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Anna Kendrick Getting Jolly As A Female Santa Claus For Disney Comedy By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 13, 2017 6:30 am EST After setting Kevin Hart to play Santa Claus in a holiday comedy called Dashing Through the Snow, Disney is looking to shake up the traditional image of jolly old St. Nick in another big way. Anna Kendrick is in talks to star in a holiday comedy currently going by the title Nicole, which revolves around Santa Claus’ daughter who is suddenly forced to take over the family business....

Ava DuVernay Will Direct ‘The New Gods’ For DC Films By Ben Pearson/March 15, 2018 3:07 pm EST A Wrinkle in Time and Selma director Ava DuVernay briefly considered directing Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, but Marvel’s loss is DC’s gain: DuVernay is heading to Warner Bros. and DC Films to direct an adaptation of The New Gods, based on the comic created by Jack Kirby. Discover the details of the Ava DuVernay New Gods movie below....

Ben Stiller To Direct Benicio Del Toro In Showtime’s ‘Escape At Dannemora’ By Jack Giroux/June 2, 2017 4:30 pm EST Ben Stiller is set to direct a new Showtime miniseries, Escape at Dannemora, this fall. The prison escape drama will star Benicio Del Toro (Sicario), Paul Dano (Swiss Army Man), and Academy Award-winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood). The miniseries is based on a true story involving a 20-day manhunt. Below, learn more about the new Ben Stiller Showtime series....

By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2016 10:30 am EST Television has had some good detective series in the past decade, but often those shows get stretched out by the serialized television format. Something that started off great like The Killing must sustain the twists and turns season over season, and the resulting overarching story feels less cohesive. The fact that Bosch is adapted from the books themselves seems to keep the mysteries on track....

Cool Stuff: Craig Drake Solo Show 4 Brings ‘The Iron Giant’, ‘Royal Tenenbaums’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2018 6:00 am EST Craig Drake is one of our favorite artists paying tribute to our favorite movies and TV shows year after year, and he’s also one of the few who can be relied upon to have a solo gallery exhibition every couple of years. This past weekend brought the Craig Drake Solo Show 4 to Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles, including pieces paying tribute to The Iron Giant, Kill Bill, Gremlins, Suicide Squad, The Royal Tenenbaums, Ex Machina, Labyrinth, Spider-Man and more....

Daily Podcast: Water Cooler: Ant-Man, Pixar Pier, Jurassic World, Sharp Objects, Killing Eve, Westworld, Kingdom Hearts & Pokemon GO By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the June 25, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up at 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)....

Daily Podcast: What Does HBO’s Exit Mean For Comic-Con? Apple, Rotten Tomatoes, Guardians 3, Captain Marvel, Star Trek Discovery By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2018 5:30 pm EST In The Mail Bag: Leanne R. from LA writes in: In the News: All the other stuff you need to know:You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes./Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm....

Darth Vader (As An Action Figure) Almost Had A Cameo In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2017 1:30 pm EST Guardians of the Galaxy almost wasn’t the musically-driven ode to the ’80s that we know and love today. Instead, the film’s nod to Peter Quill being the lone human in a wacky space opera would have been a Darth Vader cameo. Or rather, a Darth Vader action figure cameo....

Darth Vader Killed This Character In The Original ‘Rogue One’ Ending By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2017 11:00 am EST Now that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is finally hitting home video, we are beginning to get some insight into the original screenplay and earlier cuts of the first Star Wars stand alone movie. In a new interview, screenwriter Gary Whitta reveals that Darth Vader originally killed one of the main characters in the film....

Disney’s Live-Action ‘Lady And The Tramp’ Now Has A Director By Chris Evangelista/March 19, 2018 11:30 am EST Disney can’t stop, won’t stop turning their animated classics into live-action flicks. The latest animated film to get the live-action treatment is Lady and the Tramp, the tale of two dogs falling in love. The Lego Ninjago Movie director Charlie Beam will helm the film. More on the Lady and the Tramp remake below....

How ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ Elevated The Live-Action & Animation Hybrid [Video Essay] By Ethan Anderton/March 3, 2017 5:30 am EST Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is a classic movie for a number of reasons. Not only is it a stellar mash-up of two completely different genres, the family movie and film noir, but it’s also a technical marvel. The 1989 Academy Awards gave Robert Zemeckis’ film Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects and a special honorary Oscar for its creation of animated characters....

Jordan Peele’s YouTube Series ‘Weird City’ Is A Shared Universe Anthology [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2018 1:15 pm EST After the success of his Oscar-winning film Get Out, Jordan Peele has gotten some TV deals. He is creating a reboot of The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access, but creating another anthology series for YouTube Premium. Both promise to tell surreal, bizarre, twisty stories, but the Weird City stories will be more connected than standalone Twilight Zones....

Netflix Announces ‘The Dragon Prince’ Animated Series From The Writer Of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 11, 2018 4:30 pm EST Avatar: The Last Airbender was one of the greatest animated series of all time, if not the greatest. So it’s always an exciting prospect when one of the talented writers behind that beloved Nickelodeon show is working on something new. Because you know it will be something fantastic....

Rumor: Bradley Cooper Offered Role Of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon In Biopic ‘Pandemonium’ By Ben Pearson/Oct. 2, 2017 1:30 pm EST Crazy Stupid Love and Focus directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are currently developing Pandemonium, a biopic of WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, and a new rumor says that The Hangover and American Sniper star Bradley Cooper has been offered the role of the boisterous and media-savvy personality. Sounds like pretty great casting to us, but if Cooper’s not interested, let’s fan-cast this baby ourselves and come up with some alternate choices for who might make a good cinematic version of the wrestling impresario....

Superhero Bits: ‘Krypton’ Blooper Reel, Reinventing ‘Aquaman,’ Michael Rooker Quits Twitter & More By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2018 6:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Why did Guardians of the Galaxy star Michael Rooker quit Twitter? What does James Wan have to say about reinventing Aquaman on Conan? Who will the villain be in the second season of Krypton? When does Batman: The Animated Series hit Blu-ray?...

Superhero Bits: Iron Spider Suit Comes To PS4’s ‘Spider-Man’, New ‘Batman Ninja’ Clip & More By Ethan Anderton/April 25, 2018 5:00 pm EST Are you ready to wear the Iron Spider suit in PS4’s new Spider-Man game? Who is the least trustworthy cast member from Avengers: Infinity War? Want to see a new clip from Batman Ninja? Did you know the Iron Spider suit in Avengers: Infinity War is entirely a visual effect?...

Superhero Bits: James Cameron’s Spider-Man Sex Scene, Vulture Action Figure, New Man-Thing & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2016 5:00 pm EST Who are the smartest superheroes from Marvel Comics? Who should play the Hal Jordan version of Green Lantern in the DCEU? Want to see an awesome action figure of Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming? Was there almost a sex scene in James Cameron’s abandoned film adaptation of Spider-Man? Did you know Tom Holland actually enrolled in American high school to help prepare for Spider-Man: Homecoming?...

TV Bits: ‘It’ Actor Joins ‘Locke & Key’, ‘Lore’ Trailer, ‘Star Trek’ Woes, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 31, 2017 2:00 pm EST Actor Jackson Robert Scott, who plays the ill-fated Georgie Denbrough in the upcoming movie version of Stephen King’s It, has joined another King-adjacent project: he’ll play eight-year-old Bode Locke in the TV series adaptation of Locke & Key, which is based on the comic series from artist Gabriel Rodriguez and writer Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son)....

VOTD: ‘Han Solo: A Smuggler’s Trade’ Fan Film Gives The Scoundrel A New Adventure By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 30, 2016 5:00 am EST We already know that the next installment under the Star Wars Story banner following Rogue One is a movie that will follow a young Han Solo. Disney and Lucasfilm have already brought on Phil Lord & Chris Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street) to direct, and Alden Ehrenreich has been to play the smuggler originated by Harrison Ford in 1977 with Donald Glover as his old buddy Lando Calrissian....

VOTD: How BBC Made ‘Planet Earth II’ Cinematic, Warped Time & Shot In The Dark By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 2017 6:00 am EST When the BBC debuted the documentary series Planet Earth in 2006, it was a groundbreaking achievement in nature filmmaking the likes of which we hadn’t seen before. Part of the reason it was so stunning to watch was because high-definition televisions were just becoming more mainstream, and people were really starting to see what rich images new televisions were capable of delivering....