Brittany Snow Credits Her X Performance To The Internet’s Favorite Country Star The queen of country music is getting a lot of unexpected recognition lately. First, Dolly Parton showed up on the ballot for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a race she attempted tohumbly bow out of. Now, she’s crossing genres even more as the unexpected influence behind one of the best horror movie performances of the year so far....

Casting ‘It: Chapter 2’ – Here’s Who Should Play The Adult Losers' Club In The ‘It’ Sequel Even before directorAndy Muschietti’sIthit theaters and made the kind of money usually reserved for superhero movies, there was talk of a sequel. And how could there not be? The film adapts only half ofStephen King’s massive 1,200 page novel, eschewing the storyline that follows the grown-up “Losers' Club” as they reassemble 27 years later to finish Pennywise (or rather, It) off once and for all....

Cool Stuff: Heroes And Villains On Display In ‘Arch Nemesis’ Art Show Every great hero has a great villain, a nemesis that completes their existence. It’s a theme explored in films likeUnbreakableandThe Dark Knight,and later this weekend will be the centerpiece at theHero Complex Galleryin Los Angeles, CA. Their latest show is calledArch Nemesis, and is comprised of works depicting that topic. Some of the work is just of the bad guys, others show both sides, but each takes into account that core idea: “Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes....

Could Will Smith Be The Star Of Ang Lee’s Clone Thriller ‘Gemini Man’? Gemini Mancould finally germinate beyond its status as a famous script languishing in development hell. With directorAng Leereportedly circling the project,Will Smithhas expressed interest in starring in the clone assassin thriller by Skydance. This role would require him to play double — as the aging assassin trying to retire and as the younger clone on the hunt for himself....

Easter Eggs You May Have Missed In Peacemaker Episode 1 (This article containsSPOILERSfor “Peacemaker” episode 1. Proceed with caution.) We still have a few months to go until we thaw out for spring, but it’s never too early for an Easter egg hunt. Luckily, there’s a new HBO Max original series based on an obscure DC Comics character to carefully comb through, courtesy of a filmmaker known for throwing references into his work left and right....

Fantastic Fest Review: Survival Of The Dead WhenGeorge Romerowalked on stage at the Paramount theatre for the introduction to his latest zombie filmSurvival of the Dead, over 1,000 Fantastic Festers gave the filmmaker not just one, but two standing ovations. If there is any crowd thankful of Romero’s contributions to cinema, it has to be the film fanatics at the Alamo Drafthouse-run genre festival. And don’t get me wrong, I’m also very grateful of Romero’s body of work, and I’m not going to claim he doesn’t deserve a standing ovation for his past achievements....

FX Orders Pilot For Series Based On Brian Michael Bendis' Comic Book ‘Powers’ News on a screen adaptation ofBrian Michael Bendis' comic book seriesPowershas been painfully slow going: It’s been eleven years since the series launched to critical acclaim, ten years since Sony optioned it for a film, two years since the project wasredirectedto the small screen, and one year since Bendis andJourneymancreator Kevin Fallspitchedthe show to cable network FX....

Happy Halloween! We’re Giving Away A Giant Stack Of Paramount Horror Movies There’s no denying that the number one Halloween season activity is watching scary movies. Let me set the scene: the lights are dim in the living room, there’s popcorn overflowing in your fall-accented bowl. You’re snuggled up on the couch with your favorite Halloween blanket wrapped around you Snuggie-style. You grab your remote and do your thing, cycling through your (very ’90s) 21-disc changer to find the perfect horror movie for a spooky night....

Help Make This Awesome ‘Jaws’ LEGO Set Happen How can you help make this awesomeJawsLEGO Set a reality? We’ve posted about LEGO Cuusoo in the past. The platform, now renamed LEGO Ideas, was most famously responsible for making the Back to the Future Delorean time machine LEGO set that was released last year. The way it works, LEGO fanatics submit their LEGO creations and the LEGO Ideas community can support an idea....

Horror Legend Barbara Crampton Is Spending Halloweek Cosplaying The Divas Of Darkness With Fangoria One of genre cinema’s great bright lights is turning simply electric for the Halloween season.Fangoriahas unveiled a new Divas of Darkness photoshoot with the legendary Barbara Crampton (“We Are Still Here,” “You’re Next,” “Re-Animator”) as she gets a Bride of Frankenstein bedazzling from make-up man extraordinaireBrett Freedman. The LA-based makeup artist is transforming Crampton into two more horror icons before the week is up, so keep your eyes peeled for that....

How I Met Your Father Review: An Immediately Likable New Chapter The story of “How I Met Your Father” was a long one, even before Kim Cattrall’s Sophie sat down in the year 2050 to tell it to her son. The idea of a “How I Met Your Mother” spin-off series was first announced in 2013, before the much-loved sitcom even ended, but didn’t come to fruition until nearly a decade later....

Jeremy Renner In Final Negotiations To Join The Avengers; What About His Role In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film? Man, the past twenty-four hours have been all Marvel, all the time. FromCaptain AmericaandThorconceptarttomore Cap castingand now this confirmation of a rumor that started around Thanksgiving of last year:Jeremy Renneris close to signing a deal to appear inThe Avengersas the hero Hawkeye. This came up last November,when Renner mentioned that he’d talked to Marvel about the part....

John Cusack Wants A Role In The Preacher Movie, Idris Elba Fancies A Part In 100 Bullets John Cusack says “I don’t know if there are any more superheroes left”, but he knows as well as we do that there’s plenty more, cape-free comic books ripe for big screen adaptation, and that a great number of them seem fit to make for rather good movies. One project in particular has caught his eye, and that’s the movie adaptation ofPreacherthat Sam Mendes is still attached to and that John August has been screenwriting....