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Superhero Bits: Brad Pitt Almost Played Big Daddy In ‘Kick-Ass’, Spider-Man Video Game Sequel Rumors Fake & More By Ethan Anderton/April 21, 2020 6:00 pm EST What did the studio think needed to be done for Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass? What are Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman doing for charity? When does The Suicide Squad take place? Which Guardians of the Galaxy co-star will have a bigger role in Vol. 3? Which HBO TV creator wants a crack at Batman?...

The Disney+ Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Not Eligible For Oscars By Ben Pearson/July 7, 2020 8:30 am EST The members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences know all about the filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton on Disney+, but when it comes to whether or not the movie will be eligible for Oscars at next year’s ceremony, the Academy rule-makers will, to quote one of the musical’s songs, say no to this....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Centrifuge Brain Project’ Fights The Forces That Hold Us Down By Chris Evangelista/July 17, 2020 8:00 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: The Centrifuge Brain ProjectWhere You Can Stream It: YouTube (and below)The Pitch: A short film following Dr. Nick Laslowicz and his experiments with physically impossible amusement park rides and their effect on cognitive function....

The Studio Ghibli Theme Park In Japan Sets An Opening Date For 2022 By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2020 9:30 am EST Get ready to spirit yourself away to Japan in two years time. Construction on the Studio Ghibli theme park is chugging along, despite delays due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. But the “Ghibli Park,” as it’s being called right now, has been able to resume construction at a brisk enough pace that the theme park will be able to make its planned 2022 opening, setting an official opening date for fall 2022....

VOTD: How ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2020 6:00 am EST When it comes to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, there are a lot of changes that should have been made to give us a more satisfying finale for the Skywalker saga. But the folks at How It Should Have Ended did their best to get a little bit more specific with how things should have went down....

‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Is Guilty Of One Of The Worst And Most Inaccurate Courtroom Sequences Ever Put On Film By Jessica Mason/July 16, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: no one involved in Big Little Lies knows a single damn thing about how family law works.)Now comes Jessica Mason, having served as a family law attorney for many years and being of mostly sound mind, and MOVES that Sunday’s episode of Big Little Lies be stricken from the record due to its flagrant disregard for courtroom procedure in the name of drama....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Show Casts Paddy Considine As King Viserys Targaryen By Ben Pearson/Oct. 5, 2020 3:16 pm EST HBO has welcomed actor Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Outsider) to Westeros. Considine has been cast as King Viserys Targaryen, one of Daenerys’s ancestors, in the premium cable channel’s highly anticipated Game of Thrones prequel series. Get a breakdown of his character below. EW reports that Considine will suit up in the Game of Thrones prequel cast as King Viserys Targaryen, who ruled Westeros 300 years before the events depicted in the smash hit fantasy series Game of Thrones....

‘Kung Fu’ Movie In The Works From ‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Director David Leitch By Ben Pearson/Jan. 21, 2020 11:30 am EST Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to Kung Fu, the 1970s TV series starring David Carradine, and the studio has hired David Leitch to direct a contemporary Kung Fu movie. Leitch, who has previously directed films like Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, and Hobbs and Shaw, seems like an obvious choice to infuse this story with the kind of frenetic, action-packed choreography we’ve seen across his filmography....

‘Rick And Morty’ Season 4 Returns In May, New Trailer Promises Gundam Suits, The Return Of Snowball And More By Ethan Anderton/April 1, 2020 8:30 am EST Only five episodes from the fourth season of Rick and Morty aired on Adult Swim towards the end of last year, so Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon still have to make good on the rest of the season. Thankfully, fans won’t have to wait much longer because a new trailer for the second half of Rick and Morty’s current season has arrived, and it looks like some of their craziest adventures are coming....

‘Scarface’ Remake Will Be “Very Timely” According To Director Luca Guadagnino By Chris Evangelista/July 10, 2020 2:30 pm EST Since at least 2011, Universal has been hoping to remake Scarface, the Brian De Palma crime epic that starred Al Pacino as a Cuban immigrant who comes to America and sets up an empire built on cocaine. First, David Ayer was working on the script, with Harry Potter series director David Yates in talks to helm....

‘Song Exploder’ Volume 2 Trailer: Trent Reznor, Dua Lipa, The Killers, And More Explore How They Create Music By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 1, 2020 4:30 pm EST Song Exploder is back for more. The Netflix series, adapted from the podcast of the same name hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway, is returning for more episodes featuring musical artists explaining the backstories of some of their hit songs. The first volume featured Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda, R....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “Unfinished Business” By Bryan Young/March 13, 2020 9:00 am EST “Unfinished Business” is the final episode of the “Bad Batch” arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ final season. Airing today on Disney+, this episode takes the fight directly to the evil Admiral Trench, a spider-like Harch with bionic components thanks to Anakin Skywalker defeating him early on in the war....

‘Strange Brew’ And ‘SCTV’ Hosers Bob & Doug McKenzie Immortalized As Statues In Edmonton, Canada By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2020 6:00 am EST Canada is known for giving us maple syrup and Ryan Reynolds, not to mention their undying love for hockey and inexplicably endless politeness. But when I think of Canada, there are two lovable hosers that come to mind, and that’s beer-chugging, hockey-loving brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis in both the Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV (or Second City Television) and the cult classic comedy feature film Strange Brew....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Sprouts Some Rebellious Seeds In “Witness” By Caroline Cao/July 24, 2019 2:30 pm EST The Handmaid’s Tale has been teasing revolution. Ever since June had her epiphany that she can save other Gilead children even if she can’t save her own daughters, the narrative has been injected with a dose of intrigue, though not much else happens in “Witness” other than one disconcerting scene of sexual violation (we’ll get to that)....

‘The Invisible Man’ Producer Jason Blum Would Love To Make ‘Frankenstein’ (The Movie, Not The Monster) By Chris Evangelista/March 5, 2020 5:00 pm EST Now that The Invisible Man is a huge hit for Blumhouse, more Universal monster reboots are all but guaranteed. Universal already has the Dracula spin-off Renfield in the works, as well as Elizabeth Banks’s Invisible Woman. What else could we see in the future? According to Blumhouse head Jason Blum, the answer is Frankenstein....

‘The Invisible Man’ Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Can’t Escape Her Abusive (And Invisible) Ex-Boyfriend By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 7, 2020 9:30 am EST A new trailer for The Invisible Man is here, and it looks intense as hell. Like the first trailer, there’s a sense that the marketing is maybe giving too much away here, but even so, it’s effective. In this new take on the classic tale, Elisabeth Moss plays a woman who escapes from her abusive boyfriend (Oliver Jackson-Cohen)....

‘Train To Busan’ Follow-Up ‘Peninsula’ Is Not A Sequel, But Is Set In The Same World By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 20, 2020 10:30 am EST Train to Busan took the world by storm when the zombie horror hit debuted in 2016, spawning an animated prequel from director Yeon Sang-ho and the inevitable English-language remake. Now it seems like it will spawn a bonafide horror franchise over in South Korea, with Yeon directing a Train to Busan follow-up called Peninsula....

‘You’ Season 2 Trailer: Where There’s A Will, There’s Joe Creeping On A New Target By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 5, 2019 5:00 pm EST When You, based on the Caroline Kepnes novel of the same name, premiered on Lifetime back in 2018, the drama about romantic obsession turned sinister, barely made an impression before the network unceremoniously canceled it. But then it got dropped on Netflix, where it became an overnight sensation....

10 Streaming Horror Movies To Watch On The 4th Of July By /Film Staff/July 3, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: According to the calendar, holidays are still a thing? Happy whatever, America! Now let’s all celebrate like I had to for my lockdown birthday…by doing nothing....

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ Gets Fast-Tracked For Awards Season Release By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 27, 2019 2:30 pm EST Production on the biopic began just this June, giving Eastwood only six months to finish the film by the time its release date rolls round. It’s certainly a high turnover, but Warner Bros. seems intent on bringing Eastwood back to the awards season after last year’s box office monster The Mule, which he starred and directed in, failed to gain awards traction....