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‘The Stand’ First Look: Stephen King’s Post-Apocalyptic Tale Gets An Update For Our Pre-Apocalyptic Times By Chris Evangelista/May 20, 2020 8:30 am EST Just in time for a real pandemic, here comes The Stand! Stephen King’s tome about the end of the world, and what comes after, is being turned into a miniseries yet again – this time on CBS All Access. James Marsden, Amber Heard, Greg Kinnear, Odessa Young, Whoopi Goldberg, and more star in the adaptation, and you can get a first look glimpse of some of them in character below....

Christian Bale Reteaming With ‘The Fighter’ And ‘American Hustle’ Director David O. Russell For A Big New Movie By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2020 3:30 pm EST Fans of The Fighter and American Hustle will be happy to hear that director David O. Russell is reteaming with Christian Bale for a big new movie that is being put together at New Regency as part of their overall deal with 20th Century Fox, which is now situated at Disney....

Jake Gyllenhaal And Denis Villeneuve Are Working On A Mystery Project Together By Ben Pearson/Sept. 15, 2020 5:30 pm EST Director Denis Villeneuve is spending some time in the world of Arrakis with his two-part film adaptation of Dune, but it sounds like he might be working with a familiar collaborator again soon. Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred in Villeneuve’s one-two punch of Enemy and Prisoners in 2013, revealed that the two are teaming up again for a mysterious new project....

Judd Apatow Heads To Netflix For Comedy Set During The Pandemic By Ben Pearson/Nov. 16, 2020 12:30 pm EST The United States is in the midst of a massive third wave of the coronavirus pandemic just as the holiday season begins to ramp up, and even with some promising recent developments about potential vaccines, one thing remains certain: COVID will be with us for a while longer yet. Not only in our day-to-day existence, but also in the movies we consume....

Pete Davidson Wants To Live Again In ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Charity Table Read With All-Star Cast By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2020 12:30 pm EST Slated for Sunday, December 13 at 5:00 P.M. PT, the It’s A Wonderful Life table read will also star Mia Farrow (Rosemary’s Baby), Ellie Kemper (The Office), Carol Kane (Scrooged), Ed Begley Jr. (Best in Show), Diedrich Bader (Office Space), Bill Pullman (Independence Day), Richard Kind (A Serious Man), B....

Production Begins On ‘The Batman’ As Director Matt Reeves Shares First Photo From The Set By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 2020 9:15 am EST UPDATE: Warner Bros. has announced character details for Peter Sarsgaard and Jayme Lawson. You can find them within our original story below. On the evening of January 27, 2020, director Matt Reeves announced the start of production on The Batman with the slate for the first day of shooting....

Superhero Bits: ‘Pennyworth’ Season 2 Trailer, Canceled ‘Daredevil’ 2003 Video Game Footage & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to read a new Young Hellboy miniseries? How is Marvel tying up some loose ends in the X-Men comics? How does Spider-Man: Miles Morales pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman and Black Lives Matter? Will WandaVision arrive in December? Why is there a Batmobile clock that costs over $29,000?...

That ‘Tom And Jerry’ Movie Everyone Is Dying To See Has Moved From April 2021 To December 2020 By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 25, 2019 4:00 pm EST The people have stormed the gates of Warner Bros., pitchforks in hand, demanding to see the Tom and Jerry movie sooner rather than later. “Give us that murderous cat and the annoying rodent he wants to eat!” cried the teeming masses. “We can wait no longer!...

The Morning Watch: Meet The ‘Modern Family’ Documentary Crew, ‘Full House’ Goes Full Quarantine & More By Ethan Anderton/April 10, 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, after 11 seasons of watching the Dunphys in front of the camera on the ABC series Modern Family, it’s time to meet the documentary crew who has been following them the whole time....

Writers Room Discussion: The Top 50 Movie Moments Of 2019 By Ben Pearson/Jan. 6, 2020 3:33 pm EST On the January 6, 2020 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 narrow down the top movie moments of 2019. Opening Banter: Our Feature Presentation: Our Favorite Movie Moments of 2019Other Articles Mentioned:All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

‘Conan The Barbarian’ Series To Bring More Swords And Sorcery To Netflix The Streamer By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2020 11:00 am EST Fredrik Malmberg’s Cabinet Entertainment and Mark Wheeler’s Pathfinder Media are teaming up with Netflix to develop a new live-action Conan the Barbarian TV series as part of a new deal struck with Conan Properties International, which holds all the rights to the entire Conan literary library. The deal will allow Netflix to make TV shows and movies based on Conan, both in live-action and animation....

‘Cruella’ Casts ‘Killing Eve’ Star Kirby Howell-Baptiste By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 25, 2019 8:30 am EST Variety broke the news that Kirby Howell-Baptiste has signed on to star in Disney’s live-action Cruella, an origin story for the 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil, played by a punk-rock Emma Stone. Details on Howell-Baptiste’s character have not been revealed. Howell-Baptiste is best known for her roles in Killing Eve and most recently Why Women Kill, though many may recognize the British actress for her recurring roles in HBO’s Barry, NBC’s The Good Place (yes, she is Chidi’s ex), and Hulu’s recent revival of Veronica Mars....

‘Earwig And The Witch’ Trailer: Studio Ghibli’s First CG Movie Debuts English Voice Cast, Including Richard E. Grant, Kacey Musgraves By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 22, 2020 5:30 pm EST The first-ever CG animated film from Studio Ghibli is getting a lot of press for the anime studio – beloved for 2D classics like Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro – as they enter the unknown territory of 3D animation. And U.S. distributor GKIDS is pulling out all the stops for Earwig and the Witch, directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro Miyazaki, by recruiting a star-studded English voice cast which includes Richard E....

‘Event Horizon’ Blu-Ray Coming From Scream Factory, Who Hope To Restore Long-Lost Deleted Scenes By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2020 3:30 pm EST Event Horizon, Paul W. S. Anderson’s sci-fi horror movie about a starship that accidentally opens a gateway to hell, is getting a new Blu-ray release from the fine folks at Scream Factory. That would be good news on its own, but it also comes with the reveal that Scream Factory is searching for the fabled long-lost footage that was removed from the movie due to its extreme violence....

‘Horrorstör’: Movie Adaptation Of Grady Hendrix’s Novel About A Haunted IKEA In The Works By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 16, 2020 10:30 am EST Deadline broke the news that New Republic Pictures has optioned the rights to Grady Hendrix’s Horrorstör to develop into a feature film. The 2013 horror comedy novel, which is set in an IKEA-esque store called ORSK that has been experiencing supernatural phenomena, was the best-selling debut novel of Hendrix, who is on board to write the adaptation....

‘No Time To Die’ Super Bowl Spot: James Bond Is Back By Jacob Hall/Feb. 2, 2020 5:00 pm EST Any new James Bond movie is a big deal, but No Time to Die is a bigger deal than usual. It’s Daniel Craig’s final outing as Agent 007 and it’s also the twenty-fifth film in the franchise. That’s an astonishing number to reach and that means the Craig and director Cary Joji Fukunaga have to deliver the goods....

‘Phantom Thread’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Designs One Of The Year’s Best Films By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 7, 2017 9:00 am EST Note: this Phantom Thread review will remain as spoiler-free as humanly possible, because to give away this film’s secrets would be a crime. Mere words can not entirely prepare you for Phantom Thread. How does one even begin to describe the latest cinematic treat from Paul Thomas Anderson? Certainly not by comparing it to previous Anderson films before....

Saved by the Bell Trailer The thing this Saved by the Bell trailer reminded me of the most is not the original Saved by the Bell, but Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 21 Jump Street, a movie which interrogated the premise of its decades-old source material through a contemporary lens. Writer/executive producer Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock) makes the smart decision to keep some of the original series cast members around, while putting the focus on a whole new batch of kids....

‘Spirit Riding Free’: DreamWorks Announces Theatrical Film Based On Netflix Spin-Off Of ‘Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 8, 2019 7:30 am EST It didn’t take us long to get to this point, when streaming and theatrical transformed into a metaphorical ouroboros eating its own tail. DreamWorks has achieved that feat with its announcement of a Spirit Riding Free movie, based on the successful Netflix series of the same name, itself based on the 2002 DreamWorks theatrical movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron....

‘Star Wars: Rogue Squadron’: Patty Jenkins Will Become First Woman To Direct A ‘Star Wars’ Film By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2020 3:45 pm EST Update: Disney has confirmed that Star Wars: Rogue Squadron will open on December 22, 2023. Our original post follows. Huge news out of Lucasfilm: Patty Jenkins, the director of Monster, Wonder Woman, and Wonder Woman 1984, will direct Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, a new live-action Star Wars feature film which will be released theatrically....