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‘Gravity’ Co-Writer Jonás Cuarón Is Directing An Untitled Chupacabra Film For Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 7, 2020 5:00 pm EST Jonas Cuárón, who co-wrote the award-winning Gravity with his father Alfonso Cuárón, has been tapped to direct an untitled Netflix feature film about the chupacabra, a legendary creature in Latin and South America folklore that is known for drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats (the word “chupacabra” literally means “goat-sucker”)....

‘It Chapter Two’ Trailer Sends In The Clowns By Chris Evangelista/July 18, 2019 9:00 am EST At last, the full It Chapter Two trailer is here, in all its terrifying glory. The Losers’ Club is all grown up, but their childhood fears are waiting for them back home in Derry, Maine. Every 27 years, Pennywise the Clown resurfaces to feed, but this time, the Losers want to stop him once and for all....

‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’: Leonardo DiCaprio Demanded Rewrites On The Upcoming Martin Scorsese Movie By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 17, 2020 2:30 pm EST Killers of the Flower Moon, a film that will reunite Martin Scorsese with both Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, was supposed to start filming in March of this year. That didn’t happen, thanks to the coronavirus. And it seems that screenwriter Eric Roth has used that delay to work on rewrites for the film – rewrites requested (or perhaps we should say “demanded”) by DiCaprio....

‘Star Wars’ Favorite Admiral Ackbar Has A Son – Could He Show Up In The Movies? By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 10, 2019 2:00 pm EST Though there have been a few things that certain Star Wars fans have taken issue with in The Last Jedi, one that was a punch to the gut of many was the sudden death of Admiral Ackbar. The Resistance officer was blown into space during the First Order’s attack on our heroes’ base on D’Qar....

‘The Batman’ Test Footage Gives Us Our First Look At Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2020 3:20 pm EST Hey, want to see Robert Pattinson’s The Batman costume? Matt Reeves is here to help. The filmmaker just posted a camera test for his upcoming take on the Dark Knight, and it reveals Pattinson in full Bat-costume. It’s very dark, and very red, but it’s enough to get people talking....

‘The Irishman’ Will Screen On Broadway Before It Arrives On Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2019 5:00 pm EST After butting-heads with movie theaters, Netflix has decided to get creative with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. Most theater chains demand a specific window between theatrical screenings and streaming release, but Netflix doesn’t give a damn about that. Since Netflix isn’t willing to play ball, many theater chains are refusing to screen The Irishman....

‘The Simpsons’ Won’t Have Have White Actors Voice Characters Of Color Anymore, Mike Henry No Longer Voicing Cleveland Brown On ‘Family Guy’ By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2020 12:00 pm EST Back at the beginning of the year, Hank Azaria decided to vacate the role of convenience store owner Apu on The Simpsons after the character became embroiled in controversy for not just encouraging stereotypes of Indian characters, but for being voiced by an actor who was white....

‘The Trip To Greece’ Review: Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon’s 10-Year Food Odyssey Comes To A Bittersweet End By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 29, 2020 10:00 am EST Few could have guessed that a simple BBC travelogue series that followed two British comedians riffing and doing Michael Caine impressions would take off, but the Trip movies have been a comforting part of our pop culture landscape for the past decade. Like a warm blanket....

‘Vampire Chronicles’ TV Series Finds New Life At AMC, Brings The ‘Mayfair Witches’ Along For The Ride By Chris Evangelista/May 13, 2020 12:00 pm EST A potential TV series based on Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles has been searching for fresh blood for a few years now, and it looks like it’s found it at AMC. The network just scored the rights to both The Vampire Chronicles and Rice’s The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and plans to develop TV shows and even films around both....

‘Wishbone’ Movie Coming From Producer Peter Farrelly Of ‘Green Book’ And ‘Movie 43’ Fame By Chris Evangelista/July 15, 2020 1:30 pm EST What’s the story, Wishbone? A Wishbone movie, that’s what. Wishbone, the PBS kids series where a Jack Russell terrier would inhabit the roles of various literary figures, is now set to become a film from producer Peter Farrelly, the man who brought us both Green Book and Movie 43....

Christopher McQuarrie Adapting ‘Unforgiven’ With Sandra Bullock For Netflix By Ben Pearson/Nov. 4, 2019 3:30 pm EST No, Sandra Bullock won’t be starring in a remake of Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Oscar-winning revisionist western. But the Ocean’s 8 star will be headlining an Unforgiven of her own, this one a remake of the British miniseries of the same name. Bullock is set to lead the film version, which will be written by The Usual Suspects and Mission: Impossible – Fallout scribe Christopher McQuarrie, and she’ll play “a woman released from prison on license after serving 15 years for the murder of two policemen....

Daily Podcast: JJ Abrams Defends Star Wars, Black Widow, DMZ, Quentin Tarantino, Clerks 3, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Stranger Things 4 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2019 1:45 pm EST On the October 1, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and tv news, including a DMZ tv series, a Quentin Tarantino novel, Clerks 3, JJ Abrams defending Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Stranger Things 4....

Daily Podcast: The Batman, Japanese Spider-Man, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, The Witcher, And Joker By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the November 6, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and tv news, including The Batman, Spider-Man, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Witcher, and Joker....

Daily Podcast: The Great Movie Theater Wars Have Begun! Avengers: Endgame, Disney World, Galaxy’s Edge & More By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the April 29, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including the start of the great movie theater wars, Avengers: Endgame, Reopening Disney World and the alternate plan for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge....

LeBron James’ Company Signs First-Look Deal With Universal Pictures By Ben Pearson/Sept. 29, 2020 2:00 pm EST NBA superstar LeBron James is having a particularly good week. He just led the Los Angeles Lakers to the NBA Finals against his former team, the Miami Heat. And on top of that, his entertainment company, The SpringHill Company, has signed a first-look deal with Universal Pictures which will last for at least the next four years....

Martin Scorsese Will Shoot ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ In February 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 7, 2020 1:30 pm EST The behind-the-scenes saga of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has been a bit of rollercoaster. The pic, based on the true story of a series of murders of wealthy Osage people in the early 1920s, was originally set up at Paramount and was supposed to start shooting in March 2020....

New ‘Avatar 2’ Image Shows Off The Underwater Motion-Capture Process By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2020 11:30 am EST The first Avatar pushed the limits of 3D, and the second will seek to do the same with motion-capture technology. Avatar 2 is set to hit theaters more than a decade after James Cameron’s record-setting blockbuster, a delay that is partially due to the cutting-edge motion-capture technology that Cameron developed to depict a new underwater world....

Noah Hawley Says His ‘Star Trek’ Film Will Have A Direct Connection To Franchise Canon (If It Ever Gets Made) By Ben Pearson/Sept. 15, 2020 2:00 pm EST While Star Trek is thriving on television again, Paramount can’t quite figure out what to do with the property when it comes to new movies. Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley was hired to develop a Trek movie that’s since been put on hold, which would have featured a new cast of characters separate from the ones that appeared in the recent trilogy of Bad Robot movies....

Redbox Launching Free On Demand Streaming Service By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 8, 2020 3:00 pm EST As the landscape for movie watching continues to shift, Redbox has decided to adapt or die. The video rental company is launching a new streaming service called Free On Demand, which offers hundreds of titles arriving weekly “curated to the tastes of Redbox audiences.” In a press release, Redbox says that the service will include “fan favorites, cult classics and popular titles....

Surprise! New Episode Of ‘Tiger King’ Coming To Netflix This Week For All You Cool Cats And Kittens [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/April 9, 2020 2:15 pm EST UPDATE: Netflix has officially announced the new episode, which is an after show update with new interviews of the subjects of the documentary series Tiger King. Our original story from April 5 follows below with the official update at the end. The new Netflix documentary miniseries Tiger King has taken the population by storm....