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‘Wonder Woman’ Director Patty Jenkins Describes “Internal War” Over Character’s Direction In First Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 4, 2021 8:30 am EST Patty Jenkins may not be the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood right now considering the mixed reaction to Wonder Woman 1984, but she worked hard to get here. And the reception to the Wonder Woman sequel aside, Jenkins couldn’t be more on top of the world: Wonder Woman 3 has been greenlit, the filmmaker is set to direct a Star Wars movie, and she’s essentially got a blank check for her next projects....

AMC And Regal Won’t Screen The Netflix Best Picture Nominees (Again) By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 14, 2020 3:30 pm EST Here we go again. In what is becoming a tradition, AMC and Regal Theater chains are refusing to screen Netflix’s Best Picture nominees, because that’s just how they roll. The chains typically do a showcase of Best Picture nominees in which they bring the nominated movies back to theaters, but the two Netflix titles – The Irishman and Marriage Story – won’t be included....

Cool Stuff: Mondo Unveils Matt Taylor’s Packed Poster For ‘Avengers: Endgame’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 3, 2019 6:00 am EST The first era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to an end earlier this year when Avengers: Endgame arrived in theaters. Now Mondo is providing a proper send-off with a new print by artist Matt Taylor that commemorates the final stand that The Avengers make against the mad titan Thanos. If you’ve loved Matt Taylor’s work on the Marvel Studios movies before, you’re going to love this print, which packs nearly every square inch of the print with the massive assembly of characters....

Cool Stuff: New X-Men And Batman Prints Unleash Mutants, Sentinels, Rogues, And The Batmobile By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2020 8:30 am EST New York Comic-Con may be over, but Bottleneck Gallery is still celebrating some of your favorite Marvel and DC Comics characters with yet another wave of outstanding new prints that will empty your bank account. This time, it’s the mutants of X-Men: The Animated Series teaming up to take down a Sentinel in a new print by Juan Ramos....

Daily Podcast: Rise Of Skywalker Reactions, Box Office Tracking & The Future Of Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the December 18, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker reactions and expected box office, the future of Star Wars movies and television shows, the theatrical cuts of the Star Wars original trilogy, and we’ll get an update on Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie....

Disney To Utilize New Tool That Checks Its Film And TV Scripts For Gender Bias By Ben Pearson/Oct. 8, 2019 4:00 pm EST Since 2004, Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Thelma and Louise, GLOW) has been at the forefront of the conversation about representation on film. That’s when she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a research-based organization which aims to educate content creators, marketers, and audiences about the importance of eliminating unconscious bias in entertainment....

Don’t Expect ‘Mindhunter’ Season 3 Anytime Soon (Or Maybe Ever) By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 23, 2020 11:00 am EST Mindhunter, one of the very best shows Netflix has ever produced, might indeed be over. We’ve heard rumblings of this ever since the second season ended. The cast members of the David Fincher-produced series were released from their contracts after season 2, and there’s been very little news since then. Now, Fincher is suggesting the show is probably over, or, at the very least, on hold – and will remain on hold for the foreseeable future....

How ‘Doctor Sleep’ Won The Blessing Of Stephen King [Set Visit] By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 5, 2019 1:00 pm EST While there have been countless adaptations of the work of Stephen King over the years, not all of them are fortunate enough to have both a personal blessing and input from the master of suspense himself. But in the case of the upcoming adaptation of Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, producer Trevor Macy was lucky enough to get both....

Marvel’s ‘Hawkeye’ Recruits ‘Troop Zero’ And ‘Comrade Detective’ Directors By Ben Pearson/July 17, 2020 2:52 pm EST A traumatized Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) ditching his Hawkeye nickname, adopting the moniker of Ronin, and slicing his way through Asian guys in Avengers: Endgame was not what I’d call funny. But it appears that with these choices of filmmakers for the new series, Marvel might be changing up the tone for this character and giving him some much-needed levity....

Netflix Adds 15 Million Subscribers Amid Coronavirus, ‘Tiger King’ Boom; Warns Of Downturn In Future By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 22, 2020 9:00 am EST Business is good for Netflix, which has become one of the rare companies to benefit during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The streaming giant has more than maintained its crown as the top streamer, even as new competitors emerge left and right to offer new content to the millions staying at home....

New On Blu-Ray: Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits From The Criterion Collection By Chris Evangelista/July 16, 2020 8:00 am EST Normally, I devote this column to several new releases. But the Criterion Collection release of Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits deserves its own special consideration. There are five films included, and a hefty amount of special features. But more than that, this box set is a great introduction to what made Bruce Lee such a special performer, and why his legacy lives on to this day....

Superhero Bits: Kang The Conqueror Maybe Coming To ‘Loki’, ‘Flashpoint’ Rumors Debunked & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see some classic Disney characters turned into X-Men? Why is Supergirl going back in time on the next episode of season five? Is Kang the Conqueror coming to the Loki series? Want to see some alternate roller skates Harley Quinn could have worn in Birds of Prey?...

The 20 Best Movie Posters Of The Decade By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 20, 2019 12:00 pm EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) While movie posters seem to get worse every year, there’s still artwork released every year to promote movies that blows us away. The best ones are illustrated, but sometimes Photoshop jobs can turn out pretty well, too. And now that we’ve reached the end of the decade, there’s no better time to look back at some of the best movie posters released over the years....

The Morning Watch: Cybertruck Goes ‘Back To The Future’, ‘Birds Of Prey’ Easter Eggs & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 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, see what it would be like if Back to the Future replace the iconic DeLorean time machine with the latest in futuristic automobile technology: the Tesla Cybertruck....

The Morning Watch: Making The Songs Of ‘Big Mouth’, ‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Easter Eggs & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 18, 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: Ryan Reynolds Dubs ‘6 Underground’, Entire ‘Star Wars’ Saga Recap & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 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 as Ryan Reynolds does his own foreign language dubbing for Michael Bay’s new Netflix movie 6 Underground....

The Quarantine Stream: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Near Dark’ Features A Killer Bill Paxton Performance By Ben Pearson/April 13, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Near DarkWhere You Can Stream It: The Criterion ChannelThe Pitch: Boy meets girl. Girl is a vampire. Girl bites boy, and her gang of vampire friends takes him under their wing....

TV Bits: ‘Queer Eye’, ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’, ‘Great British Bake Off’, ‘The Plot Against America’, And More By Chris Evangelista/March 22, 2020 10:00 am EST You want more Queer Eye? You’ve got it. Netflix just gave the popular show a sixth season. Per Variety, the sixth season will take the fab five to “Austin, TX where they will scour the prairie in a search for a whole new roster of heroes in need of a little TLC....

Video: The Making Of ‘Jurassic World: The Ride’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 15, 2019 3:30 pm EST Universal has published a new video which takes viewers behind the scenes of Jurassic World: The Ride, the sorely-needed new update to the old Jurassic Park ride that opened back in 1996. The video includes new interviews with people like director Steven Spielberg, writer/director Colin Trevorrow, and producer Frank Marshall, and shows actors Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and BD Wong acting in new footage made specifically for the ride....

Warner Bros. And Legendary Nearing Deal Over ‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Release By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 8, 2021 4:30 pm EST Late last year, Warner Bros. made history by announcing their upcoming 2021 theatrical slate would also be going straight to HBO Max on the same day said films were intended to hit theaters. It was a bold, game-changing move – and it was met with immediate resistance. Because as it turns out, the folks at Warners had neglected to inform the filmmakers and actors involved with their upcoming movies of the decision....