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Are These The 10 Best Improvised Scenes Of All Time? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2016 6:00 am EST While the art of improvisation is most commonly associated with comedy, it’s a creative process that is used on movies of every kind. Sometimes improvisation happens during a table read and inspires something to be written into the script, other times it happens on set while the cameras are rolling. No matter how it happens, it has resulted in some classic moments in cinema....

Blumhouse Is Making A ‘Fantasy Island’ Movie By Chris Evangelista/July 31, 2018 2:52 pm EST The frightmasters at Blumhouse have come up with their most terrifying idea yet! They’re developing…checks notes…a Fantasy Island movie! Yes, that’s right – a film based on the 1970s Aaron Spelling series about an island where all your dreams can come true…for a price. Jeff Wadlow, who directed Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, will helm the TV-to-film adaptation....

Jodie Foster To Direct ‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 Episode; Season 3 Featurette Promises More “Bleakness” By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2016 10:00 am EST The third season of Black Mirror hits Netflix on Friday, which means we can all look forward to a weekend of gradually feeling more and more queasy about the very technology we’re using to watch the show. And because Netflix knows Black Mirror fans will eventually come out of that miserable binge with a taste for still more disturbing tales about the intersection of technology and human nature, they’re already getting to work on season 4....

Josh Boone To Adapt Stephen King’s ‘The Talisman’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 11, 2017 3:30 pm EST Sound the Stephen King adaptation alarm: Josh Boone is now attached to write an adaptation of King’s novel The Talisman. Boone has been attached to multiple King adaptations in the past, and now adds King’s 1984 fantasy novel co-authored with Peter Straub to the list. The Talisman movie details await you below! A Long Road to the Screen…...

LOL: Now We Finally Know What R2-D2 Has Been Saying In ‘Star Wars’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 23, 2017 5:00 am EST Even though there are plenty of droids in the Star Wars universe who can talk, apparently it’s more efficient for astromech models like R2-D2 to speak by way of a series of bleeps and bloops. Thankfully, whenever C-3PO gets pissy with his counterpart, he reacts in such a way that we know what the feisty little droid says....

Never Mind, ‘Lethal Weapon 5’ Is Probably Dead By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 2, 2018 2:00 pm EST After previous statements making it sound as if Lethal Weapon 5 was all but a done deal, director Richard Donner is now taking a few steps back and saying the potential sequel might be dead. Perhaps it’s for the best. Recently, word broke that stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and director Richard Donner were all in talks to resurrect the too old for this shit Lethal Weapon franchise with Lethal Weapon 5, which would bring back Riggs and Murtaugh for one more adventure....

New ‘Frozen 2’ Details And An Early ‘Olaf’s Frozen Adventure’ Reaction [D23 Expo 2017] By Jacob Hall/July 14, 2017 3:16 pm EST Disney Animation’s D23 panel got started with a bang. Or maybe a blizzard. While we didn’t learn much about Frozen 2, a little bit of light was cast on the mysterious sequel to the beloved 2013 hit, with stars Kristen Bell and Josh Gad taking the stage to chat…and to sing....

Patty Jenkins Is Co-Writing ‘Wonder Woman 2’ With Geoff Johns By Ben Pearson/June 20, 2017 11:30 am EST While we still don’t have official confirmation that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins is coming back to direct Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 2, here’s a big step in the right direction: Jenkins is co-writing the sequel’s treatment with DC Films’ co-chairman Geoff Johns. Get the latest Patty Jenkins Wonder Woman 2 details here....

Peter Cullen On ‘Transformers: Titans Return’ And Taking Ownership Of Optimus Prime [Interview] By Jacob Hall/Nov. 22, 2017 7:00 am EST And if you talk to him, he seems perfectly okay with that. Cullen is back as Optimus Prime in Transformers: Titans Return, an animated internet web series that acts as a sequel to the Transformers: Combiner Wars series. You can watch the show on go90 right now. But first, why not join us for a little chat with Cullen, where he talks about his personal connection with Optimus, the state of the voice over industry, and the passion project he’s working on with NASA....

See Some Lovely Concept Art From Disney’s ‘Inner Workings’ Animated Short By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 20, 2016 5:00 am EST If you caught Moana in theaters over the past few weeks and you were late to the movie, then you saw the latest short film from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Working as a sort of companion short to Inside Out, the cute story Inner Workings shows how the heart and mind of a man work against each other, trying to drive his ambitions and desires....

Superhero Bits: ‘Arrow’ Gets A New Showrunner, ‘Arrested Development’ References In ‘Infinity War’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 18, 2018 5:00 pm EST How many different versions of Kryptonite out there? Did you hear there are hidden tickets behind posters in Avengers: Infinity War? Why did Josh Brolin turn down Batman v Superman? Will there be Arrested Development references in Avengers: Infinity War? Who is the new showrunner on Arrow? Will Lynda Carter get a cameo in Wonder Woman 2 or what?...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy Mixtape Poster & Dance Moves, Music Meister Casting And More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 6, 2017 5:00 pm EST Did you notice there are now Guardians of the Galaxy character emojis on Twitter now? What does Kevin Smith want to see done with the Batman franchise? What are the signature dance movies of each member of the Guardians of the Galaxy team? Who is playing the Music Meister in The Flash and Supergirl musical crossover?...

Superhero Bits: Ray Fisher Addresses Cyborg Rumors, New ‘Spider-Verse’ And ‘Aquaman’ Photos & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2018 5:00 pm EST Does Adam Pally think his Iron Man 3 character survived the snap of Thanos? When is Peter Parker’s birthday in the MCU and what does it reference from his comic history? What does Ray Fisher have to say about rumors that he’s leaving the DCEU as Cyborg? Why did Agents of SHIELD move to summer for the show’s sixth season?...

The ‘Venom’ Movie Will Be Based On These Two Comic Book Storylines By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 11, 2017 10:00 am EST Venom, the movie that is definitely real and not an elaborate early April Fools’ hoax, will be based on some very real comic book storylines. Director Ruben Fleischer has the unenviable task of bringing the popular Spider-Man antihero to the big screen, sans Spider-Man. Thankfully, he has a plethora of Venom comic book arcs and issues to draw from....

The Morning Watch: ‘Rick And Morty’ Season 3 Finale Edition By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 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 special Rick and Morty themed edition, we take a look at some of the details you might have missed in the third season finale last weekend....

The Morning Watch: ‘Star Wars’ Blips, Hidden Meaning In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2017 5:00 am EST In this edition, a series of animated shorts called Star Wars Blips feature Porgs and BB-8’s evil droid nemesis BB-9E. Plus, watch an alien from the future named Garyx Wormuloid review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and go behind the scenes of Netflix’s adaptation of Death Note to learn more about the demon Ryuk....

The TV Show ‘COPS’ Is Getting Turned Into A Movie By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2016 1:00 pm EST Just when you thought every possible TV show for Hollywood to turn into a movie had been exhausted, along comes this news. We all know the long-running FOX TV show COPS, if only for the catchy theme song that goes, “Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?...

VOTD: ‘Stranger Things 3’ Cast Gets Together To Begin Production By Ethan Anderton/April 27, 2018 5:30 am EST While we still don’t know exactly when we’ll get to see the third season of Netflix’s his sci-fi horror show Stranger Things, word on the street is that new episodes might not debut until 2019. But Netflix is all about the long lead when it comes to getting the hype train cranked up, and they’ve just announced the start of production that kicked off earlier this month....

Warner Bros. CinemaCon 2018 Reactions, Including Previews Of ‘Aquaman,’ ‘Mowgli,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ & More By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2018 8:00 am EST On the April 25, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by special guest Frosty from Collider to talk about Warner Bros’s presentation at CinemaCon 2018, which included sneak previews of A Star Is Born, Wonder Woman 2, Shazam, Aquaman, IT: Chapter Two, Mowgli and Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindelwald....

Watch ILM’s Amazing VFX Reel For ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 7, 2016 7:00 am EST You’d be hard-pressed to find a casual filmgoer who could name you any visual effects company other than Industrial Light & Magic. Thanks to the company’s relationship with the Star Wars saga, the special effects creators easily the most recognizable name in their business, followed closely by Weta Workshop, due to their ties to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit....