A ‘Southpaw’ Re-Release Is Coming Southpawwas a mild success. TheAntoine Fuqua-directed boxing pic was forecast as an Awards contender, with plenty of buzz going around forJake Gyllenhaal’s performance. While the film might not go that distance, aSouthpawre-release is happening. So if you missed out on the pretty decent and pretty on-the-nose drama, it’s returning to theaters this Friday. Learn why after the jump. The Weinstein Company planned on pushing hard to get Gyllenhaal’s performance recognized by the Academy, and even after so-so reviews, that doesn’t alter their plan....

Alien Vs Final Destination – The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever [Round 3] Welcome to the Tournament of Terrors, a /Film bracket where we argue about the greatest horror franchise of all time, and you, the readers, get to decide the winners. The rules are simple: two iconic horror movie series enter the ring, each represented by a /Film writer ready to champion them. And you — yes, you, the person reading this right now — will vote on which one gets to move forward....

Captain Marvel Can Time Travel, According To Samuel L. Jackson In the wake of all of our ownCaptain Marvelset visit coverage today, a different report from a separate set visit includes a jaw-dropping quote from starSamuel L. Jacksonabout Marvel Studios' new title character. Jackson, who plays a younger version of Nick Fury in the new movie, says Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) can time travel. Wait. What? In an interview withEntertainment Tonight, Jackson revealed a heretofore unseen superpower of Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel:...

Classic Muppet Performer Dave Goelz On Playing Gonzo For 40 Years And The Re-Release Of ‘The Muppet Movie’ [Interview] Over more than 40 years,Dave Goelzhas portrayed one of the cornerstone Muppet characters, the loopy Great Gonzo. OnThe Muppet Show, Gonzo was primarily a daredevil in the style of Evel Knievel, but over the course of a handful of films, he’s been everything from an alien to a pirate to Charles Dickens....

Crazy: Buried With Ryan Reynolds Is Really A One-Man Show Just a week ago we reported onBuried, the indie thriller about a civilian contractor in Iraq who is kidnapped and buried alive, to be played byRyan Reynolds. NowThe Playlistgot quotes from an Autralian TV interview with Reynolds, who says the movie is all him, all the time. One man, one coffin, one crazy thriller. Buried is the story about a guy who’s buried (laughs)....

Fantastic Four Reboot Casting Rumors When word first came out that aFantastic Fourreboot would be made, /Film askedif you guys cared. The consensus? A resounding: “Meh.” But could anything change your minds? How about the casting ofAdrien BrodyandAmber Heard? Those are two of the rumored casting possibilities currently being floated byScreenrantandComic Book Movie, the former of which also notesJonathan Rhys Meyersas being in the running for the same role as Brody....

Flixter Buys Rotten Tomatoes Years ago, I remember using a little site calledFlixterthat let users rate movies, and thinking to myself that it would likely never take off. I mean, Internet Movie Database (IMDb) had a much larger sample of users to draw from, and it didn’t seem like Flixter would ever be able to catch up. Enter Facebook, and their open app api. It seemed like overnight every one of my facebook friends had their favorite movies listed and rated using the Flixter app....

Harry Lennix Is A General In ‘Man Of Steel’ He lead the people of Zion inThe Matrixsequels and now he’ll lead the American military with Superman.Varietyreports thatHarry Lennixhas been cast as a “high-ranking military officer named General Swanwick” inZack Snyder’sMan of Steel. He’ll join an impressive cast that includesHenry Cavillas Superman,Amy Adamsas Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as that other General, Zod, andKevin Costner, Diane Lane, Russell CroweandJulia Ormond’s as Superman’s Earth-bound and Kryptonian parents....

If AMC Theatres Wants To Block MoviePass, They May Have To Stop Accepting MasterCard Everyone is talking aboutMoviePassthis week. The subscription service that allows users to check into an app and use a special credit card to buy one movie ticket every day for a flat fee each month was recently acquired by Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. and introduced anew low price of $9.95 a month. That’s right, for $9....

James D’Arcy Joins Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Which Somehow Hasn’t Cast Every Actor Yet We officially live in a twilight world, to quoteanother Christopher Nolan movie. At this point, I could have been cast in “Oppenheimer” without even knowing it. Maybe you are, too. Is any one of us safe? Are we going to wake up one morning and find ourselves inexplicably ferried away to the set of the director’s latest movie by mysterious men in suits?...

John Belushi Documentary In The Works At Showtime We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After tackling entertainment icon Marlon Brando with last year’s documentaryListen to Me Marlon, filmmakersR.J. Cutler(The September Issue) andJohn Battsek(Searching for Sugar Man) have reunited for a new documentary about one of comedy’s most revered names:John Belushi. John Belushi was a comedy legend who skyrocketed to fame and sadly left this world all too soon....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Play Infamous Cult Leader Jim Jones In New Film Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloe Grace Moretz are about to have the weirdest “500 Days of Summer” reunion imaginable. Per Deadline, the duo is set to star as cult leader Jim Jones and Jonestown survivor Deborah Layton in “White Night,” an upcoming psychological thriller about Jones' infamous People’s Temple cult. The film, to be penned by “Queen of Katwe” and “Ghost in the Shell” screenwriter William Wheeler, is based on Layton’s memoir “Seductive Poison....

Karl Urban Joins Amazon’s Comic Adaptation ‘The Boys’ Karl Urbanis going to crack open some cold ones withThe Boys. TheThor: Ragnarokactor is the latest addition to Amazon’s new series adapted from theGarth Ennis/Darick Robertsoncomic book. The series is set in a world where superheroes exist, and have grown corrupted by their fame. As a result, the CIA employs a secret team to monitor them. Urban will play the leader of the superhero monitoring team....