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‘Universe’s Most Wanted’: Dave Bautista Teams Up With Director Brad Peyton For Sci-Fi Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 30, 2020 3:30 pm EST Dave Bautista is playing yet another intergalactic adventurer in the “irreverent” sci-fi thriller Universe’s Most Wanted. San Andreas and Rampage filmmaker Brad Peyton is set to direct and produce the big-budget sci-fi film.Collider reports that Dave Bautista is going from one ragtag gang of cosmic criminals to another. The Guardians of the Galaxy star has signed on to produce and star in the “irreverent” sci-fi fantasy movie Universe’s Most Wanted, from director Brad Peyton, whose other directing credits include Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore....

Buzz About This ‘Candyman’ Teaser And Poster Ahead Of Thursday’s Trailer By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2020 9:30 am EST Ready for the new Candyman trailer? Well…you’ll have to wait. But don’t worry – you won’t be waiting long. The trailer for the new take on the iconic horror character is dropping this Thursday, but ahead of that, we have a super quick Candyman teaser – and a poster, too. Nia DaCosta directs the film, with a script co-written by Jordan Peele....

Contest: Get Ready For Halloween With A Horror Movie Blu-Ray Collection By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 20, 2020 8:30 am EST We’re celebrating Halloween by giving away a bundle of Blu-ray and 4K horror movies. One lucky winner will score the discs, which include a Hellraiser 4 movie collection Blu-ray, a Stephen King 5 movie collection Blu-ray, the 4K release of Shutter Island, The Haunting on Blu-ray, and more. You could say it’s a spooktacular deal!...

Daily Podcast: WandaVision Early Buzz, Deadpool 3, Secret Invasion, Marvel Phase 4, Black Widow, Black Panther 2 & Mor By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2021 12:45 pm EST On the January 11, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and tv news, including all the news coming out of the WandaVision junket, including WandaVision early buzz, updates from Kevin Feige on Deadpool 3, Secret Invasion, Marvel Phase 4, Black Widow, Black Panther 2 and more....

Ethan Anderton’s Top 10 Movies Of The Decade By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 18, 2019 11:00 am EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) The 2010s will mark the decade when cinema as we know it started changing drastically. The movies themselves aren’t really changing, but the manner in which we get to see them is in the middle of a drastic overhaul. In some ways, it’s easier than ever to watch a movie....

First ‘Scoob!’ Trailer Gives Scooby-Doo And Shaggy An Adorable Origin Story By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2019 7:30 am EST Scooby-Doo is coming back to the big screen, but this time he’s getting his first computer animated feature film. This one will also be a full origin story for the friendship between Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, as well as Mystery Inc., too. The first Scoob! trailer takes us all the way back to Shaggy’s childhood, when he meets a stray dog on the beach and shares a sandwich with him....

How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With Ron Underwood, Director Of ‘Tremors,’ ‘City Slickers,’ And ‘The Adventures Of Pluto Nash’ By Blake Harris/July 24, 2020 11:00 am EST A few months ago, when I resumed writing this column for How Did This Get Made?, I began by making a wish list of filmmakers who I’d been wanting to speak with for years. And one of the people at the top of that list was the subject of today’s piece: Ron Underwood....

Kevin Feige Reveals Unseen Alternate ‘Iron Man’ Credits Scene To Announce An Infinity Saga Box Set By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2019 9:30 am EST Last night, Kevin Feige was given the Stan Lee World Builder Award at the 2019 Saturn Awards, honoring the best in sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Feige wasn’t on-hand to accept the award in-person, but he did send along a heartfelt thank you, and he included a special surprise for everyone in attendance and tuning in online....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2020 10:30 am EST The Uncharted movie was delayed so many times that we started to think it was never going to get made. Now, after beginning production in March, Uncharted has wrapped filming, which means we’re one step closer to seeing Tom Holland as baby Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg as poorly-cast Sully. The Ruben Fleischer-directed flick is meant to serve as a prequel to the popular game series....

The Clock Tower: Another Week, Another Batch Of Arrowverse Shows That Make Us Openly Cry By Amelia Emberwing/Nov. 29, 2019 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every other week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk....

The Morning Watch: ‘Uncut Gems’ Scene Breakdown, THR’s Actors Roundtable & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 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, Uncut Gems directors Josh & Benny Safdie break down an intense scene from the movie starring Adam Sandler....

The Morning Watch: Making Fake Money For Movies And TV, ‘Mulan’ Cameo Featurette & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 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 how fake money is made to be used in movies and TV without breaking any laws about counterfeiting money....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To The New ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’, The Evolution Of Movie Runtimes & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 20, 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....

TV Bits: ‘High Fidelity’, ‘Pennyworth’, ‘The Forever House’, ‘Jack Ryan’, And More By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2019 12:00 pm EST Here’s a look at what HBO has in store for the coming year. Originally intended to be a Disney+ show, the Zoe Kravitz-led TV adaptation of High Fidelity looks at the story from a different perspective: All 10 episodes of High Fidelity arrive on Hulu on February 14, 2020. A departure from Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel and beloved 2000 film, Hulu’s High Fidelity centers on Rob (Zoë Kravitz, who also serves as an executive producer), a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn who revisits past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love....

Watch The Terminator Smash A Man’s Ding Dong In ‘Mortal Kombat 11’ Gameplay Footage By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 1, 2019 5:30 pm EST Back in August, we learned that Mortal Kombat 11 would be adding a couple interesting new characters to the fighting roster. The Terminator, Joker and Spawn are all being added to the video game over the next few months as downloadable content, but the first one out of the gate is the aged T-800 Terminator as portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator: Dark Fate....

Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ Will Be Four Hours Long [DC FanDome] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 22, 2020 3:31 pm EST Justice League, a film which is being investigated by Warner Bros. and DC’s parent company three years after it was released, has been a hot topic in the movie world for years, thanks to a particularly loud group of fans who mounted a campaign to see director Zack Snyder’s original version of the movie....

‘Blazing Saddles’ Gets A New Intro On HBO Max Providing “Proper Social Context” By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2020 8:30 am EST After making headlines by briefly pulling Gone with the Wind and restoring it with a video introduction explaining the historical context about the time the movie was released, HBO Max has added another introduction to a different movie in its streaming library. Mel Brooks’ 1974 classic Blazing Saddles, a film that’s widely regarded as one of the best comedies ever made, has received a new introduction from Turner Classic Movies host Jacqueline Stewart, providing the “proper social context” for the controversial western parody....

‘Briarpatch’ Review: The New USA Series Is A Vivid Southwestern Noir [TIFF 2019] By Abby Olcese/Sept. 11, 2019 10:00 am EST The new noir anthology series Briarpatch, which airs on USA next year, starts off with a literal bang. A young policewoman named Felicity Dill leaves her apartment and gets into her car. The car explodes, killing her. Roll credits.The mystery of Felicity’s death, and the deeper corruption that lies beneath the surface of the small Texas town of San Bonifacio is the catalyst for season one of the series created by TV critic Andy Greenwald and produced by Mr....

‘Dune’: Zendaya Shares A New Photo Of Her Character In Denis Villeneuve’s Sci-Fi Epic By Ben Pearson/April 15, 2020 10:00 am EST Denis Villeneuve’s Dune – or at least, the first entry in his massive two-part adaptation of author Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel – is one of our most anticipated movies of 2020. Over the last couple of days, Vanity Fair has been sharing images of the film’s cast, but one of its stars has taken matters into her own hands....

/Filmcast Ep. 560 - Judgment Night (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg, Director Of 10 Cloverfield Lane) By Slashfilmcast/March 24, 2020 8:00 pm EST In this special episode of the Slashfilmcast, David, Devindra, Jeff are joined by Dan Trachtenberg, friend of the show and director of 10 Cloverfield Lane. The cast plus our special guest review Judgment Night, the 1993 thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins. Listen and subscribe to David’s newest podcast Culturally Relevant and subscribe to his YouTube channel....