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Adam McKay’s Already Star-Studded ‘Don’t Look Up’ Adds Chris Evans, Just For Fun By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 12, 2020 12:00 pm EST Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up already has a huge cast of famous faces, but hey, one more can’t hurt. The latest: Chris Evans, former Captain America, and accidental dick-pic leaker, is joining Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, and more in the Netflix dark comedy about “two low-level astronomers who embark on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will destroy Earth....

BAFTA Extends Eligibility Period For This Year’s Film Awards To Include All Of 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 25, 2021 4:00 pm EST BAFTA is expanding the competing field for its upcoming Film Awards ceremony in a big way. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is allowing any title released at any point in 2021 to still be eligible for the upcoming BAFTA Film Awards ceremony this April, which would have normally allowed only 2020 films and any 2021 releases up until April....

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Biopic Crowns Austin Butler The King By Chris Evangelista/July 16, 2019 8:30 am EST Baz Luhrmann has found his Elvis. Austin Butler will play the King of Rock and Roll in Luhrmann’s upcoming, untitled film chronicling the troubled relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker. Tom Hanks is set to play Parker. Several young actors were competing for the role of Elvis, but the relatively unknown Butler ultimately won out....

Box Office Could Lose Up To $2 Billion From Closures As Only 20% Of U.S. Theaters Remain Open By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 18, 2020 12:00 pm EST This Monday, the U.S. box office saw its worst weekend in the 22-year history that exhibitors had been recording box office numbers. And it looks like things will only get worse, as the escalating coronavirus pandemic closes more businesses and movie theaters. With all the major movie theaters closing their locations across the U....

Get A Sneak Peek At ‘The Art Of Star Wars: The Mandalorian’ Book’s Stunning Concept Art By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2020 9:30 am EST This December, fans of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian will be able to get their hands on some of the incredible concept art from the making of the first season. Lucasfilm and Abrams Books are releasing The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian by Lucasfilm creative art manager Phil Szostak, and he’s just revealed a sneak peek at some of the concept art from inside the book, including alternate designs for the Mandalorian himself and some adorable new images of The Child affectionately called Baby Yoda....

POTD: ‘Parks And Recreation’ Gets An Animated Makeover In The Style Of ‘Bob’s Burgers’ By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2020 6:00 am EST Parks and Recreation is fresh off cheering everyone up with their coronavirus relief reunion special (which you can watch online for free right now). Not only was it an uplifting return of the comedy series that has been off the air for years, but it resulted in Subaru and State Farm each giving $150,000 in donations to COVID-19 relief efforts, as well as another $500,000 from the cast of the series....

Rumor: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Matt Shakman In Talks To Direct A Marvel Disney+ Series By Ben Pearson/Aug. 22, 2019 12:30 pm EST Read the rumor below, and find out which of the upcoming Marvel shows he won’t be directing. Discussing Film claims that Shakman is up for one of the Marvel Disney+ shows. That site admittedly doesn’t have the best track record for breaking accurate news, but The Wrap reporter Umberto Gonzalez confirmed on Twitter that he’s heard the same thing....

Sam Mendes Tops 2020 DGA Winners For ‘1917’, Which Also Earned Roger Deakins Another ASC Award By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2020 9:30 am EST Continuing the march towards the Academy Awards, director Sam Mendes won another key award for his work on the war drama 1917, making it likely that he’ll end up with a little golden man when the Oscars winners are unveiled next month. The Director’s Guild of America announced the winners of their annual awards, and Mendes took home the top prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film....

Taschen’s James Bond Book Is Getting Updated For ‘No Time To Die’; ‘Star Wars’ Book Getting Cheaper Edition [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Sept. 15, 2020 10:40 am EST Taschen, one of the leading art book publishers in the world, has two pop culture-related books coming out this year which may be of some interest to fans of two of the world’s biggest movie franchises. The Taschen James Bond book, which was originally published in 2015, is getting re-released with new interviews and photos featuring the making of this year’s No Time to Die....

The Morning Watch: ‘Rick And Morty’ Season 4 Storyboard To Screen, Stuntmen React To ‘Christmas Vacation’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 14, 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....

The Morning Watch: Robert Zemeckis & His Wonderful Toys, ‘The Witcher’ Fight Scene Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 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 a video essay that dives into the filmography of Robert Zemeckis and how the director became too obsessed with the tools he wanted to use for filmmaking and lost quality storytelling in the process....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Halloween Atmospheres’ Are Full Of Tricks And Treats By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 29, 2020 10:00 am EST Chalk these up to “mood movies” if you will. There’s no plot, no story, no characters. It’s just a series of shots that all invoke the vibe of Halloween. There’s an arc, I guess, in the sense that the films start during the day and then progressively, the day ends, the sun sets, and night takes over....

This Weekend’s ‘Saturday Night Live At Home’ Will Be The Season 45 Finale By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2020 5:00 pm EST Saturday Night Live has been delivering special remotely produced episodes of the late night sketch series for a few weeks now. However, that will come to an end with the third (maybe final?) Saturday Night Live At Home this weekend, which will mark the finale for the current 45th season....

‘30 Rock’ Reunion Special Trailer Gives Us Liz Lemon Just As You’d Imagine Her During A Pandemic By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2020 1:00 pm EST Because we need something to distract us from the horrors of 2020, NBC is bringing back the hit comedy series 30 Rock in the form of a reunion episode coming next week. 30 Rock: A One-Time Special brings back Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and more, and the first trailer gives us a quick taste of what the gang is up to since the series ended seven years ago....

‘A Girl Missing’ Review: A Kidnapping Leads To A Suffocating Character Study [NYFF 2019] By Caroline Cao/Oct. 11, 2019 7:00 am EST A Girl Missing has fleeting swirls into trancelike bizarreness such as when its protagonist, the middle-aged Ichiko (Mariko Tsutsui), dreams herself crawling on all fours, growling at a young woman, ready to pounce—before the former wakes up in her untidy apartment. The betrayal that drove this cut-short revenge fantasy begins to unravel....

‘Bad Education’ Review: Hugh Jackman And The Director Of ‘Thoroughbreds’ Tell A Story Of Small-Scale Corruption [TIFF 2019] By Meredith Borders/Sept. 11, 2019 8:00 am EST After the candy-colored bite of his feature debut Thoroughbreds, director Cory Finley handily earned audiences’ attention for whatever he did next. And he was gifted with a riveting story in a 2002 NY Mag article detailing a shocking Long Island public school embezzlement scandal. Yet while Bad Education makes for an interesting watch, it’s a little bit of a bummer that it’s missing the unique style and tone of Finley’s first film....

By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2020 5:54 pm EST Back in February this year, when we couldn’t even comprehend that our entire year was going to be ruined, Vin Diesel talked about the likelihood of ending the Fast and Furious franchise with Fast 10. However, rather than being one final movie, the franchise star and producer floated the idea of creating a two-part finale, not unlike the end of franchises like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Twilight....

/Filmcast Ep. 533 - It Chapter Two (GUEST: Anya Stanley From Dread Central) By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 10, 2019 8:00 pm EST Pennywise the clown returns in It Chapter Two. David and Devindra are joined by Anya Stanley from Dread Central to discuss whether the sequel to the hit Stephen King adaptation lives up to its former trauma. Follow Anya on Twitter and check out her work at her website and at Dread Central....

‘Free Guy’ Director Shawn Levy And Star Ryan Reynolds Hope Their Silly, Hopeful Comedy Will Be The Antidote For 2020 By Jacob Hall/Oct. 5, 2020 8:00 am EST The upcoming action comedy Free Guy is built around a wild high-concept premise: what if an ordinary person living in a chaotic world learned that their reality was a video game and they were simply a background character within it? And what if that outrageous concept was really a metaphor about taking control of your existence and learning to connect with others?...

‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Director David Leitch On How Superhero Movies Influenced His Spin-Off [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Aug. 2, 2019 10:00 am EST The days of boosting cars and racing for pinks is long gone in the Fast & Furious world. The earliest installments in the series continue to look comically quaint in comparison to the likes of Hobbs & Shaw, although the mega movie does tip its hat to the old days of the franchise once or twice....