The Important News

Awards: The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road led the Oscar nominations. The Revenant and The Martian led the Golden Globe winners. Ridley Scott and many first-timers received DGA Award nominations. And the worst movies got their Razzie nominations.

Box Office: The Revenant was not able to knock Star Wars: The Force Awakens from its box office throne.

More Star Wars Mania: Eight actors were shortlisted for the role of young Han Solo. Princess Leia will appear on Star Wars Rebels. Star Wars VIII will reportedly be much darker. J.J. Abrams commented on the theories of Rey’s parentage.

Marvel Madness: Ryan Coogler was confirmed to helm Black Panther.

DC Delirium: Amber Heard will play Hera in Aquaman and Justice League.

Sequelitis: Creed 2 was set for a November 2017 release. World War Z needs a new director. George Miller confirmed he still is going to make more Mad Max sequels.

Franchise Fever: Chronicles of Narnia is being rebooted. Fast and Furious 8 will take the series in a new direction. Ridley Scott said Alien: Covenant will aim for a hard R rating.

Casting Net: Adam Driver will star in the next Jim Jarmusch movie.

Remake Report: Ridley Scott might direct the movie version of The Prisoner. Jake Kasdan will direct the Jumanji remake.

New Directors/New Films: Louis Leterrier will direct The Fireman. Guillermo del Toro might direct Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Play Time: Quentin Tarantino is adapting The Hateful Eight for the stage.

R.I.P.: David Bowie died of cancer at 69. Alan Rickman also died of cancer at 69.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Green Room, The Secret Life of Pets, Money Monster, Free State of Jones, Rabid Dogs, Sing Street, The Witch and Triple 9.

TV Spots: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Race.

Watch: A fake trailer for a serious version of Dumb & Dumber.

See: New Deadpool marketing fun.

Watch: A fake trailer for Ride Along 3.

See: How they shot the craziest scene in The Revenant.

Watch: The Revenant parodied as an Oregon Trail movie.

See: The best Star Wars cosplay of the last five years.

Watch: The official music video tie-in promoting China’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens release.

See: Where Maz Kanata appears to show up in The Phantom Menace.

Watch: A time-lapse tribute to the 70mm projection of The Hateful Eight.

See: The problem with movie trailers today.

Learn: How Hollywood makes their movies scientifically accurate.

See: Hologram recreations of your favorite movie scenes.

Our Features

Movie Reviews: 13 Hours might be Michael Bay’s angriest movie.

Geek Movie Guide: What if the Oscars only nominated geek movies?

Sci-Fi Movie Guide: A brief history of science fiction at the Oscars.

Sci-Fi Movie Guide: How to manage the hype for 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Comic Book Movie Guide: Looking back on the 1978 Doctor Strange.

Comic Book Movie Guide: Who we’d like to see play the villains of all the DC movies.

Home Viewing: Here’s our guide to everything hitting VOD this week. And here’s our guide to all the best new indie and international DVD and Blu-ray releases.

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There are very few guarantees in life. But one of them must — must! — be that as soon as you hear “Made in Tribu Baharú,” you’ll start moving. (I promise.) It’s a song from Tribu Baharú, a band from Bogotá, Colombia — and the sextet’s high-energy, abundantly joyful calls to the dance floor belie a complicated history.

Tribu Baharú’s musical style, called champeta, originated as a type of folk music within communities of African descent along Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Not acknowledging their country’s African heritage and its history in the slave trade, many people in Colombia looked down on the sounds of champeta and the people it represented. (In fact, there are reportedly still people who would like to try to squelch champeta; these days, the charge is that it encourages teen pregnancy.)

In the 1970s and ’80s, traveling West African sailors docking in ports like Cartagena and Barranquilla carried along LPs of Congolese soukous as well as Ghanaian and Nigerian highlife bands. Colombian artists began soaking up the lilting guitars and big, jazzy harmonies, and all those influences started commingling in the “picó” (sound system) culture of Colombia’s ports. That is how a modern, dazzlingly energetic and decidedly African champeta was born.

Tribu Baharú is a band of champeta champions, who turn that melange of influences into an incredibly fun live show. The first time I saw this group live was in Spain in 2014; that night, they turned a crowd of spectators into a solid mass of sweaty dancers. If you are in New York City, you can have your own turn this coming Sunday night, when Tribu Baharú appear at the annual showcase — summit, really — of musical talents from around the world: globalFEST.

Tribu Baharú’s album Pa’l Más Exigente Bailador is out now on Tambora.

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Visual Effects Reel of the Day:

See why Star Wars: The Force Awakens was nominated for a visual effects Oscar today in this reel showing the making of practical and computer-generated spectacle:

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Cosplay of the Day:

This is part of a great photo shoot of Rey cosplay from Star Wars: the Force Awakens. See more images at KamiKame.

The Future of Movies?

Watch a couple of guys make hologram re-creations of scenes from The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now and more (via Devour):

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Film History Lesson of the Day:

Today is the 120th anniversary of the premiere of Birt Acres‘s Rough Sea at Dover, the first film publicly screened in England. Watch the then-thrilling short documenting waves crashing below.

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Happy birthday to Faye Dunaway, who turns 75 today. Here she is in a promotional photo for one of her first movies, The Happening, in 1966:

Reimagined Movie of the Day:

It’s hard to believe Dumb & Dumber could be sold as a highbrow romantic movie, but Mashable made it happen (via Geek Tyrant):

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Classic Cartoon of the Day:

Today is the 60th anniversary of the release of the classic Merrie Melodies animated short Bugs’ Bonnets, starring Bugs Bunny and directed by Chuck Jones. Watch the cartoon below.

Streaming Service Parody of the Day:

College Humor spoofs the Netflix original documentary series Making a Murderer and their partnership with Adam Sandler:

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Supercut of the Day:

Roman Holiday was commissioned by an international agency to make this montage of cinematic bedrooms, which includes bits from Iron Man and Ghostbusters:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 35th anniversary of the release of David Cronenberg‘s Scanners. Watch one of the original trailers from the horror classic’s UK run below.

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Jerk of the Day:

It’s no longer safe to leave the internet to avoid spoilers, thanks to a guy who probably ruined Star Wars: The Force Awakens for many by writing out a big plot point on the back of his SUV. Below is the blurred version in case you haven’t seen the movie. See it uncensored at Upvoted.

Music Video of the Day:

Watch a LuHan music video officially tied to Star Wars: The Force Awakens promoting its Chinese release (via /Film):

Cosplay of the Day:

And here’s one more Star Wars thing: Chewbacca doing his laundry (via Fashionably Geek):

Filmmaker Parody of the Day:

The latest “if Wes Anderson directed…” spoof comes from CNN and is for the President’s State of the Union Address:

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Vintage Short Film of the Day:

Today is the 80th anniversary of Basil Wright and Harry Watt‘s classic British documentary Night Mail. Watch the essential film in full here:

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Movie Poster Parody of the Day:

The iconic poster for The Breakfast Club gets another redo, this time with music stars of the 1980s (via Popped Culture)

Musical Tribute of the Day:

Mad Max: Fury Road gets a rap parody/tribute titled “We On the Fury Road” from MovieSongs:

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Supercut of the Day:

This video showcasing Paris in the movies is almost all shots featuring the Eiffel Tower, of course (via Cinematic Montage Creators):

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Movie Marketing Takedown of the Day:

Now You See It addresses the problems with movie trailers today:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the debut, at Sundance, of Super Troopers. Watch the original trailer for the cult comedy below.

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Parody Trailer of the Day:

Vulture reworked the trailer for The Revenant so it’s a trailer for an adaptation of the classic video game The Oregon Trail:

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Movie Takedown of the Day:

In anticipation of Michael Bay‘s latest historical blockbuster, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Honest Trailers drops bombs on Pearl Harbor:

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Cover Song of the Day:

Through the magic of editing, watch characters from 183 movies cover Linkin Park‘s “In the End” (via Geek Tyrant):

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Movie Science of the Day:

For Because Science, Kyle Hill explains why the movies are wrong about how things are “sucked” out into space from a hole in a spaceship:

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Alternate Poster of the Day:

The Lost Boys got an awesome new postcard-inspired poster by Matt Ryan Tobin for Hero Complex Gallery’s “Quattro With a Shotgun” exhibit (via /Film):

Cosplay of the Day:

See the best Star Wars cosplay of the past five years from various conventions in this remix from Beat Down Boogie:

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Movie Trivia of the Day:

After 27 years, is there anything you could still not know about Tim Burton‘s Batman? CineFix is here to try to stump you:

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Supercut of the Day:

The people at Pixar love movies as you can see in Jorge Luengo’s new video on their many homages to cinema:

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Filmmaker in Focus:

In the new episode of Frame by Frame, juxtaposition is argued as being the method to Martin Scorsese‘s madness:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the debut, at Sundance, of Wet Hot American Summer. Watch the original trailer for the cult comedy below.

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“There is a barrier that separates the known from the unknown. Beyond this threshold lies a battleground, where forces of good and evil are in eternal conflict. The fate of mankind hangs in the balance and awaits the outcome. In every age and time, some of us are called upon to join the battle…Dr. Strange.”

Thus begins the first Dr. Strange live-action movie, a noble-but-forgotten attempt to get the Sorcerer Supreme out of the pages of Marvel Comics and onto TV screens across the U.S. We’re getting a do-over in 2016, here all these years later, as part of the fabric of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and studded with an all-star cast (including Benedict Cumberbatch as the doctor). Meanwhile, the original version has grown increasingly difficult to see for yourself. The last official VHS release was in 1995, and the film has fallen out of rotation on cable.

Even those who grew up in the heydey of CBS’s Marvel TV productions like The Incredible Hulk and the less popular Amazing Spider-Man have trouble recalling the details of Dr. Strange. One oft-repeated anecdote is that it was trounced in the ratings by Roots (Roots aired in Jaunary 1977; Dr. Strange in September 1978). Still others confuse 1992’s Doctor Mordrid (starring Jeffrey Combs as a Stephen Strange knock-off) for the original Dr. Strange film (Doctor Mordrid was reworked from a Dr. Strange film treatment by B-movie mavens Charles and Albert Band).

Looking at the film now, it’s curious how many elements of Dr. Strange come right over from the comics, especially looking at his live-action peers – Spider-Man didn’t even get to talk on his show and Hulk’s fights were mostly with brick walls and car bumpers. Here, we get Strange as the cocky surgeon put on the path to becoming Sorcerer Supreme after mystic battles on the astral plane. Wong, Clea, The Ancient One, The Nameless One all make appearances, and the demons Asmodeus and Balzeroth are brought to life on a TV budget. Before you get too excited, these superheroic bits are just a fraction of a much more dry movie experience.

The film opens with Morgan LeFay (Arrested Development‘s Jessica Walter) being charged by the Nameless One to defeat the current Sorcerer Supreme (John Mills as Thomas Lindmer) in just three days. LeFay possesses a young woman (Clea, played by 80’s TV and movie staple Anne-Marie Martin) and manipulates her into shoving Lindmer off an overpass.

Shockingly, Lindmer survives. Clea returns home in a fog, reliving the attempted murder by in her dreams. LeFay tracks down Clea to her home, causing a dazed Clea to run out into the street where she’s almost run down by a cab. The cabbie takes her to the hospital where Dr. Stephen Strange (Peter Hooten) works. LeFay follows and spots Strange’s ring, a mystic artifact that’s a total secret to Stephen Strange.

Strange argues with his hospital supervisors over the best treatment for their new Jane Doe, who is suffering from terrible nightmares. Strange wants to keep her awake, but the hospital, against Strange’s advice, induces sleep with heavy sedatives. At this point, Lindmer uses sorcery to get into the hospital and into a one-on-one meeting with Strange, where he tells him that the woman’s name is Clea Lake and that her soul is currently being drawn into the high astral plane. The film isn’t big on details like “how does he know this?” but here we are anyway.

Lindmer intimates that Strange could help Clea if he was truly willing, and Strange, though a skeptic, feels the magical bond between Lindmer and himself. After an attempt on his life by Morgan LeFay (a bus almost runs him over out of nowhere), he seeks out Lindmer. Lindmer, it seems, knew Strange’s father and the ring Strange wears was passed on through his family as a mystical totem. Strange will need to rely on the artifact and more if he’s to enter the astral plane and bring Clea back.

In the astral plane, which looks a lot like classic Dr. Who opening credits, Dr. Strange fights Belzeroth (“In the name of Ryal, Scourge of Demons, I command you – be gone!”) and retrieves Clea pretty handily. Morgan blames her failure on lust, “I am still a woman and the man attracted me. I would feel the warmth of a man’s arms again after all these years alone.” The Nameless One ain’t down with that. He tells Morgan she has another chance to try again or he’ll make sure she’s old and barren until the end of time.

Strange and Clea hit it off pretty well back on the Earthly plane, and Strange turns down the opportunity to study under Lindmer. As a doctor, he feels he can not allow himself to believe the unbelievable things he’s seen. On his way out, Strange lets a black cat into Lindmer’s house, and you can probably see where that’s going. The cat transforms into Morgan, who conjures Asmodeus to take Lindmer to the astral plane. Wong (Clyde Kusatsu) gets a mystic bolt fight scene with LeFay, but she proves more powerful.

LeFay, not content to leave well enough alone, appears at Clea’s apartment and transports her and Dr. Strange back to the astral plane (bad plan, really). She tries to seduce him into taking off the ring by giving him a costume very close to the one we know from the comics and then getting frisky in a big astral bed. She has the upper hand until she decides to show Strange Lindmer’s captured body. Strange snaps out of it and uses his ring to channel the mystic energy to defeat LeFay and return his friends to Earth.

The Nameless One keeps good on his promise to turn LeFay into an old crone and Dr. Strange finally decides to study the mystic arts. After a brief communion with a glowing light known as The Ancient One, Strange gains an all-new (and not as good) costume and the remaining mystic energy of Lindmer. Wong likens Strange to a child with a loaded gun and makes himself available to assist Strange with his tutelage on the path to becoming Sorcerer Supreme.

I don’t know how you go back to a day job after all that, but Strange does. Doctor’s gotta doctor. The film has a few baffling codas stacked on top of each other, including the news interviewing a restored Morgan LeFay, who’s promoting the “LeFay Method” which “unlocks the hidden potential within you.” Clea’s response? “This is really dumb.” Clea chalks everything – the attempted murder, the hospital stay, the journey to the astral plane on demonic horseback – up to studying too hard. Strange doesn’t correct her. Instead, he walks past a street magician where he turns the magician’s intended trick into a dove. Dumb, indeed.

As a film, it’s barely diverting. The astral plane bits are hokey for the most part, though punctuated with little moments of cool, like The Nameless One or Asmodeus. Large swaths of the story are spent in the hospital with Strange being treated like he’s barely competent by the other hospital staff. There are tidbits of characterization (Strange is horny in that oh-so-70’s way), but the production is pretty bone dry for something that should be memorably gonzo.

You can see where they might’ve gone, week after week, with Morgan LeFay showing up to deceive some unsuspecting someone, and Dr. Strange trying to learn new tricks to keep up with her antics. Is that a compelling television show? It’s barely a compelling pilot. On the plus side, Walter is the only actor on screen who seems to have the right approach to the material here. She’s about an inch away from camp villainy, and Hooten looks like a stiff in comparison.

It’s a curious pilot, from a moment in time when Marvel didn’t turn everything it touched into gold, but ultimately Dr. Strange is for completists only. The plot holes, sleepy performances, and cheesy effects are just too big to forgive. Actually, on second thought, we forgive the cheesy effects. We don’t want to see them executed like this in the new Doctor Strange film, but they kept us awake in what was otherwise a snoozer of a Marvel movie.

Doctor Strange, a Scott Derrickson film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel McAdams, opens November 4. There are 297 days until release.

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The Revenant and The Martian came out on top at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards, with plenty of wild surprises and naughty bleepin’ moments to gossip about around the water cooler this week. Check out the full list of movie winners, along with some highlights, below.

The Golden Globe Moments Everyone Is Talking About

1. Yo Rocky!

Sylvester Stallone wins Best Supporting Actor 40 years after he lost the Golden Globe for playing the same character, Rocky Baloboa. How great is that?

2. Meet Your Oscar Locks

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brie Larson win Best Actor (Drama) and Best Actress (Drama), respectively, solidifying their very strong frontrunner status for the Oscar. Really, who’s beatin’ them?

3. Bestie Snubs

Biggest snub? Maybe it’s Amy Schumer losing to bestie Jennifer Lawrence, who won her third Golden Globe for Joy. (Yeah I’ll say it — Schumer was ROBBED!)

Be that as it may, when the duo took the stage to tout their movies (Joy and Trainwreck), they instantly became our choice to host the show next year.

4. The Nice Surprise

Give it up for Kate Winslet for stealing that Best Supporting Actress trophy for Steve Jobs. What a great, overlooked performance for a film that deserves more awards praise than it’s been getting. Nice to also see Aaron Sorkin walk away with the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, too.

5. The Award That Made History

When Son of Saul won Best Foreign Language Movie, it became the first film from Hungary to ever win a Golden Globe.

6. Whatever Is Going On Between Leonardo DiCaprio and Lady Gaga right here.

Was Leo laughing at Gaga winning the Globe? Did she pick up on it? And that eyebrow raise!

7. The Oscar Frontrunner

Gotta go with The Revenant after its wins tonight. The film not only took home Best Picture (Drama), but Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Actor (Drama) and Alejandro González Iñárritu took home Best Director. So is Spotlight now out of the…well, spotlight?

8. The Golden Globes Are Still the Naughtier Alternative to the Oscars

There was so much bleepin’ going on tonight, we kinda want to see the unrated version of this year’s Golden Globes right about now

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From a boozy Ricky Gervais (in full roast form) to an awkward exchange between Mel Gibson and Gervais to the TV folks being called out numerous times for being rowdy in the back, this was most definitely a room we’d want to hang out in for awhile. The show was fun and lively — and, yeah, the jokes were dark at times — but kudos to the Globes for forever keeping this show entertaining.

But seriously, you gotta get J-Law and A-Shoo to host next year. That petition starts here!

Best Motion Picture — Drama

Carol

Mad Mad: Fury Road

The Revenant — WINNER

Room

Spotlight

Best Motion Picture — Comedy

The Big Short

Joy

The Martian — WINNER

Spy

Trainwreck

Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

Bryan Cranston, Trumbo

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant — WINNER

Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

Will Smith, Concussion

Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama

Cate Blanchett, Carol

Brie Larson, Room — WINNER

Rooney Mara, Carol

Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Comedy/Musical

Christian Bale, The Big Short

Steve Carell, The Big Short

Matt Damon, The Martian — WINNER

Al Pacino, Danny Collins

Mark Ruffalo, Infinitely Polar Bear

Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Comedy/Musical

Jennifer Lawrence, Joy — WINNER

Amy Schumer, Trainwreck

Melissa McCarthy, Spy

Maggie Smith, The Lady in the Van

Lily Tomlin, Grandma

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Paul Dano, Love and Mercy

Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation

Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies

Michael Shannon, 99 Homes

Sylvester Stallone, Creed — WINNER

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Jane Fonda, Youth

Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight

Helen Mirren, Trumbo

Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina

Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs — WINNER

Best Director

Todd Haynes, Carol

Alejandro G. Iñarritu, The Revenant — WINNER

Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road

Ridley Scott, The Martian

Best Screenplay from a Motion Picture

Room

Spotlight

The Big Short

Steve Jobs — WINNER

The Hateful Eight

Best Original Score from a Motion Picture

Carol

The Danish Girl

The Hateful Eight — WINNER

The Revenant

Steve Jobs

Best Original Song from a Motion Picture

“Love Me Like You Do,” “Fifty Shades of Grey”

“One Kind of Love,” “Love & Mercy”

“See You Again,” “Furious 7”

“Simple Song #3,” Youth”

“Writing’s on the Wall,” Spectre” — WINNER

Best Foreign Language Film

The Brand New Testament

The Club

The Fencer

Mustang

Son of Saul — WINNER

Best Animated Feature Film

Anomalisa

The Good Dinosaur

Inside Out — WINNER

The Peanuts Movie

Shaun the Sheep

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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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