Ashton Kutcher Adapting Twitter Pages ‘Dear Girls Above Me’ And ‘Shh… Don’t Tell Steve’ Into TV Sitcoms While there are definitelysomebenefitsto Twitter’s cultural ubiquity, the site’s recent foray into television has undoubtedly been one of the more unfortunate side effects. CBS already adapted one Twitter account into a TV show—the popular S*** My Dad Says (@s***mydadsays), which now has close to 2 million followers and a book deal to boot—and the results werecatastrophic....

Bender Is Back, Baby! John DiMaggio To Return For Futurama Revival On Hulu “Futurama” fans rejoice, as all is well with Hulu’s revival of the beloved animated series. After much back and forth, actor John DiMaggio has indeed closed a deal to return to the show as the voice of Bender despitehis previous pay dispute. This means the entire original cast will be back when the show returns on the streaming service, making for the best possible outcome....

Better Call Saul Season 6 Ratchets Up The Tension With ‘Rock And Hard Place’ Major “Better Call Saul” spoilers follow, obviously. Farewell, Ignacio “Nacho” Varga. Fans of “Better Call Saul” have long expected this day to arrive — Nacho is, after all, one of the few “Saul” characters who had no presence in “Breaking Bad.” His fate remained up in the air. And based on the world Nacho operated in, it seemed extremely likely that he wouldn’t make it out of the show alive....

Casting Bits: Ron Livingston In ‘Game Change;’ Steve Austin And Danny Trejo In ‘Recoil’ The Tom Hanks company Playtone is putting togetherGame Change, in whichJulianne Moorewill playSarah Palinunder the direction ofJay Roach(Austin Powers). The film follows the 2008 Presidential election, andEd HarrisplaysJohn McCain. NowRon Livingstonhas been cast as Mark Wallace, senior advisor to the McCain-Palin ticket. In other words, he gets to play the guy who coached Sarah Palin for her debates, and so his scenes with Julianne Moore could be gold....

Casting Notes: Chris Evans In Puncture; Julianne Moore And Kristen Stewart In Backwoods; David Oyelowo Is MLK In Selma Just in caseChris Evansdoesn’t get the role of Captain America, he’s lined up another gig that he can shoot right now. He’s taken the lead role inPuncture, an indie drama about “a troubled young attorney who must come to terms with his own demons when taking on a healthcare giant.“Adam and Mark Kassenare directing; the script is byChris Lopta....

Check Out An Exclusive ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Vinyl Debut One of the best movie scores of the year,Nicholas Britell’sIf Beale Street Could Talk, is receiving two gorgeous new vinyl releases from Lakeshore Records and Invada Records, and we have an exclusive look at the artwork below. The vinyl editions will be released in vintage period inspired album designs. Check out the art, and other details of theIf Beale Street Could Talkvinyl release below....

Chinese Superstar Wu Jing Has Boarded Meg 2: The Trench “The Meg” just might have met its match. The unstoppable shark-like mega monster from the 2018 film has now added a boost of international star power to act opposite action star Jason Statham. Wu Jing, proud owner of the title of highest-grossing male actor of all time in China, has joined the cast of “The Meg 2: The Trench,” according toVariety....

Cool Stuff: Matt Taylor, Matt Ryan Tobin & Matt Ferguson Debut Prints For ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ ‘The Fly’ & More For collectors of pop culture artwork, there’s a treasure trove of fine prints available to buy every single week. It’s enough to empty one’s bank account over and over again. This week we have some stunning new artwork from artistsMatt Taylor, Matt Ryan TobinandMatt Ferguson. No, they haven’t all joined forces for some kind of Matt-centric gallery, but they just happen to have some great pieces paying tribute toTarzan of the Apes, A Princess of Mars The FlyandStar Trek Beyond....

Disney Offers Buy-One-Get-One-Free Tickets For Sorcerer’s Apprentice, But Will It Drive More Interest In The Movie? I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I was doing my daily deal-hunting and discovered abuy-one-get-one free dealforSorcerer’s Apprenticetickets. At first I thought it was a Fandango promotion, seeing as howApprenticeis one of Disney’s tentpole releases this summer. Why on earth would they be giving away free tickets on a massive scale for the film’s opening weekend?...

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Marks A Long-Awaited Reunion For Kevin Feige One of the many, many reasons to be excited about the upcoming “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” — besidesthe multiverse stuff— is the return of one of the most acclaimed superhero movie directors ever, Sam Raimi. Long before “The Avengers” assembled, long before Thanos decimated half the universe, there was “Spider-Man.” After “X-Men” ushered a new era of superhero movies with its grounded, gritty take on the mutant heroes, Raimi’s “Spider-Man” showed you could do superhero movies with gravitas, a darker tone, tons of cutting-edge special effects, and still make it an earnest, uplifting movie....

Final ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Trailer: “Let’s Hope This Doesn’t Get Messy” Theearly buzzis strong forStar Trek Beyond. Oddly, the film may not screen in certain territories for critics, but considering the first wave of reviews are almost as positive as they were forJ.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot, maybe that’ll change. Inheriting the director’s chair from Abrams isJustin Lin(Fast & Furious 6), and another trailer has been released for Lin’s sequel. Below, watch the finalStar Trek Beyondtrailer....

First Look: The Congress, The Animated Sci-Fi Adaptation From Waltz With Bashir Director Ari Folman Just over a year ago it was announced thatAri Folman, director of the exceptionalWaltz With Bashir, would next oversee an adaptation ofStanislaw Lem’s storyThe Futurological Congress. The short story, which is only partially being used for the film, is about Ijon Tichy, a man “who is propelled into a world where hallucinogenic drugs have replaced reality....

Gary Whitta On Growing Up With Star Wars, Prequel Disappointment And Writing A Spin-Off ScreenwriterGary Whitta(Book of Eli, After Earth) is about to releasehis first novel,Abomination. To promote the pre-order of the historical fantasy novel, Whitta sat down with us for an extensive interview spanning his career thus far. Over the course of this week we will be posting all of the parts of this interview broken up into digestible thematic bites — we’re calling it “/Film’s Week Of Whitta”....