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Watch The First Five Minutes Of ‘Lockout’: Guy Pearce Is A Smartass, Then A Badass Lockoutdoesn’t boast the most original premise in the world — it’s perfectly obvious why it’s drawn comparisons to bothTakenandEscape From New York— but there’s at least one good reason to keep an eye out for this film, and that’s starGuy Pearce. The reliably compelling Aussie actor plays up his badass/smartass side as Agent Snow, a former government agent who’s wrongly been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage....

‘A Simple Favor’ Review: Paul Feig’s Thriller Is Too Self-Aware For Its Own Good Over the last decade, Paul Feig has established himself as a director who loves to work with talented women. FromBridesmaidstoGhostbusterstoThe Heat, he’s often excelled at capturing the uniquely spiky relationships modern women have with each other and themselves. At first glance, his choice to direct the suspense thrillerA Simple Favormay seem inexplicable, since Feig’s other films are all straight-up comedies....

‘Bird Box’ Trailer: Netflix’s Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Looks Bleak As Hell Whatever you do, don’t open your eyes. Unless you want to watch this newBird Boxtrailer, that is. This intense new look at the Netflix film sendsSandra Bullockblindfolded across the wilderness, hoping to avoid some terrifying force. A force that, in the best Lovecraftian fashion, can kill people if they just lay eyes on it. Watch the latestBird Boxtrailer below…if you dare....

‘Bitchin’: The Sound And Fury Of Rick James' Trailer Shows Us Why He’s Rick James, Bitch Hide your couch, because there’s aRick Jamesdocumentary about to be loosed on the world. Showtime has released a trailer forBitching: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, directed bySacha Jenkins. Looking Back at a Legend Jenkins, best known for directing the Showtime docuseriesWu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men,directed this intimate look at one of rock, funk, and R&B’s biggest legends....

‘Cut The Rope’ Movie Coming In 2016 Hungry little Om Nom is jumping from the smartphone screen to the big screen. ZeptoLab and Blockade Entertainment are developing an animated feature based on theCut the Rope, the popular mobile game about a little green monster who demands candy. Hit the jump for plot details, a teaser poster, and more from theCut the Ropemovie. Tentatively titledOm Nom, ZeptoLab and Blockade plan to have theCut the Ropemovie in theaters next year....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Review: ‘The Queen’s Justice’ Brings The Greatest Death In The Show’s History (In our coverage ofGame of Thronesseason 7, we’ll be examining each episode with one simple question in mind – which character is winning the game of thrones this week?) That’ll do,Game of Thrones. That’ll do. “The Queen’s Justice” isn’t just the best episode ofGame of Thronesseason 7 so far – it’s one of the best episodes the show has ever produced....

‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Featurette Introduces The Human Teams Behind The Massive Monsters It’s time to pick a side in the battle ofGodzilla vs. Kong. The massive movie monsters are coming to blows on the big screen and HBO Max later this month. But they’re not the only ones caught up in the blockbuster battle. Behind Godzilla and King Kong are teams of human characters, each invested in one of the colossal creatures for different reasons....

‘Halloween’ Box Office Tracking Indicates An Opening Weekend Best For The Franchise Halloweenis about to get a trick-or-treat bag loaded with cash. The latest entry in the horror franchise could be headed towards the biggest opening weekend for the franchise ever. Yes, even bigger thanHalloween: Resurrection, starring Busta Rhymes. See the fullHalloweenbox office tracking info below. The websiteBox Office Prois estimating thatDavid Gordon Green’sHalloweenmight be on the path towards a $50-60 million opening weekend (and could even go as high as $85 million)....

‘Insidious Chapter 2’ Trailer: Go Deeper Into The Further With Director James Wan Insidious Chapter 2probably shouldn’t exist. It’s the sequel to a 2011 film starringPatrick Wilson, Rose ByrneandBarbara Hersheythat was made for $1.5 million. Released with zero expectations, the tiny little film exploded at the box office, grossing almost $60 million, a success ratio that puts it in firmly blockbuster range. Now directorJames Wanand writerLeigh Whannellhave brought back the entire cast to pick up the pieces of their haunted house story with an inventive twist....

‘Kandisha’ Trailer: ‘Inside’ Directors Julien Maury And Alexandre Bustillo Bring Demonic Folklore Horror To Shudder Julien MauryandAlexandre Bustillo, the filmmakers behind the New French Extremity horror movieInside, are headed to streaming service Shudder withKandisha. Described as a tale of “demonic folklore horror,” the story follows a young woman who summons up a vengeful demon to go after her abusive ex. She doesn’t think the summoning will actually work – but it does....

‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Developing Mystery Dramedy For FX Mad MencreatorMatthew Weinerhas a new show coming our way. Weiner is developing a half-hour “mystery dramedy” for FX, and beyond that, details are slim. The untitled show will be Weiner’s first new series since Amazon’sThe Romanoffs, a show that had a great cast and a fun premise, but didn’t seem to generate much buzz.Varietyis reporting that Matthew Weiner will write and executive produce a “mystery dramedy” for FX....

‘Pacific Rim 2’ Has A New Script Draft, Because Guillermo Del Toro Does Not Give Up Universal pushedPacific Rim 2off its calendar completely last month, butGuillermo del Torohas insisted he’s still working on it. And he wasn’t lying. According to his latest update,Pacific Rim 2has now submitted a new draft of the script and a budget. Now all it needs is a green light from the studio. Read del Toro’sPacific Rim 2update after the jump....

‘Passengers’ Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence And Chris Pratt Are Stranded In Space I suspect a great many people would be perfectly happy to find themselves stranded in space with nothing to do but make out withChris Prattand/orJennifer Lawrenceand trade witticisms with a robot bartender who looks likeMichael Sheen. But the characters inPassengersapparently don’t feel that way. In the new sci-fi romance directed byMorten Tyldum, Jim (Pratt) and Aurora (Lawrence) are panicked to realize they’ve come out of hibernation 90 years early en route to another planet....