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Why A Key ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Location Was Changed, According To Director Taika Waititi By Ben Pearson/Oct. 20, 2017 4:00 pm EST Fair warning: I’m going to spend this article talking about something that happens in the Thor: Ragnarok trailers and how that aligns with what happens in the final movie. It’s not a world-shattering revelation, but if you’ve avoided all of the trailers thus far and would prefer to know nothing about the movie at all before seeing it, here’s your opportunity to bounce to the next article....

‘It’ Director’s Cut Will Have 15 More Minutes Of Footage; Freddy Krueger Almost Appeared By Ben Pearson/Sept. 15, 2017 7:30 am EST Andy Muschietti’s It feels like it’s running a well-deserved victory lap right now and the film has only been out for a week. But it’s already a bonafide smash hit, crushing box office records and the film, which is unquestionably a horror movie, provides a whole new generation with a different incarnation of Pennywise to fear....

‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ Image Reveals Halle Berry And A Pair Of Adorable Doggos By Ben Pearson/June 4, 2018 12:00 pm EST While the gun-fu and shootouts of the John Wick franchise are brilliantly staged and executed, there has always been something more important than all of the broken bones and exit wounds: dogs! Today, a new John Wick: Chapter 3 photo has arrived, and it shows new cast member Halle Berry flanked by two new canine additions to the franchise....

‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ Hires ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Art Director By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2018 12:00 pm EST Details about Star Wars: Episode 9 are sketchy at the moment, but one thing we do know now is that the film will look great. Paul Inglis, art director of Blade Runner 2049, has just been hired for the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed sequel. More on the Episode 9 art director below. Paul Inglis, art director on Skyfall, Game of Thrones, Prometheus, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Children of Men, and of course, Blade Runner 2049, is headed to a galaxy far, far away for Star Wars: Episode 9....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 4, 2018 4:30 pm EST DC Universe, DC Comics’ new digital subscription service, gave the green-light to a live-action TV series based on Swamp Thing, and rumors floated around like a moss-covered log that executive producer James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring, Aquaman) may step behind the camera to direct it. But now the project has hired Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) to come on board and tackle the Swamp Thing pilot....

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 9 Trailer: Rick’s Days Are Numbered [Comic-Con 2018] By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2018 12:46 pm EST The Walking Dead, AMC Network’s current pride and joy, continues to shamble forward like the rotting corpse of an undead walker. A new The Walking Dead season 9 trailer just debuted at San Diego Comic-Con International, and you can watch it below right now. The Walking Dead Season 9 Trailer...

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Honest Trailer: Two Radio Shacks Doing Kama Sutra In A Hurricane By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 31, 2018 6:00 am EST Michael Bay has supposedly delivered his last effort behind the camera for the Transformers franchise, and he pulled out all the stops to make this one the most insane, self-indulgent, nonsensical, inconsistent, blockbuster bonanza. Transformers: The Last Knight has everything but the kitchen sink, and even if it had the kitchen sink, it would transform into a racist caricature of whatever new car General Motors wants to have a two and a half hour advertisement for this year....

‘Uncharted’ Finds A New Director: Shawn Levy To Helm Video Game Adaptation By Angie Han/Oct. 25, 2016 2:59 pm EST After a long and rocky path through development, Sony’s long-gestating Uncharted movie is now taking a big leap forward. Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) has just been set to direct the video game adaptation, replacing Seth Gordon (The King of Kong) who departed last year. Joe Carnahan wrote the latest draft of the script....

Wonder Woman Trailer In addition to Gal Gadot as the leading superheroine, Wonder Woman features Chris Pine as Wonder Woman’s love inerest Steve Trevor, Connie Nielsen as Wonder Woman’s mother Queen Hippolyta, and Robin Wright as Wonder Woman’s aunt General Antiope. Lucy Davis, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Danny Huston, Ewen Bremner, Elena Anaya, Florence Kasumba, and Saïd Taghmaoui also star. Though it’s coming out after Batman v Superman, Wonder Woman goes back in time to explain how Wonder Woman, a....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2018 4:00 pm EST The CW is officially taking us back to Roswell High School. The broadcast network best known for its slate of popular DC superhero shows, surprisingly sharp comedies, and edgy teen soaps has given a pilot order for the Roswell reboot, which will revive the popular ’90s science-fiction series with an “immigration twist.” The Roswell reboot has officially landed at The CW, according to Entertainment Weekly....

Bad Idea Alert: Rumor Claims Tom Hardy Wanted As Jafar In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Aladdin’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2017 12:30 pm EST You’d think after the uproar that arises over every whitewashing debacle — Ghost in the Shell, Aloha, Pan, Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Last Airbender, and more that I could list but it would take approximately 10 years to do so — Hollywood would stop doing it. Or at least, stop and think, “Hey, maybe this is a bad idea....

Cool Stuff: Three Stunning ‘La La Land’ Prints Are For The Fools Who Dream By Ethan Anderton/April 25, 2017 6:00 am EST Today brings the Best Picture nominee (and mistaken winner) La La Land to Blu-ray and DVD for audiences to watch over and over again. Personally, I know that I’m excited to watch that uplifting opening musical number, even if it means getting my heart broken at the end of the movie....

Daily Podcast: Female Star Wars Filmmakers, Disney/Fox, Solo, Deadpool 2, Jumanji 3, Get Out By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2018 5:30 pm EST In the News: Other posts referenced in this episode: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com. /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....

Daily Podcast: Holy Scorsese Joker Movie Batman?! Magic Castle, Han Solo, MoviePass, Knight Rider, Hellboy & More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2017 9:00 am EST On the August 23, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, in the watercooler Peter Sciretta talks about auditioning for the Magic Castle, and Ben Pearson and Brad Oman join to talk about the latest news including: a Knight Rider movie, a director for Amblin’s Intelligent Life, an actor has been cut out of the Han Solo movie, AMC continues to troll MoviePass, more info on the Hellboy reboot, and late breaking news about a Martin Scorsese-produced Joker movie....

First Look: Hasbro Created A 4-Foot Toy Replica Of Jabba’s Sail Barge By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 21, 2018 11:30 am EST Soon, you could acquire your own four-foot long prototype of one of the most notorious vehicles in the Star Wars universe. Maybe. The Jabba Sail Barge may officially make it to toy form, thanks to Hasbro’s crowdfunding toy initiative. The result: an elaborate, detailed replica of the Hutt crime lord’s luxurious barge that you can add to your Star Wars toy collection....

Greta Gerwig Eyes ‘Little Women’ As Her Next Project; Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Stone, Timothée Chalamet All In Talks To Star By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2018 11:30 am EST Greta Gerwig may have landed her next directing gig after making a splash with last year’s award-winning Lady Bird. The Oscar-nominated director is reportedly eyeing a Little Women remake, which may have the most star-studded cast since the last Little Women feature film....

Important News: ‘Aquaman’ Features Lots Of Water Vomiting Scenes By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2018 4:00 pm EST Good news, everyone! James Wan’s Aquaman is the first DCEU film to feature multiple scenes of characters puking up water! This might be the solution DC and Warner Bros. have been looking for. Get ready for a tidal wave of water vomit, folks. To learn just how much water vomit there is in Aquaman, keep reading....

Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull Resigns By Jack Giroux/Jan. 18, 2017 6:00 am EST Below, learn what’s next for Tull and Legendary Pictures. Tull’s departure follows selling the company earlier last year to China’s Dalian Wanda Group for a figure in the neighborhood of $3.5 billion. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s sources, Wanda didn’t see eye-to-eye with his “management and recent projects such as The Great Wall and the currently shooting Pacific Rim 2....

LEGO Ideas Turns Down ‘Jurassic Park’ And ‘Short Circuit’ Sets By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 10, 2016 5:30 am EST Johnny 5 is dead and life didn’t find a way. That might as well be what LEGO Ideas told fans when they announced that both proposed LEGO sets for Jurassic Park (seen here) and Short Circuit (seen here) were turned down by the official review board that decides which custom creations become mass produced LEGO sets....

MTV Is Rebooting ‘Aeon Flux’ As A Live-Action TV Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2018 12:00 pm EST MTV is developing a live-action reboot series of Aeon Flux, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Teen Wolf showrunner Jeff Davis is on board to pen the script and will executive produce alongside The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd. Hurd produced the 2005 feature film, but was not involved with the original animated series....