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Fangoria Sets Director Chelsea Stardust For Horror Comedy ‘Satanic Panic’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 8, 2018 3:45 pm EST Fangoria is back, and in addition to new issues of the classic horror magazine, the beloved genre company will be producing new movies. They just released a trailer for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, and now they’ve set director Chelsea Stardust to direct a brand new horror-comedy called Satanic Panic.Deadline first reported the details, including the description that the film’s plot follows “a pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope who has to fight for her life — and her tips — when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice....

Gal Gadot Teaming Up With Dwayne Johnson For Action Comedy ‘Red Notice’ By Ethan Anderton/June 11, 2018 11:30 am EST The box office better prepare itself for a team-up of Wonder Woman and The Rock. Gal Gadot, the saving grace of the DC Extended Universe, is teaming up with box office superstar Dwayne Johnson for an action comedy called Red Notice. You might remember this title being at the center of a bidding war that Universal Pictures won, and the project has only gotten more intriguing with the addition of Gal Gadot....

Han Solo’s ‘Star Wars Story’ Looking To Cast A Young Lando Calrissian [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2016 2:18 pm EST UPDATE: Birth Movies Death is reporting that Community and The Martian star Donald Glover is currently Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s number one choice to play the young Lando. While he has yet to commit to the part and he could easily say no, it’s easy to imagine Glover stepping in for Billy Dee Williams....

Hulu Passed On ‘Locke & Key’ TV Show, But It Isn’t Dead Yet By Ben Pearson/March 27, 2018 1:30 pm EST Actress Samantha Mathis (Super Mario Bros., FernGully: The Last Rainforest) recently gave an interview to Cultured Vultures (via Bloody-Disgusting) and revealed that Hulu has passed on their planned version of a Locke & Key TV show: Before we recount the troubled history of this project, here’s the official synopsis of Hill’s comic, which ran from 2008 until 2013:...

Joel Schumacher Apologizes For ‘Batman And Robin,’ Explains The Bat Nipples By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 14, 2017 6:30 am EST It’s two decades later and director Joel Schumacher is still apologizing for the garish, neon-soaked nightmare that is Batman & Robin. And while I’m willing to forgive him on some things — the ice puns are unironically great — those bat nipples still baffle me and presumably everyone else. And Schumacher realizes this, explaining the thought process that led to him creating those infamous rubber nipples....

Netflix’s Matt Groening Animated Comedy Series ‘Disenchantment’: Everything You Need To Know By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 26, 2017 11:00 am EST Netflix is expanding its animated sphere with a new series by animation master Matt Groening. The streaming service has picked up Disenchantment, an adult animated comedy fantasy series by the Futurama and The Simpsons creator. 20 episodes have already been confirmed to be ordered, with a possibility for more. Groening is behind some of the biggest staples of American animated series, with the wacky working-class comedy The Simpsons still on the air since 1989, and Futurama airing on-and-off for 14 years....

New ‘Hotel Artemis’ Trailer And Posters Introduce You To The Cast Of Characters By Chris Evangelista/May 31, 2018 1:00 pm EST Sure, the action-comedy Hotel Artemis looks like a bit of a John Wick knock-off, but it also looks like a really fun John Wick knock-off, with a killer cast to boot. And a brand new trailer (plus a whole slew of character posters) is here to introduce you to that cast....

Paramount Assembles A Writers’ Room For ‘Ology’ Franchise By Ben Pearson/Jan. 31, 2018 11:30 am EST In terms of blockbuster franchises, Paramount Pictures has Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Transformers, Terminator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Cloverfield movies to its name. Some of those are more viable than others, so it makes sense that the studio is looking to add some more surefire winners to its library. One of the properties they’re betting on is a series of Ology movies, films that will be based on popular young adult “encyclopedias” that explore concepts like “Alienology” and “Spyology....

Rats Trailer: Morgan Spurlock’s Doc Will Make You Scared To Sit On A NYC Toilet By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2016 2:30 pm EST Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary Rats takes a look at the history of rat infestations in major cities throughout the world. The film premiered this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, and now the first trailer is online. Edited almost like a part horror movie, part pre-apocalyptic disaster warning movie, the trailer looks nothing like any of Spurlock’s previous films....

Sony Developing Christmas Horror Movie From ‘A Quiet Place’ Producers By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2018 4:00 pm EST After the massive success of A Quiet Place earlier this year, Sony is likely in a festive mood. The sleeper hit went on to top $300 million at the worldwide box office and now ranks sixth on the all-time list of best-performing horror films. So it’s unsurprising that Sony is turning to A Quiet Place producers Platinum Dunes for yet another horror project....

Stan Lee Weighs In On That ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Mary Jane Casting Rumor By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2016 7:00 am EST Last week, fans were thrown into a tizzy by a new rumor about the casting of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Some were thrilled, while others took more of a “wait and see” stance. And predictably, a handful of people were upset to hear that Spider-Man: Homecoming would stray from original vision of Mary Jane as a redheaded white girl....

Superhero Bits: Marvel Lip Sync Battle, Guardians Of The Galaxy VFX & More By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2017 5:30 pm EST Which Marvel movie will get their own Lip Sync Battle episode this weekend? Want to see Dafne Keen training for her role as X-23 in Logan? Which new Thor: Ragnarok character is currently shooting Avengers: Infinity War in Scotland? What do women like about Wonder Woman? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

Taylor Kitsch Will Try To Start World War III In ‘American Assassin’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 23, 2016 7:00 am EST The last addition to director Michael Cuesta’s (Kill the Messenger) American Assassin was Michael Keaton. Now joining Keaton and star Dylan O’Brien is Taylor Kitsch, who recently did some strong supporting work in HBO’s True Detective and The Normal Heart. Kitsch has signed on to play the antagonist in American Assassin....

Tommy Lee Jones Will Play Brad Pitt’s Papa Bear In ‘Ad Astra’ By Jack Giroux/June 27, 2017 4:30 pm EST After years of trying to get something going, director James Gray (The Lost City of Z) and Brad Pitt are finally going to work together. Joining them for their space drama, Ad Astra, is Tommy Lee Jones. He’ll play a crucial role in the film as the father of Pitt’s Roy McBride....

Trollhunters Season 2 Announced, Anton Yelchin Returns By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2017 10:30 am EST Netflix has announced that Guillermo Del Toro’s Trollhunters will be renewed for a second season, which will bring back the late and great Anton Yelchin as the titular Trollhunter Jim Lake Jr. You might be wondering how that’s possible, full details on Trollhunters season 2 after the jump. Guillermo Del Toro’s Trollhunters is one of the best animated series now on television....

Watch: ‘Star Wars: Forces Of Destiny’ Shorts Featuring Daisy Ridley, Lupita Nyong’o, And More [Updated] By Ben Pearson/July 10, 2017 9:45 am EST Back in April, Disney and Lucasfilm unveiled their plans for Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, a campaign consisting of toys, animated shorts, and children’s books intended to shine a spotlight on the female characters in a galaxy far, far away. The campaign kicked off last week, and we’ve updated this article with all of the Forces of Destiny shorts so you can watch them all in one place....

Watch: ‘The Escape’: Neill Blomkamp’s BMW Short Film Starring Clive Owen By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2016 6:30 am EST It seems like everything’s getting a sequel nowadays, and apparently that even includes popular marketing campaigns from the early 2000s. Last month we showed you the first sneak peek at The Escape, the latest installment in BMW’s short film series The Hire. The original project consisted of eight episodes released between 2001 and 2002 and directed by all manner of high-profile filmmakers like Ang Lee, Guy Ritchie, Wong Kar-wai, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, each one starring Clive Owen as the mysterious hero known only as The Driver....

Water Cooler: Ozark, Doctor Who, Black Klansman, Always Sunny, Money Heist, Predator, Conjuring, Pachinko, Doom Patrol By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the September 11, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler.You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it)....

‘1922’ Trailer: The Stephen King Adaptation Train Keeps On Rolling By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 22, 2017 5:00 pm EST Stephen King is everywhere these days. In fact, he’s sitting right behind you as you read this. Okay, maybe that’s not true. But adaptations of King’s work have increased tenfold in the last year, and that was before It went ahead and made all the moneys. With It taking in boffo box office, expect even more King adaptations to be announced....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Movie Release Date Set For February 2020 By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2018 12:31 pm EST The Birds of Prey movie, which will star Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and feature a team of other DC female characters, has locked down a release date. Warner Bros. will debut the film in theaters February 2020, with Cathy Yan set to direct. More on the Birds of Prey movie release date below....