Best of the Week: New 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Teaser, 'Doctor Strange' Gets Another Great Actor and More

By Christopher Campbell

The Important News

Star Wars Updates: dropped a new Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser. New images and info surfaced about the Force Awakens villain Kylo Ren. More The Force Awakens images and rumors and toy details also arrived online.

First Look: Michael Fassbender in Assassin’s Creed. New Captain America: Civil War concept art.

Casting Net: Mads Mikkelsen might play the villain in Doctor Strange. Lea Seydoux might play the female lead in Gambit. Robert Pattinson is heading to space. Anne Hathaway is heading to space to fight zombies. Haley Bennett will star in The Girl on the Train. Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer will co-star in a movie they write together. Jason Mitchell joined Kong: Skull Island.

Franchise Fever: Vin Diesel will begin filming xXx 3 in December. Max Landis pitched an idea for American Ultra 2. Superman may not get his own movie for a while. Borderlands is the next video game to attempt a movie franchise.

New Directors/New Films: M. Night Shyamalan will make another movie with Joaquin Phoenix.

Remake Report: The next Blade movie could be about his daughter.

Box Office: Straight Outta Compton still reigned in US theaters. Terminator Genisys opened big in China.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Ashby, Baskin, Love the Coopers, The Iron Giant re-release, Campus Code, Kill Your Friends and When Animals Dream.

Watch: The cast of Star Trek Beyond honors Leonard Nimoy.

See: A G-rated animated remake of Fight Club.

Watch: A remake of the Suicide Trailer with Toy Story footage. And an Empire Strikes Back trailer in the Force Awakens trailer style. And an honest trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road. And a silent film trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road. And a homemade Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer.

See: Evidence that Daniel is the true villain of The Karate Kid. And evidence that Harry Potter is the true villain of his series.

Learn: Which Hollywood movies Quentin Tarantino wishes he made and more.

See: How breaking the fourth wall is used in movies.

Check Out: Google’s new movie review aggregator.

Watch: A quick cut of Blade Runner.

See: What James Spader looked like in his Avenger: Age of Ultron performance capture suit.

Watch: Key & Peele imagines what the Gremlins 2 writers room was like.

See: The Star Trek fan film that costs more than most real movies.

Watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson stars in a new viral video for The Martian.

See: This week’s best new movie posters.

Our Features

Summer Movie Recap: The best action of this summer’s blockbusters.

Video Game Movie Guide: Franchises Nintendo might soon turn into movies.

Classic Movie Guide: Celebrating the 15th anniversary of Bring It On.

Sci-fi TV Series Guide: Why you need to be watching The 100.

Comic Book Movie Guid: Does Superman need his own movie?

Home Viewing: Here’s our guide to everything hitting VOD this week. And here’s our guide to everything hitting DVD this week.

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