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Hailee Steinfeld Eyed For ‘Transformers’ Spin-Off ‘Bumblebee’ Is it weird to feel pretty good aboutBumblebee, the firstTransformersspin-off and the start of what Paramount hopes will be a long and healthy franchise post-Michael Bay? The film is set to be directed by Travis Knight, the incredibly talented director behindKubo and the Two Strings(one of the best films of last year) and now Oscar nomineeHailee Steinfeldis in talks to star. Of course, the real star ofBumblebeewould be the title character, the sometimes rambunctious robot warrior who tends to act as Optimus Prime’s right hand man in the coreTransformersmovies....

HBO Max Originals Trailers: Anna Kendrick’s ‘Love Life,’ Sundance Documentary ‘On The Record,’ New ‘Looney Tunes Cartoons,’ And More HBO Maxfinallyset its official launch date this morning, and with that announcement, the forthcoming WarnerMedia streaming platform released the first trailers for the HBO Max Originals that will debut on day one. Half a dozen HBO Max Originals will be available to watch on the day of the platform’s launch on May 27, including the new comedy seriesLove Lifestarring Anna Kendrick, a powerful Sundance documentaryOn the Record, and several new children’s shows for the quarantined kids who are craving new content....

Hollywood’s Stunt Performers Protest For Their Own Oscar Category (And How Could You Say No?) If you’ve ever looked over the list of categories at theAcademy Awardsand wondered why the American film industry’s highest honor doesn’t recognize stunt coordination, you’re not alone. Stunt performers have been calling for recognition at the Oscars for over two decades and over 100 of them recently rallied at the offices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make their voices heard in demanding an Oscars stunt category....

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Update:We have now added the official film logo, as seen above. Shia LaBeouf revealed the official title for Indiana Jones 4 during the MTV Video Music Awards:Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. As you may remember, the title was one of six wereportedlast month when LucasFilm registered a batch of titles with the MPAA. The original working title for the project wasIndiana Jones and the City of Gods....

James Gunn Fired As Director Of ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’ [Updated] Update #2: Gunn has issued another apology in the wake of his firing. You can read it in full below.Update: Gunn will no longer appear in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con tonight, as originally planned. Read more below.James Gunnwill no longer be directingGuardians of the Galaxy 3. After helming the first two wildly successfulGuardians of the Galaxymovies, Marvel has fired Gunn in the wake of the filmmaker’s old, polarizing tweets that have resurfaced on the internet....

James Gunn: Baby Groot Isn’t In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Just To Sell Toys One of the most beloved moments fromGuardians of the Galaxywas the appearance of Baby Groot at the end of the movie. His appearance was made even more lovable when it was followed by an adorable credits scene featuring the tiny version of Vin Diesel’s giant walking tree dancing to the tune “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5....

Jesus Christ Superstar: From Blasphemous To Badass It’s a lot more common in 2022 to grow up in a completely secular household, but as a child who grew up in the Midwest during the ’90s, my family of non-church attending heathens were in the minority. Every year as my friends and classmates prepared for the three day weekend full of religious traditions surrounding Easter, I was more preoccupied with watching “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown” and lamenting over Marcie’s inability to boil eggs, or belting my face off to my family’s chagrin to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock ‘n roll masterpiece, “Jesus Christ Superstar....

Lily Rabe To Star Alongside Jesse Plemons In HBO Max Series ‘Love And Death’ Lily RabeandJesse Plemonsare the latest stars to join the cast of the HBO Max seriesLove and Death. The addition of these brilliant blonde bombshells opens up a world of unsettling possibilities in the series that follows an infamous small-town Texas murder. Deadline reportedThe UndoingandAmerican Horror StoryveteranLily Rabehas joined the cast ofLove and DeathalongsideFargo’sJesse Plemons. The show follows two church-going couples, enjoying small-town family life in Texas until evil and jealousy take hold....

Listen To Andrew Garfield Sing In ‘30/90,’ The First Song In Tick tick…BOOM! Is there anything Andrew Garfield can’t do? Obviously, the answer is no. I mean, we’re talking about the same guy who made tech billionaire Eduardo Savarin sympathetic in “The Social Network,” so Garfield’s talent really can’t be ignored. Well, now he’s traded in his Prada and flip-flops for a shiny piano in the upcoming musical, “tick, tick… BOOM!...

Movie Trailer: Stunning First Footage For Joel And Ethan Coen’s ‘True Grit’ If theJoel and Ethan Coenversion ofTrue Gritwasn’t among my most anticipated films of 2010, it would be now. The teaser trailer for the film has just been released, and it impresses with a collection of stunning images, some deliberate references to the 1969 John Wayne version, and a lovely hymn used as the score. More tantalizing than anything else, however, are the glimmers of performance fromHailee Steinfeld, the young actress who makes her starring debut as Mattie Ross, the girl who hires a marshall rumored to be a man of ‘true grit....

Movies Like Nightmare Alley That Thriller Fans Really Need To See “Nightmare Alley"will definitely go down as a film that audiences initially under-appreciated. Guillermo del Toro’s beautifully moody noir about a carnival “psychic” undone by his own greed gotawards-show praisebutflopped at the box office— perhapspartly due to resurgent COVID-19 fears. When I caught this dark and twisted tale at a gorgeous historic theatre near Seattle, the seats were empty and the downcast proprietor lamented his luck as he filled a bag of popcorn....

Neil Marshall On Going R-Rated With ‘Hellboy: Rise Of The Blood Queen’ Neil Marshallis not one to ever let an R-rating go to waste. FromDog SoldierstoThe DescenttoDoomsday, the filmmaker knows how to get bloody. He usually works with good old-fashioned practical effects for his blood and carnage – which is his plan for theHellboyreboot.Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, which starts shooting later this year, he says, is going to rely on practical effects as much as possible....

Netflix Testing A Shuffle Feature So You Can Stop Aimlessly Scrolling Through The Library Netflix is currently testing a “Shuffle” feature that will pick something for you to watch at random. However, it’s not completely random, because it will pick something based on what you’ve been watching and what you like. Find out more about the Netflix shuffle feature below. Tech Crunchnoticed the testing of the Netflix shuffle feature after some users noticed “Shuffle Play” button:...