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The Morning Watch: Edgar Wright’s Color Coded Characters, ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Plane VFX & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 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, a video essay explores how the color of wardrobe in Baby Driver tells us even more about the characters....

The Morning Watch: Kingsman Meets Archer, The Graduate With Garden State Soundtrack & More By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2017 6:00 am EST In this edition, we have a meeting of the spies from the world of Kingsman: The Secret Service with the animated secret agents from the FX series Archer, a presentation of what the classic film The Graduate would be like if it utilized tracks from the Garden State soundtrack, and a trip through the multiverse with Rick and Morty....

Tom Hardy Wants Christopher Nolan To Direct James Bond By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 2017 9:00 am EST Last fall, there was a lot of buzz regarding whether or not Daniel Craig would eventually return to the role of James Bond. The actor was rather vocal about how exhausting the work on Spectre was, going so far as to say that he’d rather slash his wrists than do another James Bond movie at that time....

Watch: Bruce Willis Is On The Run Again In ‘Everybody Wants To Kill Bruce 2’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2016 5:00 am EST You might remember back in 2013, an editor by the name of Pierre-Alexandre Chauvat put together a movie mash-up called Everybody Wants To Kill Bruce. The nearly 10 minute short cleverly edited 39 movies together to make it seem as if Bruce Willis was a target in every single one of them....

What Is Hidden In This Intricate ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ IMAX Poster? By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2017 3:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures and Hasbro held a fan event for Transformers: The Last Knight on their studio lot, which treated fans to a behind-the-scenes looks at the upcoming Michael Bay sequel, a Paramount studio tour, an exhibit showcasing the film’s car,s and more. Fans who attended the event were given an exclusive Transformers: The Last Knight IMAX poster that features a close-up of an intricately designed shield....

Young Spock Will Appear In ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 2 By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 16, 2018 10:30 am EST After rumors swirled for weeks, Star Trek: Discovery has now confirmed that a young Spock will appear in the CBS All Access show. Just not in the way you’d expect. Everyone’s favorite Vulcan will appear in the second episode of the upcoming season of Star Trek: Discovery, according to Jonathan Frakes, the veteran Star Trek actor who directed an episode of Discovery in the first season and is returning for season 2....

‘Atlanta’ Season 2 Trailer: It’s Time For ‘Robbin’ Season’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 8, 2018 2:00 pm EST An enigmatic new teaser trailer for Atlanta season 2 just dropped to hold you over until the show’s return. Donald Glover’s hit FX series returns in March, and while this Atlanta season 2 trailer is short on much footage, its big on atmosphere, hinting at yet another captivating season. In addition to that, Atlanta season 2 now has a new subtitle: Robbin’ Season....

‘Bumblebee’ Trailer: Get A Load Of Cybertron, Classic Transformers Designs & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2018 12:32 am EST After showing off a slew of new footage at San Diego Comic-Con this past summer, a new Bumblebee trailer has arrived that showcases a lot of things that Transformers fans have been wanting to see on the big screen for years. Sure, there’s the standard explosive action and some of your favorite Autobots and Decepticons, but we’re seeing them with a whole new classic aesthetic, and there are even glimpses of their homeworld of Cybertron as we’ve never seen it before....

‘Justice League’ Casts ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Ciarán Hinds As Steppenwolf By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2016 2:00 pm EST Though we’ve known for months that the villain of Justice League would be Steppenwolf, we’re just now learning who’ll play the part. Irish actor Ciarán Hinds has joined Justice League to portray Steppenwolf through the power of mo-cap. Hinds is probably best known right now in the U.S. for playing Mance Rayder in HBO’s Game of Thrones....

‘Scanners’ TV Show Is Back In Development By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 28, 2017 11:30 am EST Remember Scanners? It’s David Cronenberg’s 1981 horror shocker featuring a scene where a man’s head explodes, and then you rewind the scene and play it back to watch the explode head in slow motion. Now it looks like the previously rumored but never realized TV series adaptation of the film is back on. Will a head explode every single week?...

‘The Bad Batch’ Director Ana Lily Amirpour On Building A Wasteland And Throwing Knives With Jason Momoa [Interview] By Jack Giroux/June 27, 2017 12:00 pm EST The writer-director’s sophomore effort has a kind of freewheeling, acid-induced flow to it – shots are bursting with color and life. Amirpour told us about imagining some of these frames along with creating the world, Arlen and Miami Man, and the music from The Bad Batch....

‘The Mummy’ Featurette: The Monster Has Big Plans For Tom Cruise By Jack Giroux/May 2, 2017 6:30 am EST We can usually rely on Tom Cruise to save our world in the movies. But in The Mummy, he helps to bring about its destruction by discovering one pissed off mummy, an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella) to be exact. Once again, the world will call upon Tom Cruise to save us all in Alex Kurtzman’s film (even if it’s his fault this time), which is the first entry in the potential Universal Monster Universe....

‘Unsane’ Clip: Claire Foy Calls For Help By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2018 4:00 pm EST Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot thriller Unsane is going to put Claire Foy through hell. The actress stars as a woman committed to an insane asylum, fighting to convince everyone around her she’s not insane. In a new Unsane clip, Foy’s character attempts to leave the asylum, with miserable results. After a brief sojourn in semi-retirement, Steven Soderbergh is back....

A Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Movie Is Coming To Save Cinema By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 22, 2018 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Montanez was a janitor at Frito-Lay when he came up with the idea for Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Per Variety’s possibly aggrandized write-up of this true tale, Montanez’s invention transformed “the Frito-Lay brand into a pop culture phenomenon” and “disrupted the entire food industry in the process....

Chris Hemsworth Claims ‘Avengers 4’ Will Be “Even More Shocking” Than ‘Infinity War’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 5, 2018 4:30 pm EST There’s no question that Avengers: Infinity War left us rattled long after we left the theater. The twists! The tragic fates! The memes of those tragic fates! The statement sounds a bit hyperbolic, but I wouldn’t put it past screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, as well as directors Joe and Anthony Russo, to gun for even more shocking deaths and twists in Avengers 4....

Daily Podcast: What It’s Like To Visit A Film Set, Superman, Peele, Christmas Story, Disneyland By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2017 8:30 am EST On the September 22, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson to talk about the latest news, including a three-hour cut of Superman: The Movie, Jordan Peele’s new tv series, and A Christmas Story live casting. At the Water Cooler, we’ll talk about Murder on the Orient Express and Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party at Disneyland, and in The Mail Bag we’ll take another behind the scenes look at the movie blogging world and talk about set visits....

Dwayne Johnson Shares The Breathtaking ‘Jungle Cruise’ Set In New Teaser Video By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 10, 2018 6:35 am EST The Jungle Cruise ride was one of Walt Disney’s first pet projects, a Disney Parks attraction that simulated a riverboat cruise down several major rivers of Asia, Africa and South America. And legend has it that Walt Disney himself was the very first skipper for the ride’s opening day — which is probably why Dwayne Johnson and the team behind the upcoming Jungle Cruise movie have put so much heart and soul into the live-action adaptation of Disney’s beloved attraction....

HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ TV Series Taps ‘The Leftovers’ Director Nicole Kassell For Pilot By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2018 6:30 am EST Who directs the Watchmen? The answer, for the pilot of HBO’s new Watchmen TV series adaptation at least, is The Leftovers director Nicole Kassell. The director of two Leftovers episode will be reteaming with showrunner Damon Lindelof to helm the pilot of his high-profile adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel....

How The ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Writers Would Fix The DC Universe By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 15, 2018 3:00 pm EST Well, Avengers: Infinity War screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have an idea on how fix it. Markus and McFeely dropped by Kevin Smith’s Fat Man on Batman podcast Thursday night to talk everything Infinity War. But after fielding several Marvel and Avengers 4-related questions, the conversation ended up turning to the DCEU....

Interview: ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’ Director Ed Zwick On Reuniting With Tom Cruise By Jack Giroux/Oct. 21, 2016 10:00 am EST Like the Mission: Impossible franchise, Jack Reacher is maybe now another series where a director can come in and bring their personal touch to the character. Christopher McQuarrie’s Jack Reacher is lean, efficient and runs like clockwork. In McQuarrie’s film, Jack Reacher is already Jack Reacher. He knows who is he is....