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Roland Emmerich Claims Independence Day Sequel Will Be Two Movies Roland EmmerichtellsMTVthat not only are they developing anIndependence Daysequel, but he hopes to film it as two-back-to-back movies. Emmerich says that the reason for two movies is that he wants “to do a bigger [story] arc” which will “continue the story” and begin “twelve, thirteen, fourteen years” after the first one ended. Emmerich is even floating around a title for the new films: “ID4-Ever” followed by “Part I” and “Part II” Sounds crazy right?...

Rupert Wyatt Will Direct Original Sci-Fi Project ‘Captive State’ After directing a reboot (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), a remake (The Gambler), and the pilot for another remake (The Exoricist), directorRupert Wyattis now developing an original project. AfterThe Gambler, Wyatt wanted to start directing his own material again, as he did with his feature debut,The Escapist(co-written by Daniel Hardy). The filmmaker is sticking to his plan because he may next direct an original science-fiction film titledCaptive State....

Scarlett Johansson To Lead ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Scarlett Johanssonis following upHerandLucywith another high-tech role. She’s set to star inGhost in the Shell,Rupert Sanders' adaptation of the classic manga byMasamune Shirow. Get the details on theGhost in the ShellScarlett Johansson casting after the jump. Johansson was offered $10 million to lead Ghost in the Shellback in October, afterMargot Robbiebailed to doSuicide Squad. However,Varietyreports that she has only now decided to come on board....

Sega’s ‘Rent-A-Hero’ Video Game Getting Movie Adaptation By ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ Director Steve Pink It was probably only a matter of time before someone succeeded in bringingWarcraftorAssassin’s Creedto the big screen, and it shouldn’t come as any surprise that adaptations of titles likeSonic the Hedgehog,Minecraft, andTomb Raiderare in the works as well. They’re all big names with built-in fanbases that will (fingers crossed) turn up opening weekend to see how things turned out....

Superhero Bits: Black Panther Action In South Korea, LEGO Batman Movie Adds Another Voice & More IsCommonstill interested in playingGreen Lantern? Is there a newBatmanvideo game in the works? Want to see what Stan Lee’s cameo inThe Defenderswill be? Which comedian and TV personality did some voicework forThe LEGO Batman Movie? What isBlack Pantherdoing shooting in South Korea? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. A trippy trailer for the release ofDoctor Strangeon home video turns back time before letting it move forward....

Sure, Daniel Radcliffe Could Return As Harry Potter In The Distant Future, Are You Happy Now? We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even ifDaniel Radcliffekilled a man in cold blood, he would still be most famous for playingHarry Potterin the eight-film franchise that adaptedJ.K Rowling’s best-selling book series. I can’t even imagine how many times Radcliffe has been asked if he would ever return to the wizarding world on the big screen, and since he’s making the rounds to promoteSwiss Army Man(which is totally worth seeing), that means that same question has popped up again....

The 10 Greatest John Carpenter Characters Ranked Over the course of a filmmaking career that’s spanned five decades, director John Carpenter has created some of the most memorable monsters in the history of cinema, including Michael Myers in “Halloween” in 1978 and the Thing in 1982. But Carpenter also has a knack for well-crafted characters, which makes sense when you consider that, much like Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre company of players, Carpenter tends to draw from the same stable of actors for much of his casting....

The Alan Moore And Neil Gaiman $80 Million Marvelman Movie That Never Was Digging deep behind the scenes of the recent purchase by Marvel of the characterMarvelman(akaMiracleman) from Mick Anglo and Emotiv Records, Rich Johnston atBleeding Coolhas discovered an aborted $80 millionMarvelmanmovie, based upon theAlan Moorerun of the comics and – if it all went to plan – co-scripted byNeil Gaimanand an unnamed “A-list screenplay writer”. Sadly, we’ll never get to see this film now but there’s every chance that Marvel will cash in on their new acquisition with a film of their own....

The Fast Saga Producer Thinks The Franchise Should Go Smaller Okay, let’s clear up a few things right off the bat here. First of all, there’s a reason why I’m merely writingaboutmovies instead of actuallywritingmovies. You know it, I know it, andVegetable Lasagna here knows it. Secondly, rest assured that I will never use my platform to call for anyone’s job merely over a difference of opinion — especially when that opinion has to do with utterly meaningless things like the direction that future “Fast & Furious” movies ought to take....

The Worst Thing Jessica Chastain Had To Do For It: Chapter Two Adapting the other half ofStephen King’s classic horror novel, “It: Chapter Two” follows the now-grown Losers Club when one of their own calls them back to Derry, Maine to destroy the shapeshifting, man-eating entity that tormented them as children: Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Set 27 years after the original 2017 film, Pennywise, or “It” as the creature is commonly called, awakens from his long slumber with a burning vengeance after the Losers previously defeated It in battle....

This Week In Trailers: How To Build A Time Machine, Crystal, A Coffee In Berlin, Code Black, The Amazing Catfish Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Unwelcome: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you may watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Those interested in terrifying folk takes need not look further than the plethora of national Irish superstitions, whether they be the banshee’s death knell, nettlesome fae, or the now-defunct (and supposedly demonically infested) Magdalene Laundries. Belfast-born director Jon Wright is certainly no stranger to these legends, choosing to explore the twisted nature of “Redcaps” — a sort of malicious, blood-thirsty goblin—in his forthcoming horror feature “Unwelcome....

Viggo Mortensen Offers Advice For Young Aragorn In Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Series The first time we meetViggo Mortensen’s Aragorn inLord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings, coolly smoking a pipe with his rugged face hidden by black hood, he’s having one of the best cinematic introductions ever. And through the rest of his run in Peter Jackson’sLord of the Ringstrilogy, he only gets better, as Mortensen infuses the kingly character with such swagger and world-weary gravitas that it’s hard to imagine anyone else stepping into his muddy boots....