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‘It Chapter Two’ Scares Up The Second Highest Box Office Debut For A Horror Film By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 9, 2019 11:30 am EST Pennywise missed all of you, but it sounds like you missed him just as much, despite his penchant for murdering children and adults alike. It Chapter 2 arrived in theaters this past weekend and totally scared away the competition with an opening weekend haul of $91 million in the United States....

‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ Director Jake Kasdan On The Filmmaking Education Of Making A Big Blockbuster [Interview] By Jack Giroux/April 3, 2020 12:00 pm EST Jake Kasdan, once known exclusively as a comedy director, is now playing in the big leagues. With just the right amount of nostalgia and newness, Kasdan turned Jumanji into one of the biggest modern franchises around. While the large scale and effects were initially new to him, he’s now growing comfortable working at that level....

By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2020 6:59 pm EST J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot wants in on that sweet, sweet superhero action: the production company is now developing both Justice League Dark movie and TV projects. There are almost zero details at the moment, as everything is in the early stages. But reports indicate that the TV and film projects are to be set within “DC’s Justice League Dark universe at Warner Bros....

‘Let Them All Talk’ About Steven Soderbergh’s Secret New Movie By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 16, 2019 5:30 pm EST After a brief hiatus, Steven Soderbergh is making up for lost time. Earlier this year he released High Flying Bird, a Netflix movie shot on iPhones. His next movie, The Laundromat, will play at TIFF and the Venice Film Festival next month. And now it looks like he’s shooting a secret project. That project is Let Them All Talk, which will star Meryl Streep and Gemma Chan....

‘Tenet’ May Have Enough U.S. Theaters Reopening To Keep Labor Day Release, Even Without New York And L.A. By Ethan Anderton/July 31, 2020 7:30 am EST Christopher Nolan’s anticipated new sci-fi action movie Tenet has been the linchpin in figuring out when movie theater chains across the United States will reopen. Whenever Warner Bros. Pictures has moved back Tenet from a previously set release date, movie theaters have pushed back their dates for reopening and other new theatrical releases have shuffled their dates too....

‘The Fugitive’ Trailer: Kiefer Sutherland Chases Boyd Holbrook In Quibi’s Take On The Classic Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2020 11:30 am EST Kiefer Sutherland has traded running around for 24 hours in hour-long increments to running around in 10-minute increments. And he still probably won’t have time to go to the bathroom. The 24 star plays a cop on the tail of Boyd Holbrook’s fugitive, who has been falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit in the new Quibi thriller series The Fugitive....

‘The Life Ahead’ Trailer: Sophia Loren Returns After A Decade-Long Acting Hiatus By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 25, 2020 10:00 am EST Nearly 60 years ago, Sophia Loren starred as a mother trying to protect her daughter from the horrors of war in World War II Rome in 1961’s Two Women, a film produced by her late husband Carlo Ponti, and a role that would win her the Oscar for Best Actress. Now the legendary actress is returning to the screen after a decade-long hiatus to tread similar ground, starring as a Holocaust survivor who takes in stray children in a film directed by another Pinto, her son Edoardo....

‘The Matrix 4’ Hopes To Resume Filming In July; Cast Signs 8-Week Extension In Wake Of Shutdown By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 14, 2020 7:30 am EST Warner Bros. is looking to restart The Matrix 4 by early July. Production on the highly anticipated fourth installment of the sci-fi franchise was halted in March due to industry-wide coronavirus shutdowns, but recent cast extensions suggests that the studio is hopeful that shooting can begin this summer....

‘The Old Guard’ First Look: Charlize Theron Is An Immortal Warrior In Netflix Action Epic [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 7, 2020 11:00 am EST Update: The movie’s official Twitter account has released a teaser video, which we’ve embedded below. Our original article follows.Charlize Theron is already an immortal warrior in our eyes, so it’s not too much of a leap for the actress to play one in a new Netflix epic....

‘Zola’ Review: The Viral Twitter Thread Becomes A Gonzo Road-Trip Movie For The Internet Age [Sundance 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 25, 2020 10:00 am EST In 2015, A’Ziah “Zola” King launched a Twitter thread that began with a question: “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” Thus began a 100+ Tweet thread journey that went viral and chronicled a wild and crazy 48 hours involving stripping, sex trafficking, kidnapping, violence, and attempted suicide....

Ben Pearson’s Top 10 Movies Of 2019 By Ben Pearson/Jan. 10, 2020 7:00 am EST After a rough start, 2019 ended up being a terrific year for film. Several movies which didn’t make my personal list – films like Marriage Story, Toy Story 4, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Us, Apollo 11, One Cut of the Dead, Uncut Gems, etc. – could easily constitute a separate lineup teeming with its own memorable moments....

Cool Stuff: Funko’s NYCC 2020 Exclusives Include ‘Up’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Star Wars’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2020 6:00 am EST Like many events this year, New York Comic-Con is going virtual for the 2020 edition of the convention taking place from October 8 – October 11. Though there’s no in-person event happening, some of the exclusives that were meant for NYCC will be getting released online. Following in the footsteps of exclusive releases for San Diego Comic-Con and Star Wars Celebration, the NYCC 2020 Funko POPs exclusives will be available for purchase online to everybody....

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Bringing Back ‘Real Ghostbusters’ Action Figures And Retro Role-Playing Gear By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2020 6:00 am EST Now that Hasbro has the toy license for the Ghostbusters franchise, including the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife, they’re making good use of it. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of the first wave of action figures inspired by the original Ghostbusters movie from 1984, but Hasbro is also reaching back to the time Ghostbusters spent animated on Saturday mornings....

How Co-Creator Mike Schur Pulled Off The ‘Parks And Recreation’ Reunion Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 29, 2020 12:30 pm EST What would Leslie Knope do during the coronavirus pandemic? It’s an easy thing to imagine but a little harder to actually make into reality, as Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur revealed ahead of the highly anticipated reunion special. Parks and Recreation is returning for a one-time coronavirus episode that will reunite the original cast of the beloved NBC sitcom and raise funds for frontline efforts against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Remake Will Keep The Spirit And Style Of The Anime, Writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2020 11:30 am EST Netflix’s highly anticipated live-action remake of Cowboy Bebop won’t be a “one-to-one” adaptation, writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach says. That’s a guarantee when you’re turning a classic 26-episode half-hour anime into an hour-long live-action series. But Grillo-Marxuach promises, in his latest update of the currently-stalled Netflix series, that the live-action Cowboy Bebop will stay true to the spirit and the effortlessly cool style of the beloved Shinichiro Watanabe anime....

Over 25 Million Households Watched ‘El Camino’ In Its First Week Of Release, According To Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 23, 2019 4:30 pm EST Netflix has another hit on its hands with El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — or at least, they do if you’re willing to take Netflix’s “ratings” at face value. According to the official Netflix account, over 25 million households watched El Camino in its first seven days, making the Breaking Bad feature film starring Aaron Paul as the long-suffering meth maker Jesse Pinkman one of the streaming giant’s biggest hits....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,’ ‘Stranger,’ ‘The Life Ahead,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 26, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) We’re in the swing of holiday season, and while you’re stuck with your families (or stuck on your own), why not pop in an international movie or TV series to pass the time?...

Revisiting ‘Justin Morgan Had A Horse’, The Baffling Disney Movie About A Guy Who Wants His Horse To Have Lots Of Sex By Josh Spiegel/March 6, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Back in October of 2019 (which, if you’re checking your calendar, feels as if it was roughly 9,000 years ago), the Disney+ Twitter account managed to dominate the social-media conversation for a full day thanks to a massive thread of more than 600 tweets, in which they announced each title that would be available to stream on the service’s first day....

The Morning Watch: ‘Spenser Confidential’ Action Scene Breakdown, Ben Affleck Career Retrospective & More By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 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, find out how Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke pulled off one of the action sequences from Peter Berg’s new Netflix movie Spenser Confidential....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Echo In The Canyon’ Details The Creative Explosion Of Folk Rock In The 1960s By Ben Pearson/Oct. 13, 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: Echo in the CanyonWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & The Papas, Buffalo Springfield, and several other bands who are associated with the “California Sound” of folk rock all lived within a few miles of each other in the 1960s, and The Wallflowers front man Jakob Dylan (Bob Dylan’s son) interviews tons of people – including many surviving members of those bands – about that explosively creative period in music history....