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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Has A Music-Only Cut Available As A Bonus Feature By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2018 10:30 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi is available to bring home today on digital download. That means you can watch the movie as many times as you want, and also check out the feature-length documentary The Director and the Jedi that comes with it. But there’s another cool bonus feature that Rian Johnson only just revealed yesterday after the premiere of the aforementioned documentary at SXSW....

‘Star Wars Rebels’ Series Finale Trailer: The End Is Coming By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2018 9:30 am EST After four seasons of gripping action and heartfelt character drama, Star Wars Rebels is coming to an end. But not without a bang. The trailer for the Star Wars Rebels series finale, a two-parter that includes “A Fool’s Hope” and “Family Reunion – and Farewell,” has been released by Disney XD and it shows the crew of the Ghost in dire straits as they go up against the Empire one last time....

‘Unsane’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh’s New Horror Film, Shot Entirely On An iPhone By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 29, 2018 10:10 am EST Steven Soderbergh has touted the iPhone as the next cutting-edge technology that will set the film industry ablaze. Now Unsane, the film that has set the Logan Lucky director down a new warpath for arguing the merits of smartphone camera technology, has finally received its first trailer. Unsane Trailer The Unsane trailer is a chilling piece of work from a master director — proving that even a film shot on consumer-grade technology can still sweep up audiences....

All Of The Network TV Shows Canceled And Renewed For The 2018-2019 Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 14, 2018 12:30 pm EST Spring may usually signal the coming of new life, but in TV land, it means a lot of shows will meet their deaths. This past week alone has seen the cancellation of a whopping 25 shows across the five major networks. And as network TV mulls over the fate of a few TV series ahead of TV upfronts season — the annual event where major networks ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and The CW present their new and improved shows to advertisers — there will still be a few more 2018 TV shows canceled and renewed....

AMC Hit With Lawsuit For Wrongful Death Of A ‘Walking Dead’ Stuntman By Ben Pearson/Jan. 25, 2018 2:30 pm EST Last summer, while filming the AMC zombie series The Walking Dead, 33-year-old John Bernecker fell to his death while performing a stunt. Now Susan Bernecker, the mother of the Walking Dead stuntman, has filed a lawsuit against AMC Networks, saying that they “orchestrated and enforced a pattern of filming and producing The Walking Dead cheaply and, ultimately, unsafely....

Cool Stuff: Dan Mumford’s Trippy Art Pays Tribute To ‘Close Encounters,’ ‘Gremlins’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 7, 2017 5:00 pm EST With the plethora of prints out there paying tribute to our favorite movies and TV shows, it’s always nice to have an artist whose style is uniquely their own. That’s why we love Dan Mumford so much. We’ve featured plenty of Dan Mumford’s work before, but now he has a solo show coming to Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles this weekend with a whole new slate of pieces paying tribute to the likes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Gremlins, Dune, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and more....

Daily Podcast: Stranger Things & Ancillary Stories, Brad Bird’s 1906, Sicario 2, DC, Incredibles 2, Optimus Prime, Star Wars & More By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2018 5:30 pm EST 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....

Harmony Korine Might Direct ‘Tampa’ After His Cheech & Chong-Esque Comedy By Jack Giroux/Aug. 29, 2016 7:00 am EST Harmony Korine’s The Trap is on pause. Al Pacino, Benicio Del Toro, Idris Elba, Robert Pattinson, and James Franco were set to star in the film, which is about an insane-sounding feud between a musician (Elba) and his old, ex-convict buddy (Del Toro). The project was financed and ready to go, but after Korine had some personal problems with an actor who was initially attached to the project, a delay occurred....

Is Sigourney Weaver’s ‘Defenders’ Villain The Leader Of The Hand? By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 10, 2017 11:30 am EST There are few details surrounding Sigourney Weaver’s Big Bad in the upcoming Marvel/Netflix miniseries The Defenders, other than her name is Alexandra and she has a team of mean-looking thugs in suits at her disposal. “The more connections you have, the easier it will be to break you,” Alexandra menacingly says in The Defenders trailer, supposedly to the team of streetwise superheroes, Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand....

LOL: Seth Rogen’s Creepy ‘Sausage Party’ Prank Brings Food To Life In A Real Grocery Store By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 12, 2016 5:00 am EST This weekend’s raunchy, R-rated animated flick Sausage Party imagines what it would be like if the food in our grocery aisles was alive. The movie is hilarious, twisted and outrageous, but that wasn’t enough for Seth Rogen. In addition to bringing talking foods to the big screen, he also wanted to bring them to a real life grocery store with a hilarious and creepy Sausage Party prank....

Review: ‘Sing’ Is Another Cute Crowdpleaser From Illumination Entertainment By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2016 3:00 pm EST Note: With Sing out this weekend, we’re re-running our review from the TIFF. Since Despicable Me, Illumination Entertainment has established itself as a go-to source for sturdy family entertainment. Their films may not reach the artistic heights of Pixar or Disney, but you can generally count on them to be perfectly pleasant and inoffensive, able to entertain the kids without annoying the parents....

Superhero Bits: Ninja Turtles Join Injustice 2, Jack Black Challenges Chris Hemsworth & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 13, 2017 5:30 pm EST Are you ready for the heroes in a half-shell to join Injustice 2? How did Thor: Ragnarok result in some innovative new technology being used? How low were the ratings of the Inhumans season finale? Will Captain America become Nomad in Avengers: Infinity War? What did Melissa Benoist have to say about executive producer Andrew Kreisberg being suspended for sexual harassment?...

The Man Behind Kermit The Frog Leaves The Muppets By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2017 12:30 pm EST Steve Whitmire, the performer who has been playing Kermit The Frog since 1990, is leaving The Muppets. Whitmore started with the Henson Company in 1978 on The Muppet Show. After the death of Jim Henson, he inherited the roles of Kermit the Frog and Ernie. For the last 27 years, Whitmore has been the performer and voice behind the iconic character, but he is leaving The Muppets....

The Morning Watch: ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Easter Eggs, Scene Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/July 9, 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, Ant-Man and the Wasp director Peyton Reed breaks down the kitchen fight between The Wasp and some nameless henchman....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Good Place’ Season 2 Bloopers, Tom Cruise’s Helicopter Training & More By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 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, checkout some hilarious bloopers from the second season of The Good Place on NBC....

VOTD: See The Evolution Of 2D Animation From 1833 To 1990 By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 2017 5:00 am EST Since motion picture cameras weren’t invented until 1890s, the art of animation predates live-action filmmaking by nearly 60 years. With such a head start on motion pictures, it’s incredible that it took until 1937 for animation to start getting the kind of attention it deserved in the form of Disney’s first feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs....

Will We Ever Get A Black Widow Movie? Scarlett Johansson Says It’s All About Timing By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2017 7:30 am EST It’s a question Marvel fans have been asking for years: where the hell is the Black Widow solo movie? The no-nonsense heroine has emerged as one of the most popular Avengers, and Scarlett Johansson has proven more than capable of leading her own action movie. Filmmakers are practically lining up around the block to direct, and Kevin Feige himself has said he’d like to make a Black Widow movie....

‘24’ Is Coming Back As A Legal Thriller With A Female Lead By Jacob Hall/Nov. 1, 2017 1:30 pm EST The clock keeps on ticking for 24, Fox’s real-time thriller series that refuses to die. After eight seasons, a revival season, and a reboot series, the show is coming back once more in a completely different form: a legal thriller about a female lawyer racing against the clock to unravel a conspiracy....

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Trailer: Robert Rodriguez And James Cameron Bring The Manga Character To Life By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2018 8:45 am EST Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron team up for Alita: Battle Angel, a film that blends a cartoon character with human actors. Okay, Alita isn’t really a cartoon. She’s a CGI-enhanced character played by Rosa Salazar via motion capture. Still, there’s something a bit…off about watching Alita interact with a bunch of human characters....

‘Animals’ Season 2 Trailer: HBO’s Bizarre Animated Series Returns By Ben Pearson/March 25, 2017 10:00 am EST Animals is one of the strangest shows to hit the small screen in the past few years. It imagines what the creatures in and around New York City would do if they had recognizable human problems – insecurity, parenting issues, dealing with bullying, marital struggles, experimenting with drugs…the works. The show was also notable for its all-star cast, which included some of the best comedic actors in the industry....