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‘Gemini Man’ Adds Mary Elizabeth Winstead, ‘John Wick 2’ Stunt Coordinator Gemini Manhas found its female lead.Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who recently delivered fantastic back-to-back performances with 2016’s10 Cloverfield Laneand last year’s season ofFargo, has joinedAng Lee’s science-fiction thriller. And on the production side,Gemini Manhas landedJohn Wick: Chapter 2stunt coordinatorJ.J. Perry. Even though the film will be heavily reliant on de-aging technology for starWill Smithto play the dual roles of an aging assassin and his younger clone, it seems like Lee will be combining cutting-edge tech with visceral action choreography....

‘Invasion’ Season 1: Release Date, Trailer, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Aliens are attacking! But have no fear, the attack is fully fictional (so far). The extraterrestrials are making their way to Apple TV+ in the upcoming series,Invasion. Here’s everything you need to prepare for the takeover....

‘Pet Sematary’ Was Frightening Before I Became A Mother – Now I Understand Its Horror All-Too-Well This post featuresspoilersforPet Sematary. You know you shouldn’t, you think that you wouldn’t, but what if you could? When I readPet Sematarylast summer, it was a last minute grab off of the shelf during an otherwise average trip to the bookstore. Unbeknownst to me, I had just grabbed a book so disturbing that it would sink its claws deep into my psyche....

‘Revenge’ Star Emily VanCamp Wins Female Lead In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Not all mainstream superhero flicks to change love interests between installments. Even the womanizing Tony Stark been loyal to Pepper through three films now, four if you count the upcomingIron Man 3. But given the big time jump at the end ofCaptain America: The First Avenger,Captain America: The Winter Soldiersimply couldn’t stick with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), no matter how delightful she was....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Director Jon Watts Not Confirmed For The Sequel, Tom Holland Says Differently Spider-Man: Homecominghasenough buzz and critical praise— as well as estimates of a$100 million opening weekendat the box office — to all but greenlight and usher in the next fewSpider-Manmovies with starTom Holland. But while fans are clamoring for more, directorJon Wattsstill won’t confirm if he’ll return to helm the sequel. It’s lucky then that we have Holland and his notoriously loose lips to give us hope that Watts will be back to direct theSpider-Man: Homecomingsequel....

‘The Edge Of Seventeen’ Red Band Trailer: Why Is Hailee Steinfeld So Awkward? After making its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, the new coming-of-age comedyThe Edge of Seventeenis heading to theaters this fall, and it looks like we could have another future classic on our hands. The film starsHailee Steinfeldcoming into her formative years, full of hormones and awkward as hell, and just trying to survive high school....

‘The Thieves’ Trailer: ‘Ocean’s Eleven’-Style Heist Flick Beats Out ‘The Host’ As Most-Watched Korean Movie Of All Time In 2006, Joon-ho Bong’sThe Hostset the record for the highest-grossing Korean film of all time, but apparently sea monsters are no match for attractive criminals. This summer sawThe Host’s figure defeated byDong-hun Choi’sThe Thieves, a heist flick that looks from here like a KoreanOcean’s Elevenwith touches ofMission: Impossible. StarringYun-seok Kim,Hye-soo Kim,Gianna Jun,Jung-jae Lee,Simon Yam,Hae-sook Kim, andDal-soo Oh, the plot centers around a group of top burglars plotting to steal the $20 million, 318-carat Tear of the Sun diamond from a highly fortified Macau casino....

‘Toy Story 4’ Star Tony Hale On Playing Forky And Why His ‘Veep’ Character Really Needed A Woody In His Life [Interview] I first encounteredTony Haleoutside of the room where I’d be interviewing him, where he paused to ask about my shirt, which features an array of watermelon slices, and comment that it was making him hungry. It was a charming moment – theArrested DevelopmentandVeepactor is as curious, inquisitive and kind as you’d hope he’d be, even away from a professional, recorded conversation....

‘Underworld: Awakening’ Trailer Yep, it’s another one. Three years after the last installment,Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, the vampire/werewolf film seriesnotpenned by Stephenie Meyer is back for a fourth round with the generically titledUnderworld: Awakening. After sitting out most of the last entry,Kate Beckinsalehas poured herself back into her skintight leather bodysuit to reprise her role as sexy vampire warrior Selene. Upon emerging from a lengthy imprisonment in a coma-like state, Selene learns that 1) she has a teenage vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Eve (played byIndia Eisley) — the only one of her kind; and 2) vampires and Lycans are now being hunted by humans....

A Walmart Streaming Service Could Exist Soon, Because Life Is Weird Everybody who is anybody wants their own streaming service these days. Including…Walmart? The multinational retail corporation is apparently considering getting into the streaming game, with plans to launch their own streaming service to rival Netflix and Amazon. This is strange, but I guess it’s also not to be completely unexpected in this day and age. Which surprising entity will launch a streaming service yet, I wonder?...

Adam Driver Stars In Jim Jarmusch’s Upcoming Film ‘Paterson’ Adam Driverhas a big year ahead of him. In a few weeks we’ll see his villainous turn as Kylo Ren inStar Wars: The Force Awakens– a movie more than a few dozen people will probably see. Next year, he’s in Jeff Nichols’Midnight Special, Martin Scorsese’sSilence, and the upcoming season of HBO’sGirls, and we’ll also see him star inJim Jarmusch’s next film,Paterson....

Augustine Frizzell To Direct Adaptation Of Fantasy Novel The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue Multi-hyphenate filmmaker Augustine Frizzell has lined up her next project. According toVariety, she’ll direct “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,” which is based on the best-selling fantasy novel from author V.E. Schwab that was published last year. Frizzell has previously made movies like 2018’s raunchy, female-centric “Never Goin' Back” and 2021’s weepy romantic drama “The Last Letter From Your Lover,” and she also directed the pilot of HBO’s “Euphoria” a couple of years ago....

Can IMDB Predict The Academy Awards? I’ve always found the average user ratings on the Internet Movie Database to be the most reliable measure of entertainment, at least when it comes to my personal cinematic tastes. Is it always right? No, but I tend to agree with the average rankings on IMDb more than Rotten Tomatoes (which is sometimes too pretentious), Netflix (five stars isn’t enough) and Flixter. But can IMDB predict the Oscars?...