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HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Is Set In An Alternate Universe, But It Opened With A Real-Life Attack Many Of Us Never Learned About When I tuned in to last night’s premiere episode ofWatchmen,Damon Lindelof’s sequel/remix of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic graphic novel from the 1980s, I thought I’d be in for equal parts superhero action, mystery, and world-building. But I was not expecting that world-building to begin by whisking audiences back to a real-life American tragedy in which hundreds of black people were killed, businesses were destroyed, and bombs were dropped from the sky....

Interview: Director Christopher McQuarrie On Making A Big Action Movie With Less Christopher McQuarrieand actorTom Cruisehave collaborated many times now. The Oscar-winning writer wroteValkyrieand worked on the scripts forEdge of TomorrowandMission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and in 2012, he directed Cruise inJack Reacher. After McQuarrie launched a potential franchise withReacher, he landed the opportunity inMission: Impossible – Rogue Nationto take part in a series that keeps getting better. After the jump, read our Christopher McQuarrie interview....

Is NBC’s Community Worthy Of The Best Comedy Block On TV? Last night saw the debut onNBCofCommunity, the new half-hour sitcom notable for starringThe Soupquickstepper,Joel McHale, and parting the prime time waters forChevy “Nugent, Ted Nugent” Chase. Based on the premiere,Communitylooks to introduce a sweet-hearted strain of politically incorrect irreverence to the Big 3 as a reaction to cable’s shenanigans. This is not really a surprise since the show was created and produced byDan Harmon, whose credits includeThe Sarah Silverman Showand the axed Jack Black treasure,Heat Vision and Jack....

J.J. Abrams And Alfonso Cuaron Team Up For Untitled NBC Pilot Yes,J.J. Abramsis set to produce another possible show for NBC. This one however, which already has a network commitment to at least produce a pilot, is a bit different.Alfonso Cuaron, the director ofChildren of MenandHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, will co-write and direct the pilot, which sounds like a girl-power blend ofHeroesandThe Terminator. The show, which is still untitled, is about a girl with special powers that won’t fully blossom for seven years and the man who is broken out of prison to protect her until then....

James Cameron Meets Atomic Bomb Survivor To Research Film Update:Sad news. Tsutomi Yamaguchi has died. A tragic reminder of how important Cameron’s promise to honour the victims of this tragic moment in history actually is. Here’sthe Guardian’s report. After years and years of slaving away overAvatar– though most definitely, I think we’re agreed, not in vain – what isJames Camerondoing now? It would seem he’s already plunged straight back into hard work....

John Wayne Almost Walked Away From One Of His Most Beloved Roles Early Hollywood Westerns, a staple of the classical film era, largely stereotyped Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages. The growing popularity of post-World War II social problem films had the film industry reflecting on its portrayals of minorities, including Native Americans. The man synonymous with theWesternintroduced a film in 1956 that sent ripples throughout all of Hollywood and reinvented the genre....

Jurassic Park Continued The Legacy Of An Old-School Special Effects Legend Steven Spielberg movies grab us by the collar, pop us into a world of wonder, and make us forget we’re grown-ups with responsibilities. In his world, we’re all curious children. After laying eyes onSpielberg’sprehistoric creatures in “Jurassic Park,” we all become that precocious kid peppering Dr. Grant (Sam Neill) with endless dinosaur questions. The first dinosaur in the revolutionary film is a Brachiosaurus, but everyone knows the coolest one is the Tyrannosaurus rex....

Justin Long Joins The Cast Of Dear David, The Viral Ghost Story Movie Produced By Buzzfeed Dreams are weird, right? One night you’re full of serotonin because you’re blissfully experiencing the best thing your brain could conjure up. But the next night, you’re anxious with a heartbeat so rapid that you jolt awake and find yourself in a pool of your own sweat and tears. And while most nights are probably some kind of compromise between the two, occasionally your dreams will birth a series of viral tweets that evolve into a movie....

Kate Hudson Replacing Rebel Wilson In ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Normally voice casting for animated movies is done far in advance, mostly because sometimes the performance from each actor voicing the characters informs how the animators will bring the character to life. And because voice recording is done in advance, it’s a rarity to hear of someone being replaced with just under five months before the film’s release. But that’s exactly what’s happening withKung Fu Panda 3....

Lars Von Trier And Martin Scorsese To Remake Taxi Driver, De Niro Again To Star…?!?! This is easily my favourite film news story of the year so far. According to reports coming out of the Berlin Film Festival,Lars von TrierandMartin Scorseseare to team up for a remake ofTaxi Driverand thatRobert De Nirowill star, presumably still in the role of Travis Bickle. This sounds like Werner Herzog’sBad Lieutenantsquared, or even to the power of von Trier’s ownThe Five Obstructions....

Mondo Reveals New Godzilla Posters And Jet Jaguar Vinyl Figure [Exclusive] Mondo has come to the rescue again! In collaboration with the legendary Japanese film company TOHO, the pop culture collectibles company will release new posters for one of Kazuki Ōmori’s kaiju films, “Godzilla vs. Biollante.” However, the good news for hardcore “Godzilla” fans does not end there, as per the details of this exclusive /Film reveal. Mondo will also be releasing posters for Motoyoshi Oda’s “Godzilla Raids Again,” soft vinyl figures of the heroic mecha, Jet Jaguar, and a vinyl soundtrack for “Rebirth of Mothra....

Nailed It! Season 6 Trailer: The World’s Best Baking Show About The World’s Worst Bakers “Nailed It!”, one of the best original shows on Netflix, is back with an all-new-season in September. Once again, host and national treasure Nicole Byer is on hand to guide us through a series of baking competitions where the bakers have absolutely no idea what the hell they’re doing. A new “Nailed It!” season 6 trailer is here to tease all the sweet, sugary mayhem to come....

Oscar Isaac Can’t Quite Save William Monahan’s ‘Mojave’ [Tribeca Review] At the end ofMojave, a devilish drifter played byOscar Isaacposes a question to a jaded Hollywood star played byGarrett Hedlund: “Do you know yet which one of us is the bad guy?” That, I guess, is the question being posed by writer-directorWilliam Monahan(The Departed) in this odd thriller. But the question I walked away from was an entirely different one: “What’s the difference between poetry and pretentious pablum?...