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Superhero Bits: Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ Won’t Have A Credits Scene, Spider-Man Deal Rumors & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 17, 2020 6:00 pm EST How would Thomas Jane like to return to The Punisher franchise? Who is playing the new Morgan Edge in Superman & Lois? Want to see a music video that Gal Gadot and Kristen Wiig made during Wonder Woman 1984? Will Zack Snyder’s Justice League have a post-credits scene?...

The 10 Best Teen Movies Of The Decade By Meredith Borders/Dec. 27, 2019 2:00 pm EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.)Ahh, the teen movie. The high school story. The hormonal homage. It’s a genre that has lived in my heart since long before I became a teenager, and will remain there when I am straight-up elderly. The awkwardness and misfitting, the fashion and feelings — there are few other times in our lives when everything is turned up to high-def in just such a way as when we are teenagers....

The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen About Washed-Up Actors By Rob Hunter/Aug. 2, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. This week’s column shines a light on films featuring actors whose careers have become equally obscure and forgotten.) Quentin Tarantino’s 10th film is currently in theaters, and its inexplicable attitude towards Bruce Lee aside, it’s a warm, affectionate, and extremely entertaining Hollywood daydream....

The Morning Watch: Stop-Motion Animated ‘Real Ghostbusters’, Reviewing Wrestling In Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 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, watch the opening of The Real Ghostbusters animated series recreated in stop-motion with action figures and cardboard cutouts....

This Week In Trailers: The Twentieth Century, Everything Will Not Be Fine, With Drawn Arms, Dear Santa By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 7, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

VOTD: VFX Artists React To ‘Avatar’, ‘King Kong’, ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘Jurassic Park’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2020 6:00 am EST Last week, the gang from Corridor Crew dove into the visual effects of Avengers: Endgame with the help of Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Matt Aitken, who worked on several key sequences from the Marvel Studios blockbuster. Now they’re all back to take a look back at a couple projects from Weta Digital’s past....

Water Cooler: Joker, GLOW Season 3, Carnival Row, Blair Witch Project, The Lion King, Creepshow, Disneyland, My Neighbor Totoro, Downton Abbey, HHN By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2019 1:10 pm EST On the September 4, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

Water Cooler: Ready Or Not, Nailed It, Good Boys, Good Time, Snake Oil, Cinephile, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 28, 2019 12:55 pm EST On the August 28 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to in the Water Cooler. Opening Banter: Peter is sick, but the D23 episode is still coming....

‘Army Of The Dead’: Zack Snyder Replaces Chris D’Elia With Tig Notaro By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2020 12:30 pm EST Snyder wrapped principal photography on the movie last year, but THR reports that “the movie will now undergo a quick round of reshoots to incorporate Notaro’s role. Due to actors being already dispersed post-filming and due to pandemic restrictions, the incorporation will be a combination of techniques, from actually reshooting scenes opposite an acting partner to using green screen and CG technology to blend her in....

‘Brahms: The Boy 2’ Clip Reminds You To Not Let Your Kids Play With Creepy Dolls By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 19, 2020 5:30 pm EST Have you heard the good news? Brahms is back. Yes, Brahms, the titular boy from The Boy, is ready to return in Brahms: The Boy 2. If you’ve seen the first film, you know by now that despite marketing to the contrary, the original The Boy was not about a killer doll....

/Filmcast Ep. 570 - The Vast Of Night By Slashfilmcast/June 6, 2020 8:00 pm EST As the Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the U.S., David highlights some African American films available on streaming now. For the feature review, the cast watches The Vast of Night, the directorial debut from Andrew Patterson. Watch Ava Duvernay’s 13th here. Read about conflicting police accounts of protest videos in the Washington Post. Watch John Oliver explain what “defund the police” means here....

‘French Children Don’t Throw Food’ Movie Will Star Anne Hathaway By Chris Evangelista/March 31, 2020 5:30 pm EST Hey, did you hear? French children don’t throw food! But you know who does? Anne Hathaway. Okay, I made that up – Ms. Hathaway may or may not throw food. But she is set to star French Children Don’t Throw Food, adapted from the book of the same name. The story follows a journalist who moves to Paris for her husband’s job, and then has to try to balance her family and career....

‘Pennyworth’ Season 2 Trailer: Batman’s Eventual Butler Looks For A Change Of Scenery By Ben Pearson/Oct. 12, 2020 5:00 pm EST As you wait for Matt Reeves’ The Batman to finally swoop into theaters in 2022, Epix is hoping you’ll take the time to catch up with Pennyworth, the show that chronicles the pre-Batman adventures of Alfred, the eventual Wayne family butler. Check out the season 2 trailer, learn about the additional casting that’s been made for the new season, and find out what the rollout plan is for the forthcoming episodes below....

‘Ride Your Wave’ Review: A Sweet And Heartfelt Anime About Grief [Sitges 2019] By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 13, 2019 11:30 am EST Masaaki Yuasa has made a career out of weird yet beautifully crafted anime. From the trippy and enthralling Mind Game, to the loopy Lu Over The Wall, and even the brutally graphic and unforgiving DEVILMAN crybaby, you know you’re in for a ride when his name comes out in the credits....

‘Shut In’: Jason Bateman To Direct ‘Panic Room’-Style Thriller For New Line By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2019 5:30 pm EST Hey, remember earlier this year when Jason Bateman beat out the directors of Game of Thrones, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Killing Eve to win an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series? Split votes be damned – the dude took home the gold, and immediately parlayed that success into potentially directing a remake of Clue....

‘Star Wars: Light Of The Jedi’ Excerpt Teases The Galaxy-Wide Disaster In ‘The High Republic’ By Ethan Anderton/June 22, 2020 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A new era of Star Wars stories is on the way with the Lucasfilm publishing initiative known as Star Wars: The High Republic. The first book, Star Wars: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule, is slated to arrive in January 2021 after being pushed back from an initial release later this year....

‘The Last Dance’ Director Jason Hehir Had To Shape 10,000 Hours Of Footage Into A 10-Hour Series [Interview] By Ben Pearson/April 29, 2020 11:00 am EST For Emmy Award-winning director Jason Hehir (Andre the Giant, 30 for 30), completing the ten-part documentary series The Last Dance has been a Herculean task – and he’s still not finished. He likely won’t be totally done with the project until hours before the final episodes air....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2: Giancarlo Esposito Talks About Wielding The Darksaber By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2020 1:30 pm EST Viewers of The Mandalorian were left with a big shock in the final shots of the Disney+ series’ first season. Giancarlo Esposito’s Moff Gideon emerged from a destroyed TIE Fighter wielding an ancient weapon that has deep ties to the Mandalorian culture and huge ramifications for the Star Wars galaxy at large....

‘The Old Guard’ Director Gina Prince-Bythewood And Star KiKi Layne On Filming Hard-Hitting Action And Planning A Trilogy [Interview] By Steven Prokopy/July 14, 2020 11:00 am EST Not all comic book properties are created entirely equal. First published in 2017, the highly popular Image comic series The Old Guard concerns a small group of immortal warriors who live in secret, only surfacing for missions that promise large sums of money—and usually they have to be able to morally justify the mission (which typically involves killing, although they aren’t strictly assassins)....

Adam Sandler Will Star In Netflix Basketball Movie ‘Hustle’ From Producer LeBron James By Chris Evangelista/May 18, 2020 2:00 pm EST The Sandman isn’t done making basketball-adjacent movies just yet. After taking it to the hole with Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler is set to star in Hustle, a new Netflix movie produced by LeBron James. The film will see Sandler starring as a fired b-ball scout who discovers a talented player overseas and decides to bring him to the United States....