By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 14, 2018 10:30 am EST Hulu wants to stay in the Stephen King business, so they’ve given the go-ahead to Castle Rock season 2. So get ready to spend even more time in King’s famous haunted town. In the past, creators Dustin Thomason and Sam Shaw confirmed Castle Rock will be an anthology, with new characters and stories each season. Which means you can expect a whole new world of King-centric horrors to come....
‘David Copperfield’ Cast Adds Tilda Swinton And Hugh Laurie Alongside Dev Patel By Chris Evangelista/April 26, 2018 4:00 pm EST The David Copperfield cast keeps getting better and better. Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie are the latest additions to the upcoming Charles Dickens adaptation from Veep creator Armando Iannucci. Dev Patel stars in the project, called The Personal History of David Copperfield, which updates Dickens’ tale to modern times. Everything about this new adaptation of David Copperfiled sounds pretty damn great....
‘Deadpool 2’ Trailer: The Merc With A Mouth Is Back For More By Ethan Anderton/March 22, 2018 6:10 am EST Marvel’s Merc with a Mouth made major bank at the box office back in February of 2016. In fact, the R-rated, fourth wall-breaking, comic book comedy performed so well at the box office that it warranted a prime summer release date for the sequel, and a new trailer proves that summer is the best place for this bombastic superhero....
‘It’ Opening Scene: Watch The Creepy Introduction Of Pennywise The Dancing Clown By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 2017 11:00 am EST It’s been a month and a half since the new adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic It shattered September box office records. But the movie is still alive and kicking in theaters as Halloween is just around the corner. In order to keep the hype going strong, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema have released the opening scene from It to entice those who haven’t seen the movie to finally check it out....
‘Jessica Jones’ Creator Melissa Rosenberg To Trade Marvel TV For Warner Bros. TV By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2018 11:00 am EST The creator of Netflix’s best Marvel series is moving across the aisle to Warner Bros. TV. Jessica Jones creator and showrunner Melissa Rosenberg leaves Netflix for a new overall deal with Warner Bros. TV, where she will develop new television projects with the studio. But fret not, Jessica Jones fans, Rosenberg will stay at Marvel TV to see through the Netflix comic book show’s upcoming third season before making her exit....
‘Jungle Cruise’ Cast Adds British Comedian Jack Whitehall As Emily Blunt’s Brother By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2018 4:30 pm EST Ever since Disney struck box office gold with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, they’ve realized there’s money in turning their theme park rides into feature films. The Eddie Murphy-starring The Haunted Mansion didn’t turn out so well, but that hasn’t deterred the House of Mouse. Their next ride-to-film adaptation is Jungle Cruise, helmed by Orphan director Jaume Collet-Serra....
‘Man Of Steel 2’ Sets Sights On Matthew Vaughn To Direct By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2017 12:01 pm EST Man of Steel was the first movie to kick off the DC Expanded Universe that would eventually include a new version of Batman, as well as the first big-screen iterations of Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg, all coming together to form the Justice League. The assembly of the DC Comics superhero team and the individual movies for each of the superheroes on the team has kept Warner Bros....
By Jacob Hall/Aug. 24, 2016 9:30 am EST The first Manchester by the Sea trailer has arrived and it’s full of drama and bittersweet laughs and glimpses at complex performances from the likes of Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams. Oh, and there are Massachusetts accents. Oh boy, are there Massachusetts accents. The film follows Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck), who returns to his hometown following the death of his brother (Kyle Chandler) and finds himself made legal guardian of his nephew (Lucas Hedges)....
‘Solace’ Trailer: The Movie That Was Almost A ‘Se7en’ Sequel Gets A Trailer By Jacob Hall/Nov. 11, 2016 1:30 pm EST Perhaps the most interesting thing about Solace is that its screenplay was once retrofitted into a sequel to David Fincher’s Se7en, with Morgan Freeman’s Detective Somerset coming out of retirement to hunt down a new serial killer. Of course, that take died in development and now we have a movie closer to the original screenplay: an FBI agent played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan teams up with a psychic doctor played by Anthony Hopkins to hunt down a psychic serial killer played by Colin Farrell....
‘The Dark Crystal’ Sequel Is Finally Coming… As A Comic Book By Angie Han/Nov. 29, 2016 4:00 pm EST That very long-gestating Dark Crystal sequel is finally happening… but not in the form we originally expected. Boom! Studios and Henson Company have announced a 12-issue comic book series titled The Power of the Dark Crystal, based on an unproduced screenplay by David Odell, Annette Odell, and Craig Pierce. THR reports The Power of the Dark Crystal will be written by Si Spurrier, with art by Kelly and Nicole Matthews....
Awards: DGA Nominations, ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Gets Historic Costume Designers Guild Nomination By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2017 11:13 am EST The DGA has named Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Garth Davis (Lion), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) and Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) for its top feature film award. They also nominated Garth Davis or its first-time director award along with The Director’s Guild Of America also nominated Garth Davis or its first-time director award along with Tim Miller for Deadpool, Kelly Fremon Craig for Edge of Seventeen, Nate Parker for Birth of a Nation and Dan Trachtenberg for 10 Cloverfield Lane....
Daily Podcast: Is It Okay To Leave Trash In A Movie Theater? Talk During Trailers? Bootleg A Scene If You Have To Pee? By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the July 13, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss movie theater etiquette and talk about the latest film and tv news, including Scarlett Johansson, Joss Whedon, Jim Jarmusch, Zombieland 2, and Downton Abbey....
Daily Podcast: Rampage Reactions, Box Office, Jay And Silent Bob, MoviePass, Terminator, Talisman, And Lord Of The Rings By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2018 5:30 pm EST Opening Banter: Peter saw Rampage last night at the World Premiere.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....
Daily Podcast: The Most Anticipated Movies Of 2018 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the January 12, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, 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 the most anticipated movies of 2018.You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it)....
First Look: Jason David Frank As Bloodshot In Valiant’s Live-Action ‘Ninjak’ Series By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2016 10:57 am EST Valiant Comics will be bringing their Ninjak comic book series to life in a new live-action webseries. Bat in the Sun has released the first look at Jason David Frank as Bloodshot. Hit the jump to get your first look at the live-action Bloodshot. Jason David Frank as Bloodshot Looks kind of cool, especially for a web series....
Hulu Picks Up ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2, ‘Marvel’s Runaways,’ And ‘The First’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2017 11:00 am EST Hulu will keep its original content flowing, with pick-ups announced for a second season of the harrowing dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale as well as new series orders for Marvel’s Runaways from the creators of the Gossip Girl, and Beau Willimon’s show about the first human mission to Mars, tentatively titled The First....
What About Altered Carbon? Spoilers ahead for season one of Altered Carbon. Kinnaman only signed a one-year deal to star on the Netflix sci-fi series, so it’s doubtful his new gig on Hanna would impact anything in that regard. I haven’t watched Altered Carbon yet myself, but in the show, Kinnaman plays a man whose consciousness has been uploaded to another person’s body. In an interview with TV Guide, Kinnaman said he probably wouldn’t be back to reprise his role in a second season:...
Johnny Depp And Michelle Pfeiffer Eying Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Murder On The Orient Express’ Remake By Jack Giroux/Sept. 29, 2016 6:30 am EST Besides its own director, no actors that we know of are officially attached to Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express remake, based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name. Over the summer Angelina Jolie began circling the role of widowed socialite Harriet Hubbard, but last month she passed on the part....
Jordan Peele’s “Twisted-Ass Science Fiction” Anthology ‘Weird City’ Coming To YouTube Premium By Ben Pearson/July 1, 2018 1:00 pm EST Sanders is a hilarious comedian, writer, and performer in his own right. (I’ve seen him at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater multiple times.) To get a taste of how Peele and Sanders work together, here are all of those sketches Peele mentioned in that statement: “Writer/creator Charlie Sanders and I collaborated on some Key & Peele sketches that took on everything from the ‘Black Republicans’ to ‘Continental Breakfasts’ to ‘Family Matters....
Pixar’s Andrew Stanton Shoots Down ‘Toy Story’ Fan Theory About Andy’s Dad By Ben Pearson/June 26, 2017 4:30 pm EST Not every unanswered question in a movie deserves an elaborate fan theory “explaining” away plot holes or filling in background gaps that the movie purposefully didn’t fill. Sometimes a movie is just a movie. But one Toy Story fan theory gained some traction because it came from an unusual source: someone who worked on the original film....
