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Watch: Movies And The History They’re Based On Compared Side-By-Side By Ethan Anderton/March 28, 2017 5:00 am EST Year in and year out there are movies made that are based on real life. In some cases, movies have the task of expertly recreating real events that were witnessed by real people who were either at the event at the time it happened or watched it on television. Now a new video from filmmaker Vugar Efendi takes footage from movies that replicated real moments in history, such as Selma, Jackie, and Catch Me If You Can, and puts it side-by-side with footage and/or photos from the real events....

‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ Coming To An End After Five Seasons By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2016 12:30 pm EST After five seasons as a series on IFC, the podcast turned comedic talk show known as Comedy Bang! Bang! will be coming to an end. Series creator and host Scott Aukerman (aka Yacht Rockerman) announced the news to all of his followers on Twitter today indicate that the upcoming second half of the fifth season of the show, premiering this fall, will be its last....

‘Godzilla 2’ Casts ‘Rampage’ Mo-Cap Actor As King Ghidorah By Ben Pearson/April 26, 2018 2:30 pm EST Rampage has a full cast of marquee actors like Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but there’s one performer whose name you’d never notice unless you paid close attention to the credits: Jason Liles. He’s the man who did the performance capture work for George, the movie’s huge albino gorilla. Now Liles will be going from playing one huge beast to another, because he’s joined the Godzilla 2 cast in the role of King Ghidorah, one of Godzilla’s long-time cinematic adversaries....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Soundtrack May Not Include Every Trailer Song By Jacob Hall/Feb. 14, 2017 12:00 pm EST So welcome to today’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 music update, where Gunn reveals that not every song featured in the trailers for his sequel will actually be in the final movie. Gunn spoke about this during one of his many Twitter Q&As, when a fan asked if every song heard in the previews would actually be a part of Peter Quill’s “Awesome Mix Vol....

‘Joker’ Coming In Fall 2019, Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Moves Up, And More Release Date News By Ben Pearson/July 18, 2018 4:44 pm EST Todd Phillips’s origin movie about Gotham City’s Clown Prince of Crime now has an official title: Joker. Looks like the film took Sean Parker’s advice and dropped the “the.” (It’s cleaner.) They’re moving quickly on this one, because Joker, which stars Joaquin Phoenix, is coming to theaters next year....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Set Photo Shows Off A Familiar Ride By Ben Pearson/June 24, 2017 10:00 am EST Yesterday, we learned that the official title for Jurassic World 2 is Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Now a set photo has surfaced that shows off a vehicle that should look very familiar to any fans of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie that kicked off this franchise. Take a look at the Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom set photo below....

‘Kin’ Trailer: Two Brothers Go On The Run From A Menacing James Franco By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 27, 2018 2:30 pm EST Netflix and streaming platforms have been rolling out so much vaguely cyberpunk-inspired science-fiction lately that it’s easy to be overwhelmed. But Lionsgate is bringing a new sci-fi film to theaters, and it’s one that boasts an impressive cast. Kin stars Dennis Quaid, Zoe Kravitz, Jack Reynor, Carrie Coon, and newcomer Myles Truitt in a promising sci-fi film about a boy who stumbles upon a strange weapon, and the chaos that ensues after he does....

‘Salt And Fire’ Trailer: Werner Herzog’s New Movie Is Weirder Than It Looks By Jacob Hall/Oct. 10, 2016 2:00 pm EST I didn’t write a full review of Werner Herzog’s Salt and Fire from Fantastic Fest 2016, but when I put together my silly end-of-festival awards, it walked away with two imaginary statuettes: “Most WTF Character” and “Most Quotable Movie.” That first award was well-earned because this is one odd movie, fluctuating between bonkers and boring on a scene-by-scene basis....

‘Spectral’ Trailer: Soldiers Battle Ghosts (Or Something) On Netflix By Angie Han/Dec. 2, 2016 4:30 pm EST Eager to see a sci-fi war movie this month but too lazy to leave your house for Rogue One? Netflix has got you covered. Last month the streaming service scooped up Legendary’s Spectral. Nic Mathieu’s directorial debut centers around a Special Ops team going on a deadly mission to stop a wave of otherworldly forces....

‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ Clips: Robin Becomes A Master Builder, Gleams The Cube & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2017 10:00 am EST Now that it’s officially February, we just nine short days away from seeing The LEGO Batman Movie in theaters. And since Ben Affleck recently dropped out of directing The Batman for Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment, it’s about the only Batman project we’re still pumped for right now....

‘The Santa Clause’ Honest Trailer: When The Magic Of Christmas Becomes A Cursed Job By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2017 6:00 am EST It’s the holiday season, which means all those Christmas movies that we avoid watching the rest of the year suddenly make it onto TV and into our DVD players and streaming devices again. One of the movies that people can’t seem to get enough of this time of year is The Santa Clause....

‘The Space Between Us’ Trailer: Asa Butterfield Visits Earth By Jack Giroux/Jan. 6, 2017 1:00 pm EST The Space Between Us, the teen sci-fi romance starring Asa Butterfield and Britt Robertson, was originally scheduled to come out last month, but it got pushed back to this February. The fish-out-of-water story sends a Martian, a teenager who was born on Mars, to Earth for the first time, where he’ll look for his father with a little assistance from an Earthling friend....

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Trailer: Bayhem Goes Back In Time By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2016 7:09 pm EST As if the very concept of alien robot cars at war weren’t crazy enough, Transformers: The Last Knight is throwing still more nuttiness into the mix. Like baby dinobots, who need Grimlock to teach them to spit fire. And Squeeks, a cute little Vespa Transformer reminiscent of BB-8. The return of Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, genius inventor....

A ‘Spotlight’-Style Harvey Weinstein Investigation Movie Is In The Works By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2018 6:30 am EST The investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct is getting a Spotlight-style feature film courtesy of Annapurna and Plan B. The film will focus on New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who broke the Weinstein story last year. It was only a matter of time before the film industry decided to tackle the Harvey Weinstein story head-on....

Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Biopic ‘Blonde’ Is Not A Done Deal At Netflix By Jack Giroux/Dec. 2, 2016 3:00 pm EST “I think that Blonde will be one of the ten best movies ever made,” Andrew Dominik says. “That’s why I want to do it.” And the director behind The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford has been wanting to do it for many years now. In 2010, Blonde and My Week with Marilyn were the competing Marilyn Monroe biopics....

By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2017 12:00 pm EST Doctor Strange is officially out of theaters, and it racked up an impressive $675.8 million at the worldwide box office. It’s going to make even more now that it’s available to download on Digital HD, and next week it will be available on Blu-ray and DVD too. Despite the film’s success though, Marvel Studios has been quiet about any plans they might have for a sequel....

Cool Stuff: Don’t You Forget About Andy Fairhurst’s ‘The Breakfast Club’ Print Set By Ethan Anderton/June 30, 2017 6:00 am EST Even though this year doesn’t mark a special anniversary for the pinnacle high school movie The Breakfast Club, that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate one of the classic 1980s films that John Hughes gave us. Artist Andy Fairhurst has created a new set of prints in honor of The Breakfast Club, each one focusing on one of the five teens stuck in detention at Shermer High School from a unique perspective....

Could ‘Doctor Strange’ And ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Have An Interdimensional Connection? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 2016 9:00 am EST About a week ago, director James Gunn pointed our attention to a piece of new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 concept art which showed the ragtag team of space criminals turned heroes for hire. Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon and the infant-sized Groot could be seen jumping through the air facing off against a terrifying, tentacled creature....

Daily Podcast: Is MoviePass Dead? 24, Hobbit, National Treasure, Joker & Mission: Impossible - Fallout By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the July 31st 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to discuss the latest film news, including a 24 reboot, MoviePass, Topher Grace’s Hobbit trilogy, National Treasure 3, the Joker movie and Mission: Impossible – Fallout....

Ezra Miller Wants Jeffrey Dean Morgan To Play Batman In ‘Flashpoint’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2017 2:30 pm EST Ezra Miller is bringing the Flash to the DCEU in Justice League, and the actor is already looking toward the future for his character, specifically the in-development Flashpoint film. When pressed for casting recommendations, Miller confirmed he’d be more than happy to have The Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan join the Flashpoint cast as Batman....