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‘The Girl In The Spider’s Web’ Review: Lisbeth Salander’s New Movie Is 007-Lite The great surprise ofThe Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story(aside from that mouthful of a title) is that director Fede Alvarez wasn’t hired to direct the new James Bond movie. ThoughSpider’s Webcouldn’t be confused with the high-quality entertainment largely evinced by the Daniel Craig era of 007 films, it’s mounted in extremely stylish fashion and lead character Lisbeth Salander is presented as a hybrid of 21st-century Bond and the villains he combats....

‘The King’s Man’ Special Look: Learn The “Bloody” Origin Of The Kingsman If you forgot there was going to be yet anotherKingsmanmovie, that’s okay – I’m sure many others did as well. The film, a prequel calledThe King’s Man, has had itsrelease date shuffled multiple times– and not just because of COVID-19. The flick was originally due out in 2019, but is now set to open this holiday season. For those who need the reminder, there’s a newThe King’s Manspecial look below that goes behind the scenes of the upcomingMatthew Vaughnmovie....

‘The Mandalorian’ Director Taika Waititi Says The First ‘Star Wars’ Live-Action Series Is Close To The Original Trilogy [TCA 2018] Taika Waititiis one of the directors working on Disney+’s upcoming streaming seriesThe Mandalorian, set in the world ofStar Warsbounty hunters. Waititi confirmed that the first live-actionStar Warsseries would match the tone of the originaltrilogy. That required some adaptation from the comedic director ofThor: RagnarokandWhat We Do In The Shadows,but he was happy to fall in line....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Trailer: Mando And Baby Yoda Are Back Baby Yoda is back. Lucasfilm and showrunnerJon Favreauhave unveiled the firstTheMandalorianseason 2 trailer for the Disney+ series, and you can watch it in all of its glory below. The Mandalorian Season 2 Trailer We suspected we might see the first trailer for the upcoming second season during this year’s Star Wars Celebration, but that event was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic....

‘Toy Story 4’ Clip: Woody And Forky Meet The Creepy Gabby Gabby Evil dolls areall the ragein the horror genre, so it’s no surprise that Woody and the gang’s Big Bad inToy Story 4is a sweet, cherubic doll named Gabby Gabby. But appearance isn’t everything, and soon those dead eyes will turn murderous. Well, nottoomurderous – this is a kid’s movie after all. But seeing this sweet-looking doll turn into a sinister villain may be enough to send any kid shivering under the covers....

‘Westworld’ Season 2 Assigns Talulah Riley New Role As Series Regular We probably won’t seeWestworldseason 2 until 2018 at the earliest, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be any interesting developments between now and then. For starters,Talulah Riley, a supporting actress in the show’s first season, has been given an upgrade to regular cast member for season 2. Let’s talk about what that could mean. The news of Riley’s promotion comes to us viaDeadline, who have no details beyond that....

‘Zoolander 2’ International Trailer And Poster: Derek Is Out Of Fashion [UPDATED] It’s a bit surprising to realize now that the firstZoolanderactually wasn’t a huge hit when it came out back in 2001. It was the 55th highest domestic grosser of the year, behind such gems asRat RaceandThe Animal. Like most good comedies, however, it eventually found an audience, and over the past decade and a half, it’s become so beloved that it’s now spawned a sequel....

20 Years Later, ‘The Limey’ Is Steven Soderbergh’s Most Underrated And Most Daring Movie If there is an art to a good director’s commentary, then the commentary track forThe Limeyis the equivalent of Picasso’sGuernica. Director Steven Soderbergh and writer Lem Dobbs appear on the track, and it doesn’t begin the way a traditional commentary does, with the awkward easing-in to a feature-length discursive exploration of what’s playing out on screen. Instead, to start the commentary is to feel like you’ve skipped to the middle, as it begins with the two men mid-argument....

2013 Sundance Update: A First Half Recap Including All The Latest Acquisitions Like ‘Prince Avalanche,’ ‘Toy’s House,’ ‘Kill Your Darlings’ And More Have you been followingour coverage of the2013 Sundance Film Festival? It’s been a crazy six days so far and with five days to go, who knows what great films are left to discover or get on your radar. So far, we’ve reviewed (or at least discussed) nearly 20 different movies that you will be talking about later this year and have plenty more on the way....

A ‘Wicked’ Movie Is Still On The Way, Stage Musical Creator Insists SomethingWickedthis way…still comes. Two years after a film adaptation of the smash hit stage musical was announced, Universal struckWicked’splanned 2019 release date from its roster. But the musical’s creatorStephen Schwartzinsists that — despite the lack of a release date — theWickedmovie is still in the works. Schwartz is defying gravity to get his immensely popular stage musical to the big screen....

Andy Muschietti Plans To Make The ‘It’ Sequel Before ‘Robotech’ Warner Bros. and New Line must be feeling pretty good about directorAndy Muschietti’s big screen adaptation of Stephen King’sIt.Box office tracking predicts a blockbuster.The early buzz has been very positive.The trailers are just plain creepy. Since the movie only adapts one half of King’s massive novel, there’s plenty of room for a sequel. If everything goes right, it’s a no-brainer....

Ask The Readers: More Cool Stuff? Okay, so our daily Cool Stuff feature has definitely taken off. We’ve gotten tons of great feedback, and each new post is more highly read than the last. But I’m starting to find the daily schedule rather limiting. I have a backlog of hundreds of submitted and found items to report on in future Cool Stuff postings. And with each new day, I add five more items to the ever growing list....

Bradley Cooper In Talks For ‘Paradise Lost’ Whatever contractBradley Coopersigned with the devil to make his career blossom into leading man status just paid off in strangely appropriate fashion. Because he’s now the first contender to play Lucifer in the first person shooter — oops, sorry – action movie version ofParadise LostthatAlex Proyasand Legendary Pictures arecooking up. Varietysays there is no formal offer out yet, but that Bradley Cooper wants the part and some talks have started....