Breaking ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Box Office News: Marvel Movie Makes Money, Water Is Wet By Chris Evangelista/July 6, 2018 7:30 am EST I bet you didn’t see this one coming, folks! In an astounding, unprecedented bit of breaking news, we have learned that a Marvel movie is making money at the box office. I know, I know – we all thought this couldn’t happen. But these are strange times we live in....
Daily Podcast: Is Dynamic Ticket Pricing The Future Of Moviegoing? Justice League, Stranger Things, Bad Boys & Fast 9 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2017 5:00 pm EST On the October 26, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest news, including American Vandal season 2, Justice League box office tracking, more Veronica Mars, Stranger Things after-show, a Bad Boys tv spin-off, and returning members for the family for Fast and Furious 9....
Emergency Podcast: New Star Wars Trilogy And TV Series Announced By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2017 5:08 pm EST In the News: Some of the questions and topics we discuss: Have any geeky thoughts on this news that we might not have addressed on the podcast? Send your opinions, speculation, analysis, and suggestions to peter@slashfilm.com.You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com. /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....
First Look: Bumblebee’s Original VW Beetle Form In The ‘Bumblebee’ Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 23, 2017 8:30 am EST Bumblebee is officially going back to being a bug. While the lovable yellow Autobot took on the form of a Chevy Camaro in Michael Bay’s Transformers films, Bumblebee’s solo spin will see him rocking the rounded hood once again. We already knew that the ’80s-set Bumblebee movie prequel would have the Autobot in bug form, but we finally got our first look at the Transformer in vehicle mode thanks to a picture from the set....
Floriana Lima Will Still be on ‘Supergirl’ as Much as Possible [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/Aug. 3, 2017 7:45 am EST Floriana Lima, who plays Alex Danvers’ girlfriend Maggie Sawyer on Supergirl, was a series regular in season two. For season three, she will only be recurring. Greg Berlanti, who produces Supergirl and all the DC Arrowverse shows, was on an Everwood reunion panel for the Television Critics Association. After the panel, he told reporters that Supergirl plans to work around Lima’s limited availability as best they can to continue Alex’s storyline....
If God Particle Is Cloverfield 3, The Star Of The Movie Doesn’t See The Connection By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2016 9:00 am EST We’ve theorized that the upcoming JJ Abrams-produced Julius Onah-directed space station set thriller God Particle might be the third film in a Cloverfield film series before last month, it was confirmed by The Wrap, God Particle is Cloverfield 3. But if you ask the star of the movie, she claims she doesn’t have any idea how the films are connected and was shocked as anyone to hear these reports....
J.C. Chandor’s ‘Triple Frontier’ Loses Tom Hardy, Channing Tatum, And Paramount By Jack Giroux/April 14, 2017 10:00 am EST J.C. Chandor’s (A Most Violent Year) drug smuggling thriller, Triple Frontier, has just been dealt a brutal blow. The project, formerly called Sleeping Dogs, has been at Paramount for several years and has pulled in all kinds of talent. At one point, Kathryn Bigelow was going to direct Tom Hanks in the film before Chandor got Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum on board to star, but they’ve dropped the project, along with Paramount....
Jackie Chan And John Cena Team Up For New Action-Thriller ‘Project X’ By Chris Evangelista/June 12, 2018 6:00 pm EST Here’s something with a heck of a lot of potential: legendary action star Jackie Chan and wrestler-turned-surprisingly-funny-actor John Cena are teaming for a new action-thriller called Project X. Cena is replacing Sylvester Stallone, who was originally set to co-star with Chan. The film focuses on an attempt to extract oil workers from “a China-run oil refinery in the Middle East....
By Ethan Anderton/April 18, 2017 6:00 am EST New episodes from Mystery Science Theater 3000 are now available on Netflix. But since this is a show that first rose to fame in the 1990s and then disappeared at the turn of the century, some audiences who aren’t familiar with the show might need a proper introduction to the series that mocks some of the worst movies ever made. To help give Netflix subscribers a taste of what MST3K has to offer, they had Jonah Ray and his robot pals Tom Servo and Crow sit down to take some jabs at Netflix’s hit sci-fi series Stranger Things, and it’s just as great as you’d hope....
Michael Mann’s Next Movie Will Be About Hacker And Crime Boss Paul Le Roux By Chris Evangelista/April 13, 2018 1:30 pm EST Michael Mann hasn’t helmed a feature since the 2015 Film Twitter fave Blackhat, but he might be about to get back in the game. Mann has purchased the acquired rights to a book about organized crime figure Paul Le Roux. The deal includes film and television rights to the book, which indicates a film or TV adaptation could be Michael Mann’s next project....
POTD: The Women Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Assemble By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 28, 2017 6:00 am EST Around the time the cast of Thor: Ragnarok was making the publicity rounds for the Marvel Studios sequel, cast member Tessa Thompson revealed that she and the rest of the female stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe talked to Kevin Feige about a possible all-female superhero team-up movie. Tessa Thompson explained: “Recently, I marched up with a couple of other women that work in Marvel and we went to Kevin, ‘What about a movie with some female super heroes?...
By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 3, 2016 6:00 am EST Not too long ago, we saw the first clip from the second season of Supergirl, coming to The CW for the first time in exactly one week. The new footage introduced us to Tyler Hoechlin as Kara Zor-El’s Kryptonian cousin Kal-El, better known on Earth as Superman. The actor made a decent enough impression as both Clark Kent and The Man of Steel as he met up with Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) in the sky to stop an aircraft from crashing to Earth....
Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Infinity War’ Comes To ‘LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2’, Namor Rights Are Complicated & More By Ethan Anderton/April 24, 2018 5:00 pm EST Avengers: Infinity War DLC is coming to LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2, including mad titan Thanos. Marvel’s Kevin Feige says the rights to Namor the Sub-Mariner are complicated and not clearly delineated . The promo for “Of Two Minds” teases what’s in store for Supergirl as the third season of the show continues....
The Morning Watch: Deadpool Edition - Unicorn Karaoke, Video Games, Cast Confessions & More By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch as Ryan Reynolds plays a Deadpool video game while getting interviewed about the making of Deadpool 2....
The Morning Watch: Meet ‘Star Wars’ Animator Phil Tippett, Making Szechuan Sauce & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 10, 2017 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, watch a documentary short about Phil Tippett, the animator behind movies like Star Wars and Jurassic Park....
Why ‘Die Hard 2’ Almost Crashed A UPS Plane Instead Of A Passenger Jet By Fred Topel/March 15, 2017 4:00 pm EST In Die Hard 2, John McClane (Bruce Willis) found himself trapped in a bigger building, Dulles Airport, with hundreds of more people at risk than the original hostage situation he thwarted in Die Hard. To show the new terrorists are even deadlier than the Nakatomi thieves, Col. Stuart (William Sadler) crashes a plane full of passengers when his demands are not met....
Why ‘Dunkirk’ Is Under Two Hours By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 10, 2017 8:30 am EST Some of the blame can be laid on Christopher Nolan, whose epic Dark Knight films were on the vanguard of increasingly dense superhero and action films. For Nolan’s films, they made sense — his intellectual blockbusters required plenty of information and plot twists. But now Nolan returns to the movie scene packed with franchise films that have an average run time of more than two hours with one of his shortest films yet....
‘A Star Is Born’ Opening Two Days Early In Dolby Cinema AMC Locations By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 18, 2018 3:30 pm EST If you just can’t wait to see boozy Bradley Cooper woo laudable Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, you’re in luck. The film is opening two days early at 115 Dolby Cinema at AMC locations. Here’s your chance to catch a surefire awards season contender before the most average moviegoers, folks....
‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Trailer Pitches A War Drama Unlike Any You’ve Seen Before By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2016 9:00 am EST With just a few weeks until Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk starts hitting theaters, one final trailer has arrived, and it’s full of quotes from critics who are primarily talking about the high frame rate that director Ang Lee used to shoot the war drama. Based on the book of the same name by Ben Fountain, the story follows a soldier who comes home from the war in Iraq on a temporary victory tour....
‘Black Butterfly’ Trailer: Antonio Banderas Is Stuck In His Own Version Of ‘Misery’ By Ben Pearson/March 21, 2017 2:00 pm EST Reclusive writer isolated in the woods? Check. An unhinged companion who’s obsessed with his writing? Check. It looks like we might have a loose remake of Stephen King’s Misery on our hands with Black Butterfly, a new thriller starring Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Hit the jump to see the first Black Butterfly trailer....
