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This Week In Trailers: Actors Of Sound, Tilt, Survivors Guide To Prison, Marrowbone, The Trade Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?This week we try to get to know Foley artists a little better, get really real when it comes to going to the big house, have a mental breakdown, get spooked inside a haunted house, and have our attention locked in to what opioids and heroin are doing to us....

Twelve New ‘Django Unchained’ Images Reveal New Characters And Scenes Today may be Halloween but I’m already looking ahead to Christmas. The family gatherings, the joy of giving, the religious celebration… it’s all important. But this year, there’s also Tarantino.Quentin Tarantino’s latest film,Django Unchained, opens on December 25 and brings with itthe kind of excitement generatedby a filmmaker whose previous releases have been almost universally stellar.Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterdsand now the story of a slave (Jamie Foxx) trained by a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to kill some evil brothers (includingLeonardo DiCaprio) to save the slave’s wife (Kerry Washington)....

UPDATE: Angela Lansbury Isn’t Joining ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 UPDATE:Entertainment Weeklyhas heard back from Angela Lansbury’s representatives, and the actress will not be appearing in season seven of Game of Thrones. Our original report of the rumor follows below.Game of Thronesfans were none too pleased to learn that the next (and penultimate) season would return later than usualandrun shorter than normal. On the bright side, though, it sure sounds like season seven will be worth the wait....

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Review: A Goofy Romantic Comedy Disguised As A Superhero Sequel Any enjoyment derived from the first “Venom” felt like an accident. Marketing for the flick played up a dark, shadowy, potentially violent antihero story. But the fun of the film came from how unusually silly it was for a modern-day comic book adaptation, with Tom Hardy going gonzo as he used weird voices and climbed into lobster tanks....

Westworld Viral Campaign Opens “The Door,” Unlocks Hidden Footage And A New Poster The first season of HBO’s sci-fi mystery seriesWestworldproved to be a breeding ground for fans who loved analyzing the show’s smallest details and theorizing about what’s to come. Now that the second season is exactly one month away, theWestworldviral campaign is shifting into high gear, and those fans hungry to step back into the maze have uncovered some hidden footage and a brand new poster inside one of the park’s websites....

Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ Is A Real Crowd Pleaser [Sundance 2014 Review] Zach Braff’sWish I Was Hereis now infamous because of the controversy surrounding Braff’s Kickstarter campaign. But let’s not allow that to cloud the real picture –Braff’s fans coughed up $3.1 million for his second feature film because they loved his first movie.Garden Stateconnected with teens and college-aged twenty somethings in a manner that rarely happens, almost in the way that a song or a poem connects, rather than a movie....

‘Aquaman’ Box Office Tracking Rising Like The Tides As The Film Sets New Warner Bros. Record In China Looks like theAquamanbox office is going to be even better than expected. Early tracking was already strong, but the superhero film appears to be riding a wave of positive buzz all the way to the top. The early estimate hadAquamanlooking at a possible $65 million opening weekend – but that number is much higher now....

‘Divorce’ Trailer: “Let’s Get This Party Started” HBO has a strong fall lineup.The showmost people seem to be talking about right now isWestworld, but the cable network has plenty of other shows to keep an eye on coming up, includingAwkward,High Maintenance(a formerfantasticweb series), andDivorce.Divorcecomes from actor, writer, and producerSharon Horgan(Catastrophe), and it starsThomas Haden Church(Killer Joe) andSarah Jessica Parker(Sex and the City). Below, watch theDivorcetrailer. InDivorce, Sarah Jessica Parker plays Frances, who’s going through one long, bumpy divorce from her husband Robert (Church)....

‘Furious 8’: Jason Statham Confirmed To Return Dom Toretto’s “family” will surely be back forFurious 8, but it looks like one of his foes will as well.Furious 7villainJason Stathamhas confirmed he’ll be back for the next installment of the high-octane franchise, along withVin DieselandDwayne Johnson. Get theFurious 8Jason Statham casting announcement after the jump. Statham announced his return forFurious 8in an interview onAccess Hollywood: We’re already talking about doing another one, Part 8....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Dragons Were Inspired By…Chickens? Each season, we get to see new behind-the-scenes videos detailing the impressive work of the visual effects teams for HBO’sGame of Thronesand how they’re able to generate some of the most iconic images in fantasy from scratch. Take, for instance, Daenerys Targaryen’s three dragons: Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal. A company called Pixomondo has been in charge of bringing Dany’s “children” to life since season 2, and now they’ve revealed the unlikely inspiration for the fearsome winged creatures from our real-life animal kingdom....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Teaser Trailers: A Glitchy Look At The Familiar Timed with Wednesday night’s broadcast oftheMr. Robotseason finale, Paramount treated us to our first look at the upcoming live-actionGhost in the Shellmovie. After the jump, you can watch all five of the new Ghost In The Shell teaser trailers. Ghost In The Shell Teaser Trailers These teasers only give us a glimpse at the upcoming movie. We see almost complete recreations of scenes from the original (shades of Zack Snyder’sWatchmenin this respect) featuring a scantily cladScarlett Johansson, stylish sets,Takeshi Kitanosporting a crazy hairdo firing a gun, a look at a new logo and more....

‘Goliath’ Trailer: Billy Bob Thornton’s Seeks Redemption In New Amazon Series Amazon Studios has released a new trailer forGoliath, their upcoming series featuringBilly Bob Thornton,Maria Bello, andWilliam Hurt. The new television series tells the story of a “disgraced lawyer, now an ambulance chaser gets a case that could bring him redemption or at least revenge on the firm which expelled him.” Watch the Goliath trailer now embedded after the jump....

‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ Trailer: Josh Duhamel’s Aging Superhero Passes The Torch In Mark Millar’s Netflix Series In the summer of 2018, comic book writerMark Millar, who is behind titles likeKingsmanandKick-Ass,struck a deal with Netflixto create his own “Millarworld” — a brand of movies and TV shows for the streaming service based on his work. And finally, we’re about to see the first one.Jupiter’s Legacyis based on Millar’s 2013 comic series inspired by the Golden Age of Comics, about the intergenerational conflict between the old heroes and the new....