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‘The Voices’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Talks To Animals In This Dark Comedy Not unlikeRyan Reynolds' character inThe Voices,you have a dilemma. you may watch the latest trailer for the dark comedy, which opens February 6, and get spoiled on some of the film’s bigger surprises. Or you can not watch it. But once you know more about the film, the latter option might be difficult to deny. InThe Voices, directed byMarjane Satrapi, Reynolds is a likable factory worker who talks to his animals....

‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Photos: Go Behind The Scenes Of Luc Besson’s Latest Film Based on a graphic novel series byPierre ChristinandJean-Claude Mézieres,Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planetsis directorLuc Besson’s biggest film in years, if not his biggest to date. Following the success ofLucy, Besson got this passion project of his going, which starsDane DeHaan,Cara Delevingne,Ethan Hawke,Clive Owen,John Goodman, andRihanna. Below, check out someValerianphotos taken by Luc Besson....

‘Westworld’ Season 3 Adds Lena Waithe, Won’t Air Until 2020 HBO is currently basking in the glory of their final season ofGame of Thrones, but the day is soon approaching when they no longer have the same stranglehold on the pop culture conversation as they do now. They’ve invested some serious money intoJonathan NolanandLisa Joy’s sci-fi western seriesWestworldas an heir apparent, but the audience hasdropped significantlyfrom the first to the second season....

‘Zoo’ Trailer: A Struggling Couple Ends Up Stuck Together During A Zombie Apocalypse If you read that headline and thought, “I’ve already seenShaun of the Dead,” that’s totally fair. However, the premise for a new indie thriller calledZootakes things beyond an imitation of the beloved Edgar Wright comedy. You see, this couple being stuck together is only one half of the story. As the two get comfortable while waiting to be rescued, their softer side convinces them to let another couple in for safety....

Aaron Sorkin Adapting Underground Poker Memoir ‘Molly’s Game’ Aaron Sorkinrecently said he was done writing for television, but his feature film writing career isn’t going anywhere. Danny Boyle is prepping to shoot Sorkin’s script about Steve Jobs, based on the biography by Walter Isaacson. And now Sorkin is set to adapt another true-life story to the screen. This time he’ll tackleMolly Bloom’s memoirMolly’s Game, which describes Bloom’s years running the most elite underground poker game in Los Angeles — and the inevitable FBI takedown of her operation....

Annapurna Drops Fox News Movie Just Days Before It Was To Start Filming Here’s something that doesn’t happen very often: a major financier and distributor has parted ways with a movie just days before production was set to begin. Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures has bailed on an untitled Fox News movie that centers on the late Roger Ailes and the multiple sexual harassment scandals at the network, and there are only two weeks left until filming was scheduled to start....

Clifford The Big Red Dog To Get A Bigger, Redder Sequel Fans of “Clifford the Big Red Dog” are about to get an early holiday gift. According toVariety, Paramount Pictures has ordered a sequel. The film was released early this month and currently has abox office grossof almost $34 million. It’s also streaming on Paramount+, though we don’t have numbers for that. Right now, with many kids on a modified schedule between virtual school and in-person classes, and with the holidays coming up, it’s probably not a stretch to say that, whatever the numbers are, they’re likely to go up....

Cool Stuff: ‘Batman: Gotham City Chronicles’ Board Game Available Now On Kickstarter From time to time we like to cover tabletop games on this site, especially when they are pop culture related. Part of the reason is that I’m a huge tabletop gamer, and so is /Film managing editor Jacob Hall (who is out on vacation this week, probably playing board games). On Tuesday, Monolith Board Games launched aKickstarterfor their newest miniature game based on theBatmancomic book universe....

Cool Stuff: Alien 3 Fetal Queen Maquette Sideshow Collectiblesis taking preorders for a limited editionFetal Queen Maquettefrom Alien3. This limited edition Maquette is an exact reproduction of the original created by Amalgamated Dynamics Inc (ADI), which also appears on the Alien3 poster and film cover artwork. The Fetal Queen Maquette is cast in high-quality polystone, hand-finished and hand-painted to exacting standards, then individually hand-numbered. The Fetal Queen is held in place by magnets, and is removable from the base....

Eddie Redmayne Now Thinks That The Danish Girl Should Have Starred A Trans Actress Six years after the release of Tom Hooper’s “The Danish Girl,” a biopic about the life of Danish artist and trans woman Lili Elbe, star Eddie Redmayne says that he thinks accepting the role was a “mistake,” in response to the criticism that Lili should have been played by a trans actress instead. In a new interview withThe Timesin London in preparation for his stint as the emcee in “Cabaret,” Redmayne finally admitted that accepting the lead in “The Danish Girl” was a bad move....

Guillermo Del Toro Has An Unconventional Cameo In ‘The Shape Of Water’ Directors have been making cameos in their own movies since the early days of cinema, so it’s appropriate thatThe Shape of Water– which is at least partially a throwback to classic Hollywood – would include a cameo from its own filmmaker as well. It also seems appropriate that an iconoclast director likeGuillermo del Torowouldn’t have a traditional cameo in his movie; even if you were straining your eyes to look for him, you’d never see del Toro’s face on screen during the entire run time....

Here’s The Dune Glossary For The David Lynch Adaptation Of The Sci-Fi Epic “Dune” hits both theaters and HBO Max tonight, but this isn’t the first time someone brought Frank Herbert’s sci-fi tome to the big screen. Back in 1984, David Lynch wrote and directed a “Dune” adaptation starring Kyle MacLachlan. The hope was that the film would be the next “Star Wars,” and sequels were planned. But Lynch’s “Dune” was a box office flop, grossing only grossing $30....

Home Sweet Home Alone Director Dan Mazer Wants To Subvert Your Expectations [Interview] If “Home Sweet Home Alone” feels like an inversion of the franchise’s formula… Well, that’s no accident. Unlike past films in the series, which always feature a young kid left alone in his home who must defend his turf from scheming burglars, the villains here aren’t that bad. In fact, as played by the innately likable Rob Delaney and Ellie Kemper, they’re downright likable....