Fans of late-night political comedy program The Daily Show will have to do without long-time host Jon Stewart this summer (correspondent John Oliver will be keeping his seat warm during Stewart’s three-month break), but not because he’s going on vacation. Taking the first step into a new branch of his career, Stewart will write and direct a true-life drama, Rosewater, which he will also co-produce alongside Scott Rudin (The Social Network, Moonrise Kingdom).

The film is based on journalist Maziar Bahari’s memoir, Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, which he co-wrote with Aimee Molloy. While covering the 2009 Iranian presidential elections, Bahari was taken prisoner and held for ...

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Man of Steel may be one of the riskiest films of the year, but it’s also one of the most-talked-about releases of the summer movie season. The film is faced with rebooting the character following both the enormous success of The Dark Knight trilogy and the disappointment of director Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns.

For months, speculation has run rampant regarding exactly how Man of Steel will help Warner Bros. and DC finally launch a shared movie universe, and star Henry Cavill himself has offered his hopes for a Batman-Superman team-up in the near future. However, before any of that can happen, Man of Steel has to deliver for ...

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Most killers in Hannibal tend to stick to the shadows, leaving behind gruesome trophies as a calling card or evidence of their mastery over other humans. And although most seem intent on eluding capture for as long as possible, a common theme begins to emerge that’s not at all uncommon, even amongst non-psychopathic folk: the concept of legacy and the meaning of being recognized for an accomplishment.

In ‘Trou Normand,’ the series takes a look at the meaning of not merely creating a legacy and ensuring ones prominence in the thoughts of others, but controlling the conversation, swaying it in a particular manner and, ultimately, changing what people think. These are common ...

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Bryan Singer tossed X-Men: Days of Future Past back into the spotlight yesterday, announcing via Twitter that he and studio Twentieth Century Fox have cast yet another key mutant character after the film had already begun shooting in Montreal.

Evan Peters of American Horror Story fame is playing the super-fast son of Magneto known as Quicksilver, a character that Joss Whedon is also currently planning to introduce into the Marvel Cinematic Universe via The Avengers 2. While we don’t quite yet know the implications of Singer’s latest roster addition when it comes to the two studios using the character, he does have bigger plans for Days of Future Past than fans may assume.

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Between 1952 and 1994, 38 Formula One drivers were killed on the track in World Championship races. The story of the last of these deaths, that of Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, was told in the BAFTA-winning 2010 documentary Senna and received wide critical acclaim. This means that Ron Howard’s new biopic, Rush - which recounts the famous rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, and the devastating crash that left Lauda with severe facial scarring – has a tough act to follow.

Senna’s death acted as a wake-up call for the FIA, who subsequently tightened up safety restrictions on both the cars and racetracks of Formula One, and as a result there hasn’t been a single driver fatality in a contemporary Formula One car since. In the 1970s, however, when Hunt and Lauda were in competition, the nature of Formula One was almost gladiatorial ...

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Many fans of Sam Raimi’s initial Spider-Man trilogy were skeptical when – only five years later – director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) delivered The Amazing Spider-Man to theaters. Some balked at the thought of rebooting the franchise so soon after Spider-Man 3, while others were hopeful that this new version could rectify the mistakes of that previous film and give the character a fresh start.

Reaction to The Amazing Spider-Man may still be a bit mixed, given the film’s tendency to tread on a bit too much familiar ground regarding the origin of everyone’s favorite friendly neighborhood webslinger. However, one point that most fans can agree on is that ...

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Star Trek Into Darkness is the rare well-received followup to a critically and financially-successful franchise blockbuster that hasn’t outstripped its predecessor at the box office (so far). It’s possible that a backlash against J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars-ian take on the late Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi franchise is to blame; or, more likely, the film’s marketing campaign – which was so focused on preserving secrecy around the film’s villain – didn’t really get audiences properly excited.

Regardless, Into Darkness ticket sales have been quite healthy during the first couple weeks of release ($184 million worldwide), with openings in several foreign markets to come. So, there’s no reason to believe that Star Trek 3 – ...

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While our readers are already talking about this movie in the comments section of our Fast & Furious 6 review, this is the place where you can discuss Fast & Furious 6 spoilers without concerns about ruining the movie for people who haven’t seen it yet.

If you’re posting comments here, assume that anyone in the conversation has seen the movie – if you haven’t seen the movie, we would recommend you don’t read the comments here until you have.

For an in-depth discussion of the film by the Screen Rant editors check back soon for our Fast & Furious 6 episode of the SR Underground podcast.

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Fast & Furious 6 picks up after the successful Rio heist in Fast Five, with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew having given up their lives of crime, spending their hard-earned (read: stolen) money jet setting, wooing supermodels – or in the case of Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), adjusting to fatherhood. All seems well until Diplomatic Security Service Agent, Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), tracks Toretto down, requesting the team’s assistance in stopping an international terrorist – in exchange for full U.S. pardons.

Toretto agrees to help and the rest of his crew assemble in London, where they come face-to-face (or car-to-car) with infamous Ex-Special Forces soldier-turned-robber Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), along with his team of cold-blooded killers and expert gear-heads. With only days to stop Shaw from acquiring ...

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What better way to find out if you’re ready for fatherhood, than to find out that you’re already a father hundreds of times over? That’s the premise of Dreamworks’ new comedy, Delivery Man, which is about a middle-aged man facing a rather unusual mid-life crisis.

Vince Vaughn plays David Wozniak, a forty-something underachiever who finds out that, as a result of donations that he made to a sperm clinic over two decades ago, he has unwittingly fathered 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit in order to find out the identity of their father. This news comes shortly after David’s girlfriend (Cobie Smulders) tells him that she is pregnant with (though she does not know it) his 534th child, and expects him to step up to the plate and be a ...

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In the upcoming comedy We’re the Millers, small-time pot dealer David (Jason Sudeikis) is offered $100,000 from a drug kingpin to transport what the kingpin calls “a smidge” of weed from Mexico across the U.S. border. As a single man, David believes he is more likely to be spotted and searched while crossing the border, so he creates a faux family by hiring a local stripper (Jennifer Aniston) to play his wife, a runaway teen (Emma Roberts) to play his daughter and a neighborhood boy (Will Poulter) to play his son. Posing as “The Millers” on a family vacation, they then set out to collect the weed and David’s money, but of course, things go horribly wrong along the way.

The film is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, who is best known for writing and directing Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and written ...

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A week in film news is not complete without another report of a reboot or remake, and since 80s action properties have been thoroughly harvested, Hollywood seems to be plowing through to the 90s. Moving on from remakes of Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicles (for now), the next action hero with a remake in development (without his involvement) is Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Timecop.

THR reports that Universal is looking to make a re-designed version of Van Damme’s 1994 time-traveling action movie. Directed by Peter Hyams and based on the Dark Horse comic book mini-series, Van Damme played the eponymous time-traveling police officer (in the future of 2004) tasked with stopping criminals who abuse the technology. He runs afoul a corrupt politician (Ron ...

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The 2-year wait for Luther season 3 will be over this fall, as BBC America has announced that Neil Cross’s fan-favorite series will be returning on September 3 with a week marathon of all 4 episodes – and what’s more, some plot details of this upcoming season were also included.

In BBC America’s press release, it was announced that Luther season 3 will air from September 3-6 at 10pm, essentially turning the short-season show into its own miniseries. What all will happen in the highly-anticipated episodes is still unknown, but the plot description below hints at a few things:

John Luther, the near-genius detective struggling to cope with his own demons, is back under intense pressure – ...

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