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‘Iron Man’ Honest Trailer: Beginning Of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Gets Skewered Marvel Studiosmay not have a panel at Comic-Con this week, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take time to look back at the film that has helped make the pop culture convention even bigger.Iron Manwas the first film to kick off the Marvel cinematic universe, the beginning of a lead-up to the assembly ofThe Avengerson the big screen for the first time ever....

‘Justice League Dark’ Possibly Circling A Surprising New Director Last week, DC Comics fans were given a bit of bad news as it was reported that director Doug Liman became yet another filmmaker towalk away from the adaptationof the long-gestatingJustice League Dark. Since Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment don’t want to waste any time getting this movie together as part of their growing DC Extended Universe, they’re already on the hunt for a filmmaker to replace him, and there are a few options on the table....

‘Mute’ Review Round-Up: A ‘Blade Runner’ Wannabe With Nothing To Say In 2009,MoonputDuncan Joneson the map as one of the most intriguing and promising new directors working today. His debut gave Jones the opportunity to direct the modestly received, star-studdedSourceCode and the poorly received, big-budgetWarcraft. But most importantly, it paved the way for a passion project 16 years in the making. And thanks to Netflix, Jones finally was able to bring that passion project to life....

‘Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels’ Trailer: Nazis, Murder, And Shape-Shifting Natalie Dormer Plague 1930s Los Angeles Victorian England is out and 1930s LA is in here in the trailer forPenny Dreadful: City of Angels. The new series isn’t so much a sequel to the previousPenny Dreadful, but rather something of a spiritual successor. The new show deals with grisly murders in 1938 Los Angeles, and how they tie into plots involving Nazisanda shape-shifting demon played byNatalie Dormer....

‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Concept Art Reveals Alternate Ending It’s a sign of the impact of the newPlanet of the Apesfilms that the two recent movies continue to be topics of conversation in a film landscape that is often all too quick to move on to the next big thing. We’re still talking aboutRise of the Planet of the Apesa couple years layer, in part because directorRupert Wyattis doing the press rounds for his new film,The Gambler, and people still have many questions about his previous film....

‘Sherlock’ Returning For 2015 Special Followed By Season 4 [UPDATED] UPDATE: Martin Freeman was right.Deadlineis reporting Sherlock will be back in 2015, starting with a special that’ll film early in January. Later, they’ll get to work on season four for a probable 2016 premiere. Head there for more details. Original article follows.Sherlockseason three came and went all too fast. Each of the show’s tightly-scripted seasons is so easy to devour in a day or two....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Ending: Lord & Miller Reveal A Time Jump By now, you’ve probably realized that we loveSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Versehere at /Film. We’ve published tons of articles about the film over the past few days and are encouraging everyone to seek it out, and we’re all excited to see what happens with the future of Sony’s nascent animated Spider-franchise. In a new interview, producersPhil LordandChris Millerwere asked about the last scene of this movie (before the credits), and they explain that it contains a “jump ahead in time....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Review: The Best Superhero Movie Of The Year And The Best Spider-Man Movie Ever Visually stunning, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly dazzling,Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseis a reminder of what superhero movies can be when handled with love and care. Bustling with energy, humor and action,Into the Spider-Verseis theSpider-Manfilm you’ve been waiting for. Superhero movies, by their very nature, are fantastical. They tell far-out stories focused on impossible characters engaged in extraordinary tasks....

‘The Defenders’ Recruits ‘Jessica Jones’ Director For First Two Episodes Everything we know for sure aboutThe Defenderscan be neatly folded into one relatively simple sentence. Here goes. Ahem:The Defendersis an eight-episode series executive produced byDaredevil’s Douglas Petrie, and Marco Ramirez will see the lead characters fromDaredevil,Jessica Jones,Luke Cage, andIron Fistteaming up to take on a larger threat anda lead villain played by Sigourney Weaver. Almost everything else, including the most-likely-true theory that this makeshift superhero team will be taking on the evil ninja organization known as The Hand (introduced inDaredevilseason 2), is pretty much speculation at this point....

‘The Defenders’ Teaser Unites Marvel’s Street-Level Heroes, Release Date Confirmed Now thatIron Fistis available to watch on Netflix, we have shows for allThe Defendersavailable to stream. However, all we’ve seen of the street-level heroes together are images of Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones)that were released earlier this year. That changed today. The official Netflix YouTube channel revealed a short video simply titled “Midland Circle Security Elevator B”, which doesn’t sound like anything interesting at all....

‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ Trailer: Shailene Woodley Is A Miracle Right nowThe Divergent Seriesis in a bit of a tight spot since the final installment of the young adult sci-fi franchise from Lionsgatejust lost its director.Robert Schwentkehas been at the helm ofInsurgentand next month’s forthcomingAllegiant, butAscendantjust proved to be too much for the director, opting to “spend more time with his family” (or at least that’s what the studio says)....

‘The Mandalorian’ May Take Place Before The Final Scene Of ‘Star Wars Rebels’ – Here’s What That Means Last weekend’s episode ofThe Mandaloriansaw the debut ofRosario Dawsonas Ahsoka Tano in the live-actionStar Warsuniverse after becoming a fan favorite character fromThe Clone Wars. Ahsoka also had a hand in the plot ofStar Wars Rebelsas a Rebel informant under the codename “Fulcrum,” which resulted in an eventual face-off with her old master: Darth Vader....

‘Us’ Box Office Results In The Best Opening For A Live-Action Original Film Since ‘Avatar’ It’s official: audiences loveUs.Jordan Peele’s strange, terrifying and hilarious horror movie is a smash-hit, resulting in the best opening weekend for a live-action original film since James Cameron’sAvatar. While box office is never an indication of a film’s quality, this is great news for Peele, for the horror genre, and for original movies as a whole....