Things have not been going entirely smoothly for CBS’s attempt to bring Star Trek back to TV forStar Trek: Discovery. Pre-production on the series hit a few speed bumps, but the major hiccup happened a few weeks ago when the show’s head creative figure,Bryan Fuller, left the project. This should be seen as a tremendous, if not entirely damning, issue. The main reason people who aren’tStar Trekobsessives were interested in this property was because Fuller, the creative force behindPushing Daisiesand the unparalleledHannibal, was behind the whole thing....

While you’re no doubt aware thatStar Wars: The Force Awakenshas been rocketing up the box office charts over the past couple of weekends (though it’sin danger of being unseated byThe Revenant), it’s actually in the midst of itsfirstweekend in one key territory: China. Disney releasedJ.J. Abrams’ sequel in the lucrative market this weekend, and while final numbers have yet to come in, early estimates are looking incredibly strong for the film’s Chinese performance....

Besides renewing the hit-seriesStranger Thingsfor a fifth and final season, Netflix announced today that Season 4 will be split into two volumes. The news was disclosed in a letter from the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers. In their letter, the Duffer Brothers underline how Season 4 ofStranger Thingswas the most challenging chapter in the popular story about a group of children fighting evil corporations and interdimensional monsters. With “nine scripts, over eight hundred pages, almost two years of filming,” Season 4 took longer to complete than any previous season ofStranger Things, and the reason for that is that the Duffer Brothers are working on the series endgame and bringing the story to an end....

Suicide Squadjust secured at leastone big record for having the biggest August openingweekend in the history of the box office, unseatingGuardians of the Galaxyin a quick swoop. TheDavid Ayer-helmed DC adaptation had a great first week, but we’re starting to hear more and more about trouble behind the Warner Bros./DC curtain, from interpersonal drama to the shedding of several scenes to make the PG-13 cut. Now, Dark Horizons haslocated a list of rumored cut scenes, viaa Reddit user, which you may take a look at below, that gives us a general sense of what might have been extracted from the original cut of the film....

Suicide Squadis, in many ways, the most exciting film of the DC Extended Universe thus far. What makes the picture unique is that this will be the first movie in this interconnected series of DC Comics adaptations that isnotdirected byZack Snyder, therefore allowing audiences to see for the first time what a different director’s vision looks like within this same universe. And from the moment it was announced thatDavid Ayerwould be at the helm ofSuicide Squad, it was clear that Warner Bros....

Love ‘em or hate ‘em (you’ll be in our mentions either way),Zack Snyder’s superhero movies are a very specific taste. Gone are the brightly-colored, optimistic fantasies of an MCU orWonder Woman 1984. Instead, to quote a LEGO version of one of Snyder’s subjects, “Darkness!” Snyder’s films likeMan of Steel,Batman v Superman, and what I can only imagine will behis version ofJustice Leagueare desaturated, bombastic, and grim, grim, grim dissections of superheroes....

Whether you love his movies or not, it’s hard to deny thatQuentin Tarantinoknows how to pick good music for his film’s soundtracks. BesidesThe Hateful Eight, with itsEnnio Morriconescore, his soundtracks are almost entirely of pre-existing songs, whether they’re pieces of music written for other films or various pop songs (usually of the underrated/semi-forgotten variety) from decades past. RELATED:The Most Interesting Unmade Projects From Quentin Tarantino It’s impossible to list all the great uses of music from Tarantino’s filmography, as he has films that arguably have 10 or more fantastic needle drops each....

HBO has released the first full trailer forThe Defiant Ones, an upcoming docuseries that chronicles the rise ofDr. DreandJimmy Iovinein the music industry and their impact on contemporary culture. Iovine is a legendary record producer and entrepreneur who had been working with folks likeBruce SpringsteenandU2before he teamed up with Dr. Dre and co-founded Interscope Records. This four-part docuseries chronicles how the partnership happened, how Interscope exploded in the industry throughout the 90s, and how Iovine and Dre expanded that music partnership to a fully fledged empire, culminating in the creation of Beats by Dre....

Now that ourTop 50 Superhero Movies of All Timelist has come and gone, it’s on to the next! But this time around, we’re putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker - one of the best of all-time,Steven Spielberg. From 1975’sJaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017’s Academy Award-nominatedThe Post, Spielberg has moved audiences with his rich, emotional stories, thrilled them with some incredible action sequences; made them think with his political dramas and inspired them to explore a world beyond our own....

AfterSound Cityand the HBO seriesSonic Highways, Dave Grohl is back to directing withWhat Drives Us, a star-studded documentary that’ll make the rocker that lives inside you headbang with delight. The movie,revealed by Deadline, will soon be available via Amazon Prime Video with some of the biggest rock stars ever telling why, at some point in their career, they’ve decided to get into a van and tour. The trailer shows some of our favorite rock stars talking about the experience of getting into a van with their band and exploring the country with their music....

If you’ve been paying attention to Collider over the past couple of weeks, you’ve noticeda lot of contentout of the Toronto International Film Festival. The splashy fest is home to debuts and screenings of some of the biggest movies from the upcoming fall/winter movie season, as well as some golden indies that secure distribution based on buzz from the TIFF screenings. But TIFF is also one of the places where the Oscar race begins....

When the first trailer forOppenheimerprominently featured a countdown timer, it was fitting on multiple levels. It suggested an impending detonation, apt for a biopic about the father of the atomic bomb (where he will be played byCillian Murphy), while also tying intoChristopher Nolan’s ongoing obsession with time. Most of all, however, it served as a reminder of just how thoroughly the world changed the instant the “Gadget” detonated in the New Mexico desert....

AuthorLev Grossman’sThe Magicianstrilogy of novels is one of the best and most satisfying reads I’ve ever encountered. It’s a fantasy seriesaboutfantasy series, but it’s really about being human, and all the faults that lie therein. As Grossman covers the arc of a disillusioned young man named Quentin—who discovers magic is real, and that he himself possesses the qualities necessary to become a magician via the Brakebills School of Magic, seemingly providing the fulfillment he’s spent his life looking for—the author approaches the material with a maturity and honesty that’s lacking in many similar-sounding books....