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‘X-Men’ Live-Action TV Series Brewing At Fox Everyone’s favorite mutant superhero team could be coming to the small screen. Fox is looking to develop anX-Menlive-action series, with a team that includes24producersManny CotoandEvan KatzandStar Trek 3scribesPatrick McKayandJD Payne. More on theX Menlive action series after the jump. THRreports Fox is in preliminary talks to adapt the comic book franchise for television. Should the X-Men live-action series move forward, Coto and Katz would serve as showrunners, and McKay and Payne would write the script....

/Film Showdown: Obi-Wan Kenobi Vs Spock One is devoted to logic, the other is devoted to peace. One hails from an optimistic future, the other from a nostalgic past. One views life through data, empiricism, and scientific findings. The other views life as driven by contemplation, prayer, and the development of supernatural psychic powers. The time has come, fight fans, to pit these two pop culture giants against one anther in a fight to the death in either the Triskelion fight arena or the Geonosian execution arena....

A Guide To The Council Of Gods On Moon Knight: Who’s Who? Back in the 1990s, Naughty By Nature was down with O.P.P., and Sister Mary Clarence taught the choir of St. Francis Academy to be down with G.O.D. in “Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit.” But in 2022, Marc Spector gets down with some serious ancient Egyptian G.O.D.S. on Marvel Studios' latest Disney+ series"Moon Knight." Not only is Marc the avatar for the god of the moon and vengeanceKhonshu, but in episode 3 titled “The Friendly Type,” he comes face to face with the governing council of gods that observes (but typically does not meddle in) the affairs of man....

A Nightmare On Elm Street Movie Trailer #2 Warner Bros/New Line Cinema has released a new movie trailer forSamuel Bayer’s remake ofA Nightmare on Elm Street. The new trailer gives us a much better sense of the film thanthe teaser trailer. We finally get a better look at the look and style of the nightmare sequences, and we also hear a lot more fromJack­ie Ear­le Ha­leyas Freddy Krueger, although we still don’t get a good look at his face....

All The Hawkeye Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed In The First Two Episodes The first two episodes of “Hawkeye"are streaming now on Disney+, and just like every other project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there are plenty of Easter eggs to behold. Since much of the show’s underlying villainous plot is still kept under wraps, some of these Easter eggs just might hint at what “Hawkeye” is setting up for the future of the MCU....

Barry Levinson Will Direct Timothy McVeigh Bombing Movie ‘O.K.C.’ Barry Levinsonhas worked steadily for the last few years on films that weren’t exactly high-profile smashes (Man of the Year,What Just Happened) but scored big with the Jack Kevorkian filmYou Don’t Know Jackfor HBO. He is finishing up the enviro-horror filmThe Bayright now. And the director now has a follow-up film set. He will directO.K.C., an indie about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing perpetrated byTimothy McVeighandTerry Nichols, which was the largest terrorist attack on US soil prior to 9/11....

Christopher Abbott To Star In George Clooney’s ‘Catch-22’ Hulu Series George Clooney’sCatch-22adaptation on Hulu just found its lead.Christopher Abbott, who appeared onGirlsand inIt Comes At Night, will star as main character John Yossarian. More on Abbott’s addition to theCatch-22Hulu cast below.Joseph Heller’s classic satirical novel is being adapted by George Clooney for Hulu. The six-part limited series will likely have a wide ranging cast of characters just like the book, but for now, the series has found its lead....

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Directing Duo In Talks For Jonah Hill’s 21 Jump Street Jonah Hill’supcoming21 Jump Streetremake is getting weirder (and more awesome) the more we hear about it. First,Hill mentionedthat he wanted to make a “Bad Boys meets John Hughes” R-rated action film, and nowwe’ve learnedthatCloudy with a Chance of Meatballsdirectors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are in negotiations to direct. I personallyloved the heck out ofCloudy, and have firmly committed myself to following Lord and Miller’s careers very closely....

Cool Stuff: Craig Drake Solo Show II Featuring Star Wars, Tron, Sherlock, Kill Bill & Pulp Fiction Craig Drake’s work can stop you in your tracks. Drake uses what feels like a bare minimum of elements to perfectly represent his subject in a striking and distinctive way. You might call it “minimalist,” but that would be a discredit to the energy contained in each piece. In 2014, Drake had avery-well received solo showat theHero Complex Galleryin Los Angeles....

Cool Stuff: Gallery 1988 Comic-Con Exclusives Feature ‘The Last Starfighter, ‘Alien’ & ‘Breaking Bad’ When it comes toSan Diego Comic-Conexclusives, everyone has their poison. Maybe you’re looking for the Mattel and Hasbro toys. Maybe it’s limited edition comic books, or freebies. It’s no secret I’ll be looking for posters and while we have yet to hear what Mondo has in store (though it’s probably going to be huge and you’ll be able to read all about it here very soon) we saw some very coolCon exclusive posters based on TV shows....

Cool Stuff: The Shining - Posters And Tribute Artwork Yesterday we told you aboutFantastic Fest’s geektastic party at the Timberline Lodge, the original shooting location for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In the post I mentioned that one of the things that a Limited Edition Silkscreened Event Poster was being included in the packages. And you know how much I love Alamo’s tribute posters… The two posters are now available online. Billy Perkins and Jeff Kleinsmith (who recently when head to head on the Good Bad Ugly Posters earlier this year) have created two new posters for The Shining to celebrate the event....

Douglas Trumbull Plans To ‘Reinvent’ Cinema Beyond The Work Of Peter Jackson And James Cameron Douglas Trumbull, the man who helped redefine visual effects in cinema working on films like2001: A Space Odyssey,Close Encounters of the Third Kind,Star Trek: The Motion Picture, andBlade Runner,has very lofty goals. Despite being on the outside of Hollywood looking in, for the most part, since the mid-eighties, the director is still trying to push the limits of cinema in innovative and interesting ways....

Early Buzz: ‘White House Down’ Delivers Silly Summer Fun Much as we appreciate big-budget blockbusters that aim to be deep or emotional or to impart profound life lessons, there comes a point in every summer when all we want to do is enjoy some expensive, well crafted mayhem. Arriving just in time for that moment this year isRoland Emmerich’sWhite House Down. The first wave of reactions has just hit the web, and by most accounts (including Peter’s and Germain’s) it’s the perfect summer blockbuster: big, silly, and dumb, in the best possible way....