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Quentin Tarantino Says His ‘Star Trek’ Film Will Be Like ‘Pulp Fiction’ In Space By Ben Pearson/July 17, 2019 5:32 pm EST Everyone is curious about Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek, and it’s hard to blame them: the writer/director has never stepped into an established film franchise before, and there’s also the question of whether or not a Trek film will actually be his final movie before he rides off into the sunset of retirement....

Sony’s ‘Cinderella’ Cast Now Includes Missy Elliott, John Mulaney, James Corden, And More By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2020 3:00 pm EST Disney already made its live-action version of Cinderella several years ago, and since the original fairy tale is in the public domain, Sony has decided to take a crack at a version of their own. The studio has already set singer Camila Cabello in the title role of a new movie, but now it’s rounded out its cast with people like Missy Elliott, John Mulaney, James Corden, and more....

Steven Spielberg Left ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Because Of Script Disagreements By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 28, 2020 10:30 am EST It’s hard to imagine an Indiana Jones movie without Steven Spielberg at the helm, but that’s what we’re going to get with Indiana Jones 5, which will be directed and written by Logan’s James Mangold. The film went through several drafts and screenwriters before initial screenwriter David Koepp finally exited the project alongside Spielberg....

Superhero Bits: ‘Hawkeye’ Canine Actor Has An Instagram, ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Virtual Premiere & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 11, 2020 6:00 pm EST Why is there a different Deadshot in the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League game? When is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier coming to Disney+? Did you know the dog playing Pizza Dog in Hawkeye has their own Instagram? What did Christopher Nolan have to say about partly inspiring Tom Hardy’s Bane performance?...

Superhero Bits: Rachel Maddow Joins ‘Batwoman’, Theater Closes After ‘Joker’ Threat & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2019 6:00 pm EST Who is Rachel Maddow playing on Batwoman? Did an AMC Theatres location really deny single ticket buyers trying to see the movie? When is the Harley Quinn animated series debuting on DC Universe? What happens when Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles combine into one thing? Want to see an old Batman illustration that looks like Robert Pattinson?...

Taika Waititi’s ‘Reservation Dogs’ Comedy Heads To Series At FX By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 23, 2020 2:00 pm EST Though he may be a filmmaker fit for the gods (of love and thunder), Taika Waititi still found the time to develop yet another series for FX. The Thor: Ragnarok director, whose TV series version of the hysterical FX comedy What We Do in the Shadows is heading into a third season, is one of the minds behind the half-hour comedy Reservation Dogs, which has already been handed a series order by FX....

The Morning Watch: ‘Saturday Night Live’ VFX Secrets, The Brilliant Editing Of ‘Mindhunter’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 1, 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. In this edition, find out how the visual effects unit gives Saturday Night Live the tools they need to pull off some high-tech sketches in an insanely truncated timetable....

The Quarantine Stream: Netflix’s ‘Formula 1: Drive To Survive’ Is One Of The Greatest Sports Documentary Series Ever Made By Jacob Hall/March 25, 2020 7:00 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 Series: Formula 1: Drive to SurviveWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: A documentary series following the drivers, engineers, financiers, and team principals of Formula 1 racing as they struggle to achieve victories on and off the racetrack, complete with harrowing racing footage, seemingly unlimited access, and brutally honest interviews....

When It Comes To Brilliant World-Building, ‘The Mandalorian’ Understands That Less Is More By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 26, 2019 9:00 am EST Disney+ is officially here, and with it we finally got the live-action Star Wars show we were promised all those years ago. A gritty space western that dives into one of the most interesting corners of the Star Wars universe – Mandalorians – and also features the cutest little creature since Salacious Crumb?...

‘Blood Quantum’ Contest: We’re Giving Away Two Blu-Ray Copies Of This Wild And Unique Zombie Movie By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2020 8:00 am EST When was the last time you saw a unique approach to a zombie movie? Blood Quantum, written and directed by Rhymes for Young Ghouls’ Jeff Barnaby, does something a little different. Instead of a typical zombie outbreak that infects everyone on the planet, this movie’s outbreak runs into a roadblock when it comes to an indigenous tribe called the Red Crow: its members are immune to the virus....

‘Candyman’ Gets New 2021 Release Date, ‘Legally Blonde 3’ Bends And Snaps Into Summer 2022 Slot By Ben Pearson/Oct. 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Hollywood studios are doing their best to peer into the future and predict slots in which they can drop new movies into theaters again. Today, Universal and MGM have unveiled the latest Candyman release date for the highly anticipated horror remake, while MGM are planting a flag for the long-gestating Legally Blonde 3....

‘Fatman’ Will See Walton Goggins Trying To Kill Santa Claus By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 29, 2020 5:30 pm EST Cinema was invented for one reason, and one reason only: to see Walton Goggins attempt to murder Santa Claus. Goggins is set to star in Fatman, a dark action-comedy that will see him playing a hitman hired to bump off Santa (who will be played by Mel Gibson). Gibson’s casting here is likely to turn many people off, but you have to admit: a movie where Walton Goggins is hired to murder Kris Kringle sounds pretty entertaining....

/Filmcast Ep. 531 - Ready Or Not By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 27, 2019 6:58 pm EST David and Devindra debate the merits of Den of Thieves among other Gerald Butler movies. In Jeff’s absence, David step in for limerick duties for the feature review of the indie horror Ready or Not. To wish Jeff a speedy recovery, send an audio message to slashfilmcast@gmail.com titled “Message to Jeff.” Read the Ringer article on why Den of Thieves Is an Underappreciated Heist Movie Masterpiece here....

/Filmcast Ep. 546 - The Irishman (GUEST: Melissa Tamminga From Seattle Screen Scene) By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 11, 2019 8:30 pm EST As 2019 comes to an end, David, Devindra, and Jeff evaluate the merits of “worst of the year” list. For the feature review, the cast plus Melissa Tamminga, writer for @SeattleScreen, discuss The Irishman, the latest crime drama directed and produced by Martin Scorsese. Does the three and half hour Netflix epic live up to its spiritual predecessors Mean Streets and GoodFellas?...

‘Friends’-Themed Thanksgiving Version Of The Warner Bros. Studio Tour In Hollywood Opens This Fall By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 10, 2019 4:00 pm EST Continuing the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the hit NBC sitcom Friends, this Thanksgiving will see a holiday-themed event for fans who want to partake in a special edition of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Hollywood. The Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Hollywood will be celebrating “Friendsgiving” at the studio by letting fans tour specific locations “where Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courteney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer) formed their unforgettable friendships both on and off-screen....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Gave Jason Reitman One Of The Greatest Moments Of His Life With Father Ivan Reitman By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 18, 2021 1:00 pm EST Ghostbusters: Afterlife was meant to be released last summer, but thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the movie was pushed back to March 2021, and delayed again to a summer release yet again in June. While we’re still waiting to see what the Ghostbusters sequel will bring to the table with a story set roughly 30 years after the events of the first two movies, director Jason Reitman may have already gotten all the praise he’ll need for the movie from his father, original franchise director Ivan Reitman....

‘I Am Not Okay With This’ Sneak Peek: Watch The First 7 Minutes Of Netflix’s New Dark Comedy Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2020 12:30 pm EST Netflix has released a sneak peek at I Am Not Okay With This, a teen dark comedy that seems manufactured in a laboratory to be the perfect Netflix series. It stars: check. Awkward youths navigating teen angst and grief: check. Secret superpowers: check. Based on a comic from Chuck Forsman, who also created the source material for The End of the Fing World, produced by the folks behind Stranger Things, and created by the team behind Netflix’s own The End of the Fing World adaptation, Netflix seems like it has it in the bag with I Am Not Okay With This, which drops on the streaming service today....

‘Mulan’ TV Spot Highlights The Warrior Behind The Myth By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2020 5:30 pm EST We’re not far from reaching Disney live-action remake overload. And yet, the new Mulan can’t help but look promising. Maybe it’s wuxia-style fight choreography. Maybe it’s the fact that this is an action epic and not a musical. But it largely might be because director Niki Caro is eschewing the tired shot-for-shot trend we’ve seen in films like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King and tackling an adaption of the ancient Chinese poem upon which Mulan is based....

‘Outside The Box’ Family Adventure Film In The Works From ‘Freaks’ Directors By Ben Pearson/Sept. 11, 2019 2:30 pm EST Details about the actual plot are still hard to come by, but when we caught up with Kim Possible filmmakers Stein and Lipovsky for a chat about their new movie Freaks, which is set in a world where some humans have superpowers but there are no traditional superheroes or supervillains, the writer/director pair told us they were excited about the possibility to return to that world in future projects:...

‘Rick And Morty’ Pringles Line-Up Expanding With Flavors For Morty And Mr. Meeseeks By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 17, 2020 6:00 am EST Though it seems a lifetime ago in the exhausting nightmare that is 2020, earlier this year, Pringles unveiled a special Pickle Rick flavor of their potato chips inspired by an episode of Rick and Morty. Released in a specially designed can that looks like Rick Sanchez after he turns himself into a pickle, the chips were released just in time for the Super Bowl back in February....