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Watch all the best trailers from Comic-Con 2018 right here

This year's Comic-Con International in San Diego offered a sneak peek at many of the most anticipated movies and television projects in the works, from Aquaman and Glass to Star Trek: Discovery and The Walking Dead. Here are our favorite Comic-Con 2018 trailers from the show.
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Robin goes gritty in first trailer for DC’s ‘Titans’ streaming series

DC Entertainment released the first trailer for Titans, its upcoming live-action series based on the publisher's teenage superhero team The Teen Titans. The grim and gritty series will premiere on the company's subscription-based streaming video platform DC Universe later this year.
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‘Iron Fist’ season 2 premiere date and teaser trailer revealed at Comic-Con

The return of Finn Jones as Marvel Comics' kung fu superhero Iron Fist will happen in early September, according to the first teaser trailer for the show's second season, which was revealed by Marvel TV and Netflix during the show's Comic-Con panel in San Diego.
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To Russia, with Keanu: ‘Siberia’ director Matthew Ross shares tales from the set

Siberia director Matthew Ross first gained Hollywood's attention with his debut film Frank and Lola, and now he's behind the camera for Siberia, a romantic thriller starring Keanu Reeves that's set in Russia. Digital Trends spoke to Ross about making movies, Keanu, and cold-weather filmmaking tips.
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‘District 9’ director to helm direct sequel to the original 1987 ‘Robocop’

District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp will reportedly helm an upcoming sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi classic RoboCop, titled RoboCop Returns. The film will ignore the events of 1990's RoboCop 2 in order to reboot the violent cyborg-cop action franchise.
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‘Castle Rock’ spoiler-free preview: Hulu’s Stephen King series is scary good

Castle Rock, the new Hulu series set within the world of horror novelist Stephen King's acclaimed novels, manages to mine fresh scares from classic stories thanks to its talented cast and creative team. Digital Trends got a look at the first four episodes of the show, and here's what you can expect from it.
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HBO offers behind-the-scenes look at ‘Westworld’ season 2 finale

HBO has released a behind-the-scenes video that explores the making of the Westworld season 2 finale The Passenger, featuring interviews with the hit series' cast and creative team, and plenty of spoilers and discussion of what the future might hold for the show.
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‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ review

The sequel to 2015 blockbuster Jurassic World, the fifth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise takes the films in a new, and much darker direction, but director J.A. Bayona's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom still manages to retain the series' signature spectacle.
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‘Creed II’ trailer sets up a historic fight with the son of Drago

The first trailer for 'Creed II' features Michael B. Jordan's Adonis Creed preparing for the fight of his life against the son of Rocky IV's Russian powerhouse Ivan Drago, played by Romanian boxer Florian 'Big Nasty' Munteanu. Stallone returns as franchise icon Rocky Balboa.
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‘I ain’t going nowhere.’ Season 2 of ‘Luke Cage’ does Harlem’s hero proud

The second season of Luke Cage brings Mike Colter back as the steel-skinned hero of Harlem with a host of new enemies and allies joining the series along with some familiar faces, but can it top the critically acclaimed first season? Here's our review of Luke Cage season 2.
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Ewan McGregor to star in ‘The Shining’ sequel, ‘Doctor Sleep’

Fargo and Star Wars prequel actor Ewan McGregor has reportedly agreed to star in Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name, and a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining, which was adapted into a movie and television series over the years.
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First trailer for ‘Halloween’ brings Michael Myers back home for the holiday

Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Halloween, its sequel to John Carpenter's genre-defining 1978 slasher film, set 40 years after the events of the original movie and starring Jamie Lee Curtis in the role she first played four decades ago.
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Celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain has died at age 61

Celebrity chef and award-winning author and television host Anthony Bourdain has died at age 61, leaving behind a legacy of thought-provoking, globe-hopping stories that brought the world's cuisine and cultures to audiences over two decades of television series and novels.

Here’s what a MacGuffin is, and 15 killer examples that made movies memorable

From the Ark of the Covenant and the Letters of Transit to a guy named Doug and a rug that ties the room together, these great movie MacGuffins proved that it isn't always the object of the adventure that makes it a memorable experience. Here are 15 of the best movie MacGuffins to grace the big screen.
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Academy Award winner will star in new, live-action ‘Spawn’ movie

Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx will reportedly star in Todd McFarlane's adaptation of his Spawn comic book series, which McFarlane will also write and direct. The Spawn movie is expected to be a dark, R-rated thriller featuring Foxx as the demonic antihero who was once a deadly black ops agent.
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ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ revival series following Barr’s racist tweet

ABC has canceled the wildly successful revival of Roseanne after series star Roseanne Barr posted a racist message on Twitter regarding a former adviser to President Barack Obama, ending the show's return to television after just one new season. The network will now scramble to fill a big hole in its schedule.
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‘The Expanse’ gets a new life, will continue with Season 4 on Amazon Prime

In a surprise announcement greeted with raucous applause at a National Space Society panel discussion featuring the cast and crew of The Expanse, Jeff Bezos confirmed that the critically acclaimed sci-fi series will continue with the fourth season premiering on Amazon Prime.
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ review

Director Ron Howard takes shoot-first smuggler Han Solo back to his early years in Solo: A Star Wars Story, which finds just the right balance of old and new elements to turn this prequel film into an exciting, entertaining heist movie that pays homage to the sci-fi saga's past.
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Hope and chill: The Obamas are bringing a bunch of content to Netflix

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have officially entered a multi-year partnership with Netflix to produce a variety of original content for the streaming service.
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Muppets get raunchy in first NSFW trailer for ‘The Happytime Murders’

Melissa McCarthy teams up with a hard-boiled puppet detective in order to take down a brutal serial killer in the first, Red Band trailer for The Happytime Murders. It's the first raunchy film to come out of The Jim Henson Company's mature-audiences production studio, Henson Alternative.
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‘Deadpool 2’ review

Ryan Reynolds returns as Marvel's mouthy mercenary Wade Wilson in Deadpool 2, the sequel to the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, with John Wick co-director David Leitch behind the camera and several new mutants joining Deadpool this time around.
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Amazon lands Nazi-hunting series ‘The Hunt’ from ‘Get Out’ director Jordan Peele

Amazon Studios has picked up The Hunt, a drama series about a group of Nazi hunters in 1970s-era New York City produced by Get Out director Jordan Peele's studio, Monkeypaw Productions. It's written by two-time Blacklist screenwriter David Weil, who will executive produce the series with Peele.
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Margot Kidder, the Lois Lane to Christopher Reeve’s Superman, has died

Canadian-born actress Margot Kidder, who rose to fame playing Lois Lane in 1978's live-action film Superman and each of the movie's three sequels, has died at age 69. She leaves behind a long career in television and films spanning more than five decades.
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Jon Favreau reveals the setting of Disney’s live-action Star Wars series

Iron Man and The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau says he's halfway through writing the first season of his upcoming, live-action Star Wars series for Disney's streaming platform, and now he's revealed when the show will be set in the sci-fi saga's timeline.
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‘Rick and Morty’ gets schwifty with massive 70-episode renewal

Adult Swim has renewed its hit animated series Rick and Morty for a massive run of 70 episodes, according to co-creator Justin Roiland. The new deal ensures that the wildly popular show continues on for many, many years and many more time- and space-traveling adventures.
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‘Luke Cage’ season 2: Everything we know so far

Marvel and Netflix have come together for five Defenders series, celebrating lesser-known heroes in a TV universe separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One such series, Luke Cage, is set to return for a second season in June. Here's everything we know about the show so far.
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These comics prove that Free Comic Book Day is for movie lovers, too

From The Avengers to Venom -- with a little James Bond thrown into the mix -- there's a lot of great stuff available for movie fans during this year's Free Comic Book Day festivities. Here's a rundown of some of the coolest free comics and other collectibles to look for on Saturday, May 5, at your local comic shop.
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Six unplanned Star Wars movies we’d love to see

The Star Wars universe is filled with potential stories, so in honor of Star Wars Day, May the Fourth, we've come up with a few narrative ideas we'd like to see explored in movies set within the sci-fi saga's continuity -- from bounty hunter ensembles to kung fu Jedi tales.
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Bad Robot’s R-rated ‘Overlord’ won’t be a Cloverfield movie, says J.J. Abrams

The World War II horror film Overlord will not be the fourth installment of Bad Robot production studio's Cloverfield franchise, according to producer J.J. Abrams, who introduced some footage from the film at this year's CinemaCon and offered a colorful description of the movie.
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‘Jumanji’ sequel confirms its release date and the return of Dwayne Johnson

The sequel to 2017's adventure film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle now has a release date, and the film will bring back Dwayne Johnson as explorer and archaeologist Smolder Bravestone in the hopes of replicating the previous film's massive box-office success.
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Fast and Furious franchise headed to Netflix for a new animated series

Universal Pictures' blockbuster Fast and Furious film franchise is making the leap to television after eight films, and the small-screen show will take the form of an animated series on Netflix, produced by the Emmy-winning DreamWorks Animation studio.
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’: Everything we know so far

Marvel Studios' massive crossover event, Avengers: Infinity War, is getting closer to its April 27 release date. The film packs in a long list of characters played big huge stars, including Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and many more.
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‘Super Troopers 2’ review

Broken Lizard comedy troupe revisits 2001 cult classic Super Troopers with a sequel borne of an impressive crowdfunding campaign. Although the laughs aren't as plentiful or unexpected this time around, Super Troopers 2 still manages to channel the magic of the original in new ways.
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Exclusive: How ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ took IMAX further than ever before

Marvel Studios and IMAX take you behind the scenes of Avengers: Infinity War in an exclusive featurette that explains exactly why the studio decided to go all-in on IMAX for the production, and make Infinity War the first major studio release to be shot entirely in the popular large-screen format