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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Will Be Shot Entirely With IMAX Cameras When your conflict has “infinity” in the title, you’ve got to go big, and that’s whatJoe and Anthony Russowill do when they shoot both parts ofAvengers: Infinity Warstarting in 2016. We know the brothers are using a new digital 2D IMAX camerafor about 15 minutes of footageinCaptain America: Civil War, which officially began production this week in Atlanta. Now they’ll use that new system for the entirety of the next two parts of the Avengers saga....

‘Bad Times At The El Royale’ First Look Photos: Chris Hemsworth Needs An Umbrella We’re only a few months away from seeing a newDrew Goddardmovie, and the film’s first official image has arrived. A batch ofBad Times at The El Royalefirst look photos are here, and one features starChris Hemsworthshowing off his ripped abs as he stands in the rain. What’s that? You’re not even reading these words right now because you’re already looking at that photo below?...

‘Colin In Black And White’ Adds Mary-Louise Parker And Nick Offerman As Colin Kaepernick’s Adoptive Parents Colin in Black and White, the upcoming Netflix limited series about the adolescent life of activistColin Kaepernick, has added two new cast members:Mary-Louise ParkerandNick Offerman. Parker and Offerman will play Teresa and Rick Kaepernick, the adoptive parents of Colin Kaepernick, who “must navigate what it means to raise a Black child in a predominantly white family and community....

‘Dark Army’ Update: Director Paul Feig Is “Obsessed” With The Idea, Swears He Will Make The Movie In September of 2019,word came outthatBridesmaidsandSpydirectorPaul Feigwould be writing and directingDark Army, a film which included original characters as well as characters from Universal’s roster of classic movie monsters. Now Feig has delivered an update about hisDark Armymovie, in which he says he’s “so obsessed with making that movie” but reveals that the studio seems to think it’s too expensive....

‘Day & Night’ Producer Talks Upcoming Pixar Shorts Pixar movies are great on their own, so the fact that each begins with equally exciting short is merely icing on the cake. The Pixar shorts are legendary, award-winning and nowadays, almost as anticipated as the features themselves. Rumor has it thatCars 2will have aToy Storythemed shortcalledHawaii, starring Barbie and Ken, in front of it, but what about the Pixar films coming out in subsequent years?...

‘Disenchantment’ Early Buzz: Matt Groening’s Fantasy Send-Up Lacks Magic But Has Potential After diving into suburban family life and the distant future withThe SimpsonsandFuturama, animation iconMatt Groeningis bringing his trademark humor into the distant past with his fantasy comedy seriesDisenchantmenton Netflix. But does Groening, whose shows have lost their bite in later seasons, even for longtime fans, have what it takes to head into new territory and create something refreshing? Or are we looking at a similar run of jokes in a premise that isn’t quite living up to its potential?...

‘G.I. Joe 2’ Has New Title, Takes Former ‘Star Trek 2’ Release Date [UPDATED] UPDATE: The new title is official. Wording below corrected. With less than a year to the long rumoredStar Trek 2release date, and no start date in sight, it’s no surprisethe film has been pushed back. Paramount announced that date so early, though, it pretty much scared off all competition. So withTreknow gone, August 26, 2025 finds itself as a prime, open, summer weekend and Paramount is jumping on it with another action franchise sequel....

‘Generation Wealth’ Trailer: A Horrifying And Fascinating Examination Of A Society Too Rich For Its Own Good Here it is: the trailer for what looks to be the most frightening movie of 2019.Generation Wealthfinds acclaimed photographer and documentarianLauren Greenfieldreturning to one of her favorite subjects: wealthy people and the strange bubbles they live within. However, this is no fluffy puff piece. As the footage below showcases, Greenfield’s film suggests some real “fall of the Roman empire” stuff – can a society like this survive or is this just another sign that we’re all doomed?...

‘Japan Sinks 2020’ Is A Bleak, Violent Disaster Anime That Hits Harder During Lockdown (Welcome toAni-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)It shouldn’t come across as controversial to say that 2020 feels like living in a disaster film. Looking outside feels like catching a glimpse of a hellish apocalypse, with thousands of people dying while governments are too inept to do anything about it, misinformation making things worse, and any resemblance of “normal life” rapidly disappearing into memory....

‘Knight Of Cups’ Trailer: The Palm Trees Tell You Everything Is Possible Terrence Malick’s films are often quite patient in their pacing. They aren’t exactly high-energy, unless you find excitement in staring off into the distance for long periods of time, caressing a lover’s hand or hair, or talking about what it all means to be alive. Malick’s movies are invigorating in their own way, as tone poems. However, his latest film,Knight of Cups, looks quite enthralling, in a more conventional sense....

‘Nine Lives’ Trailer: Kevin Spacey Plays A Cat Will 2016 be the year of feature-length cat videos? Last week we got thefirst trailer forKeanu, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele’s action comedy about two friends out to save the cutest cat ever, and today we’ve got the first trailer forNine Lives, starringKevin Spaceyas a cat. Well, technically it stars him as an uncaring billionaire who gets turned into a cat so he can learn about the value of family or the power of love or whatever....

‘Noah’, ‘Nymphomaniac’ Banned In Parts Of The Middle East This spring brings a wave of promising high-profile projects, but for cinephiles in the Middle East the pickings will be slightly slimmer.Darren Aronofsky’sNoahandLars von Trier’sNymphomaniachave been banned in the parts of the Middle East, which is probably about the only thing the two films have in common. Find out where and why after the jump. That’s despite the fact thatNoahalready has an Egyptian release date, March 26....

‘State Like Sleep’ Star Katherine Waterston On Balancing Indies And Blockbusters [Interview] Over the past decade, actressKatherine Waterstonhas built up a solid filmography of work that had made her one of the most eclectic and reliable performers around. After years of theater work and taking meaty supporting roles in such films asMichael Clayton(her first film),Taking Woodstock,Robot & Frank(as well as a semi-regular role on HBO’sBoardwalk Empire), she made an impressive showing as Shasta Ray Hepworth in writer-directorPaul Thomas Anderson’s 2014 marvelInherent Vice, which effectively opened the flood gates for Waterston to take roles inAlex Ross Perry’sQueen of Earth,Danny Boyle’sSteve Jobs,Ridley Scott’sAlien: Covenant,Steven Soderbergh’sLogan Lucky, and inJonah Hill’s directing debutMid90s, in rapid succession....