Sequel Bits: ‘Blade Runner 2’, ‘Bourne 5’, ‘Transformers 5’, ‘Jack Reacher 2’, ‘The Conjuring 2’, ‘Robocop 2’ After the jump: There’s been arumorflying around thatTransformers 5would send Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) and Optimus Prime on two separate missions. Supposedly, the source of this information was actorMark Ryan, who has voiced Bumblebee, Jetfire, and Lockdown in the movie franchise. But now Ryan’s gone onFacebook(viaTFW2005) to deny he ever said anything of the sort:...

Sequel Bits: ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction,’ ‘Fast And Furious 7,’ ‘Prometheus 2,’ ‘Insurgent,’ ‘Star Trek 3’ There’s a lot of controversy on the set ofTransformers: Age of Extinctionas principal photography concludes. But that’s not all in today’s Sequel Bets. After the jump, read about the following: Let’s begin at the end. One of the stars ofTransformers: Age of Extinction, Nicola Peltz,tweeted thatprincipal photography is done on the June 2014 sequel. Which is a good thing considering there were stories going around (viaHollywood Reporter) that some crew members were “intimidated” into providing someone money....

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s Secret Empire, Thor Feasts With Mjolnir, Professor X Solo Movie & More What is Marvel’sSecret Empire? What doesJames McAvoyhave to say about the potential for a solo movie forProfessor Charles Xavier? What’s one priority thatBen Affleckhas forThe Batman? How wouldDuncan Jonesapproach aGreen Lanternmovie? What character couldPeter Dinklagebe playing inThe Avengers: Infinity War? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Some kind of majorMarvel Comics event is comingcalledSecret Empire, and it involves all of these heroes....

Sweet Magnolias Season 2 Trailer: Wow, These Magnolias Are Even Sweeter Than Before “You never have to go through anything big or small on your own,” promises Maddie Townsend (JoAnna Garcia Swisher). Sisterhood, brotherhood, and shared faith are the major staples of Netflix’s romantic drama series “Sweet Magnolias,” based on Sherryl Woods' novel of the same name. The show centers on three longtime besties in South Carolina: Townsend, a single mother of three going through a divorce from ex-husband Bill (Chris Klein); chef Dana Sue Sullivan (Brooke Elliott), who owns Sullivan’s restaurant; and ambitious attorney Helen Decatur (Heather Headley), who bought a whole mansion and turned it into a spa with Maddie and Dana Sue....

The Legendary John Carpenter Is Doing The Musical Score For The Firestarter Remake “I don’t want to hurt anyone, but it feels kind of good.” Baby kicks some tires and lights some fires in the new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 sci-fi/horror novel “Firestarter,” updating it from the 1984 Mark L. Lester adaptation of a generation past. Universal Pictures just dropped an officialtrailer, and the hottest new revelation is the attachment of John Carpenter to handle the musical score, joining his fellow “Halloween” (2018) composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies....

The Main Difference Between Re-Animator’s R-Rated And Unrated Versions Stuart Gordon’s deliciously deranged “Re-Animator” is a wild ride into the mind of Herbert West, a mad scientist determined to perfect the ability to bring the dead back to life. Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s story, “Herbert West: Reanimator,” Gordon’s first feature film stars a plucky Jeffrey Combs as West, following him on his quest to perfect his reagent serum (no green ever looked so good) that has the power to reanimate the dead, albeit a bit … incorrectly....

The Night Of The Living Dead Cameo You Missed In Silence Of The Lambs Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” and George A. Romero’s proto-midnight movie “Night of the Living Dead” share more than a common induction date into the Criterion Closet. The genre classics have less than six degrees of separation due to a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo in Demme’s 1991 thriller, a cameo that underlines its subject’s entrenched place in the minds of moviegoers and filmmakers alike....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Community’ Broke The Sitcom Mold As One Of TV’s Most Unique Network Comedies (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series:CommunityWhere You Can Stream It:Netflix, HuluThe Pitch:Created byDan Harmon,Communityis the fiendishly clever cult classic for every pop culture obsessive.Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown,andChevy Chasestar as a group of lovable misfits who form a study group at a community college and grow into a codependent team that go on wild movie and TV show-referencing adventures that routinely shake up the sitcom format....

The RoboCop Scene That Had To Be Cut To Avoid An X-Rating “RoboCop” is considered a classic of ’80s action cinema due to its high-concept story, the surprising emotional depths of said story, and the gobs of ultraviolence that are liberally sprinkled throughout that story. Peter Weller’s Alex Murphy is literally shot to pieces before being rebuilt as a cyborg, Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer) has his kneecaps blown out by Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), and one of Boddicker’s henchman has a run-in with a vat of toxic waste....

The Sopranos: The Movie In The Works? Do you remember where you were and who you were with last June whenThe Sopranoswent out with a (non) bang? Might one of the all time quizzical endings lead to a new beginning (perhaps an even greater one?), as rumors are coming in today that a theatrical movie is in the works. OneNick D’Urso, manager of theSatin Dollsstrip club in North Jersey, which served as the infamous Bada Bing strip club in the show,sayshe received a call, possibly from HBO, telling him not to do any renovations to the club in lieu of an upcomingSopranosmovie....

The X-Files Season 1 Scene That Made Everyone On Set Uncomfortable Aliens, ice worms, and smoking men, oh my! “The X-Files” spent the early 1990s and 2000s scaring the crap out of anyone brave enough to watch it. The cases of Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) focus on the things that hide in the dark, causing the mysterious bumps you hear in the night. The pair regularly find themselves up against everything from government conspiracies to little green (or grey, according to Mulder) men, but any good and sufficiently weird sci-fi show has to have its monster of the week....

There’s A ‘TRON’ Double Feature Coming To Disney’s El Capitan Theatre Did you realize this year marks the 35th anniversary of Disney’s cult classicTRON? It’s not exactly the most exciting milestone anniversary, but Disney wanted to do something special for the sci-fi adventure that was a breakthrough film in the realm of special effects and in many ways a predecessor to movies likeThe Matrix. But you’ll have to be in Los Angeles next week to partake....

Vin Diesel Says Steven Spielberg Told Him To Direct Again Or Else It Would Be A “Crime Of Cinema” Did you knowVin Dieselonce directed a feature film? It’s true! TheFast and Furiousstar made his feature directorial debut with the 1997 flickStrays. And while he’s directed a couple of shorts and a TV episode since then, we have yet to see the return of Vin Diesel: Filmmaker. And according toSteven Spielberg, Diesel’s abandonment of the director’s chair is a “crime of cinema”, and who are we to argue with Steven Spielberg?...