‘The New Pope’ Trailer: Bless Jude Law’s Heavenly Body By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 28, 2019 1:00 pm EST HBO’s trailer for The New Pope may not have you losing your religion, but it may just change your avenue of worship. I’m talking of course, about the trailer being mostly comprised of a slow-motion shot of Jude Law, dressed solely in a white Speedo, walking down a beach in front of bikini-clad girls playing volleyball....
Alternate ‘Zombieland’ Script Pages Feature Cameos Kevin Bacon And Jean-Claude Van Damme Regretted Passing Up By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2020 2:00 pm EST As the coronavirus pandemic continues, co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are revealing more of the alternate script pages for Zombieland that would have given the big cameo made famous by Bill Murray to a number of other movie stars. Patrick Swayze was in the very first draft of the movie, but he never got offered the part since he was diagnosed with cancer around the time the movie would have started production....
Ang Lee On “Cloning” Will Smith And Learning From His Mistakes For ‘Gemini Man’ [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 19, 2019 9:00 am EST Gemini Man may be Ang Lee’s most existential action movie. Starring Will Smith as a hitman who becomes the target of a younger clone of himself, Gemini Man is a fairly straightforward sci-fi action flick that has famously become the vessel for Lee’s digital film innovations — shot digitally at an extra-high frame rate of 120 fps, modified for 3D, and featuring a fully CGI recreation of a younger Will Smith....
Another ‘Turn Of The Screw’ Adaptation – The Third Arriving In 2020 – Is Coming To Quibi By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2019 3:30 pm EST Who knew The Turn of the Screw was so hot? Henry James’ 1898 horror novella is already the inspiration for two upcoming projects: the horror movie The Turning and the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor. You might think that two would be enough, but apparently not, because there’s now a third adaptation in the works....
Chance The Rapper Brings Confidence And Laughs In A Funny, Flub-Filled ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2019 10:00 am EST Last night brought the Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live, and thanks to host Chance the Rapper, the energy was high. Unfortunately (or fortunately in some cases), the number of technical mistakes, gaffes, and line flubs were also high with almost every single live sketch having some kind of error....
Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Brings Captain Rex From ‘The Clone Wars’ To Life With Temuera Morrison’s Likeness By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2020 3:00 pm EST The animated Star Wars series The Clone Wars may be over, but you can keep the spirit alive with the upcoming Hot Toys figure release of Captain Rex, the Clone Army officer. What’s great about this particular figure is that it’s not just Captain Rex in his full Clone Trooper armor, but it actually features the likeness of Temuera Morrison, who is both the voice of the character on The Clone Wars and the actor who originated the role of the the bounty hunter Jango Fett, the source of the Clone Army....
Cool Stuff: New ‘Star Wars’ Prints Pay Tribute To Baby Yoda And ‘Rogue One’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 30, 2020 9:45 am EST If you don’t have $350 to spend on the new life-size Baby Yoda figure that was just unveiled by Sideshow Collectibles, maybe you can spend a little less money to honor the little guy from The Mandalorian with a special print from Dark Ink by artist Juan Carlos Ruiz Burgos....
Daily Podcast: Wonka Prequel, Thor: Love And Thunder Casting, The Muppet Show, And Master Of None Season 3 By Ben Pearson/Jan. 19, 2021 1:30 pm EST On the January 19, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including some Thor: Love and Thunder casting, news about the Wonka prequel, The Muppet Show coming to Disney+, and the return of Master of None....
Dan Trachtenberg Serving Up ‘MILK’ (‘Mother I’d Like To Kill’) At Lionsgate By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 30, 2020 4:00 pm EST Dan Trachtenberg made his feature directorial debut with the outstanding 10 Cloverfield Lane, but somehow, no studio has picked him up for another feature yet. Sony Pictures tried by bringing him in to direct their long-gestating adaptation of the video game Uncharted, but that fell through. Thankfully, it sounds like Lionsgate is smart enough to give him another crack at the big screen....
Disney Will Run Ads For Starz On Disney+ To Get Streaming Rights Back To ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ And More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 5, 2019 10:30 am EST This new deal is all in service of ensuring that Disney+ has the most expansive catalog of Disney-owned titles available in their streaming library on launch day next week. And it’s in direct opposition to the original plan for Disney+ to be an ad-free streaming platform....
Exclusive: ‘Night Drive’ Poster Teases A Coen-Esque Dark Comedy For The Rideshare Era By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 19, 2019 9:54 am EST Fantastic Fest is in its 15th year and ready to celebrate! The world-renowned genre fest kicks off today and cinephiles couldn’t be more excited to let chaos reign. We’re going to get things started a little early by debuting the poster for one of the films premiering at this year’s festival: Night Drive, a thrilling dark comedy that has been compared to the work of the Coen brothers....
Goonies Never Say Die: ‘The Goonies’ Cast Reunited To Raise Over $100K For No Kid Hungry By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 7, 2020 10:30 am EST Goonies never say kids will go hungry. The Goonies gang — including original cast members Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, Martha Plimpton, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Jonathan Ke Quan, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, and Robert Davi — got back together this past weekend for a virtual fundraiser, including a live script reading, to benefit the charity No Kid Hungry....
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 17, 2020 4:00 pm EST Do ya like jazz? Well, you’re going to, if Pixar has anything to say about it. The upcoming Pixar animated film Soul is a love letter to the music genre, and that love letter will extend beyond the film itself. Disney and Pixar are releasing not one, but three albums related to Soul, one of which is a vinyl album inspired by the film from jazz musician Jon Batiste....
Mark Wahlberg Movie ‘Joe Bell’ Recut And Coming To Theaters In February 2021 By Ben Pearson/Nov. 12, 2020 1:00 pm EST After shooting Spenser Confidential for Netflix, Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg took a brief detour away from the action genre to make Good Joe Bell, a film inspired by the true story of a man who walked across the country to crusade against bullying. The movie played on the film festival circuit and received middling reviews (including from us at /Film), but Solstice Studios has since re-edited it, given it the new title of simply Joe Bell, and will be releasing it in theaters in February 2021, in time to compete in this very strange awards season....
New ‘Frozen 2’ Trailer Promises An Epic Adventure As Tickets Officially Go On Sale By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2019 12:00 pm EST Back in 2013, Disney surprised everyone with Frozen, an original animated musical that became a giant hit, both as movie and a chart-topping soundtrack that you couldn’t get out of your head. Six years later, they’re going to try it all over again with Frozen 2. The soundtrack appears to be on the right path to being another earworm, and a new trailer promises an epic adventure that will test the strength of Elsa’s powers and appears to reveal exactly where they came from....
New ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Movie Will Star Margot Robbie, With Script From ‘Birds Of Prey’ Screenwriter Christina Hodson By Jacob Hall/June 26, 2020 12:22 pm EST Yo-ho, yo-ho, it’s a pirate’s life for Margot Robbie. The Birds of Prey and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star is hoisting the mainsail and swabbing the poop and doing other naval terms you’ve heard in movies but don’t know what they mean, because she’s set to star in a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie at Disney....
The Morning Watch: ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Trailer Sweded, A Surgeon Reviews Medical Scenes & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 13, 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....
The Morning Watch: Animation Evolution From ‘Frozen’ And ‘Frozen 2’, Dancing Scenes In Movies Reviewed & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 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, see how animation evolved between the release of Frozen in 2013 and this year’s sequel Frozen 2....
The Morning Watch: How To Make ‘Harry Potter’ Pumpkin Juice, Tour Famous London Movie Locations & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 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, find out how to make your own Pumpkin Juice from Harry Potter just in time for your next Halloween party....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘Bringing Out The Dead’ Is One Of Martin Scorsese’s Best Movies By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2020 9:00 am EST Frank patrols the streets of New York in his ambulance with a rotating group of partners (John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore), and all the while, he’s haunted by the ghosts of people he’s failed to save – primarily a teenage girl named Rose. Meanwhile, Frank is also drawn to a recovering addict (Patricia Arquette, who was married to Cage at the time), the daughter of one of Frank’s patients....
