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Watch The ‘Westworld’ Pilot For Free And Check Out Photos From Episode Two By Jack Giroux/Oct. 6, 2016 7:30 am EST Westworld is off to a very, very good start. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s ambitious and radical reimagining of Michael Crichton’s 1973 film not only impressed critics but its pilot (titled “The Original”) was HBO’s biggest debut since the True Detective premiere. Between the premiere episode’s first two airings and the views on HBO Go and HBO Now, the episode reached 3....

‘Batman: Return Of The Caped Crusaders’ Trailer: Batman & Robin’s Greatest Foes Team Up Again By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2016 12:30 pm EST About a week ago, the first promotional teaser arrived for an animated feature that would bring back Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin. The two actors played the live-action television iterations of the Caped Crusaders in a TV series that started back in 1996, and now we get to see (or rather hear) the duo back in action with the full trailer for Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders....

‘Batman Ninja’ Trailer: The Batman Anime Looks Absolutely Insane In The Best Way By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 1, 2017 10:00 am EST Batman Ninja sounds so ridiculous that you may need to see it five times just to believe that it exists. And judging by the first trailer for the new Batman anime, it does exist and it’s nuts.Batman Ninja is an anime film that follows the Caped Crusader as he and the Batfamily (as well as all of his Rogue’s Gallery) are sent back in time to medieval Japan by the Joker, who declares himself Lord of Japan....

‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Confirmed With Andrea Arnold Directing By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 8, 2017 2:30 pm EST Good news for fans of excellent actresses sharing scenes and drinking wine together: Big Little Lies season 2 is on. HBO just gave the go-ahead to a second season to the limited run series, and confirmed stars Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon will be returning. But wait, there’s more: American Honey helmer Andrea Arnold will be directing....

‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 Featurettes: Go Behind The Scenes Into Each Of Netflix’s Six Unsettling Episodes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2018 12:00 pm EST Now that Black Mirror fans have had two weeks to process the fourth season of the punishingly bleak sci-fi series, Netflix has released a series of featurettes that allow viewers to take a deep dive into the making of each of the six episodes. Wrapping up all six behind-the-scenes clips is a seventh featurette in which Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker finally answers the question of whether the individual stories in the anthology series take place in one universe....

‘Deadly Class’ Trailer: It’s Like Harry Potter For Assassins By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2018 9:30 am EST Syfy and the Russo Brothers bring the nihilistic Image comics series Deadly Class to life with a dark and stylish-looking new TV series. In the show, a social outcast finds himself recruited into a very special school – a school that turns teenagers into highly skilled assassins. Watch the Deadly Class trailer below....

‘It’ Trailer: The Greatest Horror Novel Of All Time Heads To The Big Screen By Jacob Hall/March 29, 2017 9:02 am EST Stephen King’s It is probably the best horror novel ever written and the original television miniseries traumatized a generation. So the new film adaptation from Mama director Andrés Muschietti has some pretty big (clown-sized?) shoes to fill. Now that the first trailer for this long-awaited adaptation has arrived, we can start to adjust our expectations accordingly....

‘Sexy Beast’ Prequel TV Series In The Works By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2018 7:30 am EST Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast is a wild, crazy, unconventional and highly entertaining crime pic. The film follows an ex-criminal who gets pulled into one more job by a volatile old associate. It was ultimately a story about old criminal pals being reunited for one last job. Now, a Sexy Beast prequel TV series will take us back to the early days of these respective crooks....

‘Snow White’ Will Also Get The Live-Action Remake Treatment From Disney By Angie Han/Oct. 31, 2016 2:17 pm EST For their next live-action remake, Disney is digging way down deep into their vaults, all the way to their very first animated feature. That’s right, a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs movie is now in development. Erin Cressida Wilson (The Girl on the Train) is in talks to write the script and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) are attached to write new music....

‘Stranger Things 3’ Teaser Video Introduces A Starcourt Shopping Mall To Hawkins, Indiana By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2018 10:30 am EST If there’s one thing that best defines the 1980s, it’s the shopping mall. All the hip, cool kids spent their time aimlessly wandering around the consumer space, rarely spending money. Famed pop star Robin Sparkles even created an entire song about going to the mall (today). So there’s no better addition to the Stranger Things setting of Hawkins, Indiana in 1985 than their own shopping mall....

‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’ Cast Includes James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Zoe Kazan, And More By Jack Giroux/July 9, 2017 11:00 am EST Joel & Ethan Coen’s western television series, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is about to secure its stars. James Franco (The Disaster Artist), Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick), Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), and more are closing deals to be a part of the Coen Brothers’ first original TV show....

‘The Flash’ Movie Is Titled ‘Flashpoint’ [Comic-Con 2017] By Jacob Hall/July 22, 2017 1:04 pm EST We still have a few movies to see before Ezra Miller’s the Flash gets his own solo adventure, but at least we know what it will be called. The films’ title was revealed at the Warner Bros. panel at San Diego today, and it should ring familiar to comic book fans. During a montage that opened the DC comic book movie portion of the panel, a packed Hall H saw he logo for the film: Flashpoint (which appeared to be two words in the temp logo: Flash Point)....

‘XX’ Trailer: All-Female Horror Anthology Rounds Up Karyn Kusama, Annie Clark & More By Angie Han/Jan. 11, 2017 7:00 am EST Horror filmmaking, like most other kinds of filmmaking, tends to be kind of a boys’ club. But the women will get a chance to shine this winter in XX, a horror anthology driven entirely by female directors. Those include Karyn Kusama, who last helmed the fantastic The Invitation; Annie Clark, a....

A Modern ‘High Noon’ Remake Set On The U.S.-Mexican Border Is On The Way By Jacob Hall/Sept. 16, 2016 12:00 pm EST High Noon is a movie so famous and influential that it’s pretty much impossible to tarnish its legacy. So while I could open this article about the new remake in the works over at Relativity Media by going “Ugh, how could they remake a bonafide classic like that?!”, I will instead open it with “You want to try your hand at remaking one of the most beloved and iconic westerns of all time?...

By Jacob Hall/Jan. 18, 2018 7:30 am EST Like the Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson comic before it, this new series follows “the Boys,” a black-ops team dedicated to spying on, blackmailing, and even roughing up superheroes who stray out of line. And while we don’t know who will be the title characters quite yet, we do know who will be playing members of The Seven, this universe’s equivalent of the Justice League and the series’ primary antagonists....

DuVernay’s History With Star Wars The first real campaign for DuVernay to direct Star Wars came after J.J. Abrams confirmed in a commentary track for The Force Awakens that the Selma director helped him with a key scene in his film’s final lightsaber battle. “I also showed this film, an early cut, to my friend Ava DuVernay, and she had a bunch of great suggestions,” Abrams said. “One of them was that she really wanted to see Daisy [Ridley], in her attack on [Kylo] Ren, have one really cool moment....

Ben Affleck Turned Down Directing ‘Flashpoint’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 8:00 am EST Before Warner Bros. settled on the surprising directing duo of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to helm Flashpoint, the studio had courted Ben Affleck to direct the comic book movie. But the director and Batman actor reportedly turned down the gig. Included in Variety’s report that Daley and Goldstein, the hit-or-miss co-writers of Spider-Man: Homecoming and directors of the Vacation reboot, are attached to direct Flashpoint was the tidbit that Affleck was the studio’s original pick for the film....

Daily Podcast: Everything We Learned About Star Wars: The Last Jedi & Our Standalone Movie Wishlist By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2017 7:45 am EST On the /Film Daily podcast for August 10, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson, Brad Oman and Jacob Hall, who stop by the water cooler to discuss Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, The Magic Castle, RPG cases, and Mondo’s Home Alone Cheese Pizza Vinyl....

Daniel Craig Officially Confirms He’ll Play James Bond Again In ‘Bond 25’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 15, 2017 9:48 pm EST Mere hours after Daniel Craig said he still wasn’t sure about returning to the role of James Bond again, the actor announced on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that he is indeed – yes, officially this time – coming back to play the part again. Two Bond Watch entries in one day?...

HBO’s ‘Paterno’ Trailer: A Weary Al Pacino Fields Questions About Jerry Sandusky By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 19, 2018 2:30 pm EST “Did you know about Jerry?” The implicit accusation in those words resound through the short teaser trailer for Paterno, HBO’s movie about the disgraced Penn State football coach whose shining legacy was tainted in the wake of a horrific child sex abuse convictions of his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky. Al Pacino plays the titular Joe Paterno, a beloved football coach whose reputation bordered on idolatry in the small college town of Happy Valley....