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‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 Episode Descriptions Are Cryptic And Weird and…Lynchian By Ben Pearson/May 17, 2017 2:30 pm EST We’re only a few days away from the wildly-anticipated return of Twin Peaks, but we’re still largely in the dark about what the revived series will actually contain. More of Kyle MacLachlan’s FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper? Absolutely, but even something as seemingly simple as that is tinged with a spoilery caveat I won’t get into now....

‘Venom’ And That Big Tongue Of His Are Going To Lap Up Boffo Box Office By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2018 3:30 pm EST Reaction to Venom has been a bit muted, but the Spider-Man spin-off is on track to strike box office gold. Early Venom box office projections indicate the anti-superhero film might just break some box office records when it hits theaters in October. Will Venom and his tongue lick the competition, or will the film drift into obscurity like a turd in the wind?...

‘Westworld’ Season 2 Teaser: Everything Is Completely And Totally Fine By Ben Pearson/Feb. 2, 2018 11:30 am EST We’ve only seen a few brief glimpses of actual footage from the highly-anticipated second season of HBO’s sci-fi series Westworld, but as we inch closer to the show’s return, the network is starting to open the valve a little more. We know a new TV spot is coming during the Super Bowl this weekend, and in the meantime, HBO has unveiled a new Westworld season 2 teaser trailer that hints at the chaos that’s been happening with the park since the events of the season 1 finale....

Cool Stuff: Drew Struzan’s ‘E.T.’ Signed Print From Bottleneck Gallery By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2017 3:00 pm EST Our friends at the Bottleneck Gallery are releasing a new E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial screen print in conjunction with a 35th Anniversary screening taking place in New York. The print, which will be available first to the attendees in the sold out screening, is the poster art created and signed by film poster legend Drew Struzan....

Daily Podcast: Pacific Rim Uprising Reviews And Should All New Big Movie Releases Be Required Viewing For Film Writers? By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2018 4:30 pm EST On the March 21, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by Managing Editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the first reviews for Pacific Rim Uprising. And in The Mailbag, we answer a question about which movies and tv shows a film/tv journalist should be required to see....

Daily Podcast: TV News Extravaganza Including Renewals, Cancelations, Announcements & Trailers; Also Deadpool 2 And Solo By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2018 5:30 pm EST At The Water Cooler: In the News: Other articles mentioned: All the other stuff you need to know:You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes./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....

It Sure Sounds Like ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Will Be Killing Off Some Of Your Favorite Characters By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 15, 2018 10:00 am EST Reports of major Avengers: Infinity War deaths may not have been greatly exaggerated after all. Marvel stars have remained tight-lipped on whether our favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe characters will bite the dust, but Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo have just hinted that the comic book movie will have a considerable body count....

LOL: Kylo Ren Reacts To The New ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Trailer By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 15, 2016 5:00 am EST If there’s one thing we took away from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s that Kylo Ren has some serious anger management problems. Who knows just how many credits have been spent to repair control consoles in First Order Star Destroyers after he tears them apart with his lightsaber?...

By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2017 2:00 pm EST Manchester by the Sea was nominated for six Oscars and took home two on Sunday night: Best Original Screenplay for Kenneth Lonergan and Best Actor for Casey Affleck. But there’s one category in which it was completely overlooked, perhaps because it was too good. A behind-the-scenes reel highlights the film’s unbelievable visual effects — and by unbelievable, I mean literally unbelievable. Because this isn’t an actual Manchester by the Sea VFX reel, but a Funny or Die video....

More Of Black Widow’s Backstory Revealed In ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Novelization By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2016 4:30 pm EST Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow has yet to get her own movie and probably never will, but by this point we’ve picked up enough bits and pieces about her past to know it was a dark one. Avengers: Age of Ultron gave us our best look yet at the Red Room that shaped her, while the Black Widow storyline in Agent Carter offered further insight into the program....

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s New York Comic-Con Line-Up, Spider-Man PS4 Credits Scenes & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2018 6:30 pm EST How did Insomniac Games create the perfect web-swinging in Spider-Man PS4? How pissed was the internet when a Captain Marvel trailer didn’t arrive this week? Which Marvel movies and TV shows are heading to New York Comic-Con? How should the Venom trailer have ended? Does Spider-Man PS4 have any credits scenes after you beat the game?...

The Coolest Collectibles We Saw On The Comic-Con 2017 Show Floor By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2017 1:00 pm EST When you’re walking the show floor at San Diego Comic-Con International, you are presented with a ton of eye candy: booths for upcoming movies, comic books, and video games. Collectible dealers show off their upcoming statues, figures and prop replicas. Companies sell their very limited Comic-Con exclusives. And there’s the standard merch booths and artist alley....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Photos: New Shots Of The Beast’s Grumpy Face And Luke Evans As Gaston By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 11, 2017 1:30 pm EST Following the arrival of a new TV spot for Disney’s live-action adaptation of their own animated classic Beauty and the Beast, complete with Emma Watson belting out one of the signature tunes, some new photos from the movie have surfaced online. The new Beauty and the Beast photos provide us with some of the best stills yet of the visual effects used to bring The Beast (Dan Stevens) to life....

‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Featurette Explores “Immersive Experience” Of 120 FPS By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2016 11:00 am EST As the new movie by Ang Lee, and an adaptation of a highly acclaimed bestselling novel to boot, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk would be one of our most anticipated movies of the fall no matter what. But the project’s been getting special attention for the way it was shot and is being presented: in 120 frames per second....

‘Happy Happy, Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story’ Chronicles One Of The Oddest Cartoons Ever Made By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2017 6:30 am EST Looking back at the history of cartoons that Nickelodeon has brought to television over the years, by far the strangest and most perplexing is Ren and Stimpy. The animated series created by John Kricfalusi was part of Nickelodeon’s line-up when the network for kids was just taking off in the early 1990s, but if the show would have been put on Nickelodeon today, there’s no way it would have survived parental backlash and criticism....

‘Infinity War’ Alternate Scenes Revealed; And Learn Which Hilarious Line Was A Dave Bautista Improv By Chris Evangelista/May 9, 2018 10:00 am EST The post-Infinity War news dump keeps on coming, and we’re here to help you sort it all out. Here, you can learn about several alternate scenes that never made it into the final film. Plus: read-up on the impressive improv skills of Dave Bautista. Spoilers follow. The early press tour for Infinity War was notoriously brief on real information....

‘Jurassic World’ Sequel Starts Production, Will Probably Be About Dino Rights By Angie Han/Feb. 15, 2017 9:00 am EST The question of why people in the Jurassic Park universe keep returning to the idea of resurrecting dinosaurs is a good one, but the question of why Universal keeps coming back to the Jurassic Park franchise has an obvious answer: audiences love these films. The studio was already planting the seeds for Jurassic World 2 before Jurassic World even opened, and now those plans are starting to come to fruition....

‘Justice League’ Cyborg Promo Seems To Feature A Giant Spoiler By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 26, 2017 12:00 pm EST The countdown to Justice League continues, with Warner Bros. rolling out the promotional campaign for each of its members week-by-week. A wise move considering the fact that we’ll be meeting two-thirds of the superhero team for the first time in this film. This week is all about Wonder Woman and Cyborg. We know all about Wonder Woman of course, so let’s focus on Cyborg, whose story arc is largely revealed in the brief promo centered on the technopathic hero, as well as new behind-the-scenes stills released by Warner Bros....

‘Rogue One’ Extended TV Spot: Jyn & Cassian Make For Unlikely Buddies By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2016 6:30 am EST We are less than a month away from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The final trailer has already come and gone, but the featurettes and TV spots keep on coming. The latest Rogue One extended TV spot serves up a few more bits of footage, specifically focused on two of our new Rebel heroes, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna)....

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2017 2:00 pm EST Because we can’t have nice things, we’ve been given a Daddy’s Home sequel, but Step Brothers 2 is nowhere to be found. While we may someday be blessed with a Step Brothers sequel, the follow-up to the 2008 cult hit comedy is currently little more than an unrealized dream. To rub salt in the wound, Step Brothers co-star Will Ferrell recently revealed the potential Step Brothers 2 would have been about....