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Daily Podcast: Guillermo Del Toro, Lethal Weapon 5, Disaster Artist, What We Do In The Shadows, Ace Ventura, Rudy Coby, Thor By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2017 5:00 pm EST On the October 27, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest news, including a Star Wars live-action tv series, What We Do In The Shadows tv series, Guillermo del Toro, Lethal Weapon 5, The Disaster Artist and reboots of Ace Ventura, Young Guns, and Major League....

Daily Podcast: The 2018 Summer Movie Wager With The /Film Writing Staff By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2018 4:30 pm EST On the April 18, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Chris Evangelista & Hoai-Tran Bui to record the /Film writing staff edition of the 2018 Summer Movie Wager. What will be the top ten films of this summer’s box office?...

Daily Podcast: Would You Go To A Star Trek Theme Park? It, Men In Black, Solo, Watchmen & Arrested Development By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2018 6:30 pm EST On the May 23, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and tv news, including Analog, IT: Chapter 2, Star Trek, Men in Black spin-off, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Watchmen and in our Feature Presentation, Chris will give his reaction to Arrested Development Season 5....

James Cameron Explains How He Wrote ‘Aliens’ And ‘Rambo: First Blood Part II’ At The Same Time By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2016 6:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Before crafting a sequel to his own The Terminator, writer/director James Cameron made a career out of making sequels to other filmmakers’ projects. The man who would brings us Avatar, True Lies and Titanic began his career as the writer/director of Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, but he would follow it by having the same jobs on Aliens, in addition to writing Rambo: First Blood Part II....

Leonardo DiCaprio Joins Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Movie By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 12, 2018 12:09 pm EST Quentin Tarantino has found his lead for his highly-anticipated Mansion Family movie: Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio will reunite with his Django Unchained director for a film set in 1969 against the backdrop of the Manson Family murder of actress Sharon Tate and several other people at her home in Los Angeles. Find more details on DiCaprio joining the Tarantino Manson Family movie cast below....

POTD: HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ Confirms Final Season Premiere Date In A Much Cheaper Way By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2017 4:00 pm EST Yesterday, Game of Thrones revealed the premiere date of their next season in quite the ridiculous way, even for the internet. They set up a huge block of ice and were slowly melting it away with giant flames, but it didn’t quite go off as planned. The live stream showing the block of ice stopped abruptly and fans had to find out the premiere date from a teaser video that arrived shortly thereafter....

Samuel L. Jackson Split Reaction Split follows a young girl (Anya Taylor-Joy) who’s kidnapped by “Kevin” (James McAvoy), a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder and who has 23 distinct personalities battling for space in his head. We thought the movie ended with the girl escaping and “Kevin” surviving an intense underground fight sequence, but then there’s a quick extra scene that completely changes everything we saw before: Mic drop. The movie was set in the Unbreakable universe the whole time!...

Superhero Bits: Hellboy Spin-Off, Guardians Of The Galaxy Audition For Other MCU Roles & More By Ethan Anderton/May 10, 2017 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Want to hear a rundown from Kevin Feige of everything Marvel Studios is working on at this point in time? Did you know there was almost a Hellboy spin-off starring Abe Sapien? Want to see the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy audition for other roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?...

Superhero Bits: Rocket Raccoon Origins, Thor Vs Wonder Woman, Flash Thompson & More By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 2017 5:00 pm EST Will Flash Thompson still be Peter Parker’s bully in Spider-Man: Homecoming? Should Wonder Woman be the leader of the DC Extended Universe? Will Scarecrow join the rogues gallery in the fourth season of Gotham? Does Chris Hemsworth think Wonder Woman cold beat up Thor? Want to know more about Rocket Raccoon’s origins?...

Sylvester Stallone Exits ‘The Expendables’ Franchise By Jack Giroux/March 31, 2017 3:36 pm EST An Expendables 4 was scheduled to close out the series next year, but it might have to move forward without its star, Sylvester Stallone. The actor, who directed the first film in the series, has left the franchise over creative differences. Stallone may have been offered more than $20 million to play Barney Ross again – his upfront biggest paycheck to date – but disagreements with Nu Image/Millennium chief Avi Lerner led to his departure....

The Morning Watch: Which Cut Of ‘Blade Runner’ To Watch, ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ Scene Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2018 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....

Warner Bros. Wants To Build A Sky Tram To The Hollywood Sign By Ben Pearson/July 11, 2018 5:30 am EST With the rise of Instagram, the area around Los Angeles’s iconic Hollywood sign has become inundated with tourists looking to capture the perfect selfie. The increased traffic to the residential areas below the sign have caused a huge headache for people who live there, and now Warner Bros. is swooping in with a suggestion for how to lighten the load: they’re offering to build a sky tram from their Burbank-based studio lot that travels over a mile up and leads to a visitor’s center near the sign....

Watch Felicity Jones’ Pun-Tastic ‘SNL’ Promo And Find Out How Jyn Erso Got Her Name By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2017 6:30 am EST Now that it’s a new year, we’re coming into the second half of the 42nd season of Saturday Night Live, and the late night sketch show is getting back to work after the holiday break this weekend. In case you didn’t hear, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story leading lady Felicity Jones is heading to Studio 8H for her first time as SNL host....

‘American Horror Story’ Season 7 Has A Title And Lena Dunham By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 21, 2017 10:00 am EST Here it is, the news you’ve been waiting for since Ryan Murphy announced that the next season of American Horror Story would be inspired by the 2016 presidential election. The American Horror Story Season 7 title is…Cult. Which raises a lot of questions about what 2016 election Murphy was watching. But at least he’ll have the newly-announced cast member and number one Hillary Clinton fan Lena Dunham to help him with the newest season of the FX anthology series....

‘Beach Rats’ Trailer: The Sundance Award Winning Indie Snaps Some Selfies By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2017 9:00 am EST Dozens of independent films debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and plenty of them got picked up for distribution, presumably sometime later this year. One of those films was Beach Rats, which ended up landing a directing award in the U.S. Dramatic section of films for director Eliza Hittman, making her second feature film....

‘Ferdinand’ Trailer: John Cena Is The Bull Who Refuses To Fight By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2017 9:30 am EST Watch the Ferdinand trailer below. Ferdinand, adapted from a classic children’s tale by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, sees the titular bull making friends with other bulls, a goat, a pack of porcupines and more as he tries desperately to get back home to his family. It all looks rather silly, which makes it appealing to kids, but in the style of Blue Sky Studios (who brought use Ice Age and Rio), the goofiness doesn’t seem to come with much substance....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Teaser Trailer Is Hooked On A Feeling Again By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 19, 2016 9:18 am EST Well, that didn’t take long. Following the release of the first Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 teaser poster this morning, the first teaser trailer has made its way online. It takes a cue from the first teaser trailer for the first installment of the cosmic comic franchise and brings back “Hooked on a Feeling” for the soundtrack....

By Angie Han/Dec. 21, 2016 1:00 pm EST Variety: THR: EW: Indiewire: Uproxx: JoBlo: TheWrap:

‘Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again’ Trailer: A Sequel And A Prequel All At Once By Jacob Hall/Jan. 25, 2018 7:30 am EST You probably know right away if you’re the target audience for a Mamma Mia sequel. And that audience is pretty big: the 2008 original made $609 million worldwide, so a follow-up feels like a license to print money and please the fans. So here we are, 10 years later, with the original cast reunited to once again sing ABBA songs and look pretty and get involved in drama that’s soapy enough to warm your heart but pleasant enough to not get that heart racing too hard....

‘Moonlight’ Star Trevante Rhodes Joins Shane Black’s ‘Predator’ By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2017 3:00 pm EST Trevante Rhodes is following up his breakout role in Moonlight with something a little different. Very different, actually. Rhodes has just boarded the cast of The Predator, Shane Black’s reboot-quel of the classic sci-fi horror franchise. He joins Boyd Holbrook and Olivia Munn. According to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news, Rhodes will play the best friend of Holbrook’s lead character....