‘Saint Maud’ Trailer: A24’s New Horror Movie Is Still Set To Open This Year, Maybe Sooner or later, A24 will releaseSaint Maudhere in the states. I’m genuinely surprised they haven’t gone the VOD route with this one yet, as it’s a relatively small movie that would play great at home. But while we here in America wait to see what A24 is going to do, those in the UK will be able to check the film out when it arrives in October....

‘The Mummy’ Director Alex Kurtzman Unsure Of His Future In The Dark Universe Writer-directorAlex Kurtzmanis one of the two writers/producers overseeing Universal’s new Dark Universe and he kicked off the new world by directingThe Mummy…which was panned by critics and underperformed in the states, but did very well overseas. It didn’t start off the Dark Universe with a bang, butBride of Frankensteinand other Dark Universe titles are still coming. Just how involved Kurtzman is in those upcoming movies is now unclear....

‘Vivarium’ Review: Imogen Poots And Jesse Eisenberg Are Forced To Be Parents In A Clever Yet Frustrating Conceit [Cannes] I always figured there was no better case for birth control than being on a long flight with someone else’s screaming child.Vivariumups the ante, finding domestic bliss even more harrowing in this clever yet frustratingCannes Film Festivalselection by Irish directorLorcan Finnegan. The first shots of the film show some writhing, newly hatched birds in a nest....

Arnold Schwarzenegger And Sylvester Stallone’s ‘The Tomb’ Adds Amy Ryan, 50 Cent, Vincent D’Onofrio, And Vinnie Jones Mikael Håfström’sThe Tombattracted some attention forreuniting'80s action starsArnold SchwarzeneggerandSylvester Stallone, but the project’s collected quite an eclectic cast since its early days. After addingJim Caviezelback in February,The Tombhas now also signedVincent D’Onofrio,Vinnie Jones,50 Cent, andAmy Ryan. The combination isn’t entirely random: D’Onofrio, Jones, and 50 Cent recently completed production on Lionsgate’sFire with Fire, which likeThe Tombproduced by Emmett/Furla Films....

Box Office: He’s Just Not That Into Headed For $29M Weekend The Drew Barrymore-produced romantic comedy He’s Just Not That Into You has made the jump from catch-phrase to self-help book to movie hit. With an all-star cast this classic ‘chick flick" appears to be winning the weekend after posting a spectacular $10.5M in opening day ticket sales. That should mean a 3-day start of $28.87M or so, easily out-pacing holdover Taken (Fox) and three other new wide releases....

Channing Tatum’s ‘Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock’ Has Found Its Writer For a few years nowChanning Tatumhas expressed interest in directing. He’s produced a few films, includingMagic Mike XXLand22 Jump Street, but he’s finally stepping behind the camera. The actor is set to make his directorial debut with an adaptation ofForgive Me, Leonard Peacock, which now has a writer onboard. Read more about theForgive Me, Leonard Peacockwriter after the jump. Based onMatthew Quick’s (Silver Linings Playbook) young adult novel, the story is about a high school student who plans to kill his best friend and then himself with aP-38 Nazi pistol his grandfather gave him....

Chewbacca Will Appear In The ‘Han Solo Spin-Off’ Do we need to know how Han Solo was raised as a kid? Not really, but from whatwe’ve heardso far about the untitled Han Solo spin-off, that’s not the type of origin story directorPhil Lord&Chris Millerare cooking up for audiences. Of course some familiar faces are bound to appear in the film, including Han Solo’s loyal pal and co-pilot, Chewbacca. This isn’t a huge surprise, but it’s been confirmed the lovable Wookiee is a part of the film....

Colin In Black & White Trailer: Ava DuVernay’s New Limited Series Comes To Netflix What do you get when you cross Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay and NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick? A new Netflix series, of course. The pair teamed up to create “Colin in Black & White,” a biographical drama about the early years of Kaepernick’s life. Our first look at the series has arrived in the form of a teaser, where a young Kaepernick (played by Jaden Michael) walks us through the difficulties of his everyday life....

Cool Stuff: A ‘Labyrinth’ Board Game Is On The Way, So Do The Magic Dance There just aren’t enough new board games commemorating hits movies from the 1980s. In an effort to help rectify that situation, a company called River Horse has partnered up with The Jim Henson Company to create aLabyrinthboard game, based on the 1986 fantasy film starring the lateDavid Bowieand a youngJennifer Connelly. TheLabyrinthboard game is scheduled to get released this summer and features some pretty impressive sculpts for the five collectible game pieces that players will use to navigate the board....

Cool Stuff: Hero Complex’s WonderCon Exclusives Plus Official ‘Mad Men’ Posters WonderConkicks off Friday for three days of comic convention madness. Movie wise, there isn’t a ton going on, but there’s always fun to be had and lots of exclusive merchandise to covet. One of our favorite spots at WonderCon is theHero Complex Gallerybooth. They always have beautiful prints that are only available at WonderCon and this year is no different....

Defenders Assemble? Here’s What The Marvel-Netflix Shows Joining Disney+ Could Mean For The MCU Marvel fans were provided with a bit of interesting (if not altogether surprising) news yesterday when it was revealed that the former Marvel Netflix shows will indeed be making their way toDisney+ later this month. The contract that Netflix originally had in place with Marvel has fully run its course, with “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage,” “Iron Fist,” “The Defenders,” “The Punisher,” and ABC’s “Agents of S....

Ed Zwick To Direct ‘American Assassin’ There was a point two years ago when CBS Films put into motion the first adaptation of one ofVince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp novels.Consent to Killwas going to be the subject of the adaptation, with Antoine Fuqua directing and actors like Matthew Fox, Gerard Butler and Colin Farrell as possible accomplices. That stalled, and perhaps for the better, as it turns out. Because Vince Flynn last year publishedAmerican Assassin, a prequel story that tells of how Mitch Rapp ends up as a CIA terrorist hunter....

Every ‘Fast And Furious’ Movie Is Returning To Theaters For Free Screenings As we race toward the release ofF9this summer, Universal is giving fans the opportunity to see everyFast and Furiousmovie on the big screen – for free. The studio has announced “Fast Fridays,” eight weeks of free nationwide screenings of theFast and FuriousSaga in chronological order “to thankFastfans and welcome audiences back to movies.” These screenings will initially take place in more than 500 theaters and then expand to over 900 theaters across the country....