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Superhero Bits: Dick Grayson May Become Nightwing, Russo Bros Respond To Spider-Man Debacle & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2019 6:00 pm EST Who are the latest additions to the second season of The Boys? Which throwback Arrow character is also coming back for the final season? Will Dick Grayson become Nightwing on Titans? Want to see the double who played Superman in Shazam!? What do Anthony & Joe Russo think of the Spider-Man debacle?...

The Full ‘Into The Unknown’ Musical Number From ‘Frozen II’ Is Now Online By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2019 5:30 pm EST It’s time to let go of “Let It Go”. There’s a new Frozen earworm in town, and it’s called “Into the Unknown”. The song is the big number from Frozen II, and if you’re in the mood to have it stuck in your head, you can now watch the full scene featuring the song below....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘Call Of The Wild’, A Navy SEAL Analyzes ‘Saving Private Ryan’ & More By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 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 Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To More Movies, Dramatic Actor Roundtable & More By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 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, watch as VFX artists react to the visual effects in movies like Green Lantern, Avatar and more....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Soundtrack Trailer Includes New Movie Footage And Some Real Bangers By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2020 5:30 pm EST Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is hitting theaters next month, continuing the story of Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). Once the Clown Princess of Crime, the Suicide Squad character has cut ties with the Joker, and it somehow may have made her even crazier. But it’s all good, because she has a new girl gang to keep her company and deal with Ewan McGregor as the latest dude to give her troubles....

‘Brahms: The Boy II’ Set Visit: First There Was A Creepy Doll, Now There’s A Creepy Kid Too By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2020 8:00 am EST Brahms: The Boy II brings back the uncomfortably innocent-looking doll who wreaked havoc on the life of a nanny named Greta (Lauren Cohan) in The Boy in 2016. At least that’s what it seemed like until the third act of the film pulled the rug out from under audiences and revealed something much more twisted at play....

‘Bum’s Rush’: Anne Hathaway, Bill Murray, And Robert Duvall To Star In Indie Buddy Movie By Ben Pearson/June 24, 2020 7:30 am EST There’s no point in burying the lede here: Bill Murray (Osmosis Jones) is going to provide the voice of a dog in a new independent film called Bum’s Rush. It’s the first time Murray has lent his voice to a dog character since…well, since 2018’s Isle of Dogs....

/Filmcast 572 - Da 5 Bloods (GUEST: Wilson Morales From Blackfilm.com) By Slashfilmcast/June 23, 2020 8:00 pm EST Dave and Jeff share their experience watching 3D content on VR headsets while Devindra packs up to move across the country. The cast is joined by Wilson Morales of @Blackfilm to talk about Da 5 Bloods, the latest Spike Lee movie about black soldiers in the Vietnam War. Read Viet thanh Nguyen’s thread about Da 5 Bloods here....

/Filmcast Ep. 532 - The 2019 Summer Movie Wager Results By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 28, 2019 6:58 pm EST In this episode: David, Devindra, Peter, and Germain discuss the top ten films of the summer, and how they performed in the Summer Movie Wager. Also tune in to hear an update from Jeff! The actual top 10 films of summer 2019: Avengers: Endgame The Lion King Toy Story 4 Spider-Man: Far from Home Aladdin (2019) John Wick 3 Hobbs & Shaw The Secret Life of Pets 2 Detective Pikachu Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood Godzilla Rocketman Men in Black: International...

‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Featurettes Bring Action And Laughs, But There’s One Joke Idris Elba Turned Down By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2019 3:00 pm EST The end of summer needs a little energy. Thankfully, Fast and Furious is doing us the favor of presenting us with the blockbuster treasure that is Hobbs and Shaw. The action franchise spin-off will bring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham back together as their characters from the Fast films are reluctantly forced to work together....

‘Knives Out’ Trailer Touts Plenty Of Critical Acclaim, Announces Early Access Screenings One Week Early By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 28, 2019 2:00 pm EST With Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker arriving in December, there will be plenty of blockbuster action arriving just before Christmas. But let’s not forget that Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has another movie arriving just before we all stuff out faces on Thanksgiving....

‘Naomi’ TV Series, Based On The Character From DC Comics, Coming To The CW From Ava DuVernay By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2020 2:30 pm EST Ava DuVernay is set to direct the DC movie New Gods, and now she’s developing another DC property – Naomi, the story of a teenage superhero from an alternate Earth that uses energy-based power. DuVernay is developing a Naomi TV series for the CW with Arrow writer and co-executive producer Jill Blankenship....

‘Nobody’ First Look: Bob Odenkirk Becomes An Action Star By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 12, 2020 11:30 am EST Ready for Bob Odenkirk to go full John Wick? I sure as hell am. Odenkirk, who has revealed himself to be a damn great actor through his work on Better Call Saul and in films like Steven Spielberg’s The Post, is now making the transition to action star in Nobody, a film written by John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad and produced by David Leitch, director of Atomic Blonde (and un-credited co-director of the first John Wick)....

‘The Flash’ Casting: Billy Crudup Is Once Again In Talks To Play Barry Allen’s Dad By Ben Pearson/Oct. 2, 2020 3:00 pm EST No, you haven’t been caught in a multi-versal time warp: this isn’t the first time we’ve written about actor Billy Crudup potentially joining a feature film version of The Flash. Crudup was attached back in 2016, when Dope and The Mandalorian director Rick Famuyiwa was on board as the film’s director....

‘The Netflix Afterparty’ Trailer: The Self-Promoting Talk Show Speaks With Netflix Movie & TV Stars And Creators By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2020 5:00 pm EST If you’ve been thinking that Netflix needed a show about Netflix shows, then Netflix has good news. The Netflix Afterparty is a new talk show starting next month that will have comedians David Spade, Fortune Feimster and London Hughes talking to the stars and creators of Netflix original shows and movies like Cobra Kai, Emily in Paris, F is for Family, The Queen’s Gambit, Love Is Blind, and more....

2020 Oscars Honest Trailer: The Academy May Have Seen Half Of These Movies By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 7, 2020 6:00 am EST This weekend brings the 92nd Academy Awards, honoring achievements in film from the year 2019. There are nine movies nominated for Best Picture, each bringing something different to the table. Well, they mostly bring something different to the table, even though the some of the movies share Al Pacino, Scarlett Johansson, Robert De Niro, Laura Dern, and Tracy Letts....

Chris Rock Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ Season 46 Premiere, But Lorne Michaels Doesn’t Know If They’ll Pull It Off By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2020 7:30 am EST Saturday Night Live is returning to NBC in a couple weeks for the show’s 46th season. The series will be back in Studio 8H at 30 Rock in New York after closing out last season with three remotely produced shows where cast members wrote and performed sketches from their various quarantine residences across the country....

How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With The Producer And Editor Of ‘The Boyfriend School’ By Blake Harris/July 1, 2020 8:00 am EST This week, the gang at How Did This Get Made? covered The Boyfriend School, a 1990 romantic comedy starring Steve Guttenberg, Shelley Long and Jami Gertz.To better understand how (and why) this film got made, I spoke with the film’s editor, Marshall Harvey, and its producer, George Braunstein....

Kate Mara Did Not Have A Good Time On ‘Fantastic Four’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2020 1:30 pm EST Most everyone who worked on Josh Trank’s 2015 Fantastic Four has, at some point, wished they could forget about the whole thing. From Trank, who has been open about his clashes with studio execs behind the scenes, to the cast members, all of whom came out of the box office bomb relatively unscathed, and even bigger stars in some cases....

LEGO ‘Harry Potter’ Diagon Alley Set Caters To All Your Back-To-Magic-School Shopping Needs By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 31, 2020 12:30 pm EST Back-to-school shopping is always a little weird. But this year’s back-to-school shopping is especially strange, with the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic zapping the entire ritual of fun and turning it into one surreal, dangerous minefield. But The LEGO Group has announced a new LEGO Harry Potter Diagon Alley set that aims to bring some of the magic back into back-to-school shopping by letting us escape into a world where you can shop for a new semester at a wizarding school....