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If you've never heard of stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias, it seems you're part of a vanishing breed. The roly-poly performer, self-nicknamed Fluffy, has toured in more than 400 cities around the globe, sold more than half a million concert tickets worldwide and boasts 6 million-plus Facebook

Whether writing talent is truly hereditary is up for debate, but aside from typing out a slew of bestsellers, Stephen King has also sired a pair of highly regarded young novelists in sons Joe Hill and Owen King. Now, Hill's well-received horror tome Horns -- about a man whose tormented existence following the mysterious death of his girlfriend is complicated by the sudden appearance of horns sprouting out of his head that compel everyone around him to share their ugliest, darkest truths -- is headed for the big screen. read more

Christopher Walken and Giancarlo Esposito have been added to the cast of Disney's live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, the studio has announced Monday. Walken will voice the King Louie, the leader of a group of monkeys and apes and Esposito will voice Akela, the head of a pack of wolves. Neel Sethi is playing the human child Mowgli and will be the only actor to appear in the movie; the others are all animated. read more

Controversy is the best free publicity. At the same time, the mere idea of prohibiting a film from being seeing speaks to the power of the medium in terms of its influential place as part of the conversation on politics, social issues, and religion. Governments and other authority figures find certain cinematic voices threatening to their beliefs and lifestyles.

The long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road practically stole Comic-Con from The Avengers and Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. New footage showed George Miller’s return to the post-apocalyptic world he created in the trilogy starring Mel Gibson. Tom Hardy plays Max now, but is he the same Max, like different actors have played James Bond?

Last year at Comic-Con, Luke Evans was attached to a re-imagining of The Crow, and author James O’Barr signed posters with director F. Javier Gutierrez. We haven’t heard much about The Crow since then, and it’s already another Comic-Con. Luke Evans was on a panel for The Hobbit: The Battle Of the Five Armies, and after the press conference I asked him if he was still doing The Crow. “Yes, yes, I am,” Evans said.

Several members of "The Avengers" descended on Comic-Con to debut the first footage from the upcoming superhero sequel. The footage kicked off with the superhero team attempting to pick up Thor's mighty hammer before launching into a barrage of action-packed imagery, including Hulk battling a giant Iron Man robot and a close up of Captain America's split shield.

Godzilla is coming back.

Batman and Superman engaged in an epic staring contest at Comic-Con.

In today's penny-pinching Hollywood, few things are ever left to chance, and Marvel leaves fewer than most. It should surprise no one, then, that even though Guardians of the Galaxy hasn't even arrived in theaters yet, the studio's already making plans for a sequel -- and given the impressively robust early critical reaction to the movie, it also comes as no surprise that they're bringing back pretty much every member of the original team. read more

The trailer for the next film in the popular "Hunger Games" series is making its premiere at Comic-Con.

If your only response after seeing 2011's medieval siege-and-slaughter opus "Ironclad" was "Another two hours, please!" then the grimy sequel "Ironclad: Battle for Blood" is for you. Returning director/co-writer Jonathan English has made a cursory effort to fit a new framing device on his If your only response after seeing 2011's medieval siege-and-slaughter opus "Ironclad" was "Another two hours, please!" then the grimy sequel "Ironclad: Battle for Blood" is for you.

One can only assume Specialist Adam Winfield was hungry for action. Like the rest of his platoon he was extensively trained for a theater of war that offered him no exercise. He spent his time waiting, armored to the teeth in the desert swelter. Stationed in the Maywand District of Afghanistan in 2010, the squadron was among civilians but they were resourceful, and the group’s chain of command decided to harvest battle trophies from the farmers nearby.

Domestic box office is down 20 percent in the U. S. as "Sex Tape" goes limp and, for the first time since 2001, no film crosses $300 million. Laments one studio executive, “I wish I worked at Netflix.”read more