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‘It Chapter Two’ Clowns Only Screenings Coming To Alamo Drafthouse By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 1, 2019 3:30 pm EST I suppose we should’ve seen this coming. Alamo Drafthouse is getting into the Stephen King spirit with It Chapter Two clowns-only screenings. That’s right: audience members are being encouraged to dress up in clown regalia and take in the highly anticipated horror sequel. This isn’t the first time Drafthouse has clowned around: the theater also staged clowns-only screenings of the first It back in 2017....

‘Jojo Rabbit’ Trailer: Taika Waititi Plays An Imaginary Hitler In His New Dark Comedy By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2019 8:49 am EST Before Taika Waititi returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he’ll give us Jojo Rabbit, a sure-to-be-buzzed-about dark comedy. Waititi directs and co-stars in the film about a young German boy during World War II who has an imaginary friend – an imaginary friend who just happens to look exactly like Hitler....

‘Jurassic World 3’ Is Bringing Back Jake Johnson And Omar Sy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 14, 2020 9:30 am EST Jurassic World 3 will feature more than the return of Colin Trevorrow in the director’s chair. The upcoming Jurassic World sequel will bring back Jake Johnson and Omar Sy, characters last seen in Trevorrow’s 2015 revival of the Jurassic Park series. The duo were last seen making an escape from Isla Nublar as the escaped dinosaurs went on their rampage....

‘Lucy In The Sky’ Review: Noah Hawley’s Showy Space Drama Lacks Diapers And Depth By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 3, 2019 9:00 am EST Lucy in the Sky seems like it has something to say. It’s on the tip of its tongue: a message about being disconnected with life, about how the terrifying and beautiful vastness of space can make one feel infinitely small, about Natalie Portman’s bad wig. But despite stunning cosmic visuals and a tour-de-force performance from Portman, Noah Hawley’s highly anticipated debut feature is as devoid of meaning as the emptiness of space....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2020 2:55 pm EST Marvel Studios has hired several directors to helm Ms. Marvel, the studio’s upcoming Disney+ series about a Pakistani-American teenager who has the ability to alter her shape and size. Among the directors are Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the two filmmakers behind this year’s action sequel Bad Boys For Life; Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Oscar winner; and Meera Menon, whose has previously worked under the Marvel umbrella by writing episodes of Netflix’s The Punisher....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 28, 2020 1:00 pm EST Narcos: Mexico will smuggle onto Netflix for a third season, amid showrunner changes as Eric Newman steps down and hands the day-to-day showrunning duties to co-creator and longtime collaborator Carlo Bernard. Netflix has renewed Narcos: Mexico for season 3, with Narcos alum Wagner Moura confirming his return as Pablo Escobar — and as a director of multiple episodes.Narcos: Mexico will see the return of familiar faces on the camera, just as it loses a few of its familiar faces onscreen and behind the camera....

‘Saint Maud’ Trailer: A24’s New Horror Movie Is Still Set To Open This Year, Maybe By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2020 1:00 pm EST Sooner or later, A24 will release Saint Maud here in the states. I’m genuinely surprised they haven’t gone the VOD route with this one yet, as it’s a relatively small movie that would play great at home. But while we here in America wait to see what A24 is going to do, those in the UK will be able to check the film out when it arrives in October....

‘Shadow In The Cloud’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz Battles Sexists And Gremlins In This Goofy World War II Horror Movie [TIFF 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 17, 2020 8:00 am EST Shadow in the Cloud kicks-off with an amusing Looney Toons-style cartoon about a lazy, drunken World War II pilot blaming “gremlins” for all his problems. It’s cheeky and funny, and it starts things off on the right foot. “Ah-ha!” you think....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Brings Back Ahsoka Tano In “Gone With A Trace” By Caroline Cao/March 20, 2020 7:00 am EST Star Wars: The Clone Wars has a fan favorite returning in one of its most promising story arcs. Since Clone Wars release in 2008, Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) overcame some chilly reception and made a meaningful debut as the first onscreen female Jedi of prominence—meaning that she isn’t a background female Jedi and has centrality in the story....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Killed A ‘Return Of The Jedi’ Hero And You Probably Missed It By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2020 12:30 pm EST One of the more frustrating aspects of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is how many extra details there are that need to be discovered outside of the movie, whether it’s from the visual dictionary for the movie or from co-writers Chris Terrio and J....

‘The Lord Of The Rings’: Peter Jackson Reveals His Favorite Movie Scene, Makes A “Gratuitous Cameo” In Stephen Colbert’s Parody By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 20, 2020 9:00 am EST Peter Jackson has frequently been asked what his favorite The Lord of the Rings movie is. But rarely has he been asked what his favorite scene from the fantasy epics he shot is. So of course only extreme Lord of the Rings nerd Stephen Colbert could think to ask that question, and to score the director in a parody of the fantasy series made on the very sets and locations where Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films were shot....

‘The New Mutants’ Images Reveal A Giant Demon Bear And Other Weird Villains By Chris Evangelista/May 4, 2020 4:30 pm EST Remember The New Mutants? The movie that has been pushed from one release date to the next, only to have the coronavirus pandemic sideline it indefinitely? Well, sooner or later we’ll get to see the damn thing, but for now, let’s make do with new images. These pics lean into the fantastical/horror elements of the film, and do a great job distinguishing it from previous X-Men-related flicks....

‘The Painter And The Thief’: This Year’s Award-Winning Documentary Is Getting A Narrative Remake By Ben Pearson/Nov. 2, 2020 12:30 pm EST When the coronavirus pandemic ramped up back in March, it became clear that 2020 would have a giant asterisk next to it when we look back on this bizarre period in history. As a movie year, it’s been…well, “unconventional” doesn’t seem accurate enough to do it justice. But while tons of big films have shifted out of this year and left giant gaps in our typical entertainment diet, many of those gaps were filled by smaller movies which were released directly to streaming services....

‘The Tonight Show’, ‘Last Week Tonight’, And More Late Night Shows Returning Soon, Albeit In Altered Forms By Ben Pearson/March 26, 2020 12:00 pm EST The coronavirus has significantly impacted the productions of practically every film and TV show in Hollywood, but as the saying goes, “the show must go on.” Late night shows are taking that saying to heart: while many productions remain temporarily shuttered, shows like The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and more are finding ways to work through this crisis to keep you entertained during this bizarre, awful stretch of world history....

‘Twilight Zone’ Season 2 Cast Announced And Jordan Peele Wrote An Episode This Time [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 12, 2020 4:00 pm EST Get Out and Us creator Jordan Peele relaunched The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access last year, and he also served as the new host in place of the legendary Rod Serling. During CBS All Access’s announcements to the Television Critics Association, Head of Original Content, Julie McNamara, previewed the second season, including the cast and titles for new episodes....

‘Wendy’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Reimagines ‘Peter Pan’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2019 9:33 am EST Director Benh Zeitlin hasn’t made a film since the acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild in 2012, but now he’s back with Wendy. The movie is a reimagining of the story of Peter Pan, and it looks very similar to Beasts of the Southern Wild. It also looks charming, emotional, and kind of wonderful....

A ‘True Blood’ Reboot Is Rising From The Grave At HBO By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 9, 2020 11:30 am EST True Blood is being resurrected at HBO. The sexy vampire drama created by Alan Ball — which originally starred Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, and Alexander Skarsgård — is in the early stages of being rebooted for HBO by Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Ball is on board as executive producer.The Hollywood Reporter confirmed TV Line’s original report that a True Blood reboot is in the works at HBO, just six years after the original series went off the air....

Barry Jenkins Writing, Leonardo DiCaprio Producing Film Version Of ‘Virunga’ Documentary For Netflix By Ben Pearson/June 23, 2020 4:30 pm EST Jenkins will write the screenplay for Virunga, a live-action feature film adaptation of the 2014 documentary which has the same name. Leonardo DiCaprio, who executive produced that documentary, is on board this version as a producer. Deadline broke the news about this new Barry Jenkins and Leonardo DiCaprio movie, which makes us wish they were collaborating in a different configuration....

Daily Podcast: Did The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Use More Bits From George Lucas’ Treatments Than We Thought? Avatar, Dexter, Static Shock, And Last Starfighter By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 19, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the October 19, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Star Wars, Avatar, Dexter, Static Shock, and Last Starfighter....

Daisy Ridley To Star In ‘Baba Yaga’, A Virtual Reality Short From ‘Madagascar’ Director Eric Darnell By Ben Pearson/June 15, 2020 2:30 pm EST Star Wars franchise star Daisy Ridley hasn’t been in much since wrapping up the Skywalker Saga late last year. But she’s seemingly taken a liking to virtual reality, narrating a VR game called The Dawn of Art which dropped in February and now coming on board another VR project....