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By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2018 10:00 am EST It’s hard to believe, but Netflix has been around since 1997. In 1998, Netflix launched itself as an online DVD rental store, offering around 925 titles available through a pay-per-rent model. It was the online equivalent of a video store, in other words. You would rent a film online, and Netflix would physically mail it to your place of residence. According to a report in Variety, at least 3 million people still rent Netflix DVDs to this day....

Rian Johnson Asked JJ Abrams To Make This Big Change To The ‘Force Awakens’ Ending By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2017 11:00 am EST Rian Johnson came on board to direct the eighth installment of the Skywalker saga a couple of months after JJ Abrams began filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We’ve heard that Johnson gave Abrams some notes on the work in progress, and it turns out one of the notes was a request to make a change to the Force Awakens ending....

Ridley Scott Interested In Adapting Comic Book ‘Queen And Country’ By Chris Evangelista/March 15, 2018 3:00 pm EST Most people Ridley Scott’s age might want to stop and take a breathe, but Scott is all about keeping busy. He released two films last year – Alien: Covenant and All the Money int he World, and now he might have a new project lined-up. The Wrap reports Scott is in talks to helm Queen and Country, adapted from the comic book series written by Greg Rucka....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Deathstroke Returns, Animated Flashpoint Batman, X-Men Gold Controversy & More By Ethan Anderton/April 11, 2017 4:30 pm EST Check out the time traveling finishing move that The Flash has in the upcoming video game Injustice 2. Wil Traval, who plays Wil “Nuke” Simpson on Netflix’s Jessica Jones, has confirmed he’s back for the second season. Check out the first batch of photos from the long-awaited return of the TV series Gotham later this month on FOX....

The Morning Watch: ‘Solo’ Edition - Cast Answers Internet Questions, Lando Gambino & More By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 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. In this edition, the cast of Solo: A Star Wars Story answers some of the most searched questions on the web about themselves and their characters....

The Weekend Read: Everything Wrong With ‘Ghost In The Shell,’ ‘Batgirl’ Actresses, And All Things ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ By Jacob Hall/April 7, 2017 5:00 pm EST If you’re looking for something to read over the weekend, we’ve got you covered. Here’s every review, editorial, list, feature, column, and rant published by the /Film staff and our team of freelancers over the past week. Columns, Lists and Reviews A list of seven great and frequently overlooked Stephen King novels and stories that would make for great movies, as selected by Chris Evangelista....

‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Trailer Might Be The Most Unintentionally Creepy Thing You’ll See This Week By Angie Han/Aug. 26, 2016 12:00 pm EST You probably had no idea today was National Dog Day until you signed on to Twitter or Facebook this morning, but no matter — it’s as good an excuse as any for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment to drop the first A Dog’s Purpose trailer. Josh Gad voices a dog who keeps getting reincarnated and, over the course of his many lives, finds meaning in his relationships with various humans played by Dennis Quaid, K....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Photos: Everyone Looks Terrified By Angie Han/Dec. 27, 2016 9:00 am EST The new Alien Covenant photos below come to us via The Playlist. First up, we’ve got a behind-the-scenes photo of director Ridley Scott talking to star Jussie Smollett. Based on the Alien: Covenant footage I saw, his character seems to work closely with the pilot played by Danny McBride. The two are close enough for McBride to crack risqué jokes about Smollett’s wife and the like (though it’s not as clear if the two are close enough for Smollett’s character to appreciate those jokes)....

‘Castlevania’ Animated Series Debuting On Netflix This Year By Jack Giroux/Feb. 9, 2017 11:00 am EST Castlevania season 1, part 1 is coming to Netflix this year. This week, Netflix made more than a few announcements about their upcoming programming, including this video game adaptation. The “dark” and “satirical” animated series hails from producer Adi Shankar (Dredd), comic book writer Warren Ellis (Planetary), and the executive producer of Adventure Time, Fred Seibert, who’s also the founder and CEO of Frederator Studios....

‘Christopher Robin’ Extended Sneak Peek: Be Prepared To Bawl Your Eyes Out By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 25, 2018 6:30 am EST Disney has released a new extended Christopher Robin sneak peek ahead of the film’s release next week. Chock full of sweet nostalgia and honeyed interactions between Ewan McGregor’s titular Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh, the sneak peek expands upon what we’ve seen in the trailers to give us a fuller picture of the big-screen adventure that the residents of the 100-Acre Wood find themselves on....

‘Devs’: Here’s What Alex Garland’s FX TV Series Is About By Ben Pearson/March 13, 2018 3:30 pm EST Writer/director Alex Garland left a huge mark with his 2015 directorial debut Ex Machina and sliced his way through our psyches in a much different way with this year’s Annihilation. Last month, we heard he would be following that up with a new science fiction TV series for FX. Now the cable channel has officially ordered a pilot, and we know the show is called Devs....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Michelle McLaren Will Make ‘The Nightingale’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 15, 2016 6:00 am EST Michelle MacLaren was initially attached to direct Wonder Woman. MacLaren, who’s directed episodes of Game of Thrones (“First of His Name”) and Breaking Bad (“One Minute”), would’ve been the first woman to direct a superhero movie. Ultimately, she left the project due to creative differences. Now, MacLaren has signed up for another project, an adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s “The Nightingale,” that may be her feature directorial debut....

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Will Return In 2020 Without Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2017 6:30 am EST Shia LaBeouf won’t inherit be the heir apparent to Harrison Ford’s whip-wielding archaeologist after all. LaBeouf’s character Mutt Williams, who was the secret son of Indiana Jones and Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood, won’t appear in Indiana Jones 5 at all after the character’s lackluster reception in the widely maligned Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

‘Krypton’ Showrunner On Reinventing Superman’s Home Planet And Bringing Brainiac To Live Action [Interview] By Fred Topel/March 20, 2018 1:00 pm EST Man of Steel screenwriter David Goyer created Krypton, but Cameron Welsh is the showrunner. Welsh worked for Goyer on his Constantine series and had developed another show with Goyer. Welsh spoke with /Film by phone last week and there are some mild spoilers for the pilot in the discussion....

‘Manhunt’ Trailer: John Woo Returns To The Cop Thriller, But Without Chow Yun-Fat By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 17, 2017 11:00 am EST Action movie guru John Woo finally makes a return to the cop thriller genre with Manhunt, a remake of a classic 1976 Japanese action film. Sadly, his once-frequent collaborator Chow Yun-Fat won’t be joining him. Starring acclaimed Chinese actor Zhang Hanyu as a prosecutor who is wrongfully framed for robbery, rape, and murder, the Manhunt trailer looks like a throwback to Woo’s classic stylistic flairs: over-the-top action!...

‘Silence’ Reviews Round-Up: Is Martin Scorsese’s Passion Project Worth The Wait? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 12, 2016 7:00 am EST The film isn’t in line with the kind of movie more casual moviegoers are used to getting from Martin Scorsese, who is better known for movies like The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, Gangs of New York, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and GoodFellas. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the same high quality we’ve come to expect from the filmmaker as he crafts something more along the lines of his films such as The Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun....

‘The Batman’ Director Matt Reeves Already Has Ideas For A Trilogy By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 6, 2017 6:30 am EST Matt Reeves is riding high off the buzz and acclaim for his upcoming blockbuster masterpiece War for the Planet of the Apes, and it’s already got him thinking ahead about his next tentpole task: The Batman. Specifically, The Batman and its possible two sequels. Reeves has said that he has been bouncing around ideas for a Batman trilogy within the DC Extended Universe....

‘Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built’ Trailer: Helen Mirren Vs. 500 Ghosts By Jacob Hall/Oct. 24, 2017 10:30 am EST As someone with an unhealthy addiction to Travel Channel specials on America’s most famous haunted houses, I’ve been wondering for ages when someone would get around to making a movie based on the legend of the Winchester mansion. And here we are. Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built takes one of the more intriguing ghost stories of the past century or so and builds it into a movie....

A Very Weird Video Promoting Bong Joon-Ho ‘Okja’: Won’t Anyone Think About The Pigs? By Jack Giroux/April 27, 2017 4:30 pm EST Bless Netflix for giving South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho $50 million to make his latest movie, Okja. The marketing materials, including the teaser, are promising what looks like another uncompromised movie from the Snowpiercer and The Host director. A new video featuring CEO of Mirando Corporation, Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton), is the exact type of weirdness and hilarity we want to see from Swinton and Joon-ho....

Bryan Singer’s ‘X-Men’ TV Series Casts Its First Mutant By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2017 1:30 pm EST Bryan Singer’s untitled X-Men drama pilot has cast its first mutant. Blair Redford (Switched at Birth, Satisfaction) is the first actor to join the big Marvel television series. Learn who he’ll play, after the jump.EW has learned that Blair Redford will play Sam, “the strong-headed Native American leader of the underground network.” Redford started on The Young and the Restless soap opera series, before appearing in the 90210 reboot....