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Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ Gets Into Gear With Hugh Jackman Replacing Christian Bale, Production Set To Start In 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2020 8:30 am EST Michael Mann’s long-in-development Ferrari movie is finally shifting back into gear. More than five years after Mann’s biopic about the driver and businessman who founded the famed car manufacturer was first announced, STX has set a 2021 production start date for Ferrari, with Hugh Jackman in talks to star....

By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 2020 8:30 am EST The Force is with you today as Bottleneck Gallery is offering up an eclectic array of new Star Wars posters inspired by A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker, and even The Clone Wars. Going on sale today, these offerings from artists Matt Ferguson, Mark Englert, Todd Slater, Pablo Olivera, and Lyndon Willoughby are each outstanding in their own way....

New Jerry Seinfeld And Patton Oswalt Stand-Up Specials Coming To Netflix In May By Ethan Anderton/April 10, 2020 12:30 pm EST With all the chaos that’s going on in the world, we’re going to need some good laughs over the next couple months. Thankfully, Netflix will have us covered for at least a couple hours in May when comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Patton Oswalt debut new stand-up comedy specials on the streaming service....

Now Scream This: Kick Off The New Year With These Streaming Horror Movies By /Film Staff/Jan. 3, 2020 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: Wow, we did it. We witnessed the 2010s flip to 2020s and can someday tell our grandkids. I’m not one for resolutions, yet the passing of an entire decade makes me want to look forward to betterment at least a wee bit....

Olivia Wilde’s ‘Spider-Woman’ Seems To Involve Marvel’s Kevin Feige In Some Capacity By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2020 1:00 pm EST Last month, we found out Booksmart director and TRON Legacy star Olivia Wilde would be taking the helm of a mysterious Marvel Comics project at Sony Pictures. It’s believed that the project in question is a Spider-Woman movie that doesn’t connect to any of the existing cinematic universes based on Marvel Comics....

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Energizes ‘Saturday Night Live’, But Bowen Yang Is The Breakout Star By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 2019 9:30 am EST Fresh off her big night at the Emmys, actress, writer, producer and all-around comedy stalwart Phoebe Waller-Bridge made her Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, and she brought an ample amount of energy to Studio 8H. Waller-Bridge is an experience comedian who knows how to work with the talented writers and cast of Saturday Night Live, and the result was an episode that was certainly better than the season premiere....

The New ‘Resident Evil’ Movie Has Already Wrapped Filming By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 29, 2020 12:00 pm EST There must be some level of irony around a video game movie about a deadly pandemic wrapping up production amid a real-life pandemic. But the context in which the new Resident Evil film has been filming is certainly not intentional, as the Johannes Roberts-helmed reboot is Sony and Constantin Film’s newest expansion of a film franchise that began with Paul W....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Cape Fear’ Is A Fascinating Outlier In Martin Scorsese’s Filmography By Jacob Hall/June 14, 2020 10:00 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: Cape FearWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Once upon a time, Martin Scorsese was developing a film called Schindler’s List and Steven Spielberg was working on a remake of the 1962 thriller Cape Fear....

‘Cursed’ Trailer: Katherine Langford Is The One True Queen In Netflix’s New Fantasy Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 18, 2020 9:30 am EST Watch out, King Arthur – watch the Queen conquer in the new Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler fantasy series Cursed. A reimagining of the classic Arthurian tale, Cursed stars Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) as Nimue, the fabled Lady of the Lake who is chosen to wield the sword of legend....

‘Dark Army’ Will Be A “True Monster Film”, Says Director Paul Feig By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2020 2:00 pm EST Paul Feig has offered an update on Dark Army, his somewhat secretive new Universal monster movie. In a new interview, the filmmaker reveals he’s currently working on a script rewrite, and he hopes that the film will be his next if all goes according to plan. On top of that, Feig spoke a bit about what he’s going for with Dark Army – not so much a horror movie, but more like an old school “true monster film” from the classic Universal days....

‘Doctor Sleep’ Early Buzz: Critics Are Mostly Warm On Mike Flanagan’s Sequel To ‘The Shining’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 25, 2019 1:17 pm EST Nearly 40 years after Stanley Kubrick made us all afraid of hotels in his masterful adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, we’re returning to the Overlook Hotel again. Doctor Sleep, King’s 2013 sequel to his horror classic, has been adapted into a feature film by Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game), which has the unenviable task of following up Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece....

‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Vinyl Soundtrack Coming From Mondo This Week By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 24, 2020 11:00 am EST Nothing says the holidays like Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s psycho-sexual drama set at Christmastime. Kubrick’s film – his last, completed right before his death – has become a kind of gonzo alternative holiday movie, and to celebrate this festive season, Mondo is releasing the film’s soundtrack on vinyl for the first time ever....

‘Happy End’ Review: A Bleak And Twisted Comedy From Michael Haneke [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2017 9:00 am EST Michael Haneke is not known for light-heartedness. The Austrian filmmaker behind Funny Games, Caché, The White Ribbon, and Amour specializes in challenging, often incredibly bleak dramas where all is not right in the world.So when Haneke’s new film was announced with the title Happy End, most people familiar with the director likely assumed this was a deliberate misnomer....

‘Let Them All Talk’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Takes You On A Leisurely Cruise In This Curious Dramedy By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2020 9:00 am EST Can you even imagine going on a cruise again? I’m sure some people are perfectly fine with the idea – heck, some people would be willing to go right now, this very second, if they could. But here in the age of the coronavirus, cruises seem like floating Petri dishes; isolated barges with no escape....

By Chris Evangelista/June 12, 2020 4:30 pm EST My Spy The long, strange saga of My Spy is almost at an end. The Peter Segal-directed comedy that stars Dave Bautista as a rough-around-the-edges CIA agent forced to hang out with a child was originally set for an August 23, 2019 release date. It was then moved to January 2020, then moved again to April 17, 2020. And of course, that didn’t work out either, due to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down movie theaters....

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Clip: Kurt Russell Does Not Dig Brad Pitt By Chris Evangelista/July 18, 2019 3:00 pm EST The first Once Upon a Time in Hollywood clip just popped up online, featuring a stuttering Leonardo DiCaprio, a too cool for school Brad Pitt, and a flustered Kurt Russell. The striking thing here is how relatively low-key this clip is compared to the energetic trailers we’ve seen so far....

‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ Trailer Promises Even More Trouble With Tribbles By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 9, 2019 2:30 pm EST One of the most beloved episodes of the classic Star Trek series from decades ago is “The Trouble with Tribbles.” The episode saw the U.S.S. Enterprise suddenly getting dangerously crowded after the arrival of a quickly reproducing little puffball of a creature known as a Tribble. Now those cute little guys are making a comeback in a new Star Trek: Short Treks installment starring Alita: Battle Angel actress Rosa Salazar and Bob’s Burgers voice star H....

‘The Lion King’ Remake Was A “Huge Disappointment” For Elton John By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2019 3:30 pm EST Disney released their questionably “live-action” remake of The Lion King this past summer and it was an instant box office hit. After a massive opening weekend of $191 million in the United States, the movie has raked in over nearly $542.5 million domestically, and over $1.1 billion overseas, making it the 7th highest grossing movie of all time around the world....

‘The Matrix 4’ Gives ‘Aquaman’ Star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II The Red Pill By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 9, 2019 9:11 am EST Everyone was totally caught off guard when news of a new installment in The Matrix franchise was announced back in August. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity for the sequel, but only Lana Wachowski is said to be coming back to direct, with Lily Wachowski seemingly sitting this one out....

‘The Office’ Memories: Jenna Fischer Talks Pam’s Big Breakdown While Larry Wilmore Recalls Wild “Diversity Day” Outtakes By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 14, 2020 5:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s been over seven years since The Office came to an end, but people have never stopped talking about the show. That’s mostly because it’s been available on Netflix for the longest time (though it will jump to Peacock next year), and reruns always seem to be playing somewhere....