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Here's a 2016 movie supercut that all you comic book and superhero fans can get behind! We Got This Covered released a video that highlights all of the best comic book movie moments from last year, and even the films that you might not have cared for still had some awesome moments that we all enjoyed. Check it out and let us know what your favorite comic book movie moments were. 

Screen Gems' Slender Man horror film is moving forward with a director who was just hired to take on the challenge of bringing the modern-day urban legend to life. That director is Sylvain White, who previously directed the films Stomp the Yard and The Losers. Those films aren't really worth remembering, but White is taking on a whole new genre with Slender Man, and I hope he does something great with it and gives us something truly terrifying. 

Slender Man is a scary dude, so if White can't give us a nightmarishly terrifying film then he's failed. The creature is a tall, thin frightening thing with unnaturally long arms and a featureless face. It's responsible for the haunting and disappearance of countless children and teens. This is a monster that Doug Jones should play!

While we wait for this movie to be released, HBO recently announced that their true crime documentarr Beware the Slenderman will premiere on Monday, January 23rd.

Source: Deadline

For those of you who have never taken the time to read the books about Middle Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien, there’s a lot of information that you’ve missed out on about many of the heroes that you love from The Lord of the Rings films. Thanks to Imgur user Sciencegeek100, you can now learn the fates of character such as Aragorn, Arwen, Samwise, Merry, Pippin, Gimli, and more without all the reading and research. 

Aragorn II Elessar

When in the year 120 of the Fourth Age, King Elessar realised his days were at an end, he went to the House of the Kings in the Silent Street. He said farewell to his son Eldarion and his daughters and gave Eldarion his crown and sceptre. Arwen remained at Aragorn’s side until he died.

Arwen

Died of a broken heart at Cerin Amroth in Lórien, and was buried there one year after the death of Aragorn, to whom she had been wedded for 122 years. She was 2901 years old.

Samwise Gamgee

After his wife died in the year 61 of the Fourth Age (SR 1482), Sam entrusted the Red Book to his daughter, Elanor and left the Shire. Because he was also a Ring-bearer, he was allowed to pass over the Sea to be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands.

Meriadoc Brandybuck

He married Estella Bolger some time after the end of the Third Age and later became the Master of Buckland. He wrote Old Words and Names in the Shire. At the age of 102, he returned to Rohan and Gondor with Pippin only to die there a few years later. He was laid to rest in Gondor, and when Elessar died, he and Pippin were entombed beside the great king.

Peregrin Took

He later became the 32nd Thain of the Shire, a position he held for 50 years before retiring, when he revisited Rohan and Gondor with Merry. Peregrin remained in Gondor for the rest of his life. Pippin died a few years later and was laid to rest with Merry in Gondor. After the great King Elessar (Aragorn) died, Merry and Pippin were entombed next to the great king.

Gimli

He led a large number of Durin’s Folk south to establish a new Dwarf kingdom in the Glittering Caves, which were located behind Helm’s Deep where Gimli was trapped during the battle, and he became the first Lord of the Glittering Caves. Later, he traveled with Legolas into the West and became the first dwarf to visit the Undying Lands.

Éowyn

After the War of the Ring had ended, she decided to give up dreams of glory in battle and devote her life to peace and a happy marriage. She married Faramir and settled in Ithilien for the rest of her life where they had at least one son.

Faramir

He was appointed by King Elessar as the Prince of Ithilien and Beregond to be the Captain of his guard, the White Company. Later on he settled in Emyn Arnen with his wife Éowyn, where they had at least one son (named Elboron), who succeeded him as Steward of Gondor, Prince of Ithilien, and Lord of Emyn Arnen, after Faramir’s death.

Éomer

He became known as Éomer Éadig, or “the Blessed”, because during his reign Rohan recovered from the hurts of the War and became a rich and fruitful land again. Éomer had met Lothíriel, daughter of Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth during his stay in Gondor, and they were wed. She bore him a son Elfwine, who succeeded him after his death.

And if you’re wondering what happened to Frodo, Gandalf, Bilbo, Elrond, Celeborn, and Galadriel at the end of the movies/books, you see them leaving by ship for the Undying Lands.

From the LotR wiki:

In TA 3021 (Third Age), Círdan the Shipwright accompanied Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf, the Keepers of the Rings, on a voyage to the Undying Lands, where they intended to remain. They were also joined by Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, Hobbits who were among the very few mortal beings to be allowed passage to the Undying Lands. Eventually, Samwise Gamgee, another Hobbit of the Shire, and the Dwarf Gimli along with his good friend Legolas, are also said to have made the journey.

An awesome trailer has been released for a new film called The Girl With All The Gifts. This is a zombie thriller that looks unlike any other zombie movie that I've seen before. On top of it being a unique take on the zombie genre, it's also been getting positive reviews from people who got to see it at Fantastic Fest last year.  

The Colm McCarthy-directed film is based on the novel of the same name written by M.R. Carey. The story is set in a zombie apocalypse in which society has collapsed, and the humans who survived are looking for a cure to the zombie plague. One of the main characters is a young girl who has the zombie virus, but has also managed to basically stay human, save for the craving of human flesh. 

The movie has an impressive cast that includes Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Condidine, and Sennia Nanua as the zombie girl. Here's the full detailed synopsis:

The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries.” Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects.

At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children are being studied, subjected to cruel experiments by biologist Dr. Caldwell. Despite having been infected with the zombie pathogen that has decimated the world, these children retain normal thoughts and emotions. And while still being subject to the craving for human flesh that marks the disease these second- generation “hungries” are able to think and feel making them a vital resource in the search for a cure.

The children attend school lessons daily, guarded by the ever watchful Sergeant Parks. But one little girl, Melanie, stands out from the rest. Melanie is special. She excels in the classroom, is inquisitive, imaginative and loves her favorite teacher Miss Justineau.

When the base falls, Melanie escapes along with Miss Justineau, Sergeant Parks and Dr. Caldwell. Against the backdrop of a blighted Britain, Melanie must discover what she is and ultimately decide both her own future and that of the human race.

The Girl With the All the Gifts will be available to watch on DirecTV on January 26th. It will then be released in theaters and VOD platforms on February 24th.

There is still so much that we don’t know about Guillermo del Toro’s next film, The Shape of Water. What we do know is that it’s an “other-worldly love story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.” It’s also said to be a “mysterious and magical journey.”

It was later rumored that the story follows a “mute janitor named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) who falls for an amphibious man who's being kept at the lab where she works. She tries to break him out with the help of her neighbor (probably played by Richard Jenkins), but ‘the world outside of the lab, however, may prove to be more dangerous for the amphibious man than Elisa could have anticipated.’”

We now have some additional information on the film thanks to Doug Jones, who will be playing the amphibious man in the story. While talking to Collider he thought it'd be cool to let some interesting new details slide out about the plot:

“It’s not a sci-fi [film], it’s not a genre film, but I am a creature in it. I’m a fish man that’s kind of a one-off. I’m an enigma, nobody knows where I came from; I’m the last of my species so I’m like a natural anomaly. And I’m being studied and tested in a U.S. government facility in 1963, so the Russian Cold War is on, the race for space is on, so there’s all that backdrop and that undercurrent. I’m being tested for how can they use me for advantages in military or space travel, or my technology—can we make this usable for humans? So they’re trying to keep me a secret from the Russians.”

This really sounds like an interesting love story between an amphibious creature and a cleaning lady, who will be played by Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine, Happy-Go-Lucky). The rest of the cast includes Michael Shannon (Midnight Special), Richard Jenkins (Bone Tomahawk), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Steve Jobs), and Octavia Spencer (The Help, Gifted). 

I love it when Del Toro makes original film projects. The guy is a great storyteller, and I love when he just lets his imagination loose. I can’t wait to see how this film turns out. 

It's gotta be aliens, right? The honest answer is, no one knows. Gizmodo reports that we finally do know the location of a galaxy that has been emitting repeated radio waves! While it's not uncommon for our satellites to pick up the occasional radio wave from space, this is the only instance of a rapid repeated signal coming from the same location. Astronomers have now dubbed this galaxy FRB 121102.

Don't worry about memorizing that name, because that galaxy is over 20 billion light years from Earth. Even if there is something there, we aren't reaching it any time in the next millennia. That might be for the best, as the thing that amazes astronomers the most is the strength of the radio signal despite its immense range from Earth. Is it possible we're receiving contact from a highly advanced race?

I really hope not. The last thing I want is for our first discovery of an alien species to be a species far more advanced than we are! Those scenarios don't often play out well. Let's hope it's just some weird stuff we don't understand yet.

Things aren't going well for Jimmy in the season three promo of Better Call Saul. It looks like Chuck did something with that tape recording at the end of season two! Isn't that guy just an asshole? If he were my brother, I would stay as far away from him as possible!

Check out the first promo for the series below, and get ready for more Better Call Saul in spring of 2017.

A "leaker" who has released information on Apple products in the past is now reporting that the company is looking to update its phones with a potentially controversial feature. Sony Dickson (via Collider) alleges that an update that will be available in iOS 10.3 will have a "theater mode."

While no concrete details on the rumor have been leaked, an Apple patent from 2012 had a very similar concept. Here's a description...

"This policy enforcement capability is useful for a variety of reasons, including for example to disable noise and/or light emanating from wireless devices (such as at a movie theater), for preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings), and for forcing certain electronic devices to enter “sleep mode” when entering a sensitive area."

Provided this is the technology that's coming to the update, how do we feel about this? Personally, I don't think we need technology to further allow people to be disruptive during a movie. I also don't know how I feel about a mode for my phone that doesn't allow people to reach me for an event as trivial for a movie. What if there's an emergency I need to be contacted for?

I see good and bad in this product, but then, ultimately, can we really force anyone to use it? Do you think if a feature like this gets added people will adopt it and use it at a movie? I know we all have that one story of someone being a dick with their phone, but is it such a problem we need tech that allows us to use phones inside the theater? I'm really curious to hear your opinion.

A live-action film adaptation of the classic '80s animated series Thundercats has been in and out of development for years. I'm sure one day the film will happen, but it doesn't look like it will be made anytime soon. 

If it does happen sometime in the near future, though, they have an actress who would perfectly fit as Cheetara: Milla Jovovich. It's not hard to imagine her in the role at all, and she would kick ass as the character. 

During an interview with We Got This Covered, Jovovich expressed interest in taking on the role saying:

“I’ve always loved Thundercats. I heard they were making a movie, and then they weren’t making a movie. And I’m probably getting way to old to play Katra… no, Cheetara, that’s the one!”

Too old? I don't think so, but of course, Hollywood might think she is. They'd probably want to cast some young teen girl from one of those Disney channel series to play the character. When Hollywood does get around to making the film. I hope they make the right casting decisions.

What do you all think of Jovovich in the role of Cheetara?

In honor of the return of the BBC series Sherlock (which aired the second episode of its fourth season last night), YouTuber Anastasia Soina has put together a nice violin cover of the show's catchy theme song. I see a lot of these kinds of videos, but not too many involve violins; it's nice to mix it up once in a while.

Sherlock wraps up its fourth season (and maybe the entire series?) with one more episode, "The Final Problem," which airs this coming Sunday night on PBS.

A funny red-band trailer has been released for Baywatch, and it got the red-band because it dropped a few F-bombs. The trailer offers us more insight into the story and lets us know that the movie is completely aware of what it is because everything "sounds like a really entertaining, but far-fetched TV show." 

The film stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron, and the story centers around "devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Johnson) as he butts heads with a brash new recruit (Efron). Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay."

The movie was directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses), and it also stars Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, Jon Bass, and Ilfenesh Hadera. Baywatch hits theaters on May 19th, 2017. It looks like it will be a fun flick!

In Kashiwa, Japan, just outside of Tokyo, there's a ramen restaurant called Chinrai. If GeekTyrant had a restaurant, I'm pretty sure we'd make access to its bathrooms work exactly the same way as this Chinrai location does.

トイレないと思って、店員に聞いたら、目の前ありますよて言われて、は？てなったけど、よく見たらやばかった pic.twitter.com/Ozw1IiSc7n

— たーむら (@jsbskydream) January 3, 2017

I'm a sucker for hidden passageways. Have you ever seen a hidden passageway and reacted with "meh?" If so, you probably don't have any joy left inside of you.

Quick side note: I ran the text of that tweet through Google Translate, and this is what came out:

When I thought that there was no toilet, when asked to the clerk, is it said that there is a presence in front of you, what is it? Although it became it, it was awful when I looked closely

Pretty sure that's not actually what it says, but you get the point. The point is, Batman-themed hidden passageway FTW.

Via: That's Nerdalicious

Star Wars: Episode VIII director Rian Johnson recently talked with USA Today about his highly anticipated upcoming film. In the process, he confirmed that the film will pick up immediately after where The Force Awakens left off and revealed that the film will mostly focus on Luke Skywalker, which is what fans are really excited about seeing!  

Johnson explained, “I don’t want to skip ahead two years, I want to see the very next moment of what happens.” He then goes on to say that Luke Skywalker will play “a large part of the movie.” It will be spent addressing "why Luke’s there and what he’ll do next."

Rey's journey in the story will be spent dealing with "the realization that she has this power and this gift” of The Force. He continued, “She’s taking her first step to coming to terms with this thing inside her that she never knew was there and is just starting to reveal its potential.”

We've been hearing a lot of rumors regarding the film that you can catch up on here, but a lot of that still has not been confirmed. I'm just excited that we'll finally learn Luke Skywalker's story and what he's been up to the past 30 years. 

I'm so excited about Legion, but I really have a love-hate relationship with these promos! On one hand, they've done a phenomenal job in keeping the show in mystery. On the flip side, I know NOTHING about the show and I want to so desperately! Of course, I could jump into the history of Legion, but where's the fun in that? Maybe I've been too spoiled by the current state of Hollywood needing to fill you in on any and all details of films.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is all these promos are exciting, buy you aren't going to learn shit about the show from watching them. Legion premieres February 8th. 

Gorilla Grodd will be returning to the world of The Flash, but this time Barry will have an additional ally! Deadline says actor Keith David (Platoon, Crash, The Thing) will be voicing Flash ally Solovar in an upcoming 2 episode arc of the CW series. 

Showrunner Andrew Kreisberg says to watch out for the appearance around episode 13 and 14 of the series. That's about 4 episodes away from the return of the series so I'm wondering what is going to happen in that short time that's going to flip the Flash universe (once again) on its head! 

It'll be cool to see Grodd return, although I hope they do a better job masking the CGI effects this time around. I know there were people on the site who disagreed with me calling them cheap back then...but your comments didn't sway me! Feel free to share your thoughts below in the comments. 

Two men that you would expect to see in a film centered around Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have been cast in a film that has already cast two odd actors for the lead roles. Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Laurie will appear alongside Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Holmes And Watson (via THR).

Considering it's two lead actors, I highly doubt this film will be steeped in the drama that the detective novels and series' have typically been associated with. That said, adding two U.K. names like Laurie and Fiennes has to strike a nerve for fans who have always wanted to see the noted actors in the famous roles. Considering we know very little about the project, including the roles of the two recently cast actors, I guess I shouldn't jump to conclusions. 

Weird casting aside the film does have me interested in a character that has been done to death particularly in the last decade so I gotta give them that. I can't wait to see a trailer! 

It always amazes me what is and isn't faked in movies. This would be a great example of "why didn't you fake this"?! For those that haven't seen the movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Michael Cera's character receives a package and instantly throws it over his back and into the trash. What I'm just now learning watching this video is that he actually had to do that! It can't be that hard to make a CGI box right? 

I think the most surprising part of this video is that it only takes a little over 30 tries...and he gets really close each time! Check out all the attempts below. 

An awesome trailer has been released for a new film called The Girl With All The Gifts. This is a zombie thriller that looks unlike any other zombie movie that I've seen before. On top of it being a unique take on the zombie genre, it's also been getting positive reviews from people who got to see it at Fantastic Fest last year.  

The Colm McCarthy-directed film is based on the novel of the same name written by M.R. Carey. The story is set in a zombie apocalypse in which society has collapsed, and the humans who survived are looking for a cure to the zombie plague. One of the main characters is a young girl who has the zombie virus, but has also managed to basically stay human, save for the craving of human flesh. 

The movie has an impressive cast that includes Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Condidine, and Sennia Nanua as the zombie girl. Here's the full detailed synopsis:

The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries.” Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects.

At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children are being studied, subjected to cruel experiments by biologist Dr. Caldwell. Despite having been infected with the zombie pathogen that has decimated the world, these children retain normal thoughts and emotions. And while still being subject to the craving for human flesh that marks the disease these second- generation “hungries” are able to think and feel making them a vital resource in the search for a cure.

The children attend school lessons daily, guarded by the ever watchful Sergeant Parks. But one little girl, Melanie, stands out from the rest. Melanie is special. She excels in the classroom, is inquisitive, imaginative and loves her favorite teacher Miss Justineau.

When the base falls, Melanie escapes along with Miss Justineau, Sergeant Parks and Dr. Caldwell. Against the backdrop of a blighted Britain, Melanie must discover what she is and ultimately decide both her own future and that of the human race.

The Girl With the All the Gifts will be available to watch on DirecTV on January 26th. It will then be released in theaters and VOD platforms on February 24th.

There is still so much that we don’t know about Guillermo del Toro’s next film, The Shape of Water. What we do know is that it’s an “other-worldly love story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.” It’s also said to be a “mysterious and magical journey.”

It was later rumored that the story follows a “mute janitor named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) who falls for an amphibious man who's being kept at the lab where she works. She tries to break him out with the help of her neighbor (probably played by Richard Jenkins), but ‘the world outside of the lab, however, may prove to be more dangerous for the amphibious man than Elisa could have anticipated.’”

We now have some additional information on the film thanks to Doug Jones, who will be playing the amphibious man in the story. While talking to Collider he thought it'd be cool to let some interesting new details slide out about the plot:

“It’s not a sci-fi [film], it’s not a genre film, but I am a creature in it. I’m a fish man that’s kind of a one-off. I’m an enigma, nobody knows where I came from; I’m the last of my species so I’m like a natural anomaly. And I’m being studied and tested in a U.S. government facility in 1963, so the Russian Cold War is on, the race for space is on, so there’s all that backdrop and that undercurrent. I’m being tested for how can they use me for advantages in military or space travel, or my technology—can we make this usable for humans? So they’re trying to keep me a secret from the Russians.”

This really sounds like an interesting love story between an amphibious creature and a cleaning lady, who will be played by Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine, Happy-Go-Lucky). The rest of the cast includes Michael Shannon (Midnight Special), Richard Jenkins (Bone Tomahawk), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Steve Jobs), and Octavia Spencer (The Help, Gifted). 

I love it when Del Toro makes original film projects. The guy is a great storyteller, and I love when he just lets his imagination loose. I can’t wait to see how this film turns out.