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Is Benicio Del Toro Playing An Intergalactic Villain In ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’? Since it was announced thatBenicio Del Torowas cast inStar Wars: Episode VIII, there has been a lot of speculation as to what kind of role the Academy Award-winning actor would play inRian Johnson’s upcoming Skywalker saga installment. When the trades firstreported the casting, they revealed that Del Toro would be playing a villain, but as time went by, the actor denied that he would be playing the bad guy in the new film....

J.J. Abrams Teases ‘‘Crazy’’ 90-Minute ‘Westworld’ Season Finale With An Ominous Clip The season finale ofWestworldis just a couple days away, and soon we’ll get to see how many of theever-growing list of theoriesabout the show actually turn out to be true. The most recent episode ofWestworldalready confirmed one major theory that has been kicking around since the season premiere, and the finale will likely confirm or debunk the popular but controversial theory thatJimmi Simpson’s character William is actually a younger version ofEd Harris' character The Man in Black....

James Gray Will Direct ‘The Gray Man’ Mark Greaney’s assassin thrillerThe Gray Manwill be directed for the screen byJames Gray, based on a script byAdam Cozad, aka one of theJack Ryanreboot screenwriters. (Yep, he’s moving on from that whole LOst City of Z stall that happened last year.) The book is about a former CIA man turned assassin who has to fight through special forces teams from across Europe as he tries to save the life and family of his handler....

Jay Baruchel To Direct ‘Goon’ Sequel, Titled ‘Last Of The Enforcers’ As we proceed through the Stanley Cup playoffs, here’s a bit of big news from the world of hockey movies. A sequel to 2011’sGoonis finally moving forward. TitledGoon: Last of the Enforcers, the new film will once again starSeann William Scottas Doug “the Thug” Glatt.Jay Baruchel, who produced, co-wrote, and co-starred in the originalGoon, will direct. More details on the Goon sequel after the jump....

Josh Gad And Paul Walter Hauser Campaign To Play The Penguin In ‘The Batman’ Todd Phillips ismaking aJokermovie. Henry Cavill may or may not befinished playing Superman. The DC Universe is in an odd place right now, so even though there are a few movies coming out soon that could help provide a steadier foundation, one of the biggest of them is Matt Reeves’The Batman. It’s impossible to overstate how important that character is to Warner Bros....

Learning How To Cheat: Ranking The Films Of Rian Johnson From Good To Best Rian Johnsonburst through the wave of independent filmmakers of the mid-2000s with a debut film that was defiant in its design, and has translated its success into such heights that he’s directed one of the most talked-about franchise entries of the new century. In between making his five features, includingKnives Out, opening this week, Johnson has directed some seminal episodes of the brilliant TV dramaBreaking Bad(including a final-season episode that many critics and fans accurately dubbed the series' best hour), helmed some music videos, and more....

Mark Wahlberg Movie ‘Joe Bell’ Recut And Coming To Theaters In February 2021 After shootingSpenser Confidentialfor Netflix, Oscar nomineeMark Wahlbergtook a brief detour away from the action genre to makeGood Joe Bell,a film inspired by the true story of a man who walked across the country to crusade against bullying. The movie played on the film festival circuit and received middling reviews (including from us at /Film), but Solstice Studios has since re-edited it, given it the new title of simplyJoe Bell, and will be releasing it in theaters in February 2021, in time to compete in this very strange awards season....

Marvel Spoilers: Possible ‘Ant-Man’ Villain, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Cameo Guardians of the Galaxywon’t be out for another six weeks, andAnt-Manisn’t coming for over a year. But films these big inevitably leak spoilers before they make it to theaters. Today, we have two juicy ones for you. One concerns the villain ofAnt-Man, and the other a specialGuardians of the Galaxycameo. Hit the jump at your own risk; possible spoilers lie ahead....

Michael Rosenbaum Couldn’t Have Cared Less About Landing Smallville’s Lex Luthor Role They say a hero is only as good as their villain, and few comic book Big Bads have been portrayed with the same level of complexity as Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex Luthor in"Smallville.“The Superman prequel series ran for 10 seasons, beginning in 2006 on The WB and wrapping up on The CW in 2011. StarringTom Wellingas Clark Kent, the show traced his journey through high school and beyond, sticking to its"no tights, no flights"mandate right up until the end....

Mike Myers To Voice Pepé Le Pew In New Movie He’s French, he’s in love and he stinks. Of course, we’re talking aboutPepé Le Pew,the famously accentedLooney Tunesskunk who strolls around Paris looking for beautiful women. Well, it seems that everyone’s favorite lovelorn skunk is going to be coming to the big screen and that he’ll be voiced not by the late Mel Blanc, but instead by none other than the current man of a thousand voices,Mike Myers....

MoviePass Reveals Which Movies They’ve Boosted Ticket Sales For The Most With that large of a consumer base, MoviePass hasn’t been shy about touting their influence on the movie-going public. In fact, they’ve just provided some general numbers for which movies they’ve sold the most tickets for since their revamp last year. It should come as no surprise thatBlack Panthercomes out on top with over 1 million tickets sold through MoviePass, but it appears the service has helped plenty of other movies sell tens of thousands of tickets....

Netflix Adds Hundreds Of Indie Films To Watch Instantly Thanks to a slew of new streaming deals with several independent film distributors, Netflix is adding about 300 indie titles to their Watch Instantly library. According to theirpress release, distributors include “The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent Releasing.” For Criterion, the new films will be in addition to the35 they brought to Watch Instantlyin December....

Netflix Exploring Its Options In Response To Consumer Backlash, Hasn’t Ruled Out Price Cuts Over the past few months, the seemingly untouchable Netflix has been dragged down by a couple of big fat blunders. First, thepricing model changelost the company aprojectedone million customers and sent stock prices dropping; then, in an effort to (somehow?) smooth over the situation, Netflix hastilyintroducedQwikster and instead managed to only furtherirritateconsumers and shareholders alike. It’s clear that Netflix needs to do something to turn their fortunes around at this point, or risk becoming the next AOL or MySpace....