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Black Eyed Peas To Star In X-Men Origins: Wolverine And Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li InKill Bill: Vol. 2, Budd has to clean up a particularly fouled strip club restroom, and right now I have to write aBlack Eyed Peascasting post. Night capping the last few days ofX-Men Origins: Wolverinenews, BEP memberwill.i.am(the one who looks like Wyclef) will star asJohn Wraithaka Wraith aka Kestrel, a mutant with teleportation powers and a thing for explosives who, in comic canon, belonged to Team X alongside Wolverine, Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), Maverick, Mastodon and Silverfox (Lynn Collins)....

Chuck Palahniuk Talks About The ‘Fight Club’ Sequel Technically, the first and second rules of Fight Club are that you don’t talk about Fight Club. They don’t say anything about theFight Clubsequel, soChuck Palahniukisn’t breaking any vows by discussing his new project. Officiallyannouncedby Palahniuk earlier this year,Fight Club 2is a ten-issue comic book series that picks up with the unnamed protagonist of Fight Club about ten years later. Take a peek at some artwork and get the latest details from Palahniuk after the jump....

Cool Stuff: ‘Back To Back To The Future’ Reinstates Eric Stoltz As Marty McFly It’s a fairly well known bit of trivia amongBack to the Futurefans: When production was just getting under way, directorRobert Zemeckisspent four weeks filming withEric Stoltzin the lead before he decided the part had been miscast. He dropped Stoltz and brought onMichael J. Fox.That, of course, turned out to be exactly the right decision. These days, it’s bizarre toimagineanyone but Fox playing Marty McFly....

Dan Aykroyd Doubts ‘Ghostbusters’ Sequel Will Happen As Sony Corrects His Budget Numbers Well,Dan Aykroydhas certainly stirred up theGhostbusterspot again. Over the weekend, the actor blamed directorPaul Feigfor trouble behind the scenesthat resulted in spending a supposed $30-$40 million on reshoots. Aykroyd even went so far as to say that Feig’s blunders during production meant the director “will not be back on the Sony lot any time soon.” Harsh, right?...

Details And Covers For Toy Story 1 & 2 On Blu-Ray And The Art Of Toy Story 3 Book… Plus A Tiny Dumbo Tidbit We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The first sign of the first twoToy Storyfilms drawing near on Blu-ray was a listing on Danish retailerLaserdisken’s site, offering up a March release date. Word about this bubbled about, then pretty soon after I saw that theBBFChad certified the new special features for theToy Story 2disc (for some reason, the first film is still outstanding)....

Disney Won’t Debut New ‘Star Wars’ Movies Through Their Streaming Service First Even though Disney is planning a lot of original content for debut on their forthcomingDisney+subscription streaming service launching late in 2019, one of their biggest franchises won’t be debuting any new movies there. In a recent interview, Disney CEOBob Igersaid that even though they’re spending big bucks on new projects likeThe Mandalorian, the first live-actionStar Warsseries ever, the feature-length adventures from a galaxy far, far away are simply too big to premiere only in their streaming library....

Dolly Parton To Star In Film Adaptation Of Her Novel Run, Rose, Run, Produced By Reese Witherspoon Hooray for Dollywood! Not thetheme parkin Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, but the actress and country music superstar it’s named after, Dolly Parton, who is her own Hollywood-like institution in and of herself. Reese Witherspoon is set to produce a film adaptation of Parton’s new novel, “Run, Rose, Run,” which hit bookstores this month and has already toppedThe New York Times bestseller list....

Emma Caulfield Loves All Your ‘WandaVision’ Theories About Dottie [Interview] There was a near-universal flash of recognition from fans watching the second episode of Marvel’s first Disney+ series,WandaVision: “Hey, that’s Anya fromBuffy the Vampire Slayer.“Emma Caulfieldplayed the vengeance demon turned high school student in the beloved ’90s supernatural drama series, but inWandaVision, she plays your regular old neighbor from hell, Dottie Jones. Or so it would seem. Having such a recognizable face from another beloved genre show set off the alarms in Marvel fans' heads, who immediately jumped to speculate that Dottie may be more than she appeared....

Everything You Need To Remember To Watch Stranger Things Season 4 After a long hiatus, fans of the hit Netflix show “Stranger Things” can finally get ready to return to the Upside Down. Over the course of three seasons, we have seen the disappearance of middle-schooler Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) lead to the discovery of this mysterious alternate dimension that seems hellbent on infiltrating the real world and destroying it. Filled with monsters looking to break free into our world, the task of keeping the Upside Down at bay falls on a ragtag group of unlikely individuals in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana....

Exclusive: Adam Warlock Was Originally A Major Character In ‘Guardians Vol. 2’; Will Be In ‘Guardians 3’ When I was on the set ofGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, directorJames Gunnmentioned that his original treatment for the sequel featured another major character. Today, during my interview with Gunn, the filmmaker finally revealed that his sequel originally had a major role forAdam Warlock, strongly indicating that Warlock will appear inGuardians of the Galaxy 3....

Exclusive: Dan Trachtenberg’s ‘Crime Of The Century’ Eyed As A Big Action Franchise Starter In 2011, Universalacquired a pitchfor a sci-fi movie calledCrime of the CenturyfromFast & Furiousscreenwriter/producerChris Morgan. He’s producing that film, which is based on an original idea fromDan Trachtenberg(Black Mirror) and writerDaniel Kunka(12 Rounds). Trachtenberg has been on board to direct from the very beginning, long before he made his feature directorial debut last year with10 Cloverfield Lane....

Fantasia Film Festival Dispatches: ‘The Oak Room’, ‘12 Hour Shift’, ‘Climate Of The Hunter’, ‘Class Action Park’, ‘Dinner In America’ Usually, the genre-heavy Fantasia International Film Festival is held annually in Montreal, but with things the way they are this year (terrible), the festival has gone virtual. This year,Chris EvangelistaandMatt Donatoare covering Fantasia for /Film, firing off dispatches featuring capsule reviews of the titles we’ve watched from the safety of our own homes, all while dreaming of poutine....

Fantastic Beasts' Grindelwald Has One Specific Trait In Common With Many Other Mads Mikkelsen Villains Mads Mikkelsen keeps getting typecast, but not in the way you may think. While the Danish actor has certainly amassed a resume full of big-budget villains, including roles in the James Bond franchise, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now, finally, the world of Harry Potter, the similarities in the roles he’s taken on in the last few years don’t end there....