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The Morning Watch: ‘Stranger Things’ World Tour In New York City, The IMAX Of The 1890s & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 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 Short Of It: Reviewing The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts By Leigh Monson/Jan. 31, 2020 2:00 pm EST If animated shorts are the most popular of all short films, and if documentaries are the least glamorized category, then live action short films occupy this awkward space of not being widely sought after or distributed. Live action shorts are most prevalent at festivals and act as proofs of talent and concept for the filmmakers who produce them....

Virtual Edition Of WonderCon 2020 Debuts Exclusive Art From Marq Spusta, Tom Whalen, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 7, 2020 11:30 am EST Like many conventions right now, WonderCon 2020 has been postponed out of abundance of caution for the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. But while the annual comic book and film convention won’t be holding its regular festivities in Anaheim, the show goes on for the art galleries participating in the con....

‘(500) Days Of Summer’ Honest Trailer: Like A 10-Year Old Relationship, It Was Better When It Was New By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 21, 2019 6:00 am EST Back in the summer of 2009, the romantic comedy that swept everyone by storm was (500) Days of Summer. But for anyone who was actually paying attention to the movie, you must remember that this is not a love story. In fact, this isn’t even really a romance, because in retrospect, it’s all a little one-sided, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character Tom really needed to learn how to listen to Summer (Zooey Deschanel) instead of forcing her to be the girl the screenwriter he’s standing in for always dreamed of....

‘Bride Of Frankenstein’ Remake Might Still Be Aliiiive With Amy Pascal And John Krasinski Circling The Project By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 12, 2020 10:30 am EST After the implosion of the Dark Universe, Universal had supposedly put a lid on the Bride of Frankenstein remake, but the project may still have a pulse after all. A few notable Hollywood figures have been circling the project over the past year, including Oscar-nominated producer Amy Pascal and A Quiet Place director John Krasinski....

‘Doctor Who’ Writers Russell T. Davies And Chris Chibnall Pen Prequels To Their Respective Runs By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 27, 2020 4:30 pm EST The mystery of Doctor Who has allowed fans to fill those gaps with their own imaginations, or with the hundreds of audio book stories released by Big Finish. But imagination can only take us so far, especially when that’s the only thing we’re stuck with in quarantine. So former showrunner Russell T....

‘Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels’ Trailer: Natalie Dormer’s Demonic Femme Fatale Heads To 1930s L.A. By Ben Pearson/March 6, 2020 2:30 pm EST It’s been almost four years since Showtime’s Penny Dreadful wrapped up its three season run, but creator John Logan is back with a “spiritual descendant” series that’s set in a totally different time period. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels moves the action from Victorian England to Los Angeles in the late 1930s, and the newest trailer shows how Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones)’s shape-shifting demon character slices through the new show like a knife....

‘Red Notice’ First Look Has The Rock Looking Dapper By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2020 3:30 pm EST Red Notice, the very expensive Netflix movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, is now filming – and we have our first official look at the film courtesy of Johnson’s in-demand Instagram account. The Rock posted a behind-the-scenes look at himself wearing a tux while surrounded by a plethora of clapperboards, because Red Notice is using all the cameras, folks....

‘Russo Bros. Pizza Film School’: ‘Avengers’ Directors Launch Weekly Instagram Series Talking About Classic Films By Ben Pearson/May 8, 2020 11:00 am EST If we were to ask the /Film readership what their ideal version of “living the dream” might look like, I imagine that “watching movies and eating pizza” would be one of the most popular responses. Now Anthony and Joe Russo, the directors behind the biggest movie of all time, will be doing exactly that in a new Instagram Live show called Russo Bros....

‘Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge’ Director Jose Perez III And Producer Alyssa Finley On Expanding The Universe In VR [Interview] By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 20, 2020 9:00 am EST The new virtual reality video game experience Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge debuted on Oculus devices yesterday. In addition to having an opportunity to play through it early (read our review here), /Film was able to have a virtual chat with the game’s director Jose Perez III and producer Alyssa Finley, who both worked on the Vader Immortal VR experience and have a long history working in video games....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Honest Trailer: You Can’t Teach An Old Emperor New Tricks By Ethan Anderton/March 25, 2020 6:00 am EST Last year, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ended the Skywalker saga, not with a bang, but with a whimper. That’s because the final chapter of the Skywalker saga desperately tries to cling to whatever nostalgia is left for the original trilogy rather than delivering a satisfying, cohesive story....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Trailer Arrives Monday Evening, Tickets On Sale Immediately After By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 19, 2019 8:30 am EST A new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer has been confirmed to debut during ESPN’s Monday Night Football on October 21 during the halftime show of the game between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets. There have been rumblings of this new trailer in the past couple weeks, but Disney and Lucasfilm officially confirmed the rumors with a press release today....

By Chris Evangelista/June 25, 2020 1:30 pm EST The Amusement Park, a long-lost 1973 film from the late George A. Romero, has just been picked up by arthouse sales company Yellow Veil Pictures. The film was recently rediscovered and restored, and is now being shopped at the Cannes Virtual Market. Yellow Veil, who worked on I Trapped The Devil, Depraved, Horror Noir, and more, have the world sales rights to the film and are now looking for buyers to bring the movie to a wider audience....

‘The Batman’: Jonah Hill Has Departed Gotham, Won’t Play The Riddler After All [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Oct. 16, 2019 2:55 pm EST Update 3: Variety’s Justin Kroll is reporting on social media that Jonah Hill has departed The Batman. His tweet has been added below.Update #2: Collider reports that Hill is eying the role of The Riddler.Update: THR reports that Hill is in talks to play either The Penguin or The Riddler in the new movie, although Hill and the studio can’t seem to agree on which one he should play and there’s a chance they may not come to an agreement....

‘The Crown’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer: Change Is Inevitable By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 20, 2019 7:30 am EST Heavy is the head that wears the crown, but heavier still is the burden on the actor that has to follow up Claire Foy’s Emmy Award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s acclaimed royal drama The Crown. But if anyone is up to it, it’s Oscar winner Olivia Colman. The actress steps into the sash and fitted dresses of the royal monarch in season 3 of The Crown, which recasts its entire award-winning ensemble with older actors....

‘The Curse’: Nathan Fielder Teams With ‘Uncut Gems’ Directors For Showtime Comedy Series By Ben Pearson/Feb. 18, 2020 3:59 pm EST In the wake of last year’s anxiety-inducing, Adam Sandler gambling thriller Uncut Gems and their short film Goldman v Silverman, co-writers/directors Josh and Benny Safdie (aka the Safdie Brothers) still haven’t officially lined up their next movie. But a new report says the directing duo will soon head to television, because they’re teaming up with Nathan For You’s Nathan Fielder for a new half-hour Showtime comedy called The Curse....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Is Also Being Adapted For Hulu By Ben Pearson/Sept. 4, 2019 4:30 pm EST Time first broke the news about The Handmaid’s Tale sequel show today, and io9 received the following statement from a Hulu spokesperson when they inquired about what form The Testaments might take: The Testaments has three different narrators: a young woman raised in the oppressive society of Gilead; a Canadian teen who learns she was actually born there; and Aunt Lydia, one of the villains of the first book who oversees the handmaids....

21st Century Spielberg Podcast: With ‘War Horse’ And ‘Lincoln’, Steven Spielberg Looked For Compassion During Wartime By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2020 7:30 am EST (Welcome to 21st Century Spielberg, an ongoing column and podcast that examines the challenging, sometimes misunderstood 21st-century filmography of one of our greatest living filmmakers, Steven Spielberg. In this edition: War Horse and Lincoln.) War is hell. Any sane individual knows this and knows that the old romanticized notions of glory on the battlefield are little more than fantasy....

Cool Stuff: ‘Edward Scissorhands’ Gets A 30th Anniversary Vinyl Soundtrack From Waxwork Records By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 14, 2020 6:00 am EST This year marks the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s suburban fantasy romance Edward Scissorhands. To honor the milestone, Waxwork Records is releasing the film’s score composed by Danny Elfman as a deluxe vinyl soundtrack with some outstanding album artwork created by Ruiz Burgos. Check out the Edward Scissorhands vinyl soundtrack below....

Hear Quentin Tarantino Talk With Paul Thomas Anderson About ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, Which Anderson Has Seen 4 Times By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 2, 2019 1:00 pm EST Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson recently sat down and had an almost 35-minute discussion about Tarantino’s latest, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Do I really need to say anything more? The prospect of two filmmaking masters shooting the breeze for over a half-hour is enough to get most movie fans excited....