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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ to Hit iTunes Early on March 15
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set to hit DVD and Blu-ray on April 5, but if you can’t wait that long, we’ve got good news. Like many big Hollywood releases, Star Wars is coming to iTunes early. You’ll be able to download The Force Awakens on March 15 with special features, including seven new deleted scenes.
2016 Oscar Predictions: The ScreenCrush Staff Picks the Winners
Ready for the Oscars this Sunday? Need help winning your Oscar pool? The ScreenCrush staff — Editor-in-Chief Mike Sampson, Managing Editor Matt Singer and Senior Editor Erin Whitney — are here to help, or at least try their best anyway. They’ve seen all the movies (yes, even those documentary shorts!) and have come back with a definitive list of who will win at the 2016 Oscars. Normally these lists might have a lot of disparity, but strangely this year’s panel of experts largely agrees on the winners. That could mean good things for you and your office pool. Follow these selections to Oscar glory and bring home all the spoils. Or, come back on Monday morning to yell at them for they gave you really bad advice.
The 25 Most Romantic Movies of the Last 25 Years
Before movies learned how to talk, they learned how to kiss.
The 2016 Super Bowl Movie Trailers, Ranked
Last night the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers in convincing fashion in Super Bowl 50 as Peyton Manning will likely retire with his 200th win and now a two-time Super Bowl winner. But more importantly THERE WERE MOVIE TRAILERS. Lots of them. While we covered them individually last night, we’re going to go through each one this morning and, in the spirit of the Super Bowl, see who was the best.
Watch the ‘Independence Day 2’ Super Bowl Trailer
About 20 years ago, the original Independence Day had one of the most memorable Super Bowl trailers of all-time. Today, Independence Day returned to the Super Bowl with a commercial for the upcoming sequel (subtitled Resurgence), but could it hold a candle to the original?
It’s Hulk vs. Ant-Man in the Coke Super Bowl Commercial
Earlier this week, Coca-Cola and Marvel teased a team-up during the Super Bowl by sending out mini-cans of Coke branded with different members of the Avengers. Both sides promised not to reveal the contents of the commercial until it aired during the Super Bowl. Now that it’s aired we know that the biggest and littlest Avengers — Hulk and Ant-Man — are doing battle over the last can of Coke.
‘Jason Bourne’ Super Bowl Trailer Reveals First Footage, New Title
This year’s Super Bowl brought with us not only our first look at footage from the upcoming Jason Bourne movie (which reunites star Matt Damon with his previous director Paul Greengrass), but also an official reveal of the film’s title.
The Indiana Jones Easter Egg You May Have Missed in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
Nobody really knows what’s going on with Disney and Lucasfilm’s reported reboot of the Indiana Jones franchise. They say they want to do it, we know they want to do it because they paid $3 billion for this stuff, but Steven Spielberg says there’s no way he’d recast Harrison Ford. So while they figure all that out, there’s this easter egg in Star Wars: The Force Awakens to keep all the Indiana Jones fans satisfied. You probably didn’t catch it the first time around, but we’re here to help you out.
All the ‘Dirty’ Lines Cut From ‘Grease Live’
Last night FOX debuted their answer to NBC’s yearly live musicals with a version of Grease starring Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens and Carly Rae Jepsen. It was by, most accounts, a pretty rousing success, adding in the live audience that many have complained was missing from the NBC broadcasts. But, there’s a few things you didn’t see, or hear namely, in some of the racier dialogue from the original film. Let’s take a look at what the FOX censors cut out from the obvious to the WTF?
Watch the First ‘Batman vs. Superman’ Clip: ‘The Bat Is Dead’
Batman vs. Superman is just about two months away and the marketing onslaught is about to begin. Here, in the calm before the storm, though we have the very first clip from Batman vs. Superman. Zack Snyder debuted the new footage on Conan last night and while it didn’t feature any superhero punching, it did tease the simmering tension between our two heroes...
‘Die Hard’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Star Alan Rickman Dies at Age 69
Alan Rickman, the tremendously talented British actor behind such iconic roles as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 69 following a bout with cancer.
Watch Ricky Gervais’ 2016 Golden Globes Monologue
After three straight years of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting, the Golden Globes invited previous three-time host Ricky Gervais (2010-2012) to return for the 2016 awards show. Said Gervais back on January 1, “Because I can see the future, I’d like to apologise [sic] now for the things I said at next week’s Golden Globes. I was drunk & didn’t give a f---.” So, did Gervais wind up having anything to apologize for this year? If you missed it, you can watch his 2016 Golden Globes monologue above and decide for yourself.