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Five people wake up locked in a room, buckets on their heads, chains around their necks, sharp buzzsaws on the wall. A voice comes over the loudspeaker. It sounds like John Cramer (Tobin Bell), the confession-demanding serial trap-layer better known as Jigsaw. Jigsaw died years ago, in the Read more at https://zmovies.news/saw-reboot-bloody-mess/

To read more on Supernatural, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday. You can buy the whole set now, or purchase the individual covers of the group shot, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, or Misha Collins. Don’t forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, Read more at https://zmovies.news/supernatural-stars-reveal-movies-scared/

How many scares does the just-released fourth volume of spooky audio drama series Tales From Beyond the Pale contain? We wish we could tell you. But the intern who was tasked with finding out fled the building midway through the second yarn in this latest collection from filmmakers Larry Fessenden Read more at https://zmovies.news/tales-beyond-pale-volume-4-watch-spooky-teaser/

To read more from EW’s Untold Stories issue, pick up the new Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday, or buy it here. Don’t forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. Long before the Saw franchise was splitting jaws and Oldboy took a hammer to a poor, Read more at https://zmovies.news/kevin-bacon-bloody-tooth-scene/

As reports circulate that The Weinstein Company could be on the brink of collapse in the wake of co-founder Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, Bob Weinstein has issued a statement proclaiming no sale or shutdown is currently being explored. “Our banks, partners, and shareholders are Read more at https://zmovies.news/bob-weinstein-claims-weinstein-company-not-exploring-sale-shutdown/

As the Harvey Weinstein scandal has unfolded this week, it has prompted a renewed (and heated) discussion about why woman often feel uncomfortable speaking out about sexual harassment. When actress Rose McGowan’s Twitter account was temporarily suspended after days of calling out Weinstein and his Read more at https://zmovies.news/gabrielle-union-tessa-thompson-praised-wocaffirmation/

Judd Apatow took aim at Harvey Weinstein on Friday at the Variety Power of Women luncheon in Los Angeles on Friday — calling out the disgraced Hollywood mogul for his alleged sexual misconduct and criticizing those who cited their daughters in statements of condemnation. “I run sets, movies and Read more at https://zmovies.news/judd-apatow-dings-daughters-response-weinstein-scandal/

In 2018, Chadwick Boseman will be suiting up for Black Panther, the latest addition to Marvel’s stable of superhero movies. For now, however, he’s headlining a different kind of superhero origin story, chronicling the early career of legendary civil rights lawyer and future Supreme Court Read more at https://zmovies.news/marshall-superhero-origin-story-legendary-civil-rights-lawyer-ew-review/

There are 12 Friday the 13th movies, nine A Nightmare on Elm Street films, and 10 terror tales in the franchise Halloween, not counting Blumhouse’s upcoming reboot. In short, loving horror can be something akin to Groundhog Day, the late Harold Ramis’ 1993 comedy, in which Bill Murray is Read more at https://zmovies.news/killer-twist-bill-murrays-groundhog-day/

How much does filmmaker Corin Hardy love Halloween? A lot. Like, a lot. In fact, for the whole month of October, the director of the upcoming Conjuring-universe film The Nun (out July 13) has set himself the daily task of carving a Halloween pumpkin which celebrates a horror movie icon, rock Read more at https://zmovies.news/nun-director-carving-halloween-pumpkin-every-day-month/

Jackie Chan finally gets his own Taken. Although most movies regale us with tales of children avenging their parents, recent years have shown that the reverse situation, parents avenging their children, can be just as satisfying. In Martin Campbell’s new film we don’t have to wait long Read more at https://zmovies.news/jackie-chan-gets-taken-foreigner-ew-review/

The last time Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson teamed up for a movie, it was explosive; There Will Be Blood earned Day-Lewis his second Best Actor Oscar (he earned a third in 2013 for Lincoln) and permanently etched the phrase “I drink your milkshake!” into the pop culture zeitgeist. The Read more at https://zmovies.news/daniel-day-lewis-paul-thomas-anderson-movie-gets-official-title/

Bob Weinstein can only describe the situation with Harvey Weinstein as “a waking nightmare.” During an emotional and heated exchange with The Hollywood Reporter, Bob claimed his older brother is “depraved” and called him a “predator” in the wake of numerous sexual misconduct allegations. “For Read more at https://zmovies.news/bob-weinstein-calls-situation-waking-nightmare/

One Mississippi creator and star Tig Notaro began her interview with Stephen Colbert on Friday’s The Late Show with lots of laughs, including a running bit about hanging out with Conan O’Brien (who also appeared as a guest on Colbert’s show). But the discussion ended on a much more serious Read more at https://zmovies.news/believe-sex-abuse-victims/

One day before Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel closes out the New York Film Festival, the film’s star, Kate Winslet, took the stage at Lincoln Center to discuss the past, present, and future of her Oscar-winning career. Winslet stars in Wonder Wheel as a 1950s waitress named Ginny, who works on the Read more at https://zmovies.news/kate-winslet-reveals-eternal-sunshine-role-one-shed-like-play/

Jon Bernthal‘s imposing presence is serving him well as he goes from a bank robber in Baby Driver to the gunslinging executioner in The Punisher to now a tormented soul in the Sweet Virginia trailer, the first from this gritty piece of pulp fiction. In this story, based on Ben and Paul Read more at https://zmovies.news/punishers-jon-bernthal-stars-sweet-virginia-trailer/

Harvey Weinstein has been officially ousted from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in response to a string of sexual harassment and assault allegations lodged against the disgraced movie producer. “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors met today to Read more at https://zmovies.news/the-academy-voted-him-out/

The Weinstein Co. claims it is business as usual in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, but one of its upcoming projects has been shelved: The Current War, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison. Bob Weinstein, Harvey’s brother, released a statement on Friday dispelling Read more at https://zmovies.news/current-war-benedict-cumberbatch-pushed-2018/

Many figures within the Hollywood industry applauded The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday when the 54-member Board of Governors voted to expel Harvey Weinstein from their ranks. “As a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences I am proud of their Read more at https://zmovies.news/celebrities-react-academy-expulsion/

James Corden wasn’t afraid to bring up Harvey Weinstein when he hosted the amfAR Gala in Los Angeles on Friday night. But the laughs and groans seemed to meld together for an awkward opener for the evening. “It’s a beautiful night here in L.A. It’s so beautiful, Harvey Weinstein has already Read more at https://zmovies.news/harvey-weinstein-jokes-bring-laughs-groans-gala/

With the future of The Weinstein Company in limbo, one of the first high-profile dominoes has fallen. As controversy surrounds the company in the wake of the mounting claims of sexual misconduct against co-founder Harvey Weinstein, Amazon has scrapped a planned series from Oscar-nominated Read more at https://zmovies.news/robert-de-niro-julianne-moore-series-produced-weinstein-company-scrapped-amazon/

Artist Mike Anderson (a.k.a. Mikuloctopus) wanted to see Andy Muschietti’s horrific achievement, It, done as an anime. So, he started work on his own. Since releasing an initial image earlier this month of Pennywise the clown, based on his boat scene with little Georgie, the art has taken Read more at https://zmovies.news/pennywise-anime-still-chilling/

Meet the new face of your nightmares: Rocket Raccoon. Bradley Cooper’s foulmouthed gunslinger from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, looks damn near terrifying in a new VFX video reel, which breaks down the CGI movie magic used to create the film. As shown by Framestore, one of the Read more at https://zmovies.news/guardians-galaxy-2-vfx-reel-strips-rocket/

It is rising up from the sewers and looking to reclaim the box office crown. In its fourth weekend in theaters, Warner Bros. and New Line’s horror hit is on track to gross an estimated $17.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, narrowly topping the new Tom Cruise caper American Made and last week’s Read more at https://zmovies.news/edges-american-made-kingsman-2-flatliners-flops/

Roman Polanski is speaking out about his 1970s rape accusation, saying in a rare interview that he feels he’s completed his sentence. “As far as what I did: It’s over. I pleaded guilty,” Polanski told The Hollywood Reporter. “I went to jail. I came back to the United States to do it, Read more at https://zmovies.news/director-makes-rare-comment-rape-case/

A new Star Wars: Forces of Destiny short is filling in a few of the gaps from The Force Awakens — specifically, what happened aboard the Millennium Falcon after Rey and Finn met Han and Chewie. Earlier this summer, Disney debuted Forces of Destiny, a set of animated shorts focusing on Read more at https://zmovies.news/rey-saves-millennium-falcon-new-forces-destiny-short/

Sonic the Hedgehog has found himself a new home. After previously being in development at Sony, a film based on the popular video game franchise is now in the works at Paramount, EW has confirmed. News broke last October that Deadpool director Tim Miller, Fast & Furious producer Neal Read more at https://zmovies.news/sonic-hedgehog-movie-back-development/

Judy Greer is getting ready for Halloween. The actress is in talks to join Jamie Lee Curtis in the upcoming Halloween reboot, EW has learned. If she joins the cast, she would play Karen Strode, the daughter of Curtis’ character. Curtis recently announced that she’ll be reprising her role as Read more at https://zmovies.news/halloween-reboot-eyes-judy-greer-play-jamie-lee-curtis-daughter/

Amber Tamblyn will not be silenced — following her open letter firing back at James Woods in Teen Vogue, Tamblyn spoke more broadly about women and the burden of proof in a powerful op-ed published last month in The New York Times. Titled “I’m Done With Not Being Believed,” the piece Read more at https://zmovies.news/amber-tamblyn-nytimes-op-ed-directorial-debut-paint-black/

Patricia Arquette is joining the likes of Barbra Streisand, Brie Larson, Angelina Jolie, and Elizabeth Banks as celebrated actresses making the jump from screen stars to filmmakers. EW has confirmed the Oscar-winning Boyhood performer will direct her first feature film, inspired by the Read more at https://zmovies.news/patricia-arquette-make-directorial-debut-love-canal-movie/

October is the season for scarves, pumpkin spice lattes, complaining about pumpkin spice lattes, decorative gourds, changing leaves, and stressing about group Halloween costumes. But it’s also the season for my favorite specific subset of movies: spooky stop-motion animation. And so we’re counting Read more at https://zmovies.news/nightmare-christmas-spooky-stop-motion-animated-movies-ranked/

Kate Winslet and James Cameron are celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary of Titanic by announcing a reunion of sorts. EW has confirmed the Oscar-winning actress has joined the filmmaker’s billion-dollar Avatar franchise, which is in “full-tilt production” on the four upcoming Read more at https://zmovies.news/titanic-alums-kate-winslet-james-cameron-reuniting-upcoming-sequels/

The drama surrounding Sex and the City continues. Speaking to Piers Morgan on an episode of the ITV series Life Stories, Kim Cattrall reportedly said series lead Sarah Jessica Parker “could have been nicer” during their time on the show. The comments come amid reports that a third Sex and Read more at https://zmovies.news/kim-cattrall-says-sarah-jessica-parker-nicer/

Jim Carrey spent most of his screentime in Batman Forever cackling up a storm as the Riddler, but apparently, that set was a lot less fun behind the scenes. Carrey has mentioned in the past that he and Tommy Lee Jones (who costarred as the villainous Two-Face) did not get along. In a new interview Read more at https://zmovies.news/jim-carrey-recounts-tommy-lee-jones-batman-forever-clashes/

Almost exactly 50 years after they played mad-about-you newlyweds in Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford fall into a different kind of romance in Our Souls at Night — not so much a deep-end plunge as a gentle drift. Louis (Redford) is a small-town widower, Read more at https://zmovies.news/jane-fonda-robert-redford-shine/

Some of Mean Girls’ most famous alums are uniting for a good cause. Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert, Daniel Franzese, and Jonathan Bennett are marking Oct. 3 — a.k.a. Mean Girls Day — by reuniting to raise money for the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left at least 59 Read more at https://zmovies.news/mean-girls-cast-reunites-raise-money-las-vegas-shooting-victims/

It might be October, but it’s still beach season in the first trailer for Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel. The first footage from the film, which is set around Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood in the 1950s, arrived Wednesday, ahead of the project’s world premiere next week at the New Read more at https://zmovies.news/justin-timberlake-kate-winslet-star-woody-allens-wonder-wheel-trailer/

The baby driver himself might soon be swerving into another Hollywood hit. Ansel Elgort is in negotiations to play the lead role of Theodore Decker in Warner Bros. and Amazon Studio’s upcoming adaptation of Donna Tartt’s 2014 novel The Goldfinch, EW has confirmed. The Tracking Board‘s Read more at https://zmovies.news/baby-driver-star-ansel-elgort-front-goldfinch/

EW’s newest Pop Culture True Crime feature story, “Hollywood’s Original Gone Girl,” takes a deep dive into the strange 1957 kidnapping case of Marie McDonald, a 1940s movie starlet known as “The Body.” Her lurid ordeal began with two men abducting the actress from her Los Angeles home and Read more at https://zmovies.news/carrie-fisher-debbie-reynolds-bizarre-connection-shocking-hollywood-disappearance/

The Fate of the Furious earned more than $1 billion earlier this year, continuing the Fast franchise’s streak of box office success. Universal had scheduled two further Furious films for April 2019 and April 2021, but we’ll now have to wait a little longer for the next ones. EW has confirmed Read more at https://zmovies.news/fast-furious-9-pushed-back-2020-universal/

It’s October 3rd 4th and more of the Mean Girls cast are joining the totally fetch fundraising efforts to raise money for victims of the Las Vegas shooting. The GoFundMe campaign, which launched yesterday in honor of what has come to be known as “Mean Girls Day,” has posted a video Read more at https://zmovies.news/lindsay-lohan-joins-mean-girls-campaign-raise-money-victims/

Bob’s Burgers is cooking up its biggest adventure yet — a feature film. 20th Century Fox announced Wednesday that the Fox animated comedy will hit the big screen in July 2020. Bob’s Burgers, which centers on the hamburger-joint-owning Belcher family, kicked off its eighth season on Read more at https://zmovies.news/bobs-burgers-movie-works/

Between now and the Oscar nominations on Jan. 24, EW will speak to numerous contenders in below-the-line categories about their work and craft. This week, The Beguiled costume designer Stacey Battat dishes on stitching intricate, Civil War-era pieces for Sofia Coppola’s Cannes award-winning drama, Read more at https://zmovies.news/beguiled-costume-designer-sofia-coppola-films-ghostly-garments/

Last weekend saw the release of Mark Felt, a new procedural thriller starring Liam Neeson as Deep Throat, the famous source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the full extent of the Watergate scandal. A.O. Scott of the New York Times describes the movie as “a hectic, Read more at https://zmovies.news/presidents-men-3-best-conspiracy-movies-ever-made/

Press tours can be grueling for actors, especially when you’re Harrison Ford, who thinks “it’s always better not to talk about” the film and to just “f—ing do it.” That made his interview with British talk show This Morning so much more delightful when the typically deadpan actor cracked Read more at https://zmovies.news/watch-blade-runner-2049-stars-ryan-gosling-harrison-ford-crack-interview/

Before long, Storm Reid will head off to the far-off planets of Ixchel, Uriel, and Camazotz. EW caught up with the 14-year-old actress at PEOPLE’s One to Watch event this week, where the young star opened up about playing the lead role of Meg Murry in Ava DuVernay’s upcoming sci-fi adventure A Read more at https://zmovies.news/means-everything-girl-color-play-lead-role/

Full disclosure: I really like Tom Cruise as an actor. I actually always found him kind of underrated as a performer. Pure movie star charisma doesn’t come around a lot these days and he is one of those classic movie icons, like Bogart or Newman. That being said: Tom Cruise needs to do Read more at https://zmovies.news/tom-cruise-television/

In the new action-horror movie Mayhem, Steven Yeun plays a character named Derek Cho, who after being unjustly fired from his job discovers that his law firm’s building is under quarantine for a mysterious and dangerous virus. Chaos erupts throughout the office as the victims of the disease Read more at https://zmovies.news/walking-dead-star-steven-yeun-gets-worked-mayhem-trailer/

Harvey Weinstein will be taking a leave of absence from The Weinstein Company after multiple women, including Ashley Judd, stepped forward to accuse him of sexual harassment. A New York Times exposé published Thursday chronicles “decades” of alleged harassment and settlements with at Read more at https://zmovies.news/harvey-weinstein-accused-decades-sexual-harassment/

At San Diego Comic Con earlier this year, Todd McFarlane announced that Spawn was officially coming back to the big screen. The supernatural superhero was first created by McFarlane when he and his compatriots originally launched Image Comics back in 1992; five years later, in 1997, Mark Read more at https://zmovies.news/todd-mcfarlane-gives-update-new-spawn-movie/