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‘Venom’ Clip Pits Tom Hardy Against An Unlucky SWAT Team A brand-newVenomclip is here, and it’s loaded with action and alsoTom Hardy’s goofy voice. In the clip, Eddie Brock finds himself confronted by a SWAT Team who want him to surrender. He’s not in the mood for that, and instead unleashes Venom in all his CGI glory. A severe ass-kicking follows. Watch theVenomclip below! Venom Clip ThisVenomclip works fairly well. For one thing, the action on display here, while CGI-enhanced, is clear and exciting....

‘Watchmen’ Continues To Be One Of The Most Revolutionary Shows On Television It’s been several days since the latestWatchmenepisode, “A God Walks Into Abar,” and I still can’t believe that this series was able to top itself after the last big reveal of Will Reeves being Hooded Justice. But top itself it has, and in the most unexpected way possible.How many of us are still trying to pick our jaws off the floor from the revelation about Dr....

A ‘Star Wars’ Without Skywalkers: Where Should The Galaxy Go After ‘Episode 9’? The final shot ofStar Wars: The Last Jedi, a Force-sensitive stable boy gazing up at the stars, echoes Luke Skywalker watching the dual sunset on Tatooine. Separated from the original film by 40 years and an ever-widening mythology — one that’s focused largely on a single lineage — the closing moments ofEpisode VIIIbrought the saga back to its roots, in a way....

Comic-Con: Infinity Gauntlet Revealed; Theories About How It Will Factor Into Thor, Captain America, And The Avengers I had assumed Marvel was done with their Comic-Con unveilings after bringing the full cast ofThe Avengerson stage following their panel forCaptain America: The First AvengerandThor, but they had one last reveal in store for unsuspecting fans on the show floor, wheeling out a golden glove embedded with jewels in front of its massiveHall of Asgardset recreation....

Did Daniel Craig And Some Leather Gloves Cost ‘Skyfall’ Millions Of Dollars? It’s hard for anyone except the producers and accountants of a blockbuster movie to know what the million-dollar budgets are spent on. Recently we learned roughly how much the crew of a hypothetical $200 million movie makes, but there are plenty more costs than the salaries of those working on the movie. In fact, the James Bond flickSkyfallis rumored to have had a surprising cost in post-production thanks to some leather gloves purchased byDaniel Craig....

Exclusive ‘Hell Or High Water’ Featurette: Meet The Tanner Brothers, Ben Foster & Chris Pine Ben FosterandChris Pineplay incredibly convincing brothers inDavid Mackenzie’s knockout drama,Hell or High Water, written bySicarioscribeTaylor Sheridan. Tanner (Foster) and Toby (Pine) have their differences, but they’re definitely from the same family. Their mutual trust, their shorthand, their inside jokes, and how they express themselves — they’re cut from the same cloth. The criminals are far from heroes, but their tight bond makes them surprisingly empathetic inHell or High Water, which hits home video tomorrow....

Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of 2017 2017 was a rough year. As British comedianDavid Mitchell recently put it, the year was “personally adequate and internationally disastrous.” But there was one saving grace for me this year: movies. And I had quite a catalogue to choose from. 2017 offered one of the richest and most diverse offerings of films we’ve seen in recent years, with blockbusters daring to dream beyond their big-budget formulas and major films going in wildly audacious directions....

How Stanley Kubrick Filmed Barry Lyndon By Candlelight Despite being known for his unrivaled penchant for perfectionism, things did not always gone as planned for auteur director Stanley Kubrick. No facet of his career is more emblematic of this truth than 1975’s “Barry Lyndon,” which itself only came to fruition due to the director’s failed attempt to make an epic biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte. However, Kubrick seemed to singularly relish in this loosened grip of control, opting to have the entirety of the film lit only by natural sources of light, which included utilizing candlelight in all of the interior shots....

How The ‘Legends Of Tomorrow’ Producers Established Their Rules For Time Travel This weekend, The CW presented a panel on their latest DC superhero show for the Television Critics Association.Legends of Tomorrowfeatures Atom (Brandon Routh), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), White Canary (Caity Lotz), Hawkgirl (Ciara Renee), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Firestorm (Victor GarberandFranz Drameh) traveling through time. In explaining how they established the show’s time travel rules, producersGreg BerlantiandPhil Klemmerreferred to other time travel classics, and revealed why we we’ll never see aGroundhog Daysituation on the show....

Hugh Jackman May Replace Christian Bale In Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ Following a huge weekend at the box-office withLogan,Hugh Jackmanis in talks for the lead role inMichael Mann’s Enzo Ferrari biopic. The actor would replaceChristian Bale, who exitedFerraria year ago overweight gainconcerns. If a deal is struck, then Jackman will get to work with actressNoomi Rapace(The Drop) on Mann’s film. Below, learn more about the Hugh Jackman Ferrari movie. Deadlinereports there have been some discussions about Jackman starring in the film for a few months now, but those talks have recently grown more serious....

Ian McKellen Reports From ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Table Read; See First Cast Photo From Josh Gad With every new bit of casting, Disney’sBeauty and the Beastsounds more delightful. And we aren’t the only ones who think so — the actors seem pretty satisfied with their new colleagues, too. As Bthe live-action fairy tale prepares to shoot in London, starsIan McKellenandJosh Gadhave offered a tiny glimpse into the process. Based on their reports, working with the likes ofEmma Watson,Dan Stevens,Luke Evans, andKevin Klineis exactly as cool as you think it’d be....

IFFBoston Review And Interview: Tze Chun’s Children Of Invention Last night I saw Tze Chun’s film,Children of Invention,atIFFBoston.Children of Inventionfollows the plight of an Asian American family in Boston, grappling with poverty. As the single mother of two children, Elaine Cheng (Cindy Cheung) is forced to resort to some desperate measures to provide for Raymond (Michael Chen) and Tina (Crystal Chiu). When Elaine, who’s ever-searching for a way to be financially independent, becomes embroiled in a pyramid scheme that spirals beyond her control, her children are left to fend for themselves....

Jay Roach To Direct Competing Lance Armstrong Scandal Movie For WB The story ofLance Armstrong’s precipitous fall from grace seems tailor made for the movies, and indeed it’s about to get two of them. Back in January, Paramount teamed up with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot to adaptCycle of Lies, a biography by Juliet Marcur. Now Warner Bros. is prepping its own version of the tale, with Emmy-winningGame ChangedirectorJay Roachdirecting andSide EffectswriterScott Z....