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Daily Podcast: Water Cooler, Ms. Marvel, Willow, IMAX, Guillermo Del Toro, Avengers: Infinity War, Brooklyn Nine-Nine & More By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the May 14, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to in the water cooler, which includes the Solo junket, the Jurassic Park 25th Anniversary celebration and You Were Never Really Here, Tully and Death of Stalin....

Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake Eyes Rob Marshall To Direct By Ben Pearson/Dec. 6, 2017 12:00 pm EST Rob Marshall, the director of movies like Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Nine, is looking to be part of Disney’s world once again. According to a new report, the filmmaker is on the top of the studio’s wishlist to direct the planned live-action The Little Mermaid remake, which will feature music from Hamilton and Moana’s Lin-Manuel Miranda and Disney legend Alan Menken....

Kate Mara & Miles Teller Would Return For ‘Fantastic Four 2’ But Does Anyone Want It? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2016 1:30 pm EST Miles Teller and Kate Mara, who play the would-be couple Reed Richards and Sue Storm, have both expressed that they’d be happy to come back for Fantastic Four 2. But the question is whether or not anyone actually wants to see what happen. First up, while promoting Morgan, actress Kate Mara spoke with IGN where she was asked whether or not she’d be up for returning for Fantastic Four 2....

LOL: ‘Zootopia’ Filmmakers Created Animal Parody Posters For Oscar Nominees By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 20, 2017 5:00 am EST Since Zootopia has been on home video for awhile, I hope you’ve taken the time to pause the movie during the scene where Duke Weaselton is selling bootleg copies of movies we all know and love, but with an animal twist that only Zootopia can offer. You’ll find titles like Wreck-It Rhino, Meowana and Pig Hero 6 in the pile of bootleg movies, showing us what the animal versions of those movies would be like in the thriving metropolis of anthropomorphic creatures....

NBC’s Live ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Taps John Legend As Jesus Christ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 19, 2017 11:00 am EST Jesus Christ Superstar has found its, well, superstar. The upcoming NBC live telecast has cast John Legend as the titular Jesus Christ in a move that is sure to shake up the show’s premiere date of Easter Sunday. But if anything, John Legend does fit the label of “superstar” quite accurately. A 10-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer who won an Oscar for his song “Glory” from 2014’s Selma, Legend has also stretched his acting chops on both TV and film, most notably appearing in last year’s Oscar-winning La La Land....

Netflix Finally Orders ‘GLOW’ Season 3 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 20, 2018 12:16 pm EST GLOW season 2 dropped back in July, but the fate of the third season remained in limbo. Until now. The third season of the comedy series is officially a go, and there’s a little teaser video to prove it Did you think we’d GLOW to Vegas without you? Let’s do this. 💪 #GLOWS3 pic.twitter.com/tZhWzOJGHu — GLOW (@GlowNetflix) August 20, 2018...

Rian Johnson’s First Movie In His New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Likely Coming In 2020 By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2018 6:39 am EST Before Star Wars: The Last Jedi even hit theaters, Rian Johnson was already signing the papers to helm his own Star Wars trilogy. But while we know nothing about a script, a story, or even a title, that Rian Johnson Star Wars trilogy could be coming to us sooner than we expected....

Rumor: Sylvester Stallone Eyed To Lead ‘Starlight’ Film Adaptation By Ben Pearson/April 25, 2017 3:30 pm EST Read on to learn the latest Sylvester Stallone Starlight news. SplashReport claims Stallone is Fox’s “top pick” for the role, though it’s unclear if the studio has had any conversations with the actor about the project at this stage. But based on the description of the comic, it sounds like he might be perfect casting....

Superhero Bits: DC TV Sets Comic-Con Panels, How Civil War Foreshadowed Infinity War Deaths & More By Ethan Anderton/June 25, 2018 6:00 pm EST Did you notice how a scene in Captain America: Civil War foreshadowed the deaths of Infinity War? Which characters is John Hodgman interested in playing in the MCU? Which superhero TV shows will be coming to San Diego Comic-Con this year? Would you like to see Jane Levy as Batgirl?...

The Holy Grail Of Unmade Monty Python Scripts Has Been Discovered By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 3, 2018 4:30 pm EST And now for something completely different: Lost Monty Python scripts have been discovered in former member Michael Palin’s archives. The scripts, originally penned as sketches for the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, were uncovered when Palin donated his private archives to the British Library in London where they will go on display later this month....

The Morning Watch: Learning From Wonder Woman, Alfonso Cuaron Masterclass & More By Ethan Anderton/July 12, 2017 6:00 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.) This edition of The Morning Watch features a video essay discussing what other superhero movies can learn from Wonder Woman, a collection of clips featuring various fake versions of Arnold Schwarzenegger created with special effects over the year, and a nearly hour and a half masterclass discussion with Gravity and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuaron....

TV Bits: ‘Hanna’ Is Happening, Jon Stewart’s HBO Show Isn’t, ‘Veep’ Renewed, And More By Ben Pearson/May 26, 2017 2:30 pm EST I remember liking the movie when it came out and especially digging its fairy tale overtones, so hopefully this series keeps that thematic connection alive. Here’s a piece of strange casting: Dennis Quaid (Dragonheart, Any Given Sunday) has been cast to play former U.S. president George W. Bush in the upcoming second season of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story....

Westworld Viral Campaign Opens “The Door,” Unlocks Hidden Footage And A New Poster By Ben Pearson/March 22, 2018 11:24 am EST The first season of HBO’s sci-fi mystery series Westworld proved to be a breeding ground for fans who loved analyzing the show’s smallest details and theorizing about what’s to come. Now that the second season is exactly one month away, the Westworld viral campaign is shifting into high gear, and those fans hungry to step back into the maze have uncovered some hidden footage and a brand new poster inside one of the park’s websites....

‘Army Of One’ Trailer: God Calls Up Nicolas Cage For A Favor By Jack Giroux/Oct. 10, 2016 4:05 pm EST During a recent Q & A for Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, Nicolas Cage said he wanted to play the film’s often unhinged, coke-snorting, Humphrey Bogart-quoting, baby-napper crook because, to paraphrase, he was exhausted from playing wacky characters. That should give you some idea of what to expect from his high-energy performance in director Larry Charles’ (Bruno) Army of One, in which he plays a modern-day Don Quixote hunting Osama Bin Laden....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 28, 2017 7:30 am EST The first official stop on awards season trail, the Gotham Awards have become a great way of gauging which Oscar contenders to keep an eye on, with previous top Gotham winners Moonlight, Spotlight, and Birdman leaping to the top of the Oscar ballots. See the full list of winners below: Call Me by Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics) Strong Island (Netflix) James Franco in The Disaster Artist (A24)...

‘Flight Of The Conchords’ Special To Air On HBO In May [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 11, 2018 12:45 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Update: HBO has announced that the Flight of the Conchords special will air this May and will be filmed live during the duo’s United Kingdom tour. Our original article follows. As quickly as the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords became a hit in the United States, it came to an end....

‘Going In Style’ Trailer: Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman & Alan Arkin Rob A Bank By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2016 1:00 pm EST As a filmmaker, Zach Braff has delivered two indie films with much different receptions. Garden State was a film festival darling that captured the hearts of many when it came out in 2004, but it has since lost some of its shine (though I will defend it and love it forever)....

‘Justice League’ Villain Steppenwolf Revealed Through (You Guessed It) Merchandise By Jack Giroux/Aug. 28, 2017 1:30 pm EST And because toys and other merch always seem to outpace their own movies, a new mask gives a slightly better idea of Steppenwolf’s grizzled face looks like. In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Steppenwolf had a very alien appearance. The character was redesigned for Justice League, making him resemble the New 52 comics version of Steppenwolf more: a mostly human appearance with some warrior attire....

‘Logan’ And The Evolution Of Film Genres [Video Essay] By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2017 6:00 am EST Watch the Logan film genre video essay after the jump. When you take a close look at how director James Mangold uses the classic western Shane as a key thematic piece of Logan, you begin to understand how the filmmaker not only uses the film to create an emotional core for Logan, but also, perhaps inadvertently, illustrates how the western genre is closely tied to superhero movies and hw they have evolved over their relatively short period of popularity in cinema....

‘Luke Cage’ Clip: Mike Colter Dishes Out Some Serious Hurting By Jacob Hall/Sept. 9, 2016 11:30 am EST It’s September, which means that our focus should be drifting away from comic book superheroes and toward the film festival circuit, where the movies we’ll be talking about for the next four or five months will be making their debuts and building their buzz. And while our own Angie Han is currently at the Toronto International Film Festival to bring you reviews of new films from the world’s most exciting and eclectic filmmakers, Netflix is doing an excellent job of diverting our attention from the arthouse to the streets of Harlem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....