Tom Hanks To Play TV Icon Mr. Rogers In ‘You Are My Friend’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 29, 2018 11:36 am EST TriStar Pictures has picked up distribution rights to a biopic called You Are My Friend. But the big news is that national treasure Tom Hanks is attached to play the influential Presbyterian minister turned TV legend, Mr. Rogers. Find out what we know about the Tom Hanks Mr. Rogers movie below....
Trailer Roundup: ‘Hostiles’, ‘A Fantastic Woman,’ ‘Wheelman,’ And ‘The Lodgers’ By Ben Pearson/Sept. 8, 2017 4:00 pm EST In the midst of all of the news items we regularly cover, sometimes a trailer or two finds its way past us and slips through the cracks. That’s especially true during a week that contains a major holiday. So meet me below and check out these trailers for Hostiles, The Lodgers, A Fantastic Woman, The Man Who Invented Christmas, and Wheelman, all in one place....
‘Black Panther’ TV Spots: All Hail The New King Of Superheroes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2018 6:30 am EST A host of new Black Panther TV spots ask what it means to be king. For Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa, it seems like it means new threats, new threads, new gadgets, and a sick entourage. There’s a month left until Marvel’s next highly anticipated movie hits theaters, and the studio is kicking the marketing into high gear with three new TV spots to build buzz for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first solo black superhero movie....
‘Custody’ Trailer: This Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Winner Is A Chilling Domestic Abuse Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 4, 2018 12:00 pm EST Xavier Legrand first began his career as an actor, as a supporting character in the classic 1987 French film Au Revoir les Enfants. But Legrand has slowly made a name for himself behind the camera, receiving an Oscar nomination for his 2013 short film Avant que de tout perdre....
‘Extinction’ Headed To Netflix After Being Pulled From Theaters By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 9, 2018 6:30 am EST In what seems to be a continuing trend, Extinction has become the latest film once intended for theatrical release to find itself sold to Netflix. The film, starring Michael Pena and Lizzy Caplan, was pulled by Universal from its theatrical release two months ago. Now, it will skip theaters entirely and end up on everyone’s favorite streaming service....
‘Gladiator’ Sequel: Ridley Scott Has A Plan To Bring Russell Crowe Back By Jack Giroux/March 13, 2017 3:30 pm EST Ridley Scott knows how to resurrect Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) for a Gladiator sequel. It’s been 17 years since the somewhat divisive Best Picture winner came out, but Scott still has the desire to bring Maximus back from the dead. Unfortunately, the sequel he envisions today probably isn’t the bonkers Gladiator 2 script Nick Cave wrote....
‘Neighbors’ Director Rounds Up ‘Friends From College’ At Netflix With Fred Savage, Keegan-Michael Key & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 2016 3:00 pm EST Earlier in the summer, director Nick Stoller brought Neighbors: Sorority Rising to the big screen, a surprisingly satisfying comedy sequel. But for his next project, he’s heading to the small screen with a new comedy project at Netflix. Friends from College is a new comedy series coming from Nick Stoller and his wife Francesca Delbanco, and they’ve rounded up a solid comedic cast and includes Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Fred Savage and more....
‘The Commuter’ International Teaser Trailer: Liam Neeson’s Latest Looks Ludicrous By Ben Pearson/Sept. 21, 2017 12:30 pm EST Earlier this month, we were treated to the first teaser for Spanish filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra’s newest action thriller The Commuter, which reunites him with his frequent collaborator Liam Neeson (Non-Stop, Unknown, Run All Night). That trailer featured a small glimpse at the blend of goofiness and deadly seriousness with which Collet-Serra tends to approach genre movies like these, but a new international teaser has just come out, and this thing makes me want to inject the film directly into my veins as soon as possible....
‘The Florida Project’ Movie: Willem Dafoe Goes To Disney World In ‘Tangerine’ Director’s Next Film By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2016 12:30 pm EST At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, I sat in the library theater for the premiere of an ultra low budget film titled Tangerine. Filmmaker Sean Baker’s Duplass Brothers-produced dramedy told the story of a transgender working girl searching Hollywood on Christmas Eve for the pimp who broke her heart....
‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ Movie Coming From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Matt Shakman By Jacob Hall/Dec. 8, 2017 2:19 pm EST If you watched the Game of Thrones episode “The Spoils of War” earlier this year and thought “Wow, whoever directed this is going to get to make a big movie in the very near future,” congrats. You were right. And it looks like director Matt Shakman will make his big screen debut with an adaptation of the beloved children’s novel The Phantom Tollbooth....
‘Tomb Raider’: Walton Goggins Joins Alicia Vikander By Angie Han/Dec. 7, 2016 12:30 pm EST Alicia Vikander is finally getting some company in the Tomb Raider reboot, though her Lara Croft may not be so thrilled about it. Walton Goggins is closing in on the villain role in the video game adaptation, which is being directed by Roar Uthaug (The Wave). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Goggins is in final negotiations to join the cast....
‘xXx: Return Of Xander Cage’ TV Spot Brings Back Another Familiar Face; ‘xXx 4’ Already Being Discussed By Jack Giroux/Jan. 13, 2017 9:00 am EST The wait is almost over. In nine days, audiences will see Vin Diesel return to one of his earliest star-making roles, Xander Cage. It’s been over 14 years since Diesel last played the tatted and beefed up super spy in xXx. He’s not the only one returning to this franchise, though....
Ang Lee May Direct Long-Awaited Clone Thriller ‘Gemini Man’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 24, 2017 11:30 am EST Ang Lee has become quite fixated on technology advances in film, with his latest films like Life of Pi and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk experimenting with everything from 3D filming to high frame rates. Despite the meager reception to the experimental Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, it looks like Lee won’t be shying away from boundary-pushing high-tech storytelling, as he’s reportedly eyeing the director’s chair for Gemini Man, a spy thriller about an aging assassin who is hunted by a younger clone of himself....
Apple Orders New Sci-Fi Series ‘See’, From ‘I Am Legend’ Director Francis Lawrence By Ben Pearson/Jan. 12, 2018 5:00 pm EST Apple is slowly but surely building up a nice little library of television shows. Now the company has added one more to its roster: a series called See, which is written by Eastern Promises and Taboo writer Steven Knight and will be directed by Francis Lawrence, the filmmaker behind I Am Legend and the Hunger Games sequels....
Jake Jump An Adventure Time-themed water slide that spits you into a drop, then powers you up a ramp with a blast of water before sending you back down the other side. Goop Loop A Ben 10-themed slide begins with a surprise drop, and then propels riders into “a 360 spin across tight curves and corners”. Rainfall Rainicorn Another Adventure Time-themed attraction, this one “mimics what it feels like to fly on a rainbow” by putting riders through unpredictable curves and “a mix of total darkness and open air....
Daily Podcast: HT’s Top 10 Movies Of 2017, 2017’s Box Office, Cloverfield, Bright 2 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2018 4:30 pm EST On the January 3, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest news, including the Bright sequel, and we’ll take a look at the state of the box office: 2017 movie ticket sales, female-led films, and the Cloverfield sequel gets pushed back again....
First Look At ‘The Leftovers’ Final Season: The Garvey Family Goes To Australia By Jack Giroux/Dec. 21, 2016 3:00 pm EST The co-creators of The Leftovers, Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, recently announced the third and final season of their drama premieres next April. Season two brought the Garvey family to Texas, but some of them are picking up and moving again this upcoming season. Most of season three takes place in Australia, where Kevin Gary Jr....
How ‘X-Men’ Completely Changed The Design Of ‘The Mummy’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2016 2:00 pm EST The titular movie monster in Universal’s reboot of The Mummy is already drastically different than any previous incarnation because this is the first time the undead terror has been played by a woman. Sofia Boutella is the monster at the center of the movie, however, the original plan wasn’t going to be all that innovative....
M. Night Shyamalan Controls The Sequel Options To His Films By Jack Giroux/Jan. 26, 2017 12:00 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t shown too much interest in making sequels. (He had one in mind for The Last Airbender, but that didn’t pan out.) In the 18 years since the success of The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan has been lucky enough to write and direct mostly original movies. If there’s one sequel we’d be happy to see him make, though, it’s an Unbreakable follow-up....
New ‘Fast 8’ Image Reveals When The First Trailer Will Arrive By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2016 8:30 am EST Back in August, production wrapped on Fast 8, the next sequel in the surprisingly long-running Fast & Furious franchise. The official page for the film series announced the end of production and teased the arrival of the first trailer in December. Now Vin Diesel has taken to his Facebook page with a more specific update featuring an image of himself with a sequel and an exact date for the trailer’s release....
