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Why Can’t Dracula Dress For S***? A Look At Our Worst-Dressed Movie Monster Count Dracula is, and always has been, a sex symbol.All those horny love letters women sent to Bela Lugosi prove it, but if you need more, look to the symbolism: A man sneaking into your room at night to do a little necking and turn you into an (ahem) creature of the night. Looking at things from a more modern perspective, the man owns his own house — acastle, no less — which is more than most Millennials swiping through dating apps on the hunt for someone to split life expenses with can possibly hope for....

Year Of The Vampire: Dracula’s Daughter Is The True Queen Of The Universal Monsters (Welcome toYear of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) Universal Pictures set the standard for movie monsters from the 1930s-1950s, turning characters like Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, The Gill Man, The Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and The Bride of Frankenstein into pop culture staples, and making legends out of actors like Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr....

Zachary Levi To Return To The Spy Comedy Genre In Lonely Island-Produced ‘Spy Guys’ Zachary Leviis going to know kung fu…again. TheShazam!star may seem like he was born to play a childlike superhero, but Levi will be returning the genre in which he belongs with the upcomingJeff Tomsic-helmedSpy Guys,as the lead of the action comedy about a sleek spy who is forced to rely on his moronic college friends. Levi would lead the cast in a production led by the comedy dream team of Lonely Island....

‘A Simple Favor’ Trailer: Anna Kendrick Tries To Find Gone Girl Blake Lively There have been approximately ten thousand trailers forA Simple Favor, and now here’s another one! The film will introduce audiences to “the darker side ofPaul Feig”, staging aGone Girl-style mystery featuringAnna KendrickandBlake Lively. Watch the latestSimple Favortrailer below. A Simple Favor Trailer I really do not know what to make ofA Simple Favor. There have been a plethora of trailers for the film, and each trailer has seemed as if it was advertising a completely different movie from the last....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Trailer: New Crew, New Xenomorphs, Same Promise Of Death [UPDATED] UPDATE: We’ve added a red band version of theAlien: Covenanttrailer after the jump. WithLoganhitting theaters this week, we’re getting a bunch of new movie trailers for audiences to feast their eyes on. That includes 20th Century Fox giving us an even better look at their sci-fi horror sequelAlien: Covenant. Ridley Scottis back with another installment of theAlienfranchise that feels like it’s going back to the roots of the original 1979 film that terrified us....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Completes Captain America’s Character Arc, According To Chris Evans The majority of what unfolds inAvengers: Endgameis being kept under tight wraps at Marvel Studios, so much so that barely a few minutes of footage from the movie has been revealed. The amount of story details we know about the culmination of what is now being referred to asThe Infinity Sagais staggeringly low, so we’ll take we can get when it comes to any details that make it through the cracks....

‘Black Widow’ Ending Explained: What Comes Next For The Marvel Cinematic Universe? Natasha Romanov’s (Scarlett Johansson) time has finally come — her long-awaited solo adventure is in theaters right now and is also available on Disney+ with Premier Access. This means, whether you opt to return to your local theater or pony up $30 to watch in your living room, you get to enjoy what may be Natasha’s last hurrah and see the first new Marvel film in almost two years....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Short Film Reveals Jared Leto’s Contribution To Replicant Technology In 2036 Blade Runner 2049doesn’t hit theaters until October, but Warner Bros. Pictures has a long marketing lead-up to the sci-fi sequel to Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi noir from 1982. The originalBlade Runnertook place in 2019, which was then the distant future. Now that we’re just two years away from hitting that year ourselves, it only makes sense for the sequel to jump ahead 30 years....

‘Bond 25’ Suspends Shooting After Daniel Craig Is Injured On Set Daniel Craigdoesn’t need Rami Malek to defeat him: just his own body. TheBond 25production has been temporarily suspended after its star took a tumble in what is just the latest in an icky history of scrapes, knocked-out teeth, and sliced-off fingertips. And it seems even in Craig’s swan song as James Bond, he can’t catch a break. It’s no wonder that Craig is eager to hang up the gun and suit — the poor actor has endured all manner of injury ever since he took on the mantle of Agent 007, getting two teeth knocked out during his first stunt scene inCasino Royale, slicing off a fingertip and tearing a shoulder muscle inQuantum of Solace, and injuring his knee during a fight scene in 2015’sSpectre....

‘Divergent’ Trailer: Is This The Next YA Sensation? It’s all well and good for studios to try and make the nextHunger Games. But as the disappointing box office tally for this weekend’sThe Mortal Instruments: City of Bonesreminds us, actually pulling off such a feat is easier said than done. For everyHunger Games— orHarry PotterorTwilight— there are several moreThe Golden Compasses,Eragons, andBeautiful Creatures-es. One of the next films to try and succeedThe Hunger Gameswill beDivergent, starringShailene Woodley(who’s as close a thing to “the next Jennifer Lawrence” as we have) as a young woman living in dystopian Chicago....

‘Exporting Raymond’ Trailer – How To Remake ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ For Russian Audiences It’s not unusual for hit shows from one country to get remade in another country, and the process generally involves some tailoring of the series to better suit local tastes. A new documentary titledExporting RaymondfollowsEverybody Loves RaymondcreatorPhil Rosenthalto Russia, where he’s tasked with reworking his hit American series for Russian audiences. The result is a fish-out-of-water tale that, from the looks of it, seems like it could itself be the plotline of an American sitcom....

‘Goon: Last Of The Enforcers’ Trailer: Seann William Scott Isn’t Done With Hockey Yet Seann William Scottwas once quite the popular comedic actor, but in recent years, he hasn’t been as in demand as he once was. Thankfully for him, fans of the 2011 hockey comedyGoonhave been wanting to see him return to the ice for years, and how theAmerican Piefranchise star finally has his skates on and fists up for the sequel....

‘Grace Of Monaco’ Teaser: Nicole Kidman Is A Pretty Pretty Princess Oliver Hirschbiegel’sDianahas already been thoroughly panned by critics across the pond, but maybe the second of this fall’s two princess biopics will meet a better fate. The first teaser has been revealed forGrace of Monaco, starringNicole Kidmanas movie star-turned-royal Grace Kelly.Olivier Dahan(La Vie en Rose) directs, andTim RothandFrank Langellaalso star. Check out the footage after the jump. When we call this a teaser, we do mean teaser....