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Martian Manhunter Movie Could Happen, Says ‘Justice League’ Producer By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 17, 2017 10:00 am EST When Justice League hits theaters this weekend, one traditional member of the team will be absent: the Martian Manhunter. But fret not, Manhunter fans: Justice League producer Charles Roven is totally down for a Martian Manhunter movie. Just when that might happen, however, is anyone’s guess. While the Martian Manhunter has appeared in the animated Justice League, and been given live-action counterparts on TV with Smallville, The Flash and Supergirl, the character has yet to make the leap to the big screen....

Martin Starr Reveals His Role In ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ By Ben Pearson/April 18, 2017 7:00 am EST Here’s a stone cold fact: the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming is stacked. It has Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., and Michael Keaton in lead roles, and a murderer’s row of supremely talented supporting cast members, including Marisa Tomei, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Kenneth Choi, and Donald Glover, to name a few. But one thing fans have been wondering for a while is just what the heck some of these supporting players are actually going to be doing in this movie....

Netflix May Resurrect ‘Triple Frontier’ With The Affleck Brothers In The Lead Roles By Ben Pearson/May 2, 2017 4:30 pm EST Director J.C. Chandor’s drug thriller Triple Frontier just won’t stay down. The movie has been in the works since 2009, and was originally envisioned as Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker. The promising project has suffered a string of bad luck in the years since, culminating with Paramount and stars Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy dropping out last month, just weeks away from the planned start of production....

Reese Witherspoon Bails On ‘Pale Blue Dot’ As ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Ramps Up By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2017 12:30 pm EST Big Little Lies is one of the best things I saw on television this year, and Emmy voters agreed with that assessment: the show won eight trophies at the most recent ceremony, taking home prizes for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actress for Nicole Kidman (who did some of the best work of her career in the show)....

Rumor: ‘Silver And Black’ Could Launch An All-Female ‘Spider-Man’ Universe Team By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 5, 2017 6:30 am EST Sony has been eager to launch its own superhero cinematic universe centered around Spider-Man, to match that of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Extended Universe, and 20th Century Fox’s X-Men universe. But their attempts at world-building fell apart in Amazing Spider-Man 2, and planned spin-offs like Sinister Six completely fell part....

Scrapped ‘The Last Starfighter’ Sequel Script Would Have Brought Back Original Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2018 4:30 pm EST The 1984 sci-fi classic The Last Starfighter wasn’t meant to be the last in its franchise. Nor will it be — a new remake is reportedly on the way from Gary Whitta, the screenwriter of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. But this remake/sequel won’t be the first attempt to revive The Last Starfighter....

‘CHIPS’ Red-Band Trailer: The California Highway Patrol Gets Its Own ‘21 Jump Street’ By Angie Han/March 2, 2017 7:47 am EST Blame 21 Jump Street: it seems like every old show deemed too hokey to get resurrected faithfully is getting an action-comedy reboot. Like CHIPS, Dax Shepard and Michael Peña’s riff on the 1970s series. You can tell it’s not your father’s CHiPs because the title is spelled a little differently — that I and that S are capital letters now....

‘First Man’ International Trailer: The Most Dangerous Mission In Human History By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2018 3:00 pm EST First Man has been making the rounds on the film festival circuit, paying both the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. However, general audiences won’t be able to see the movie about NASA’s first mission to the moon until the middle of October. Thankfully, a new international trailer comes with plenty of new footage to show off the raw intensity that accompanies blasting into space and stepping foot where no man has gone before....

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ First Look Reveals Leonardo DiCaprio And Brad Pitt In Character By Chris Evangelista/June 27, 2018 8:30 am EST Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has begun production, and we now have our first look at stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in character. DiCaprio plays a washed-up former TV Western star, and Pitt plays his longtime friend and stunt double. See the full Once Upon a Time in Hollywood first look below....

‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ Brings Back Rinko Kikuchi & More; Is Karl Urban In The Cast? [UPDATED] By Angie Han/Jan. 9, 2017 8:00 am EST As excited as we are to meet the new leads of Pacific Rim: Uprising, including the lead character played by John Boyega, we’ve also been curious about which stars from the original might resurface. Although producer Guillermo del Toro has promised that “a lot” of familiar faces would return, more concrete details have been hard to come by....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Review: The Series Sinks To A New Low By Josh Spiegel/May 26, 2017 7:00 am EST This time around, the plot hinges on a magical MacGuffin called the Trident of Poseidon; whoever wields it can break any curse placed on a man at sea, thus making it particularly valuable to Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites), the son of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). With Will still chained to the Flying Dutchman, Henry strives to find the Trident with the help of the ever-soused Captain Jack (Johnny Depp, natch) as well as Carina (Kaya Scodelario), a mysterious young woman with an astronomical key to unlocking the Trident’s whereabouts....

‘Preacher’ Season 3 Teaser Welcomes You To Angelville By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2018 1:30 pm EST The first teaser trailer for Preacher’s third season promises an even stranger, even crazier outing for the AMC comic book show. The Preacher season 3 teaser brings us back to the beginning — or at least, to Jesse Custer’s beginning. That’s right, Preacher is taking us off the road and into Angelville. Preacher Season 3 Teaser...

‘Rambo 5’ Will Bring Back Sylvester Stallone To Take On A Mexican Drug Cartel By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2018 5:05 pm EST Sylvester Stallone may be 71 years old, but that’s not going to stop him from taking on some new enemies in yet another sequel in the Rambo action franchise.Rambo 5 is currently being shopped around by Avi Lerner and his Millennium Films banner at the Cannes Film Market. And rather than passing the torch as Stallone did in the spin-off Creed, it looks like Sylvester Stallone will take the lead again as the Vietnam veteran who can’t seem to keep himself out of trouble....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Character Name And Production Details Revealed By Jacob Hall/Aug. 29, 2016 2:00 pm EST When it comes to talking about Star Trek: Discovery, showrunner Bryan Fuller has a unique habit of saying whole lot while revealing very little. Other producers, writers, and directors should take note: this is how you work people into an excited froth without spoiling your show. Today’s deluge of Discovery-related business is full of intriguing morsels, promising suggestions, and even a nugget or two of potential controversy for a certain corner of Trek fandom....

‘The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’ Trailer Reveals January Premiere By Jacob Hall/Nov. 1, 2017 12:26 pm EST The first season of FX’s American Crime Story, titled The People v. O.J. Simpson, was a revelation. A smash hit with audiences and critics, it swept the Emmys and was one of the must-see pop culture events of 2016. The second season has a lot to live up to. The first American Crime Story season 2 trailer has arrived, offering our first look at The Assassination of Gianni Versace and revealing the show’s premiere date....

‘The Last Of Us’ Movie Still Embroiled In Development Hell By Jacob Hall/Nov. 16, 2016 12:00 pm EST Of all the video games that hang out on the horizon and constantly promise to arrive and break the dreaded “video game movie curse” by actually being, you know, good, Uncharted and The Last of Us loom the largest. That’s no coincidence, as both games are the work of Naughty Dog, a developer that has always shown a keen interest in creating fascinating characters and telling terrific stories alongside their reliably strong gameplay....

‘The Little Stranger’ Trailer: ‘Room’ Director Lenny Abrahamson Directs Domhnall Gleeson In An Eerie Gothic Horror Tale By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2018 9:30 am EST After winning accolades for directing 2015’s Oscar-winning Room, Lenny Abrahamson returns to the scene with his first foray into horror. It’s a huge 180 for a director mostly known for offbeat indie movies like Adam and Paul, Garage, and Frank, but The Little Stranger looks like it will be an eerie and exciting next film for Abrahamson....

‘Troy: Fall Of A City’ Trailer: The Trojan War Comes To Netflix By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2018 5:30 am EST The epic story of the Trojan War gets the Netflix treatment with Troy: Fall of a City. The new series takes a Game of Thrones-style approach to the saga, and throws in some murky cinematography for good measure. Watch the Troy Fall of a City trailer below. The tale of the Trojan War was once chronicled famously by Homer in The Iliad, and not-so-famously by Wolfgang Peterson’s snooze-fest Troy....

A ‘Rick And Morty’ Fan Sold Their ‘Mulan’ Szechuan Sauce For How Much?! By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2017 11:00 am EST The third season premiere of Rick and Morty got everyone talking about the Mulan Szechuan sauce that McDonald’s once had during a 1998 cross-promotion with the Disney animated movie. McDonald’s had to deal with a petition signed by thousands asking them to bring it back after Rick revealed his life’s goal was to get the sauce back, no matter how many seasons it took him....

Daily Podcast: Could Black Panther Get A Best Picture Nom? Star Wars, Michael Bay, Home Improvement & More By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the March 7, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to talk about the latest news, including John Boyega’s Star Wars future, a Home Improvement reboot, Michael Bay’s next films and Christopher Nolan on Black Panther....