‘Mortal Kombat’ Director Simon McQuoid On The Challenges Of Video Game Movies And The Freedom Of An R-Rating [Interview] It’s time once again forMortal Kombatas a new film arrives based on the wildly popular, wildly violent video game franchise. Like the games and the previous films, the new movie centers on fighters from our world must battle enemies from another dimension with the fate of Earth in the balance. The filmmaker tacklingMortal Kombatthis time isSimon McQuoid, making his feature debut....

‘My Spy’ Review: A Good Case For Dave Bautista As A Rom-Com Lead But Not Much Else It appears to be the unfortunate rite of passage for every sports star who makes the leap to Hollywood: they must star in at least one generic kiddy movie that usually features a precocious prepubescent co-star and maybe a dog. Vin Diesel had the abominableThe Pacificer, Dwayne Johnson put on wings for the rottenTooth Fairy, and most recently, John Cena paid his dues withPlaying With Fire....

‘Risk’ TV Series In The Works From ‘House Of Cards’ Creator Beau Willimon Battleshipbrought the Milton Bradley strategy board game to life on the big screen with an alien invasion twist, and now Hasbro and their Entertainment One studio are working on turning another one of their iconic games into a TV series. Hasbro has brought inHouse of CardscreatorBeau Willimonto develop a TV series adaptation of the classic strategy board gameRisk....

‘Romeo And Juliet’ Is Getting A TV Sequel From ShondaLand Earlier this week we learnedCruel Intentions, the greatest love story of our time, was gettinga completely unnecessary-sounding TV sequel. NowRomeo and Juliet, the greatest love story of someone else’s time, is following suit.ABC has put into developmentStill Star-Crossed, based on a 2013 novel that picks up after the events ofWilliam Shakespeare’s teen romance classic. Which sounds like a terrible idea, given that most of the characters you care about are dead after the events ofRomeo and Juliet(400-year-old spoiler alert), butStill Star-Crossedone has one big thing going for it: It’s coming out of ShondaLand, the same watercooler drama factory that gave usGrey’s Anatomy,Scandal, andHow to Get Away With Murder....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Blu-Ray Arrives In March Along With Skywalker Saga Box Set Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeris headed to Blu-ray next month, along with a huge Skywalker Saga box set that appears to be a Best Buy exclusive. This will coincide with eightStar Warsfilms being released on 4K UHD for the first time:Star Wars: The Phantom Menace,Star Wars: Attack of the Clones,Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,Star Wars: A New Hope,Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,Star Wars: Return of the Jedi,Star Wars: The Force AwakensandRogue One: A Star Wars Story....

‘The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Producing Movie About An 8-Year-Old Chess Champion It’s an unwritten rule in Hollywood: every few years, a major studio must – must! – make a movie about a chess prodigy. I’m not sure why: maybe the film industry has been in the pocket of Big Chess for decades. But Bleeker Street madePawn Sacrificein 2014, Disney madeQueen of Katwein 2016, and now Paramount Pictures is the next studio to abide by the rule, because they’re currently developing an untitled movie about an 8-year-old chess champion that’s going to be produced byThe Daily ShowhostTrevor Noah....

‘The Goldbergs’ Unordered Spin-Off Will Air As A Regular Episode This Season The Goldbergsis currently in the middle of its fifth season, but you might remember that over a year ago we heard about the world of the 1980s-set sitcom expanding with aspin-off that would take us to the 1990s. Unfortunately, that series didn’t get ordered to series, but the pilot was ordered and shot, and fans will get a chance to see it on this season ofThe Goldbergs....

‘The Goldfinch’ Trailer: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Best-Seller Gets A Sweeping Film Adaptation John Crowley’s 2015 filmBrooklynwas one of my favorites of that year, and now the director is finally back with his next movie:The Goldfinch, a star-studded adaptation of a novel that was even more acclaimed thanBrooklyn.Oakes Fegley(the kid from thePete’s Dragonremake),Ansel Elgort(Baby Driver),Nicole Kidman(Big Little Lies), and many more co-star in this movie based on authorDonna Tartt’s novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014....

‘The Innkeepers’ Director Ti West Says Sci-Fi Film ‘The Side Effects’ Is Financed And Partially Cast Indie horror directorTi Westtends to be divisive. I think that’s in part because he has a flair for self-promotion and also because his most well-known film,The House of the Devil, was a very slow burn of a horror/thriller that featured an ’80s aesthetic, which led to accusations of pretension and a certain preciousness. ButThe House of the Devilworked really well for me, so West has become one of the young directors I follow with greater than average interest....

‘The Kids In The Hall’ Revival Headed To Amazon Amazon is ready for some of that prime cut Canadian humor withThe Kids in the Hall. The streaming service just announced an officialKids in the Hallrevival, featuring the original cast together again for 8 new episodes. The originalKids in the Halldebuted in 1989 and drew a cult following, lasting for five seasons and coming to an end in 1995. After the show ended, the group returned for a film,Brain Candy....

‘The New Mutants’ Developing At Fox, Josh Boone To Write And Direct Fox is getting deeper into its rights package for Marvel’s mutant characters, and has put in motion a plan to create aNew Mutantsmovie as a spin-off from the X-Men movie series. Josh Boone, the writer/director behind Fox’sThe Fault in Our Stars, and the guy who is doingThe Standfor Warner Bros. andThe Vampire Chroniclesfor Universal, will write and direct....

‘The Purge 3’ Set For Summer 2016 The Purgecame in 2013, and returned in 2014. The event won’t actually be an annual occasion — not in the real world, at least — as 2015 will be purge-free. But Universal has just set the third installment of the new horror/thriller franchise for a 2016 debut. So we have aPurge 3release date, and those who’ve enjoyed the first two stories of a night in which all crime in America is legal, the better to cleanse society of “weak” or “undesirable” elements, have a date to circle on their calendar....

25 Independent Movies We’re Excited To See In Fall 2015 We’ve already presented our list ofbig studio movieswe’re excited about for fall and winter of 2015, but there’s a lot more than that set of 30 movies coming to theaters. This fall sees the release of some of our favorite Sundance films, such asFinders Keepers, and a few great retrospective roadshows including the films ofWim Wendersand theQuay Brothers. There are also big potential standouts likeTodd Haynes’Caroland the new version ofMacbethstarringMichael FassbenderandMarion Cotillard....