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Daily Podcast: Movies That Need Reboots, Why Summer ‘17 Was Great, Star Wars, Neuromancer, Spider-Man, Venom By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2017 9:00 am EST On the /Film Daily podcast for August 11, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Brad Oman to discuss the news: a Neuromancer movie, Venom casting, more Hunger Games and Twilight movies, how The Amazing Spider-Man 3 was supposed to end, and more details about Leia and DJ’s roles in Star Wars: the Last Jedi....

Disney Reveals First Look At A Na’vi Shaman From Their Upcoming ‘Avatar’ Land By Jacob Hall/Nov. 21, 2016 10:00 am EST Seven years after it became the highest-grossing film in history, everybody spends more time talking about why no one talks about Avatar than talking about Avatar itself. That’s why the upcoming Pandora: The World of Avatar expansion coming the Animal Kingdom theme park in Walt Disney World feels like a bizarre combination of risky move and sure thing – building a theme park land around the most successful movie of all time certainly sounds like a license to print money until you remember that the film seems to have bounced off pop culture in the long run....

The Predator Synopsis From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race....

FX’s ‘Y: The Last Man’ Gets ‘American Gods’ Writer By Angie Han/Nov. 14, 2016 3:00 pm EST The ongoing saga of Y: The Last Man’s journey to the screen has taken another promising turn. Michael Green has been tapped as showrunner on the planned FX series, which is based on Brian K. Vaughan’s acclaimed comic book series. Green’s recent work includes Starz’s American Gods (another long-simmering adaptation of a beloved geek property), the Wolverine spinoff Logan, and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049....

LOL: ‘Billy On The Street’ Asks Muppets How To Get To ‘Sesame Street’ With Wonderful Results By Ethan Anderton/March 30, 2017 5:00 am EST Billy Eichner is best known for screaming questions at people in public on his web series turned full fledged TV show Billy on the Street. It’s loud and hilarious, but it’s not necessarily appropriate for kids. But you can certainly let them watch this family friendly version of Billy on the Street that takes the comedian to the most famous street in the world: Sesame Street....

Michel Gondry Directs A Magical Christmas Ad About A Boy And His Monster By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 29, 2017 1:00 pm EST Have you ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Monsters, Inc. with Where the Wild Things Are and that one melancholy childhood flashback scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Well, that’s essentially what this Michel Gondry-directed Christmas advertisement boils down to. It’s sweet, surreal, and a little bit sad....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: 2018 MTV Movie Award Nominations, Jimmy Kimmel Is Voicing Batman & More By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2018 5:00 pm EST Warning: There are some major spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War on the second page. You’ve been warned! Adam Pally arrived on Conan as Deadpool and Daredevil, or rather a joke superhero named Snaredevil. An Avengers: Infinity War moviegoer died, apparently after having a heart attack during the screening....

Superhero Bits: Agent Coulson’s Origin, Arrow’s 100th Episode, Stan Lee Cameos & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 26, 2016 4:51 pm EST Want to see a live performance of the Luke Cage score? Which of Mark Millar’s comics may be getting a TV series adaptation? Was Agent Coulson added to Thor because Samuel L. Jackson declined to appear as Nick Fury? Which of The Avengers would Joss Whedon vote for as president?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Black Panther’ Easter Eggs, ‘Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle’ VFX Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 19, 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, check out a ton of Easter eggs you might have missed while being enamored with Marvel’s Black Panther....

The Morning Watch: ‘Blockers’ Puke Scene Breakdown, ‘Nathan For You’ Video Essay & More By Ethan Anderton/July 4, 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, Blockers director Kay Cannon breaks down a hilarious key sequence from the raunchy high school comedy....

The Morning Watch: The Craft Of Guillermo Del Toro, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Anatomy Of A Scene & More By Ethan Anderton/May 8, 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....

The Next ‘Bond’ Villain May Be ‘Wonder Woman’ Star Said Taghmaoui By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 11, 2018 8:30 am EST Said Taghmaoui could soon make the leap from superhero ally to super-spy villain. The Wonder Woman star has said that he was cast as the Bond 25 villain under Danny Boyle, potentially pitting him against Daniel Craig in the actor’s final movie as 007. But with the director leaving the James Bond sequel over creative differences, that role is up in the air....

VOTD: Watch A Very Special ‘Deadpool 2’ Super Duper Cut Concert [Comic-Con 2018] By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2018 6:00 am EST Deadpool 2 already arrived in theaters back in May, but there’s a renewed interest in the foul-mouthed superhero sequel because a new cut of the movie is on the way to home video. The Deadpool 2 Super Duper $@%!#& Cut is coming home in August, and to help promote the arrival of this new cut of the film with tons of alternate jokes and deleted scenes, the Merc with a Mouth himself put on a special concert at San Diego Comic-Con, and you will undoubtedly recognize the band that he hired to play with him....

Watch Josh Gad Grill Daisy Ridley About Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Ridley Cast In JJ Abrams Spy Drama By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2017 11:00 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the title of the eighth chapter of the Star Wars saga, but everyone is wondering: who is the last Jedi? Is it Luke Skywalker (as evidenced by the mention in the opening crawl of Force Awakens)? Is it Rey?...

Watch Riz Ahmed’s ‘Rogue One’ Audition And Learn Which Planet Was Cut From The Movie By Jacob Hall/March 24, 2017 2:00 pm EST One day, we will run out of news concerning what could have been in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. But that day is not today. Star Wars fans are as interested in the making of these movies as they are in the movies themselves, which makes the production of Rogue One so very fascinating – the first of the saga’s spin-off movies was massaged into many different positions during development and the alternate versions make for a great game of “What if?...

‘A Monster Calls’ Promo Arrives For National Face Your Fears Day By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2016 4:00 pm EST Now that we’re n October, we’re starting to get a look at some of the movies that will be key players in awards season. But plenty of heavy hitters won’t be arriving until this winter. One of those potential contenders is A Monster Calls. Funnily enough, the film from future Jurassic World 2 helmer J....

‘A Simple Favor’ Trailer: Paul Feig Goes Dark In The Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively Suburban Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 24, 2018 5:00 pm EST Paul Feig is making the pivot from broad comedies to steamy thrillers with A Simple Favor, the latest Gone Girl-lite mystery adaptation making its way from the bookshelf to the big screen. Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively star in the latest trailer, which teases us with the strange relationship between Kendrick’s mommy blogger and Lively’s mysterious glamazon....

‘American Vandal’ Trailer: Netflix Mocks Its Own True Crime Docs With A Satire About Penis Drawings By Ben Pearson/Aug. 3, 2017 12:30 pm EST With Making a Murderer, Amanda Knox, and The Keepers, Netflix has fully embraced the true crime documentary format in a big way, and those projects generated significant buzz surrounding the streaming service. At first glance, their new docu-series American Vandal looks like another project that fits alongside the aforementioned docs, but it wasn’t long before I realized this show – which, yes, centers on spray-painted penis drawings – is actually Netflix’s way of satirically mocking the very format it’s seemingly leaned into in the past few years....

‘Collide’ Trailer: Nicholas Hoult Is Fast, Furious, Gone In 60 Seconds By Jacob Hall/Jan. 19, 2017 12:00 pm EST If you feel like you’ve been seeing trailers for Collide since 2015, you’d be right. Director Eran Creevy’s crime thriller was a victim of Relativity Media’s bankruptcy and while Open Road Films scooped up the rights, the film has bounced around the release schedule like a ping pong ball in a car accident....

‘Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee’ Season 8 Trailer: Judd Apatow, John Oliver, Lorne Michaels & More By Ethan Anderton/June 6, 2016 2:00 pm EST Much of the finest entertainment in the world isn’t free. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find great content that won’t cost you a dime. Case in point, Jerry Seinfeld has his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee available to watch for free through Sony’s Crackle, and the eighth season is on its way this summer....