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‘Game Over, Man!’ Trailer: The ‘Workaholics’ Gang Gets Their Own ‘Die Hard’ By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 2018 5:30 am EST With Netflix releasing over 700 new original movies and TV programs throughout 2018, they’ve got tons of stuff to unveil every week. Later this month, we’ll be getting a new comedy by the gang from Comedy Central’s series Workaholics. Game Over, Man! is a new action comedy starring Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson as waiters at an high-rise hotel who get caught up in dangerous sitaution when terrorist busts into an upscale party, takes hostages and demands a hefty sum of money for them to be rescued....

By Ethan Anderton/March 17, 2017 11:30 am EST Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment already have Aquaman shooting this year, taking the December release date vacated by Avatar 2. But they also hope to have another piece of the DC Expanded Universe in front of cameras before the end of the year. One of the less likely options was Green Lantern Corps, a film that doesn’t have a director (just like The Flash), but there may be one waiting in the wings....

‘Maya’ Review: Mia Hansen-Løve Falters Slightly With Familiar Drama [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 14, 2018 7:00 am EST With the possible exception of Eden, her decades-spanning tale of a Llewyn Davis-like also-ran in the French garage music scene, Hansen-Løve’s Maya represents her most sprawling and weighty canvas to date. The film follows France journalist Gabriel Dahan (Roman Kolinka) after his release from Syrian captivity and his gradual drift back towards some semblance of normalcy....

‘Outlander’ Season 4 Trailer: Claire And Jamie Are Coming To America By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 10, 2018 4:00 pm EST Starz blesses us with a drop of water to sate our thirst during the Droughtlander with a new sexy Outlander season 4 trailer. Hopefully it’ll be enough to get you through to November, when the latest season of Outlander brings our favorite star-crossed lovers to a brand new world: Colonial America....

‘Queen And Slim’: Daniel Kaluuya And Lena Waithe Team Up For A ‘Bonnie And Clyde’-Style Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 20, 2018 2:00 pm EST Daniel Kaluuya and Lena Waithe are ride or die for a new Bonnie and Clyde-inspired project, Queen and Slim. The feature film has been picked up by Universal after a heated bidding war over the script by Emmy winner Waithe and based on a treatment from best-selling author James Frey (A Million Little Pieces)....

‘Shazam’ Casting: Zachary Levi Will Star As The DC Superhero By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 27, 2017 3:36 pm EST Just ahead of the release of Justice League next month comes breaking casting news of an upcoming DC film. Zachary Levi (Chuck, Psych, two of the Thor films) will star in Shazam! for director David F. Sandberg. Shazam! will be the next DECU movie to film, with a 2019 release date likely. Wether or not Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam will figure into the standalone Shazam!...

‘Star Wars’ Films Being Planned For The Next 10 Years Says Kathleen Kennedy By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 1, 2017 3:14 pm EST We’re a little over a month away from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, episode 8 in the ever-expanding Star Wars saga. There’s another core “Skywalker Saga” film planned after that, the currently untitled Episode IX. But if you thought that would be the end of the main Star Wars franchise, you’re mistaken....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Original Ending Revealed By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 11, 2018 7:30 am EST Movies can change drastically over the course of production. And in a series like Star Wars, where the directors are replaced movie to movie, there will inevitably be some ideas left on the cutting room floor. One of those ideas is the original ending for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Mark Hamill has revealed the original ending for The Force Awakens, which could have changed the entire course of Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Details Reveal Plans For A New Direction By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 23, 2018 11:00 am EST What will those darn kids of Hawkins, Indiana face in Stranger Things season 3? According to producer Shawn Levy, the answer is “forces of evil that are new.” Does this mean the show will be moving away from the Upside Down and charting new territory? I sure hope so, or else this idea is going to start getting old....

‘The Little Hours’ Review: Nuns Go Wild In One Of 2017’s Funniest Films [LAFF] By Ben Pearson/June 23, 2017 7:00 am EST The Little Hours is based on one of the tales found in The Decameron, a collection of 14th century novellas from Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. But even if, like me, you’d never heard of that author before (let alone read his work), all you really need to know about this film is that it features a cast of hilarious people doing filthy, hysterical things....

‘The Simpsons’ Parodied ‘Game Of Thrones’ And Brought Back An Old Joke All At Once By Jacob Hall/Oct. 2, 2017 3:30 pm EST The 29th season of The Simpsons premiered last night. Season 29. Goodness gracious. Anyway, the episode takes place outside of the usual Simpsons canon (if you want to call this show’s sprawling, intentionally contradictory world that), transporting viewers to a fantasy realm populated by characters from the long-running animated series....

‘Winchester’ Trailer: The House That Ghosts Built Brings New Scares And A Shorter Title By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2018 4:00 pm EST There are plenty of horror movies about haunted houses, but this might be the first about a house intentionally built for the purpose of imprisoning ghosts. No, we’re not talking about a reboot of Ghostbusters again (at least not yet), but rather Winchester. Formerly given the subtitle of “The House That Ghosts Built” when the first trailer debuted last year, CBS Films has opted to go with the shorter title of Winchester (it’s cleaner)....

‘Wonder Woman’ Director Patty Jenkins Is Making A Horror Project For Shudder By Jack Giroux/June 6, 2017 4:00 pm EST Patty Jenkins is coming off an incredible accomplishment with Wonder Woman. Its opening weekend at the box-office is the highest domestic opening for a female director, and she made a movie that’s feeling the love from just about everyone. Jenkins will direct the Wonder Woman sequel, which will supposedly bring Diana’s (Gal Gadot) story to America next, but she’s also going to work on a project for the horror streaming service Shudder, titled Riprore, in the future....

Anna Faris Won’t Suffer From Amnesia In The ‘Overboard’ Remake By Jack Giroux/March 7, 2017 5:30 am EST A remake of Overboard has always felt inevitable. The original 1987 romantic comedy, which stars Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, is an immediately recognizable title, and one that more than a few people gladly watch whenever it plays on cable for the billionth time. It’s an enjoyable enough romantic comedy that thrives on Russell and Hawn’s charisma....

Blumhouse Would Like To Reboot ‘Friday The 13th’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 12, 2018 3:15 pm EST After they get done rebooting Halloween, Blumhouse would like to take a crack at a Friday the 13th reboot. Jason Blum, president of the wildly successful horror (and Whiplash) distributor, says that the next franchise he’d like to set his sights on is the one that features hockey-masked slasher Jason Voorhees. Blumhouse is currently in the process of rebooting the Halloween franchise, with David Gordon Green directing and co-writing with Danny McBride....

Daily Podcast: Avengers: Infinity War, Ava DuVernay, Ready Player One, The Last Jedi, And More By Ben Pearson/March 16, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the March 16, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the newest Avengers: Infinity War trailer, Ava DuVernay’s new directing gig, a Clarissa Explains It All reboot, the original Ready Player One reference you won’t see in the movie, a Netflix slasher film called There’s Someone Inside Your House, and everything we learned from the Star Wars: The Last Jedi commentary....

Disney’s ‘Lady And The Tramp’ Remake Adds Tessa Thompson And Benedict Wong By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2018 11:55 am EST Tessa Thompson is having a hell of a year. She played supporting roles in Boots Riley’s blistering satire Sorry to Bother You, Alex Garland’s mind-bending Annihilation, and the second season of HBO’s twisty prestige drama Westworld. She was recently cast as the female lead of Sony’s Men in Black reboot, and now she has another leading role to add to her ever-growing resume: she’ll provide a voice in Disney’s live-action/CGI hybrid remake of Lady and the Tramp....

Find Out Why Emma Watson Turned Down ‘Cinderella’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2017 1:00 pm EST In March, we’ll get to see Emma Watson become a Disney princess in the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. We’ve already heard her belt out one of the signature tunes from the movie in the most recent TV spot for the movie, and she just looks perfect as Belle, whether it’s her simple blue and white dress, or the elegant yellow ballgown she wears when she dances the night away with the Beast....

J.K. Rowling Has Started Writing ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ By Chris Evangelista/June 1, 2018 1:30 pm EST Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald isn’t out yet, but J.K. Rowling is already at work on the Fantastic Beasts 3 script. The film will the third of five total entries in Rowling’s new Wizarding World saga. Warner Bros. has a total of five Fantastic Beasts films planned, and it looks like J.K. Rowling might be writing the screenplays for all of them....

John Goodman Boards Rupert Wyatt’s Sci-Fi Film ‘Captive State’ By Jack Giroux/Dec. 1, 2016 4:00 pm EST John Goodman is a national treasure, especially his smile. The actor has recently been on a roll, lining up some notable projects. Before the year ends, we’ll see Goodman in Patriot’s Day, and next year we’ll see him in Kong: Skull Island, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and David Leitch’s (John Wick) The Coldest City....