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‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Has The Most On-Screen Deaths Of Any Movie Ever By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 2016 6:30 am EST If you need anymore evidence of the rise of casual violence in movies, look no further than a recently complied list of movies with the most on-screen deaths. You might be surprised to learn that Guardians of the Galaxy has the record for most on-screen deaths, and it’s actually way ahead of the closest competition....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Featurette Promises More Dinosaurs Than Ever Before, And You Can Adopt One By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2018 9:30 am EST In case you haven’t heard, today is National Dinosaur Day. Really, it’s just of those hollow “holidays” used for marketing purposes, so it makes sense that Universal Pictures is taking advantage of this opportunity to tout all the dinosaurs that will be on display in this summer’s sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom....

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 9, 2017 6:30 am EST Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom screenwriter Derek Connolly has just been tapped to pen the Metal Gear Solid movie. Adapted from the video game series launched in 1998, Metal Gear Solid will be directed by Kong: Skull Island filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts. Learn more details about the Metal Gear Solid movie writer below. While video game films have yet to truly find their groove (remember Assassin’s Creed?...

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Gets Chinese Trailer & Chinese Release Date By Angie Han/Dec. 8, 2016 7:00 am EST At a time when the Chinese box office is powerful enough to prop up even films that do terribly at home (see: Warcraft), studios have gone to all sorts of lengths to attract that audience. In the case of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it definitely helps that they’ve cast two of the country’s biggest stars, Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen, in key roles....

‘Snatch’ TV Series Trailer: Rupert Grint Navigates The Sketchy London Underground By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2017 11:00 am EST Though most of Hollywood is interested in remaking, rebooting or retooling the highest rated TV shows and highest grossing blockbusters franchises, some attention is being paid to giving the treatment to cult classic titles. Such is the case with a series adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s crime comedy Snatch. Snatch has been turned into a 10-episode series at Sony’s free streaming service Crackle (the same company behind Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and the Joe Dirt sequel no one asked for)....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Let’s Analyze The New Poster, Shall We? By Ben Pearson/April 14, 2017 1:00 pm EST Everyone is going nuts over the new trailer for Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi that was unveiled at Star Wars Celebration earlier today, but Disney and Lucasfilm also dropped the first real poster for the film at the same time. So while you’re coming down off the high of watching the trailer, join us in a deep dive into that poster to see if we can learn anything else about the movie....

‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Makes Danny McBride And John Goodman Televangelists At HBO By Ethan Anderton/June 29, 2018 3:00 pm EST Danny McBride has enjoyed plenty of success at HBO as the rough around the edges baseball player Kenny Powers in Eastbound and Down and the bitter, aggressive high school administrator Neal Gamby in Vice Principals. Now the cable network is taking the comedy star into the world of televangelism. HBO has ordered a pilot for a half-hour comedy series called The Righteous Gemstones....

‘Venom’ Trailer: Tom Hardy Is A Lethal Protector By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 8, 2018 6:04 am EST We still can’t believe there’s a standalone Venom movie, but here’s the trailer to prove it. Tom Hardy stars as the character who began life in the pages of Spider-Man. This new film recasts Venom as a “lethal protector,” and has him operating outside the ongoing Spider-Man saga. Watch the Venom trailer below. It’s hard to believe a Venom standalone film is really happening, but the fact can no longer be denied....

‘Westworld’ Poster: The Vacation Of The Future Is Almost Here By Jack Giroux/Sept. 1, 2016 1:25 pm EST There’s no shortage of film to TV adaptations in the works. Rarely do these television remakes offer fresh and exciting new visions, but that doesn’t look to be the case with HBO’s Westworld, which was delayed and ran into some production troubles. The series seems to pick up Michael Crichton’s original idea and just runs as far as possible with it....

‘Westworld’ Season 2 Trailer: Those Violent Delights Return By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 4, 2018 6:03 pm EST Those killer robots are back for an all-new season of Westworld. HBO dropped a new Westworld season 2 trailer during the Super Bowl, and you can check it out below. The show returns this April. Westworld is one of HBO’s best shows, and with Game of Thrones not returning until 2019, they’re hoping their violent, sexy, dramatic robot thriller will hold audiences rapt with its second season....

‘Wonder Woman’ Clips: Diana Prince Fights Fiercely, Steve Trevor Gets Lassoed & More By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2017 7:30 am EST Warner Bros. Pictures is in full marketing mode, unleashing all sorts of trailers and TV spots upon the public, and that includes a batch of new clips from the movie that you’ll likely see on television as the Gal Gadot, Chris Pine and more make the publicity rounds to help promote the movie....

Daily Podcast: We Answer All Of Your Questions By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2017 9:00 am EST On the August 21, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Ben Pearson, Jack Giroux and Brad Oman join Peter Sciretta to answer a ton of questions in the mailbag: 2017 award contenders, best upcoming tv shows, guilty pleasure tv shows, what Marvel Television needs to learn from the MCU, movies we don’t understand others loving or hating, the Obi-wan movie, best political movie, most wanted film prop, and the coolest moment on the job....

Edgar Wright And Simon Pegg Will Work Together Again By Chris Evangelista/July 7, 2018 1:00 pm EST Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright have a long working history together, from the TV series Spaced to the Cornetto Trilogy. The duo haven’t teamed up since 2013’s The World’s End, but according to Pegg, it’s only a matter of time before they’re together again. Pegg and Wright have come a long way since their first big movie together, 2004’s Shaun of the Dead....

Fan Edited ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Trailer Combines All The Teasers Alongside Bits From The Anime By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2016 11:00 am EST Last night, Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks released five brief teaser trailers for the upcoming English-language live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson attached to the finale of Mr. Robot (a clever place to premiere the spots if you ask me). If you missed the five Ghost in a Shell teaser trailers, check them out....

Gabriel Luna Is The New ‘Terminator’ In Sequel From Tim Miller And James Cameron By Chris Evangelista/April 13, 2018 3:12 pm EST Tim Miller’s Terminator sequel has found its new Terminator: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actor Gabriel Luna. The new Terminator sequel is due out in 2019, with original Terminator director James Cameron back to produce. More on the new Terminator sequel casting below. According to Deadline director Tim Miller and producer James Cameron have cast Gabriel Luna as the new Terminator in the still-untitled Terminator sequel....

IMDB’s Top 10 Television Shows Of 2016 By Jack Giroux/Dec. 14, 2016 6:30 am EST With the year about to come to a close, IMDb decided it was time to add up the page views and see which shows their active users are most interested in. A lot of the site’s favorites are the usual suspects, although there is a surprise or two. Game of Thrones, of course, made the cut and claimed the no....

Jeph Loeb Teases ‘Iron Fist’ Costume In Season 2, More Inhumans In Other Marvel Shows By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 9, 2018 12:00 pm EST In all the Marvel TV news you’ve been craving, Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb has doubled down on some of the studio’s most unpopular properties. Iron Fist and Inhumans were met with near-universal critical disapproval, but Loeb is teasing even more for fans of these shows. Iron Fist...

Jon Watts Returning To Direct The ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Sequel By Ethan Anderton/July 19, 2017 10:31 am EST Spider-Man: Homecoming is a certified hit all around. Not only is it sitting high with a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, but the movie has already pulled in over $472 million worldwide after being in theaters for just under two weeks. The success of the movie can definitely be attributed to the reboot of the webslinger being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but one of the main reasons the movie turned out so well is because of director Jon Watts, and both Sony and Marvel have decided to keep him around....

Listen To Jemaine Clement’s ‘Moana’ Song Performed In His Native Maori Language By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2017 6:00 am EST The entire Moana soundtrack is full of incredible original songs that rival some of Disney’s most classic tunes. But perhaps the most stylish song is “Shiny,” sung by the giant golden crab called Tamatoa. Thanks to Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement channeling both Tim Curry and David Bowie in his performance, it’s a performance that is catchy, funny and simply fantastic....

Marvel Won’t Let Tom Holland Read The ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Script Because He Can’t Keep A Secret By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 30, 2017 8:30 am EST It’s no secret that Tom Holland can’t keep a secret. The Spider-Man: Homecoming star has caused a lot of grief for the Marvel marketing machine and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, who keep a famously tight lid on plot secrets and details to build up anticipation for their growing slate of movies....