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‘Alien’ Comic Series Will Adapt Dan O’Bannon’s Original Screenplay By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 16, 2020 3:00 pm EST Dark Horse is bringing Dan O’Bannon’s first crack at the Alien screenplay to life with a new series, Alien: The Original Screenplay. The series will take it’s cue from O’Bannon’s original draft before it was re-configured by David Giler and Walter Hill and became the movie we know today. The story is basically the same: a group of unlucky saps in space run afoul of a hungry beast....

‘Borderlands’ Movie Casts Cate Blanchett As Lilith By Chris Evangelista/May 5, 2020 12:59 pm EST Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie just landed a surprising cast member: Cate Blanchett. Blanchett will play Lilith, one of the four playable characters in the original Borderlands game who has remained a supporting character in the franchise ever since. In the mythology of the game, Lilith is “from the planet Dionysus and is one of six Sirens, a group of women with unbelievable powers....

‘Dune’ Photo: Timothée Chalamet And Josh Brolin Take To The Skies By Ben Pearson/May 11, 2020 4:00 pm EST Director Denis Villeneuve’s two-movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction novel Dune kicks off this December. While we haven’t seen a trailer for the film yet, we’re slowly getting glimpses of Villeneuve’s take on this notoriously difficult-to-adapt material, and the latest Dune photo highlights one of the movie’s action scenes. Read on to see Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin’s characters making a daring escape above the desert planet of Arrakis....

‘Grand Isle’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage And Kelsey Grammer Try On Some Southern-Fried Accents By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2019 5:00 pm EST Long have we waited for a film that teams up Nicolas Cage and Kelsey Grammer, and then has them use heavy southern accents. Grand Isle is sweaty looking southern gothic thriller that has Cage hiring a young man to kill his wife, and Grammer as the cop looking into the crime....

‘Muppets Now’ Trailer Invites You On A Video Call With The Characters Of The Disney+ Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 15, 2020 11:00 am EST Even the Muppets are working hard from lockdown. The beloved characters, and stars of the new Disney+ series Muppets Now, are taking us behind the scenes of a video call as they prepare to launch their first-ever unscripted show. The Muppets Now trailer lets us in on the behind-the-scenes planning of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Scooter, and of course, Joe from Legal, as they talk about the six half-hour “muppisodes” that will debut on Disney+ this month....

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 27, 2019 7:30 am EST The movie sign has gone dark once again. Netflix brought Mystery Science Theater 3000 back from the dead, but sadly, they’ve decided to cancel it as well. The series will not continue at Netflix, but die-hard fans shouldn’t lose hope. After all, we’ve been here before. Somehow, MST3K always defies expectations and bounces back. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of the show, but for now, we’ve seen the last of the new Netflix episodes....

‘Peninsula’ Review: The Apocalyptic ‘Train To Busan’ Follow-Up Goes Off The Rails By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 24, 2020 9:00 am EST From the offset, Peninsula director Yeon Sang-ho insisted that the follow-up to his 2016 zombie sensation Train to Busan was not a sequel. After all, how could you replicate the claustrophobic thriller that was Train to Busan — a miracle concoction of emotionally-driven, socially conscious storytelling with nail-biting action and amazingly acrobatic zombies — without feeling like a tired rehash?...

‘She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power’ Season 5 Will End The Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 17, 2020 12:30 pm EST DreamWorks’ beloved She-Ra and the Princesses of Power will be debuting its final season on Netflix this May. The acclaimed Emmy-nominated animated series, which reboots the iconic ’80s Mattel series for the modern age, will end its run with the upcoming fifth season, which DreamWorks Animation confirms will be its last....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Soars At The Box Office, ‘Cats’ Is A Cat-Tastrophe By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 23, 2019 9:30 am EST Cats wasn’t the Jellicle choice for audiences at the movies this weekend. The expensive Tom Hooper-directed CGI monstrosity bombed at the box office, while Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker soared to the top of the weekend box office charts, even though it didn’t come close to matching the opening weekend of its trilogy predecessors....

By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 12, 2019 4:30 pm EST This year saw two different pieces of Ted Bundy-related entertainment. One was docu-series The Ted Bundy Tapes, while the other was the film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron as the infamous serial killer. And it looks like the obsession with Bundy will continue on into 2020, when amazon releases their docu-series Ted Bundy: Falling For a Killer. Like Extremely Wicked, Falling for a Killer tells the Bundy story through the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, who was unaware of Bundy’s true nature....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’, ‘WandaVision’ And ‘Loki’ Teased In Marvel’s Disney+ Super Bowl Spot By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 2, 2020 6:30 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe heads to Disney+ with this year with three new shows. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier WandaVision and Loki are all coming to the new streaming service and they star the big screen actors who played all those characters in the movies. The shows all follow the events of Avengers: Endgame and will help set the stage for Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘The Shawshank Redemption’ Returning To Theaters Next Week For 25th Anniversary By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2019 6:00 am EST This month, Stephen King fans have been swarming to theaters to watch Pennywise the Dancing Clown terrorize the grown up Losers’ Club in IT Chapter Two. But in a few days, they’ll be able to enjoy a different kind of story from Stephen King, one that warms your heart instead of trying eat it....

‘Westworld’ Episode 7 Trailer: Get Ready For The Penultimate Episode Of Season 3 By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2020 3:00 pm EST There are only two episodes left of Westworld season 3, which means there are only two more chances for this season to either give us some answers or disappoint us terribly! Based on this new trailer for episode 7, the next episode is finally going to give us some backstory on Caleb, the new character played by Aaron Paul....

‘White Snake’ Trailer: A Chinese Folk Tale Gets An Epic Animated Adaptation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 9, 2019 5:00 pm EST Chinese animated movies haven’t yet made a big mark on the U.S. market, but that could soon change with White Snake. The new animated feature from GKIDS, the animation distributor behind hits like Your Name, White Snake adapts an ancient Chinese folk tale and turns it into an epic love story of mythic proportions....

After 45 Years And Two Remakes, The Original ‘Black Christmas’ Remains A Horror Classic By Matt St.Clair/Dec. 13, 2019 12:00 pm EST When remaking a classic, it often seems like a Catch-22. You veer far away from the original storyline and it gets accused of being a remake in name only. But if you remain too faithful to the source material, then it might get written off as an unoriginal clone....

All ‘The Simpsons’ Treehouse Of Horror Episodes Are Now Available In One Collection On Disney+ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2020 10:30 am EST Disney+ has announced that The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror collection is now live in their streaming library, including all 30 Treehouse of Horror episodes from over the years. It’s all part of their their new Simpsons Forever marketing push that they’re using to remind you that there’s nearly 300 hours of The Simpsons available on Disney+....

Christopher Nolan Crashed A Real 747 Airplane For A ‘Tenet’ Action Scene By Ethan Anderton/May 26, 2020 2:30 pm EST While the world waits to see if Christopher Nolan’s new film Tenet will actually make it to theaters in July, part of the usual marketing blitz is still happening thanks to magazines who need to publish the stories they planned out months in advance. In this case, not only are we getting a handful of new Tenet photos, but we’re learning that director Christopher Nolan actually crashed a real 747 airplane for a key action sequence in the movie....

Cool Stuff: McFarlane Toys New DC Comics Figures: Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Harley Quinn & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 2, 2020 6:00 am EST Check out the first wave of McFarlane Toys DC Comics action figures below! Batman: Detective Comics #1000 Superman: Action Comics #1000 Batgirl: Art of the Crime Part of a 3-figure collector set -Batgirl, Nightwing, and The Batman Who Laughs – that includes a piece of a buildable Batmobile featured in the DC Rebirth comic books....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Black Series Figures Include Darth Maul’s Mandalorian Commando & More By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2020 6:00 am EST This year has plenty of new Star Wars Black Series figures coming to shelves. Not only is the Star Wars Rebels line finishing up and being re-released to allow collectors to grab the entire roster of characters from the animated series, but there are outstanding nostalgic runs of figures for the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, and characters joining the Black Series who have never been given 6-inch action figures before....

Daily Podcast: Spoiler Discussion Of ‘Watchmen’ Episode 6, “This Extraordinary Being” By Ben Pearson/Nov. 25, 2019 12:15 pm EST On the November 25, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writer Chris Evangelista to have a spoiler-filled discussion about the sixth episode of HBO’s Watchmen, entitled “This Extraordinary Being.” Opening Banter: In Our Feature Presentation: Watchmen spoiler conversation.No Adrian Veidt, no Looking GlassHooded Justice origin storyCaptain Metropolis – even the Minutemen won’t accept Will for who he really is, and they won’t help him when he needs helpPlays out very differently in American Hero Story (escapes through glass instead of entering through it)June as Will Reeves’s Alfred – her true identity is revealed"Beware the Cyclops" – Klan’s subliminal plan uncoveredPassing down trauma to the next generation: Will’s son dresses up like Hooded Justice & Will freaks out about itJudd questionJune questionThe episode’s aesthetic choices – is this a repudiation of the idea that Lindelof is dunking on Zack Snyder?...