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The Important News

DC Extended Universe: Ben Affleck revealed Deathstroke will be the villain in his Batman movie. The Rogues might be the villains in The Flash.

Marvel Cinematic Universe:  Marvel is making a New Warriors TV series with Squirrel Girl. Jon Favreau joined Spider-Man: Homecoming as Happy Hogan. 

Star Wars: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will feature an all-black R2-D2 lookalike. 

Harry Potter: Daniel Radcliffe is wanted to return for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Transformers: Liam Garrigan will play King Arthur in Transformers: The Last Knight.

Sequels: Zombieland 2 is officially in development. Maze Runner: The Death Cure will resume production in February. Richard Linklater is making a sequel to The Last Detail. Trish Sie will direct PItch Perfect 3.

Festival Buzz: La La Land, Arrival and Nocturnal Animals are getting rave reviews. 

Awards: Jackie Chan, Frederick Wiseman, Anne V. Coates and Lynn Stalmaster are this year’s Honorary Oscar winners. 

Ways of Seeing: Blazing Saddles and Willy Wonka & the Chococlate Factory are back in theaters this weekend. 

Box Office: Don’t Breathe continued the hit streak for horror this year.

Reel TV: The Let the Right One In series is moving forward on TNT. Stranger Things hinted at movies it will reference in Season Two.

R.I.P.: Gene Wilder died at age 83.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Max Steel, Elle and Shut In.

TV Spots: Blair Witch and Ouija: Origin of Evil.

Clips: Beaty and the Beast and Storks.

Watch: A mockumentary showing what Thor was up to during Captain America: Civil War. And a behind the scenes featurette for Doctor Strange. 

See: What Bucky could look like as Captain America. And a fake trailer for a Stan Lee as The Watcher movie.

Watch: A fake teaser for The Batman. And a very weird trailer remix for Justice League. 

See: What Joe Manganiello could look like as Deathstroke. And a VFX shot breakdowns for Suicide Squad. 

Watch: A VFX breakdown for the Ghostbusters remake. 

See: A new Jurassic World museum exhibit coming to America. 

Watch: A mashup of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Magnificent Seven.

See: New images from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And new images from Woody Allen’s Crisis in Six Scenes series.

Watch: A trailer for Morgan created by an AI. And a Zootopia trailer recut to look like a thriller. 

Learn: A secret revealed about John Carpenter’s The Thing.

See: There’s a cookbook inspired by Brad Pitt eating in movies. 

Watch: Spike Jonze’s new dance-ilicious short film/ad My Mutant Brain.

See: This week’s best new movie posters. 

Watch: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s kid re-create a scene from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Our Features

Movie Calendar: See our guide to new movies and anniversaries for September above.

DC Movie Guide: How The Batman can handle Deatstroke and many more villains.

Marvel Movie Guides:  What it means for the MCU that Steve Rogers isn’t Captain America. And 5 Spider-Man villains we want to see in the MCU.

Interview: The Russo Brothers on why there’s no Captain America/Black Widow fight in Captain America: Civil War.

In Memoriam: Remembering the reel-important people we lost in August. 

Home Viewing: Our guide to everything hitting VOD this week. And our guide to what’s new on Netflix this month.

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