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Margot Robbie To Host ‘Saturday Night Live’ Season 42 Premiere In October By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2016 12:30 pm EST The 42nd season of Saturday Night Live will kick off on October 1st. Just recently we found out the three new names who will be joining the cast following the surprising exits of Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam (and the not-so-surprising exit of featured player Jon Rudnitsky). And now we finally know who will be hosting the season premiere....

New Photos: Lin-Manuel Miranda In ‘Mary Poppins Returns’, King Atlan In ‘Aquaman’ By Ben Pearson/Sept. 5, 2018 5:30 am EST Aquaman and Mary Poppins Returns couldn’t be more different, but the two potential blockbusters have one thing in common: each one has a brand new photo that’s just hit the Internet. Below, you’ll find a new picture of Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns and an image of Jason Momoa and Amber Heard in Aquaman staring up at a hologram of the king of Atlantis....

Shia LaBeouf And David Ayer Reunite For ‘The Tax Collector’ By Chris Evangelista/June 23, 2018 11:00 am EST Shia LaBeouf and David Ayer, who previously worked together on the World War II tank drama Fury, will re-team for a film called The Tax Collector. What’s it about? Who the hell knows! Taxes, probably. Break out your W-9s and 1040s – The Tax Collector is coming! Perhaps Batman’s most notorious villain, The Tax Collector is getting his own spin-off film!...

Showtime’s ‘Halo’ Series Won’t Be A Direct Adaptation Of The Games, But It Will Star Master Chief [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Aug. 6, 2018 4:12 pm EST Showtime executives spoke to the Television Critics Association on Monday. One of the major shows in development at the premium cable network is an adaptation of the hit video game series Halo. Kyle Killen is writing the Halo series and Rupert Wyatt will direct....

The New ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Poster Is A Pleasant Homage By Jack Giroux/Nov. 10, 2016 2:48 pm EST Recently we’ve been learning a lot more about Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast. For starters, the film will feature original songs by Oscar winner Alan Menken not heard in the Broadway Production of Beauty and the Beast or the 1994 Disney film. Speaking of the classic animated movie, the new poster for Condon’s remake pays tribute to it....

Watch: ‘Givertaker,’ A Slick And Creepy Horror Short In The ‘Goosebumps’ And ‘Fear Street’ Mold By Jacob Hall/Oct. 12, 2016 11:30 am EST My love for movies was born out of my love for horror movies and my love for horror movies was born out of a childhood obsession with monsters and ghosts and whatever else goes bump in the night. Because of that, I’m a strong believer that kids (and young adults or whatever we want to call them these days) deserve quality genre entertainment....

Water Cooler: 49 Boxes, McDonald’s Monopoly Game, The Meg, Mission: Impossible, Die Hard, The Prestige, Mamma Mia By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2018 5:14 pm EST On the July 30th 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

William Shatner “Apologizes” For ‘Star Trek V: The Final Frontier’ By Jacob Hall/Aug. 22, 2016 10:30 am EST The key to loving Star Trek it to accept that roughly 30-40% of the entire franchise is, quite simply, not good. You roll with the weak seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation to get to the good stuff. You endure season three of the original series because season one was so good....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Box Office Tracking Predicts A $75 Million Opening Weekend By Ben Pearson/June 14, 2018 12:30 pm EST Marvel Studios is still riding high off Avengers: Infinity War, a movie that set a new record for having the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time and just cracked the $2 billion mark at the worldwide box office. Their next film, Ant-Man and the Wasp, won’t come close to that number – but early predictions suggest director Peyton Reed’s upcoming sequel could open much higher than the first Ant-Man....

‘Cloverfield’ Sequel Viral Marketing Reveals More About That Mysterious Corporation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 29, 2018 10:30 am EST The Cloverfield folks are at it again. While the fate of the second untitled Cloverfield sequel’s distribution is up in the air — will it remain with Paramount or go straight to Netflix? — the folks behind the viral marketing for the third film are still on top of their game. The cryptic website that arrived to promote the Cloverfield movie formerly known as God Particle (now possibly known as Cloverfield Station) has changed, revealing potentially more information about the shady corporation that keeps popping up in the Cloverfield cinematic universe....

‘Nicole’ First Look: Here Is Anna Kendrick As Santa Claus’ Daughter By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 27, 2017 7:30 am EST Halloween isn’t even here yet, but Anna Kendrick is already feeling the Christmas spirit. The actress posted a pitch perfect preview of her role as Santa Claus’ daughter in a Nicole first look. It’s filled to the brim with Christmas cheer — and a lot of embroidered snowflakes. Anna Kendrick is playing Nicole Claus, the carefree daughter of Santa Claus who suddenly finds herself forced to take over the family business in Disney’s live-action Christmas movie....

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Score Forced Michael Giacchino To Work On His Birthday By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 25, 2016 7:30 am EST We’ve already had two movies with a score provided by Michael Giacchino this year, Disney’s animated hit Zootopia and the sequel Star Trek Beyond. But there are still two more movies with his musical talents involved on the way. One will arrive in about a week and a half with Doctor Strange, and we’ve already heard one track from the trippy soundtrack....

‘Search Party’ Producer Michael Showalter Talks Season 2, ‘The Big Sick,’ And ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ [Interview] By Fred Topel/Nov. 17, 2017 2:00 pm EST Search Party is back for a second season on TBS. Producer Michael Showalter, know for The State and Wet Hot American Summer, spoke with /Film about the new season.Given the riff in They Came Together, is New York a character on Search Party? You could say so, yes....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Movie Races Toward A November 2019 Release Date By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2018 2:00 pm EST Sonic the Hedgehog is living up to its name, with the mixed live-action and CGI film racing toward a November 2019 release date. Paramount Pictures has given the Sonic the Hedgehog movie a holiday release date on November 15, 2019, Variety reports. That will place Sonic the Hedgehog in direct competition with heavy hitters like Wonder Woman 2 on November 1, 2019, James Bond 25 on November 8, 2019, and Frozen 2 on November 27, 2019....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ TV Spot: The Local Hero Scares Some Kids By Ethan Anderton/May 8, 2017 11:00 am EST Last night’s MTV Movie & TV Awards brought the first clip from Spider-Man: Homecoming featuring Peter Parker (Tom Holland) trying to sneak back into his room, only to accidentally reveal that he’s Spider-Man to his friend Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon). Now we get another look at this summer’s reboot of the Spider-Man franchise with a TV spot that shows off some new footage....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Release Date Scheduled For Early Fall 2017 By Jacob Hall/Feb. 27, 2017 1:57 pm EST The upside to being a movie and television fan in the age of the internet is that you can follow upcoming projects every step of the way! The downside to being a movie and television fan in the age of the internet is that you can follow upcoming projects every step of the way....

‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Trailer: These Guys Are Unkillable By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2017 8:30 am EST The buddy movie formula can encompass far more than just mismatched police officers who inevitably have to partner up with each other. Writers just need to make sure two characters who hate each other’s guts are forced to spend a lot of time in close quarters, and the latest trailer for The Hitman’s Bodyguard shows that there’s at least one iteration of the formula that we haven’t seen play out on the big screen quite yet....

‘The Little Hours’ Trailer: The Convent Heats Up By Jack Giroux/May 30, 2017 1:30 pm EST If your parents or grandparents are the churchgoing types, then The Little Hours is the number one movie to take them to see this summer! Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Kate Micucci play three charming nuns who are relatively nonchalant about the rules. They get a little rowdier in Jeff Baena’s film when the hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco) arrives at the convent....

‘The Magic Order’ First Look: Mark Millar Unveils His First Comic Book For Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 9, 2018 1:30 pm EST See The Magic Order first look below. In August 2017, Netflix acquired Mark Millar’s Millarworld in a deal that would allow the comic book creator and the streaming service to develop films, TV shows and kids’ series based on Millarworld series. And now that unique deal has borne its first series....

‘The Mummy’ Star Sofia Boutella Joins The Cast Of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2017 7:30 am EST It’s strange to think that Sofia Boutella emerged out of nowhere in 2014 to steal the show Kingsman: The Secret Service, and has since then starred in several massive blockbusters, with only more high-profile projects in the future. Now, Boutella has signed on to play the female lead in the HBO Films’ adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic, Fahrenheit 451, also starring Michael B....