To Star Or Not To Star: Riz Ahmed In Talks For Netflix’s ‘Hamlet’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 17, 2017 10:30 am EST If you were to sleep, perchance you wouldn’t dream of a better actor to star as Hamlet in a modern adaptation of the classic William Shakespeare play. Riz Ahmed is in negotiations with Netflix to develop a modern-day movie adaptation of Hamlet, in which he would play the lead role....
VOTD: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson’s 70-Minute Q&A By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 8, 2018 6:00 am EST Our own /Filmcast got to sit down with Rian Johnson for an extensive interview about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, along with some good-hearted ribbing of host David Chen. But if you’re interesting in hearing more from the filmmaker who shook up Star Wars with the second installment of the latest trilogy in the sci-fi saga, we have something you’ll want to watch....
VOTD: Watch The ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ Kill Count Climb Higher And Higher By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2017 6:00 am EST Though it feels like much more time has passed it was just earlier this year that Keanu Reeves returned as the notorious hit man that everybody should be scared of in John Wick: Chapter 2. The sequel was not only on par with its surprise hit predecessor, but it managed to up the ante on the action front and even expand the mythology of the world in which it exists in a rather interesting way, not to mention leaving the door open for a sequel that we can’t wait to see....
‘Beauty And The Beast’ On Track To Make $120M Opening Weekend By Jack Giroux/Feb. 24, 2017 6:30 am EST Disney’s new version of Beauty and the Beast is on track to make a lot of dough. Shocking, I know. Tracking indicates Bill Condon’s (Gods and Monsters) musical is going to make $120 million its opening weekend, but Disney is more conservative with their estimate. Below, learn more about the damage Beauty and the Beast is expected to cause at the box-office....
‘Brain On Fire’ Trailer: Chloë Grace Moretz Needs A Miracle In The True Life Story By Jack Giroux/Feb. 20, 2017 4:00 pm EST After making November Criminals and an adaptation of Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain on Fire, back-to-back, actress Chloë Grace Moretz dropped out of all future projects. The actor wanted to slow down and reassess her choices. We’ve seen her in quite a few roles over the last few years, but right now she only has a handful of movies coming up, such as the Suspiria remake and writer-director Gerard Barrett’s Brain on Fire, which co-stars Tyler Perry, Jenny Slate, Richard Armitage, and Carrie-Anne Moss....
‘Dreamland’ Trailer: Robert Schwartzman’s Coming Of Age Directorial Debut By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2016 12:00 pm EST Dreamland is the feature film debut of Robert Schwartzman, lead vocalist of the rock/pop band Rooney, who has appeared in The Virgin Suicides, directed and co-written by his cousin Sofia Coppola, as well as The Princess Diaries, and composer of Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto. Dreamland stars Johnny Simmons as part-time pianist Monty Fagan, who begins a May-December romance that upends his home life....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7: Daenerys Targaryen Will Finally Meet [Redacted] By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 15, 2016 12:33 pm EST We’ve got quite some time until we see the seventh season of Game of Thrones hit HBO. To accommodate the shooting schedule, the debut of the new season won’t arrive in spring like the previous seasons but will instead hit during the summer of 2017. That was also accompanied by confirmation that this season will have less episodes than the previous seasons as the show begins to wind down....
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Teaser Poster Is Black And White And Just Plain Cool By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 19, 2016 8:27 am EST Just recently, the first teaser trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was classified with a running time of 1 minute and 29 seconds. With Doctor Strange set to hit international markets next week, we’re likely to get this teaser trailer either later this week or early next week....
‘Making A Murderer Part 2’ Reopens The Steven Avery Case This Fall By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2018 8:08 am EST Netflix made headlines with their true crime docuseries Making a Murderer, and now they’re delving back into the case with Making a Murderer Part 2. The focus is once again on Steven Avery, someone who is either a cold blooded killer or an innocent man framed by an overzealous justice system, depending on who you ask....
‘Sierra Burgess Is A Loser’ Trailer: ‘Stranger Things’ Star Shannon Purser Trades Horror For High School Romance By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 11, 2018 2:00 pm EST Looks like Barb finally got her justice. After stealing the show in Stranger Things season 1 and becoming a bonafide meme soon after, Shannon Purser is finally stepping into a lead role in Netflix’s latest romantic-comedy film, Sierra Burgess is a Loser. And like the rest of the streaming giant’s pleasantly surprising slate of hip teen and young adult rom-coms, this movie looks charming as hell....
‘The Dark Tower’ TV Series, Which Is Apparently Still Happening, Will Be A Complete Reboot By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 20, 2017 3:30 pm EST Remember when The Dark Tower came out several years ago? Okay, it was actually only a few months, but it feels like an eternity, especially because the film was such an overall disappointment. Fans who had been waiting forever to see Stephen King’s epic fantasy series leap to the big screen were heartbroken with the results, and the film barely broke even, taking in about $111 million at the worldwide box office....
Daily Podcast: ‘Searching’ Co-Writer/Director Aneesh Chaganty [Interview] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the August 24, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson presents an interview with first-time filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty (who’s a big fan of /Film!), the co-writer/director of one of 2018’s best movies, Searching.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)....
Disneyland Paris $2 Billion Expansion To Include Marvel, Star Wars, And Frozen Lands By Ben Pearson/Feb. 27, 2018 3:30 pm EST Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger has built a name for himself as an acquisitions guy, pulling Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm under the Disney umbrella during his tenure. But he’s also concentrated on expanding the footprint of Disney theme parks outside the United States. Shanghai Disney has been his multi-billion dollar baby from the beginning, and now he’s dropping more than $2 billion into a huge multi-year Disneyland Paris resort expansion that will include Marvel, Star Wars, and Frozen lands....
Don’t Expect To Hear The ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ Title Soon, Says Daisy Ridley By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2016 7:30 am EST Production is wrapped on Star Wars: Episode VIII, and with post-production underway, John Williams will begin his work on the film’s score imminently. So far details have been pretty sparse on information about the sequel, which is exactly what we all expected. However, some fans have been hoping that we would get an official title for the movie sooner than later....
Ethan Hawke Is Adapting ‘The Good Lord Bird’ For Blumhouse TV By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 13, 2018 1:00 pm EST In the era of the flashy McConaissance and the Keanussance, second acts are all the rage in Hollywood. But while no one has dubbed Ethan Hawke one of these Renaissance Men, Hawke has been quietly building one of the most interesting second acts in Hollywood. After a brief brush with leading man roles in the ’90s and early 2000s, Hawke settled into a career of indie films aided by his inextricable connection to Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy....
First Look: The ‘Ocean’s 8’ Crew Takes The Subway By Angie Han/Jan. 30, 2017 8:00 am EST One of New York’s interesting little quirks is that just about everyone takes the train. Even, apparently, criminal masterminds on their way to stage a multimillion-dollar heist at one of the glitziest events of the year. At least that’s my takeaway from our first look at Ocean’s 8, which puts Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) and her crew (including characters played by Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, and Anne Hathaway) on an MTA subway car....
Get Your Red Hot ‘Den Of Thieves 2’ Plot Details Right Here! By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2018 12:05 pm EST Den of Thieves 2 is on its way, whether you like it or not. You may as well just accept the fact that audiences demand more of Gerard Butler and his team of angry bros wearing tactical vests and wraparound sunglasses. New Den of Thieves 2 plot details have surfaced, which hint at a trip to Europe....
Listen: ‘Hearts Beat Loud’ Releases The Catchy Title Track From The Charming Indie Gem By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2018 12:00 pm EST At the 2018 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, one of the breakout films was the charming father daughter dramedy Hearts Beat Loud. The film sees Nick Offerman as Frank, a widower preparing to close down his record shop and send his daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) off to med school across the country....
Matthew Vaughn Planning ‘Kick-Ass’ Reboot, More ‘Kingsman’ Movies By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2018 9:30 am EST Filmmaker Matthew Vaughn is sticking with what he knows. The director recently revealed that he already has big plans to return to franchises he’s already dabbled in – with both a Kick-Ass reboot, and even more Kingsman sequels. If you were hoping Matthew Vaughn would return to both the Kick-Ass and Kingmsan franchises, today is your lucky day....
Netflix Might Sign Multi-Picture Deal With Luc Besson And EuropaCorp By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2018 1:30 pm EST Luc Besson and EuropaCorp may have taken a big financial hit when Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets bombed at the box office, but that doesn’t mean they’re down for the count. Word comes today that Netflix, in their never-ending quest to produce all the content you’ll never need, are in talks with Besson and EuropaCorp for a multi-picture deal....
