Commander Cody And Gungi Are Returning In The Bad Batch Season 2 “The Bad Batch” are marching for their comeback. At Star Wars Celebration, host David Collins sat with executive producer and supervising director Brad Rau, executive producer and head writer Jen Corbett, story editor Matt Michnovetz, veteran clone voice actor Dee Bradley Baker, and Omega’s voice actress Michelle Ang to discuss season 1 and the Bad Batch’s future. Creator Dave Filoni also made a momentary appearance to introduce them....

Controversial ‘The House That Jack Built’ Director’s Cut To Play In Theaters One Night Only Lars von Trierreturned to Cannes this year after being banned from the festival for 7 years, and immediately infuriated everyone. The film von Trier brought with him, the serial killer dramaThe House That Jack Built, was derided as needlessly cruel, overly violent, and downright terrible. And now the general public will have a chance to see it!...

Did You Catch The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Showrunners' Cameo? Plus, Watch A Teaser For The Show’s Penultimate Episode Last night’s episode ofGame of Throneswasa brutal return to formfor the show after its huge battle episode, and amid all of the survivors' drunken revelry, you may have missed a cameo fromDavid BenioffandDan Weiss, the co-creators and showrunners of the series. Check out some behind-the-scenes footage of their appearance in the latest entry of HBO’sGame Revealedvideos below, as well as a short trailer for the next episode....

Doctor Who Centenary Special Trailer Teases Jodie Whittaker’s Final Episode, Return Of Classic Companions The Doctor is in … for one last time. Whovians have been preparing themselves for the end of Jodie Whittaker’s final appearance as Thirteen for some time now, ever since “Doctor Who: Flux” brought the previous season to apretty unsatisfying endin December of 2021. Luckily, fans have been able to look forward to three separate specials in the time since: this year’sNew Year’s Day specialback in January, the recently-aired “Doctor Who: Legend of the Sea Devils” on Easter Sunday, and the grand finale that will bring Whittaker’s run as the character to a close later this fall....

Dual Review: Karen Gillan Tries To Kill Her Double In Riley Stearns' Dark Comedy [Sundance 2022] Riley Stearns, the filmmaker behind 2014’s “Faults” and 2019’s “The Art of Self-Defense,” returns to Sundance with “Dual,” an odd dark comedy which sits comfortably in the tonally unique corner of cinema Stearns has carved out for himself. In the director’s movies, life is not something to be celebrated, but a punishment to be endured; the joke at the center of “Dual” is that characters will fight each other to the death in order to secure the misery of experiencing an average existence....

Emily VanCamp Returning As Agent 13 For ‘Captain America: Civil War’ The cast ofCaptain America: Civil Warjust keeps getting bigger. While the biggest addition to the third film in Captain America’s film franchise is undoubtedlyRobert Downey Jr.as Tony Stark facing off against Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, there’s plenty of other familiar faces from the rest of the Marvel cinematic universe involved in the film. Now one more has entered — or re-entered — the fray asEmily VanCampjoinsCaptain America: Civil War, reprising her role fromCaptain America: The Winter Soldier....

From Yetis To Little Women: Every Female-Directed Film Remaining In 2019 Despite what wildly disappointing statistics would lead you to believe, women direct movies! Exceptional ones, in fact! Even now, over halfway through the year, there are still several (but not enough) films directed by ladies heading to the big screen. Strangely enough, the majority of them are in November. I have no idea why, but I’m going to need all of you to get your butts to the theater at least five times that month....

Is James Franco Going To Play Kaneda In ‘Akira’? Answer: Probably not. The development of a live-action film version ofKatsuhiro Otomo’s mangaAkirahas been long and difficult. The massive story isn’t the easiest thing to distill into one or two feature films (just ask the creator, who did it himself in the late ’80s) much less for a price that represents an acceptable balance between risk and reward. But Warner Bros and Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way are forging ahead nonetheless....

James Franco Now Adapting ‘Zeroville,’ One Of The Best Books About Hollywood The novelZeroville, bySteve Erickson, is a cracking, funny, wildly perceptive book about New Hollywood. It’s a piece of fiction rooted in history, in which an alienated young man who loves movies with a burning intensity makes his way to Los Angeles in 1969. There, he gradually meets a variety of filmmaker types (including John Milius and Martin Scorsese) as his own fortunes rise in the movie business....

James Franco’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Documentary To Premiere On Hulu After four years in limbo, fans will finally get a chance to seeJames Franco’sSaturday Night Livedocumentary this weekend.Saturday Nightwill hitHulu Pluson Friday September 26, marking the end of a long road for the comedy documentary. Back in 2009/2019, Franco spent a week watching the then cast ofSaturday Night Liveput together an episode for one of his NYU film classes. He then realized the access he had was unprecedented, and created a feature based on the experience....

James Gunn Says There Won’t Be A ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 4’, Calls Harley Quinn His Favorite Character He’s Written James Gunnrecently confirmed that bothThe Suicide SquadandGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3were still on trackto meet their intended release dates. Of course, there’s always the chance that might change since there’s a lot of time between now and when those movies will get released. Thankfully,The Suicide Squadis being worked on remotely in post-production, andGuardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Jean Smart To Star In New HBO Max Dark Comedy From Mike Schur And ‘Broad City’ Trio After establishing herself as a scene-stealing supporting player in prestige genre shows in recent years,Jean Smartis taking the lead in a new HBO Max dark comedy fromMike SchurandBroad CityalumsPaul W. Downs,Lucia AnielloandJen Statsky. HBO Max has ordered 10 episodes of the yet-untitled dark comedy, which will explore the “dark mentorship” between a Las Vegas diva (Smart) and an entitled 25-year-old outcast....

Josh Brolin Talks Thanos' Role In ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ And The Marvel Cinematic Universe We don’t know much about the plot of Marvel’s Phase Three, but we know how it’s going to end. Ever since the end of Joss Whedon’sThe Avengers, we knew the mad titan Thanos was going to become a factor. The most powerful villain in the Marvel Universe was on the hunt for the Infinity Stones he so famously acquired in the classic comic story,Infinity Gauntlet....