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‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Is About How Anyone Can Be A Jedi – And That Anyone Can Be A Sith By Donna Dickens/Jan. 29, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: let’s explore what the arcs of Kylo Ren, Finn and Rey actually mean.)With over four decades of history, Star Wars has explored many themes....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Recruits ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Cast Member For Mysterious Role By Ethan Anderton/July 6, 2020 3:30 pm EST With coronavirus numbers currently on the rise, it’s not clear how soon major movie and TV productions will resume, though some are aiming for a fall start. The fourth season of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things is one of the many productions currently on hiatus as Hollywood is waiting to get back to work, and when the cameras start rolling again, they’ll have a new cast member joining the roster in a mysterious role....

‘The New Mutants’ Was Supposed To Kick Off A Trilogy Of X-Men Horror Films, Including An Alien Invasion Story By Jacob Hall/July 23, 2020 2:30 pm EST Despite the horror aesthetic of the film, Boone told us in a recent interview that he didn’t set out to make an X-Men horror film – it just happened organically as he started exploring the material: In fact, the horror tone emerged directly from the X-Men comic book runs he enjoyed as a kid, which directly informed the characters and setting of the actual film:...

‘Wally’s Wonderland’ Will Feature Nicolas Cage Battling Animatronics Who Come To Life In An Evil Amusement Park By Ben Pearson/Oct. 29, 2019 2:30 pm EST Nicolas Cage hive, assemble. Fans of the Oscar-winning actor will be pleased to hear that the Face/Off and Con Air star has been hired to star in a new genre thriller called Wally’s Wonderland, in which he’ll play a man who’s trying to escape from a twisted amusement park....

‘Westworld’ Season 3 Featurette Takes You To Warworld By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2020 4:30 pm EST The most recent episode of Westworld, “The Winter Line,” took us to a whole new park – one set-up to resemble Nazi-occupied Italy. The official name of this locale is Warworld, and a new Westworld season 3 featurette goes behind-the-scenes and focuses on all the tiny details that went into creating this new park. Watch it below, unless you haven’t seen the episode yet....

Germany’s Largest Movie Theater Organization Says Less Social Distancing Is Needed To “Survive This Crisis” By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2020 2:30 pm EST Germany’s largest movie theater organization is calling for less social distancing if cinemas want to “survive” the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. HDF Kino, which has 620 members who account for more than 3,200 theater screens across Germany, is demanding for a reduction in social distancing measures in light of a new study that claims theaters are safer than offices when it comes to transmission of airborne diseases....

Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, And David Oyelowo To Star In A Murder Mystery By Ben Pearson/Nov. 20, 2020 3:30 pm EST Cinematic murder mysteries are back in style, and Searchlight Pictures has a new one coming up that we’re very excited about. Sam Rockwell (Jojo Rabbit, Seven Psychopaths), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird, Little Women), and David Oyelowo (Selma, Interstellar) have signed on to star in an untitled murder mystery set in the 1950s, with Rockwell and Ronan playing partners trying to solve the crime....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jurassic World’, ‘A Quiet Place Part II’, ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’, ‘The Last Witch Hunter’, ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ By Chris Evangelista/March 14, 2020 10:00 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: How about a grab-bag of Jurassic World 3 stuff? Check out the IMAX poster for A Quiet Place Part II. Like most of us, Emily Blunt is hopeful for that Edge of Tomorrow sequel. Vin Diesel says The Last Witch Hunter 2 is in the works, but we have our doubts....

Superhero Bits: ‘Black Widow’ Posters, Marvel’s New TOMS Collection, Vin Diesel Still Wants To Play Black Bolt & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 3, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see the new Black Widow character posters? Which DC Comics superhero popped up in a Tide commercial during the Super Bowl? Want to get your hands on a new TOMS shoe collection inspired by Marvel Comics? Could we still Vin Diesel as Black Bolt in Inhumans?...

The Morning Watch: ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 2 VFX Breakdown, Behind The Scenes Of ‘The Goonies’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 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 Morning Watch: What We Want From ‘Star Wars’ Part II, The Trouble With Darkness In Horror & More By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 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: ‘Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj’ Deserved A Longer Run By Ben Pearson/Sept. 17, 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 Show: Patriot Act with Hasan MinhajWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: A weekly news show infused with energy and a millennial perspective, Patriot Act did deep dives into some news stories that all of the other big news shows often didn’t cover – everything from hype culture to Indian elections to fast fashion....

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Coven’, ‘Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway’, ‘Men In Kilts’, ‘Deliver Us From Evil’, ‘Ghosts Of War’, ‘Skyman’ By Chris Evangelista/June 14, 2020 9:00 am EST It’s that time again! Time for another exciting trailer round-up! This gives us a chance to highlight some trailers from some smaller films and TV shows – things that don’t get the most attention because they’re not big-budget blockbusters with big stars....

Video: Is Disneyland’s Magic Happens Parade The Best Parade Ever? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2020 10:00 am EST Disneyland’s brand new Magic Happens parade has officially opened. This is the first new day-time parade at Disneyland in almost a decade, so to say we were excited is an understatement! In our latest Ordinary Adventures vlog, we bring you along with us as we experience Magic Happens for the very first time....

What A ‘Legend Of Zelda’ Ride May Look Like At Universal; Get Details About Super Nintendo World Power-Up Bands By Ben Pearson/Dec. 30, 2020 10:00 am EST Like practically every industry, theme parks were hit hard by the pandemic in 2020. But just because a portion of the year was spent with doors closed to the public doesn’t mean there weren’t employees working hard behind the scenes to develop some next level ideas about how to create brand new attractions....

/Filmcast Ep. 577 - First Cow By Slashfilmcast/July 26, 2020 6:57 pm EST Jeff battles a rat infestation while Dave hears one-last dynamite in a pretend eulogy. For the feature review, the cast talks about First Cow, the newest film directed by Kelly Reichardt. Tune in to find out why the cast prefers buying over renting for this indie release. Thanks to our sponsors this week: BetterHelp and Manscaped Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code FILMCAST at manscaped....

‘Home Alone’ Director Chris Columbus Is Not Happy About That Disney+ Reboot By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 16, 2020 1:30 pm EST Chris Columbus, who directed the Christmas classics Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, has some choice words for where Disney can leave the change, you filthy animal. The Home Alone director is not happy about the Home Alone reboot in the works at Disney+, which is set to star Jojo Rabbit scene-stealer Archie Yates and be directed by Dan Mazer (Dirty Grandpa)....

‘Killing Eve’ Season 3 Trailer: The Series Returns Two Weeks Earlier Than Expected By Chris Evangelista/March 27, 2020 11:30 am EST Killing Eve season 3 was originally supposed to arrive on April 26. But since we’re all currently stuck in our houses craving new content, the TV gods are taking pity on us and giving us the show two weeks early. The third season of the hit series is now arriving on April 12, and after releasing a plethora of teasers, there’s finally a trailer to bring us back into the deadly world of Eve and Villanelle....

‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels Bringing Back Vanessa Kirby By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 7, 2020 1:30 pm EST The next two Mission: Impossible sequels continue to bring back familiar friends and foes. Vanessa Kirby, who gave a brief but memorable turn as Alanna Mitsopolis, aka the White Widow, in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, is returning for the next two films as well. Christopher McQuarrie is directing Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 back-to-back, furthering the dangerous adventures of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt....

‘My Son’: James McAvoy Will Improv His Way Through A Missing Person Thriller By Ben Pearson/Oct. 5, 2020 5:30 pm EST James McAvoy (Split, The Chronicles of Narnia, Wanted) is set to star in a new version of My Son, a French missing person thriller which initially came out in 2017. Here’s the interesting part: McAvoy won’t be given a script or any lines of dialogue, so he’ll essentially be blindly making his way through the narrative in real time on the set....