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‘Maleficent 2’ Begins Production, Michelle Pfeiffer And More Officially Join Cast Production has finally begun on Disney’sMaleficent 2, the long-awaited sequel to theSleeping Beautyremake starringAngelina JolieandElle Fanning. With this production start news comes confirmation thatMichelle Pfeifferhas officially joined the cast, along with other new casting announcements. Disney is finally ramping up production onMaleficent 2, and they’ve announced the full cast to boot. Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning will both be back as Maleficent and Princess Aurora, respectively....

‘Real Steel’ Viral Site Reveals Two New Clips Call me crazy (and you have) but I’m really looking forward toShawn Levy’s robot-boxing action filmReal SteelstarringHugh Jackman, Evangeline LillyandAnthony Mackie. Ever since DreamWorksreleased the first teaser trailer, I’ve been uncharacteristically excited for this film, which follows a retired fighter on the rise in the new world of robot boxing. Combining science fiction, action and sports, for some reason I just thinkReal Steelcould be incredibly fun....

‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Sequel Series ‘Clarice’ In The Works At CBS After NBC gave us a series focused squarely onThe Silence of the Lambsserial killer Hannibal Lecter, CBS is looking to follow the classic movie with a sequel series calledClarice, focusing on Jodie Foster’s character of FBI agent Clarice Starling one year after the events ofThe Silence of the Lambs. However, the series doesn’t have any connection to the NBC seriesHannibal....

‘The Catechism Cataclysm’ Trailer – A Priest And An Ex-Rocker Get Lost In The Woods The first trailer has dropped forThe Catechism Cataclysm,Todd Rohal’s oddball comedy about young priest Father Billy (Steve Little,Eastbound & Down) who reunites with his high school role model, a former rocker named Robbie (Robert Longstreet,Pineapple Express). For reasons I can’t quite make out, the two near-strangers decide to go on a male bonding canoe trip. The pair quickly get lost, and things move from awkward to strange to deeply fucked up....

‘The Moneychanger’ Review: A Slight Political Drama With A Few Delights [NYFF] If you’re going to open your film with a sequence straight out of the Bible, you had better not come to play. That’s the gambit Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj lays out at the beginning ofThe Moneychangeras the film’s titular financier, Daniel Hendler’s Humberto Brause, connects himself to the very profession that Jesus singled out for criticism at the temple....

‘The Predator’ TV Spot Asks You To Breathe Deep Take a breath and prepare yourself forThe Predatorto hit theaters very soon. The newest TV spot bombards us with bloody action and terror as the titular alien wreaks havoc upon the human scientists and soldiers trying to contain it. The Predator TV Spot We finally got a peek at that old Shane Black dry humor in the most recentThe Predatortrailer, but the newest TV spot brings us back to the moody violence that we saw in previous trailers....

‘Watch Dogs’ Movie: ‘Zombieland’ And ‘Deadpool’ Writers Penning Video Game Adaptation The highly anticipated, open world, next-gen video gameWatch Dogsisn’t out until next month, but the movie is already chugging along. Last year, Sony Picturessigned on withUbisoft to develop a filmbased on the gameand now two writers have been hired to pen an adaptation. Paul WernickandRhett Reese, the writers ofZombieland, G.I. Joe RetaliationandDeadpoolhave been hired to write theWatch Dogsmovie. The game, and likely movie, follows a man who has the ability to hack any kind of electronics and uses that skill to get justice for a family tragedy....

‘West Side Story’ Remake Begins Casting But ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Comes First For Steven Spielberg [Updated] UPDATE: New details have surfaced indicating that Indiana Jones 5 will still be made before the remake of West Side Story. Get the new details at the end of the story.Steven Spielbergjust delivered the Best Picture nomineeThe Postat the end of 2017, and in a couple months we’ll see his latest blockbuster hit the big screen in the form of the adaptation ofReady Player One(find out more about that movie here)....

‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Spoiler Review: How Is This Movie Worse Than ‘Batman V Superman’? Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write:X-Men: Apocalypsemay be a worse movie thanBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a film that I haven’t been shy about disliking in a public setting. And yet, the latest film in the increasingly convoluted X-Men series forced me to consider a big question – do I prefer the awful movie that shoots for big ideas and belly flops on the pavement or the awful movie that tries nothing, risks nothing, and is content to just exist without even trying to try something special?...

Akiva Schaffer Used Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers To Do Some MCU Research There are movie reboots, and then there are movie “reboots.” The latter, in this case, refers to film reboots that actively mock their own existence and the idea of reducing art to “IPs” and “content” while also successfully reviving an older franchise in the process. It’s a fine needle to thread, and the results can just as easily be shockingly good (2012’s “21 Jump Street”) as they can be, well, not that (2017’s “Baywatch”)....

And I Looked, And Behold A Pale Horse: And His Name That Sat Upon Him Was This ‘Sexy Beasts’ Clip The end times are nigh. At least I kind of hope they are, because Netflix just released a clip fromtheir upcomingSexy Beastsdating show. The series, based on a British dating show from 2014, puts its contestants in complex prosthetic makeup in an effort, I think, to make the blind dates about more than just appearances....

Cool Stuff: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Become Ukiyo-Inspired Artwork By Artist Attack Peter This year, thecreative production company, retail shop and art gallery known as iam8bit is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and as part of the celebration, they’re releasing some limited edition artwork from some of their favorite artists. This week, it’sPeter Santa-Maria, akaAttack Peter, who has delivered a set of four ukiyo-inspired prints of each of theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....

Could ‘Thor’ Star Jaime Alexander Play Wonder Woman In ‘Batman Vs. Superman’? After making a mark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe as badass warrior Sif,Jaimie Alexandercould head to Warner Bros. / DC to play the ultimate female superhero. At this weekend’s Comikaze Expo, theThor: The Dark Worldactress revealed that she has met with Warner Bros., possibly about playing Wonder Woman, and probably forBatman vs. Superman. Hit the jump to learn exactly what she had to say about it....