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Daily Podcast: Avengers: Infinity War News And An Interview With Marvel Studios Head Kevin Feige By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the April 30, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about a bunch of news surrounding Avengers: Infinity War, and audio from my interview with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige....

Daily Podcast: Is Box Office Indicative Of Quality? Guardians 3, Han Solo, Netflix, Star Trek, Hamilton By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2017 4:30 pm EST Feedback: A couple corrections from previous episodes: In The Water Cooler: In the News: In The Mailbag: Logan in Seattle writes in in response to all these studio folks complaining about RT and Metacritic, “completely ridiculous arguments if you ask me, and trying to understand what the real culprit is against movies of quality....

Daily Podcast: What Is The Future Of Physical Media? Should Netflix Movies Be Eligible For Oscars? Cryptocurrency, Meltdown Comics, 4DX, Avengers 4, MIB By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the March 22, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by Weekend Editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about Steven Spielberg, Cryptocurrency movie funding, Meltdown Comics, 4DX x ScreenX, Avengers 4, and Men in Black....

Dynamite To Publish ‘James Bond Origin’ Comics Detailing Bond’s Adventures During WWII By Ben Pearson/June 21, 2018 5:30 am EST Have you ever wondered what James Bond was up to before he became the world’s greatest secret agent? Dynamite Entertainment and the Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. have teamed up for a new James Bond Origin comic series that will answer all of your burning questions about Bond’s days as a teenager during the turmoil of World War II....

Final ‘Wind River’ Trailer Makes It Out To Look Like A Typical Action Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 24, 2017 3:00 pm EST Wind River is a brutal and somber neo-Western punctured with sudden bursts of violence, similar to director and screenwriter Talor Sheridan’s previous films that he penned, Hell or High Water and Sicario. A high-speed action movie it is not, yet that is what the final trailer for Wind River makes it out to be....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 16, 2018 8:30 am EST She saved the world a lot…on both the screen and on the page. Buffy Summers has become an ubiquitous pop culture figure thanks in large part to the iconic supernatural TV show that ran from 1997 to 2003, but also thanks to the comic books that ran alongside the show and continued the story of the vampire slayer long after. Now, that era is coming to an end....

Harry Potter, Mad Max: Fury Road & More Go 100% Soft In ‘Mass Hysteria 2’ Art Show By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2016 6:00 am EST The artwork of 100% Soft is unmistakable. The artist just has a way of creating the most adorable versions of characters from film and television, always giving proper respect to even the largest roster of characters. And his latest exhibition opening this weekend is no different....

Michael Moore Will Self-Distribute ‘Michael Moore In TrumpLand’ By Jack Giroux/Oct. 21, 2016 12:30 pm EST The other day we got the surprise news that Michael Moore has a new movie coming out. Not only has he finished a brand new doc, but it was also shown to audiences this week. Michael Moore in Trumpland, based on the director’s one-man play, premiered this week, just three weeks before the November 8th presidential election....

Superhero Bits: Avengers 4 Set Photos, Laurence Fishburne’s Secret Marvel Project & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2017 4:00 am EST What’s in store for the season finale of Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series? Do new Avengers 4 set photos indicate a flashback or time travel to The Avengers in 2012? Did you know there were once talks of a Catwoman spin-off after Batman Returns? What secret Marvel project is Laurence Fishburne working on?...

Superhero Bits: Batman Thwarts Clowns In UK, Monkey Attack On Batman Returns & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 12, 2016 5:00 pm EST What does Supergirl executive producer Andrew Kreisberg have to say about Miley Cyrus’ remarks about the show’s title? Would you believe that Batman is helping stop the clown terror wave over in the United Kingdom? Did you know Danny DeVito had his crotch attacked by a monkey on the set of Batman Returns?...

T.J. Miller’s ‘Gorburger Show’ Cancelled Following Sexual Assault Allegations By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2017 3:30 pm EST In the wake of news involving sexual assault allegations against Silicon Valley and Deadpool actor T.J. Miller, Comedy Central has announced it’s cancelled Miller’s puppet series The Gorburger Show. Comedy Central claims the decision to cancel the show came before the allegations against Miller broke. The actor has denied the allegations against him....

Take Solace In The ‘Master Of None’ Season 2 Trailer As ‘Man Seeking Woman’ Gets Canceled By Ethan Anderton/April 5, 2017 3:30 pm EST We have good news, and we have bad news. The bad news is that FXX has officially canceled the comedy series Man Seeking Woman after three seasons after the ratings just weren’t strong enough to support another season of the series. The good news is that you can take solace in knowing that the second season of Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None is just over a month away, and a new trailer gives us some more insight into what’s in store for Dev after the first season finale took everyone by surprise in the fall of 2015....

VOTD: Have You Heard Of These Awful Pixar Ripoffs? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 28, 2016 5:00 am EST Movie goes have gotten used to seeing competing movies about the same concept hit theaters in the same year. Back in the 1990s there was Volcano and Dante’s Peak, Babe and Gordy, Armageddon and Deep Impact and more. In recent years, we’ve had the likes of Jobs and Steve Jobs, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, Hercules and The Legend of Hercules....

Watch A ‘Morgan’ Trailer Created With The Help Of IBM’s Super Computer Watson By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2016 5:00 am EST We’ve already seen what happens with artificially intelligent robots watch the trailer for Morgan, but what happens when IBM’s advanced learning machine known as Watson (the one that dominated Jeopardy!) is tasked with helping create a movie trailer for the sci-fi thriller? See how Watson fared with its selection of clips that were assembled into a trailer after the jump....

Watch Rick Moranis Return As ‘Spaceballs’ Villain Dark Helmet On ‘The Goldbergs’ By Ethan Anderton/May 9, 2018 1:30 pm EST Earlier this week, we learned the surprising news that Rick Moranis was coming out of pseudo-retirement to reprise one of his most famous big screen roles. The comedian will be appearing as the Spaceballs bad guy Dark Helmet, a parody of Star Wars villain Darth Vader, on tonight’s episode of The Goldbergs on ABC....

‘Black Adam’ Movie Could Begin Filming In 2019, Says Dwayne Johnson By Ben Pearson/April 11, 2018 1:00 pm EST Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is making the press rounds for his new video game movie Rampage, and it was only a matter of time until someone asked him about his slated appearance as the DC Comics anti-hero Black Adam. In a new interview, Johnson says his Black Adam movie is aiming for a 2019 production start – but if the Shazam movie falters at the box office, will Black Adam happen at all?...

Deadpool 2 Teaser Trailer Easter Eggs The Music The Deadpool 2 teaser trailer begins with Wade Wilson strolling along, listening to music on his headphones. In the online version, the song playing is John Parr’s theme from St. Elmo’s Fire / Man in Motion. The theatrical version has a different song for whatever reason (maybe rights costs?) – Juice Newton’s Angel in the Morning. This is, of course, the song that is used in the opening for the original Deadpool film....

‘Flight Of The Conchords’ Played A New Song On ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2018 12:30 pm EST Flight of the Conchords ended all too soon with its final second season back in 2009, and fans have been hoping for some kind of revival during this ongoing period of Peak TV that has seen plenty of previously concluded shows brought back from the dead. They’re getting their wish next month with Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie reuniting for a concert special on HBO next month....

‘Logan’ Synopsis Teases Another Connection To ‘X-Men’ Comics By Jacob Hall/Feb. 3, 2017 11:00 am EST I’ve spoken to a number of people who have seen the first 40 minutes of Logan and were blown away by it, noting that those excellent trailers seem to be selling the actual movie director James Mangold has made. While Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine movie is still a month away from hitting theaters, it will premiere on February 17 at the Berlin Film Festival....

‘Memory: The Origins Of Alien’ Documentary Explains How Ridley Scott’s Sci-Fi Classic Came Together By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2018 4:30 pm EST There have been plenty of great feature-length documentaries about filmmaking: American Movie, Lost in La Mancha, Hearts of Darkness, Best Worst Movie, Jodorowsky’s Dune, and Burden of Dreams immediately spring to mind. Now a new documentary aims to join those hallowed ranks. It’s called Memory: The Origins of Alien, and it’s an exploration of Ridley Scott’s seminal 1979 sci-fi horror classic that features never-before-seen materials from the archives of writer Dan O’Bannon and designer H....