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The Morning Watch: ‘Stranger Things 3’ VFX Breakdown, Examining The ‘Close Encouters’ Model Ship & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 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, watch a Stranger Things 3 VFX breakdown showing shots before they were completed with visual effects in post-production....

The Morning Watch: Creating The ABCs Of ‘Sesame Street’, The History Of The Joker & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 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, learn how the musical crew of Sesame Street livens up the ABCs with new iterations pretty much every single season....

The Morning Watch: The Lost Version Of ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’, Tour Walt Disney’s Office & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 25, 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, find out about the much longer cut of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and what ended up on the cutting room floor....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg’ Is A Colorful, Unconventional Musical By Ben Pearson/June 5, 2020 7:00 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: The Umbrellas of CherbourgWhere You Can Stream It: HBO Max and the Criterion ChannelThe Pitch: In a seaside French town, two gorgeous young people declare their love for each other, but war rips them apart....

TV Casting: ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Spin-Off ‘Clarice’, ‘Kung Fu’ Reboot, And ‘The Lost Boys’ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 27, 2020 4:30 pm EST A slew of TV casting happened this week, and we’re here to tell you all about it. Clarice, a Silence of the Lambs spin-off series that isn’t Hannibal, has found its lead, and so has the Kung Fu reboot. Meanwhile, the new pilot for The Lost Boys TV series has added a bunch of names as well....

Warner Bros. Killed Darren Aronofsky’s Batman Movie Over Joaquin Phoenix Casting By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2020 8:30 am EST Joaquin Phoenix took home plenty of awards, including the Oscar for Best Actor, for his lead performance in Joker, the origin story of Batman’s most notorious nemesis. However, back in the early 2000s when Warner Bros. Pictures was looking to reboot The Dark Knight with a new feature film franchise, Phoenix almost played The Caped Crusader himself....

‘Freaky’ Trailer: What’s A Girl To Do When She Ends Up Trapped In A Serial Killer’s Body? By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2020 12:00 pm EST Sadly, there’s no Friday the 13th in October. Perhaps that’s why Universal decided to wait until November to release Freaky, their wild body swapping horror comedy starring Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn as a high school girl and serial killer who accidentally end up trapped in each other’s bodies....

‘Loki’ Showrunner Hired To Rewrite ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ By Ben Pearson/Feb. 7, 2020 1:43 pm EST Michael Waldron, who’s currently serving as the showrunner of Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series Loki, has been hired as the new writer of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the upcoming feature film sequel which is said to have narrative links to his streaming series. Get the details below....

‘Once Upon A Snowman’ Clip: Watch Olaf Become Self-Aware In The Animated Short Available On Disney+ Today By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 23, 2020 8:30 am EST Remember when the runtime Pixar’s Coco was increased by nearly a third of the film’s total length due to the fact that Disney attached the 22-minute short film Olaf’s Frozen Adventure to it? It was a brutal experience, especially for families who just wanted to take their kids to see a Pixar movie....

‘Snake Eyes’ First Look Gives Us Our First Glimpse Of The ‘G.I. Joe’ Spin-Off By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2020 10:00 am EST Are you ready for the shocking, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing first look at Snake Eyes, the new G.I. Joe spin-off? Don’t answer lightly. Stop right now and think about it. Think about how prepared you are to witness the awesome might of our first real glimpse of Henry Golding as the ninja assassin....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Gets Tangled In A Web Of Dilemmas In “A Quick Salvage Run” By Caroline Cao/Oct. 13, 2019 4:31 pm EST Star Wars Resistance has now certainly sailed into The Last Jedi era. After a harrowing hyperspace jump away from the First Order clutches, the Colossus is out of the needed hyperfuel to make another space jump to safety. Kazuda Xiono (Christopher Sean) hopes the Resistance base on planet D’Qar can refuel them....

‘The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan’ Trailer: Xavier Dolan’s Delayed English-Language Debut Arrives Next Month By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 15, 2019 1:30 pm EST Xavier Dolan has spent a lot of time working on The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. Filming began and ended in 2016. But then Dolan started filming again in 2017. The movie was supposed to premiere at Cannes in 2018, but Dolan said he was still tinkering with the final cut....

‘The Duchess’ Trailer: Comedian Katherine Ryan Is Just Trying To Be A Decent F**king Mom By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2020 1:00 pm EST If you haven’t heard of Katherine Ryan, she’s a Canadian comedian who has made waves in the United Kingdom on a variety of comedy shows, and she also has two of her own stand-up specials on Netflix. But her presence on the streaming service is about to expand in a big way with a new original comedy series of her own called The Duchess....

‘The Grudge’ Reboot Poster Lets Its Hair Down By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 10, 2019 11:22 am EST We’re still waiting on The Grudge reboot trailer, but how about a poster? The new take on the tale of a haunted house that spreads a curse to all who dare set foot in it comes from director Nicolas Pesce and producer Sam Raimi, and is set to give us all the creeps in January....

‘The Invisible Man’ Super Bowl Spot: Now You See Him, Now You Don’t By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2020 3:12 pm EST The Invisible Man is returning to theaters, though not as part of the failed Dark Universe reboot of the classic Univesral Pictures movie monsters that started with The Mummy. Instead, we have a compelling thriller where Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) tries to escape an abusive marriage, only to be terrorized by what appears to be her husband (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), who has faked his death and has somehow made himself invisible....

‘The Lion King’ Remake’s Musical Scenes Will Expand To Fill The Screen In Select IMAX Theatres By Ben Pearson/July 17, 2019 3:30 pm EST Jon Favreau’s The Lion King has proven somewhat divisive among critics, but most agree that his new film is, at the very least, a jaw-dropping technical achievement. Through the use of new technology, Favreau found a way to make a remake of a 25-plus-year-old movie feel like an event – something studios seem to be struggling with as rival franchise entries have been flopping left and right this year....

‘The X-Files’ Animated Series In The Works At Fox By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2020 1:36 pm EST The X-Files is about to get animated. The X-Files: Albuquerque will be an animated comedy series spun-off from the iconic cult series, and before you ask, no – it doesn’t feature Mulder and Scully. Instead, the series is taking a Star Trek: Lower Decks approach and will be a comedy focusing on new, bumbling characters who just happen to inhabit the X-Files world....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Director Taika Waititi Gets The First-Ever TIFF Ebert Director Award By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2019 1:30 pm EST Taika Waititi is preparing to head back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Thor: Love & Thunder. But before that, the filmmaker is heading to the Toronto International Film Festival to premiere his latest film, the darkly comedic satire Jojo Rabbit. He’ll be up in Canada with the film’s all-star cast, and while he’s in town, TIFF wanted to give him a special award: the first-ever TIFF Ebert Director Award....

‘WandaVision’ Sets Disney+ Release Date For January 2021, Unveils New Teaser By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 12, 2020 9:28 am EST Marvel Studios has announced that WandaVision will premiere on Disney+ in January 2021 — a month later than previous reports that suggested the new Marvel TV series will hit the streaming platform this December. Marvel made the announcement for the official WandaVision release date in a new teaser, which features images of Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Wanda Maximoff and Vision, respectively, in their sitcom-inspired miniseries....

By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2020 7:00 am EST Can Westworld reboot itself? The series started off so strong with its first season, but nearly everyone seemed to be befuddled by season 2. The second season wanted to be bolder, but this boldness ultimately resulted in a confusing, messy narrative that had most viewers throwing up their hands, or throwing in the towel. But season 2 also climaxed with a sign of big changes to come: Many of the main characters were no longer in Westworld, or its sister parks....