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Tom Hanks Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ Again For The First Time In 10 Years By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2016 11:01 am EST Following the 42nd season premiere of Saturday Night Live last weekend, the season continues this weekend with Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda taking the stage in Studio 8H for a show that will hopefully have plenty of musical influence. Now NBC has confirmed that SNL will continue with two more episodes (making for a total of four in a row) this month, and one of them will bring back Tom Hanks as host....

Watch: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Special Feature Clips, Including A Gag Reel, Featurettes, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2018 11:01 am EST Avengers: Infinity War is now available on Blu-ray and DVD, and to mark the occasion, Marvel Studios has released some clips from the superhero sequel’s special features. Take a look at a new section of the gag reel (it’s different than the one we wrote about a few days ago), as well as portions of featurettes dedicated to Wakanda, the battle on Titan, Thanos, and more....

‘Animaniacs’ Reboot Is In The Works, Steven Spielberg Reportedly Involved By Ben Pearson/May 30, 2017 12:30 pm EST As a young movie lover who largely grew up in the ’90s, I thought the animated series Animaniacs was one of the best shows on television. It was bursting with pop culture references, memorable characters, terrific music, and humor (some of which went way over my head), but even at the time, I knew I was watching something special....

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Is Getting A Live-Action TV Series By Ben Pearson/June 6, 2017 2:00 pm EST Way back in 2008, Keanu Reeves was pegged to star as Spike Spiegel in a live-action film adaptation of the influential 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop. An ambitious script was written by Peter Craig (The Town), but it may have ultimately been a bit too ambitious: Reeves speculated it would cost $500 million to film it, and the project eventually faded away....

‘Dark’ Trailer: Netflix’s First German Series Looks Like ‘Stranger Things’ With A Darker Twist By Jacob Hall/March 1, 2017 2:00 pm EST Keeping track of every original film and series coming to Netflix was already a challenging and mind-melting task before the streaming giant decided to start directly producing content outside of the United States. Sure, they’ve acquired projects that were created around the world before, but their new move into Europe suggests an even grander plan…and even more shows you need to find time to watch....

‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ Will Have A Key Role For Someone From Newt Scamander’s Past By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2016 11:30 am EST This past weekend, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dominated the box office by taking in an estimated $75 million. That’s not as big as the primary Harry Potter franchise installments, but it’s still an impressive opening weekend. But even before the box office numbers were in, we knew there would be Fantastic Beasts sequels, four to be exact....

By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2017 1:00 pm EST It’s been quite a week for fans of the Fast and Furious franchise. There’s officially a Fast and Furious spin-off in the works that will focus on Dwayne Johnson as Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham as former villain Deckard Shaw. The film is slated to arrive in the spring of 2019 with the possibility of Shane Black directing, but not everyone is happy about this expansion of the Fast and Furious franchise....

‘John Wick’ Director Chad Stahelski To Direct Dark Fantasy Film ‘Sandman Slim’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 13, 2018 3:00 pm EST The co-directors of John Wick are moving on to big things. While David Leitch has put sleek action thrillers Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2 under his belt, action fans have wondered what Chad Stahelski’s next non-Wick movie will be. Stahelski’s directorial slate has been a bit up in the air after John Wick and John Wick 2, with two or three projects tentatively announced, including John Wick 3....

‘Naked’ Trailer: Marlon Wayans Is Caught In A Time Loop In This Netflix Movie By Ben Pearson/July 18, 2017 3:00 pm EST For happy couples, the idea of reliving your wedding day might be a dream come true. But for Marlon Wayans’ character in the upcoming Netflix movie Naked, it’s a total nightmare. In the new Groundhog Day-inspired comedy, Wayans wakes up naked in an elevator and encounters comical amounts of resistance as he races to make it to his own ceremony on time....

‘Rub And Tug’ Casting Causes Controversy; Scarlett Johansson Issues A Tepid Response By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 5, 2018 12:30 pm EST After news broke that Scarlett Johansson would be re-teaming with her Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders for the biopic Rub & Tug, controversy immediately descended on the duo — again. The Rub and Tug casting controversy is centered on Johansson playing a transmasculine man who became a notorious Pittsburgh crime boss....

‘Silicon Valley’ Season 5 Trailer: The Hit HBO Comedy Returns, Without T.J. Miller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2018 10:00 am EST The Pied Piper gang is back, and they have a whole new slew of problems. One of which, amazingly, is a litter of puppies. Silicon Valley season 5 marks a new era for the scrappy tech company. Pied Piper is finally expanding its legitimacy beyond its start-up roots, running into everything from increasingly hostile competition to puppy-related work accidents....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ And ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Synopses Released By Jacob Hall/Jan. 16, 2018 11:10 am EST Disney has released their 2018 preview kit and much of what it contains won’t be new to movie fans who regularly peruse the internet. However, the two synopses provided for Solo: A Star Wars Story and Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 are new and offer some insight into each movie’s story....

‘The Shape Of Water’ Was Originally Pitched As A Black And White Movie; Could We See That Version On Home Video? By Ben Pearson/Nov. 30, 2017 12:30 pm EST “I was a bit nervous about the black and white, because color is such a strong element that you can play with in a story or movie to help shape the mood. When people see the movie, they comment a lot on the color, so I’m glad we went that way....

‘Wildlife’ Trailer: Paul Dano Directs Jake Gyllenhaal And Carey Mulligan By Chris Evangelista/May 23, 2018 5:30 pm EST Actor Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, a new drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan. The film is an adaptation of the Richard Ford novel of the same name. Watch the Wildlife trailer below. Wildlife Trailer Paul Dano already has an acclaimed acting career (remember when he starred in that farting corpse movie?...

A Jared Leto ‘Joker’ Standalone Movie Is In The Works By Chris Evangelista/June 5, 2018 3:55 pm EST Warner Bros. just wants to watch the world burn, so they’ve decided to go ahead and give Suicide Squad’s Jared Leto his own standalone Joker movie. This will be the second standalone Joker movie in the works, with the previously reported Todd Phillips/Joaquin Phoenix film moving forward as well. Not many people were impressed with Jared Leto’s take on the Clown Prince of Crime in Suicide Squad, but Warner Bros....

Badass Barry Pepper Forges Knives For Every Role He Plays By Alex Riviello/May 23, 2017 3:00 pm EST Here’s something that slipped under the radar – actor Barry Pepper posted a YouTube video last December in which he showed off his previously unknown blacksmithing ability. What’s more, he used this hobby to craft a knife he personally designed for his character in the upcoming Maze Runner: The Death Cure. We always knew Pepper was an intense performer ever since his breakout performance in Saving Private Ryan, and he has always managed to play characters that have plenty of use for a knife....

Cool Stuff: Support Jeff Victor’s Illustrated Evolution Of Pop Culture From 1900-2018 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 14, 2018 6:00 am EST Pop culture artist Jeff Victor knows how to take our favorite characters from film and television and turn them into adorable illustrations. Previously, he collected a bunch of his artwork in a book called Adorkable. Now he’s delivering a more ambitious undertaking by bringing his signature artistic style to the evolution of pop culture in film, television and more, stretching all the way back to the year 1900 and running up all the way through 2018....

Daily Podcast: Best Movies Of TIFF 2017, Emmy Winners, True Lies, CinemaScore, HHN, See/Saw, Mike Birbiglia By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2017 7:30 am EST On the September 19, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Brad Oman to talk about the latest news, including a True Lies tv series reboot, the cinemascore for mother! and the 2017 Emmy winners. In the Water Cooler we’ll be talking about Halloween Horror Nights, a secret magic show in Los Angeles, a stand-up comedy special, and Delta’s inflight movies....

Daily Podcast: Home Movie Watching Improvements, DVDs, Box Office, MCU, Netflix, Thriller & More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2017 8:00 am EST On the /Film Daily podcast for August 8, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Brad Oman stop by the water cooler to discuss selling DVDs, a Lion King singalong and a board game cafe, in the news we’ll talk about Netflix’s big comic book company acquisition, this weekend’s box office, Thriller 3D, Fantastic Four, and a bevy of MCU tidbits from Guardians director James Gunn....

Enter /Film’s ‘Doctor Strange’ IMAX Giveaway To Win The Eye Of Agamotto By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2016 5:15 pm EST /Film is giving away a Doctor Strange IMAX Prize Package! One lucky Grand Prize winner will receive: A prop replica of The Eye of Agamotto, created by RDP Creative. 2 IMAX Movie Tickets for use on Doctor Strange or any other IMAX movie (tickets come in the form of Hollywood Movie Money)....