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New York Film Festival 2020 Unveils Main Slate Including New Films From Steve McQueen And Chloé Zhao By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 13, 2020 2:00 pm EST The 2020 New York Film Festival has announced the 25 films that will make up the main slate of its fall festival. The New York City-based festival, which usually kicks off in the last week of September, is expanding its dates in order to accommodate drive-in screenings, starting a week earlier on September 17....

Superhero Bits: ‘Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Set Photos, Nebula Gets Her Own Comic & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 15, 2019 6:00 pm EST What exclusive invite did Dwayne Johnson get after announcing the Black Adam release date? What are the last words of dialogue spoken in the series finale of Arrow? Want to see some Falcon and the Winter Soldier set photos? Is Robert Downey Jr. coming back for Marvel’s What If?...

Superhero Bits: ‘Rise Of The TMNT: The Movie’ Synopsis Revealed, Wolverine Casting Rumors Debunked & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 14, 2021 6:00 pm EST What is the Rise of the TMNT movie about? Why did Batwoman’s showrunner choose to avoid recasting Kate Kane? Who’s the latest addition to the Moon Knight cast? Could Swamp Thing come back from the dead for a second season? Could WandaVision usher in the concept of mutants in the MCU?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Lord Of The Rings’ With Lightsabers, Ellen’s Kids Go To Toy Fair & More By Ethan Anderton/March 24, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch the battle sequence in the Mines of Moria from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with all the sword blades replaced by lightsabers....

The Morning Watch: Ewan McGregor Shows Off Lightsaber Skills, Looking Back At Street Sharks & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, Ewan McGregor shows off his incredible lightsaber skills while appearing on The Graham Norton Show....

The Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ Series Will Use The Same Technology As ‘The Mandalorian’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 17, 2020 7:30 am EST The Mandalorian’s new “Stagecraft” technology, which uses a rear-projected LED screen to create a reactive environment, is considered the most groundbreaking new film technology since the green screen. So it’s no wonder that Disney+ plans to use it for one of its most anticipated Star Wars series. The Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series will use the same technology as that pioneered by The Mandalorian, according to star Ewan McGregor, who shared vague new details about the yet-untitled series....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Attack The Block’ Is An Underrated Gem Of A Genre Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 6, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Attack the BlockWhere You Can Stream It: Pluto TVThe Pitch: John Boyega, in his star-making role, plays Moses, the young leader of a group of South London teenagers who mugs a nurse (a pre-Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker) on her way home from work....

This Week In Trailers: I Used To Go Here, Open 24 Hours, Immigration Nation, (Un)Well By Christopher Stipp/July 25, 2020 8:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TIFF 2020 Line-Up Includes Films From Regina King, Viggo Mortensen, Halle Berry, Werner Herzog & More By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2020 9:00 am EST The 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is still happening this fall, albeit with a lot of changes as the world is still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Though there will still be some physical screenings in movie theaters happening up in Canada, this year’s line-up features a smaller selection of films, the addition of plenty of digital screenings, and some collaboration with the Venice Film Festival and New York Film Festival....

Tom Holland Praises Sony’s Original Plan For Spider-Man’s MCU Exit (Even Though He Worked Behind-The-Scenes To Stop It) By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2020 1:00 pm EST As we all know by now, Spider-Man is sticking around in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But there was a hot second there where it looked like the deal between Sony and Marvel had fallen through, and Spidey was going to leave the MCU. Thankfully for fans, it all worked out in the end....

VOTD: Making Of The ‘E.T. The Extra Terrestrial’ Christmas Commercial From Xfinity By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2019 6:00 am EST Xfinity has caused problems for millions of cable, internet and telephone subscribers over the years. But we have to hand it to them for getting the approval of director Steven Spielberg to create an E.T. The Extra Terrestrial sequel in the form of a touching holiday commercial that reunites Elliot, now all grown up with a family of his own, with the alien who changed his life forever....

Watch: Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, And Andy Garcia Talk About ‘The Godfather Coda’, The New Cut Of ‘Godfather Part III’ By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2020 5:00 pm EST There’s a new cut of The Godfather Part III making headlines – The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Director Francis Ford Coppola has recut his films in the past – Apocalypse Now has several different cuts, and he recently released The Cotton Club Encore, a recut of The Cotton Club....

Water Cooler: Hobbs & Shaw, Constantine, Fixer Upper, Point Blank, Horrified, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 5, 2019 1:20 pm EST On the August 5, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to in the Water Cooler. Opening Banter: Peter and Chris are outAt The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Brad rescued a baby bird that fell out of a tree in his front yard, is beginning to figure out how to mesh his pop culture explosion style with his girlfriend’s things and is wondering how other people accomplish this....

‘Animorphs’ Transforming Into A Movie For All The ’90s Kids Out There By Ethan Anderton/June 18, 2020 11:00 am EST Even though Goosebumps was the pinnacle of popular books for kids in the 1990s, the Animorphs series wasn’t too far behind. The sci-fi series from author K.A. Applegate focused on five teens and an alien who have the ability to transform into any animal they touch. Using their powers of transformation, they battle a secret alien invasion of Earth by a parasitic, slug-like race of aliens called Yeerks who can control living creatures by merging with their brain through the ear canal....

‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’ First Look: See Brandon Routh As ‘Kingdom Come’ Superman By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2019 2:00 pm EST With each passing day, the upcoming Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths gets bigger and bigger. Just recently, Smallville stars Tom Welling and Erica Durance were added to the growing cast of the television event that is being spread across Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and the new Batwoman series....

‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Spike Lee’s Powerhouse Vietnam War Saga Is A Must-See By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2020 7:00 am EST Like a blast of dynamite, like a punch to the gut, here comes Da 5 Bloods, the new Spike Lee Joint that arrives during a month when protests against violence aimed at Black lives continue to spread throughout the country. Lee made his film before the current climate, but in many ways, it feels almost prescient as it deals with African-Americans fighting for rights they’ve been denied for centuries....

‘E.T.’ Cinematographer Allen Daviau Dead At 77 From Coronavirus Complications By Chris Evangelista/April 16, 2020 2:30 pm EST Allen Daviau, a cinematographer whose work includes E.T., Empire of the Sun, Bugsy, and more, has died at the age of 77 due to complications from the coronavirus. Daviau had a long-standing relationship with Steven Spielberg, having worked with the director on his short films, including 1968’s Amblin’. He would go on to shoot four feature films for Spielberg....

‘Emma.’ Review: An Ultra-Stylish Jane Austen Adaptation As Sharp As Its Punctuation Mark By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 17, 2020 7:00 am EST It’s often overlooked how adept a satirist Jane Austen was, with most adaptations of the English literary icon’s works favoring the swooning romances and feminist themes of her novels. But more than any other past adaptation, barring the wildly underrated and wildly funny Love & Friendship, Emma. captures that tongue-in-cheek and whip-smart tone of Austen’s work....

‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Cast Gets Back Together For ‘Reunited Apart’, And The End Is A John Hughes Bonanza By Ethan Anderton/June 29, 2020 11:30 am EST Josh Gad’s web series Reunited Apart has allowed fans to pass some of their quarantine time by watching the cast and filmmakers behind their favorite movies reunite virtually online. The Goonies, Back to the Future, Splash, Lord of the Rings, and Ghostbusters have all been featured on the series....

/Filmcast Ep. 565 - Extraction By Slashfilmcast/April 29, 2020 8:16 pm EST David, Devindra, Jeff check in on each other yet another week. The cast makes it up to past donors whose names got lost in the e-mails. For the feature review, David, Devindra, Jeff chat about Extraction, the new Netflix release starring Chris Hemsworth. Tune in to find out whether this is worth your quarantine time. Read Scott Tobias’s review of Extraction here....