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‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Production Postponed Over Coronavirus Concerns By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2020 11:00 am EST A week before the latest installment of the Harry Potter spin-off series was expected to start shooting in the U.K., Warner Bros. has postponed production for Fantastic Beasts 3 amid coronavirus concerns. The film is one of the last major Hollywood releases to delay its shoot to curb the spread of coronavirus, aka COVID-19, following in the steps of other postponed productions like Warner Bros....

‘Hellraiser’ TV Series Brings Creator Clive Barker On Board As Executive Producer By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 2, 2020 2:00 pm EST The Hellraiser TV series is bringing back a familiar face, and I don’t mean Pinhead. Clive Barker, the original Hellraiser filmmaker and creator, is now on board as an executive producer for the HBO Hellraiser TV series being directed by David Gordon Green (Halloween). And it sounds like Barker will have actual involvement with the project and not just an honorary producer credit....

‘Knives And Skin’ Director Jennifer Reeder On Reworking Problematic Genre Elements [Interview] By Marshall Shaffer/Dec. 9, 2019 5:00 pm EST The missing girl. She’s the center of many an American narrative. Yet for Jennifer Reeder, this figure is merely the beginning of a narrative that fades into the background of her film Knives and Skin. The real drama and intrigue of her “genre adjacent” work, as she describes the film, comes from watching how the disappearance of Carolyn Harper spirals outwards and deepens the grief of a small town mired in the quiet misery of suburbia....

‘Super High’ With Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson And Common Will Turn Potheads Into Superheroes By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 2020 3:30 pm EST Move over, Bluntman & Chronic, there are about to be even more superheroes on the scene who are high as a kite. New Line Cinema has won the rights to a new superhero comedy pitch called Super High, which will focus on people who get superpowers after smoking a special strain of marijuana....

‘The Jesus Rolls’ Teaser: The First Footage From The ‘Big Lebowski’ Spin-Off Looks…Questionable By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2020 5:00 pm EST John Turturro has long dreamed of making a spin-off from The Big Lebowski focused on his character, Jesus Quintana. While the Coen Brothers had no intention of ever making a follow-up film, they granted Turturro to use the character as he saw fit, and so he did. The result: The Jesus Rolls, a film Turturro directs and stars in....

‘The Simpsons’ Gets An Extreme New Couch Gag In An Episode Connected To ‘Playdate With Destiny’ Short By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2020 3:00 pm EST In recent years, The Simpsons has really enjoyed coming up with wild new ways to pull off the couch gag that begins every episode of the series. The opening credits sequence has paid tribute to the likes of Adventure Time, Frozen, Rick and Morty, Futurama and even the entire history of The Simpsons itself....

‘The Vast Of Night’ Trailer: There’s Something In The Sky By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 6, 2020 1:30 pm EST The Vast of Night is proof that you can do a whole lot with very little. This low-budget sci-fi thriller operates with a meager budget, but still manages to pack in a ton of inventive, cinematic moments in its early scenes to hook you. In The Vast of Night, a group of young people in 1950s New Mexico become convinced there’s something very strange going on in their sleepy little town....

‘Vader Immortal’ Concept Art Teases Episode II, Where Darth Vader Teaches You To Use The Force By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2019 9:30 am EST The first episode of ILMxLAB’s new VR series Vader Immortal is available now, allowing fans to step into the world of Star Wars and be in the intimidating presence of Darth Vader. The Dark Lord of the Sith has been looking for a recruit to help him retrieve an ancient artifact, and wouldn’t you know it, you’re the one who finally has the skillset he needs to help retrieve it....

‘Watchmen’ Behind The Scenes Featurette: Regina King Can’t Show Us Half The Sets Of The Secretive HBO Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 17, 2019 1:00 pm EST Who would say no to a tour of the Watchmen set from its Oscar-winning star Regina King? Not us. In anticipation of the HBO comic book series’ premiere in just a few days, a Watchmen behind the scenes featurette gives us a tour of the elaborate sets of the series....

‘Willy’s Wonderland’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Fights Killer Animatronic Animals By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 15, 2021 10:00 am EST Have you ever wanted to see Nicolas Cage fight some murderous animatronic animals? Well then, here’s a film for you: Willy’s Wonderland. The premise – which sure sounds awfully similar to the premise of the video game Five Nights at Freddy’s – finds Cage playing a janitor who has to battle it out against evil, sentient animatronic animals at an abandoned family fun center....

Christoph Waltz To Hunt Liam Hemsworth For Sport In Quibi Action Thriller Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 7, 2019 1:00 pm EST Christoph Waltz hunts Liam Hemsworth for sport in a new Quibi untitled action thriller series. While Quibi is still an unproven entity, at least three of those things are…a bingo.Deadline reports that Waltz will be co-starring with Hemsworth in Quibi’s Untitled Action Thriller from Scorpion creator Nick Santora, who is writing and executive producing the series....

Cool Stuff: Criterion Collection Announces Federico Fellini 15-Disc Box Set Packed With Special Features By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 12, 2020 6:00 am EST Federico Fellini is one of the greatest Italian filmmakers of all time. This year marks the late director’s 100th birthday, and in honor of his contribution to cinema, Criterion Collection has announced a 15-disc box set packed with 14 of his theatrical releases, a slew of documentaries about his life and work, feature commentaries, video essays, essays, and much more....

Daily Podcast: Let’s Discuss The Disney Theme Park Announcements From D23 Expo 2019 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the August 30 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall to talk about all the Disney theme park announcements made during D23 Expo 2019. In Our Feature Presentation: A Complete List of /Film’s D23 Coverage: Every Major Announcement From This Weekend’s Event Star Wars Hotel Avengers Campus Epcot New neighborhoods Three park pavillion Mary Poppins Spaceship Earth Guardians ride name Cosmic Rewind Space 220 Moana: Journey of Water All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Hong Kong Movie Theaters Reopening This Week With Social Distancing Measures In Place By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2020 1:30 pm EST Even though China briefly reopened some movie theaters in March, the nation ended up closing them again when the spread of coronavirus appeared to get worse with a cautious return to business as usual. But Hong Kong, which mostly operates independently and autonomously from mainland China, is preparing to open movie theaters this week....

Let ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Director James Gunn And This Chrome Extension Help Shape Your Quarantine Watch List By Ben Pearson/March 18, 2020 4:30 pm EST Have you created a quarantine watch list yet? Good thing there’s always room for more, right? Last Friday, writer/director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Super, Slither) shared a list of underseen movie recommendations to help keep film fans occupied while we all stay inside as much as possible to prevent the spread of the coronavirus....

New ‘Good Boys’ Featurette Is Filled With Grown-Up Comedian Cameos By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 9, 2019 5:00 pm EST The kids aren’t all right in Good Boys, but the adults aren’t much better. A new Good Boys featurette introduces us to the grown-ups of the Gene Stupnitsky comedy starring Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon, and Keith L. Williams as a trio of three sixth-graders who get in over their heads after getting invited to a “kissing party....

By Ben Pearson/Nov. 19, 2020 12:00 pm EST For a certain generation, the words Pink Panther may unfortunately conjure memories of a couple of bad Steve Martin movies from the mid-2000s. But for those who skipped that theatrical reboot, they may recall a series of mystery movies from 1963 through 1993 that largely starred Dr. Strangelove actor Peter Sellers as the bumbling protagonist, a clueless Chief Inspector named Jacques Clouseau....

New ‘Star Trek’ Nickelodeon Series Officially Revealed, ‘Strange New Worlds’ Spin-Off Writers Have Assembled [Comic-Con 2020] By Jacob Hall/July 23, 2020 12:00 pm EST After years of hibernation and a somewhat successful film franchise reboot, Star Trek is thriving where it belongs: on the small screen. The greatest science fiction franchise of all time kicked off Comic-Con at Home with a mega-panel dedicated to just about every show, ongoing, new, and upcoming, in the current Trek universe....

Rian Johnson Goes Deep On ‘Knives Out’ [/Filmcast Interview] By David Chen/Dec. 13, 2019 10:30 am EST Knives Out is out in theaters now, and it’s a blast. It’s a delightful murder mystery that takes place in the modern day, yet is loaded with references to its predecessors (particularly the works of Agatha Christie). It manages to convey an infectious love for its genre while still being a substantial entry into that genre, and that’s a rare treasure in this day and age....

Superhero Bits: ‘Arrow’ Finale Almost Changed The History Of Batman, Rob Liefeld’s Captain America Returns & More By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2020 6:00 pm EST When will The Falcon and the Winter Soldier resume filming? How did the original series finale of Arrow almost change DC history? What does Birds of Prey comic writer Gail Simone think of Jared Leto’s Joker? How is The Eternals still being worked on during the coronavirus pandemic?...