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‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ And ‘Tomb Raider’ Honest Trailer: So Aggressively Average They Had To Be Paired Up By Ethan Anderton/June 28, 2018 6:00 am EST The folks at Honest Trailers have no problem singling out movies and making fun of them mercilessly. However, in the case of two releases from the spring of 2018, neither of them is apparently worth enough of their time to get their own Honest Trailer....

‘Sicario 2’ Director Stefano Sollima Won’t Return For ‘Sicario 3’ By Chris Evangelista/July 5, 2018 3:30 pm EST Looks like the next Sicario film will need a new director. Stefano Sollima helmed the recently-released sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado, taking over for original Sicario director Denis Villeneuve. But Sollima says he won’t return for Sicario 3. Will Villeneuve come back to finish what he started, or will the franchise pass into new hands once again?...

‘The Incredibles 2’, ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ And ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Reveal New Year’s Teasers By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 2, 2018 7:30 am EST Over the New Year’s weekend, Disney celebrated the arrival of 2018 by promoting three of their forthcoming major releases hitting theaters this year. The studio has the animated sequels Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 and The Incredibles 2 on the schedule, as well as the live-action fantasy adventure A Wrinkle in Time, and each of the movies has received a new teaser for eager fans to check out....

By Ethan Anderton/May 26, 2017 12:30 pm EST A new big screen adaptation of The Jetsons has been in the works since before /Film even existed. Around the time the live-action adaptation of The Flintstones was released in the ’90s, there was chatter about giving the same treatment to The Jetsons. In the mid-to-late ’00s, Robert Rodriguez was attached to the project, but he seems to have fallen away in recent years in favor of a new animated adaptation of the classic cartoon instead....

‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ Featurette: It’s Like ‘Power Rangers’ With LEGOs And Improvisation By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 2017 2:30 pm EST Though there doesn’t seem to be as much pomp and circumstance surrounding The LEGO Ninjago Movie as there was The LEGO Movie and the spin-off The LEGO Batman Movie, the more I see of the latest expansion of the LEGO cinematic universe, the more excited I get to see it....

‘The Strain’ Final Season Trailer: Corey Stoll Is Humanity’s Last Hope By Jack Giroux/May 26, 2017 2:00 pm EST An FX show that’s had its ups and downs is coming to a close this summer. Based on Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro’s trilogy of books, The Strain was initially expected to last three years. Early on, though, its creators realized there was more left to the series to explore. At one point, showrunner Carlton Cuse thought it could go to season five, but they’re happy to end the series on its own terms with the fourth and final season, which takes place after humans lost the world to vampires....

‘Westworld’ Season One Trailer: “How Many Times Have You Died?” By Angie Han/Oct. 3, 2016 8:30 am EST After a long and rocky production process, Westworld finally made its long-awaited debut on HBO last night… and from here, it looks like it was worth the wait. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi drama got off to an intriguing start with its series premiere, setting up an expansive and intricate universe filled with fascinating characters who promise to explore some big questions about technology and humanity....

‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ Director Admits That ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Stinks By Jacob Hall/Dec. 11, 2017 8:30 am EST These days, filmmakers doing press for an upcoming sequel tend to transform their interviews into an ongoing apology tour for the previous movie. “Yeah, that one stank, but we learned a lot and this one will be better!” has been trotted out enough to feel meaningless at this point. Still, X-Men: Apocalypse was so bad that I can’t help but cling to Simon Kinberg’s words when the longtime franchise writer/producer (and director of the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix) admits that the previous core film in the series flopped on a pure creative level....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s “Home” Series Takes You Back To Horror’s Creepiest Houses By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2016 5:30 am EST MondoCon might be over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some gorgeous prints to pick up from the collectible arthouse. Mondo opened up their latest show “Home” by Jason Edmiston and Ken Taylor last month as a kick off to the art convention, and it’s on display through November 5th....

Daily Podcast: Captain Marvel, Stranger Things 3, Solo, Star Wars, Carmen Sandiego, Netflix, And Pacific Rim Uprising By Ben Pearson/March 26, 2018 5:00 pm EST On the March 26, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about Captain Marvel, Stranger Things season 3, Netflix, a Carmen Sandiego movie, Solo, George Lucas’ plan for Star Wars Episode 9, and Pacific Rim Uprising....

Disney Agreed To Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Trilogy Without Being Pitched A Story By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2017 9:00 am EST During my conversation with Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson at the film’s junket a few weeks back, I asked him why he decided not to come back for Star Wars: Episode 9 and he shared the story of how his new Star Wars trilogy came about. You might be surprised to learn that Disney and Lucasfilm committed to his new trilogy without a story in place....

Don’t Panic: ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ Gets A New Writer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2017 4:31 pm EST Update: Rian Johnson chimed in on Twitter to note that, contrary to the initial report, he did not write the treatment for Star Wars: Episode IX. We have updated the article accordingly. With Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi readying for release this Christmas, development for Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars: Episode IX is heating up for a January 2018 production start and a new screenwriter has been hired to polish the work laid by Trevorrow and writing partner Derek Connolly....

George Clooney Is 2018’s Highest-Paid Actor, And He Didn’t Even Make A Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 26, 2018 10:00 am EST It used to be that the biggest movie star with the best-performing movie would be guaranteed the top spot in Forbes’ list of highest paid actors. But times, they are a-changin’, as the highest paid actor of 2018 didn’t even star in a movie last year, and several of the top spots went to actors who worked exclusively with streaming....

Guillermo Del Toro Is Making A Michael Mann Documentary By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2017 4:00 pm EST Today in news that will make the denizens of Film Twitter lose their collective minds, acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is apparently making a documentary about acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann. That’s a whole lot of acclaim to go around. Details are slim at the moment, but just the knowledge that a director like del Toro is making a doc about a director like Mann is pretty darn exciting....

Matt Reeves’ First Netflix Movie Will Be Science-Fiction Thriller ‘Life Sentence’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2018 1:30 pm EST Reeves’ first production with Netflix, Life Sentence, is a science-fiction film based on a short story penned by Matthew Baker. According to Deadline, the story is “about a futuristic program where the memories of criminals are erased, instead of sending them to prison. The story focuses on one such man, who finds himself trying to reconcile his past actions and relationships....

New ‘Early Man’ Trailer: Eddie Redmayne’s Caveman Rocks The Bronze Age By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 19, 2017 9:00 am EST In an era where we’re inundated with mostly identical CG animation, it’s always a breath of fresh air when Nick Park arrives back on the scene. The creator of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, Park’s distinct stop-motion style of animation is always something we welcome with open arms. This is the third trailer we’ve seen for Early Man, but it’s a treat for the eyes once more....

New ‘Logan’ Photo Has Wolverine Looking Much, Much Worse For The Wear By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2016 11:30 am EST The first Logan trailer gave us a little peek of what Wolverine’s life looks like these days, now that he’s suffering chronic pain after his powers go into steep decline. Now director James Mangold has shared yet another new photo of Logan looking very much worse for the wear. Check it out below....

New Oscar Rules In Place To Prevent Repeat Of ‘La La Land’/‘Moonlight’ Mix-Up By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 22, 2018 6:00 pm EST In a new AP story, Tim Ryan, U.S. chairman and senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), discusses the infamous mix-up, and reveals new rules that have been put in place to prevent it from every happening again. “One of the most disappointing things to me was all the great work that had been done, not only last year but over the last 83 years, around accuracy, confidentiality integrity of that process,” Ryan says in the AP story....

Stranger Things Bits: New Demogorgon Theory, Barb Tribute Rap, Ratings Update & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2016 10:30 am EST Fro, aka Fernando Reza, has created this print inspired by Stranger Things. It’s a giclee print on archival paper that measures 18" x 24" and only has an edition of 50. It’s hand signed and numbered and will only cost you $35 at the artist’s website right here. There are plenty of theories about there about The Upside Down, the Demogorgon and more, and now one more has just been proposed about the latter....

STX Announces New Animated Films From Robert Rodriguez, Eddie Murphy And More By Jacob Hall/March 28, 2017 12:00 pm EST CinemaCon 2017 is underway in Las Vegas right now and STX Entertainment have announced three new animated movies. One will come our way courtesy of Robert Rodriguez, another will star Eddie Murphy, and the third will bring one of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musicals to movie theaters. Let’s run down what we know....