The Important News
Box Office Milestone: Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the highest-grossing movie ever in America.
More Star Wars Mania: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is moviegoers’ most-anticipated movie of 2016. The solo Han Solo movie will be set 10 years before A New Hope.
Franchise Fever: Michael Bay will direct Transformers 5. Creed 2 could bring back Apollo. Sylvester Stallone announced the Rambo franchise is dead.
Casting Net: Christoph Waltz could appear in more James Bond movies. Tony Jaa and Jet Li joined XXX: The Return of Xander Cage. Ben Mendelsohn might play the villain in Ready Player One.
Remake Report: Emma Stone will star in Disney’s live-action Cruela De Vil movie. Kelly Rohrbach will play the Pamela Anderson character in the Baywatch movie. Guillermo del Toro might direct The Fantastic Voyage.
New Directors/New Films: Aaron Sorkin will make his directorial debut with Molly’s Game. Martin Scorsese is making two classical music biopics.
Play Time: Dog Day Afternoon is becoming a Broadway show.
Writing Round-up: Beyonce is writing a period drama she might star in.
Weird Science: Mark Zuckerberg is building his own JARVIS a la Iron Man.
Reel TV: Guillermo del Toro has a Trollhunters series headed to Netflix. M. Night Shyamalan is rebooting Tales From the Crypt.
Awards Seasoning: The PGA Award nominees were announced. The BAFTA nominees were announced.
Festival Circuitry: The new Pee-wee Herman movie will debut at SXSW.
The Videos and Geek Stuff
New Movie Trailers: The Boss, The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist, Tumbledown, The Crown, Jeruzalem, Ratter and The Get Down.
TV Spots: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Fifth Wave.
Watch: An honest trailer for The Martian.
See: More officially released images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And behind-the-scenes images showing how the lightsabers looked on set.
Read: The best fan theory about Rey’s origin in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Watch: All of the first six Star Wars movies at the same time.
See: The Little Mermaid mashed with Star Wars.
Learn: How to make BB-8 cake pops. And the back story of the cool Stormtrooper from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
See: The 14 current stars of the X-Men movie universe in one image.
Learn: What happened to Will Smith’s character from Independence Day.
Watch: Inside Out without all the inside parts.
See: A movie star publicly shamed someone pirating her new movie.
Learn: Why Joss Whedon left the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Watch: A supercut of directors cameoing in their own movies.
See: Why The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are the same.
Watch: A creepy documentary about the real forest in The Forest.
Our Features
2016 Movie Previews: Our most anticipated movies you may not know about. And the horror movies that will scare you this year.
Comic Book Movie Guides: New Year’s resolutions for the comic book movies of 2016.
Superhero Movie Guide: 5 Wonder Woman comics to read before seeing Batman v Superman.
Horror Movie Guide: The best horror movies of 2015.
RIP: We remembered the important people we lost in December.
Home Viewing: Here’s our guide to everything hitting VOD this week.
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