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Martin Scorsese, who directed the late Frank Vincent in three films, is paying tribute to the famed onscreen tough guy who died Wednesday at age 80. “Frank Vincent was someone I could count on. He was a natural who was at ease in front of the camera — on a set or on a stage. He made it look Read more at https://zmovies.news/martin-scorsese-pens-emotional-tribute-frank-vincent/

Catch more of Lake Bell in the full episode of Entertainment Weekly: The Show, available now on People TV. Go to People.com/PeopleTV, or download the free app on your Smart TV, mobile and web devices. Lake Bell knows that weddings can be stressful, and now she’s gone and done something about Read more at https://zmovies.news/lake-bell-breaks-11-wedding-traditions/

Ezra Miller is stoked about playing the Flash. How could he not be? The indie-fabulous Perks of Being a Wallflower star has already expanded his presence on the global stage with a key role in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and his superspeedster Barry Allen had brief cameos last Read more at https://zmovies.news/ezra-miller-playful-apology-flash-fans/

Roald Dahl originally intended the young hero of his 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be black but was dissuaded by his agent, according to both the author’s widow and his official biographer. “His first Charlie that he wrote about was a little black boy,” Liccy Dahl said in a Read more at https://zmovies.news/charlie-chocolate-factory-written-black-protagonist/

Halle Berry dared Channing Tatum to dress up as Elsa from Frozen and lip-sync “Let It Go” — and when Halle Berry dares you to do something, you do it. Tatum obliged Berry on Thursday by showing up to the Ellen DeGeneres Show wearing a flowing purple gown and a huge blond wig — and then Read more at https://zmovies.news/channing-tatum-channels-frozen-halle-berry-dare/

Many mysteries surround Blade Runner 2049, and one of them is Dave Bautista. The Guardians of the Galaxy star portrays a character named Sapper in Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to the 1982 original film, and now a new short from director Luke Scott reveals the backstory to this hulking giant with a Read more at https://zmovies.news/dave-bautista-stars-sequels-short-film/

I got my job at Entertainment Weekly because of a fire drill. The year was 1998. I was 28 and a reporter at Advertising Age, the place that gave me my start in journalism right out of college. I covered sports and entertainment marketing; I wrote a lot about basketball shoes. I was also Read more at https://zmovies.news/jeff-jensen-says-goodbye-entertainment-weekly/

If you put Channing Tatum in a movie, there’s a good chance you’ll see him dance — and Kingsman: The Golden Circle has a nice little cowboy jig. The Magic Mike and Logan Lucky star clicks his heels together in the new trailer for the secret agent movie sequel hailing from The Ellen DeGeneres Read more at https://zmovies.news/channing-tatum-busts-move-golden-circle-trailer/

John Wick: Chapter 3 will be locked, loaded, and ready to roll…in a couple years. The third installment of the Keanu Reeves-led gun-fu actioner has been officially scheduled for release on May 17, 2019. The first film, released in October 2014, introduced the Matrix star as a retired hitman who Read more at https://zmovies.news/john-wick-3-release-date-targeted-2019/

It’s been 44 years since Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs faced off at the Astrodome in their climactic Battle of the Sexes, but the gender-equality issues of 1973 seem awfully relevant in 2017. The upcoming film adaptation casts Emma Stone as King and Steve Carell as Riggs, chronicling their Read more at https://zmovies.news/emma-stone-fights-equal-pay-exclusive-clip/

Some places are like people; some shine and some don’t. This Halloween, Universal Studios is going to shine. Beloved seasonal scare-athon Halloween Horror Nights returns to Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort this weekend, and this year’s collection of frightening Read more at https://zmovies.news/universal-studios-halloween-horror-nights-brought-shining-life/

Not sure what to binge this weekend? We’re here to help: Each Friday, the EW staff reveals which TV shows and movies, new and old, they’ll be streaming once work’s over. Below, check out our picks for the weekend ahead. First They Killed My Father (Netflix) As an acclaimed, Oscar-winning Read more at https://zmovies.news/first-killed-father/

Jamie Lee Curtis is going back to Haddonfield. The actress, who made her film debut as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter’s Halloween back in 1978, is returning for the next film in the horror franchise. Curtis, who followed in her mother Janet Leigh’s footsteps by making her name in a slasher Read more at https://zmovies.news/jamie-lee-curtis-returning-laurie-strode/

An intense character study, a surprising legal thriller, and fish-out-of-water comedy of manners, Roman J. Israel, Esq. is the type of movie “they don’t make anymore” but for the fact someone did. The second film from writer-director Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler) debuted at the Toronto International Read more at https://zmovies.news/denzel-washington-brings-personal-touch-roman-j-israel-esq/

Harry Dean Stanton, the utterly unique performer whose career soared across generations of film history, has died. He was 91 and still busy, having just reprised his role as the trailer park guardian Carl Rodd in Twin Peaks: The Return, about to be back in theaters with a leading role in the Read more at https://zmovies.news/twin-peaks-star-dies-91/

In his final starring role, Harry Dean Stanton took on what was likely his most personal. Lucky, according to an official description, is “a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton,” and the filmmakers have composed another to the actor, who died Friday at age 91. “We Read more at https://zmovies.news/filmmakers-pay-tribute-legend/

On April 7, 1992, William Ford Jr. walked into a Long Island body shop to pick up his car. Minutes later he was dead, a single .22-caliber bullet lodged in his heart. He had no criminal record or history of violence; in fact, the 24-year-old Howard graduate had just passed his first exam Read more at https://zmovies.news/strong-island-ew-review/

In 1977, four years after author J.R.R. Tolkien’s death, his son Christopher completed and published his father’s most ambitious and sprawling book: The Silmarillion. Part Lord of the Rings backstory, part winding heroic epic, and part trippy meditation on the creation of the universe, The Read more at https://zmovies.news/why-you-should-read-it/

Fox Searchlight has canceled a planned screening of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri at Fantastic Fest amid controversy regarding Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s employment of a copywriter previously accused of sexual assault. Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Austin-based Read more at https://zmovies.news/three-billboards-pulled-fantastic-fest-amid-sexual-assault-scandal/

When we first meet the young Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) in American Assassin, he is not yet the grizzled, superhuman killing machine he will soon become. Instead, he’s just a goofy 20-something on vacation with his girlfriend Katrina (Charlotte Vega). They frolic on the beach in Ibiza, he Read more at https://zmovies.news/american-assassin-ew-review/

Harry Dean Stanton, a unique actor whose diverse performances spanned the gamut of film and television history, has died at the age of 91. Through his acting credits, Stanton worked with some of the best in the business, most recently reprising his role as Carl Rodd in Twin Peaks: The Read more at https://zmovies.news/harry-dean-stanton-dies-celebrity-react/

Chris Evans just came home after a long shoot, and it looks like he got the best greeting ever. The Avengers star posted a video Sunday on Twitter showing how excited his dog was to see him again upon his return. “After 10 long weeks…” he captioned the clip, which you can see below (but Read more at https://zmovies.news/chris-evans-adorable-reunion-dog/

This year’s summer moviegoing season is ending not with a bang, but a whimper. North American box office revenue for the four-day Labor Day weekend — which didn’t feature a new wide release for the first time in a quarter-century — is projected to total about $95.5 million, marking the lowest Read more at https://zmovies.news/labor-day-weekend-box-office-flops-worst-nearly-two-decades/

Will an Indiana Jones protege soon snatch the iconic wide-brimmed fedora from atop Harrison Ford’s head? Perhaps, but it won’t be Mutt Williams — a.k.a. Indy’s son, Henry Jones III — the character Shia LaBeouf played in 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. “Harrison plays Indiana Jones, that I Read more at https://zmovies.news/shia-labeouf-character-not-returning/

In the year since she filed for divorce from from Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie has been spending most of her time behind the camera rather than in front of it. But that could change soon, the actress told The Hollywood Reporter. With her new film about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, First They Killed Read more at https://zmovies.news/angelina-jolie-plans-acting-year-break/

Oct. 21, 2015 may have come and gone, but it’s still possible to relive the adventure of Back to the Future II. Later this month, the light-up Nikes worn by Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly in his second time-traveling adventure will go up for auction in the U.K. alongside other cinematic Read more at https://zmovies.news/michael-j-foxs-back-future-ii-nikes-sale/

Actress Frances McDormand is winning universal raves for her profane, humane performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The new movie by playwright-director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) premiered Monday in competition at the Venice Film Festival. In a Read more at https://zmovies.news/frances-mcdormand-three-billboards-interview-everybody-f-ing-crying/

In my first post from this year’s Telluride Film Festival, I focused on three films with stand-out performances from female actors: Emma Stone’s portrayal of the trailblazing Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes; Saoirse Ronan as a teen finding her voice in Lady Bird; and Sally Hawkins as a Read more at https://zmovies.news/gary-oldman-christian-bale-get-jump-oscar-competition/

Acting coach Elizabeth Kemp, who worked with Bradley Cooper and Hugh Jackman and recently taught Lady Gaga for Cooper’s remake of A Star is Born died over the weekend at age 65. Lady Gaga paid tribute to Kemp during her show at Boston’s Fenway Park on Saturday night, explaining she heard Read more at https://zmovies.news/lady-gaga-hugh-jackman-pay-tribute/

Despite the successes of films like Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, and The Big Sick, audiences stayed clear of movie theaters this summer, the worst for Hollywood’s bottom line in 11 years. Overall ticket sales dropped to an estimated $3.8 billion this year, a dip of more than 14 percent off last Read more at https://zmovies.news/summer-box-office-crashes-worst-total-11-years/

Ridley Scott’s science fiction classic Alien is often described as a haunted house film in space. But if you want to see an actual haunted house movie in space, then we recommend you check out the now 20-year-old box office bomb-turned-cult classic Event Horizon. Directed by Paul W.S. Read more at https://zmovies.news/event-horizon-haunts-trailers-hell-20-years-later/

It might be September, but Mariah Carey is already in the Christmas spirit. On Monday, the singer shared a new look at the upcoming animated film All I Want For Christmas Is You, inspired by her classic holiday hit of the same name. “Meet Little Mariah!” she wrote on Twitter. “It was a Read more at https://zmovies.news/mariah-carey-shares-new-look-want-christmas-movie/

The women of Bad Moms are getting ready to have themselves a merry little Christmas. Okay, maybe “merry” is too strong — “terribly frustrating” might be a better choice, judging by the looks on their faces in new character posters from the upcoming A Bad Moms Christmas, premiering exclusively Read more at https://zmovies.news/bad-moms-christmas-directors-tease-explosive-sequel/

You wanna see something really scary (but don’t want to turn on the news)? Then we recommend you check out the just-released, and pretty darned scary, trailer for Insidious: The Last Key (out, Jan. 5, 2018) The film is, of course, the fourth movie in the supernatural-horror franchise — which Read more at https://zmovies.news/insidious-last-key-trailer-haunting-gets-personal/

When you agree to work as a getaway driver, your job comes with a certain amount of risk. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be surprised, especially when the people you trust betray you. That’s precisely what happens to Frank Grillo’s central character in the upcoming Netflix film Read more at https://zmovies.news/watch-first-teaser-frank-grillo/

The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off this Thursday following the Venice Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival, making it a very busy week for movie lovers and readers of awards season tea leaves. It’s hard to keep track of what exactly is happening with so many new films and Read more at https://zmovies.news/oscars-preview-telluride-venice/

The Man Who Invented Christmas (out Nov. 22) describes — in rather fantastical fashion — how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) wrote his classic holiday tale A Christmas Carol and dreamed up the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is played in the film by Christopher Plummer. “The Man Who Read more at https://zmovies.news/dan-stevens-charles-dickens-man-invented-christmas-trailer/

Writer-director Onur Tukel’s election night comedy The Misogynists will have its world premiere at this October’s Hamptons International Film Festival, it was announced Tuesday. The film stars Dylan Baker (Happiness, Selma) as a lonely businessman who has recently separated from his wife of Read more at https://zmovies.news/comedy-trump-supporters-premiere-hamptons-film-festival/

From The Big Short to Moneyball, Michael Lewis is no stranger to having his books adapted into films. But the author says that it’s unlikely his 2014 book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt will ever make it to the big screen — because Hollywood is hesitant to cast a film with an Asian lead Read more at https://zmovies.news/flash-boys-author-says-hollywood-wont-adapt-book-asian-lead/

For once, Dwayne Johnson wasn’t the biggest hero in the room. On Tuesday the action star shared a video and several photos of him meeting Jacob O’Connor, the 10-year-old boy who recently made headlines when he saved his 2-year-old brother from drowning in the family pool by mimicking Johnson’s Read more at https://zmovies.news/dwayne-johnson-meets-boy-saved-drowning-brother/

Agrabah is getting some new royal blood. Disney’s live-action Aladdin movie has cast Billy Magnussen as Prince Anders, a newly created character, EW has confirmed. The 32-year-old actor, who previously portrayed Rapunzel’s Prince in Disney’s Into the Woods, joins an ensemble that Read more at https://zmovies.news/aladdin-live-action-movie-adds-billy-magnussen-new-character/

Unbroken is getting an unexpected sequel. The 2014 biopic directed by Angelina Jolie told the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympian who faced harrowing experiences in World War II after his plane crashed over the Pacific and he became a Japanese prisoner of war. The film was based on Laura Read more at https://zmovies.news/louis-zamperinis-story-continue-faith-based-unbroken-sequel/

Even though Stephen King’s It was written a little more than three decades ago, director Andy Muschietti’s new big-screen adaptation feels especially well-timed. Thanks to Netflix’s Stranger Things and that show’s exhumation of the geekier pop culture flotsam and jetsam of the Reagan era, what’s Read more at https://zmovies.news/stephen-king-adaptation-graded-ew/

Star Wars: Episode IX needs a new director. Lucasfilm has announced that Jurassic World filmmaker Colin Trevorrow is leaving the project. Here’s the company’s statement: “Lucasfilm and Colin Trevorrow have mutually chosen to part ways on Star Wars: Episode IX. Colin has been a wonderful Read more at https://zmovies.news/colin-trevorrow-removed-episode-ix/

In an interview with Buzzfeed, Idris Elba had to answer for the presumably thousandth time, that no, he probably won’t be playing James Bond. “I think not,” the actor and your imaginary boyfriend responded, before reminding the interviewer that he’s not really the one that makes that decision. Read more at https://zmovies.news/idris-elba-says-hell-likely-never-play-007/

It was announced Tuesday that the horror-thriller Applecart will be receiving its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, and you can get a taste of the creepiness in store for attendees with a just-released poster for the film. In the movie, a caring mother loses her Read more at https://zmovies.news/see-horror-thrillers-sinister-poster/

Like most distinct film genres, the rom-com has many tropes – from the meet-cute to the happily-ever-after. One of the most popular iterations of the rom-com is the “second chance” narrative – the notion that someone who has gone through a divorce or breakup will still get a chance at a happy Read more at https://zmovies.news/9-classic-second-chance-romances-watch-see-home/

Some people meet the love of their life at bars. Carla (Kathryn Hahn) might have just met hers while… waxing his junk? In the new red-band trailer for A Bad Moms Christmas, Carla apparently falls for the guy (This Is Us star Justin Hartley) she’s waxing, and later goes to a strip club Read more at https://zmovies.news/bad-moms-christmas-see-new-trailer/

Can your friends do this? Will Smith has shared the first photo featuring the cast from Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Aladdin, in which the veteran comedian takes up the whimsical, wish-granting shoes of the Genie. Smith debuted the first glimpse at his fellow Agrabah associates on Read more at https://zmovies.news/will-smith-shares-cast-photo/

As Entertainment Weekly prepares to head north to the Toronto International Film Festival, I decided to poll my fellow festival attendees about what we are all most excited to see. Below you’ll find our picks. I’ll go first! But before we begin, a caveat (that will sound like a humblebrag) Read more at https://zmovies.news/what-we-want-to-see/