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Emmy Rossum Will Play Tom Holland’s Mother In Apple TV+ Series The Crowded Room Emmy Rossum (“Shameless”) has joined the cast of “The Crowded Room” withTom Holland(“Spider-Man: No Way Home”) and Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!"), according toTHR. That’s just one of the casting announcements today for the “seasonal anthology” thriller for Apple Studios, as Emma Laird (“Mayor of Kingstown”), Sasha Lane (“Loki”) and Christopher Abbott (“Catch-22”) have alsojoined the series....

Empire Reveals J.J. Abrams' ‘Force Awakens’ Cinematic Inspirations And More Remember when we were begging foranykind of news aboutStar Wars: The Force Awakens? Now we have to beat new stories anddetailsand rumors andspoilersand trailers andTV spotswith a stick. If you want to know the latest about the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke, the complex nature of Kylo Ren, and a little more about the still-absent Luke Skywalker, this is the place to be....

Every Law & Order Series, Ranked From Worst To Best In this year’s excellent sci-fi comedy “Resident Alien,” an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth and absorbs our culture. Its primary entry point isNBC’s “Law & Order.” This is a very good joke. You know it and I know it. We know this because the DNA of any given “Law & Order” episode, dating back to its premiere in 1990, is practically enmeshed in our primal coding....

Fan Trailer Imagines What ‘Star Wars’ Would Look Like If It Stuck Closer To Ralph McQuarrie’s Concept Art ArtistRalph McQuarrieis arguably as responsible for the look ofStar Warsas George Lucas himself. McQuarrie’s original designs and concept art shaped not only Lucas’s original movie, but multiple films and TV projects throughout the franchise’s storied history. McQuarrie passed away in 2012, but his influence on the world of science fiction will live forever....

How Alexander Skarsgard Went Wild For The Northman We talk a lot about the physical training that actors endure in order to transform their bodies for the role they’re playing (in ways both admirable andproblematic), be it the intense exercising and calorific intake required to achieve the average superhero bod orthe extreme dietingthat a Christian Bale-type goes through in order to portray sickly characters suffering from conditions like insomnia or drug addiction....

How Special Effects Wizard Tom Savini Changed The Horror Genre Forever CGI in movies dates back all the way to the early ’70s,when the film “Westworld” featured CGIin scenes involving the robot Gunslinger. A few decades later, “Toy Story” would become the first film to be entirely rendered in 3D animation. Since then, the use of CGI in film has taken off and never looked back. Gone are the days of special effects that rely on a particular form of physical artistry rather than the use of a computer....

Hunter Parrish, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth And Others Up For Major Roles In ‘The Hunger Games’ Now thatJennifer Lawrencehas officially been castin the lead role of Katniss Everdeen, it’s time to fill in some of the other major parts forThe Hunger Games. Casting has begun in earnest for the roles of Peeta Mellark, a fellow Hunger Games competitor who has feelings for Katniss, and Gale Hawthorne, Katniss' best friend from home....

Insidious Maze Announced For Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 2015 During San Diego Comic Con International 2015, Guillermo del Toro announced that there would bea Crimson Peak maze for this year’s Halloween Horror Nightsat Universal Studios. And today we get an announcement of the second maze for this year’s horror event: Focus Features and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are teaming with Universal Studios in both Hollywood and Orlando to create all-new mazes based on theInsidiousfilm franchise....

Lightyear Director Of Photography Jeremy Lasky On Crafting Pixar’s Big Sci-Fi Adventure [Interview] When looking at any art form or craft that requires a lot of moving parts to bring the final project to life, a common saying used to describe that collective effort is “it takes an army.” Movies are an exceptionally apt example of that phrase in action. Yes, the director is the position through which this army flows, but it really is a collaborative undertaking between a whole lot of people....

Miles Teller In Talks To Star In Marc Webb’s ‘The Only Living Boy In New York’ Miles Telleris doing a movie withMarc Webb. TheAmazing Spider-Mandirector has balanced a commitment to Fox Searchlight and the desire to do other indies with his work for Sony. Now he’s prepping a return to the indie scene withThe Only Living Boy in New York, about a young man who gets involved with the same woman his father is having an affair with....

Miyazaki Planning Sequel To Porco Rosso Hayao Miyazakihas never made a direct sequel to one of his films. But it looks like he might be about to embark on the first. A new interview with the director suggests that he has conceived a sequel to his sixth film,Porco Rosso, which featured an ace fighter pilot who has been cursed to live with the face of a pig. The sequel,Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie, would pick up long after Porco flew off to a semi-mysterious fate at the end of the first film; we’d see the flying pig much older, in part to reflect the advanced age of his creator....

More Toy Story 3 Details, Straight From D23 As I start this post,John Lasseteris on stage atD23, delivering a string ofToy Story 3announcements. Thanks to the magic of Twitter, I’m able to keep tabs on the little bits and pieces from some 5,400 miles away. As I write, I’m very excited. I wonder what great news will come after the break? It depends on how far Lasseter goes in dropping news bombs....

Movie Trailer: Guillermo Del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark At Comic-Con, Miramax Films premiered the movie trailer for theDon’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a horror film remake co-written and produced byGuillermo del Toro. The trailer (and additional footage) went over big in San Diego, and now MySpace has the trailer online for everyone to check out. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below....