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‘An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn’ Review: Aubrey Plaza Anchors An Absurd Rom-Com [Sundance] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 25, 2018 11:00 am EST The Sundance Film Festival is often populated with unconventional love stories, but An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn may take the proverbial cake this year. Legion co-stars Aubrey Plaza and Jemaine Clement make an unlikely pair in this deeply odd movie, a screwball odyssey into the absurd in which barely a single scene plays out in a conventional manner....

‘Bobby Kennedy For President’ Trailer: Netflix’s Latest Documentary Series By Chris Evangelista/April 12, 2018 6:30 am EST A new Netflix documentary series chronicles the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy – a campaign that was cut short by an assassin’s bullet. Watch the Bobby Kennedy for President trailer below. Robert F. Kennedy might have been elected President of the United States in 1968, and history might have looked a lot different, had Kennedy not been assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan....

‘Captain Marvel’ Trailer: Brie Larson Takes Command Of The MCU By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 18, 2018 5:41 am EST It’s been a long time coming but now it’s here: the Marvel Cinematic Universe has its first female-led superhero film with Captain Marvel. Brie Larson stars as Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot with super powers caught up in a galactic war. The first Captain Marvel trailer is here, giving us a glimpse of the penultimate entry in phase 3 of the MCU....

‘Doctor Who’ Star Jodie Whittaker Fought For The Same Pay As Peter Capaldi By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 25, 2018 1:30 pm EST The Doctor’s face may have changed, but the paycheck stays the same. Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is making history as the first female Time Lord, and she’s shattering more than the barriers of time and space. So now that she’s taking the TARDIS keys from Peter Capaldi, Whittaker is making sure she’s paid the same amount as her predecessor....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ TV Spot: Rexy Vs. The King Of The Jungle By Ben Pearson/May 9, 2018 10:30 am EST After seeing a raptor crash through a window to outrun an explosion in the latest Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer, I started to get a good feeling about this film. It looks like J.A. Bayona, the newest director in this ongoing franchise, has blended up a nice mixture of action and suspense while sprinkling in a few fun moments of self-awareness....

‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ IMAX Trailer Touts Monster Mayhem For The Massive Screen By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 15, 2018 9:00 am EST Black Panther might be what everyone is talking about this weekend, but next month will bring even bigger action to theaters in the form of the sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising. The sequel to the 2013 sci-fi action adventure directed by Guillermo del Toro sees the kaiju making a return, and as the new Pacific Rim Uprising IMAX trailer shows, they’re deadlier than ever....

‘Rough Night’ Trailer: Scarlett Johansson And Her Friends Kill A Stripper By Jacob Hall/May 30, 2017 9:30 am EST Every year or so, a movie made by and starring women is a big hit at the box office and the internet suddenly finds itself awash in articles screaming “Hey, did you realize that women can make movies and that women like going to movies? What a revelation!” And then everyone promptly forgets, allowing the world to be surprised all over again when the same thing happens a year later....

‘Star Wars’ Original Cuts: Did Kathleen Kennedy Basically Confirm We’ll Never Get Them? By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2017 3:00 pm EST Every now and then a new rumor emerges that the original cuts of Star Wars are on the verge of getting a home video release without all the Special Edition modifications George Lucas has made over the years, some of which were made even after the new version of the movies hit theaters in 1997....

‘The Invitation’ Team Will Make The Scott Frank-Produced Horror Film ‘Breed’ By Jack Giroux/Sept. 19, 2016 3:00 pm EST The makers of The Invitation are teaming up with Scott Frank, the Academy Award-nominated writer-director behind The Lookout and A Walk Among the Tombstones. Frank is producing director Karyn Kusama’s Breed, which is based on Chase Novack’s 2013 horror novel. Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi are writing the adaptation. Below, learn more about Karyn Kusama’s Breed movie....

‘The Magic Order’ Trailer: Netflix’s First Comic Gets A Preview By Ben Pearson/May 30, 2018 3:00 pm EST Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for The Magic Order, the streaming service’s first foray into publishing original comic books. Last year the company acquired Millarworld, the company belonging to famed comic writer Mark Millar, and now they’re seeing the first fruit of that transaction with this The Magic Order trailer, which teases the story of a group of magicians who are being killed off one by one....

‘V For Vendetta’ May Become A TV Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 5, 2017 2:30 pm EST Remember, remember the fifth of October — the day news broke that a V for Vendetta TV series is reportedly in the works. Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s seminal graphic novel may get the small screen treatment, after getting a movie adaptation in 2005 starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman. While Moore has denounced any and all Hollywood adaptations of his works, perhaps a British TV series will come closer to his liking....

‘Warcraft 2’: What Duncan Jones’ Movie Sequel Would Have Been About By Ben Pearson/June 20, 2017 10:30 am EST Despite being the most successful video game movie of all time, it doesn’t seem like Duncan Jones’ film adaptation of the mega-popular game Warcraft is going to be getting a sequel – even though one was briefly teased by the movie’s official Chinese social media account last year. There’s still a tiny sliver of possibility, but in case Jones never gets the opportunity to tell his follow-up story, he told a group of fans last night about his plans for what his version of Warcraft 2 would have been about....

2017 Razzies Awards Winners: ‘Batman V Superman’ Takes As Many Hits As ‘Hillary’s America’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2017 1:00 pm EST It should come as no surprise that the 2017 Razzie winners include a handful of trophies for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The movie became quite the punching bag on the internet and still sparks arguments to this day. Frankly, I’m not sure that the movie is worth this much hate, simply because it’s not downright terrible....

Andy Serkis Teases Snoke’s Possible Return In ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ By Ben Pearson/Jan. 31, 2018 8:30 am EST Andy Serkis isn’t fully convinced we’ve seen the last of Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars films. I spoke with the actor yesterday about his work in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, in which he reprises his role as the villainous Ulysses Klaue, and I couldn’t resist asking him a quick question about the recent events in a galaxy far, far away – specifically, how he reacted when he first read about Snoke’s ultimate fate in Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

Daily Podcast: Press Screenings Explained, Valerian, Kingsman, The Deuce, VR Moviewatching, Willy Wonka & More By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2017 7:30 am EST On the September 20, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest news, including a Netflix cartoon controversy, the possibility of a Valerian sequel, the first reviews for Kingsman: The Golden Circle, a new movie theater VR concept, The Deuce season 2 and Willy Wonka in Concert....

Disney Announces 26 New Release Dates, Including Marvel Films Through 2022 By Ben Pearson/March 1, 2018 3:45 pm EST Disney already made waves this afternoon when the studio moved Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War up by a week. But that was just an appetizer compared to today’s main course: the studio has announced more than two dozen new release dates from now until 2023, including Marvel release dates all the way through 2022....

John Williams Will Score ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 10, 2018 2:23 pm EST John Williams, who has provided iconic music for every Star Wars film (save Rogue One, which nonetheless used his themes), is all but confirmed to score Star Wars: Episode 9. You know this, I know this, Williams knows this. A new interview with the master composer has Williams confirming that he would very much like to finish out the new trilogy, and that he made this known to director J....

Lucasfilm Had Back-Up Plans If The CGI Grand Moff Tarkin Didn’t Work In ‘Rogue One’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 27, 2016 1:00 pm EST Millions around the world, probably billions, have seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story now. It’s already pulled in over $573 million at the worldwide box office, and it’s going to take in a bunch more as we head into January. However, not everything regarding Rogue One has been praiseworthy....

See Brie Larson As ‘Captain Marvel’ In Concept Art By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 14, 2017 10:30 am EST Concept art of Captain Marvel shown at San Diego Comic Con proved that the finished film was still a long ways away. While fans on the internet had to make do with grainy snaps of concept art shown by Marvel Studios at the convention, it seemed that we would have to wait a few more years before we could get a real peek at Brie Larson as Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel....

The ‘Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery’ Video Game Has Some Familiar Voice Actors By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 5, 2018 4:30 pm EST The upcoming Harry Potter mobile game is bringing back a number of the franchise’s movie actors to reprise their characters in virtual form. That’s right, this is your last chance to see Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon reprise their roles as Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery voice cast....