Sony Pictures Pushes Back ‘Bad Boys 3’ And ‘The Dark Tower’ Release Dates, Bumps Up ‘Barbie’ Sony Pictures has done some shuffling to their release calendar for2017, but thankfully, it’s nothing too drastic for those who have been waiting years for the action sequelBad Boys 3and the long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’sThe Dark Tower. They’ve both been pushed back, but will still arrive in 2017. And for those waiting to seeBarbiecome to the big screen in her own movie, you’ll see it arriving a bit earlier....

Sony’s Spider-Man Spin-Off About Black Cat And Silver Sable Gets A Director There’s more than enough Spider-Man content to go around in Hollywood – at least that’s the mentality of Sony Pictures, who owns the cinematic rights to many of the characters within Spidey’s universe. The studio has already given a green light toaVenommovie starring Tom Hardy, and now they’ve proven they’re serious about bringing another Spider-Man spin-off to the big screen as quickly as possible....

Stanley Kubrick’s Lost Screenplay ‘Burning Secret’ Found More Than 60 Years After It Was Written In 1956,Stanley Kubrick, widely hailed as one of the greatest directors of all time, co-wrote a screenplay for a film calledBurning Secret, an adaptation of a novella by Stefan Zweig. That script was thought to be lost forever. But now, more than 60 years later, it’s suddenly been located by a Kubrick expert and university professor in the United Kingdom, who says it’s detailed enough to be adapted by modern filmmakers today....

Superhero Bits: DC Universe Online, Dark Knight Rises, X-Men First Class 2, Man Of Steel WouldJohn Carpenterever direct a superhero movie? Which company will be making toys forThe Dark Knight RisesandMan of Steel? Who trainedHenry CavillforMan of Steel? Want to see a new set video fromThe Dark Knight Rises? Which superhero did a high school principal show up to graduation as? How can you makeWolverineclaws for $5? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

The Daily Stream: Parker Posey Finally Experiences The Big Oh In The Oh In Ohio (Welcome toThe Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie:“The Oh in Ohio” Where You Can Stream It:Peacock, The Roku Channel The Pitch:Priscilla Chase (Parker Posey) is the hottest, most magnificent woman in Cleveland, Ohio, and married to miserable public high school teacher, Jack (Paul Rudd)....

The Lie That Led To George Takei’s Favorite Star Trek Scene “The Naked Time” was either the fourth or the seventh episode of “Star Trek,” depending on whether you adhere to broadcast order or production order. For the record, true Trekkies go by production order, while total losers go by broadcast order. In the episode, Kirk, Spock, and Lt. Disposable beam down to the planet of Psi 2000, only to find the planet’s small research team mysteriously frozen to death....

The Remake Of ‘The Mummy’ Takes Its Title Literally, Considers Casting A Female Lead Universal’s remake ofThe Mummyis set for a 2017 release date and is intended to help kick off an entire new cinematic universe starring the studio’s classic monsters. And while production has to begin soon-ish to hit that release date, the studio and directorAlex Kurtzmanstill have a major decision left on their plate – the gender of the Mummy itself....

Tyler Perry To Play Alex Cross In ‘I, Alex Cross’ Briefly: A package is now going around Hollywood to rebootJames Patterson’s Alex Cross franchise withTyler Perryas the lead andRob Cohendirecting,I, Alex Cross. The character was previously played by Morgan Freeman inKiss the GirlsandAlong Came a Spider. Read more after the jump.Deadline brokethe story in a brief article Monday night. They said that QED International, which helped put togetherThe Perfect Getaway, W....

VOTD: David Cronenberg Advertises POD, The Realization Of His Technological Dreams Some ofDavid Cronenberg’s films are scarily prescient. The pictures he made in the late ’70s and early ’80s feature concepts that seemed outlandish at the time, but have been incorporated into current technology. In exploring how humanity might live and evolve with technology, Cronenberg turned into a legitimately accurate futurist, and his pointed fictions influenced those who created legitimate tech....

Watch The Robot-Free First Clip From ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ If anyone whowatched the latest trailerforTransformers: Dark of the Moonthought it had too much action in it, today is your lucky day. Yahoo has the first full scene from the film and it’s totally devoid of action. Or robots. Or walls with color on them. In the scene called “My Secret Weapon” we see Sam’s (Shia LaBeouf) totally out of his league girlfriend Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whitely) introducing him to her boss Dylan Gould (Patrick Dempsey)....

Zoë Kravitz Gets A Cat And Sends Up Princess And The Frog In A Hit Or Miss Saturday Night Live Since Robert Pattinson wastoo busy wincing at the sunand putting on black eye make-up so he can become vengeance, “The Batman” co-star Zoë Kravitz headed to Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza this weekend to make her hosting debut on “Saturday Night Live.” For the most part, Zoë Kravitz is known as a pretty serious actress, with key roles in “Mad Max: Fury Road” and the “Divergent” franchise, and the titular role in Steven Soderbergh’s most recent film “Kimi,“now on HBO Max....

‘American Gods’ Season 3 Trailer: You Can’t Outrun Destiny American Godsseason 3 is all about destiny — which it turns out you can’t outrun, nor put on ice. Even when you attempt to lay low in a wintry Wisconsin town, as Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is doing in the third season of the fantasy thriller series based on Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed novel of the same name. Watch theAmerican Godsseason 3 trailer below....

‘Black Mass’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Is Gangster Turned Informant Whitey Bulger Hollywood doesn’t give us a lot of great gangster movies anymore, so when there’s one on the horizon that looks promising, we all get excited. Is this the nextScarface, White Heat, GoodfellasorGodfather? We don’t know yet, butBlack Masscertainly has a shot at success. Directed byScott Cooper(Crazy Heart) the film starsJohnny Deppas Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, who became an FBI informant to help take down the Italian mob....