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Parents Built Their Autistic Son A Mini-Blockbuster Video After The Local Rental Store Closed By Ethan Anderton/April 27, 2017 6:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. MY AUTISTIC BROTHER WAS SAD THAT BLOCK BUSTER WAS CLOSING DOWN SO MY PARENTS MADE A MINI ONE AT HOME FOR HIM! 😭❤️ pic.twitter.com/B4oo74NBvi — jav✨ (@jxviizun) April 23, 2017 After one final trip to the store, Hector’s parents created a Blockbuster Video in their home, complete with signs from the store and all his favorite movies on the rack....

See The Best Of 366 Minimalist Movie Posters One Artist Created For Each Day In 2016 By Ethan Anderton/April 4, 2017 6:00 am EST When the previous year ends, people like to set a goal to achieve in the new year. Whether it’s losing weight, reading more books, seeing more movies, or eating less pizza, people always hope to accomplish something they can be proud of. In the case of artist Pete Majarich, he decided to create a minimalist movie poster every single day in the entire year of 2016....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Edgar Wright Talks Ant-Man, Infinity War Set Photo, Justice League Photo Filters & More By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2017 5:00 pm EST Marisa Tomei talks about her role in Spider-Man: Homecoming, complete with a quick new clip from the movie. Heroic Hollywood imagines five ways that Venom could still possibly show up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Join the League with the new #JusticeLeague masks, only on Facebook....

The ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ Teaser: Anastasia Steele And Christian Grey Return By Jack Giroux/Sept. 12, 2016 11:30 am EST After Fifty Shades of Grey made over $571 million at the box office, Universal wasted little time getting its sequels up and running. The studio hired director James Foley to shoot the next installments back-to-back, and the first of the two sequels hits theaters next Valentine’s Day. Tomorrow, a full trailer will be released for Fifty Shades Darker, but in the meantime, you can watch a 20-second tease for it and check out a poster for the film....

The Morning Watch: ‘Black Panther’ Is ‘Coming To America’, ‘Geostorm’ Vs ‘The Snowman’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 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, Cracked tries to figure out whether Geostorm is worse than The Snowman....

The Morning Watch: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Edition By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 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, check out the highlights from the special Star Wars: The Last Jedi edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live featuring director Rian Johnson along with cast members Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), Daisy Ridley (Rey), John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Andy Serkis (Supreme Leader Snoke), Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux), Gwendoline Christie (Captain Phasma), Laura Dern (Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo), and Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico)....

VOTD: ‘The Belko Experiment’ Gets A Bloody LEGO Trailer By Ethan Anderton/March 15, 2017 6:30 am EST Even though all the attention will be on Beauty and the Beast this weekend, those who may not be interested in a live-action adaptation of an animated musical might take solace in the wild violence of The Belko Experiment. Written by James Gunn and directed by Wolf Creek helmer Greg McLean, the action thriller takes place at a not-for-profit company in Colombia where the employees find themselves suddenly faced with the task of killing each other, or else risk being killed themselves....

VOTD: See The Seamless ‘Black Panther’ VFX Used To Create The South Korea Car Chase By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2018 6:00 am EST Visual effects have become so advanced that many times it’s difficult to tell what is real and what is created in post-production. Digital effects can be used to create digital doubles of actors, create entire environments, or make any of these things disappear from any given shot....

Water Cooler: Walter Mitty, Annihilation, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Mission: Impossible, Rampage, Searching, Blindspotting & More By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2018 5:30 pm EST In The Mail Bag: At The Water Cooler: Other articles mentioned: 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....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Recruits Black Panther’s Sister By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 28, 2017 4:00 pm EST The already-massive cast of Avengers: Infinity War keeps growing by the minute, and another superhero supporting character has been recruited for the cause. Black Panther actress Letitia Wright confirmed that she will appear in the third Avengers film as Shuri, the younger sister to Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa. Wright confirmed that she will appear in the superhero super-sequel on Twitter, writing “Blessings … super excited to be a part of this,” in a quote-tweet of IMDB’s casting announcement....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Trailer: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes May Have Finally Met Their Match By Ben Pearson/Nov. 29, 2017 5:29 am EST It’s all been leading up to this. Well, technically, it’s all still leading up to Avengers 4, but since that movie doesn’t come out until 2019, we’ll take what we can get. As promised in a trailer tease video yesterday, Marvel Studios has unveiled the highly-anticipated first trailer for Avengers: Infinity War, the superhero sequel that sees practically every hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe uniting to face down the Mad Titan Thanos (Josh Brolin)....

‘Bad Boys For Life’ Will Show “What Becomes Of Bad Boys When They’re Not Boys Anymore,” Says Joe Carnahan By Jack Giroux/Aug. 19, 2016 2:30 pm EST After being absent from the big screen for 13 years, Detective Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) were initially scheduled to return next June. Unfortunately, last week we heard Sony had pushed Bad Boys For Life to 2018. The reason for the delay?...

‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs’ Series Preview: Flint Lockwood Has A New Invention By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2017 12:00 pm EST Since almost everything is recycled nowadays, it should come as no surprise that a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs animated series is coming to Cartoon Network in the near future (especially since we reported on it back in 2014). Plenty of movies have been turned into animated series after they found success on the big screen, such as the forthcoming Tangled animated series coming to Disney Channel....

‘God Particle’ Is ‘Cloverfield 3’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2016 7:33 pm EST In February, I wrote a post theorizing that the JJ Abrams-produced Julius Onah-directed space station set thriller God Particle might be the third film in a Cloverfield film series. I even asked Abrams this directly, which he slyly responded, “Well, that remains to be seen.” Today my prediction has been confirmed: God Particle is Cloverfield 3. The confirmation comes via The Wrap, who has learned that God Particle will be the third in a series of connected Cloverfield films and confirmed the rumors that Abrams and studio partner Paramount Pictures are quietly developing more movies for the shared universe....

‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Is Coming To Broadway And Many Original Cast Members Are Coming With It By Ben Pearson/Aug. 2, 2017 11:00 am EST We’ve known for a while that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the award-winning two-part play that continues J.K. Rowling’s beloved story of The Boy Who Lived, would be coming to Broadway, but it was unclear whether the production would recast any of its key actors when it came to American shores....

‘Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle’ Featurette: The Game Will Always Find A Way To Be Played By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 29, 2017 10:00 am EST You might not expect a movie like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle to fit in with the spirit of other holiday movies that usually get released around Christmas time, but that’s exactly what Dwayne Johnson hoped to accomplish. In a new Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle featurette, the wrestler turned actor says, “We wanted to make a movie that encapsulates what the holiday spirit really means: the spirit of wonderment [and] discovering who you are....

‘Justice League’ Featurette: Putting The Super In Superhero Team By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 10, 2017 9:30 am EST A troubled production and an uneven final trailer can’t stop the actors from just having plain fun in Justice League. The cast are all grins in this “first look” (which is weird because it’s not really a first look) at the Warner Bros. superhero team-up film, which boasts a mood a hundred times more ebullient than most of the DC films have been thus far....

‘Operation Finale’ Trailer: Oscar Isaac Hunts A Nazi By Ben Pearson/June 5, 2018 12:30 pm EST In Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Best Picture winner Schindler’s List, Ben Kingsley played a Jewish administrator who aided in the effort to save lives during the Holocaust. In a new movie called Operation Finale, Kingsley steps to the other side and plays a Nazi official responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people. MGM has released the first Operation Finale trailer, which stars Oscar Isaac as a Mossad agent who’s tracking Kingsley’s character in an attempt to bring him to justice....

‘Searching’ Trailer And Poster: No One Is Lost Without A Trace By Ben Pearson/June 19, 2018 10:30 am EST A father scrambles to find his missing teenaged daughter, wracking his brain to think of anything that could give him a clue to her whereabouts. With no other options, he begins to comb through her digital life and discovers that he didn’t know his daughter nearly as well as he thought....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Gives Spidey’s Suit An Upgrade That Fans Will Love By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 4, 2016 1:00 pm EST This past weekend brought Comic-Con Experience 2016 to Brazil, and with it came the debut of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer (which arrived online shortly thereafter for our viewing pleasure). But another Marvel Studios trailer was shown that we haven’t seen yet, and likely won’t see until next week when it debuts with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story....