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‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Is Getting A Sequel Because Of China By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 21, 2017 2:00 pm EST A Dog’s Purpose may have found its calling: in China. The heartwarming tale of a dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who gets reincarnated multiple times before he finds its way back to his owner (Dennis Quaid) may have had middling success in the States, but it was all the rage at the Chinese box offices, bringing in $88 million compared to the domestic $64 million haul....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Featurette: How Marvel Shot That Shrinking Car Chase Scene By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 27, 2018 6:30 am EST One of the best and most visually entertaining sequences of Ant-Man was the miniature fight scene that started in Scott Lang’s (Paul Rudd) daughter’s toy set and evolved into a street fight featuring a giant Thomas the Tank Engine. Now Ant-Man and the Wasp will do you one even better: all that, but in a car chase....

‘Bad Day For The Cut’ Trailer: Revenge Has An Irish Accent By Jacob Hall/Jan. 20, 2017 2:00 pm EST Much like how the Sundance Film Festival itself helps set the stage for every other film festival in the year that follows, the fest’s Midnight category helps to gauge what we can expect from independent genre cinema over the next twelve months or so. While I’m not attending Sundance (our own Peter Sciretta, Angie Han, and Ethan Anderton will be bringing you reviews over the coming week!...

‘Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee’ Season 9 Trailer: Norm Macdonald, Christoph Waltz & More Go For A Ride By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 27, 2016 11:00 am EST This past summer brought us the eighth season of the wholly entertaining and unique series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Now here we are, just six months later, and yet another new season is nearly upon us with some great new guests. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee season 9 is coming to Crackle in January, and the guests cruising along with host Jerry Seinfeld this time include more fellow comedians like Kristen Wiig, Norm Macdonald, Cedric the Entertainer, Lewis Black and the return of Bob Einstein (aka Super Dave Osborne)....

‘Everything Sucks!’ Trailer: Netflix Goes Back To A Time When High School Was Not Da Bomb By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 6, 2018 1:30 pm EST Back in the 1990s, the internet was dial-up, which was not all that and a bag of potato chips. It was a different time, but one thing that hasn’t changed is that high school sucks, and a new series on Netflix will take us back there....

‘Godless’ First Look: A Six-Hour Western From Scott Frank, Steven Soderbergh, And Netflix By Jack Giroux/Aug. 24, 2017 7:30 am EST An old school western miniseries is coming to Netflix later this year from Steven Soderbergh and director Scott Frank (The Lookout). The last time the two of them worked together was on their adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight, so of course their next collaboration has our expectations sky high....

‘Justice League’ Trailer: The Age Of Heroes Has Come Again By Ethan Anderton/March 25, 2017 8:04 am EST Following a barrage of new posters and trailer teasers, the new Justice League trailer is finally here. Zack Snyder is back as director to bring DC Comics’ biggest superheroes together as a team for the first time on the big screen. Though Superman (Henry Cavill) is still in the ground, we know at some point he’ll be back to join the rest of the superhero squad....

‘Kidnap’ Trailer: Halle Berry Wants Her Son Back By Jack Giroux/July 7, 2017 6:30 am EST From the producers of Salt and Transformers, as the Kidnap trailer touts, comes an action-thriller with Halle Berry chasing down the people that stole her son. It’s directed by Luis Prieto, whose last feature was the remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher. While Kidnap was originally scheduled to come out last December, it was pushed back to this August....

‘King Lear’ Trailer: Anthony Hopkins Returns To Shakespeare By Chris Evangelista/May 31, 2018 5:30 am EST Anthony Hopkins has appeared in productions of Shakespeare’s work on both stage and screen, and now he’s bringing his talents to a BBC production of King Lear. You can watch the King Lear trailer below. King Lear Trailer Anthony Hopkins can do it all – appear in brilliant costume dramas like Howard’s End, and also big, loud, dumb things like Transformers: The Last Knight....

‘Luke Cage’ Clip: Marvel’s New Hero Is Sick Of Always Having To Buy New Clothes By Jacob Hall/Aug. 29, 2016 10:30 am EST I loved many things about the first season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones, but I was especially impressed by Mike Colter’s Luke Cage. He may have been a guest star in another superhero’s show, but he made a strong case for why he was getting his own solo series....

‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’ Clip: The Most Deadly Maze Yet By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 11, 2018 5:30 am EST You’d think after three movies, the gang of kids led by Dylan O’Brien would have made it out of that maze by now. Actually, they did — the majority of the second film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, takes place as the plucky Gladers venture out into the desiccated outside world, deserted except for a few human survivors and hordes of bloodthirsty zombies....

‘Molly’s Game’ Trailer: Jessica Chastain Builds A Poker Empire In Aaron Sorkin’s Directorial Debut By Jack Giroux/Aug. 15, 2017 7:12 am EST Aaron Sorkin has a helluva story for his feature directorial debut. The writer behind The West Wing, The Social Network, and Moneyball is telling another story of ambition and perseverance with Molly’s Game. Based on Molly Bloom’s fast-paced, high-stakes, and exceptionally entertaining memoir of the same name, Sorkin will show how she ran some of the most exclusive and lucrative underground poker games in Hollywood and New York....

‘Pose’ Renewed For Season 2 At FX By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 13, 2018 5:00 pm EST Get ready to strike a Pose for a second season. The critically acclaimed Ryan Murphy series about the rise of the ball culture world in 1980s New York has been renewed for season 2 by FX. And now that FX has renewed Pose for season 2, it creates an exciting new precedent for major TV dramas lead by a majority transgender cast....

‘Power Rangers’ Star Ludi Lin Joins ‘Aquaman’ By Jacob Hall/May 15, 2017 2:30 pm EST Ludi Lin is swapping out that Black Ranger suit for some Atlantean armor. The Power Rangers star has joined the cast of James Wan’s Aquaman, playing the role of Murk. But who is Murk and what will he get to do in the movie? The actual details are vague right now, but Deadline reports that he is “the leader of the front-line army of Atlantis known as the Men-of-War and Aquaman’s trusted ally....

‘Summer Of ‘84’ Trailer: What If ‘Stranger Things’ Had To Deal With A Serial Killer? By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2018 10:00 am EST The 2018 Sundance Film Festival is nearly upon us, and we’ll soon have coverage of the newest indie movies on the scene making their debut in the mountains of Park City, Utah. One of our more anticipated movies in the line-up has just debuted an awesome new teaser trailer....

‘The Conjuring 3’ Is On The Way, Although James Wan Probably Won’t Return By Jacob Hall/June 26, 2017 1:30 pm EST The Conjuring is one of the best horror movies of the 21st century so far and The Conjuring 2 is one of the best horror sequels ever made, so the news that The Conjuring 3 is officially in the works at Warner Bros. is music to my ears. But there’s a catch: James Wan will most likely not return to the director’s seat....

‘Thor: The Dark World’ Director To Helm ‘Sopranos’ Prequel Movie ‘The Many Saints Of Newark’ By Chris Evangelista/July 3, 2018 1:59 pm EST That Sopranos prequel movie is really happening, and now it has a director. Alan Taylor, the filmmaker behind Thor: The Dark World, is set to helm The Many Saints Of Newark, a film set in the 1960s featuring several characters from the iconic HBO series The Sopranos....

Cool Stuff: Mike Mitchell’s Rocket & Groot Treehugger Vinyl Figure From Mondo By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2017 10:00 am EST Mondo has given us the exclusive premiere of their newest vinyl figure release. Based on Mike Mitchell’s Rocket & Groot: Treehugger poster from the “Just Like Us” series, the vinyl figure features two favorites from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. You can get a better look at the figure and learn about the Mondo exclusive version (which will be available for pre-order today) below....

Daily Podcast: Books/Games That Should Be Movies, Star Wars, Game Of Thrones, Dark Tower & More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2017 7:30 am EST On the /Film Daily podcast for August 4, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Jacob Hall and Ben Pearson to talk books and games that should be movies, crazy Game of Thrones fan theories, the first reviews of The Dark Tower, a Miami Vice reboot, The Lion King and Han Solo casting, and a new Star Wars VR experience coming to Disney Parks....

Evangeline Lilly Celebrates Jack Kirby’s Birthday With A New ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Photo By Ben Pearson/Aug. 28, 2017 2:24 pm EST Today would have been the 100th birthday of Marvel Comics legend Jack Kirby, a man who co-created some of the greatest superheroes to ever grace the page and whose artwork is a guiding force behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it today. While filming Ant-Man and The Wasp, actress Evangeline Lilly (the titular Wasp) paid tribute to Kirby’s birthday and released a new image of herself in costume – or at least, in partial costume....