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‘Atlantis’ Trailer: Ukraine’s Official Oscars Entry Is A Stylish Look At A War-Torn Future By Ben Pearson/Jan. 1, 2021 10:00 am EST Since Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite made history earlier this year for winning Oscars for both Best International Feature Film and Best Picture, the door is open for more international movies to potentially achieve that same level of recognition. Next year’s Academy Awards ceremony (which has been delayed due to the pandemic) won’t air until April, but here’s a look at Atlantis, a post-apocalyptic dystopian romance that will be the official entry from the country of Ukraine....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Producer Sue Kroll On Me Too, Reshoots, And Sequel Possibilities [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 13, 2020 11:00 am EST Producer Sue Kroll has been with Birds of Prey from the very beginning. Since it was just an idea in star Margot Robbie’s head while she was originating her breakout character Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. Since director Cathy Yan came to Kroll and fellow producer Bryan Unkeless with a vision of a wild, bombastic, and unabashedly fun girl gang movie....

‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Reveals Vivid New Layers As The Film, And The Viewer, Age By Bryan Young/Sept. 19, 2019 7:00 am EST July 16, 1999.That was the last day of my eighteenth year and the first day Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut was released into the world. As an eighteen-year-old kid obsessed with film still devastated by the loss of Kubrick just a few months prior, I was dying to see this film....

‘Fletch’ Reboot From ‘Superbad’ Director Greg Mottola Will Star Jon Hamm By Chris Evangelista/July 15, 2020 10:00 am EST Jon Hamm is stepping into the shoes of Chevy Chase for a Fletch reboot. Hamm will star in a modernized take on the character, created first in novels by Gregory Mcdonald, and made even more famous by two films starring Chase. For a long period of time, Kevin Smith was trying to mount a remake starring Jason Lee....

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Set Photo Takes The Franchise Into The Snow For The First Time By Ethan Anderton/April 20, 2020 7:30 am EST Jurassic World: Dominion is one of the many films currently on production hiatus thanks to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down film and television projects around the world. But that’s not stopping director Colin Trevorrow from providing a sneak peek behind the scenes, revealing an environment that the Jurassic Park franchise has never explored before....

‘Kill Switch’: New Steven Soderbergh Movie Will Reunite Marvel Actors Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle, And Sebastian Stan By Ben Pearson/Nov. 19, 2019 2:30 pm EST The director of the Ocean’s trilogy, Magic Mike, Traffic, and Erin Brockovich has recruited Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle, and Sebastian Stan for his next film, a crime drama set in the 1950s called Kill Switch. Read more about the new movie below. According to Collider, Soderbergh’s new period piece will be set in Detroit in the 1950s and center on criminals played by Brolin, Cheadle, and Stan “who carry out a home invasion, only to wonder if they’ve been double-crossed....

‘Micronauts’ Movie Finds Director In ‘How To Train Your Dragon’s Dean DeBlois By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 24, 2019 7:00 am EST Dean DeBlois is making the move from lovable animated dragons to tiny superheroes. The How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker has been tapped to be the Micronauts movie director, helming and writing the live-action sci-fi movie based on the popular 1970s kids’ toys that spawned a Marvel comic.Deadline reports that DeBlois is directing and writing Paramount and Hasbro’s live-action adaptation of Micronauts, based on the characters of the children’s toy line which inspired the Marvel sci-fi comic....

By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 5, 2020 9:30 am EST At long last, the worlds of Guillermo del Toro and Paul WS Anderson will collide! Mimic, del Toro’s American debut film, is now being turned into a TV series, with Anderson directing the pilot. As for del Toro, he has absolutely nothing to do with the TV show, which makes sense, since the experience of making the film was a constant battle, leading the filmmaker to disown the theatrical cut (a director’s cut was eventually released on Blu-ray)....

‘Pacific Rim’ Writer Travis Beacham Wanted To Travel To The Other Side Of The Rift In Sequels By Jack Giroux/Sept. 3, 2019 2:00 pm EST The original Pacific Rim is a giddy and eye-popping popcorn movie. While director Guillermo del Toro’s lavish Kaiju movie was noticeably divisive online, it was embraced worldwide and became a modest box-office hit. The Legendary Pictures production earned enough cash in China to produce sequel, Pacific Rim Uprising, which didn’t live up to the charm and personality of the first movie....

‘Predator: Hunting Grounds’ Trailer: Head Into The Jungle As Either Predator Or Soldier By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2019 5:00 pm EST The Predator has appeared in tons of video games since the original 1987 movie kicked off the franchise, and the hunt continues in Predator: Hunting Grounds, a new video game coming to PS4 and PC next year. Check out the trailer below, which introduces a female Predator and showcases some intense, bloody action as players take control of either Predators or human soldiers in a fight to the death....

‘Rashomon’ TV Series Heading To HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2020 4:15 pm EST Back in 2018, word surfaced that a Rashomon TV show, based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic, was in the works. Now, a few years later, here’s an update: the Rashomon TV series is still happening, and it’s headed to HBO Max. The Comey Rule’s Billy Ray and Mudbound’s Virgil Williams are tackling the script, which will not be a direct adaptation of the Kurosawa film....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Going On Hiatus, Cancels Scheduled Episode With John Krasinski By Ethan Anderton/March 16, 2020 2:30 pm EST Saturday Night Live is currently between episodes after having John Mulaney and Daniel Craig host back-to-back episodes on February 29 and March 7 respectively. But the late night comedy sketch series will be taking an even longer break amidst all the coronavirus cancellations and delays in Hollywood.John Krasinski was slated to host the March 28 episode of SNL in support of his new movie A Quiet Place II, which had already been delayed due to coronavirus concerns....

‘The King’s Man’ Will Harken Back To ‘Lawrence Of Arabia,’ Matthew Vaughn Says [New York Comic-Con 2019] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 4, 2019 7:30 am EST Matthew Vaughn is no stranger to taking a beloved property and crafting a fresh, energetic origin story out of it. But this time, with The King’s Man, he gets to do it to his own movies. Vaughn’s Kingsman films, loosely based off of Mark Millar’s comic books, followed a fictional secret service organization that presented a hyperviolent twist on the concept of the gentleman spy....

‘The Mandalorian’ Action Figures, Funko POPS, LEGO Sets & More Revealed By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2019 9:30 am EST Yesterday brought the reveal of the first merchandise from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker thanks to a livestream event from Pinewood Studios in London. We’ve already rounded up the best action figures, Funko POPs, LEGO sets and more from the final chapter of the Skywalker saga, but now we’re going to focus on the merchandise that will be arriving alongside it from Lucasfilm’s first live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian....

By Ben Pearson/Dec. 5, 2019 3:30 pm EST Troop Zero follows a space-obsessed oddball (Mckenna Grace) who discovers that the local girl scouts are participating in a contest where the winners will be able to record a message for the Voyager spacecraft. So naturally, she gathers her fellow misfits and forms her own troop to try to win that prize, while the feuding leaders (Allison Janney and Viola Davis) clash along with their troopers....

‘Wonka’ Prequel Movie From ‘Paddington’ Director Now Has A Golden Ticket For A 2023 Release By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2021 10:30 am EST Hollywood loves brand awareness. They love it more than life itself. A studio is far more likely to give a green light to an established property than to something fresh and original, because that’s just how it goes. It’s nothing new – Tinseltown has been doing this for decades....

Adam Shankman To Direct ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ For Disney+, No Original Cast Involved (Yet) By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 4, 2020 12:30 pm EST Director Adam Shankman will work his magic on Hocus Pocus 2 for Disney+. The Hairspray director has been tapped to helm the highly anticipated Hocus Pocus sequel for Disney’s streaming service, which is being penned by Workaholics writer and co-producer Jen D’Angelo. However, that anticipation may waver without the non-involvement of original cast members Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, none of whom are confirmed to be on board for Hocus Pocus 2....

Cool Stuff: Andy Fairhurst’s ‘Back To The Future’ Trilogy Print Set Goes Back In Time By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2020 7:30 am EST There are countless art prints for Back to the Future out there in the world, many of them for the original movie that introduced us to Marty McFly, Doc Brown and the time traveling DeLorean. But as a fan of the whole trilogy from director Robert Zemeckis, what I really like is when an artist creates a set of posters that represents the entire franchise with unifying imagery....

Cool Stuff: Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing Rises Out Of Dagobah’s Swamps To Become A Hot Wheels Collectible By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2020 6:00 am EST Under normal circumstances, we’d be preparing for San Diego Comic-Con next week, but instead, we’re just waiting for all the panels to come to us in the first ever virtual Comic-Con at Home. The good news is that everyone who normally wouldn’t get a chance to get their hands on some exclusive Comic-Con collectibles now has an equal chance of picking them up online....

Daily Podcast: Coronavirus & The Film Industry, Onward, Universal Monsters, The Mandalorian, Ava DuVernay And Quibi By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the March 9, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including SXSW, Onward, Universal Monsters, The Mandalorian, Ava DuVernay and Quibi....