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The Morning Watch: John Williams Conducts ‘The Last Jedi’, The Comedy Influence Of Doug Kenney & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 29, 2018 5:00 am EST First up, Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson recorded this behind the scenes video of composer John Williams conducting his orchestra while playing the iconic theme from the entire Star Wars saga. It doesn’t get much better than this, and if you get the chance to see John Williams conduct an orchestra, make sure you take advantage of it....

Why Todd McFarlane Is The Right Person To Direct ‘Spawn’, According To Jason Blum By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 2, 2017 3:00 pm EST We’re getting closer to the long-rumored Spawn reboot. It’s been 20 years since the first terrible Spawn film adaptation, and ever since its release, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane has been teasing a new, better Spawn film. Now Blumhouse is making that idea a reality, and McFarlane himself is directing....

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Trailer: Michael Fassbender Battles The Video Game Movie Curse By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2016 6:20 am EST Michael Fassbender may be able to fly and bend metal as Magneto in the X-Men movies, but he stands to pull off an even more impressive feat in his last film of the year, Assassin’s Creed: convincing audiences that a video game movie can actually be good. Okay, perhaps we’re being a bit unfair – Warcraft definitely had its moments, even if it was kind of a mess overall, and The Angry Birds Movie was a bonafide box office hit — but the fact remains that on the whole, audiences have had very good reason to be skeptical about video game movies for a very long time....

‘Avatar’ Sequels Take Kate Winslet To Pandora For A Reunion With James Cameron By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 3, 2017 6:22 pm EST It’s been 20 years since James Cameron made one of the biggest blockbuster dramas of all time. Titanic told the tragedy of the cruise liner that sunk in the freezing Atlantic Ocean on April 14, 1912, all through the eyes of two forbidden lovers played by then-rising stars Kate Winlset and Leonardo DiCaprio....

‘Call Of Duty’ Movie Enlists ‘Sicario 2’ Director To Kick Off Video Game Franchise By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2018 7:30 am EST Last spring, we found out that Activision Blizzard Studios has ambitious plans for bringing their successful Call of Duty video game franchise to the big screen. Attempting to follow in the footsteps of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the video game company turned movie studio has years of movies planned, as well as television shows....

‘Fast & Furious Live’ Will Feature Vin Diesel By Jack Giroux/Aug. 14, 2017 9:30 am EST What’s Fast & Furious without Dominic Toretto? Fast & Furious Live, which was announced back in February, won’t be Diesel-less. Vin Diesel has a part in the show. The actor recently filmed something in New York for Fast & Furious Live, something he believes is “pretty state of the art” stuff. Below, Diesel teases his role in the Fast & Furious live....

/Film Daily Podcast: Zack Snyder, James Bond, Terminator, Infinity War, Stranger Things & The Future Of Hollywood Source Material By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2017 7:30 am EST On the /Film Daily podcast for July 25, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson, Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest news in the world of movies: Bloodshot casting, James Bond 25 director short list, Zack Snyder’s DC future, a new Terminator trilogy, Captain Marvel in Avengers: Infinity War and an interesting Stranger Things fan theory....

Jean-Claude Van Johnson teaser While that doesn’t necessarily give much insight as to what the show itself is actually about, it does capture the tone they’re going for, which is to poke fun at Hollywood (and Van Damme himself) from the inside, while producing some exciting fight sequences and thrilling action of their own that will hopefully end up on JCVD’s career highlight reel when all is said and done....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Reactions From The Spanish Premiere: Here Is What People Are Saying By Jacob Hall/May 21, 2018 3:56 pm EST Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom doesn’t open in theaters for another month, but it has already screened for its first public audience. Director J.A. Bayona’s entry in the Jurassic Park series was greeted with mostly warm responses from an audience in Madrid, Spain, many of whom seem very proud that Bayona has his name on one of Hollywood’s biggest franchises....

‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ TV Spot: Not The Average Tailor Shop Employee By Jack Giroux/Aug. 16, 2017 6:30 am EST Kingsman: The Secret Service is a movie with energy to spare. Matthew Vaughn’s spy movie moves fast with an infectious giddiness about itself. The director’s enthusiasm for this world of spies and super villains is unmistakable. Next month, that world is going to get bigger with the sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, which looks every bit as playful as the first movie....

‘Life’ Red Band Trailer: You’ve Doomed Us All, Jake Gyllenhaal By Jack Giroux/March 14, 2017 2:31 pm EST With Daniel Espinosa’s science-fiction thriller, Life, only about a week away from hitting theaters, we’re starting to see more than we maybe need to see from the movie. The previous trailers haven’t revealed too much of the alien threat aboard the International Space Station, but a new red band trailer shows how much the life form grows throughout the movie, as it terrorizes Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson....

‘Loving’ Trailer: Ruth Negga And Joel Edgerton Shine In Jeff Nichols’ ‘Midnight Special’ Follow-Up By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2016 3:30 pm EST What a time to be a Jeff Nichols fan. Earlier this year the director released his Amblinesque adventure Midnight Special, and this fall he’s back with Loving. The civil rights drama played at TIFF last week to rave reviews after premiering at Cannes in May, and in just a few more weeks it’ll make its way to theaters....

‘Schindler’s List’ Returning To Theaters For Its 25th Anniversary By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 29, 2018 11:30 am EST One of Steven Spielberg’s most powerful films is returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary. Schindler’s List will play a limited engagement in theaters across the U.S. and Canada starting December 7, 2018 with picture and sound digitally remastered. Schindler’s List Returning to Theaters While Steven Spielberg directed serious dramas like The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun early in his career, he was primarily considered a blockbuster filmmaker, a director who specialized in pulpy entertainment without much deeper meaning....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Picks Up Its First New Cast Members; Joe Keery A.k.a. Steve Upped To Series Regular By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2016 1:37 pm EST Unless you’ve spent the past three months trapped in the Upside Down, you’ve surely heard the hype surrounding Stranger Things. It took a while for Netflix to get around to making the season 2 renewal announcement, but now that they have, they’re wasting no time moving forward on the next batch of episodes....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Casts Cary Elwes And Jake Busey By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 18, 2018 7:30 am EST Hawkins, Indiana is getting a little more crowded. Cary Elwes and Jake Busey are joining the Stranger Things season 3 cast in a move that is sure to get your ’80s nostalgia tingling once again. As you wished, of course. Cary Elwes will step into the role of “Mayor Kline,” described as a “handsome, slick, and sleazy … classic ’80s politician,” Netflix announced at their What’s Next event in Rome, according to The Hollywood Reporter....

‘The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift’ Honest Trailer: Starring A Badly Programmed Southern Robot By Ethan Anderton/April 5, 2017 5:00 am EST Next week brings us The Fate of the Furious, the eighth installment of the surprisingly long-running action franchise from Universal Pictures. The fact that we’ve come this far in the film series is impressive, especially when you look back at the film that nearly killed it all: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift....

‘What Would Diplo Do?’ Trailer: James Van Der Beek Headlines A Viceland Comedy Series By Ben Pearson/July 7, 2017 2:00 pm EST The first song many people still think of when they think of James Van Der Beek is Paula Cole’s “I Don’t Want to Wait,” which was the theme song of his WB teen TV series Dawson’s Creek. But the actor is looking to change that tune by playing a comedic version of producer/singer/songwriter Diplo (he’s one half of Jack Ü with Skrillex and a founder of Major Lazer) in a new Viceland series called What Would Diplo Do?...

‘You Might Be The Killer’ Review: The Meta Slasher Is Splattery And Wildly Witty [Fantastic Fest] By Matt Donato/Sept. 22, 2018 2:00 pm EST Find out more in our You Might Be the Killer review. Kranz stars as Sam, a generic summer camp’s managerial head counselor. Opening night, before children run amok, Sam tells a haunting story of French Cajun settlers, creeping death, and a demonic woodmaker’s mask buried somewhere on “these very grounds....

Violence and Masculinity in Golding’s Lord of the Flies Despite Twitter’s tendency toward knee-jerk reactions to news, there were some well-worded criticisms of the Siegel and McGehee-helmed Lord of the Flies. While Golding set out to make his book about the brutality inherent in men when divorced from civilization and not just a commentary on gender, it’s hard to separate the story from what it does say about toxic masculinity in a modern context — and from the context from which it was written in the 1950s....

Billie Lourd Originally Auditioned For Rey In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2017 10:00 am EST Many people may balk at acting with their mother on the big screen, but Billie Lourd was eager enough to share the screen with Carrie Fisher that she originally auditioned to play the lead role in the sci-fi franchise that launched Fisher into stardom. Though Lourd didn’t get the role of Rey, she still got to share the screen with General Leia Organa in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi before Fisher tragically passed away....