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Daily Podcast: Eighth Grade, Venture Bros., Christopher Robin, P.S. I Love You, Hogwarts Mystery, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the August 6, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss what they’ve been up to in another edition of Water Cooler Monday.You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it)....

Donald Glover Wants The Lando Movie To Be ‘Frasier In Space’ By Chris Evangelista/May 25, 2018 5:30 am EST Everybody wants a Lando movie to happen, especially now that polymath Donald Glover is playing the character in Solo: A Star Wars Story. And it turns out, Donald Glover has an idea for a Lando movie himself, and it’s not what you’d expect – if Glover has his way, the Lando standalone film will be like Frasier in space...

Lexi Alexander To Direct ‘Crossface’ About Wrestler Turned Murderer Chris Benoit By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 14, 2016 6:30 am EST Here is the official book synopsis for Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit & the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry: In the notoriously crooked and exploitative world of professional wrestling, WWE legend Chris Benoit was supposed to be the exception. Chris was universally recognized as the best pro wrestling had to offer: a decent, humble, and devoted family man loved and admired by all who knew him....

Nobody F––ks With The First Look At John Turturro In That ‘The Big Lebowski’ Spin-Off By Jacob Hall/Aug. 19, 2016 11:30 am EST I probably have to eat a pile of shoes or hats or something because I’m pretty sure I’ve said in public, on more than occasion, that John Turturro’s much-discussed The Big Lebwoski spin-off was obviously a pipe dream that was never going to happen. Well, I was apparently wrong....

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Cast In Han Solo Movie? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2017 10:45 am EST Update: The London Metro caught up with Phoebe Waller-Bridge at the NME Awards after she accepted the award for Best TV series, and the actress claims that she knows nothing about being cast in the Han Solo movie: Of course, the publication notes that she said the above comments with “a grin on her face,” so it’s very likely she’s just playing coy about the subject....

Steven Spielberg Gave Advice To Christopher Nolan For ‘Dunkirk’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2017 11:30 am EST Christopher Nolan’s recent Dunkirk is not your typical war epic. It’s not so much obsessed with focusing on battles as it is avoiding them. Yet Nolan wasn’t above looking to past war films for inspiration, particularly one of the most famous war films ever made: Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. In a new interview, it’s revealed that Steven Spielberg gave advice to Christopher Nolan during the making of Dunkirk....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Lion King’ Behind The Scenes, ‘Westworld’ In Six Minutes & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 4, 2017 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, a new featurette from the upcoming Signature Edition of The Lion King on home video shows off never-before-seen footage of the voice actors from the 1994 modern classic recording their lines, including Jeremy Irons doing a rendition of “Be Prepared....

Video: Celebrate ‘Firefly’s 15th Anniversary With This Look Back At Joss Whedon’s Space Western By Ben Pearson/June 5, 2018 6:30 am EST It’s easy to forget that when Joss Whedon was hired to direct The Avengers, the decision raised some eyebrows from Hollywood’s elite. Whedon only had one movie to his name at that point, and was far better known for his work in television. But those of us who had seen Firefly, Whedon’s pulpy, ensemble-driven sci-fi western, and Serenity, the film continuation of the story, knew he had the chops to bring Earth’s Mightiest Heroes together....

Watch This Groovy ‘Ash Vs Evil Dead’ Beer Commercial By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 5, 2018 7:30 am EST It’s the first week after the holidays and the week itself is almost over, so don’t even pretend you’re actually doing work. Instead, run out the clock and watch this Ash vs. Evil Dead beer commercial, ahead of the show’s return next month. What are you doing right now? Just what I thought: nothing....

‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ ‘Last Man On Earth’ & ‘The Mick’ Canceled At FOX, But Can They Be Saved? By Ethan Anderton/May 11, 2018 7:30 am EST At the end of the day yesterday, FOX decided to do what they do best: cancel shows that people love. The network announced the cancellation of the cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine starring Andy Samberg, the post-apocalytpic comedy Last Man on Earth starring Will Forte and the dysfunctional family comedy The Mick starring Kaitlin Olson....

‘Early Man’ Trailer: The Creators Of ‘Wallace And Gromit’ Bring You Back To The Bronze Age By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 7, 2017 8:00 am EST While hand-drawn animation seems to be all but extinct in the feature film business, claymation will make one last gasp for relevancy with a new film by the talented creators and animation studio behind the still-great Wallace and Gromit. Lo and behold Early Man, the stop-motion animated film from Aardman Studios about a caveman who discovers that civilization has quickly advanced all around him — immediately making him and his tribe endangered....

‘Jack Ryan’ Trailer: John Krasinski Is Ready For Action By Chris Evangelista/July 5, 2018 8:30 am EST Jack Ryan Trailer The new Jack Ryan trailer features sound bites from various U.S. Presidents saber-rattling about battling foes. Make of that what you will! The real selling-point here, though, is the non-stop action. While Hollywood has always tried to sell adaptations of Tom Clancy’s airport paperbacks as big, exciting affairs, they’re not really that action packed....

‘Peter Rabbit’ Movie Recruits James Corden, Daisy Ridley & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 26, 2016 11:30 am EST We’ve seen a few iconic literary characters get live-action and computer generated hybrid films, like Stuart Little and Paddington. Now another classic character from literature is getting the same treatment. Columbia Pictures is working on a Peter Rabbit movie based on the beloved series of books written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter with Annie remake director Will Gluck at the helm....

‘The Bye Bye Man’ Trailer: Attractive Young People Try Really Hard To Ignore Doug Jones By Angie Han/Dec. 15, 2016 4:00 pm EST STX Entertainment has unveiled the latest trailer for The Bye Bye Man, a supernatural horror-thriller that has Doug Jones (Hellboy) playing a sinister force who’s been responsible for unthinkable evil. The problem is that avoiding his grasp is easier said than done. As the attractive young heroes/victims keep advising each other, “Don’t say it, don’t think it....

A24 Opens ‘Hereditary’ Etsy Shop Featuring Creepy Dolls From The Movie By Ben Pearson/June 1, 2018 6:30 am EST Distribution company A24 is getting especially creative with the marketing campaign for its upcoming horror movie Hereditary. In the film, the central family’s daughter Charlie Graham (Milly Shapiro) makes bizarre and unsettling dolls made out of craft items and reconstituted junk. In advance of the film’s release, A24 has opened a Hereditary Etsy shop that showcases some of “Charlie’s” creepy work, and you can see plenty of examples below....

Aardman Animation Is Working On ‘Chicken Run 2’ By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2018 1:30 pm EST It’s been 18 years since Aardman Animation delivered the stop-motion prison escape comedy Chicken Run. The film from 2000 focused on a group of chickens who hatch a plan to bust out of their coop when they learn what deadly plans an evil farm owner has for them. To this day, Chicken Run is still the highest grossing stop-motion animated movie of all time, and now is apparently the time to make a sequel happen....

By Ethan Anderton/March 22, 2017 8:00 am EST It’s no secret that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story went through some dramatic changes during the development process. The movie that ended up in theaters is drastically different from the one that executive producer and visual effects supervisor John Knoll originally pitched, and it even has significant changes that were made from the first draft of the script by Gary Whitta....

Musker and Clements Interview Eventually, Musker teamed with Clements to helm films. The pair worked in traditional animation for years, before moving on to CG in 2016 with Moana. “I never worked with Walt [Disney],” Musker also told Entertainment Weekly, reflecting on moving from traditional animation to CGI with Moana, “but I somehow feel that he was always looking at the next technological hurdle. Every one of his movies was looking for some way forward....

LOL: Woody Harrelson’s Famous Friends Don’t Believe His Live Movie Is Going To Work By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2017 5:00 am EST Before we see Woody Harrelson take Caesar and the rest of his super-intelligent simian army in War for the Planet of the Apes this summer, he’s taking on an equally daunting endeavor: shooting the world’s first live movie. Lost in London is an ambitious project that will have Woody Harrelson directing and starring in a movie that will be live-streamed into theaters as it’s shot on-location in London this week on January 19th....

Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ Is Now The Highest Grossing Superhero Movie Ever By Ethan Anderton/March 24, 2018 1:00 pm EST Marvel’s Black Panther has become even more of a box office giant than any of the industry’s wildest predictions and expectations. The film has broken record after record since hitting theaters on February 16, and now it has a new crowning achievement. Even though Black Panther won’t be at the top of the box office for six weekends in a row, the money raked in this weekend has sent the movie past $624 million on the domestic charts....