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‘Fargo’ Star Carrie Coon Boards Steve McQueen’s Heist Drama ‘Widows’ Fresh off her excellent turns as police chief Gloria Burgle in the third season of FX’sFargoand as Nora Durst on HBO’sThe Leftovers, actressCarrie Coonis the latest to join the superb cast of directorSteve McQueen’supcoming heist movie,Widows. Read all about the Carrie CoonWidowscasting below. McQueen, who hasn’t directed a movie since his 2013 film12 Years a Slavewon the Oscar for Best Picture, signed on to makeWidowsbackin September of last year....

‘Green Lantern’ TV Series Flies To HBO Max, Plot Details Revealed HBO Max is about to go green. A new report says that after a year of development, aGreen Lanternshow based on the popular, ring-wearing DC Comics character has officially received the greenlight at the streaming service. Fear not: this won’t be a show about just one character who has the mantle – instead, it will introduce “a multitude of Lanterns” into the action....

‘Halloween’ Featurette Highlights John Carpenter’s Incredible New Score You can’t have aHalloweenmovie withoutJohn Carpenter’s iconic music. Thankfully, the newHalloweenwas smart and lucky enough to bring Carpenter back to compose a whole new score. A newHalloweenfeaturette offers a little insight into Carpenter’s new music, with the horror master himself talking about his approach to the film’s haunting sound. Watch theHalloweenfeaturette below. Halloween Featurette Not only is the newHalloweenfilmgood, it also features one of John Carpenter’s very best scores....

‘Into The Forest’ Trailer: Can Ellen Page And Evan Rachel Wood Survive The End Of Humanity? We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ellen Pagehas already faced the end of the world as we know it as a mutant in bothX-Men: The Last StandandX-Men: Days of Future Past. Now she andEvan Rachel Woodwill have to deal with humanity turning on itself in the isolated, quiet apocalyptic thrillerInto the Forest....

‘Lost In La Mancha’ Sequel Chronicling More Of Terry Gilliam’s ‘Quixote’ Troubles On The Way Terry Gilliam’sThe Man Who Killed Don Quixotehas had one long, strange journey to the screen. The troubled production of the film was previously chronicled in the documentaryLost in La Mancha. Now, aLost in La Manchasequel calledHe Dreams of Giantswill finish telling the story. The team that madeLost in La Mancha, the documentary chronicling Terry Gilliam’s troubledMan Who Killed Don Quixoteproduction, are coming back to tell the rest of the tale....

‘Seized’ Trailer: It’s ‘Taken’ Meets ‘John Wick’, With Martial Arts Superstar Scott Adkins These days,Scott Adkinsis the worst-kept secret in the world of martial arts movies. The ass-kicking English actor flew under the radar for a few years in films like theUndisputedsequels before making enough of an impression on Hollywood to play supporting roles in mainstream films likeDoctor Strange,Zero Dark Thirty, andThe Bourne Ultimatum. But hardcore action movie fans know him from his low-budget, down and dirty action thrillers likeNinja: Shadow of a TearandUniversal Soldier: Day of Reckoning....

‘Spectacular Now’ Director James Ponsoldt Making ‘I Want My MTV’ Movie For A24 We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A24 has optioned the rights toI Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, and has setThe Spectacular Now/The End of the TourdirectorJames Ponsoldtto develop the book into a feature film. Details on the I Want My MTV Movie, after the jump. The book was written by Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks and first published in October 2011 and iscurrently available in paperback for around $15....

‘The Fast And The Furious’ Animated Series Is Coming To Netflix, Will Follow The Adventures Of Dom Toretto’s Cousin The high-octane world of street racing and outrageous car-based heists is coming to the small screen in a newThe Fast and The Furiousanimated series from DreamWorks Animation. The series is being developed for Netflix, and has franchise starVin Dieselon board to executive produce. And since this isFast & Furiouswe’re talking about, you know this show has to be about #family....

‘The Magicians’ Grapples With The Shocking Climax Of Season 4 With “Do Something Crazy” This post containsspoilersfor the season 5 premiere (naturally), but also the season 4 finale.Last season’s finale ofThe Magicianswas a doozy for fans; Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph), one of the main characters of the show, dramatically sacrifices himself in order to save his friends and bring magic back into the world. Death, especially in fantasy, can be an impermanent state of being....

‘The Martian’ First Look: Matt Damon Is An Astronaut Again Last year, we sawMatt Damonin astronaut mode in Christopher Nolan’sInterstellar(above). And nowThe Bourne Identitystar is returning to space withThe Martian, the adaptation ofAndy Weir’s novel of the same name.AliendirectorRidley Scottis at the helm of the sci-fi drama which follows an astronaut (Damon) who was part of the first team to walk on Mars. But when a dust storm catches his crew off guard, he ends up left behind on the planet, with no way to signal his astronaut colleagues, or mission control back on Earth, that he’s still alive....

‘The Nun’ Screenwriter Gary Dauberman Talks ‘Conjuring’ Spin-Offs, ‘It: Chapter 2’ And DC Universe’s ‘Swamp Thing’ [Interview] ScreenwriterGary Daubermanjoined theConjuringfranchise with the very firstAnnabellespin-off, and has written every spin-off since includingAnnabelle: Creationand this week’sThe Nun. In between, he had time to writeIt: Chapter Oneand then adapted the rest of the Stephen King novel forIt: Chapter Two. He also wrote theSwamp Thingseries for the DC Universe streaming service and an adaptation of the Nickelodeon seriesAre You Afraid of the Dark?...

‘The Road’ Producers Buy ‘The Counselor,’ A Script By Cormac McCarthy Good news today for fans of authorCormac McCarthy(The Road,Blood Meridian,All the Pretty Horses). He has written and sold a screenplay calledThe Counselor. It is contemporary and set in the Southwest, and said to be reminiscent of his novelNo Country For Old Men. Much of the discussion of this new script calls it McCarthy’s first spec script (that is, a script written on the author’s own initiative) but that isn’t quite true, asNo Countrywas originally written as a script before McCarthy turned it into a novel....

‘Wonder Woman’ Director Shakeup: What Happened With Michelle MacLaren? From the outside, directorMichelle MacLaren’s departure fromWonder Womancame as a surprise. Even asPatty Jenkinsstepped up to replace her a few days later, we kept wondering what the heck had happened. From the inside, however, the split was far less abrupt. A new report delves deeper into the “creative differences” that drove MacLaren away. Among other things, it reveals MacLaren envisionedWonder Womanas aBraveheart-esque origin tale, while studio Warner Bros....