The first trailer for demon possession horror The Exorcism, starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, has been released… not to be confused with the demon possession horror The Pope’s Exorcist, starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, which came out last year. In this one, Crowe stars as a troubled actor who begins to unravel while filming a supernatural horror movie. The joke there is too obvious to make. In any case, The Exorcism hails from director Joshua John Miller, and will see an exclusive cinema release from June 7th. Also starring in the pic are Sam Worthington (best known for his starring rol ..read more

Some of Britain’s finest actors are entering the zombie apocalypse, as Deadline reports that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are boarding 28 Years Later. Danny Boyle is directing the long-awaited sequel to 28 Days Later, which he helmed in 2002, and which centred on a man (Cillian Murphy) who wakes up in the hospital to find the UK overtaken by a zombie plague. Civil War and Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, who penned the 2002 script, is back to write what is intended to be the first film in a new trilogy for Sony. Boyle and Garland will produce the film with Andrew Macd ..read more

Jennifer Lopez is forced to confront her ambiguous feelings about artificial intelligence in the first official, full-length trailer for Netflix’s science-fiction feature, Atlas.  Per the official synopsis, Atlas follows Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it. The full trailer gives us a better look at the high-budget product ..read more

LaKeith Stanfield, who most recently starred in Jeymes Samuel’s sophomore feature, The Book of Clarence, is teaming up with veteran producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura for El Paso, Elsewhere, an adaptation of the neo-noir vampire video game. Stanfield is reportedly in talks to star in the feature, and will also produce alongside di Bonaventura, the man best known for steering huge franchises like Transformers. Colin Stark is also attached to produce. The project does not yet have a writer or director, as the project is still being packaged in hopes of finding it a studio. Consi ..read more

The Darkness Outside Us is looking to move from ink and paper to the big screen, with The Hollywood Reporter announcing that Pageboy Productions, the banner run by Oscar nominee Elliot Page, Matt Jordan Smith and Tuck Dowrey, has optioned the rights to the 2021 sci-fi novel. The Darkness Outside Us, from author Eliot Schrefer, is a YA love story about two young men, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are put onto the same spaceship ..read more

Ryan Reynolds has taken over from Marvel Studios to post the very first, full-length trailer for Deadpool’s highly-anticipated third outing in Deadpool & Wolverine, marking the Merc with a Mouth’s entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Per the official synopsis, the Time Variance Authority (TVA), a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline (which was thoroughly explored in the Disney+ series Loki), pulls Wade Wilson / Deadpool (Reynolds) from his quiet life and sets him on a mission with Wolverine (H ..read more

The trailer for Transformers One marks a first for any Hollywood studio, according to Paramount: it launched from space! Per the press release: “This long-awaited origin story of how the most iconic characters in the Transformers Universe, Orion Pax and D-16, went from brothers-in-arms to become sworn enemies, Optimus Prime and Megatron, debuted its trailer… The launch kicked off at 6am PT with a live-streamed countdown showing the journey into space. After one hour, the craft reached its peak at 125, 000 feet above the Earth, revealing the trailer with a custom introduction video ..read more

Comedy Central has greenlit a series order for Golden Axe, a new, 10-episode animated series based on the classic side-scrolling action game. Produced by CBS Studios with Sony Pictures Television and Original Film, Golden Axe has already lined up an impressive voice cast: Matthew Rhys (The Americans, Perry Mason), Danny Pudi (Mythic Quest, Community), Lisa Gilroy, Liam McIntyre (Spartacus), and Carl Tart. Golden Axe is described as a hilarious and loving homage to the 1989 Sega video game series, and follows warriors Ax Battler, Tyrus Flare, and Gilius Thunde ..read more

NEON’s upcoming horror film Longlegs is in the midst of a very strange, cryptic, and creepy marketing campaign, with new poster art and a teaser trailer. The poster is called “Sweet: Part One” and the video is “Sweet: Part Two”. The teaser reveals very little about the story, consisting of a sequence of short clips and the following words appearing on the screen: So close the crimson and clover All gone now to the edge Where the black begins The long forked tongue hisses Daughter of the seventh she Your guess is as good as ours as to what any of that means, but that’s the fun of it ..read more

Variety reports that Steven Spielberg is going back to his genre roots after his Oscar-nominated drama The Fabelmans, writing that the beloved filmmaker will “likely make his next project a UFO film based on his own original idea”. Further good news, the pic in question is set to be written by David Koepp, the original scribe of Jurassic Park who is also writing a follow-up Jurassic World film for Universal, which will star Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey. This, of course, is far from Spielberg’s first tangle with aliens, havin ..read more