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Warner Bros. Pictures has released a new trailer for the third Fantastic Beasts film. Called Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the movie is set for an international release on April 7, followed by a North American release on April 15. Ahead of the premiere, you can check out the brand new trailer below, which was originally teased to come out last Thursday. The synopsis reads: “Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) is moving to seize control of the wizarding world....

David Koechner is confirmed for New Line’s Final Destination 5, joining Miles Fisher, Nicholas D’Agosto, P.J. Byrne and Ellen Wroe in the latest installment of the death-cheating franchise, directed by Steven Quale, according to Heat Vision. The film franchise focuses on a group of people who survive a catastrophic event but end up meeting death in the order they were meant to, as if their ends are inescapable. The new movie sees the new batch of victims, co-workers on a corporate retreat, escaping the collapse of a city’s suspension bridge....

David Letterman will host his final broadcast of the Late Show on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, it was announced today by CBS and Worldwide Pants Incorporated, Letterman’s production company. The longest-tenured late night talk show host at more than 32 years, Letterman, who has hosted CBS’s Late Show for 22 years, announced his retirement on the April 3 broadcast. Here’s what CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves had to say in a statement....

Disney has revealed the first photo from Mars Needs Moms starring Seth Green and Joan Cusack. Take a look! Take out the trash, eat your broccoli-who needs moms, anyway? Nine-year-old Milo (Seth Green) finds out just how much he needs his mom (Joan Cusack) when she’s nabbed by Martians who plan to steal her mom-ness for their own young. Produced by the team behind “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” and “The Polar Express,” “Mars Needs Moms” showcases Milo’s quest to save his mom-a wild adventure in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D that involves stowing away on a spaceship, navigating an elaborate, multi-level planet and taking on the alien nation and their leader (Mindy Sterling)....

Screen Gems has sent us the first two official movie stills from the horror/thriller Vacancy starring Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley and Ethan Embry. CLICK HERE to check out the first two images from the film! When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox’s (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around, with only the TV to entertain them… until they discover that the low-budget slasher movies they’re watching were all filmed in the very room they’re sitting in....

You can revisit the first half of a popular new series on DVD in February. FlashForward Volume 1 will be released on DVD on February 23. This new DVD set will contain all 10 episodes of this new series and will be priced at $29.99 SRP. We have no cover art as of yet, and it doesn’t appear there will be any special features on this set either. We’ll be sure to update you if there are any changes to this DVD set....

The prolific cult director also talks about directing The Loss of Nameless Things Fans of true cult cinema have a reason to rejoice this Halloween season, as Fred Dekker, the mastermind behind the hugely popular The Monster Squad, is finally bringing his elusive, long absent underground horror hit Night of the Creeps to DVD and Blu-ray on October 27th. To help celebrate the release, we recently caught up with the prolific director for a no holds barred interview that covers his whole career (including his own ruminations about the much maligned RoboCop 3 some fifteen years after its release)....

Entertainment Weekly recently set out to visit the Croatian set of Game of Thrones Season 2, which is now shooting in Dubrovnik. Their intent was to photograph Dany’s (Emilia Clarke) three baby dragons, Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal. As these creatures are CGI, they were impossible to capture on film. But EW did return with three new images from the Game of Thrones set. The first photo is of Fort Lovrijenac in Dubrovnik, which is being used for the King’s Landing Scenes....

Comedian Chris Rock is at the center of another controversy. These days, Rock is perhaps most associated with the infamous incident at the Oscars when he was slapped by actor Will Smith over a joke told about the Best Actor Oscar winner’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Though he’s publicly stayed quiet about the situation for the most part, Rock has been occasionally joking about the Oscars slap at some of his stand-up comedy shows....

While Christian Bale’s Batman still stands as one of the best iterations of the DC superhero put on screen, the actor recently commented that playing Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder was much easier than donning the cape and cowl as the Dark Knight for a very simple reason; everyone loves a bad guy. Christian Bale is one of the most highly regarded actors to enter the MCU, and while his take on Gorr was not the monstrous creature that appears in the comic books, he was certainly a star turn for his relatively short screen time....

Franchise star Christopher Lloyd is taking a look back at Back to the Future Part III. Released in 1990, the film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, who crafted the story with producer Bob Gale. This time, Doc Brown (Lloyd) and Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travel 100 years to the past to the year 1885. It is the third and final installment of the Back to the Future movie series, which has not been rebooted or given any other sequels in the years since....

Universal Picturs has announced that the film formerly titled Cirque du Freak has now been renamed The Vampire’s Assistant and will be released on October 23. The film stars John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, Patrick Fugit, Ray Stevenson, Michael Cerveris, Frankie Faison, Jane Krakowski, Orlando Jones, Kristen Schaal and Salma Hayek. Paul Weitz directed from a script he co-wrote with Brian Helgeland. The studio also released a new synopsis for the film, which you can read below....

Accoridng to Variety, Columbia Pictures has picked up the comedy pitch Moi for studio-based Hal Lieberman Co. to produce. Described as being in the vein of Jim Carrey starrers Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty, “Moi” centers on a man who is convinced that the world would be a better place if everybody acted just like him. Josh Lobis and Darin Moiselle will write. Lieberman, who brought the pitch to Columbia’s production toppers Matt Tolmach and Doug Belgrad, will produce....

Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 film based on Kevin Kwan’s novel, which carries the same name. The movie was a hit among viewers, receiving two Golden Globes nominations for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. Warner Bros. announced a sequel to Crazy Rich Asians based on the movie’s success. However, no official update has been provided regarding the sequel’s release....

William Petersen had a bit of a health scare on the set of his upcoming CSI spinoff series, culminating with a trip by ambulance to the hospital. Set to premiere in October on CBS, CSI: Vegas serves as a bit of a direct sequel series to the original CSI. The cast will introduce several new characters to the team of titular crime scene investigators, though it will be led by returning stars Petersen and Jorja Fox reprising their respective roles as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle....

Just back from shooting Saw IV, Darren Lynn Bousman took time out from talking about that movie to tell me about his next directorial effort. It is entitled, Repo! The Genetic Opera!. Here is what he had to say: Darren Lynn Bousman: We start Repo on Monday. It’s my next film. It’s a rock opera. Lionsgate is producing it. We went straight into it. Production starts August 22nd. It was a play that I did two years ago right down the street from here, in Hollywood....

Exclusive Media Group has acquired worldwide rights in all media excluding US and Canada to the high-octane, action romantic comedy Outrun, written and directed by Dax Shepard (acting credits Employee of the Month, Baby Mama and MTV’s Punk’d) who, co-directs with David Palmer, and stars with Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper and Tom Arnold, it was announced today by Exclusive co-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East. The all-star ensemble cast featuring some of the industry’s leading comedic actors also includes Kristin Chenoweth, Beau Bridges, David Koechner, Michael Rosenbaum, Joy Bryant and Ryan Hansen....

The world’s most epic race against time continues as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Complete Fourth Season on Blu-ray and DVD on September 24, 2019. Fans can get up to speed with all 16 captivating episodes from the fourth season, plus those that purchase a Blu-ray copy can enjoy timeless special features including an epic storytelling featurette, deleted scenes and a gag-reel. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is The CW’s #3 show among Total Viewers, with over 1....

Deadpool fans everywhere are eagerly awaiting more details of the Merc with a Mouth’s MCU debut soon, and while Ryan Reynolds has teased more information coming it soon, it looks like audiences aren’t the only ones in the dark about the sequel. As gears slowly turn on the third movie in the Deadpool franchise, and the first under Marvel Studios’ banner, it seems that actress Morena Baccarin, who plays Vanessa Carlysle in the movies, hasn’t heard anything about whether she will be in the film yet....

Dear Marketing Person or People at Lionsgate, I know someone in marketing thinks they’re clever. On paper, using a song entitled Bodies (know for it’s Neanderthal-like chorus “let the bodies hit the floor!”) for a new, ultra-violent, action movie sounds like an awesome move. The irony is almost too prevalent to be associated with a conscious marketing choice, rather than a random selection on some intern’s iPod. But for the sake of argument, let’s just say it was a conscious marketing move....