Best of the Week: New Harley Quinn Movie Announced, We Reviewed 'Rogue One' and More

The Important News

DC Extended Universe: Margot Robbie will return as Harley Quinn in Gotham City Sirens. And Megan Fox might play Poison Ivy in it. Patrick Wilson will play the villain Ocean Master in Aquaman. Suicide Squad 2 and Deadshot are in the works.

Marvel Cinematic Universe: The sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming will hit theaters on July 5, 2019.

X-Men: Logan has reportedly received an R rating.

Alien: James Franco joined Alien: Covenant.

Disney Remakes: Alex Timbers will direct Cruella.

Reboots: Ben Mendelsohn will play the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Origins.

Video Game Movies: Assassin’s Creed 2 may turn its back on the games.

Monster Movies: Godzilla 2 and Pacific Rim 2 got new titles.

Animation: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical dog movie Vevo is now on a fast track.

Biopics: A movie about Madonna tops this year’s screenplay Black List. Sebastian Stan will play Jeff Gillooly in I, Tonya. Allison Janney might also join I, Tonya.

Musicals: Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig are making an industrial musical.

Movie Gimmicks: Woody Harrelson will star in a movie we watch as it’s made.

Box Office: Disney’s Moana was number one for the third weekend. Rogue One had the year’s best Thursday night box office.

Awards Season: La La Land, Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea lead the Golden Globe nominations. Manchester by the Sea leads the SAG Award nominations. The Oscars foreign-language race is down to nine movies.

Reel TV: Meagan Good will star in a Foxy Brown series.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie and TV Trailers: The Fate of the Furious, Dunkirk, Snatched, The Boss Baby, Despicable Me 3, Alone in Berlin, Unforgettable, Arsenal, Norman and the TV series Taken.

Movie Clips: Things to Come, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solace and Moana “How Far I’ll Go” music video.

Movie Images: Rogue One‘s Alien-inspired planet.

Easter Eggs: Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Fan Films: Star Wars water speederbike race.

Mashups: Minions and 12 Years a Slave, Han Solo vs. Jar-Jar Binks and Dunkirk meets Rogue One.

Remade Trailers: Retro Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Parodies: John Cena spoofs The Karate Kid, The Muppets spoof Alien, Billy Eichner lampoons Margot Robbie’s career, hamsters do Star Wars and how Star Wars should have ended.

Movie Posters: All of this week’s best new posters.

Our Features

Reviews: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is bold, brave, badass and immensely satisfying.

Interviews: Sigourney Weaver on The Defenders and the Avatar sequels and Hugh Grant on Florence Foster Jenkins and Paddington 2.

Comic Book Movie Guide: Here’s everything you need to know about Gotham City Sirens.

Home Viewing: Our guide to everything hitting VOD this week and our guide to all the best indie and foreign films on DVD this month.

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