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‘Ready Player One’ Set Features References To Gremlins, A DC Superhero, And More By Jack Giroux/Aug. 25, 2016 6:30 am EST In Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One,” there are several references to director Steven Spielberg’s body of work, including many of the famous films he produced in the 1980s. In one part of the book, for example, Wade Watts/Parzival (Tye Sheridan) is driving a DeLorean in the OASIS — which is one reference Spielberg intends on keeping in his adaptation....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Casts Alec Baldwin As Donald Trump; Lin-Manuel Miranda To Host By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 28, 2016 3:00 pm EST This weekend brings the first episode of the 42nd season of Saturday Night Live, with Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie hosting. This will be the first season without Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah in years, and it will also have two new head writers in control of the night’s sketches, and three new cast members....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Featurette: How The Filmmakers Created Crait By Ben Pearson/March 8, 2018 10:53 am EST A wobbly ship flies into frame, scratching the top of what appears to be an icy white planet. But as soon as it makes contact, it tears a gash in the ground, revealing the deep red hue beneath the salty surface. This was our first look at Crait, a new planet imagined by writer/director Rian Johnson and brought to life in Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

‘The Flash’ Looking To Oscar-Winner Robert Zemeckis To Direct By Jacob Hall/May 16, 2017 3:12 pm EST Robert Zemeckis, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind movies like Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, and Contact, is apparently Warner Bros.’ new choice to direct The Flash. The news arrives at a crossroads for both of them: the studio really needs to find a filmmaker for this troubled project and Zemeckis, while highly regarded, could really use a hit....

‘The Fly’ Remake: ‘Sleight’ Director J.D. Dillard To Direct & Co-Write By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2017 4:06 pm EST J.D. Dillard, whose directorial feature debut Sleight was one of the big buzz films of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, is in talks to direct and co-write a remake of David Cronenberg’s classic horror film The Fly, which was itself a remake of the 1958 film of the same name. Learn the details, after the jump....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ TV Spot: Thor’s New Team Probably Doesn’t Need A Name By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2017 6:30 am EST Hot off the heels of our set visit report for Thor: Ragnarok, last night brought the debut of a brand new TV spot for the Marvel Studios sequel featuring a bunch of new footage from the movie, including a poorly conceived name for the team that the god of thunder is putting together in order to stop the goddess of death from destroying Asgard....

‘TMNT2’ Star Brian Tee Explains Why He Wants To Play Namor The Sub-Mariner For Marvel By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2016 6:00 am EST For the past several years, there’s been one major hurdle standing between Namor and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: the fact that Universal, not Disney, held the rights to the character. Then a few months ago, Joe Quesada said that the rights had finally reverted to Marvel. Mind you, Marvel hasn’t actually confirmed any plans yet to bring the Sub-Mariner into the MCU — but that hasn’t stopped fans from speculating about what might happen next....

‘Twilight Zone’ Reboot Coming To CBS All Access From ‘Get Out’ Director Jordan Peele By Ben Pearson/Nov. 2, 2017 2:28 pm EST You’ve gotta hand it to CBS All Access: they’ve just made it extremely difficult to avoid subscribing to their subscription streaming service. A new report says that Jordan Peele – the former Key & Peele star and the architect behind Get Out, one of 2017’s best movies – is working on a reboot of Rod Serling’s seminal sci-fi anthology series The Twilight Zone for All Access alongside one of the showrunners of Netflix’s The Defenders....

Daily Podcast: Bright 2, Last Jedi, IT Director’s Cut, Artemis Fowl, Happy! & More By sfsuperadmin/Dec. 20, 2017 4:30 pm EST On the December 20, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest news, including a Bright sequel, The Shape of Water gets Oscar snub, IT director’s cut, Artemis Fowl casting, a What We Do In The Shadows tv spin-off, why Lando and Obi-Wan weren’t in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and I’ll tell you about some deleted scenes from the film....

Daily Podcast: Patrick Stewart, Batwoman, Supergirl, Star Wars, Spider-Man: Far From Home, MoviePass, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 7, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the August 7, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and TV news, including Patrick Stewart returning to his legendary Star Trek role, MoviePass’s newest plan, a new MoviePass movie, a Supergirl film, the Birds of Prey villain, the live-action Star Wars TV show, and Spider-Man: Far From Home casting....

Daily Podcast: The Best TV Shows Of The Past 5 Years, Star Wars, Twilight Zone, Shazam, Orville, Pixar, Fast & Furious By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2017 4:30 pm EST On the November 2, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Jacob Hall and Chris Evangelista for the latest news, including a Twilight Zone reboot from Jordan Peele, Shazam casting, The Orville get a second season, the future of Star Wars films, and some theme park news including Fast and Furious: Supercharged in Orlando and Pixar Pier in Anaheim....

Disney Accused Of Stealing ‘Zootopia’ Idea From ‘Total Recall’ Writer, See The Evidence By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 22, 2017 2:30 pm EST Zootopia may have taken home the big awards at the Oscars in February, but a new lawsuit is threatening the big bucks that Disney’s animated hit took home at the box office.Total Recall screenwriter Gary L. Goldman has accused The Walt Disney Company of ripping off the story of Zootopia from a treatment that Goldman had pitched to Disney executives in 2000 and 2009, right down to the character designs, theme, plot and title, according to the complaint filed by Goldman’s Esplanade Productions....

Exclusive: Kevin Feige On Why The ‘Captain Marvel’ Directors Were The Right People For The Job By Jacob Hall/April 20, 2017 1:28 pm EST Yesterday, it was announced that the filmmaking team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck would direct Captain Marvel, Marvel Studios’ first solo film to star a female superhero. Today, our own Peter Sciretta sat down with Marvel Studios president and Marvel Cinematic Universe producer Kevin Feige and learned why the directors of small dramas like Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind landed this job....

Hayao Miyazaki’s Next Movie Is Still 3 To 4 Years Away By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 8, 2018 2:30 pm EST When Hayao Miyazaki comes back from retirement (again), he’s going to do it right. The animation legend has long had his hands in every detail of his productions, but as he nears 80, you would perhaps expect him to take it easy or slow down just a little. Nope. He’s been dubbed “The Never-Ending Man” for a reason, and this famously perfectionist filmmaker will take as long as he needs to complete his next movie, titled How Do You Live?...

POTD: Stan Lee May Have Shot His ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Cameo Already By Ethan Anderton/April 3, 2017 6:30 am EST A Marvel movie, even one that is produced outside of Marvel Studios, just wouldn’t feel complete without a cameo from comic creator Stan Lee. He’s a good luck charm, and his appearance is expected in pretty much every Marvel movie (though he hasn’t actually appeared in all of them). And it turns out, Stan Lee may have recently filmed a cameo for a Marvel Studios project coming much further down the line....

See Spider-Man Kick Thanos In The Face In New ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ TV Spot By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2018 8:30 am EST Avengers: Infinity War smashes into theaters next week (!), but if you can’t wait that long, here’s some exciting new a footage. A new international Infinity War TV spot just arrived online, and it has more of earth’s mightiest heroes in action. Hey, kids – you want to see your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man kick Thanos in the face?...

Shocking ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Box Office Tracking Suggests The Film Will Be A Hit By Chris Evangelista/April 5, 2018 10:00 am EST Who could’ve possibly seen this coming? Not even Nostradamus could’ve predicted this one! Early Avengers: Infinity War box office tracking suggests the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to be – wait for it – a hit. Infinity War Box Office I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Avengers: Infinity War is going to make a good amount of money at the box office....

The Setting The original story took place in November, 1983, and the teaser trailer revealed that the second season will not jump in time too much — it will be set in 1984. The Duffer Brothers reveal that while they never considered handling the second season as an anthology (like Fargo or American Horror Story) they did talk about “a larger time jump where the kids are older now and it’s a different decade....

What Happened To Jar Jar Binks? His Sad Fate Revealed By Jacob Hall/Feb. 17, 2017 7:30 am EST It looks like it’s time to close the book on Jar Jar Binks. Literally. The much-maligned comic relief character was shuffled into the margins after his debut in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, but he remains the poster child for why so many fans strongly dislike the prequel trilogy: he’s a tone-deaf, poorly written, slightly racist cartoon character....

Why Lando Calrissian And Obi-Wan Kenobi Weren’t In ‘The Last Jedi,’ According To Rian Johnson By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 20, 2017 8:30 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi may have been about “letting the past die,” but Rian Johnson’s entry in the Star Wars saga saw a fair few familiar faces peppered throughout the film. But while a few famous characters played pivotal parts in helping the new generation get up on their feet, fans were left wondering why Lando Calrissian and Obi-Wan Kenobi were left out of the party....