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‘The Batman’ Finds Its Catwoman In Zoe Kravitz Matt Reeves’The Batmanhas found its Catwoman.Zoe Kravitz(Big Little Lies) will joinRobert Pattinsonin the new take on the Dark Knight. Not much is known about Reeves' newBatmanmovie, except for the fact that it’s going to be yet another fresh start for the character, completely removed from Ben Affleck’s recent DCEU Caped Crusader.The Wrapis reporting that Zoe Kravitz will be playing Catwoman/Selina Kyle in the upcomingThe Batman....

‘The Hate U Give’ Recasts Male Lead With ‘Riverdale’ Star After Controversy If you’ve paid any attention to the young adult book market over the past couple of years, you’re probably familiar withThe Hate U Give, authorAngie Thomas’s wildly popular best-seller about a young black woman who becomes an activist after seeing the police gun down her unarmed friend. It’s been a hit since it debuted in January of 2017, and Fox 2000 is adapting it into a movie....

‘The Jurassic Games’ First Look: In Which Copyright Law Is Pushed To The Breaking Point If there’s one movie that can unite movie fans of all ages, it’s Steven Spielberg’sJurassic Park. Here’s the rare blockbuster that has won the hearts of Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials alike. We all love it. We all cherish it. We all reference it in day-to-day life as an instantly understood shorthand. It’s also becoming an increasingly popular movie to rip off and mash up, as the mere existence ofThe Jurassic Gamessuggests....

‘The Purge 2’ In Development The Purgeopened last Friday and handily won the weekend, taking twice the coin of the next most potent competitor,The Internship.The Purgecost $3m to make and earned $34m, meaning that a sequel was almost inevitable. Add to that fact a tax rebate from the state of California, which will refund quite a big chunk of the sequel’s production budget, and producer Jason Blum has a big thumbs-up to makeThe Purge 2....

‘Wonder Woman’ Available On Blu-Ray Next Month By the end of the month, you can watchWonder Womanwhere you want and when you want.Patty Jenkins' high-spirited, kind-hearted, and plain cool superhero picture will be available to own in a digital HD version on August 29. Come September 19, the Blu-Ray and DVD, which contain a decent number of special features, will hit shelves. Below, check out the details for theWonder WomanBu-ray release....

10 Years Later, ‘The Host’ Is Still One Of The Greatest Monster Movies Ever Made WhenThe Hostwas first released, it broke box office records in South Korea, and received critical acclaim upon its festival and stateside debut. It’s been a decade since then, and in the intervening years, the movie’s reputation as a masterpiece has only solidified. Directed byBong Joon-ho(Memories of Murder, Mother, and more recentlySnowpiercer), the film centers on a family thrown into chaos after a monster emerges from the Han River and kidnaps its youngest member....

BJ Colangelo’s Favorite Movies Of All Time We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hello /Film Readers and welcome to another edition of Thunderdome, err, getting to know the writers here by judging us mercilessly by our taste in cinema. I’ve been professionally writing about film for over a decade, and there were times in my life where I was afraid that I’d lose credibility if I waxed poetic about films that weren’t “Film Twitter Approved....

Box Office Tracking: Alan Moore’s Curse Won’t Keep Watchmen From Topping $60 Million Watchmen(Warner Bros) has followed a long and winding road, passing through the hands of some remarkable directors like Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King), Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) and Paul Greengrass (United 93), before landing in the lap of the mastermind behind 2004’s stunning re-imagining of Dawn of the Dead and 2007’s March blockbuster 300. From the moment that the first trailer for Zack Snyder’s $120M comic book adaptation made its debut at midnight screenings of The Dark Knight in July, this has been a sure-fire mega-hit....

Cannes Embraces Jim Jarmusch Vampire Film ‘Only Lovers Left Alive,’ Sony Classics Will Distribute Nothing made me happier today than to hear enthusiastic responses toJim Jarmusch’s rock and roll vampire film,Only Lovers Left Alive. The film starsTom HiddlestonandTilda Swintonas vampires who have spent centuries together. We’ve got some clips, images and more info here, but frankly I want to know as little about further details as possible, at least until there’s a chance to see the film in the US....

Comic-Con: JJ Abrams And Joss Whedon [Part 2] (With Full Video) On Thursday, July 23rd 2010, Entertainment Weekly held a panel at Comic-Con entitled “The Visionaries”, which was basically a “discussion with geek godsJ. J. Abrams(Star Trek) andJoss Whedon(Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on the future of pop culture” conducted by EW’s Jeff “Doc” Jensen. “EW presents an in-depth conversation with these two creative geniuses about how technology, gaming, and global culture are reshaping how we tell and consume stories on television, film and the web....

Cool Stuff: Ben Harman’s ‘Indiana Jones’ Trilogy Print Set Explores The Tombs And Temples Having kept up with the pop culture art scene for a long time, we’ve seen countless artwork paying tribute to theIndiana Jonesfranchise. So when a new set honoring the entire adventure trilogy comes along, it has to be something really special to convince us to grab our wallets. ArtistBen Harman, who is best known for creating some stunning Disney-inspired artwork, set his sights on the entire Indiana Jones trilogy by creating a set of prints featuring iconic locations, and they’re absolute stunners....

David Fincher’s Explains The Henley Royal Regatta Tilt-Shift Scene From ‘The Social Network’ The Social Network might be David Fincher’s least visually show-offy film to date. But the one sequence that most everyone talks about coming out of the movie is the Henley Royal Regatta race, which Fincher employs a tiltshift-like focus effect.After I screened the film, Ihad a chance to e-mail Fincher a few questions. The resulting interview wasn’t too interesting (e-mail Q & As don’t usually turn out so great) but one of my questions was about the sequence....

Earthworm Jim Animated Series Will Bring Back The ’90s Favorite Jim was just a dirt-eating length of worm-flesh, but then he became one of the world’s weirdest superheroes. ’90s kids likely remember Saturday mornings spent bouncing along to the ridiculously catchy theme-song for “Earthworm Jim,” a cartoon about an earthworm who becomes a superhero when a hi-tech super-suit falls from the sky. The cartoon was based upon a series of platformer games for Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and other ’90s consoles, and it was as weird as you’d expect....