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Disney‘s upcoming legacy sequel “TRON: Ares” has a brand new trailer that dropped over the weekend featuring some footage of the film with one of the Program characters out in the real world and being pursued by police while on a light-cycle. “TRON” is set in a universe, created by ENCOM, where digital people inhabit a space where games to the death are commonplace.

What films will bow at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival? Cinephiles find out when Cannes director Thierry Fremaux announces the festival’s line-up next Thursday, April 10. But with a week ago, Fremaux couldn’t help teasing rumors of a certain blockbuster having its world premiere on the Croisette to Variety.

LAS VEGAS – For a moment, you’re watching footage from a new “Avatar” movie and waiting to be impressed. Our heroes, the Sully family, are still living with the Metkayina clan.

What does Josh Hartnett have up next for his current career resurgence? From the looks of “Fight Or Flight,” it’s hard-hitting B-movie fun, with the “Trap” actor doing his best “John Wick” impression. “Fight Or Flight” stars Hartnett as an exiled American operative given a last-ditch assignment: tracking down “The Ghost,” a high-value asset on a trans-Pacific flight.

Filmmaker David Ayer is a man of few words. It’s not that he doesn’t have anything to say, far from it.

This summer sees Marvel Studios‘ first massive superhero reboot attempt since relaunching “Spider-Man” in 2016 as they’ll be giving us a new retro-futuristic Multiverse version of Marvel’s first family, “The Fantastic Four.” Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”) is part of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” cast and is now making quite the sales pitch for the Matt Shakman-directed (“WandaVision”) pic while speaking with The Direct, suggesting that it’ll be “the Marvel movie of the year” (“Thunderbolts*” is coming out in May) along with comparing it to the likes of landmark MCU films “Black Panther” and “Guardians of The Galaxy.” READ MORE: Elizabeth Olsen Says She’s Pitched A “Gnarly” White-Haired Wanda Returning To Marvel 50 Years Later [Exclusive] “So, I think our movie, ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps,’ to me, only speaking from my opinion, everything I witnessed and took part in, everything I felt while in the presence of the creatives on the film, I believe we are the Marvel movie of the year.

Recently, it was announced that actor Regé-Jean Page (“Black Bag”) is set to star and produce a new version of the classic revenge tale “The Count of Monte Cristo,” based on the novel by beloved French author Alexandre Dumas (“The Three Musketeers”). A report from Deadline says Page’s new version is at Department M.

Over the weekend, new footage from FX‘s highly anticipated sci-fi horror series “Alien: Earth” in the form of a clip/teaser made its way online (via JoBlo). The spinoff series takes place years before the events of the original “Alien” as a doomed ship with a Xenomorph picking off crew members crash lands on Earth leading to a group looking to survey the accident.

Remember “Orphan?” That rather upsetting horror tale of a deranged woman in her early 30s afflicted with dwarfism who, after posing as a nine-year-old girl, proceeds to inflict a battery of terror upon her adopted parents? Surprisingly, the events of “Orphan” seem to have inspired a real-life scenario similar in more ways than one to the 2009 film.

Marvel‘s critical darling “Daredevil: Born Again” not only brings back Charlie Cox‘s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio‘s Wilson Fisk, but the new revival series from Marvel Television also has the grand return of Jon Bernthal (“The Accountant 2”) as The Punisher, however, as the actor tells it that nearly didn’t happen for creative reasons. In a new chat with Entertainment Weekly, the actor revealed he nearly wasn’t a part of the show due to the creative choices being made in the previous incarnation and it wasn’t until Marvel Television decided to retool things that he decided to come back to “Daredevil: Born Again.” READ MORE: Jon Bernthal Promises “Dark” Tone For Gestating ‘Punisher Special Presentation’: “It Will Not Be Punisher-Lite” “Ultimately, I didn’t see it.

This month sees the return of Guy Ritchie to the small screen, after last year’s pot crime comedy series spinoff “The Gentlemen” (already given a season two greenlight), with his latest London gangster effort “MobLand” and a new high-profile addition has been named to the cast ahead of the March 30 debut on Paramount+. British actress Janet McTeer (“Ozark,” “The Old Man”) has been tapped to play a dangerous underworld figure as revealed by The Hollywood Reporter after recently being in the mix to join the “Harry Potter” reboot series alongside John Lithgow and appearing in the satirical thriller “The Menu.” READ MORE: ‘Harry Potter’: Janet McTeer In Talks To Play Professor McGonagall In Upcoming HBO Series, Paapa Essiedu Close To Deal To Play Snape McTeer’s character, Kat, is described in the report as “as charming as she is violent,” and “Crime bosses from London to Beijing are anxious never to cross swords with her.” She joins a seasoned cast that already features Tom Hardy (“Taboo”), Helen Mirren (“1923”), and former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan (“Black Bag”).

Everyone’s favorite in over his head coach is back. Apple TV+ revealed today that “Ted Lasso” is officially returning for a fourth season.

AUSTIN – Four young friends on the cusp of the rest of their lives get stuck on an unending forest road that seemingly goes nowhere. They drive on and on, the dorky jokes they initially share together fading almost entirely from the mind as they realize this is all there is.

Who’s coming over for dinner, you ask? Oh, just a group of British spies who might have something to hide about a plan that jeopardizes the lives of thousands of innocent people. The hosts? A married spy couple.

The first scene of Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De’s propulsive new documentary “Take No Prisoners” begins with a prisoner exchange. As the camera peers through a porthole window of a private jet, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs (SPERA) Roger D.

The trailer for Apple Films & Warner Bros.’ “F1” hit today, and it seems to offer not only high-octane action and visceral thrills but bruising dramas within. Like “Top Gun: Maverick,” which seamlessly blended buzzing supersonic aerial intensity with heart, soul, romance and meaningful character dynamics, “F1,” about the dangerous, high-stakes world of Formula One auto racing, director Joseph Kosinski seems like he’s applied the same flying and drama principles to his Brad Pitt-starring racing movie READ MORE: ‘F1’ Trailer: Brad Pitt Feels The Need For Speed In Joseph Kosinski’s High-Octane Racing Drama The film centers on a racing legend, Sonny Hayes (Pitt), who is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more chance at redemption.

Five months from its planned theatrical release, mysteries still swirl around Paul Thomas Anderson‘s upcoming blockbuster at Warner Bros.  But cross at least this mystery off the list, as a new WGA filing for the project confirms it’s “inspired by” Thomas Pynchon‘s 1990 novel “Vineland.” That makes the film the second time Anderson brings Pynchon’s work to the big screen, the first time being 2014’s “Inherent Vice.” READ MORE: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Movie With Leonardo DiCaprio Slated For August 2025 But bear in mind “inspired by” is not synonymous with “adaptation.” But Anderson has had great success in taking liberties with novels before. 2007’s “There Will Be Blood” was originally an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis‘ “Oil! Continue reading New WGA Filing Confirms Paul Thomas Anderson’s Upcoming Warner Bros.

After making her directorial debut with the thoughtful and striking drama “Passing,” actor/filmmaker Rebecca Hall may have found her next project, a drama based on the life of novelist, poet, and essayist Erica Jong, best known for her controversial novel “Fear of Flying,” a groundbreaking cultural touchstone and feminist take on sexual pleasure, that caused a sensation in 1973. READ MORE: ‘Long Bright River’ Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Plays A Cop Investigating A Murder During The Opioid Crisis Described in passing in a New York Times article this week as a biopic of Jong, Amanda Seyfried, who will star in the lead role, told The Playlist in an exclusive interview about her new upcoming crime drama Peacock series, “Long Bright River,” the narrative goes beyond just that label or genre.

“Spider-Man 4” casting is finally in full swing! The next installment of the Spidey franchise will see both Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios reunite on the co-production as they’ve just added “Stranger Things” actress Sadie Sink in an undisclosed role alongside Tom Holland.

The commonplace, overused narrative about filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo, aka The Russo Brothers, is that ever since their tremendously successful Marvel run—five films culminating with two of the highest-grossing box office films of all time, “Avengers: Infinity War” and ‘Endgame’—is that they have been in a massive slump. Leaving Marvel to form their production company AGBO, they’ve directed three films since, “Cherry,” “The Gray Man,” and their latest, the sci-fi adventure film, “The Electric State.” The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2025 Each has been at a streamer (Netflix for all, minus “Cherry” made at Apple), and each of them has been tremendously expensive— their latest ballooning to a reported $320 million— the implication being that none of them have been worth the cost given their mediocrity.

It’s evident, almost immediately, that a film called “Magic Hour” begins, and two people are introduced, Erin (Katie Aselton) and Charlie (Daveed Diggs), and they have a stable, cheerful relationship between them. Video captured at an amusement park perfectly puts their dynamic on display as they self-deprecatingly lollygag about the premises, and from this footage, the film shift to the desert, specifically Joshua Tree, where a lavish home owned by Erin’s friend (Brad Garrett) seems to be something of a getaway for the couple as they, as Garrett himself puts it, “work through all the crap.” Indeed, there does exist something the two need to figure out, with Charlie’s upbeat demeanor clashing against Erin’s frequent slips into melancholy and an outburst emanating from Erin while the two are out hiking the desolate, beautiful landscape surrounding Garrett’s residence hints at some as-yet-unknown tragedy having occurred no long prior.