck, there’s definitely been talk about a follow-up, but they’ve yet to nail down a script....