‘The Losers’ Director Sylvain White Will Make Screen Gems’ ‘Slender Man’ By Jack Giroux/Jan. 5, 2017 7:30 am EST Sylvain White has been attached to some notable projects over the past couple years. The director behind Stomp the Year worked on an adaptation of Frank Miller’s Ronin and a movie based on the video game Castlevania, but he hasn’t helmed a feature since directing The Losers, a fluffy and enjoyable enough B-movie....
The Wild Bunch A Wild Bunch remake has been kicking around since at least 2011. Tony Scott was slated to direct, but his 2012 suicide shut the project down. Later, Will Smith was in talks to star, with the film set in the present day. That, too, failed to happen. Now, Gibson will give it a go. On one level, Gibson directing a remake of this makes sense. He’s a filmmaker who excels at creating movie violence, and The Wild Bunch is one of the most violent Westerns ever made....
‘White Boy Rick’ Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Takes On The 1980s War On Drugs By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2018 1:00 pm EST When Matthew McConaughey is not doing Lincoln car commercials, he’s transforming himself fully for a role that will surely earn him accolades — if not Oscar nominations. And it looks like his latest role will bring him plenty of buzz. McConaughey stars in White Boy Rick, a crime thriller by French director Yann Demange that adapts the wild true story of the Chicago teenager who would go on to be the youngest FBI informant and drug kingpin in history....
‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’ Honest Trailer, Featuring Michael Bolton (Yes, Really) By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 27, 2017 5:00 am EST Screen Junkies is continuing their Fan Appreciation Month with another Honest Trailer that their most loyal viewers have been clamoring for. With just one more left to go before January is over, the film that landed in second place is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Author Roald Dahl adapted his own book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for director Mel Stuart, and the result is a fever dream of candy and imagery that might seem a bit crazy by today’s standards....
‘Wonder Woman’ Leaps Past ‘Batman V. Superman’ As The Highest-Grossing DCEU Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 30, 2017 11:30 am EST Don’t mess with Diana of Themyscira. Wonder Woman has shattered box office records as the highest-grossing live-action film directed by a woman, and now it’s making leaps and bounds past its DC Film predecessors. In just four weeks, Wonder Woman breezed past the 14-week run of Suicide Squad and has has become the highest-grossing DC Extended Universe movie, beating Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’s 12-week run just before the weekend....
Cool Stuff: LEGO BrickHeadz Line Lets You Build ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Back To The Future’, ‘Incredibles’ & More By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2018 6:00 am EST LEGO has really hit their stride over the past decade when it comes to making incredible building block sets that are cleverly designed. That’s especially true when it comes to bringing characters, vehicles and settings from our favorite movies to life. They’ve gotten some help from LEGO Ideas with the likes of the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 and the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future....
Disney And Lucasfilm Debated Killing Han Solo In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 4, 2017 1:00 pm EST The big debate around Han Solo may no longer be “did he shoot first?” but “was he supposed to die at first?” The death of Harrison Ford’s iconic sci-fi character reverberated throughout the Star Wars universe, affecting characters both new and old in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But the Han Solo death scene might not have happened if it was up to Disney....
James Gunn Directed Stan Lee Cameos For The Next Three Marvel Movies By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 30, 2016 10:00 am EST Every Marvel fan knows that a Stan Lee cameo is inevitable in every single Marvel movie, even most of the ones that don’t take place in the Marvel cinematic universe. In fact, just last month we learned that the creator of some of the most iconic comic book characters of all time had already shot three of his upcoming cameos back to back to back....
The Animated ‘Constantine’ Will Be Darker Than the NBC Show [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 11, 2018 10:30 am EST Warner Brothers digital studio Blue Ribbon Content held a panel for the Television Critics Association to introduce the press group to some of the original content they produce for digital platforms. The DC animated universe grows with Freedom Fighters: The Ray and a Constantine animated series, picking up where the short-lived NBC series left off....
The CW Renews ‘The Flash’, ‘Arrow’, ‘Supergirl’, ‘DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 8, 2017 10:00 am EST Right now The CW has all of their DC Comics TV shows on a holiday break until they return later this month. Even though they have a whole second half of their current seasons left to air, the network is confident enough in all of their performances so far to renew every single one of them....
The Right Movie At The Right Time: Watching ‘A Ghost Story’ While Grieving By Rob Hunter/Oct. 13, 2017 7:00 am EST People watch movies for all kinds of reasons. For entertainment, for work, just to kill some time. Sometimes, though, the magic of a great movie can work as comfort for pains big and small, like a cinematic salve for what ails you. Whether you’re fighting the flu or missing a loved one, the right movie can do wonders....
TNT’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Series Is A ‘Spaceship Show’ On A Train [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2017 11:45 am EST TNT and TBS President and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Reilly spoke with the Television Critics Association in an executive session. /Film asked him about the upcoming TNT adaptation of Snowpiercer, based on the Bong Joon-Ho film. The story is set on a train that is the last habitable shelter in a post-apocalyptic ice age, which makes it like an outer space sci-fi series to Reilly....
Video: ‘LOST’ Live Concert Highlights, Featuring Michael Giacchino, Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, And More By Ben Pearson/Sept. 17, 2018 1:00 pm EST Nearly 14 years after the premiere of ABC’s mega-hit drama LOST, showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse reunited at the John Ansin Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles this past weekend for We Have to Go Back: The LOST Concert 2018. They were on hand to introduce composer Michael Giacchino, arguably the most valuable player of the entire series....
Water Cooler: AMC A-List, Criterion, Peter Jackson, Mission: Impossible, Skyscraper, Leave No Trace, Dark Knight, The Babysitter & More By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the July 16, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film Managing Editor Jacob Hall, Weekend Editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....
Zoe Saldana Slams Hollywood “Elitists” Who Look Down On Marvel Movies By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 10, 2018 6:30 am EST You hear a lot of griping on the internet about how superhero movies and sequels are destroying the movie industry. But Zoe Saldana has a few choice words for people who hate on Marvel movies. The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 actress has starred in her share of prestige flicks, indies, and blockbusters....
‘21 Jump Street’ Spinoff Gets ‘22 Jump Street’ Scribe To Write & Probably Direct By Angie Han/Dec. 1, 2016 2:00 pm EST While Schmidt and Jenko are off battling aliens in MiB 23, some of their old Jump Street colleagues will be stepping up into a spotlight of their own. Last year, we got word Sony was planning a Jump Street spinoff that’d center on a couple of female officers. Broad City scribes Lucia Aniello and Paul W....
‘A Quiet Place’ Sequel In The Works At Paramount By Jacob Hall/April 25, 2018 5:39 pm EST In news that should come as no surprise to anyone who ever wandered the horror section at a video rental store and saw the number of titles with numbers in them, Paramount is planning a sequel to A Quiet Place. But there’s something a little different here. Most horror sequels follow a modest hit, a film made for pennies that caters to a hungry niche....
‘Annihilation’ Trailer: Natalie Portman Goes On A Doomed Sci-Fi Trip By Jacob Hall/Dec. 13, 2017 6:33 am EST Annihilation is one of the smartest and creepiest science fiction books I’ve ever read. Ex Machina is one of the smartest and creepiest science fiction films I’ve ever seen. So naturally writer/director Alex Garland feels like a natural match for a film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel, a haunting and cerebral tale of an expedition gone terribly wrong....
‘Atomic Blonde’ Clip: The Pleasure’s In The Details By Ben Pearson/June 11, 2017 9:00 am EST Focus Features has deemed the next few months an “#AtomicSummer” in honor of their upcoming spy thriller Atomic Blonde, and I’m willing to overlook that cheesy name as long as it results in us getting a better look at the movie. They kicked things off with a glimpse at one of the film’s fight scenes, but their newly-released second clip slows things down a little and shows a different side of the spy game altogether, as Charlize Theron and Sofia Boutella’s characters flirt in a crowded bar....
‘Divergent’ Franchise Officially Heading To TV With ‘Ascendant’ Series On Starz By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2017 10:00 am EST Despite making it three films into a franchise, the Divergent book series will no longer be adapted for the big screen. Instead, the series will continue on cable with Starz developing the TV series version of Ascendant, the final chapter of the series based on Veronica Roth’s book series. The biggest question fans probably have is who from the Divergent film franchise will be returning to take a role in the series, and the bad news is that most of them probably won’t....
