The Big Short—which concerns four groups of traders who discovered that the housing loans that held up most of the economy were actually built on a series of repackaged, unchecked, awful loans that created the potential for the collapse of the world economy—is the first dramatic film forAdam McKay(Anchorman, Step Brothers). It might seem like an odd choice for him to direct but, after initially stumbling out of the gate, it works magnificently....

So, how about that teaser trailer forThe Defenders, huh? Sure, it gave us absolutely zero sense of what to expect from the long-gestating superhero team series, which includes Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Jessica Jones, but the song choice - a remix of the Nirvana classic “Come As You Are” - was perfect and the graphics were solid. We’re a long way from getting our eyes on this thing, with production set to begin later this year, but there’s been plenty of buzz about the series going around, both because of the teaser trailer and the new trailer forLuke Cage....

Musical episodes of popular or cult television series tend to boast an especially dedicated following. This, to me, explains the popularity of the otherwise abysmalGlee, but it goes back further than that. Indie theaters across the country still have annual or even bi-monthly screenings of theBuffy the Vampire Slayermusical and for fans of vintage MTV programming, few things measure up to theDariamusical episode. So, even beyond the ironclad popularity ofThe Flashand the rejuvenatedSupergirl’s escalating allure, it’s not surprising that the upcoming musical crossover for the two shows, entitled “Duet,” is getting a lot of attention....

Naturally, when you’re adapting a 1000+ page book into a standalone film, some things are going to get the ax. It’s par for the course, to be expected. In the case ofIT, one ofStephen King’smost beloved novels, fans are especially keen to know what’s getting the cut. For one thing, as you probably already know, the first film is solely focused on the adventures of the Losers Club as kids, with the adult narrative planned to follow in a second film....

We may not know exactly when we’ll get to seeThe New Mutantsjust yet, but we now know how long the movie will be once we do. TheX-Menadaptation has been long, long,longdelayed, but got a spotlight today during a Comic-Con@Home panel that promises the filmwillbe coming out. Sometime. And in addition to that Comic-Con@Home panel, Collider’s own Steve Weintraub got to speak with writer/directorJosh Booneand some of the cast for an interview about the film....

Prisons have been used as the setting in films for almost as long as cinema has existed. With its roots going back to the silent filmExecution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison, which was released in 1901, prisons have played vital roles in countless of the most iconic films in history.Shawshank RedemptionandTheGreen Mileare two of the best examples of films that took their respective settings behind bars and transformed them into characters of their own....

The Autobots will roll out on the streets of Detroit again when filming gets underway onTransformers 5.Michael Bayis returning to direct the fifth installment;reportedly his last before he hands over the reins, and his farewell go at the helm will return him to the familiar Michigan metropolis where the director also filmed parts ofTransformers,Dark Side of the MoonandAge of Extinction. Despite the franchise’s history with the state, the location comes as a bit of a surprise, as Michigan legislation ended the film office incentive program in July of 2015....

IT Chapter Twomay have won its opening weekend at the U.S. box office and zoomed past predictions but don’t be fooled: this was a fairly grim weekend in terms of theatrical sales overall. Sequels rarely do as well as their predecessors, so it’s not too shocking thatIT Chapter Twoonly pulled in $91 million at domestic box offices versus the $123 millionITearned in its opening weekend back in 2017. What’s really been a boon for this sequel is the international opening weekend gross....

“Beautiful way to watch the sun rise, glistening off the intestines of the recently mutilated,” saysLee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman), Westworld’s skeezy narrative director. But he sums things up rather well, and like almost every character in the series, he’s gone through a major transformation in Season 2. While the show’s first season was largely about the mystery and wonder of discoveringWestworld(both in a meta sense and the world of the park itself), Season 2 builds off of that imparted knowledge to create something very different....

[In anticipation ofthe 25th anniversary ofThe Sandlot, we’ve updated and reposted this editorial.] The baseball season has begun, the NHL is headed for the race for the Stanley Cup, and the NBA is about to begin its endless playoff season. But at the multiplex, it’s always the off-season for kids' sports films. When I was growing up, there was a boon of sports movies for kids. From 1991 to 1995, studios released a steady stream of movies featuring kids playing sports....

It’s been eight years sinceAndrew Garfield’slast solo web-slinging adventure inThe Amazing Spider-Man 2(directed byMarc Webb), but clamor for a third installment in the series has never been higher. This is in no small part based on the character’s heroic return via the record-breakingSpider-Man: No Way Home, in which Garfield’s Peter Parker teamed up with bothTom Holland’sandTobey Maguire’siterations of the character. RELATED:Why Andrew Garfield’s Amazing Spider-Man Movies Are Good, Actually Garfield recently opened upabout his appearance in theJon Watt’sdirected threequel for the first time, admitting that he would return to the character ‘if it felt right....

For those who have been following international cinema even lightly over the last few decades,Wong Kar-Waiis as recognizable a name asDavid Fincher,Steven Spielberg, orJ.J. Abrams. He’s the preeminent auteur of the Chinese cinema, and perhaps the most ravishing, romantic filmmaker currently working in any country on this planet. One wouldn’t need to see much more than Kar-wai’s last film, his hypnoticThe Grandmaster, to know how uniquely talented he is, but the man has been around for years upon years and has been responsible for some of the most influential foreign films that have been made in the 1990s and aughts....

For directorBryan Singer’s return to theX-Menfranchise, he brought both the original cast and the new cast together for the time travel-infusedX-Men: Days of Future Past. But as if that wasn’t a big enough challenge, for the follow-up filmX-Men: Apocalypse, Singer decided to introduce younger versions of even more iconic characters. The 80s-set sequel finds theFirst Classcast squaring off against the vengeful centuries-old villain Apocalypse, but at the same time, young versions of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Angel are being brought to the big screen for the first time, seemingly opening up even more possibilities for theX-Menfranchise going forward....