Watch A New ‘Westworld’ Trailer And Learn More About Park 6 By Chris Evangelista/May 8, 2018 3:30 pm EST If you want to look ahead to the next episode of Westworld, a new trailer offers up some mysterious hints at what’s to come. Plus: learn a bit more about Park 6, AKA The Raj. The Riddle of the Sphinx Are you digging what Westworld season 2 has been offering so far?...
WTF: New “Sporror” Genre Combines Sports And Horror, Sounds Sporrible By Ben Pearson/May 24, 2017 3:00 pm EST As the success of movies like Jordan Peele’s Get Out proves, the horror genre is still as vital as ever in 2017. The same can’t be said, however, of sports movies these days. While the ’90s was a golden age of relatively small scale movies about the struggles and successes of sports teams, the evolution of Hollywood’s business model (in which big budget movies increasingly rely on international audiences to turn a profit) has made it far more difficult to green light movies with a sports angle....
‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Adds Randall Park As A SHIELD Agent By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2017 12:00 pm EST Though production on Ant-Man and the Wasp is slated to begin soon, we don’t know much about the sequel so far. Paul Rudd is returning as the Ant-Man himself, Scott Lang, and he’ll be joined by Evangeline Lilly suited up as The Wasp on the big screen for the first time. Plus, Michael Douglas is returning as The Wasp’s father, former Ant-Man and scientist Hank Pym, and Michael Peña is returning as Scott’s criminal buddy Luis....
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Trailer: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Assemble By Ben Pearson/March 16, 2018 6:14 am EST While Captain America: Civil War gathered a large portion of Marvel Studios’ superhero squad in the same film and pitted them against each other, it’s been nearly three years since we’ve seen an official Avengers movie. (Age of Ultron came out in the summer of 2015.) And while almost every Marvel film arrives with descriptors like “Marvel’s biggest movie yet,” there’s no doubt their newest endeavor is actually going to live up to that hype....
‘Benji’ Trailer: Netflix Reboots The Lovable Dog Franchise And Keeps It Cheesy By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2018 3:00 pm EST The loveable dog Benji has been the star of plenty of movies and TV specials. But now the canine has a new home on Netflix, and the first Benji trailer shows us what the dog is up to this time. Benji brings back everyone’s favorite mutt who is always at the right place at the right time to give people love and help when they need it the most....
‘Finding Dory’ Deleted Scene: Hank And Dory Go Exploring By Angie Han/Oct. 27, 2016 7:30 am EST Pixar’s Finding Dory came and went from theaters months ago, but we’re still discovering new gems from it thanks to its impending home video release. Today we’ve got a Finding Dory deleted scene that sends Dory exploring the world outside the tank with some help from Hank, her cranky “septopus” pal. They’re looking for her parents, but finding them proves much easier said than done....
By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2018 11:00 am EST Homecoming Trailer Four years later, Heidi has started a new life, living with her mother (Sissy Spacek) and working as a small-town waitress, when a Department of Defense auditor (Shea Whigham) comes to her with questions about why she left the Homecoming facility. Heidi begins to realize that there’s a whole other story behind the story she’s been telling herself. HOMECOMING is a mind-bending psychological thriller starring Julia Roberts and directed by Sam Esmail (creator of MR....
‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ Super Bowl Spot Tries To Trick ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Fans By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2017 2:18 pm EST While the Super Bowl may be mostly geared toward a male audience, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of women watching the big game today. Some might even be expecting a special glimpse at Fifty Shades Darker since the erotic, romantic thriller sequel arrives this week. And Lionsgate took full advantage of that with their latest tease for something that’s much different....
‘Numb, At The Edge Of The End’ Trailer: Hayden Christensen Prepares For The Apocalypse By Ben Pearson/June 2, 2017 6:30 am EST If you woke up this morning and thought, “Hey, I wonder what Hayden Christensen has been up to lately?”, today’s your lucky day. The former Anakin Skywalker has a new movie in post-production called Numb, at the Edge of the End, and we have the first NSFW trailer for all of you Christensaniacs (that’s what you die-hard Hayden fans call yourselves, right?...
‘Star Trek: Discovery Trailer: Boldy Going Once More By Jacob Hall/May 17, 2017 2:41 pm EST The world needs Star Trek. We need Star Trek because a science fiction world that is all about the human race overcoming its differences and coming together to make a better future for everyone is the kind of message 2017 needs to be bludgeoned over the head with right about now. We also need Star Trek because it’s been 12 years since Star Trek: Enterprise ended and it’s about time for another show set in Gene Roddenberry’s legendary universe to come along....
‘Stranger Things’: Hawkins’ New Lifeguard Plays A Key Role In Season 3 By Ben Pearson/May 9, 2018 1:00 pm EST Actress Francesca Reale has been cast in a significant recurring role in the third season of Netflix’s sci-fi throwback series Stranger Things (stylized title: Stranger Things 3). Season 3 is set in the summer of 1985, and when the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana head to the pool to escape the summer heat, they’re going to need someone to keep an eye on them....
‘The Tick’ Clips: Destiny Is Calling Out To The Tick By Jack Giroux/Aug. 19, 2016 6:30 am EST Edlund has previously said the new version of The Tick is “darker” and “more grounded.” Those comments worried some fans of the character, but the first clips from the series don’t have an overly seriously or gritty tone. Edlund probably meant the new show is more grounded than the previous series, because there a few laughs in these clips from the pilot, which was directed by Wally Pfister (Transcendence)....
‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Photo: Meet Ambassador Dan Makta By Jack Giroux/Jan. 2, 2017 11:00 am EST There are over 2,000 different alien species in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Two years before filming, director Luc Besson was gathering drawings and designs for all the film’s aliens and space crafts. He even wrote to schools to see if any young artists were interested in contributing to the movie....
Cool Stuff: Movie Card Game Cinelinx Needs Help To Make Two New Expansion Packs By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2017 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you’ve been reading /Film for a few years, you might remember us touting a cool movie card game called Cinelinx. The game featured 220 cards that have either actors names, directors names, movie titles, scenes, quotes, or genres on them, and players had to figure out how to create links between them with the cards in their hands....
Daily Podcast: The Pros & Cons Of Disney Buying Fox, Slaughterhouse-Five, WarGames, Little Mermaid, Phantom Thread By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2017 4:30 pm EST In the News: In Our Feature Presentation: If Disney Buys Fox: The Pros and Cons of the Potential Acquisition You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm....
Death Won’t Make The Leap From Marvel Comics To The ‘Avengers’ Movies By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 25, 2018 6:30 am EST A huge motivator for Thanos’ reign of destruction is the Mad Titan’s obsession with Death. Death, that is. In the Marvel comics, the manifestation of death is an on-again, off-again girlfriend of Thanos, and the reason that he seeks out the Infinity Gauntlet — so that he can destroy half the universe and earn her attention and affection once and for all....
Frank Miller’s ‘Hard Boiled’ Is Getting A Movie And Tom Hiddleston May Star By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 22, 2016 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Tom Hiddleston is already one of the key parts of the Marvel cinematic universe with his role as Thor’s villainous brother Loki. But if all goes well, he’ll be starring in in another comic book adaptation soon enough. Warner Bros....
Josh Gad’s Famous Friends Beg For ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Secrets From Daisy Ridley By Angie Han/Feb. 20, 2017 12:30 pm EST Daisy Ridley may have been new to movie stardom circa Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but by now she’s an old pro at dodging questions. Watch as shrugs that she doesn’t think Rey’s parentage is really “so important,” or coolly deflects further inquiries with “curiosity is a wonderful thing....
Michael Bay Takes Over The Director’s Chair For ‘Robopocalypse’, Will Direct ‘6 Underground’ First By Ben Pearson/March 7, 2018 1:49 pm EST “I think I’ve had a good run, and I’ve got a lot of other movies I want to do.” That was director Michael Bay’s response when asked if he would be returning to the Transformers franchise after directing last year’s Transformers: The Last Knight. Now we’re finding out what some of those other projects are: the bombastic director has signed on for two new big budget projects – including taking the reins on Robopocalypse, a film adaptation which was originally going to be directed by Steven Spielberg....
New ‘She-Ra’ Series Creator Adapted Her Own Dungeons & Dragons Character For The Show By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2018 1:30 pm EST You wouldn’t expect She-Ra and Dungeons & Dragons to cross paths too often, but thanks to the new creator of Netflix’s She-Ra and The Princesses of Power, we get the perfect crossover. An avid D&D-er, Noelle Stevenson couldn’t help putting a little bit of herself in the Netflix reboot of She-Ra....
