Best of the Week: First Look at Chris Hemsworth in 'Ghostbusters,' 'Fast and Furious' Forever and More

By Christopher Campbell

The Important News

First Looks: We got our first glimpse of Chris Hemsworth’s Ghostbusters role, plus more new images. Vin Diesel shared new images from XXX: The Return of Xander Cage. And he shared some more.

Star Wars Mania: Gwendoline Christie confirmed Captain Phasma will return in Star Wars Episode VIII.

Franchise Fever: Vin Diesel revealed release dates for Fast and Furious movies through 2021. Channing Tatum revealed how he was almost in the Fast and Furious movies.

New Directors/New Films: Steven Soderbergh will direct Channing Tatum in Lucky Logan. Jaume Collet-Serra will direct Liam Neeson again in The Commuter. Josh Boone might direct Stephen King’s Revival. Mary Harron is helming a Manson Family movie. James Franco will direct true story Zola.

Produce Aisle: Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a movie of The Sandcastle Empire.

Reel TV: Dan Stevens and Aubrey Plaza will star in the X-Men series Legion.

Settling the Score: Two tracks from the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice score were released.

Box Office: Kung Fu Panda 3 won the weekend.

Awards: Idris Elba made history at the SAG Awards.

Festival Fair: The SXSW Film Festival announced its 2016 slate.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Demolition, Miles Ahead, Zootopia, Zoolander 2, Green Room, Me Before You, The Witch, The Driftless Area, Creative Control and Get a Job.

TV Spots: Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Clips: Channing Tatum sings in Hail, Caesar!

Behind the Scenes: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

Watch: This year’s Super Bowl movie trailers as they become available. And Super Bowl players make Oscar predictions.

Learn: Which Star Wars icon almost appeared in The Force Awakens.

See: Star Wars as an R-rated Grindhouse movie.

Learn: Which movie characters are the most realistic psychopaths.

See: The best closing shots in movie history.

Learn: George Miller’s reason why Justic League: Mortal didn’t happen.

Watch: Jurassic World visual effects reel.

See: Kate Winslet explains how Jack could have been saved in Titanic.

Learn: The real reason Bill Murray repeated the same day in Groundhog Day.

See: Winnie the Pooh characters redo this year’s Oscar nominees.

Learn: Where you can ride Falkor from The Neverending Story.

See: The Revenant video game.

Learn: Why we cry during happy parts of movies.

See: This week’s best new movie posters.

Our Features

Monthly Movie Guide: Above is our guide to this month in movies.

New Movie Guides: Hail, Caesar! and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Film Festival Guide: The Sundance movies that need to be on your radar.

Set Visit: Lazer Team.

Interview: Bridge of Spies producer Kristie Macosko Krieger.

Geek Movie Guide: Everything movie geeks needs to see and buy this month.

Horror Movie Guide: All the news and trailers a horror fan needs this month.

Comic Book Movie Guide: What happened between Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

R.I.P.: Remembering all the reel-important people we lost in January.

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

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