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Marvel’s Russo Brothers Developing TV Adaptation of ‘The Warriors’
Joe and Anthony Russo, co-directors of the last two Captain America movies, will direct a TV adaptation of the 1979 cult classic gang film, The Warriors, Deadline reports. The brothers will team with writer Frank Baldwin on the one-hour drama series and direct the pilot, though there’s no word yet on their directorial…

Why Did Steven Spielberg’s ‘The BFG’ Flop?
It turns out that the anything-goes murderfest The Purge: Election Year was not the grisliest bloodbath at the movies this past weekend. In accordance with the time-honored “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” principle, Steven Spielberg’s The BFG took a giant-sized dive at the box office over the holiday break. Despite…

Michael Cimino, ‘The Deer Hunter’ Director, Dead at 77
Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning director and cinematic visionary behind films like The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, died Saturday. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux first announced news of Cimino’s death, tweeting that Cimino died surrounded by family members. A representative for the director could neither “confirm nor deny” whether Cimino had died. No…

See Zachary Quinto Remember Anton Yelchin on ‘Late Show’
Zachary Quinto visited the Late Show With Stephen Colbert Friday, where the actor remembered his Star Trek cast mate Anton Yelchin, who died in a freak automobile accident at the age of 27. “Beautiful, beautiful guy. I don’t even know how to talk about it,” Quinto told Colbert. “We already knew this was going…

Guns, Weed, Danger: Watch New ‘War Dogs’ Trailer
The incredible true story of two 20-year-old stoners who became international arms dealers will head to the big screen this August with War Dogs. The film, based on a 2011 Rolling Stone article, stars Miles Teller and Jonah Hill as the weed-loving, weapons-selling dudes, and in the newest trailer for…

Roseanne Barr on POTUS Bid, America’s Greatness (or Lack Thereof)
As with anything Roseanne Barr talks about, the comedienne does not hold back when it comes to the way the United States handles presidential elections. “It’s almost impossible to get anything that helps this country or anybody in it on the ballot,” she says. “Real people are going to have…

10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in July
July: a time for backyard cookouts, fireworks displays, and tipsy, tearful declarations of how you — sniff — just love America so much. And streaming addicts will have plenty to salute in the month to come, whether that’s Netflix trotting out a new Goonies-style mystery series and reviving a certified…

Watch the Inspiring ‘Miss Sharon Jones!’ Trailer
The trailer for Miss Sharon Jones!, the documentary that traces soul singer Sharon Jones’ career and ongoing cancer battle over the course of a harrowing year, has been released. The Barbara Kopple-directed film will open in New York and Los Angeles this summer with plans to expand nationwide. The inspiring clip…

How the Movies Are Preparing Us for 2016 Election
As the talking-head pundits tell it, Hollywood is a modern-day Sodom of left-wing Commie liberalism intent on poisoning our nation’s youth and providing national menaces like Lena Dunham with steady work. But a slightly more sober appraisal would reveal that most of the lessons imparted by this year’s crop of movies…

David Byrne’s ‘Contemporary Color’ Documentary Heading to Theaters
Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced the purchase of the North American rights to Contemporay Color, the documentary about David Byrne’s latest performance project. The film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Byrne’s interest in color guard – an organized sport that involves groups of high school students executing coordinated movements while holding flags, rifles,…

Flashback: ‘Office Space’ Gleefully Mocks Michael Bolton
When Office Space hit theaters in February of 1999, it took in a paltry $4.2 million in its first weekend, landing in eighth place behind such widely-forgotten turkeys as My Favorite Martian, Blast From The Past, Message in a Bottle and Payback. Writer/director Mike Judge had proven himself in television…

What to See at the Movies in July
Summer blockbuster season hits its peak in July, with Paul Feig’s rebooted Ghostbusters, a fifth installment of the mega-successful Ice Age franchise, and the much-hyped Star Trek Beyond all on deck. But there’s plenty to take in this month, from a scrappy superspy franchise with something to prove to a…

Watch Samuel L. Jackson Answer ‘Deep’ Life Questions on ‘Colbert’
Samuel L. Jackson appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night to promote The Legend of Tarzan, where he plays a former soldier turned humanitarian.  In a segment called “Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars,” Colbert and Jackson lay side-by-side on a picnic blanket under the stars, volleying deep questions…

Watch Tom Hanks Pull Off a Miracle on the Hudson in ‘Sully’ Trailer
On the morning of January 15th, 2009, pilot Chesley Sullenberger pulled off the impossible by safely easing US Airways Flight 1549 into New York’s Hudson River after multiple bird strikes took out his plane’s engines and forced an emergency crash-landing. That incredible true story gave Clint Eastwood a subject for his…

See Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick’s ‘Trolls’ in First Trailer
DreamWorks has released the first trailer for their forthcoming animated movie Trolls. The film features the voices of Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, Jeffrey Tambor, Russell Brand, James Corden, Kunal Nayyar, Ron Funches, Icona Pop, Zooey Deschanel and others. In the film’s first trailer, Branch (voiced by Timberlake) introduces himself….

The Purge: Election Year
Let us now praise creepy masks and class warfare! Over the course of two movies, producer Jason Blum’s future-shlock horror franchise about a government-sponsored holiday of lawlessness has gone from yuppie siege thriller with an intriguing premise to pulpy-as-fuck social critique; the leap from 2013’s original installment to 2014’s highly…

Our Kind of Traitor
If you’ve been watching Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie bring the literary espionage of John le Carré to vibrantly suspenseful life on AMC’s The Night Manager, then you should already be panting for Our Kind of Traitor. Sadly, it’s not quite as tasty. But director Susanna White, working from a…

The Legend of Tarzan
Whatever you think of the new screen version of Tarzan, and reaction will likely be polarizing,  you have to admit that Alexander Skarsgard brings his A-game — mind, heart and body beautiful. He vine-swings across the jungle, mostly minus a loincloth but with a lot more on his mind than…

Life, Animated
Get away from that TV! Stop watching movies to escape! Go outside and live! Kids everywhere are used to hearing their parents hammer advice like that. This is not the case in Life, Animated — a funny, touching and vital documentary from Roger Ross Williams (God Loves Uganda) in which…

40 Greatest Animated Movies Ever
It’s crazy to think that, in the century-plus since Winsor McCay and the French Fantasmagorie first made moving drawings on a screen a form of popular entertainment, animation has given us everything from steamboat-steering mice and sly stop-motion foxes to, well, you name it: a septet of singing dwarves, psychic Japanese…

See J.K. Rowling’s American Hogwarts in ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Trailer
Ahead of the fall release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, author J.K. Rowling has started to preview the magical extension of the Harry Potter universe. Through Pottermore, the author has revealed an animated clip and 5,000 word story about the American Hogwarts, Ilvermorny. The story explores the origins…

The BFG
Even Steven Spielberg feels pressure sometimes. On The BFG, the famed director must serve two masters: Roald Dahl’s beloved 1982 novel about a little girl who gets kidnapped by a BFG (big friendly giant), her savior in a land of unfriendly cannibal giants; and a liberties-taking script by Melissa Mathison,…

Siegfried & Roy to Tell Life Story in Upcoming Biopic
Siegfried & Roy, the German magicians who conquered Las Vegas before an infamous onstage tiger attack in 2003 ended their popular run, will be the subject of a new biopic from director Philipp Stolzl (The Physician). The entertainers, Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Uwe Horn, have signed a deal to executive…

Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The coming-of-age tale, the on-the-run road movie, the buddy comedy, the boy’s adventure story — all genres that require a steady hand and a singular sensibility, and all of which you’ll find in Taika Waititi’s goofy, giddy mash-up about two fugitives fleeing authorities in the New Zealand bush. The fact…

See Lil Wayne, Imagine Dragons Go Crazy in ‘Sucker for Pain’ Video
The upcoming blockbuster Suicide Squad has dropped the video for the soundtrack cut “Sucker for Pain,” featuring a Suicide Squad-like assortment of MCs – Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign and Logic – alongside rockers Imagine Dragons and X Ambassadors. The video sees all six artists involved performing their joint cut on…

Former Lynyrd Skynyrd Drummer Readies Biopic ‘Free Bird’
Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle will co-write and produce a biopic about his life with the Southern rock band. The film, tentatively titled Free Bird, also focuses on one of the music’s most tragic moments: The 1977 plane crash that claimed the lives of six people, including his friend and…

How the ‘Warcraft’ Movie Failed
The makers of the Warcraft movie did everything right. They tapped a video game universe with an immense collection of lore and backstories as source material. Director Duncan Jones had indie cred, a commercial and critical hit in Source Code, and a verifiable history of love for the games he was…

Independence Day: Resurgence
It’s been a long wait for the sequel. Back in 1996, Independence Day got us all worked up about alien attacks and the destruction of famous monuments. White House — boom! Empire State Building — boom! boom! In the two decades since, 9/11 happened and Hollywood hit the pause button…

When Animals Attack: Ranking Bloodthirsty Movie Predators
Across her diverse filmography, Blake Lively has hung tough against the menaces of gun-toting criminals (The Town, Hick, Savages), mean rich teens (Gossip Girl), aging (The Age of Adaline), moving away from your friends (the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants films), and being in Green Lantern (Green Lantern). Yet her latest project — the watery survival flick…

Why Nicolas Winding Refn Had to Make ‘Neon Demon’
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when that eye belongs to Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, it’s a trait to both admire and fear. His breakthrough film, Bronson (2008), featured Tom Hardy’s celebrity super-prisoner cavorting violently through visually stunning sets; in Drive (2011), Ryan Gosling curb-stomps an enforcer’s…

The Shallows
Who doesn’t want to see a hot blonde in a bikini get attacked by a great white shark? That kind of  crass Hollywood thinking is all you need to spawn a summer throwaway like The Shallows; it’s one of those movie titles that serves as its own review. But while…

Free State of Jones
If you think a thick, juicy slab of Civil War history can’t be boiled down to 145 minutes of speechifying, stultifying cinema, then grab a seat at Free State of Jones. Like the worst civics lesson, this movie bores away at you till your reactions are dulled. Matthew McConaughey, sucked dry…

Wiener-Dog
Todd Solondz doesn’t make movies to uplift us with cozy love for our fellow man. From Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) through Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001), Palindromes (2004) and Life During Wartime (2009), Solondz finds the ties that bind in fear, anxiety, depression, perversion, pedophilia, statutory rape, suicide and murder….

Hear Fall Out Boy, Missy Elliott’s Guitar-Laden ‘Ghostbusters’ Theme
Fall Out Boy served up a chugging, guitar-slathered rendition of the iconic Ghostbusters theme on Thursday. Missy Elliott raps on the track, stealing it with opening lines: “Can’t sleep and I’m home alone/ Nighttime, my lights on.” Ray Parker Jr.’s original “Ghostbusters” came out in 1984 and went on to become a No. 1 hit on the…

See Frank Zappa Talk ‘Amazingly Beautiful’ Groupie Phenomenon in Doc Clip
Appearing on an Australian chat show in 1973, Frank Zappa likened the groupie “phenomenon” to human sacrifice. Footage of the interview appears in a new documentary about the iconoclastic artist called Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, which opens in theaters tomorrow. The clip shows Monday Conference host Robert…

Ben Affleck: Deflategate Is the ‘Ultimate Bulls–t’
Bill Simmons’ Any Given Wednesday debuted on Wednesday with a tirade about Deflategate from New England Patriots’ superfan Ben Affleck. “Deflategate is the ultimate bullshit fucking outrage of sports ever,” Affleck told Simmons. “It’s so fucking stupid that I can’t believe it.” “They gave [Brady] a suspension for a quarter of the regular…

Les Cowboys
My favorite western of all time is John Ford’s 1956 classic The Searchers in which John Wayne hit a career peak as a racist cowboy who spends years looking for his niece (Natalie Wood) after she is kidnaped by Comanche war party. So I got my nose out of joint…

Swiss Army Man
This is such a baller of a movie that you keep wishing it would be better than it is. But Swiss Army Man goes its own nutter way. A creation of Daniels — it’s how writer-directors Daniel Kwan, 28, and Daniel Scheinert, 29, refer to themselves — Swiss Army Man…

The Neon Demon
Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn makes movies from images he paints in his head. Sometimes the result is mesmerizing, as in Pusher, Bronson and especially Drive. Sometimes the movie just lies there like a bad idea ready to be put out of its misery. Only God Forgives is that kind…

Watch Tom Cruise Go Ballistic in ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’ Trailer
It’s been four years since Tom Cruise first suited up as Lee Child’s elite Military Police Corps Officer Jack Reacher, but in the new trailer for the second in the spy-vs-spy franchise — titled Jack Reacher: Never Go Back — he’s re-started his revenge rampage without skipping a beat. “Two things…

Watch Violent Slave Rebellion in ‘Birth of a Nation’ Trailer
The Birth of a Nation, an historical drama about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, was the breakout release at Sundance back in January. The film’s galvanic spirit of radical black pride heated up Park City and landed director Nate Parker the biggest distribution deal in the festival’s history, with Fox Searchlight ponying up…

David Lynch Festival Includes Robert Plant, Sky Ferreira, St. Vincent
Director David Lynch enlisted rockers, techno producers, DJs, film composers, dance choreographers, and others to participate in the first Festival of Disruption. The full-blown Lynchian event takes place October 8th and 9th at the Ace Hotel and Theater in Los Angeles.  Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters, Angelo Badalamenti (performing the music of Twin Peaks), Xiu…

11 Best Movies of 2016 So Far
What if Hollywood refused to release any more movies after June 30th, leaving audiences and Oscar voters to pick from what washed in with the tide from the first six months of 2016? Yikes. Last year at this time, we’d already had Mad Max: Fury Road, Inside Out, Love & Mercy…

Watch Stirring First Trailer for ‘American Honey’ Starring Shia LaBeouf
A wayward tribe of young runaways sell magazine subscriptions, explore America and party in the first trailer for Andrea Arnold’s film American Honey. Sasha Lane makes her film debut in the feature, which also stars Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough. Lane stars as a lone runaway who finds herself being pulled…

Hear the Odd Advice Donald Trump Gave 11-Year-Old Daniel Radcliffe