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Oct 16, 2018
Our initial focus in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald shifts away from the heroic Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) toward the darker side of the magical realm created by J.K. Rowling. This time, the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) commands attention as the adventure continues in Europe.
As Rowling explains in a new video, Grindelwald must answer for the crimes he has committed. Meanwhile, Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), who previously wreaked much havoc, is now...
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Oct 15, 2018
Outrage turns to affection in our exclusive clip from The Oath. Ike Barinholtz and Tiffany Haddish star as a loving couple who will soon face the biggest challenge of their lives.
As our clip demonstrates, they are a fun couple who are in agreement on most things, including their views on the modern political scene. When their family arrives for a visit during the holidays, however, their vastly different perspective threatens to tear apart the fabric of the universe! Or, at the very least,...
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Oct 15, 2018
Timothée Chalamet began appearing on the big screen with brief roles in Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children and Christopher Nolan's Interstellar before snaring larger roles in indie dramas like One and Two. He caught fire in Hollywood thanks to his trio of acclaimed performances last year in Call Me By Your Name (for which he received a well-deserved Academy Award nomination), Lady Bird and Hostiles.
Now he is again receiving plaudits for his sterling performance as a...
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Oct 12, 2018
Bad Times at the El Royale is perhaps one of the most soulful movies of the fall season -- a super stylistic crime drama fueled by soul music about strangers who show up at a rundown motel all searching for something or someone. As their paths begin to cross and their stories intertwine, we're left with a refreshingly unique film that produces shades of Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers and even classic noirs like 1974's Chinatown.
Fandango sat down for a lengthy chat with...
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Oct 12, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG NEWS
James Gunn to write and maybe direct Suicide Squad 2: Following his departure from Disney and Marvel Studios, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has joined the Worlds of DC franchise for the Suicide Squad sequel as screenwriter and possibly director. Read everything we know about that here.
GREAT NEWS
Margot Robbie takes over...
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Oct 12, 2018
Jonathan (Ansel Elgort) leads a very ordinary, even humdrum, life. He gets up in the morning, he goes to work in an office, he comes home, he goes to bed, he falls asleep. But his life diverges in at least one significant way from other people.
Our exclusive trailer for Jonathan paints a picture of his life, which takes a turn when he falls for a wonderful young woman (Suki Waterhouse). That should be great, except his brother also falls for her. One further complication: both brothers live...
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Oct 12, 2018
Disney's live-action adaptations of their animated classics are serious business. Even this year's Christopher Robin quietly grossed more than $180 million worldwide. There are many more to come, including four features arriving in 2019 alone: Dumbo, Aladdin, The Lion King and Lady and the Tramp, the last of which hits the new streaming service Disney Play later in the year.
Aladdin is sure to be huge, as the 1992 animated version is considered a favorite among all Disney's...
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Oct 12, 2018
Many people have fond memories of hearing Boris Karloff voice Dr. Seuss' classic character the Grinch in the animated television show How the Grinch Stole Christmas, directed by Chuck Jones. More recently, Jim Carrey memorably embodied the grouchy character in Ron Howard's same-titled live-action version in 2000, which won a lot of new Grinch fans.
Now a new animated feature version is heading to theaters and it looks like it will be great fun to watch with the whole family. As...
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Oct 11, 2018
When a young man falls under the powerful sway of addiction, it threatens to tear his family apart. Based on an inspiring true story, Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet star as father and son in Beautiful Boy, which explores survival, relapse and recovery, as well as its heartbreaking effect on a family.
Chalamet is featured in our exclusive clip from the film, talking plainly about his need to deal with "a big, black hole" in himself. He also acknowledges the loving support...
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Oct 11, 2018
It's been 18 years since the release of Unbreakable, one of the most popular superhero movies not based on any comic book or other source material. M. Night Shyamalan had long teased a follow-up, and finally one arrived covertly as the 2016 thriller Split, which revealed itself as a secret spin-off in its final moments. Now, we're also getting a more direct sequel to both Unbreakable and Split, called Glass.
This one will see the return of Samuel L. Jackson's titular villain...
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Oct 11, 2018
Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) is a plain-spoken wife and activist, living in Durham, North Carolina in 1971. When the school her children attend is burned down, she is prompted to take action, finding herself on the opposite side of the issue from C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell).
As demonstrated in our exclusive trailer for The Best of Enemies, they are pitted against each other as the school integration issue becomes heated, since the blunt-talking C.P. Ellis is the leader of the local Ku Klux...
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Oct 10, 2018
Paramount has been developing a remake of Pet Sematary since 2011, but the massive success of It has Hollywood scrambling to catch the heat of Stephen King mania. The favor for the author's work has already continued into Netflix's Gerald's Game and 1922. Now we're looking at a new adaptation of Pet Sematary coming soon to theaters.
With just under six months left until the remake arrives, Paramount has released the first...
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Oct 09, 2018
Suicide Squad is one of the highest-grossing of the Worlds of DC movies ($747 million worldwide). It's also one of the worst-reviewed of that franchise (28% on Rotten Tomatoes), also known as the DC Extended Universe. The former being more important to the studios, there was no doubt the comic book adaptation, focused on a team of villains gathered to save the world, would get a sequel. Improving upon the original would be a bonus, and doing so would be an easy goal.
Various...
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Oct 09, 2018
In The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, young Clara (Mackenzie Foy) is transported into a magical world, filled with gingerbread soldiers, an army of mice and other fantastical delights. Yet she soon discovers that there are strangely comfortable and familiar elements in this new world.
Our exclusive video goes behind the scenes with members of the cast as they talk about the effect of seeing the ballet that serves as inspiration for Disney's next family adventure, as well as their hopes...
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Oct 08, 2018
Barbie is finally ready to hit the big screen. Yes, we've seen plans for a movie based on the iconic doll for a few years now, including incarnations that were to star Amy Schumer (cast in 2016) and Anne Hathaway (cast in 2017), but the latest development sounds more promising than ever.
Firstly, according to The Hollywood Reporter, there is an update on the studio that's working with Mattel on the project. Warner Bros. has taken over from Sony, which let its deal for a...
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Oct 08, 2018
Universal Pictures has pulled back the curtains on Mortal Engines, a steampunk fantasy film presented by Peter Jackson. Jackson is also responsible for the film's screenplay alongside writing partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, the trio behind The Lord of the Rings.
For some filmgoers that will be enough to go on, but the movie has just released another action-packed trailer to entice anyone in doubt. You can watch that new spot, which made its debut at New York Comic-Con, down...
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Oct 08, 2018
Back in 2015, Goosebumps brought R.L. Stine's popular young-adult horror series to life with a very entertaining tale that married monsters, mayhem and the macabre. The big-screen adventure danced lightly around the potentially disturbing horror elements to keep the emphasis on family fun, which made the movie unexpectedly entertaining and appealing to adults as well as children. The young lead characters also drew in a young-adult audience.
The sequel, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween,...
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Oct 08, 2018
Drew Goddard earned an Academy Award nomination for writing the big-screen version of The Martian and has a number of other notable credits in the past. So that has made us very anxious to see his new film, Bad Times at the El Royale, and it's finally here.
When it was first announced in March 2017, the premise was not revealed. Over time, we've learned a bit more, though part of the dynamic thriller's appeal is the mysterious connection between seven strangers. We've...
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Oct 08, 2018
Ten years ago, Tom Hardy's ferocious performance in Nicolas Winding Refn's scathing indie drama Bronson brought wider attention to the actor's capabilities. He's never been one to shy away from big-budget Hollywood productions, either; he became known to a wider audience in Christopher Nolan's Inception. From there, he was off and running, starring notably in Warrior, Locke, The Drop, Legend, and TV's Taboo, as well as The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road and The...
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Oct 05, 2018
The first R-rated release from J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot, best known lately for surprise deliveries of Cloverfield movies, is Overlord, a film set during World War II. When we first heard about it, speculation ran rampant that it tied into the Cloverfield universe somehow, but instead it appears to be a completely stand-alone movie, albeit one with plenty of footage that justifies its rating.
The final trailer has now been released. It starts...
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Oct 05, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG NEWS
Gal Gadot joins Death on the Nile: Wonder Woman and Fast and the Furious star Gal Gadot has hopped aboard another movie franchise, one that's already in motion. The actress is the first to join Kenneth Branagh and the ensemble of other heavies populating the Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile, a sequel to last year's mystery Murder on...
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Oct 05, 2018
The upcoming DC superhero movie Aquaman will feature Jason Momoa reprising his role as the title character, last seen in Justice League (above). Based on some exciting images of the movie, our impression has been that Aquaman will be a different kind of superhero movie from anything we've ever seen before, even from the DC Extended Universe
Now an extended video has been released, with more than five minutes of footage. It shows the film's epic scope and features...
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Oct 05, 2018
One of the most exciting writer-directors working right now is a guy by the name of Drew Goddard. His may not be a household name at this point, but the varying projects he's worked on - both as a writer and as a director - have all been memorable and worth talking about. From Cloverfield to The Cabin in the Woods to The Martian, and now Bad Times at the El Royale (advance tickets on sale now), Goddard is slowly carving out a name for himself as being a ferociously inventive...
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Oct 05, 2018
Telling the true story of Forrest Tucker, who escaped from prison at the age of 70 and then pulled off a string of amazing heists, The Old Man and the Gun is both thrilling and enchanting. Robert Redford engagingly portrays the venerable criminal with sprightly charm and a twinkle in his eye.
In in our exclusive featurette, Redford says he was surprised when his old friend Mickey Gilbert showed up on location: "I wasn't expecting to see him .. it was such a feeling of camaraderie...
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Oct 05, 2018
On first glance, the El Royale looks like a perfectly peaceful and quiet establishment to spend a night or two. Located on the border of California and Nevada, it offers all the modest amenities one might expect.
Looks can be deceiving, however, as our exclusive TV spot from Bad Times at the El Royale makes abundantly clear. The hotel quickly becomes overrun with surprisingly dangerous guests, including Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Bridges and Dakota Johnson, not to forget Chris Hemsworth,...
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Oct 05, 2018
He's baaaack!
It's been almost 10 years since psycho killer Michael Myers has graced us with his presence on the big screen, but the latest installment of the Halloween series pretends that it's been much longer between visits. Set 40 years after the original John Carpenter classic hit theaters, this new Halloween -- produced by Jason Blum and directed by David Gordon Green -- forgets about all those other sequels by telling a story about Myers' return to...
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Oct 04, 2018
Margot Robbie will reprise her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn in the upcoming Birds of Prey; she will also serve as a producer. Her character was very much her own woman; smart, strong and sassy, she did whatever she felt was best for herself in any particular moment. So it should be exciting to see her lead the way in a project that's been described as a "girl gang movie."
Rosie Perez (in Pineapple Express, above) leads the latest casting news, landing an intriguing role...
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Oct 04, 2018
If you loved the antagonistic chemistry between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in The Fate of the Furious, you're in luck because there's a spin-off in the works focused on their rivalry. Both actors began their respective roles in the Fast and the Furious franchise as antagonists for the main team, but they've become the breakout favorites of the series and will likely continue a new strain of movies to the side of the ongoing central installments led by Vin Diesel....
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Oct 04, 2018
Dell (Kevin Hart) badly needs a job. In view of his past criminal record, he's willing to do anything legal, even the kind of work that he's never done before. That makes him perfectly suited to become a caregiver for Phillip (Bryan Cranston), a wealthy paraplegic who is known to be, shall we say, grouchy around other people.
In this trailer for The Upside, based on a true story, we see how two people from very different backgrounds become very unlikely friends. Their initial...
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Oct 03, 2018
Whether you're intrigued about the life of Dick Cheney or you just want to see Christian Bale's chameleonic performance as the former Vice President, Vice is a going to be a hot ticket this Christmas. The biopic is also sure to be a big awards contender, though all its attention is sure to be as politically divisive as Oliver Stone's W. was 10 years ago.
The first poster and trailer for Vice has arrived, and now we can see just how unrecognizable and magnificent...
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Oct 02, 2018
It's been years in the making, and fans of the brain-eating alien symbiote Venom are more than excited to finally see the beloved Spider-Man baddie finally get his own movie. Starring Tom Hardy, and directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), Venom introduces a new kind of comic book movie -- a darker, more subersive take on a popular side character in the larger Spider-Man universe.
"We wanted this movie to be fun," producer Matt Tolmach told Fandango at a...
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Oct 01, 2018
Taron Egerton has worked with Sir Elton John in the Kingsman movies and now he'll play the music icon in a biopic. Rocketman will be a fantastical take on the life of the singer known for such tunes as "Your Song," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," the Lion King hit "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" and the biopic's title number, "Rocketman."
This week, we got our first look at Egerton in the role (above), sporting Elton John's stylish...
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Oct 01, 2018
The global success of last year's Murder on the Orient Express has led to Fox's greenlight of a sequel, which will be based on another Agatha Christie novel, Death on the Nile. This isn't much of a surprise, as the ending of Murder featured Kenneth Branagh's Detective Poirot receiving word of a new case involving a death on the Nile in Egypt.
Similar to the previous movie, Death on the Nile is set to have a star-studded ensemble. The first of which has just been...
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Oct 01, 2018
The annual Fantastic Fest is known for showcasing strange and often disturbing films. See, for example, our recent coverage of the deeply unsettling Suspiria.
Yet the festival's focus on wild, crazy and freaky movies also embraces titles on the lighter, more fantastical side of the genre spectrum. Here are three examples of somewhat "lighter" movies that recently screened at the festival in Austin, Texas.
Between Worlds
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Oct 01, 2018
It never feels like a true Marvel movie without a memorable cameo from Stan Lee. The iconic comic creator always pops up in the most surprising places, and in Ant-Man and the Wasp - available to buy on FandangoNOW beginning Tuesday, October 2 - Lee appears as a regular guy whose car gets mysteriously shrunken down to ant-size. "For Marvel fans, it's such a fun, exciting nod to The Man," Ant-Man star Paul Rudd said in this exclusive behind-the-scenes clip detailing...
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Oct 01, 2018
Tiffany Haddish made her mainstream breakthrough in last year's raucous comedy Girls Trip, which confirmed the comic talent that she has been displaying for years. She made strong impressions on Tyler Perry's dramatic series If Loving You Is Wrong and the above-average sitcom The Carmichael Show, then on the big screen in Keanu. Currently she is starring in the TBS series The Last O.G., opposite Tracy Morgan; the show was recently renewed for a second season.
She stars opposite Kevin...
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Sep 28, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG NEWS
Kingsman 3 arrives in a year: Fans of the first two Kingsman movies got big news this week with the confirmation and official announcement that Kingsman 3 is in the works. Fox will release the sequel, said to be the last pairing of Taron Egerton and Colin Firth's spy characters, on November 8, 2019. But the studio promises more Kingsman movies and a TV series...
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Sep 28, 2018
Quentin Tarantino's next movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, will mix his usual ensemble-heavy pop-culture-infused storytelling with a real-life tragedy. Focused mainly on fictional characters, the feature's backdrop will be Tinseltown in the late 1960s, with a specific link to a true crime involving famous Hollywood players.
The production itself was met with misfortune early this month when Burt Reynolds passed away unexpectedly. While Once Upon a Time in Hollywood had...
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Sep 28, 2018
In 2006, they raced into our hearts with Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
In 2008, they became part of our loveable dysfunctional family with Step Brothers.
Now, on December 21, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly will once again reteam on the big screen to play the world's greatest consulting detective and his loyal biographer: Holmes and Watson.
Fandango exclusively presents the very first trailer for Holmes & Watson below. Check it...
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Sep 26, 2018
Sony is kicking off its next cinematic universe with Venom. The comic book movie, focused on the titular Spider-Man supervillain, features Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, an investigative journalist who is taken over by an alien symbiote - a big, bad monstrous alien symbiote with a long, nasty tongue.
We are fast approaching the release of Venom, and the studio recently unleashed a new clip from the movie with Hardy as Brock still in human form as he ambushes Riz Ahmed's nefarious...
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Sep 25, 2018
Before it officially debuts in theaters on November 2, Suspiria surprised moviegoers with its first U.S. screening at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. The film, a semi-remake of Dario Argento's 1977 classic, stars Dakota Johnson as a dancer drawn to an elite dance company in Berlin. Once there and under the instruction of the world-renowned Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), strange things begin to happen. Other dancers begin to disappear, while outsiders like the local police and an old...
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Sep 25, 2018
Get your wands ready! Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the highly anticipated sequel to the Harry Potter spinoff/prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is coming soon, and you'll want a front row seat to the latest big battle of the Wizarding World.
In one corner, we have Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), who is now heading from New York City to Paris. In the other corner, the titular Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), now in his legitimate incarnation as the...
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Sep 25, 2018
Childhood best friends Natalie (Amy Forsyth) and Brooke (Reign Edwards) are running for their lives! Their reunion was meant to be a fun time for all, especially for the young women and their boyfriends. Because it's Halloween, they have chosen to visit a traveling attraction filled with rides, games and mazes.
The attraction is finally living up to its name. In our exclusive clip from Hell Fest, Natalie and Brooke have discovered that a masked serial killer has made the amusement park...
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Sep 24, 2018
Success maketh another sequel. Kingsman 3, revealed last year as being a possibility, has now been officially greenlit for a 2019 release. While the previous installment, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, was not as well-received by critics as the original, Kingsman: The Secret Service (53% vs. 74% on Rotten Tomatoes), the sequel did about match the first movie's worldwide gross ($411 million vs. $414 million). Doing a third (and more) is obviously a good decision by Fox.
And with...
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Sep 24, 2018
Based on a mystery novel written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey, The House With a Clock in Its Walls follows a young Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who heads off to live with his uncle Jonathan (Jack Black), not knowing that Jonathan is a warlord and his neighbor Florence (Cate Blanchett) is a witch. Published in 1973, the original novel was highly-acclaimed; it was first adapted for the small screen in 1979.
Nearly 40 years later, Eli Roth directed the brand new version, which has...
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Sep 21, 2018
Just five months ago, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said Eternals was "one of many, many, many things that we are actively beginning to have creative discussions about to see if we believe in them enough to put them on a slate." Now, the possibility has become a reality and Eternals is moving forward to the next level.
While not officially greenlight and set for production or a release date just yet, Eternals does have writers and a director in place, according to The...
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Sep 21, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG NEWS
Cary Fukunaga will direct the next James Bond movie: Following Danny Boyle's departure from the director's chair of Bond 25, the next installment of the 007 franchise has tapped Beasts of No Nation filmmaker Cary Fukunaga for the job. The release of the movie, which may be Daniel Craig's last in the role, also moved to 2020. Read...
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Sep 21, 2018
An expansive love story that spans generations, Life Itself follows a couple (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) as they fall in love, get married and have a child. The tale is told in a variety of settings, from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside, yet everyone in the film is connected to a single event.
That includes two young lovers named Javier and Isabel. In our exclusive clip, Javier (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) and Isabel (Laia Costa) share their true feelings with each other....
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Sep 20, 2018
For the 25th official installment of the James Bond franchise, fans expect something special. Fortunately, the next movie, which is currently known as "Bond 25," should be a treat. Not only is Daniel Craig planning to finish out his run as 007 with a bang, but the series also has a new director with a terrific track record on board.
Replacing the recently departed Danny Boyle, True Detective and Beasts of No Nation (above) director Cary Fukunaga has been tapped by...
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Sep 20, 2018
The first (of perhaps many) ironic twists to flow from Disney Animation's Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 is that the film managed to nearly break the internet months before it is even scheduled to open (November 21, 2018).
It happened in a trailer, one that finds Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman) — that is, Princess Vanellope von Schweetz — thrust into the green room of everyone's favorite mouse-inspired website Oh My Disney, only to be greeted by...
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Sep 20, 2018
If wild, crazy and freaky genre movies are your thing, then boy do we have a film festival for you!
Fantastic Fest, which takes place every September at an Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas (it has since branched out to spread the fest love to other Alamo locations around the country), is one of the world's most sought-after genre festivals. And when we say "genre festivals," we mean that the majority of movies screening there are in the realm of horror, sci-fi, dark comedy...
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Sep 20, 2018
Kevin Hart has been on a great roll, giving one winning, very funny performance after another over the past several years. In Night School, his latest comedy, he runs smack into the force of nature that is Tiffany Haddish, who has been burning up the screen something fierce herself lately.
Our exclusive clip turns the spotlight on Hart, one of a group of misfits who must attend adult classes, hoping against hope to pass the GED exam. Haddish plays a teacher who calmly explains to Hart what...
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Sep 18, 2018
The Angels are heading to the big screen once again. Originally a TV series in the 1970s, Charlie's Angels was later adapted into a 2000 action comedy that continued the canon of the show, and that spawned one sequel three years later. In 2011, there was a TV series reboot on the small screen, but it was very short-lived. Now, Sony is bringing the property back to theaters with a new version that will hopefully start a new film franchise.
News on the movie reboot has been slow since its...
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Sep 18, 2018
First Friday Night Lights was a 2004 movie starring Billy Bob Thornton, and then it became one of the few movies to successfully transition into a hit television show. The TV show, starring Kyle Chandler, aired for five seasons (from 2006 to 2011), and like its cinematic predecessor, tracked the trials and tribulations of a small Texas town obsessed with its high school football team. In Texas, football is a religion, especially at the high school level, and the stories told in both the film and...
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Sep 18, 2018
Team Fandango is back from the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and we brought with us movie recommendations just for you. Countless films screened over the course of several days in Toronto, but these ten movies really stood out as being unique and entertaining. Each one is different from the next, but every one of these ten movies are worth seeking out.
A Star Is Born
Watch it because… it's guaranteed to be a major Oscar contender, but also because...
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Sep 18, 2018
Captain Marvel, the 21st entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will mark the mega-franchise's first movie focused on a single female superhero, and the first to be co-directed by a female filmmaker and scored by a female composer. The highly anticipated film, which will take place more than 10 years before the MCU began, has been in development since 2013 and finally flies into theaters in early 2019.
Recently, Entertainment Weekly shared the first official stills from Captain...
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Sep 17, 2018
Warner Bros. and DC are definitely keeping things interesting with their comic book movies. In addition to recently introducing a new Joker in Suicide Squad, a different incarnation of the iconic villain will feature in the standalone Joker. This will be more of a crime thriller than traditional superhero fare, and will star Joaquin Phoenix as the eponymous clown prince of Gotham City.
Recently, director Todd Phillips shared a first look at Phoenix in the role on social media. Of course,...
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Sep 17, 2018
What would you do if you were cast in a Star Wars movie?
Alden Ehrenreich has a very long answer to the question of how he literally reacted to getting the part as young Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story. It involved telling his family and then isolating himself on an amusement ride on a pier just to process the information and deal with the fact that he couldn't just start telling everyone.
You can watch Ehrenreich tell the story in the exclusive video...
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Sep 17, 2018
Shane Black's The Predator won the weekend at the box office, topping fellow debuting wide releases A Simple Favor and White Boy Rick. Reaction to the film by critics was not was not terribly enthusiastic; audiences were more positive but still quite mixed.
The fourth installment -- and the sixth overall, counting the two Alien vs. Predator spin-off films -- introduces things that we've never seen before in the series. (See our interview with director Shane Black here, where he talks...
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Sep 17, 2018
In the 54 years since Disney released Mary Poppins, the story of the magical nanny has enchanted and enthralled people over the years to the point that the idea of revisiting a character who's practically perfect in every way is exactly as daunting as any attempt at perfection should be.
Does anyone really want to step into the shoes of Julie Andrews, who played Poppins in the 1964 film, even if those shoes come with a matching magic bag?
Emily Blunt did. Or, at the very...
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Sep 14, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
FIRST LOOK
Dwayne Johnson shares a look at Hobbs and Shaw: Dwayne Johnson isn't even on set yet, but he took to social media to share the first look at the Fast and the Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw as filming began this week. See the image below and read everything we know about the movie here.
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Sep 14, 2018
An infamous case of murder is reimagined with fresh eyes in the crackling drama Lizzie. Chloë Sevigny stars as Lizzie Borden, the daughter of a powerful, wealthy man (Jamey Sheridan) who abuses the women in his life. That includes Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart), a maid who comes to work for the Borden family. After Bridget and Lizzie draw close, Lizzie decides that something must be done to stop her abusive father.
In our exclusive clip, Bridget appears to be at a breaking point....
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Sep 14, 2018
In the delightful family adventure Smallfoot, a curious Yeti named Migo (voiced by Channing Tatum) sets out to prove that elusive creatures known as "humans" actually exist. Migo is a scientist and knows that he needs to bring concrete proof.
To that end, Migo must leave his people by a perilous path down a mountain. As our extended exclusive clip shows, though, that's just the beginning of the many challenges facing the heroic scientist and adventurer.
Zendaya, James...
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Sep 14, 2018
On October 5, the next official Marvel movie arrives in theaters, but it's quite unlike anything we've ever seen from a Marvel comic movie before. Venom, starring Tom Hardy as the iconic antihero with the huge eyes, gnarly teeth and vicious tongue, looks to bring a refreshingly different approach to the comic genre. It's darker, edgier and features a character fans have wanted to see in a standalone movie for decades.
"I was a huge Venom fan, and so that's why I...
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Sep 13, 2018
We've seen many movies about alien invasions, but not what happens in the ensuing years following an attack. We don't get a lot of sequels from this sci-fi sub-genre because that tends to be overkill. But if the massive success of District 9 a decade ago taught us anything, it's that there is room for movies that skip past the actual invasion and show us life alongside the aliens post-arrival.
Captive State promises to be this kind of alternative entertainment, blending...
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Sep 13, 2018
A fresh take on a classic story, A Star Is Born follows a veteran musician (Bradley Cooper) as he helps a talented young singer (Lady Gaga) to reach her full potential, even as he himself begins to plunge downward. Cooper directed the film, which is already generating very positive buzz from its advance screenings.
We are proud to present an exclusive TV spot below, as well as our interview with the cast in attendance at the Toronto International Film Festival, including Cooper, Lady Gaga,...
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Sep 12, 2018
Photo Credit: Barry Wetcher / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures.
"The eighth Rocky film? No, no, no. This is the second Creed film." - Michael B. Jordan
"I think it's fantastic. I think it's going to be even as good as the last one or maybe even surpass it." - Sylvester Stallone
"The first Rocky film is a love story, so, that's always the strength of these films is the interpersonal relationships and...
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Sep 12, 2018
Masters of surprise on the big screen, Joel Coen and his brother Ethan Coen announced in January 2017 that they had written and planned to direct The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, described as an "event anthology set in the Old West." After we heard that Netflix had acquired the series. Then we learned that the series would be, instead, a movie.
Now comes the first trailer for the feature-length film. Here's all we know about The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; watch the trailer below....
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Sep 12, 2018
A college student (Amy Forsyth) visits her longtime best friend (Reign Edwards) and her roommate (Bex Taylor-Klaus). Since it's Halloween, they decide to check out a traveling carnival of scary fun known as Hell Fest. Taking along their boyfriends, they have a frightful good time until they realize that a masked serial killer is determined to make Hell Fest his own personal playground of horror.
Check out our exclusive photos below, which suggest the sheer terror that awaits all unwary...
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Sep 11, 2018
If you loved the antagonistic chemistry between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in The Fate of the Furious, you're in luck, because there's a spin-off in the works focused on their rivalry. Both actors began their respective parts in the Fast and the Furious franchise as antagonists for the main team, but they've become the breakout favorites of the series and will likely continue a new strain to the side of the ongoing central installments led by Vin Diesel.
Hobbs and...
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Sep 10, 2018
The first weekend of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival is already behind us, and most of the heavy hitters and major awards contenders have made their debut. How are the reviews? How were the star-studded Q&As? What's being talked about for Oscars? Have there been any big disappointments? Check out all the essential buzz below.
Widows
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
Perhaps the big winner in terms of critical favor so far, this heist drama with importance...
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Sep 10, 2018
Exceeding all expectations, horror thriller The Nun attracted huge crowds of moviegoers over the weekend, earning an estimated $131 million at the box office worldwide. In the U.S. alone, it estimated take amounted to $53.5 million, the "second-largest opening for an R-rated horror film," according to Box Office Mojo, behind last year's It.
The Nun is the latest installment in the so-called Conjuring Universe, a series of films inspired by or spun-off from James Wan's The...
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Sep 07, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG MOVIE PREVIEW
Toronto Film Festival preview. The 2018 Toronto International Film Festival kicked off this week, so we highlighted the big movies worth buzzing about, including A Star is Born and Halloween. Read our preview guide here.
SAD NEWS
Burt Reynolds passed away at age 82: The iconic star of Smokey and the Bandit and Deliverance died this week, and it's...
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Sep 06, 2018
Actor Burt Reynolds (above in Semi-Tough) has passed away, according to multiple news reports. He was 82.
Many in Hollywood have already paid tribute to Reynolds, according to THR, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Wahlberg and Billy Dee Williams. Wahlberg starred with Reynolds in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights; Reynolds earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.
Reynolds began his television career in the late 1950s and then began appearing on the big...
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Sep 06, 2018
In honor of the next film in the Conjuring universe, Fandango was given the chance to spend a spooky weekend with The Nun at an abandoned convent in Mexico City. We screened the film and descended into a demonic maze deep within the catacombs, and, frankly, we are still recovering. Follow along with our travelogue below as we expose the sights, sounds and horrors of The Nun Unholy Terror Experience.
We spent the weekend hanging with The Nun at this abandoned 17th century...
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Sep 05, 2018
Mark Wahlberg enjoyed success in the comedy Daddy's Home as a very competitive father who attempts to bond again with his children after his ex-wife remarries. In the upcoming Instant Family, Wahlberg and Rose Byrne play a couple who become foster parents to three children and quickly realize they are wholly unprepared for the experience.
Due to positive advance screenings, the film has moved its theatrical opening from February 15, 2019 to November 16. The first trailer, combining...
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Sep 05, 2018
Forget everything you've seen or heard of the Halloween franchise in the last 40 years since the original, because a new Halloween is coming our way that's a direct sequel to the first movie only. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode in the upcoming horror thriller, which takes place after the events in John Carpenter's 1978 classic.
Universal just released a second trailer for the new Halloween, this time showcasing more of Curtis as a badass grandma...
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Sep 05, 2018
Within the span of a month, some of the year's biggest, most memorable and most awards-friendly movies will premiere at a few select film festivals from around the world. The largest and arguably most influential of those festivals is the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs this year from September 6 through September 16, and showcases well over 100 movies from around the world.
Fandango will be in attendance for this year's festival north of the border, and for those...
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Sep 04, 2018
Back in May, a new, 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, thanks in part to the efforts of filmmaker Christopher Nolan. The new print played in select theaters earlier this summer.
More recently, a magnificent 4K restoration of the film has been playing in theaters nationwide. The wonder of seeing the timeless classic on the big screen made us wonder what new, sci-fi worlds will arriving in theaters in the coming months....
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Sep 04, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG NEWS
Dwayne Johnson will finally play King Kamehameha: Dwayne Johnson is taking on his dream roles, at last. The former pro wrestler has been talking about playing legendary Hawaiian ruler Kamehameha I ever since he first became an actor 20 years ago. Now it's finally happening, with the Robert Zemeckis-helmed biopic King. Read everything we...
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Aug 31, 2018
Cover yourself in mud and get to the choppah, because The Predator is on its way. The fourth movie in the series about lethal alien "space hunters" -- or sixth, if we count the Alien vs. Predator crossovers -- looks to be a very different take on a property that began with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the jungles of South America in 1987.
Ahead of the movie's release, Fox has released one more final trailer, and it's a lot lighter in tone than what...
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Aug 30, 2018
Amusement parks and carnivals are great settings for horror movies. Visitors are already vibing on the excitement of the attractions; past fright flicks like Final Destination 3, Zombieland and The Funhouse added layers of extreme anxiety -- and fear of death! -- to the adrenalized experience.
Tapping into that anxious feeling, the upcoming horror thriller Hell Fest is set at an amusement park where the scares become real. Read onward to learn all we know about the film and then watch two...
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Aug 30, 2018
Riley North (Jennifer Garner) awakens from a coma, only to discover that her husband and young daughter have been killed in a brutal attack. Struggling to cope with her loss, Riley is torn apart further when the legal system fails her. She becomes determined to mete out her own brand of justice.
Our exclusive clip from Peppermint picks up the story several years later. Riley has transformed herself into an urban guerilla and gone into battle against those she holds responsible. Can she ever...
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Aug 30, 2018
One of Dwayne Johnson's dream roles is finally becoming a reality. The actor has wished to play the legendary Hawaiian ruler King Kamehameha ever since he began his Hollywood career. Now, according to Deadline, he will lead the historical action movie The King, which will take him back to his Polynesian and Hawaiian roots, for Warner Bros. and New Line.
Previously, Johnson portrayed a version of another Hawaiian hero, the mythological character Maui, in Disney's Moana, but that...
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Aug 29, 2018
Do you have a craving for more creepy horror movies from the Conjuring franchise? Well, The Nun is coming to satisfy your habit -- pun intended. This one is a prequel spin-off of the first Conjuring sequel, as we were introduced to the "Demon Nun" Valak in the 2016 release The Conjuring 2. And it's being sold as its "darkest chapter."
With less than two weeks until the release of The Nun, Warner Bros. and Movieclips have unleashed an exclusive new featurette in which...
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Aug 29, 2018
We first heard that director Eli Roth and actor Jack Black would be collaborating on The House With a Clock in its Walls in 2017. The film is based on a gothic horror book written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey.
Now two trailers have been released and we've learned much more about the family adventure. Here's a recap of everything we know.
What's it about?
This fantasy/horror/mystery hybrid...
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Aug 29, 2018
We first heard about the prospect of Ryan Gosling portraying astronaut Neil Armstrong, best known as the first man to step foot on the moon, back in November 2015. Damien Chazelle was already set to direct the film. At the time, Gosling and Chazelle were working together on La La Land, which was released the following year and eventually earned six Academy Awards, including Best Director for Chazelle.
A new trailer for First Man has now been released and it looks absolutely thrilling....
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Aug 29, 2018
When they meet on their way to a destination wedding, Frank (Keanu Reeves) and Lindsay (Winona Ryder) instantly realize they hate each other. But as they're continually thrown together, and become more and more miserable and unpleasant, they also slowly come to concede that they may have a lot more in common than they could have anticipated.
Their bickering, sparring spirit is showcased in our exclusive clip from Destination Wedding. Facing a short, 90-foot walk, Lindsay makes a simple...
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Aug 28, 2018
In just a split second, Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac) must make a life-changing decision. He is the leader of a team of intelligence and security agents from Israel, sent to Argentina in 1960 on a top-secret mission to capture notorious Nazi official Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley).
Mastermind of the Holocaust, Eichmann eluded justice after the conclusion of World War II, eventually establishing himself in Argentina under an assumed identity. In our exclusive clip from Operation Finale, directed...
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Aug 28, 2018
Warner Bros. and DC are definitely keeping things interesting with their comic book movies. In addition to recently introducing a new Joker in Suicide Squad, a different incarnation of the iconic villain will feature in the standalone Joker. This will be more of a crime thriller than traditional superhero fare, and will star Joaquin Phoenix as the eponymous "clown prince of Gotham City."
While Batman may not be this movie, the Caped Crusader's father will be. Alec Baldwin has...
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Aug 27, 2018
Loosely based on the life of author Louisa May Alcott and her three sisters, Little Women has proven to be an enduring literary classic. It tells the story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March as they pass from childhood to adulthood. The original novel has inspired more than a dozen film and television adaptations.
Now a new film version is on its way from an unexpected source. Read onward to learn all we know about the latest Little Women adaptation.
Who is directing the new version?...
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Aug 27, 2018
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
BIG NEWS
Crazy Rich Asians spawns a sequel: The adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians was enough of a hit in its opening weekend -- overperforming at the box office by a good measure -- so a sequel, based on the second book in the series, Crazy Rich Girlfriend, is now officially on the way. Read everything we know about the movie and who will be returning here.
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Aug 27, 2018
Production on the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga is underway, as Star Wars: Episode IX began shooting this month with The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams at the helm. This movie is going to be a big deal, not only as the closer of a nine-part story (excluding spin-offs and animated features) but also the last time we'll be seeing Original Trilogy characters and the last time we'll be hearing an original score from John Williams.
The plot of the climactic Star Wars...
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Aug 27, 2018
Family adventures never go out of season. So, although the robot dog adventure A.X.L. (above) did not perform well at the box office this past weekend, it's notable that audiences gave it a positive rating, which may encourage others to check it out.
What does the future hold for engaging family adventures? Here are three upcoming titles, all aimed at family audiences, yet each distinctive in its own way, with sufficient variety to please everyone.
The...
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Aug 27, 2018
Welcome to the official start of the 2018 fall movie season! Over the next few months, Hollywood will dole out some of the year's most memorable movies. From major awards contenders to highly-anticipated sequels, many consider this stretch of time to feature films that you won't soon forget. These films will thrill, chill, amaze and challenge viewers in ways that will have them talking all the way through next year's Academy Awards ceremony.
To celebrate the...
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Aug 24, 2018
In The Conjuring, we were introduced to paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of their real-life cases served as the basis for James Wan's terrifying drama, set in 1971. Since then, we've experienced a series of scary stories in Annabelle, The Conjuring 2 and Annabelle: Creation, going back and forth in time as more real-life cases have been dramatized.
The next installment in the series, The Nun, will soon arrive in theaters. In our exclusive video, James Wan...
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Aug 23, 2018
What, exactly, is going on at a dance company in Europe that is causing everyone to become unhinged? In Suspiria, nothing is what it seems to be, which makes it even more intriguing than it appears.
Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades Freed) and Tilda Swinton star in what looks like a very trippy and disturbing thriller. Catch up with all we know about Suspiria and then watch the disturbing and unsettling new trailer below.
Who else stars?
Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf, Jessica Harper and...
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Aug 23, 2018
When J.K. Rowling released a series of Pottermore articles about the world's leading schools of witchcraft and wizardry, the Harry Potter author was secretly signaling to her fanbase that these locations could play a part in her five-part cinematic prequel series. With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, magizoologist Newt Scamander arrived in Prohibition-era New York City. With The Crimes of Grindelwald, he's now heading to Paris, France.
This is the country of love,...
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Aug 23, 2018
It's only been a year, but Newt Scamander has come a long way since he first backpacked through New York City in the year 1926 — and so has his film franchise.
Despite its title, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them wasn't really about Newt's efforts to write his book on magizoology. Instead, it set up the real premise of J.K. Rowling's five-part film series: the rise and inevitable fall of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. Now, it's the year 1927 and...
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Aug 22, 2018
In our exclusive debut of a new poster for Suspiria, a dancer named Sara is showcased. As played by Mia Goth, she is a fine student with a great talent, but she has become aware of a mysterious darkness that threatens her promising future.
Dakota Johnson stars as Susie Bannion, an ambitious young dancer from America who has arrived at a world-famous dance company in Europe. Even before she befriends fellow dancer Sara, she too has become aware of the disturbing darkness swirling at the...
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