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Zack Snyder Shares More ‘Batman V Superman’ Details About The Mother Boxes, Jokes About A Sequel By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 30, 2020 12:30 pm EST There were a lot of questions on people’s lips after Batman v Superman. Why? How? And least importantly, what was up with those Mother Boxes? Well, director Zack Snyder showed up to answer those questions about the Mother Boxes that you never wanted answered and joke about a Batman v Superman sequel during a live-stream viewing of the 2016 comic book movie....

‘DC’s Stargirl’ Season 2 Heading To The CW – Is The DC Universe Streaming Service Dying? By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 6, 2020 1:30 pm EST DC’s Stargirl is shooting for the stars, and landing at a new network. The DC Universe original is leaving the fledgling streaming platform for The CW, which has renewed Stargirl for a second season and will become the exclusive home for the breakout superhero series next season....

‘Dream Doll’ Will Tell The Story Of Barbie Creator Ruth Handler’s Rise To Success By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2019 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There’s already a Barbie movie in the works at Warner Bros. Pictures with Margot Robbie playing the titular blonde doll and Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach writing the script. But that’s a movie that focuses on the doll as the lead character....

‘Hammer’ Trailer: A Drug Deal Gone Wrong Puts A Family In Danger By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2020 9:00 am EST There have been plenty of drug deals that have gone south on the big screen, resulting in car chases, shootouts, and a variety of threatening bad guys. But writer/director Christian Sparkes takes a grounded approach to these heightened scenarios with the new thriller Hammer, which finds a father and son (Will Patton of Remember the Titans and Mark O’Brien of Halt and Catch Fire) desperately trying to fix a fucked-up situation in order to save their family....

‘Homecoming’ Season 2 Trailer: Janelle Monáe Loses Her Memory By Chris Evangelista/April 8, 2020 10:30 am EST Homecoming is one of the best shows of the streaming era, although it really feels like people slept on it. Now the show is back for a second season, and it has an all-new lead: Janelle Monáe. While original star Julia Roberts has departed, the second season will be continuing the story from the first, and going deeper into the mystery that first season set up....

‘Rebecca’ Review: Ben Wheatley’s Slick Update On The Gothic Romance Fails To Thrill By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 15, 2020 9:00 am EST It’s never a good idea to remake Hitchcock, even though several have tried. And while Ben Wheatley’s new Netflix Rebecca is technically not a remake, but rather a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel, it can’t escape the Hitchock film’s legacy. Like its main character, Rebecca is living in the shadow of its predecessor....

‘Reunited Apart’ Is Getting The Fellowship Back Together With A ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reunion By Chris Evangelista/May 27, 2020 1:30 pm EST Josh Gad’s web show Reunited Apart has been attempting to keep everyone’s mind off of these unprecedented times by reuniting pop-culture figures from some beloved movies. The series started with The Goonies and continued with Back to the Future and Splash. Gad is keeping things going with a Lord of the Rings reunion, which promises to bring together Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, and more of the cast of the hit trilogy....

‘Scoob!’ Skipping Theaters And Going Directly To Digital By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2020 2:20 pm EST While many major movies and studios are trying to wait out the coronavirus storm, others are cutting their losses. Like Scoob!, the new animated reboot of Scooby-Doo. Warner Bros. originally planned to open Scoob! in theaters on May 15, but obviously, theater shutdowns due to the coronavirus make that impossible. And rather than push Scoob!...

‘Songbird’ Trailer: This Michael Bay-Produced COVID Lockdown Movie Looks Ill-Advised By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2020 9:34 am EST Songbird made headlines for being the first film made during the COVID-19 outbreak in Los Angeles. Produced by Michael Bay, it was a production that ran into problems almost immediately with SAG-AFTRA issuing a “do not work” order to actors for the film. That order was eventually lifted, but later, another story broke accusing the film of not following COVID safety protocols....

‘Splinter Cell’ Netflix Anime Coming From ‘John Wick’ Writer Derek Kolstad By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 30, 2020 3:00 pm EST The popular Ubisoft video game Splinter Cell is becoming an anime. Netflix and Ubisoft have teamed up to develop a Splinter Cell anime series based on the popular stealth action video games, which will be steered by the writer behind one of the greatest current action franchises, John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad....

‘The Assistant’ Director Kitty Green On The Banality Of Evil In #MeToo Workplace Drama [Interview] By Marshall Shaffer/Feb. 14, 2020 11:00 am EST It’s a little over two years following the culture-shifting reporting that sparked the #MeToo movement, and we’ve finally gotten the first truly great movie about the culture in need of dismantling. Kitty Green’s The Assistant follows a single day in the life of Julia Garner’s Jane, a new employee working for a Harvey Weinstein-like bullying boss....

‘The Crown’ Season 5 Won’t Premiere Until 2022, Which Is When The Final Sixth Season Starts Shooting By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2020 1:00 pm EST Netflix recently announced that The Crown was getting six total seasons before bringing the series about the royal family to an end. Funnily enough, The Crown was originally intended to have six seasons from the beginning, but creator Peter Morgan decided to pull it back to five seasons, only to reverse that decision....

‘Transformers’ Franchise Embarking On A New Course With ‘Creed II’ Director Steven Caple Jr. By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 17, 2020 7:32 am EST At the beginning of the year, Paramount Pictures hired two different writers to pen two different Transformers scripts that would be developed concurrently. Joby Harold, who wrote King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, was one of the writers hired to pen a new installment of the franchise, and now that project is looking to bring in Creed II director Steven Caple Jr....

‘Unpregnant’ Trailer: Haley Lu Richardson And Barbie Ferreira Go On An Unplanned Road Trip By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 12, 2020 5:00 pm EST It seems impossible to make a comedy out of an abortion, but Unpregnant is just the latest film to find humor in the serious situation. Like one homeskillet before her, Haley Lu Richardson plays a teen who finds herself facing one doodle that can’t be undid: a positive pregnancy test....

Christopher Pike’s ‘The Midnight Club’ Is Becoming A Netflix Series From ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ Director Mike Flanagan By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 6, 2020 8:00 am EST Mike Flanagan is developing a new horror series for Netflix. The creator of the acclaimed Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House and its upcoming follow-up series The Haunting of Bly Manor is adapting the Christopher Pike novel The Midnight Club for the streaming giant alongside his Haunting collaborator Leah Fong....

Daily Podcast: Transformers, Marvel Studios, The Thing, The Batman, And Super Bowl Commercials By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the January 28, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Transformers, Marvel Studios, The Thing, The Batman, and Super Bowl Commercials. Opening Banter: Ben and Chris are making their way home from Sundance today....

How ‘Ready Or Not’ Subverts The Expectations Of A Horror Movie “Final Girl” By Amelia Emberwing/Aug. 29, 2019 9:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for Ready or Not.At first glance, Samara Weaving’s character in Ready or Not looks like your run-of-the-mill horror movie “Final Girl.” White girl clad in a white dress who symbolizes some unattainable version of moral purity. Hell, her name’s even Grace.Then the film consistently goes out of its way to combat the trope for the rest of its runtime....

Jerry Stiller, Legendary Comedian And ‘Seinfeld’ Co-Star, Has Died At 92 By Ethan Anderton/May 11, 2020 8:30 am EST The world is a little less funny today as veteran comedian Jerry Stiller has passed away at 92 years old. Best known for playing Frank Costanza, father of Jason Alexander’s character George Costanza on the classic comedy series Seinfeld, the comedian is forever associated with the creation of Festivus, a holiday created in response to the crass commercialization of Christmas....

John Carpenter Masterclass: The Future Of Horror, Changing Careers, And More [Fantasia Film Festival] By Kalyn Corrigan/Aug. 28, 2020 2:00 pm EST John Carpenter has never been one to mince words. A film legend in the eyes of many and a deity in the eyes of horror fans, the Escape From New York director has a reputation for telling it like it is, no matter how hard his punches land. Claiming most horror movies are bad....

Marvel Studios Hires ‘Rick And Morty’ Veteran To Write ‘Ant-Man 3’ By Ben Pearson/April 3, 2020 3:08 pm EST Ant-Man 3 has found a writer.Jeff Loveness, who currently serves as a writer and co-producer on Adult Swim’s sci-fi comedy series Rick and Morty, has been hired to write the continuing adventures of Ant-Man and the Wasp for Marvel Studios. Get more details below. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, Marvel hired Loveness “in the early days of Hollywood’s shutdown,” so writing has already begun on the sequel, which will presumably reunite Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne/The Wasp, Michael Douglas as science whiz Hank Pym, Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne, and Michael Peña as the fast-talking Luis....