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Revisiting ‘Waking Sleeping Beauty’, One Of The Best Documentaries Ever Made About The Walt Disney Company By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 23, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)The Walt Disney Company is laser-focused on creating and preserving its legacy. As the conglomerate approaches its 100th anniversary in 2023, it’s easy to understand why the company looks back at its own history and wants to ensure that a specific version of that history is what becomes common knowledge....

Superhero Bits: ‘Arrow 2040’ Spin-Off Possible, Red Hulk Considered For ‘Avengers: Endgame’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2019 6:00 pm EST Could there be an Arrow 2040 spin-off in the future? Which DC Comics hero would Zoey Deutch like a chance at playing? Which Suicide Squad character was on James Gunn’s birthday cake? What callback joke from Ant-Man was cut from Avengers: Endgame? Could Stan Lee have been Steve Rogers from another timeline this whole time?...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. By Ethan Anderton/March 16, 2020 6:00 pm EST Stargirl is on the way to DC Universe starting on May 11 followed by a network debut on The CW the next day. A production assistant working on Batwoman is paralyzed below her waist after an accident happened on set. A clip from the animated Superman: Red Son movie shows Wonder Woman still has faith in Superman....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Theater Rental Program In The Works, ‘Stargirl’ Finds Jakeem Thunder & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2020 6:00 pm EST Here’s a trailer for the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers expansion featuring Kate Bishop, coming December 8. Stargirl season 2 has cast Alkoya Brunson as Jakeem Thunder, the new wielder of the Thunderbolt pen. Here’s a trailer for the upcoming Marvel Comics event Avengers: Enter the Phoenix, beginning in December....

Taika Waititi And Jude Law May Collaborate On Hollywood Satire Series ‘The Auteur’ At Showtime By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 15, 2020 12:00 pm EST Writer/director Taika Waititi is coming off an Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay thanks to his sharp anti-hate, Nazi-centric satire Jojo Rabbit. Now there’s a chance the filmmaker may be teaming with Jude Law for a new satirical project at Showtime called The Auteur, a series aimed right at the heart of Hollywood and its eccentric filmmakers....

The 10 Best Science Fiction Films Of The Decade By Kalyn Corrigan/Dec. 19, 2019 11:00 am EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.)In a surprising turn of events, stitching together a list of the greatest science fiction movies from the past ten years proved to be harder than I initially assessed. The reason, however, isn’t because there weren’t enough sci-fi standouts to conjure up a list, but rather, quite the opposite....

The Morning Watch: Stuntmen React To The ‘Extraction’ Chase, Creating The Tone Of ‘Stranger Things’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 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. In this edition, watch as stuntmen react to the long, single shot chase sequence from the Netflix original movie Extraction....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Aquaman’ Is Big, Loud, And Silly In All The Best Ways By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 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: AquamanWhere You Can Stream It: HBO Now, HBO GoThe Pitch: James Wan takes Aquaman, the superhero who talks to fish, and makes a go-for-broke, over-the-top, wacky-as-hell comic book movie with humor, heart, and impressive world-building....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Ramy’ Is The Spiritual Millennial Comedy Successor To ‘Master Of None’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 26, 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 Series: RamyWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Ramy Hassan (creator and Golden Globe winner Ramy Youssef) is like every other struggling millennial stuck living with his parents in a New Jersey suburb....

The Streamer’s Guide To March 2020: What To Watch At Home To Prepare For This Month’s Theatrical Releases By Marshall Shaffer/March 3, 2020 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to The Streamer’s Guide, a new monthly feature recommending at-home viewing options from filmmakers with new movies arriving in theaters this month.) March is when the movie year feels like it really kicks off in earnest....

This Week In Trailers: Buffaloed, Toxic Beauty, The Rise Of The Synths, A Rough Draft, Never Rarely Sometimes Always By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 21, 2019 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: ‘Good Boys’ Does Good Business, But No One Wants To Find Out Where ‘Bernadette’ Went By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2019 3:00 pm EST It took almost the entire summer, but a comedy finally found its way to the top of the box office. The raunchy Good Boys ended up winning the weekend, coming in first and knocking Hobbs and Shaw to number 2. But since Universal owns both Good Boys and Hobbs and Shaw, they still came out ahead....

You Can Win A Walk-On Role In Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ (If It Ever Gets Made) By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2020 3:30 pm EST Martin Scorsese’s next movie – maybe – is Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. And if you’d like to win yourself a walk-on role in the pic – and honestly, who wouldn’t – De Niro and DiCaprio have some news for you....

‘A Higher Loyalty’: Jeff Daniels To Play James Comey, Brendan Gleeson To Play Donald Trump In CBS Miniseries By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 7, 2019 11:30 am EST Prestige miniseries on highly controversial political figures are all the rage right now, which may be how the CBS miniseries based on James Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership scored such an unfairly impressive cast. In the Higher Loyalty cast, Jeff Daniels stars as the former FBI director who was fired by President Donald Trump, who will be played by Brendan Gleeson....

‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Featurette Answers Some Questions About The Horror Sequel By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 31, 2020 7:30 am EST A new Quiet Place Part II featurette takes you behind-the-scenes of the John Krasinski-directed sequel, which once again finds Emily Blunt dealing with alien monsters who are attracted to sound. But while the first A Quiet Place was a mostly self-contained story, taking place almost entirely at one location, A Quiet Place Part II opens the world up a bit, and promises to answer some questions....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Gets A New Title In Theaters After Underperforming At The Box Office By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 10, 2020 5:06 pm EST Birds of Prey may have topped the box office last weekend, but it opened far lower than box office analysts predicted. Even the expectations from Warner Bros. Pictures were nearly $13 million higher than what the movie actually earned. And it sounds like the studio may have figured out what part of the problem is: the title....

‘Friends’ Table Read To Feature All-Black Cast Including Sterling K. Brown And Uzo Aduba By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 22, 2020 2:00 pm EST After years of barely a person of color on Friends, we’re finally getting “The One With the Diverse Cast.” An all-Black cast will lead a virtual Friends table read, reimagining the classic season 3 episode “The One Where No One’s Ready” in support of Michelle Obama’s voting nonprofit When We All Vote....

‘Haunt’ Trailer: The Writers Of ‘A Quiet Place’ Are Back With A Haunted House Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 8, 2019 4:30 pm EST While John Krasinski is busy at work with the sequel to A Quiet Place, his screenwriting partners on the 2018 horror hit are taking on directorial duties for their next movie, Haunt. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods write and direct the haunted house horror movie, which follows a group of teens as they enter an “extreme” haunted house, only to find out the scares are real....

‘Joker’ Live Concert Event Begins Touring The World In April By Ben Pearson/Feb. 4, 2020 5:30 pm EST Todd Phillips’ Joker is coming back to theaters to incite cinematic chaos yet again – but this time, it will be part of a special touring event in which the film’s award-winning score will be performed live along with the movie. The international event kicks off in London on April 30, 2020, and you can get the details below....

‘Jurassic World 3’ Casts ‘Altered Carbon’ Star Dichen Lachman, Hires New Dinosaur Consulting Team By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 19, 2020 10:30 am EST Altered Carbon star Dichen Lachman is the latest actor to join the cast of Jurassic World 3, joining an ensemble led by returning stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Lachman’s addition to the Jurassic World 3 cast comes as director Colin Trevorrow announces a University of Edinburgh paleontologist joining the consulting team....