‘The Five-Year Engagement’ Trailer: Poking Gentle Fun At A Generational Inability To Fully Commit I’m not going to assume that this is true for everyone, but I think a lot of people in my generation and the one or two that follow me have had the “it’s just different now” marriage conversation with some elder family members. For many couples, it takes a lot longer to get to the point where marriage seems like the best step to take, and even after getting engaged, the path to the altar isn’t always a short one....

‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Could Lose Up To $50 Million At The Box Office The Kid Who Would Be Kingis having a royally bad time at the box office.Joe Cornish’s family-friendly follow-up to his 2011 breakout hitAttack the Blockis gearing up to be one of the year’s first big-budget flops after the $60 million movie debuted last weekend to a disastrous $7 million at 3,521 theaters. Only a month into 2019,The Kid Who Would Be Kingmarks the lowest launch for a wide-release from a major studio this year....

9 Truly Bizarre Things You Should Know About ‘The Smurfs’ Smurfs: The Lost Villageopens today and while it’s the thirdSmurfsfilm from Sony Pictures, it’s essentially a reboot completely unrelated to their previous films. Unlike other franchises Sony has decided to reboot before their time, it actually makes sense for this series, as the Smurfs have been around forever and have done pretty much everything. The brainchild of acclaimed Belgian artist Peyo,The Smurfslaunched as a comic book way back in 1958 before expanding into nearly every form of media, including TV series, toys, and food....

Bryan Singer Auctions Off X-Men: First Class Set Visit, Reveals Vague Plot Synopsis Got a few thousand bucks to spare? Then you might be able to get in on the bidding for the charity auction in which producerBryan Singeris auctioning off a chance to visit the UK set ofX-Men: First Class. If you don’t have any money to spare, you might still want to check out the auction, as it summarizes the plot of theMatthew Vaughn-directed film, offering a scant few details we haven’t been explicitly told before....

David Fincher In Budget Battle Over ‘House Of Cards’, As Host Company Netflix Mulls Evolution To Cable? Even someone who has only passively followedDavid Fincher’s career is likely to know that the producer/director isn’t much concerned about spending more money when the quality of a project is at stake. (Or his vision for the quality of a project, at least. Talk amongst yourselves about whetherPanic Roommight have been better as a faster, cheaper movie....

David Goyer Says “It’s Too Early” For A Cohesive DC Universe Just about every major studio is making some sort of attempt right now to build its own superhero cinematic universe. Some have found more success than others. Marvel, of course, is the gold standard, with a unified mythos that spans across both film and television. But Warner Bros./DC is trying to put up a fight too. It’s just that, according toMan of Steelwriter/producerDavid Goyer, it’s still “too early” for Warner Bros....

Dino-Riders Movie Being Developed By Mattel? Is Mattel developing a big-screen adaptation of the popular Tyco toy lineDino-Riders, which launched in the late 1980’s? The report comes fromThe Tracking Board, which in the past year has proven themselves to have its share of good intel as well as bad intel (so take this with a grain of salt until it’s confirmed). According to their sources, Mattel has teamed up with Solipsist Film, a small Los Angeles-based company best known for helping produceSin City: A Dame to Kill For....

Disney Abandoned George Lucas' Ideas For The ‘Star Wars’ Sequels In the years to come, we’ll certainly learn more about the behind the scenes development of the newStar Warsmovies. But, for now, the public narrative is as follows.George Lucaswas quietly developingStar Wars 7when he decided to sell Lucasfilm to Disney. He passed along his outlines and work on the movies, which screenwriterMichael Arndtbegan adapting.J.J. Abramscame on board as director, but he and the writer didn’t see eye-to-eye....

Fallout TV Series Adds Handsome Man Walton Goggins As A Disfigured Ghoul Warn the Tunnel Snakes, call the Minutemen, and save your bottle caps for a Prime subscription, because Baby Billy is coming to Amazon’s “Fallout” series. Walton Goggins, the actor best known for playing unhinged maniacs like outlaw Boyd Crowder on “Justified”, runaway evangelist Baby Billy on “The Righteous Gemstones,” and evil co-worker Lee Russell on “Vice Principals,” will be bringing one of the desert-traversing ghouls from the “Fallout” universe to life....

First Look: Penelope Cruz In Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides RadarOnline has snapped the first set photos ofPenelope Cruzin costume for Disney’sPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Oh yeah, and Johnny Depp is in the photo as well. Where was Jerry Bruckheimer’s twitpic? Missing in action. In the movie, Cruz plays Blackbeard’s daughter, who has been described as “Sparrow’s foil and equal in many ways.” She is “a woman from his past” that “he’s not sure if it’s love–or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth....

First Official Image: Sacha Baron Cohen In ‘The Dictator’ Earlier this week we saw anon-set snapofSacha Baron Cohenin costume as one of the characters inThe Dictator. Now we’ve got the first official look at Sacha Baron Cohen in costume as the other main character inThe Dictator. The full snap is after the break. So: the film is (or appears to be) a strange blend of influence from Charlie Chaplin’s filmThe Great Dictator, and the novelZabibah and The King, by Saddam Hussein....

Game Of Thrones Creators Aren’t Involved In The Spin-Offs, D.B. Weiss Confirms HBO has had a “Game of Thrones” sized hole in its programming (and fans have had a “Game of Thrones” sized hole in our hearts) since the epic series concluded in May of 2019. There has been a ton of great TV since then, but nothing quite as watercooler conversation special as “Game of Thrones.” We know that upon season 8 wrapping up HBO immediately started work on more “Game of Thrones” content, including one spin-off series starring Naomi Watts that failed to materialize and one spin-off centering on the history of the Targaryen family that got the green light and will be released as"House of the Dragon"sometime this year....

Gotham Awards 2021: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter Takes Top Prize There are only two distinct seasons for invested moviegoers: Oscars season, and the wait until Oscars season. We kid (mostly), but the end of the year and the beginning of the next have always served as benchmarks for the most prestigious, award-ready films from the buzziest filmmakers in the business. The Gotham Awards, which held its 31st ceremony last night, has been held as an early awards barometer for lower budget indie films....