The Important News
Box Office: Jurassic World had the best opening of all time.
Director Hirings: Rupert Wyatt will helm Gambit. Kenneth Branagh will remake Murder on the Orient Express. Mark Romanek will direct a Norco Bank Robbery movie. Eli Roth will helm a giant prehistoric shark movie. Rob Zombie will make a Groucho Marx biopic.
Casting: Katherine Waterston joined Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Forest Whitaker joined Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One. Woody Harrelson will portray LBJ. Tom Hanks will portray Captain Sully. Vin Diesel will still play Kojak on the big screen.
Franchise Resurrection: Kindergarten Cop is getting a reboot. Halloween is returning with a retconned reboot. Maleficent is getting a sequel. Kick-Ass may get a prequel then another sequel. Indiana Jones is rumored to be getting a new sequel in 2018.
The Videos and Geek Stuff
New Movie Trailers: The Peanuts Movie, Sicario, The Falling, The Runner, The Secret Life of Pets, Hotel Transylvania 2, Daddy’s Home, Boulevard and Kung Fu Panda 3.
TV spots: Sinister 2.
Watch: Fan-made trailers for Doctor Strange and Captain America: Civil War.
Watch: An honest trailer for Toy Story.
Look: How Marvel Studios congratulated Jurassic World on their box office record. And how real zookeepers are re-creating a shot from Jurassic World.
Watch: Arnold Schwarzenegger explains his Terminator: Genisys “Guardian” character. And Arnold Schwarzenegger prank people as the Terminator.
Read: The X-Files episode that became Final Destination.
Watch: All six Star Wars movies played on top of each other. And Star Wars mashed with Ocean’s Eleven.
Rank: All the Pixar movies from best to worst.
Learn: 5 stages of watching a Pixar movie.
Watch: A new making-of video for Spectre.
Listen: How dope is the Dope soundtrack?
Watch: Psycho‘s shower scene redone with cats.
See: This week’s best new movie posters.
Our Features
Movie Parody: Imagining Jurassic World‘s sponsored dinosaurs.
Film Face-Off: Is Jurassic World better than Jurassic Park?
Sequel Speculation: Two directions the next Jurassic Park sequel could go.
Genre Guide: A brief history of movies that go inside the nightmare of the human body.
Sci-Fi Movie Guide: Why Passengers should be on your radar.
Horror Movie Guide: Pros and cons of splitting The Stand into TV and theatrical parts.
Geek Movie Guide: 6 ideas for the Transformers writing room.
List: 10 ways to geek out on Jaws.
Home Viewing: Here’s our guide to everything hitting VOD this week. And here’s our guide to all the best new indie and foreign DVD releases.
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