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Kevin Smith Talks The DNA Of ‘Mallrats’, Which He Had To Rediscover For ‘Mallrats 2’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 7, 2020 7:30 am EST With Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, writer and director Kevin Smith dug back into his interconnected series of comedies known as the View Askewniverse. The movie felt like a farewell of sorts to characters from Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but instead, Smith seems to be reinvigorated to attempt another sequel to one of his movies....

New ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Empire Magazine Covers Reveal New Look At The Knights Of Ren And More By Ben Pearson/Nov. 22, 2019 11:30 am EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now less than a month away, and that means the marketing campaign is kicking into high gear. A new batch of The Rise of Skywalker Empire Magazine covers have just arrived, showing off Resistance heroes and The First Order baddies galore....

New Werner Herzog Documentary ‘Fireball’ To Be Released On Apple TV+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 28, 2020 5:30 pm EST Werner Herzog’s next documentary is heading straight to Apple TV+. Apple announced that it has landed the rights to the new Herzog documentary, Fireball, which it will debut on its Apple TV+ platform. The documentary will explore how shooting stars, meteorites, and deep impacts on Earth have shaped human mythology. After a stint in a galaxy far, far away, Werner Herzog is turning his head (and his camera lens) to the stars....

The Square — Hulu Country: SwedenGenre: DramaDirector: Ruben ÖstlundCast: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, and Terry Notary.The Square simultaneously has everything to say, and nothing at all. But isn’t that art?Ruben Östlund’s absurdist satire about the hedonism and hypocrisy of the art world is a strange one. The Oscar-nominated film is a meandering, surreal, and strangely violent story about the respected curator of contemporary Swedish art museum who finds himself besieged by all manner of crises, physical and existential....

Revisiting ‘A Bug’s Life,’ Pixar’s Frequently Overlooked Second Film By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 17, 2020 9:00 am EST (Infinity and Beyond is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of every feature in Pixar’s filmography. In today’s column, he takes a look at the 1998 film A Bug’s Life.)As the story goes, documented in the David Price book The Pixar Touch (and mentioned in an early teaser for the 2008 sci-fi film WALL-E), a year or so before the release of Toy Story, there was a lunch....

Superhero Bits: ‘Superman & Lois’ Teaser Trailer, Zack Snyder’s Teases New ‘Justice League’ Score & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see the first trailer for The CW’s new Superman & Lois series? Why was Kelly Hu’s role as Deathstrike in X2: X-Men United so challenging for her? Want to see a DeepFake video putting Mahershala Ali into the Blade movies? Did Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk with Marvel Studios about a new project?...

Superhero Bits: ‘Young Avengers’ Series Rumored For Disney+, Learn About Moon Knight & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 10, 2019 6:00 pm EST Would you like to see Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson direct a Marvel movie? What can we expect from the second season of Doom Patrol? Are Marvel and Disney+ working their way towards a Young Avengers series? Is Mark Ruffalo worse at keeping spoilers secret than Tom Holland? Need to know more about Moon Knight before he hits Disney+?...

The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Series Is Dead At HBO By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2019 12:36 pm EST The Game of Thrones prequel series is dead, and not the “rising from the grave as mindless wights” kind of dead. The untitled Game of Thrones prequel series produced by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts is officially not moving forward at HBO. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the untitled Game of Thrones prequel series will not rise again harder and stronger....

The Morning Watch: ‘Picard’ Props And Costumes Tour, ‘The Good Place’ Season 3 Bloopers & More By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 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 a tour of the props and costumes from the upcoming CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh’ Marks A Hilarious Return To The Comedian’s Musical Roots By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 2020 11:00 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 Special: Adam Sandler: 100% FreshWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Taking a break from his seemingly never-ending streak of original movies at Netflix, Adam Sandler returned to his comedy roots by heading out on tour to film a new comedy special....

This Week In Trailers: Closed For Storm, Lance, White Lines, Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films Of All-Time- Vol. 2 Horror And Sci-Fi, For The Sake Of Vicious By Christopher Stipp/May 16, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Weekend Box Office: ‘1917’ Knocks ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Out Of The Top Spot By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 13, 2020 4:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is no longer in first place. The weekend box office numbers are in, and it appears that Sam Mendes’ World War I epic 1917 has dethroned the final entry in the Skywalker Saga to be number one. Elsewhere in box office land, Kristen Stewart’s fun sea monster movie Underwater failed to swim and instead sank, which is a serious bummer because that movie deserves better....

Werner Herzog Says [REDACTED] Made Him Cry On The Set Of ‘The Mandalorian’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 18, 2019 7:30 am EST There are two things that stand out in The Mandalorian, the live-action Star Wars series on Disney+. One is a certain character we kind of have to dance around to avoid spoilers. The other is Werner Herzog. As great as he is on the show itself, the real fun of this whole endeavor has been hearing Herzog talking about the show and Star Wars in general during interviews....

You Can Watch The Excellent First Episode Of HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ On YouTube Right Now By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2020 10:30 am EST Lovecraft Country is one of this year’s must-see TV shows, and if you’re still on the fence, or if you have yet to subscribe to HBO, here’s something that might interest you: a free episode. Specifically, the first episode of the series, which can now be watched for free on HBO, HBO Max, and YouTube – right now....

Zachary Levi Will Rock Out With Cole Sprouse In ‘Undercover’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2020 1:30 pm EST Zachary Levi went from being a nerdy spy in Chuck to a kid-turned-superhero in Shazam!, and now he’s about to become an aging rocker desperate for a paycheck.Undercover is a new music-driven family comedy from Lionsgate and Mandeville Films that will have Zachary Levi joining a wedding cover band led by Riverdale star Cole Sprouse, one-half of the twin brothers (now grown up) who starred in Big Daddy with Adam Sandler....

‘Clue’ Remake With Ryan Reynolds Now In The Hands Of ‘The Muppets’ Director James Bobin By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2020 7:30 am EST It’s been two years since we heard Ryan Reynolds was producing a new adaptation of the classic murder mystery board game Clue from Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Since then, Jason Bateman boarded the project as director, but unfortunately, his commitment to the Netflix series Ozark will keep him from following through....

‘Cus And Mike’ Casts Anthony Hopkins As Mike Tyson’s Trainer By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 21, 2020 9:30 am EST Anthony Hopkins is going to train Mike Tyson…sort of. Hopkins is set to play Tyson’s trainer Cus D’Amato in Cus and Mike, a new film about Tyson’s meteoric rise, directed by Nick Cassavetes. D’Amato adopted Tyson after the boxer’s mother died and then trained him over the next few years. Both Martin Scorsese and Bruce Willis were both attempting to get a film about D’Amato made in the past, and D’Amato was portrayed by George C....

‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ Will Be The First “Scary MCU Film” [Comic-Con 2019] By Jacob Hall/July 20, 2019 6:19 pm EST Doctor Stephen Strange was dusted by Thanos at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, but we didn’t need the events of Avengers: Endgame to know that the master of the mystic arts would be back. Late last year, it was reported that director Scott Derrickson would return for Doctor Strange 2....

/Filmcast Ep. 550 - 1917 By Slashfilmcast/Jan. 14, 2020 10:00 am EST David, Devindra, Jeff chat about the latest Oscar nominations, the new Avatar concept car, and new 8k TV releases (spoiler alert: don’t buy one yet). The cast reviews 1917, a historic war epic written and directed by Sam Mendes. To come see David and watch The Tobolowsky Files recorded live in Los Angeles, go to filmingtobo.com (please only RSVP if you could make it!...

‘Head Of The Class’ Reboot: School Is Back In Session With New Take On ABC Comedy From ‘Scrubs’ Creator Bill Lawrence By Ben Pearson/May 13, 2020 5:30 pm EST Lawrence will executive produce a reboot of the ABC series Head of the Class, the sitcom which originally aired from 1986-1991, for the new streaming service, and some of his Scrubs colleagues will serve as the co-showrunners. The Hollywood Reporter brings word about this Head of the Class reboot....