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‘The Transporter Legacy’ Now Shooting With Ed Skrein Starring There’s a newTransporterseries in production. The picture being made now is calledTransporter Legacyand starsEd Skreinas the character originated by Jason Statham in 2002.Game of Thronesfans will recognize Skrein as the original actor who played the mercenary Daario Naharis in the series' third season. In fact, this newTransporterseries is the reason Skrein dropped out ofGame of Thrones. The new film is planned as the first chapter in a new trilogy....

‘Utopia Falls’ Trailer: Hip-Hop Is The Revolution For Teens In A Future Dance Dystopia What if an entire dystopian colony in the far future was like the town fromFootloose? That’s basically the premise ofUtopia Falls, an upcoming Hulu sci-fi series set in a distant future where dance becomes the revolution. Adance dance revolution, you might say. But unlikeFootloose, not all dance is outlawed here, just hip-hop, which becomes the inspiration for a group of rebellious teens who live in a society built around a…dance competition?...

‘Watchmen’ Season 2: Damon Lindelof Still Wants Someone Else To Take Over Watchmen, last year’s HBO series overseen byLostandThe LeftoversshowrunnerDamon Lindelof, was a miraculous piece of storytelling that pushed the envelope in terms of what a sequel to a beloved property could be. It also happened to be remarkably prescient in terms of topics like race and police brutality, which are obviously very much at the center of the national conversation several months after the series wrapped up....

‘Watchmen’ Writer Alex Tse To Pen Video Game Adaptation ‘Gran Turismo’ Gran Turismo, one of the most celebrated racing franchises in video game history, is coming to the big screen. This we’ve known this for a while asSocial Network/50 Shades of GreyproducersMike De LucaandDana Brunettisigned onto the Sony franchiseover the summer. The move makes sense, based both on the success of theFast and Furiousfilms and another popular video game franchise,Need for Speed, also heading into theaters....

‘Westworld’ Featurette Introduces The Drone Hosts And Looks To The Weeks Ahead Westworldis back, bringing a whole new set of mysteries for fans to obsess over. With those mysteries comes a new group of characters: the creepy, featureless Drone Hosts that are clearly up to no good. AWestworldfeaturette below looks at the creation of the Drone Hosts, and another video looks to the week’s ahead. Did you catch theWestworldseason 2 premiereover the weekend?...

2017 Was A Bad Year For Cinema’s “Tortured Artists” DirectorGreta Gerwigconducted the set ofLady Birdwith the utmost respect for her crew. Cribbing an idea from her20th Century Womendirector Mike Mills,she asked everyone to wear name tagsduring filming so people could get to know each other. She even took it one step further – a PA came up with a conversation-starting question of the day, which everyone then had to answer on their name tag....

Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ Is A Netflix Movie That Deserves To Be Seen In Cinemas [NYFF] Alfonso Cuarón’sGravityjust isn’t the same on television. One might say this works to its detriment — “story is king,” I was reminded in film school as a professor lamented its bells & whistles — but if an artistic experience is designed for a specific environment, should it not be given the benefit of doubt? The enveloping sound of Cuarón’s 2013 space-thriller is dread-inducing, a precursor to the pulsating rebirth of hope within the heart of infinite darkness; in an age when even ostensibly “good” blockbusters feel produced by committee,Gravitywas one of the last times a film simplyhad tobe experienced in a cinema, in that it could not be experienced the same way outside it....

Animation Bits: Metal Band Mastodon Making Music For ‘Monsters University,’ Pete Docter’s New Film May Be Titled ‘The Inside Out,’ Plus ‘Frozen’ And Director’s Roundtable I didn’t ever expect to see any link between metal and a Pixar movie, but we’re living in a wonderful world. And so the metal bandMastodon, which has already scoredJonah Hex(twice!) andcontributed musicto theAqua Teen Hunger Forcemovie, will have a song inMonsters University. Weird, right? The info comesstraight from the band, and I can confirm that it isn’t a joke....

Benedict Cumberbatch On ‘Star Wars:’ “We’ll Have To Wait And See” A rumor broke last week suggestingBenedict Cumberbatchwas likely to be castas a major part ofJ.J. Abrams’Star Wars Episode VII. Lucasfilm and Disney didn’t comment, butthe actor’s reps denied the claim. Then the actor himself was at the Toronto International Film Festivalpromoting multiple movies, and was posed with the question. His response: This is the simple truth. J.J. and I have worked together before....

Better Call Saul’s Final Season Has A Premiere Date The continued misadventures of ace attorney Jimmy McGill are finally coming to an end. “Better Call Saul,” the “Breaking Bad” spin-off series starring Bob Odenkirk, will premiere its sixth and final season on July 18, 2025 on AMC. The series will be broken up into two parts with a six-week break between them, with the second half of the season picking up on August 23, 2025, and the series finale will premiere in August....

Bob Iger Responds To Marvel Critics, Essentially Says ‘Black Panther’ Is One Of The Best Films Ever Made It’s been almost four months since a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie debuted in theaters, and it’ll be just over six months until the next one (Black Widow) enters. But it isn’t enough for Marvel to dominate box offices and become the center of attention while their movies are in theaters – they’re dominating the cultural conversation on their off time, too....

Chris Columbus Wants To Release His Three-Hour #PeevesCut Of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone Have director’s cuts gone too far? Do we really need multiple version of every movie? Does anyone actually want to see the pound sign Peeves cut of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone?” I mean, clearly yes becauseTheWrapwrote an entire article about it and#ReleaseThePeevesCutis a thing on Twitter, but someone has to ask the tough questions....

Chris Pratt’s ‘Cowboy Ninja Viking’ Movie Is Still Happening, Gets Two New Writers Chris Prattmay be the star of two of the biggest franchises today, but his pet projectCowboy Ninja Vikingjust can’t seem to get off the ground. But the comic book adaptation has been steadily galloping (Sneaking? Sailing?) toward the big screen, withMichelle MacLarenannounced as the director earlier this year. Now, two new writers have joined the team to tackle the script of this long-gestating movie....