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Does The Batman have a post-credits scene? Warner Bros. We’re not going to drag this one out, folks. No, “The Batman” does not have a post-credits scene. Straight-up. That said, there is a tiny Easter egg of sorts that is hiding at the very end of the credits for those content to sit through them in their entirety. This is certainly not going to be worth it for those looking for something substantial either during or after the credits — it just isn’t one of those movies....

Dune Part Two Is Set To Shoot This Summer, Denis Villeneuve Teases ‘More Harkonnen Stuff’ Warner Bros. Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/Feb. 15, 2022 12:23 pm EST “Dune” was, perhaps, the grandest sci-fi spectacle last year, which allowed both hardcore Frank Herbert fans and casual viewers a glimpse into the complex ecosystem of Arrakis. “Dune: Part Two” has been green-lit after the massive success of the first-parter, which earned multiple Oscar and BAFTA nominations (but the baffling absence of Denis Villeneuve in the Academy’s Best Director category still has not sunk in for me)....

Emma Roberts Joins Sony And Marvel’s Madame Web FX By Jeremy Mathai/June 27, 2022 1:42 pm EST Chances are, any blonde actress of a certain age has been fan-cast to appear in a “Spider-Man” movie countless times on the internet by now. Emma Roberts has always remained a popular choice for the role of Gwen Stacy, but maybe that casting actually took place in some other distant alternate universe. In our own wonderfully unpredictable one instead, well, life continues to be nothing but a never-ending series of curveballs....

Everything Wrong With Treating Online Comedic Criticism As Actual Film Criticism Disney / Lucasfilm By Witney Seibold/March 23, 2022 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.) On December 11, 2012, the very first CinemaSins video — “Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spider-Man in 2 Minutes or Less” — was uploaded onto YouTube, sparking an online sensation that still persists to this day....

Final Cut, French Remake Of One Cut Of The Dead, Drops Out Of Sundance Following Fest’s Digital Move La Classe Américaine, Getaway Films By Jenna Busch/Jan. 11, 2022 10:32 am EST On January 5, 2022, it was announced that the Sundance Film Festival would cancel its in-person events and move completely online. It was originally going to be a hybrid event with some online and some in-person events. The move came as more and more people contracted the Omicron variant of Covid....

How Cyrano Evolved From A Sparse Connecticut Stage Show To A Sprawling Sicily-Set Movie [Exclusive] Peter Mountain/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc By Caroline Cao/Feb. 24, 2022 4:00 pm EST Musicalizing Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play “Cyrano de Bergerac” is no novel idea — but cutting Cyrano’s infamous nose may be a daring creative choice. Stage director and playwright Erica Schmidt was well acquainted with the “Cyrano” musicals when she adapted Rostand’s work into her 10-actor stage musical at the Chester, Connecticut Goodspeed Theatre for a 2018 run....

How Sam Raimi Feels About His Polarizing Drag Me To Hell Ending Universal Pictures By Devin Meenan/March 23, 2022 11:26 am EST Before legendary genre director Sam Raimi takes us on a trip through the multiverse of madness, let’s look back on his most recent horror film, 2009’s “Drag Me To Hell.” Raimi co-wrote “Drag Me To Hell” with his brother Ivan, first as a short story in 1999 then a screenplay in 2002....

Jackass Forever Final Trailer: Do Not Try This At Home Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/Jan. 10, 2022 10:43 am EST It’s time to celebrate like it’s 2002 because a brand new (and final!) trailer for “Jackass Forever” is here. Despite the threat of omicron, with some theaters around the world once again closing down, Paramount Pictures is pressing forward with the release of the fourth installment in the franchise after delaying it out of 2021....

The opioid crisis on film Hulu This project with Renner as Armstrong is merely the latest in a growing number of movies and TV shows dealing with the opioid crisis. The Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma were already the subject of the two-part HBO documentary, “The Crime of the Century,” directed by Alex Gibney. Later in the year, Michael Stuhlbarg played a dramatized version of Richard Sackler in the Michael Keaton-led Hulu miniseries, “Dopesick....

M’Baku Actor Winston Duke Reportedly Has An ‘Expanded Role’ In Black Panther 2 Marvel Studios By Ben F. Silverio/Jan. 16, 2022 5:50 pm EST Despite a number of setbacks, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has resumed shooting. Following the unexpected death of star Chadwick Boseman, the production faced issues when Shuri actress Letitia Wright suffered some intense injuries while performing a stunt last summer. But after a lengthy hiatus, Wright has recovered and production is back on track....

Minions: The Rise Of Gru Clip: Otto Feels The Need For Speed Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 17, 2021 7:25 pm EST For over a decade, the world has been forced to bend to our horrific pop culture overlords, the Minions. The yellow, Twinkie-shaped henchmen of reformed supervillain Gru, the Minions’ popularity have made the “Despicable Me” franchise the highest-grossing animated film series in history. In addition to the feature films, the “Despicable Me” franchise includes 14 short films, a television special, several video games, a theme park attraction at Universal Studios, and for some reason all of the cringey memes your Great Aunt shares on Facebook about wines and Covid vaccines....

Moon Knight Directors Justin Benson And Aaron Moorhead Will Direct Loki Season 2 Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 17, 2022 4:07 pm EST Marvel’s expansion into streaming television has mostly been well-received among both fans and critics — though there’ll always be those insufferable sticks-in-the-mud who’ll always have some complaints, am I right? In any case, “Loki” quickly outpaced the rest of the Disney+ shows by taking an altogether otherworldly approach to multiversal storytelling....

Morbius final trailer Well, at least we don’t have to endure that extremely tired “I am Venom” tag at the end of the last and overplayed trailer anymore, right? Granted, that has nothing on the original trailer that recently hit its two year anniversary earlier in 2022, but maybe someday we’ll look back and laugh at the collective cabin fever we all suffered while waiting for “Morbius” to finally release in theaters....

Netflix To Adapt East Of Eden Into A Limited Series With Florence Pugh A24 By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 21, 2022 3:23 pm EST One of John Steinbeck’s greatest works is getting the Netflix treatment: Deadline reports today that “East of Eden,” the author’s 1952 tome about the lives of two central California families, is being turned into a limited series with Florence Pugh set to star. Writer and actress Zoe Kazan is reportedly helming the project as its executive producer and screenwriter....

Originally, Every Segment In Twilight Zone: The Movie Was Going To Be Interconnected Warner Bros. By Lee Adams/June 14, 2022 9:50 am EST Anthology movies are often the most frustrating of all film genres. It’s incredibly rare to find one where all the stories are equally worth watching, and usually the segments vary considerably in style and quality. For the most part, anthologies are irritatingly patchy affairs, and I always come away wishing some of the weaker entries were cut and the stronger stories much longer....

Paper Girls Trailer: The Acclaimed Sci-Fi Comic Heads To Prime Video Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 5, 2022 1:26 pm EST Extra, extra, read all about it: the first full trailer for “Paper Girls” is here! The new Prime Video series is based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s comic book series of the same name, which made a splash when it debuted in 2015. A sci-fi story about four girls whose suburban newspaper route is disrupted when they accidentally time travel from 1988 to the present day, “Paper Girls” is funny, adventurous, and insightful in its take on growing up....

Bungee-Jumpable Caverns of Exposition Warner Bros. Does “Tenet” have plot holes? If so, are they “bungee-jumpable?” You’d have to ask Robert Pattinson. His character, Neil, is the one using that word, and like the Protagonist, we’re not even convinced it’s a real word. However, Neil is rather well-informed about certain things, such as the fact that the Protagonist doesn’t drink on the job, which is why he knows to order a Diet Coke for him right after they first meet....

The 12 Greatest Robert Pattinson Movies Ranked Warner Bros. By Liam Gaughan/March 11, 2022 5:11 pm EST Robert Pattinson is the latest actor to step into the role of Batman. Although we’ve only gotten a brief taste of Pattinson in the role, he certainly has the potential to be one of the greatest Caped Crusaders in the franchise’s history. With his debut performance in “The Batman,” Pattinson develops a unique interpretation of the iconic character....

The Baby Trailer: Parenthood Is A Nightmare HBO Max By BJ Colangelo/April 6, 2022 4:07 pm EST Raising a newborn is one of the hardest things a human being can go through, even if the pregnancy was planned, so imagine the difficulty of raising a baby that seemingly comes out of nowhere … and also seems to be a harbinger of freak accidents and deaths. Well, that’s the story behind the new HBO limited series “The Baby....

The Best Movies Leaving HBO Max In April 2022 MGM By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 22, 2022 2:26 pm EST Despite coming onto the scene later than some of the streaming giants, HBO Max has accrued an impressive rotating catalogue of new releases, prestige TV shows, and classic films. When other streamers lose some beloved titles during the dreaded new month reshuffle, it’s worth asking, “Do I still want to subscribe to this?...