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Cineworld, Owner Of Regal Cinemas, Is Not Happy About Universal’s New Deal With AMC Theatres By Ethan Anderton/July 29, 2020 2:00 pm EST And Regal Cinemas’ parent company Cineworld isn’t happy about it at all. Deadline caught up with Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger, and he didn’t hold back when addressing the new deal. The executive of the second largest movie theater chain in the United States flatly said, “We do not see any business sense in this model....

Fede Alvarez Planning ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Reboot And Haunted White House Movie By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2019 4:00 pm EST Cannibals and politicians – what could be scarier? Fede Alvarez, director of Don’t Breathe and the Evil Dead remake, has two new horror projects lined-up, and both are bound to garner attention. One is a reboot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The other is being described as “The Shining set in the White House....

How ‘Joker’ Deconstructs What A Comic Book Movie Can Be By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2019 1:30 pm EST All the buzz on Joker since the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival has been praising director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix for crafting a movie that digs deeper and goes darker than any other comic book adaptation that came before it. At the very least, DC Comics has never produced a movie that tackles one of their major signature characters in such an unsettling fashion....

Mandalorian Spoiler Discussion: Season 2 Episode 2 “The Passenger” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2020 2:15 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. On the November 6, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and special guest Bryan Young (from Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com and Full of Sith podcast) for a spoiler-filled conversation about the second episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian season two, entitled “The Passsenger”....

Marvel’s ‘Hawkeye’ Series Hits Its Target With ‘Mad Men’ Writer Jonathan Igla By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2019 2:00 pm EST Marvel’s Hawkeye series has been eyeing a main writer recently, but now it’s finally hit the bullseye with Mad Men scribe Jonathan Igla. Marvel has tapped Igla, who wrote Mad Men for five years, as the Hawkeye series writer and executive producer. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Jonathan Igla has been tapped to write and executive produce Marvel’s Hawkeye series for the upcoming streaming service Disney+....

Star Wars Bits: The Art Of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, The Lightsaber Collection, Blast Points Podcast’s QVC Commentary, And More! By Adam Frazier/April 9, 2020 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Making of The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerPhil Szostak is the Creative Art Manager at Lucasfilm. He’s also the author of The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which hit shelves on March 31....

The 15 Best Animated Movies Of The Decade By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 18, 2019 2:00 pm EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) Animation is a thriving and endlessly creative industry that, more often gets dismissed as being CG-animated cash grabs catered only for children. But as the past decade has shown, animation is more than your talking angry bird or your sentient emojis. Animated films from the past 10 years have pushed the limits of the medium, delivering unto us some of the most visually dazzling, groundbreaking, emotionally stirring films in any form....

The Full Studio Ghibli Film Library Will Be Available To Purchase On Digital Platforms This Month By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 3, 2019 9:30 am EST Just in time for Christmas, both English- and Japanese-language versions of Studio Ghibli’s full line of feature films since 1986 will be available to own digitally, for a suggested retail price of $19.99 each. This includes (in alphabetical order): Castle in the SkyThe Cat ReturnsFrom Up on Poppy HillHowl’s Moving CastleKiki’s Delivery ServiceMy Neighbor TotoroMy Neighbors the YamadasNausicaä of the Valley of the WindOcean WavesOnly YesterdayPom PokoPonyoPorco RossoPrincess MononokeThe Secret World of ArriettySpirited AwayThe Tale of The Princess KaguyaTales From EarthseaWhen Marnie Was ThereWhisper of the HeartThe Wind Rises (available in late 2020)...

The Morning Watch: Making Of Body Suits For Movies, ‘The Joker: Put On A Happy Face’ Documentary & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2020 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 Quarantine Stream: The Nomadic Ambience YouTube Channel Takes You To Places Near And Far By Chris Evangelista/July 28, 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 Movie: Various short films from YouTube Channel Nomadic AmbienceWhere You Can Stream It: YouTubeThe Pitch: A series of high-quality videos that are part ASMR, part haunting road trip....

Wesley Snipes Implores Angry ‘Blade’ Fans To “Chillaaxx” After Marvel Studios Reboot News By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2019 2:30 pm EST Even though X-Men started the modern comic book movie craze in 2000, and Iron Man pioneered the idea of a massive shared cinematic universe for superheroes, Blade deserves some credit for digging into Marvel Comics before both of them. The half-vampire, half-human character played by Wesley Snipes delivered some solid action and plenty of blood, and it still has some very passionate fans who were not very pleased when Marvel Studios announced Green Book star Mahershala Ali would be the new Blade....

What ‘Doctor Sleep’ Director Mike Flanagan Learned From Making ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ [Set Visit] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2019 12:00 pm EST Mike Flanagan has directed many a horror film and even has a successful Stephen King feature film adaptation under his belt. But it was his work with the Netflix anthology horror series The Haunting of Hill House that helped prepare him best for Doctor Sleep. The first season of the 10-episode anthology series was Flanagan’s first major foray into scripted television, and presented all manner of obstacles for the filmmaker....

‘American Son’: Stephan James And Russell Crowe To Star In Paramount’s Remake Of ‘A Prophet’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 31, 2020 2:00 pm EST Stephan James, whose best performance so far is still his incredible, soul-wrenching turn in Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, has been hired to star in Paramount Pictures’ A Prophet remake, which has been retitled to the unfortunately generic American Son. Here’s the trailer for the 2009 original movie, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival:...

‘Cells At Work!’ Will Teach You About Biology, With Gratuitous Violence And An Overload Of Cuteness By Rafael Motamayor/March 3, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)Whenever a piece of entertainment tries to be educational, it usually suffers from one of two things: either it shoves a bunch of facts down your throat to the point where it becomes overwhelming and dull, or it dumbs down the story to appeal to kids or complete newbies to a degree that it alienates the rest of its audience....

‘Coming 2 America’ Poster Teases A “Sequel Is In The Heir” Before The First Trailer Tomorrow By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2020 8:30 am EST Coming 2 America is the follow-up to the hit 1988 comedy starring Eddie Murphy as the young African Prince Akeem who comes to America to find a queen whom he truly loves. A few decades later, Akeem must return to the United States when he learns that he’s the father to a son in Queens, New York, and the first Coming 2 America poster teases his arrival....

‘Insert Coin’ Revels In Arcade Nostalgia In Chronicling The Making Of ‘Mortal Kombat’, ‘NBA Jam’ & More [SXSW] By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2020 9:00 am EST (The SXSW Film Festival may have been cancelled, but our coverage will go on with reviews of films and TV shows made available to our critics.) Today, most video games are played from the comfort of our own homes. But there was a time when adults, teens, and kids flocked to arcades to play the latest video games....

‘It’ Spoiler Review: Long Live The Losers’ Club By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2017 9:30 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Andy Muschietti’s It.)How do you make a good Stephen King adaptation? That’s apparently a hard question to answer, since there are far more bad King film adaptations than good....

‘Joker’ May Have Had An Alternate Ending Which Would Have Changed Comic History By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 30, 2019 11:30 am EST Todd Phillips’ Joker was undoubtedly one of the most hotly debated movies of the year. While some praised it as a groundbreaking comic book movie with poignant social commentary, others found the film to have an unclear message and felt it was trying too hard to be an Oscar contender, despite an award-worthy performance by Joaquin Phoenix....

‘Mank’ Review: David Fincher Creates A Gorgeous, Old School Hollywood Drama About Movies, Politics, And The Messy Art Of Burning Bridges By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2020 9:00 am EST Herman J. Mankiewicz, genius Hollywood screenwriter, has been sent away to Arizona. Broken – his leg is in a thick cast following a car accident – and eager to get drunk at the drop of a hat, Mank – as everyone calls him – has been tasked with hammering out a screenplay for Hollywood’s new golden boy, Orson Welles....

‘Mrs. March’: Elisabeth Moss Returns To Blumhouse For A Paranoia Thriller By Ben Pearson/Aug. 12, 2020 1:30 pm EST Since breaking out on AMC’s Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss has evolved into one of America’s foremost actors at playing frenzied, harried characters who slowly lose their grip on reality. And as the old saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Moss is set to reunite with Blumhouse, the production company behind this year’s retelling of The Invisible Man, for a new feature film called Mrs....