Best of the Week: Promising News for the DC Extended Universe, 'Alien: Covenant' Prol…

The Important News

DC Extended Universe: Matt Reeves will direct The Batman. Chris McKay will direct a Nightwing movie. David F. Sandberg might direct Shazam. David Thewlis is playing the villain Ares in Wonder Woman.

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Rob Zombie will appear in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

X-Men: Deadpool 2 and X-Force got hot new writers in Drew Goddard and Joe Carnahan. James Mangold is sure Logan‘s X-23 will return in more movies.

Star Wars: The Han Solo Star Wars Story has begun production.

Disney Remakes: Donald Glover and James Earl Jones will star in the live-action The Lion King. Angelina Jolie might do a Maleficent sequel.

Alien/Predator: Alfie Allen joined The Predator. Yvonne Strahovski also joined The Predator. Alien: Covenant released a prologue.

Monster Movies: Kyle Chandler joined Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Disaster Movies: Kristen Stewart will star in “an underwater Armageddon.”

Comedies: The people behind Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are making a “Rear Window for stoners.” Seth Rogen will pursue Charlize Theron in Flarsky.

Sequels: The Purge 4 will be out Independence Day weekend 2018. Guillermo del Toro says Hellboy 3 will never happen. Keanu Reeves has some ideas for John Wick: Chapter 3.

Box Office: The Lego Batman Movie was #1 again.

Distribution: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is now a Netflix Originals production.

Awards: Polled moviegoers picked Hidden Figures to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Song to Song, The Fate of the Furious, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Finest, Power Rangers and My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea.

Behind the Scenes: La La Land, Fences and Kong: Skull Island.

Movie Clips: Beauty and the Beast and Alien: Covenant.

Movie Pics: The Predator cast photo, Han Solo Star Wars Story cast photo and Alien: Covenant cast photo.

Movie Posters: All the new movie posters released this week.

Movie Parodies: Alternate Moonlight ending.

Mashups: J. Jonah Jameson heads The Daily Planet and La La Land mashed with Titanic.

Alternate Universe Movies: David Lynch’s La La Land and Pixar’s Pulp Fiction.

Oscars Montages: Final scenes of 45 Best Picture winners and every Best Picture winner ever. 

Our Features

Comic Book Movie Guide: We speculate about the Nightwing movie.

Interviews: Tom Hiddleston on Thor: Ragnarok and Loki’s involvement.

Geek Movie Guide: We suggest some superheroes who need G-rated movies.

Home Viewing: Our guide to everything hitting VOD this week. 

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