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‘Alias Grace’ Trailer: Netflix Turns Their Margaret Atwood Adaptation Into A Full-Fledged Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 8, 2017 10:00 am EST It’s high time that more of Margaret Atwood’s excellent works are adapted to the small and big screen. With Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale drawing rave reviews for its harrowing and timely depiction of a not-to0-distant dystopia, Netflix is diving into Atwood’s catalog for its own prestigious miniseries. Alias Grace is a miniseries adaptation of Atwood’s Gothic historical fiction about a real-life murder in 1843 Canada....

‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Sequel Is Premiering At The 2017 Sundance Film Festival By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2016 11:00 am EST It’s been over 10 years since An Inconvenient Truth debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, played at theaters around the world, and then won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film from director Davis Guggenheim followed former vice president and presidential candidate Al Gore on the lecture circuit as he campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment....

Paul Shipper Avengers Infinity War Poster Artist Paul Shipper posted his artwork on Twitter. Unfortunately, this isn’t a poster you’ll be seeing in all theater chains across the country. Instead, this is a Dolby Cinema exclusive. There are dozens of these theaters across the United States (they’re all actually AMC Theatres), so if you want to try to get your hands on this poster, make sure you find out exactly where all the Dolby Cinemas locations are over here....

‘Barry’ Trailer: Assassin Bill Hader Becomes An Actor By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2017 3:30 pm EST Ever felt like you need a career change? So does Barry, a low-rent assassin who finds a new calling: acting! Bill Hader stars in the upcoming HBO comedy series as a hitman-turned-actor, with a cast that includes Henry Winkler and Stephen Root. Hader directs the series, which will arrive on HBO next year. The first Barry trailer gives us a very quick look at the series....

‘Channel Zero’ Season 4 Will Air In Full Across One Week, Concluding On Halloween By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2018 2:45 pm EST Channel Zero is returning for an all-new creepypasta-inpsired season of terror. And as part of Syfy’s “31 Days of Halloween”, we’re in for a treat. Channel Zero season 4, titled The Dream Door, will air in its entirety across one week. All episodes of the show will also be available on VOD after the premiere as well....

‘Hunter Killer’ Trailer: Gerard Butler Tries To Save The Russian President In An Explosive Navy Thriller By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2018 10:30 am EST Every now and then, Hollywood decides to submerge themselves in Navy thrillers like U-571, Crimson Tide, The Hunt for Red October and of course, Battleship. Now the time has come for Gerard Butler to take a crack at commanding under the sea. Hunter Killer follows Gerard Butler as Captain Joe Glass, who is at the helm of a highly sophisticated nuclear attack submarine called a “hunter killer....

‘Mudbound’ Director Dee Rees Teams With Anne Hathaway For ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2018 5:30 am EST While all of the attention has gone to socially conscious Oscar front-runners like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Get Out, Anne Hathaway and Dee Rees both quietly delivered two of the most powerful movies of 2017. Hathaway starred in the clever Colossal, whose themes of domestic violence elevated its quirky sci-fi underpinnings, while Rees directed the racially-charged period drama Mudbound....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Is The Title Of ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2017 8:08 am EST Disney has finally announced the official title for Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode 8. The sequel to The Force Awakens will be titled Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Episode 8 is Star Wars: The Last Jedi Lucasfilm released the following statement: We have the greatest fans in this or any other galaxy....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 5, 2018 4:30 pm EST Are you ready to return to Thra? That’s the home world of the Gelflings, a race of alien creatures who warred against another race called the Skeksis in the 1982 puppet-driven film The Dark Crystal. Over a year ago, we wrote about the announcement of Netflix’s The Dark Crystal TV show, and now The Jim Henson Company’s Brian Henson has offered an update about the state of the production and more details about the story’s time period....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Trailer: The God Of Thunder Needs A Team To Battle Cate Blanchett [Comic-Con 2017] By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2017 6:34 pm EST Now that we have Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming out of the way, we’re down to just one more release from Marvel Studios, and it has the chance of being the best one yet. Though the aforementioned additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe were satisfying in their own way, the next adventure featuring The Avengers’ own God of Thunder looks surprisingly good....

‘Uncle Drew’ Trailer: The Elderly Basketball Player Comedy You’ve Been Waiting For By Chris Evangelista/April 26, 2018 4:30 pm EST At last, someone has finally made a movie about guys wearing old age prosthetic make-up and playing basketball! Uncle Drew features Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O’Neal, Tiffany Haddish and more in a summer movie that might be a nice distraction from all the usual blockbuster bombast. Watch the Uncle Drew trailer below....

‘Unfriended: Dark Web’ Trailer: Death Wants Some Face Time By Chris Evangelista/June 14, 2018 8:46 am EST The surprisingly effective 2014 computer-driven horror film Unfriended gets the sequel treatment with Unfriended: Dark Web. The film focuses on a teenager who finds hidden files on his new laptop, and soon learns that the previous owner has been spying on him the entire time. Watch the Unfriended: Dark Web trailer below. Unfriended: Dark Web Trailer I love a pleasant surprise....

A ‘Starsky & Hutch’ Reboot In The Works With ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Director James Gunn By Jack Giroux/Aug. 24, 2017 1:00 pm EST There’s no shortage of cops or procedurals to watch on television these days. If watching cops or detectives is your thing, CBS and TNT have you covered on a daily basis. One procedural we don’t have in our lives yet but would tune in for has James Gunn’s (Guardians of the Galaxy) name on it: a reboot of the ’70s ABC classic Starsky & Hutch....

A Third ‘Annabelle’ Movie Is Coming Next Year With ‘It’ Co-Writer Set To Direct By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 29, 2018 7:00 am EST The evil Annabelle doll will be coming back to haunt us in 2019. New Line Cinema has set a 2019 release date for Annabelle 3, which will be helmed by It co-writer and Annabelle writer Gary Dauberman. Dauberman will make his directorial debut with Annabelle 3, the third film in the Annabelle series and sixth in the wildly successful The Conjuring horror franchise....

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Television Series ‘The One Percent’ No Longer At Starz By Jack Giroux/March 4, 2017 1:00 pm EST Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s (The Revenant) television series, The One Percent, now needs a new home. After some production delays, Starz decided to let go of the series they gave a straight-to-series order to back in 2014. The One Percent, which Iñárritu is going to shoot in sequence, is set to star Hilary Swank and Greg Kinnear, and Ed Harris might join them....

Bryan Fuller Still Wants The ‘Hannibal’ Cast To Take On ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ By Jacob Hall/Jan. 5, 2017 3:30 pm EST There has never been another television show quite like Hannibal, which redefined what a horror television show could look and feel like across three grand, glorious, and gory seasons. But even the show’s most ardent fans must have realized that the writing was on the wall when the third season went full arthouse Grand Guignol – you don’t venture down a rabbit hole that weird and twisted without scaring off the normals....

Daily Podcast: Distracting Accents In Movies, Cobra Kai, Incredibles 2, Kung Fury, Marvel, Fangoria By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2018 5:00 pm EST On the February 15, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest news, including more Kung Fury casting, Sony’s Marvel mistakes, a possible all-female MCU movie, Fangoria returns from the dead, and reactions to the Cobra Kai and Incredibles 2 trailers....

Daily Podcast: Superman Recasting, Warner Bros Streaming Service, War On Motion Smoothing TV Settings, Slice & More By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the September 12, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest film and tv news, including Superman recasting, Ralph Breaks The Internet VR attraction, Warner Bros Streaming Service, Slice gets a surprise release online, and Christopher Nolan declares war on Motion Smoothing....

Exactly Why Did Bill Murray Keep Repeating His ‘Groundhog Day?’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 2, 2017 9:00 am EST Some readers might have been reminded that today is Groundhog Day because their morning news had a live broadcast from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. That’s where the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. For me, I was reminded because my Twitter feed has been nothing but a live blog of quotes from the classic Harold Ramis film....

Milk Trailer Milk! It does a body good! And is also terrifying, apparently. Santiago Menghini’s horror short Milk begins late night one night, when “a young teen goes into the kitchen for a glass of milk. Upon encountering his sleepless mother, he quickly realizes things are not as they seem.” I’m not sure how that’s going to be turned into a feature film, but producer James Wan is going to give it a go....