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Daily Podcast: Why AMC Hates MoviePass, Batman, Bond, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible 6 & Deadpool 2 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2017 8:00 am EST On the August 17, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Ben Pearson and Brad Oman join Peter Sciretta to discuss the latest news, including will Ben Affleck star in The Batman, Daniel Craig is Bond, Indiana Jones Land, and Deadpool 2 and Mission Impossible 6 set accident updates....

DC Universe’s ‘Swamp Thing’ Series Looking To Cast “Guy In Monster Suit” Veteran Derek Mears As Swampy By Jacob Hall/Sept. 11, 2018 2:30 pm EST Don’t let his monstrous appearance fool you – Swamp Thing is one of DC Comics’ most soulful characters, a melancholic plant creature with an ongoing existential crisis and the weight of the Earth’s ecosystems on his shoulders. So for the new television series coming to the DC Universe streaming service, it’s only appropriate that they’re looking to cast an actual actor to fill out that mossy green suit....

Exclusive: Screenwriter Will Beall On ‘Aquaman’ Setting, ‘Legend Of Conan’ Storyline [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 16, 2016 9:00 am EST I ran into Will Beall at the end of the CBS/CW/Showtime party for the Television Critics Association. Beall developed Training Day for television and is also writing the screenplay for Aquaman. Even though news recently broke that Black Manta is the film’s villain, Beall could not address it. However, we were able to speak about underwater action versus action out of the oceans....

First Non-Holographic Official Image Of Snoke Is Here To Light A Fire Under Your Stupid Theories By Jacob Hall/Sept. 6, 2017 3:30 pm EST Andy Serkis’ Supreme Leader Snoke was introduced in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a slightly fuzzy hologram towering over Kylo Ren. Naturally, fans got to work with Photoshop, brightening screen shots and generally doing everything in their power to get a closer and clearer look at the villain pulling the strings of the First Order....

Hulu’s ‘Catch-22’ Cast Adds Kyle Chandler; George Clooney Switches Roles By Chris Evangelista/April 13, 2018 11:30 am EST Stop the presses, there’s been a Catch-22 casting shakeup! But as far as shakeups go, this one is fairly pleasant. Kyle Chandler has joined the cast of the Hulu adaptation, taking over a role previously inhabited by producer George Clooney. Clooney, meanwhile, has decided to take on a different part entirely. Hulu and George Clooney’s adaptation of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 has a new Colonel Cathcart....

International ‘Wonder Woman’ Trailer Offers Up Even More World War I Action By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2017 11:00 am EST The United States isn’t the only place where Wonder Woman is getting a huge push. In fact, our latest look at Diana Prince’s adventures in World War I comes from a Chinese trailer that has plenty of new footage from the action on the battlefield. However, Warner Bros. Pictures is still keeping Ares hidden away from sight for the time being, though there is the tiniest glimpse of the villain from a distance in this trailer....

Jon Bernthal Shooting Scenes As The Punisher Next Month (Apparently), But For Which Series? By Angie Han/Sept. 22, 2016 12:00 pm EST Ever since Jon Bernthal made his debut as the Punisher in Daredevil season two, fans have been eager to find out when we’ll see him next. We know for sure he’s getting his own The Punisher solo series, but not when it’ll debut. And then there’s the question of whether he might resurface before then....

Jordan Peele Is Developing A 1970s-Set TV Series About Hunting Nazis By Ben Pearson/Sept. 21, 2017 11:00 am EST With the surprise mega-success of his feature directorial debut Get Out earlier this year, the multi-talented Jordan Peele has seen his star rise to new heights. The writer/director/actor/producer signed a TV development deal with a company called Sonar Entertainment just a few days before Get Out hit theaters, and now the first project in that deal has emerged: a 1970s-set TV series called The Hunt, which is about a band of Nazi hunters and was inspired by true events....

By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2017 5:30 am EST Though Ron Howard may best be known for his time spent as a child actor playing young Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, he’s also very well known for directing films such Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code. Soon he’ll be known for taking over the Star Wars spin-off that is focusing on a young Han Solo after directors Phil Lord & Chris Miller were let go from the production following creative differences....

Melissa McCarthy Is Podium-Cruising Around NYC As Sean Spicer For ‘SNL’ This Weekend By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2017 11:31 am EST This weekend brings another episode of Saturday Night Live to NBC with Melissa McCarthy returning as host. She’ll be the fifth woman to join the five-timers club, and hopefully there will be plenty of cameos from some of the other members of the five-timers club to welcome her to the gang....

Sinemia Trying To Lure MoviePass Customers Away With New $9.99 Subscription Plan By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2018 8:00 am EST Against all odds, MoviePass has managed to survive another week. But after canceling all their annual subscriptions for unlimited tickets and forcing subscribers to either switch over to their new $9.99 monthly plan or cancel the service altogether, the company is losing even more of their subscriber base. That means there are plenty of customers looking for a more reliable service, and Sinemia is here to offer their assistance....

Some Kind Of Robert Rodriguez Cinematic Universe Project Is In The Works By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2018 3:30 pm EST Though the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the first film franchise to take multiple film series and bridge them together on such a large scale, it’s not the first time movies have shared the same universe on the big screen outside of traditional sequels. Universal’s classic monster movies all existed in the same world, Kevin Smith built his View Askewniverse that was connected by shared characters such as Jay & Silent Bob, Quentin Taranito’s movies all have little connections to each other, and they even shared some connections with the interconnected films of Grindhouse co-director Robert Rodriguez....

The Future Of Luke Skywalker In ‘Star Wars’ According To Rian Johnson [Interview] By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2017 10:00 am EST Luke Skywalker’s story in Star Wars: The Last Jedi has proven divisive for not just fans of the franchise, but also Mark Hamill himself. In my spoiler-filled discussion with writer/director Rian Johnson, we talked about the decisions he took with the iconic character and what this means for the famous Jedi Master in Star Wars: Episode 9 and beyond....

The Morning Watch: ‘Baby Driver’ Opening Chase Mapped, ‘Dunkirk’ Sound Illusion & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 7, 2017 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, one awesome video maps out the real geography of the opening chase sequence from Baby Driver....

Tom Holland Talks ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ Fantasy Casts His ‘Uncharted’ Co-Star By Jacob Hall/May 31, 2017 9:30 am EST Sony has gone all-in on Tom Holland. The young star of Spider-Man: Homecoming will play the wall-crawling superhero for at least a few movies (where he will be shared by Sony and Marvel Studios), but he’s also joined another franchise: the long-gestating adaptation of the Uncharted video game series. Or rather, the film prequel to the Uncharted series, as Shawn Levy’s big screen version will follow the early days of protagonist Nathan Drake before he evolved into the experienced and cocksure adventurer and thief seen in the games....

VOTD: How ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/June 29, 2018 6:00 am EST The ending of Avengers: Infinity War was pretty much perfect in how it pulled at the heartstrings and punched the gut of pretty much every Marvel Cinematic Universe fan and left them wanting to immediately know what was going to happen next. The cast of the movie didn’t even know their fate until the day of shooting....

Why The Avengers 4 Is No Longer ‘The Avengers: Infinity War Part 2’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2016 1:00 pm EST Marvel Studios had initially announced that they would be making the third and fourth installments of The Avengers series back to back, under the guise of a two-film epic event titled The Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Part 2. But recently Disney changed the title of the first film to The Avengers: Infinity War, while the second is now untitled....

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Anime Series In The Works From ‘Castlevania’ Producer By Jacob Hall/July 5, 2017 2:30 pm EST Remember back in the day when we thought Assassin’s Creed could break the dreaded video game movie curse by actually being, you know, good? Well, so much for that. If a director as interesting as Justin Kurzel and a leading man as strong as Michael Fassbender can’t make it work, it may be time to pack it all in....

‘Brick’ Parody Addresses ‘The Last Jedi’ Controversies Using Imagery From Rian Johnson’s First Film By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2018 2:00 pm EST In 2005, Rian Johnson burst onto the indie film scene with Brick, a stylish film noir inspired by the writings of author Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon). 12 years and several films later, Johnson released Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the most divisive film in the franchise thus far....

‘Castle Rock’ Is An Anthology With A Different Type Of Stephen King Story Each Season [Comic-Con 2018] By Chris Evangelista/July 20, 2018 4:30 pm EST The creators of Hulu’s new Stephen King-inspired horror series Castle Rock sat down at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 to offer some insight into the story. Or at least, as much insight as they possibly could without spoiling too much. One thing creators Dustin Thomason and Sam Shaw could confirm: Castle Rock will be an anthology series, with each new season covering not just a different story, but a different type of Stephen King story...