Best of the Week: Shocker Oscars, Disney Made History With 'Beauty and the Beast' and…

The Important News

Awards: Moonlight won Best Picture over La La Land in the most shocking Oscars ever. Moonlight also swept the Spirit Awards.

Disney: LeFou will be explicitly gay in the live-action Beauty and the Beast. Tom McCarthy is rewriting Christopher Robin. Jared Leto may star in a new Tron.

DC Extended Universe: Black Mask may be the villain in Gotham City Sirens.

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Anson Mount will play Black Bolt in the Inhumans TV series. Serinda Swan will play Medusa in the series.

Transformers: Travis Knight will direct Bumblebee.

MonsterVerse: Vera Farmiga joined Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

X-Men: Patrick Stewart said he’s retiring as Professor X. James Mangold is working on a black and white version of Logan. Stephen Moyer will star in the new X-Men TV series. David Harbour might play Cable in Deadpool 2.

Animation: The Lego Movie sequel will be a big space musical. Trolls 2 is on the way.

True Stories: Jaime King will star in Jessica Hendra’s memoir How to Cook Your Daughter. Barry Jenkins is directing a biopic about boxer Claressa Shields.

Box Office: Get Out was a surprise hit.

Festival Buzz: Tribeca announced its narrative competition slate.

Reel TV: Moana‘s Auli’i Cravalho will star in Drama High.

R.I.P.: Bill Paxton died at age 61.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Alien: Covenant, Kong: Skull Island, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Chips, Okja, Norman, How to Be a Latin Lover, The Dinner, The Promise, Spark: A Space Tail, Cars 3 and Netflix’s Mindhunter, War Machine, Sand Castle and Bright.

TV Spots: Ghost in the Shell.

Behind the Scenes: Aquaman underwater footage for Justice League.

Movie Clips: Beauty and the Beast.

Movie Pics: Jurassic World 2 set photo.

Movie Parodies: Old Man Logan, Logan drug commercial, how Rogue One: A Star Wars Story should have ended and Manchester by the Sea visual effects reel.

Mashups: Crocodile Dundee vs. Predator.

Remade Trailers: The Belko Experiment in claymation, Logan in Lego.

Fake Movies: Christopher Nolan’s fourth Dark Knight movie.

Dream Casting: Russell Crowe as Cable in Deadpool 2. 

Short Films: Barry Jenkins’s My Josephine.

True Stories: A dying woman set up her husband’s own Sleepless in Seattle story.

Our Features

Movie Calendar: Our guide to all the new releases and anniversaries for March.

Awards Guide: We highlighted all the best moments from the Oscars. 

Geek Movie Guide: We considered which geeky 2016 movies were Oscar-worthy.

Horror Movie Guide: We rounded up all the latest horror news and trailers.

Interviews: James Mangold on the end of Wolverine and what influenced Logan.

R.I.P.: We remembered all the reel-important people we lost in February.

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

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