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‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ Tops 2015 Product Placement Awards Before we close the book on another year in film, Brandcameo has one more set of awards to hand out. But these aren’t for achievements in acting or directing or sound mixing. These are for all the product placements that cropped up in the movies last year, fromReese Witherspoon’s REI boots inWildto, well, the entirety ofThe Lego Movie. The winner for most brands in a single film shouldn’t be hard to guess (I’ll give you a hint: it’s in the headline) but smaller films likeNightcrawlerandThe Theory of Everythingapparently still found ways to squeeze in a few notable brand mentions....

‘True Story’ First Look: James Franco And Jonah Hill Play Cat And Mouse Jonah HillandJames Francohave worked together a few times before, but their latest team-up is a little bit different.True Storyisn’t a joke-a-minute raunchfest, but an R-rated drama. As the title suggests, it’s based on a true story. Hill plays disgracedNew York Timesreporter Michael Finkel, and Franco is accused killer Christian Longo, who assumes Finkel’s identity. Get yourTrue Storyfirst look after the jump....

‘Tuca & Bertie’ Trailer: Ali Wong And Tiffany Haddish Are Birds Of A Feather Ali WongandTiffany Haddishare winging adulthood together. Two of the funniest female comedians working today have teamed up withBoJack HorsemanproducerLisa HanawaltforTuca & Bertie, an animated comedy series about two wildly different bird women who are nevertheless BFF’s. Watch the first Tuca and Bertie trailer below. Tuca and Bertie Trailer Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish have insanechemistry in the recording booth, and it comes across in this frenetic animated series created by Lisa Hanawalt....

‘Vader Immortal’ Coming To PlayStation VR This Month Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Seriesis coming to PlayStation VR this month. The three-episode VR series is currently available on Oculus Quest, and by the end of the month, you’ll be able to experience it on PlayStation VR as well. The VR game lets players head to Mustafar, the world where Darth Vader hangs out in his big spooky castle, like Dracula....

25 Years Later, ‘The Fugitive’ Features Harrison Ford’s Last Truly Great Performance Conventional wisdom suggests thatHarrison Forddoes not enjoy interviews. There’s plenty of evidence of him getting less and less interested in the dog-and-pony-show style of public-relations journalism. Even though he’s been more present in the public eye thanks to playing Han Solo once again inStar Wars: The Force Awakensin 2015, Ford’s no less terse in his responses, to the point where his most beloved films often inspire in him a dismissiveness bordering on nearly hilarious cruelty when confronted by fans, as in thisclipfrom Conan O’Brien’s NBC show....

A Brief History Of Shazam, One Of The Strangest Characters In The DC Universe Whether or you loved it or hated it or had no strong feelings about it one way or the other,the first trailerfor Warner Bros.‘Shazamcertainly got everyone’s attention at San Diego Comic-Con. The film, starring Zachary Levi as the title character, came out swinging when it comes to proving the DC films are shedding their grimdark past. Colorful characters, comedy, fun, laughter?...

Benediction Review: Bold, Visionary Cinema That Lingers It’s always something of an event when a new Terence Davies film is released. Despite being one of Britain’s most exciting and innovative filmmakers, releasing films with exceptional sparsity — his feature-length debut, “Distant Voices, Still Lives” came out in the late eighties, and he’s only made a handful of films since. The director’s earliest films are notably intimate and autobiographical, but in the latter stages of his career, Davies has deliberately distanced himself from, well, himself....

Blumhouse To Reboot ‘The Thing’ With John Carpenter Involved John Carpenteris getting behind anotherBlumhousereboot of one of his horror classics. After Blumhouse knocked it out of the park with itsHalloweenrevival, the beloved horror studio is now tackling a reboot ofThe Thing, Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror film based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novellaWho Goes There?Carpenter confirmed he is “involved” withThe Thingreboot, which is still in very early stages at Blumhouse Productions....

Casting Notes: Christoph Waltz In Water For Elephants; Hugh Jackman In Avon Man; Ben Stiller Replaces Eddie Murphy While I’m not wild aboutFrancis LawrencedirectingWater for Elephants, some of thecast additionshave me more and more interested. We already knew thatRobert PattinsonandReese Witherspoonwould be the primary leads for the picture, which takes place in a low-rent traveling circus.Sean Pennwas in the mix as one supporting role, but nowChristoph Waltzis replacing him as the antagonist, according toDeadline Hollywood....

Disney Reportedly Plans To Shoot 5th And 6th ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Films Back To Back If you were hoping to seeJohnny Deppin anything but mainstream fare for the next couple years, this might be the time to store that dream away for a while. The actor is finishingPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, then willmakeDark ShadowsandThe Lone Ranger. And after those, it looks like he could stay in the Disney fold....

Dopesick: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.)Dopesick, the non-fiction book about America’s opioid crisis, is now a Hulu limited series. The show will dramatize the true story of how the country got hooked on OxyContin and other pain killers after Big Pharma aggressively pushed them to drive up sales....

Dwayne Johnson Will Be Lost At Sea In ‘Not Without Hope’ Are “lost at sea” pics the trend of the moment? Ang Lee won an Oscar earlier this year for stranding Suraj Sharma in the middle of the Pacific, and J.C. Chandor and Robert Redford put outAll Is Lostjust last month. Plus, even as we speak, Angelina Jolie is shooting the World War II survival dramaUnbrokenand Ron Howard is plowing on with theMoby Dick-inspiredIn the Heart of the Sea....

Embattled Jeopardy! Producer Mike Richards Has Officially Left The Show If Mike Richards' job was in (ahem) jeopardy before, it’s well beyond that now. In the latest update on the unbelievably self-inflicted saga that has caught social media by storm, the producer and one-time new hire for the main hosting gig of “Jeopardy!” has finally departed the beloved game show entirely, effective immediately. At a time when powerful men have been put under an increased microscope and social movements have attempted to bring to light injustices suffered under systems of abuse, the combination of Richards' largely self-promoted ascendancy to such a sought-after role and the backlash to hisuncovered history of flagrant misbehaviorproved to be the final straw....