‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Features Almost 50 Minutes Of IMAX Footage This weekend,The Hunger Games: Catching Fireis going to be the #1 movie at the box office. That’s a fact. The only question is exactly how much it’s going to make. $100 million? $150 million? $200 million? Fans are so rabid about the film, the sky is the limit. And while the majority of that number will be from traditional movie theaters, a percentage will be fromIMAXtoo....

‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ Trailer Tease & Photos: These LEGO Ninjas Break Bricks All The Time [UPDATED] This week bringsThe LEGO Batman Movieto theaters, but it’s not the only spin-off fromThe LEGO Moviewe can look forward to beforeThe LEGO Movie Sequelarrives in 2019 (which just got a new director). There’s alsoThe LEGO Ninjago Movie, and our first look at the animated martial arts flick has just arrived. The firstLEGO Ninjago Moviephotos have just arrived, showing off the team of teenage ninja heroes voiced byDave Franco, Michael Pena, Zach Woods, Fred Armisen, Kumail NanjianiandAbbi Jacobson....

‘Transformers 4 And 5’ May Shoot Back-To-Back, Jason Statham Could Star Our box office dollars asked for it and now Paramount is hoping to deliver a double dose. Earlier today, news broke thatHasbro is keen ongetting directorMichael Bayback behind the camera to shoot a fourthTransformersfilm.Varietyis now reporting the plan is much bigger than that. They’re actually considering filming a fourth and fifth film simultaneously – much as Warner Bros. did withThe Matrixsequels, Disney did with the second and thirdPirates of the Caribbeanfilms and Universal is considering with the sixth and seventhFast and Furious movies....

(Re)Watch The First Seven Minutes Of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We’ve made no secret about our love forNicolas Winding Refn’s beautifully moody thrillerDrive, and we know that many of our readers fell for it as well. So for a lot of you, the following clip of the first seven minutes of the film won’t really be a “first look” so much as a little reminder of what made the movie so special, in case you’re still trying to make up your mind about whether or not you want to buy the Blu-ray / DVD / digital copy when it goes on sale this week....

Casting Bits: Scott Porter & Christopher Mintz-Plasse Join ‘The Hand Job’, Keira Knightley To Play Tinkerbell In Mini-Series ‘Neverland’ Last yearMaggie Carey’s filmThe Hand Jobwasannounced, in whichAubrey Plazawould play a high school graduate who decides she needs a lot more sexual experience before college, and proceeds to work her way through a checklist of, er, action items. Yesterdaymany more cast memberswere announced and today we have even more, and roles for many of them....

Casting Notes: Taylor Lautner Gets Another Action Movie; Steve Carell Books A Drama After nearly casting him out ofNew Moonthen watching the actor become one of the movie’s biggest selling points, Summit has decided to keep on lovingTaylor Lautner. The company has bought intoCancun, an action movie with a slightly misleading title. When I see ‘Cancun’ I don’t think of a teen version of “TakenmeetsDie Hard,” which is howVarietyis describing this one....

Cool Stuff: Hero Complex Gallery’s NYCC Art For ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Lord Of The Rings’ & More New York Comic-Conhas been finished for a few days now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t pretend like you were there by picking up some of the artwork fromHero Complex Gallerythat was unveiled at the convention. Right now the collectible art gallery has a bunch of new pieces straight from NYCC featuringGhostbusters, Lord of the Rings, The Professional, Misery, Harry Potter, RoboCop, How to Train Your Dragon, The Fifth Element, Pulp Fictionand more....

Dirty Work, Bob Saget’s Hilarious Feature Directorial Debut, Is Now Streaming On HBO Max Bob Sagetdiedover the weekend at the way-too-young age of 65. Saget was an unapologetically dirty stand-up comedian who became the face of safe wholesomeness thanks to his role as a widowed dad on “Full House” and his hosting duties on “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Week after week, audiences invited Saget into their homes, and he was so good at playing a square that his perceived boringness clung to him....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Trailer Breakdown: Guess Who’s Coming To The MCU? During the Super Bowl tonight, “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” dropped anew trailer, sending the minds of Marvelites into meltdown as we all scramble to process what we just witnessed. Let’s dive right into it and see what hints we can glean from this trailer about the plot of the upcoming Marvel Studios film, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Benedict Cumberbatch....

Dwayne Johnson Provides An Update On Shane Black’s ‘Doc Savage’ Dwayne Johnsonis a busy man. He’s part of approximately 50 different film franchises right now, but he’s clearly always up to add some more. LikeDoc Savage, for instance. Johnson’s name has been attached to aShane Black-directedDoc Savagemovie since at least 2016, and now the much in-demand actor has offered an update on the project. What’s up withDoc Savage?Iron Man 3director Shane Black has been attempting to make aDoc Savagemovie since 2009, and the project has been on again/off again ever since....

Forest Whitaker Likely To Be ‘The Butler’ For Director Lee Daniels A couple years ago,PreciousdirectorLee Danielswentback and forthon the idea of filming the life of longtime White House servant Eugene Allen for the movieThe Butler, or making a civil rights drama calledSelma. In the end, he made neither, choosing instead to shootThe Paperboywith Zac Efron, John Cusack, Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey, based on Peter Dexter’s novel of the same name....

Gareth Edwards' ‘Godzilla’ Reboot Will Feature A Cameo From The 1954 Original Gareth Edwards' newGodzillais just the latest of many sequels, spinoffs, and reboots that have been spawned since the monster first trampled Tokyo in 1954. We don’t know too much yet about how his take will differ from the others, but we now know of at least one element it’ll share with the original.Akira Takarada, who starred in the very firstGodzillamovie as diver Hideto Ogata, has just been confirmed for an appearance in the film....

George R.R. Martin Talks About Those Game Of Thrones Spin-Offs, Says They’re All Prequels First of all,A Song of Ice and FirecreatorGeorge R.R. Martinwants us to know that there aren’tfourGame of Thronesspin-offs in the works at HBO. There are five. Second of all, he wants us to know that they aren’t “spin-offs,” as they will not involve any character introduced in the first series. Third of all, he promises that he’s still working on that sixth book....