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‘Westworld’ Review: An Exciting, Disturbing, And Thoughtful Reimagining Michael Crichton’sWestworldis a movie packed with ideas, but it doesn’t add up to much more than robots going berserk. While it’s an enjoyable film with some terrific sequences, there’s a goldmine of untapped ideas in it. The creators of HBO’sWestworld,Jonathan NolanandLisa Joy, take real time to explore some of those ideas — and plenty more they bring to the table — in the thrilling, unsettling, and thoughtful first four episodes of season one....

Martin Scorsese, Kevin Hart, And More Bid For Rights To That McDonald’s Monopoly Article, Which Was Specifically Crafted For A Movie Adaptation Last month, The Daily Beast published an article titled “How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions.” The piece instantly went viral, ultimately resulting in the film rights selling to Fox, whereBen Affleck,Matt Damon, and the writers of theDeadpoolfranchise are going to bring it to the big screen....

New Trailer For Acclaimed Claymation Film Mary And Max When the claymation filmMary and Maxpremiered at Sundance in January, it was met with great acclaim. (It’s currently at 95% atRottentomatoes.) The film marks the feature debut ofAdam Elliot, who won an Oscar with his short filmHarvie Krumpet. It tells the story of an unlikely friendship. Mary is a young Australian girl with no friends. She becomes penpals with Max, an aging and obese man from New York who has a great number of neurosis and insecurities....

Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg Helped Judd Apatow Rewrite ‘Bad Boys II’ This weekend brings the release ofBad Boys for Life, but before the movie hits theaters, we’ve got a surprising bit of trivia that just came to light aboutMichael Bay’sBad Boys II. Even though the script forBad Boys IIwas written byRon Shelton(Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump) andJerry Stahl(Moonlighting, Twin Peaks), there was a rewrite done byThe 40-Year Old VirginandKnocked Upwriter/directorJudd Apatow, and he askedSuperbadandPineapple ExpresswritersSeth RogenandEvan Goldbergto help him out....

Weekend Weirdness: Know Your Mushrooms, Ricky Powell’s Rappin' With The Rickster, The Human Centipede Slithers Stateside, Michael Cera On Drugs It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, sansThe Tooth Fairy, that offer proof. Weekend Weirdness c**ks its disoriented head to examine such flicks, whether it’s a new trailer for a provocative indie, an interview, or a mini review. In this installment: a look at the new DVDKnow Your Mushrooms, a breezy doc on fungi, of the magic variety and otherwise, with music byThe Flaming Lips; the latest news onTheHuman Centipede, the increasingly nefarious, pukey ass-to-mouth horror flick now officially on its way to the States; an NYC public access DVD fromBeastie Boys' palRicky Powell; a Brooklyn premiere party, aMichael Ceramusic video, and more!...

‘Masterminds’ Trailer: These Idiots Actually Manage To Pull Off A Heist Napoleon DynamitedirectorJared Hessreturns withMasterminds, a comedy about two dopes and a schemer (played byKristen Wiig, Zach GalifianakisandOwen Wilson, respectively) who team up to steal a truckload of money. Amazingly, the heist goes well, but the fallout isn’t so easy to deal with. In the aftermath of the robbert, when everyone wants the money, things get weird. Among other problems, there’sJason Sudeikis,turning in a potentially scene-stealing performance as a hired killer....

‘Suicide Squad’ Trailer And ‘Wonder Woman’ Sneak Peek Coming To The CW In January Although we’ve seen plenty (maybe even too much) fromBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the next films on Warner Bros.' DC Extended Universe roster remain a bit more mysterious.Suicide Squadstole the show at Comic-Con this summer withan excellent first trailer, but hasn’t revealed any new footage since, and we’ve yet to see any footage at all fromWonder Woman, whichjust began shootinglast month....

Ava DuVernay’s ‘Wrinkle In Time’ Casts Its Lead After an extensive search, The Walt Disney Studios has announced that they have cast the lead role in directorAva DuVernay’s live-action adaptation ofMadeleine L’Engle’s science fantasy novelA Wrinkle In Time. Learn the details after the jump. A Wrinkle In Time Meg Murry Casting Revealed: Storm Reid 13-year-oldStorm Reidwill play the lead role of Meg Murry in the upcoming Disney movie. The story follows a young girl named Meg whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract, otherwise known as a wrinkle in time....

‘Old’ Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan Invites You To His Latest Twisted Horror Movie M. Night Shyamalanis back, and he’s inviting you on a beach getaway! Surely nothing will go wrong, and there will absolutely be no twists to worry about. Maybe. Shyamalan’s latest isOld, a film inspired by the graphic novelSandcastle, where things go very wrong and get very weird for a group of people on a secluded, idyllic beach. Watch theOldtrailer below....

Casting Bits: Abbie Cornish Rumored For ‘Whisperings And Lies;’ Seth Rogen And Barbara Streisand In ‘My Mother’s Curse;’ Katherine Heigl Replaces Halle Berry In ‘New Year’s Eve’ With everyone sleeping off the end of Sundance and taking a breather after the Superman casting announcement, there isn’t a lot of big casting news today. But here are a couple of quick hits. First up, there’s word thatAbbie Cornish(Bright Star,Sucker Punch) has joined the cast ofWhisperings and Lies, which was once calledRhapsody....

Former Lost Writers Talk About Their New Fairy Tale TV Series ‘Once Upon A Time’ Last year it was revealed thatEdward KitsisandAdam Horowitz, who wrote many great episodes ofLost, hadsold to ABCa new show calledOnce Upon a Time. We didn’t know much about it at the time, other than the fact that it would offer a new take on fairy tales, but now a lot more details have come to light....

Sorry, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Has No Downtime For Bathroom Breaks If you were hoping the lengthyAvengers: Endgamewould give you an intermission, or at least some downtime to pop off to the bathroom, I’m here to dash those hopes. According to Marvel Studios head honchoKevin Feige, the three-hour-plus superhero epic will not afford you the luxury of hitting up the lavatory once the flick has started. So maybe consider getting a small soda when you go to see it....

Watch Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato’s ‘Art Of Creating Awe’ TED Talk Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisorRob Legatohas been involved in many Hollywood classics and blockbusters over the last two decades, including:Apollo 13, Titanic, Armageddon, Cast Away, Harry Potter, Bad Boys 2, The Aviator, The Departed, Avatar, andHugo. Over the summer, Legato gave a TED talk entitled “The Art of Creating Awe” about how visual effects are used to recreate reality or sometimes even “trump the real thing”....