‘The Host’ Trailer: Saoirse Ronan Faces Alien Invaders, Young Love There’s a segment of the population that will always turn out to see a movie advertised as being “based on the novel byStephenie Meyer,” no matter what, and another segment that will avoid that movie like the plague, no matter what. Meyer’s first non-Twilighttale, the sci-fi romanceThe Host, doesn’t look likely to change the minds of diehards in either group. But for the rest of the population, there’s a new trailer to help them make up their minds....

‘The Plot Against America’ Review: An Alternative History That Feels All Too Plausible (And Familiar) “There’s a lot of hate out there. And he knows how to tap into it.” That comment, spoken early inThe Plot Against America, refers to Charles Lindbergh, but it’s impossible to separate it from our current events, and our current occupier of the White House. Philip Roth’s source material novel was published in 2004, before the rise of Trumpism, but its storyline of America slipping into full-blown fascism due to the election of a hate-stoking candidate is depressingly more relevant than ever....

‘The Umbrella Academy’ Featurette Educates On Who The Dysfunctional Superheroes Are What isThe Umbrella Academy?Is it justX-Menbut with siblings? The latestThe Umbrella Academyfeaturette released by Netflix attempts to educate and explain this dysfunctional family of superheroes at the center of the series based on the comic by My Chemical Romance frontmanGerard Way. The Umbrella Academy Featurette It’s a little confusing thatEllen Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, David Castañeda,andAidan Gallagherwould all belong to the same family, but this featurette explains how it all works....

8 New Transformers Video Clips Paramount/Dreamworks has sent us 8 new video clips from Michael Bay’sTransformers. Get excited and check them out below. Below The Sand: Skorponok attacks a bunch of soldiers in the desert. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/transformers_belowthesand.flv 450 190] Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) tries to find a credit card while in the heat of battle. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/transformers_creditcard.flv 450 190] Sam ‘Spike’ Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela (Megan Fox)’s first reaction to Bumblebee: “It’s probably Japanese....

Amazon Studios Plans To Produce And Distribute Theatrical Films Amazon Studioshas quickly distinguished itself through a “pilot season program” that sees the company generating ten to twelve pilots a year, then polling viewers to help decide which ones to push to series.Transparent, from the second pilot season, is the first real breakout success from Amazon, but the studio’s output, pilots aside, is still primarily restricted to those who pay Amazon’s $99/year Prime membership fee....

Casting Bits: Denzel Washington Offered ‘Secret In Their Eyes’ Remake, Will Forte Joins ‘Neighborhood Watch’, Isla Fisher Replaces Amanda Seyfried In ‘Now You See Me’ Denzel Washingtonhas reportedly been offered the lead role in the English-language remake ofThe Secret in Their Eyes, which is being helmed byBilly Ray(Shattered Glass). The original Argentinian version, by directorJuan José Campanella, was a critical success that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Picture in 2010....

Casting Bits: John Cusack And Johnny Knoxville In ‘Carnaval’, Katherine LaNasa In ‘Dog Fight’ And ‘The Frozen Ground’, Vanessa Redgrave, Melanie Laurent In ‘Night Train To Lisbon’ John CusackandJohnny Knoxvilleare set to star inCarnaval, a comedy directed byJosh Stern. Cusack will play a sports scout who tavels to Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval to sign a soccer star, while Knoxville has been cast as Cusack’s musician best friend who tags along....

Complicated ‘Star Trek’ Rights Could Push J.J. Abrams Into A Multimedia ‘Star Wars’ Universe J.J. Abramshas big plans forStar Wars. Very big plans, reaching beyond a new trilogy of films focusing on the multi-billion-dollar franchise. We’re talking TV shows, spin-offs, online components, theme park rides, you name it. It’s a plan Abrams had several years ago for another property,Star Trek.He wasn’t able to make it work with the Enterprise crew, because the rights toStar Trekare split between Paramount, which controls the movies, and CBS, which controls the TV shows and product licensing....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Goonies’ Poster Signed By Drew Struzan Is A Real Treasure That Can Be Yours The Gooniesis one of those beloved movies from the 1980s that remains powered by nostalgia. The treasure-hunting adventure from directorRichard Donner, writerChris Columbus, and executive producerSteven Spielberghas stood the test of time, and the ensemble cast includingSean Astin,Josh Brolin,Corey Feldman, and more have been endlessly asked about it for the past 35 years. Now, for the film’s 35th anniversary, you can celebrateThe Gooniesby getting your hands on the original poster....

Dan Stevens And Betty Gilpin Join Watergate Drama ‘Gaslit’ At Starz Dan StevensandBetty Gilpinhave boarded the cast of Starz’s upcoming Watergate drama series,Gaslit, described as “a modern take” on the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon. The respective stars ofLegionandGlowwill join an ensemble that already includesSean PennandJulia Roberts.The Wrapreports that Gilpin and Stevens have both joined theGaslitcast to play “infamous” couple Mo and John Dean, the “young duo who were wrapped up in the political scandal while John was serving as a White House lawyer under the Nixon administration....

Disenchantment Season 4 Ending Explained: Family Is What You Make Of It Matt Groening and Josh Weinstein’s animated fantasy-comedy “Disenchantment” is back on Netflix for Part 4, and these 10 episodes will change things in Dreamland forever. At the end of the third season, Princess Tiabeanie, or “Bean,” was crowned Queen of Dreamland after saving it from destruction yet again. Bean (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) is not a perfect ruler by any means, but she truly does care about her subjects, including her strange little elf buddy Elfo (Nat Faxon) and her personal demon, Luci (Eric André)....

Disney Still Planning To Make New Indiana Jones Movies Lucasfilm is a little busy at the moment worrying about their crown jewel,Star Wars. They’re planning one of those movies every year starting in 2015, and that requires a lot of work. But no one has forgotten about their other huge franchise,Indiana Jones, for which Disney does indeedhave the rights to make and distributenew films. The last rumor was that they werelooking at a reboot, which was denied by producers....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Trailer: A Bigger, Crazier Sequel For many people, today is about the big game and only the big game. For movie fans, it’s about trailers for big movies, which is something that not even the pandemic can take away from us during the Super Bowl. Case in point, Marvel has dropped a new look at the much-anticipated"Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness"for us to enjoy in addition to the football shenanigans....