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Could ‘Doctor Strange’ And ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Have An Interdimensional Connection? About a week ago, directorJames Gunnpointed our attentionto a piece of newGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2concept art which showed the ragtag team of space criminals turned heroes for hire. Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon and the infant-sized Groot could be seen jumping through the air facing off against a terrifying, tentacled creature. Now a new detail about the creature in question hints at the possibility of some kind of interdimensional connection with this fall’s release ofDoctor Strange....

Daisy Ridley Confirms Rey’s Original Name In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ In a small but interesting bit of information,Daisy Ridley, star ofStar Wars: The Force AwakensandStar Wars: The Last Jedi, recently confirmed theoriginalname of her character Rey. We’ve actually heard this early name before, but up until now it was thought to just be a placeholder or codename until the real name was finalized. Ridley’s recent statements seem to change that....

David Fincher To Direct Graphic Novel Adaptation Black Hole Update: Neil Gaiman said on hispersonal blogyesterday that he is still co-writing the Black Hole script with Roger Avary. Seems rather stoked on Fincher’s involvement as well. Thanks to /Film reader ‘Nancy.’ “David Finchertackling STDs, not like herpes,worse,” is the imagined, beaded brow pitch to the studio. It worked. The director of the Oscar-shunned modern masterpieceZodiac,as well asFight Club,is attached to direct a film based on the comics-turned-acclaimed graphic novel,Black Hole, byCharles Burns....

Disneyland California Adventure’s ‘Cars Land’ Opens June 15 The twoCarsfilms may be Pixar’s worst-reviewed films to date, but the scorn of critics certainly doesn’t stop kids from loving the hell out of Lightning McQueen, Mater, and company. There areCars-themed lunchboxes, t-shirts, games, even beds — and starting in June, there’ll be aCars Landas well. Disney has just announced the opening date for the 12-acre attraction, an expansion of Disney California Adventure in Anaheim....

Elvis: Release Date, 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.) If there’s one thing you can count on from Australian multi-hyphenate Baz Luhrmann, it’s that whatever he’s going to do, he’s going to do it “big.” Whether that means making a nearly three-hour long romantic epic (“Australia”), reinventing the grammar of the Hollywood movie musical (“Moulin Rouge!...

Eternals Spoiler Review: A Cosmic Superhero Family Dispute Where It’s Complicated, Real Complicated This review containsmajor spoilersfor “Eternals.” Marvel’s “Eternals” opens with the biblical words, “In the beginning…” and what follows is a 157-minute film that reframes human history and life on Earth as the birth pangs of a godlike Celestial named Tiamut. Our overpopulated planet is a cocoon for Tiamut, and when he’s born, Earth will be destroyed, but the death and rebirth cycle of Celestials will ensure that new worlds live elsewhere in the cosmos....

Frank Darabont Talks Fahrenheit 451 Frank Darabonthas wanted to filmRay Bradbury’s novelFahrenheit 451for quite a long time. He’s talked about it a lot more recently as the project he wants to do next. Now he tellsSciFiWirethat it’s basically at the make or break point, and it all comes down to one thing: casting. “Fahrenheitis the thing I’m trying to get up next, which is casting-dependent, so it’s one of those,” Darabont said....

How Hawkeye Has Been Dropping Clues About The Villain All Along The penultimate episode of the Disney+ series “Hawkeye” dropped, bringing massive reveals to set up next week’s big finale. The episode’s final moments divulge the identity of one of the series' secret villains, a titanic force that has been manipulating things behind the scenes without anyone realizing. Tiny clues and Easter eggs are a major part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, however, so there have been plenty of hints along the way to make the reveal a satisfying mild surprise for the eagle-eyed fan....

Iron Man 2: Emily Blunt Officially Out? American Gladiator/Pro Wrestler Matt Morgan As A Villain? While Iron Man directorJon Favreauwas walking the red carpet at the Oscars, the director apparently revealed to E! thatEmily Bluntis officially out as Black Widow inIron Man 2. According thethe Playlist, Favreau said that 20th Century Fox has decided to exercise their option on the actress, an option that was part of Blunt’s Devil Wears Prada contract, and that she will be starring inGulliver’s Travelsinstead....

Jeremy Renner And Noomi Rapace To Star In ‘Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters’? In April of last year,Dead SnowdirectorTommy Wirkoladropped a weird bomb:his follow-up filmwould beHansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which catches up with Hansel and Gretel fifteen years after a witch tried to turn them into dinner. We haven’t heard much about the film since screenwriterDante Harperwashired to write. (He wrote David Fincher’s unproducedBlack Holecomic adaptation, andAll You Need is Kill....

Jolie/Worthington Project The Tourist To Be Helmed By Director Of Oscar-Winning Film The Lives Of Others This is a pretty great development, at least for the cast and crew ofThe Tourist. The film has gone through a lot of personnel tweaks, as we’ve reported over the last few weeks. The cast finally settled down, withAngelina JolieandSam Worthingtonset as the two leads. With those in place, it seems like the director’s chair formerly held by Bharat Nalluri will be filled by a great talent:Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for his filmThe Lives of Others....

Josh Holloway Joins Fourth ‘Mission: Impossible’ We’re not trying to overwhelm you with bits and bites about the production of the fourthMission: Impossiblefilm; it just happens today that there have been a couple new pieces of info that were spaced just far enough apart. In addition to the report of the film shooting soon in Dubai, we know now thatJosh Hollowaywill be part of the cast, as a member of the Impossible Mission Force, which also countsTom CruiseandJeremy Renneras members....

Jurassic World Dominion Reveals The Atrociraptor, A Very Real And ‘Brutal’ New Dino The Atrociraptor might sound like another made-up hybrid dinosaur invented for the “Jurassic World” films in the same vein as the Indominus rex and Indoraptor, but it’s a very real dino with its ownWikipage and everything. It’s also, apparently, not very impressed with Owen Grady’s (Chris Pratt) raptor whispering skills, judging by the new image of an Atrociraptor chasing Owen on his motorbike in “Jurassic World Dominion....