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Daily Podcast: How Much Of ‘Solo’ Is Ron Howard Responsible For? Michael Bay, George R.R. Martin, Star Wars & Sinemia By Peter Sciretta/May 24, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the May 24, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson to talk about the latest film and tv news, including Sinemia, George RR Martin, Michael Bay’s Netflix movie and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge....

Director Doug Liman Exits ‘Justice League Dark’ [Updated] By Jack Giroux/May 24, 2017 7:30 am EST Update: THR’s Borys Kit says that IT director Andy Muschietti is on the studio’s list to replace Liman. The original story follows below.Justice League Dark has lost another high-caliber filmmaker. Liman, who also dropped out of 20th Century Fox’s Gambit, is following in Guillermo del Toro’s footsteps and moving on from the DCEU film. Another project of his, Chaos Walking, got the green light, so a scheduling conflict arose....

Eddie Redmayne Auditioned For Kylo Ren In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Jacob Hall/Nov. 8, 2016 11:30 am EST The world has spent the past year picking Star Wars: The Force Awakens apart, picking through its plot threads, spelunking into its plot holes, shipping the Hot Young New cast members into various pairings, and generally leaving no frame of the film untouched. But it’s become increasingly clear that everyone, fans and detractors alike, can agree on one thing: the film is impeccably cast, a trademark of every J....

HBO’s ‘Veep’ To Step Down After 7 Seasons By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 7, 2017 7:30 am EST Selina Meyers is finally conceding, and Veep is ending after seven seasons on the air on HBO. The sardonic Emmy Award-winning comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the foul-mouthed presidential hopeful, which just finished airing its sixth season this June, will resign after season 7 airs in 2018. Louis-Dreyfus and Veep showrunner David Mandel confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that only one season remains of Veep before it takes its final bow....

Jake Johnson’s ‘Jurassic World’ Character Was Almost In ‘Fallen Kingdom’ By Chris Evangelista/July 7, 2018 11:00 am EST Say what you will about Jurassic World, one of the highlights of the film was Jake Johnson’s character Lowery (and his interactions with Lauren Lapkus’ character Vivian). Johnson’s character didn’t return for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but at one point, there was a chance the character could’ve had a part to play in the recently-released sequel....

Lots Of Disney Release Dates, Including Some Newly Revealed Titles By Ben Pearson/Sept. 13, 2017 6:30 am EST This morning, Lucasfilm announced a big release date change for the J.J. Abrams-directed Star Wars: Episode 9, but there are plenty more movies under the Disney umbrella that are getting shifted around. Break out your calendars, prepare to cross some things out with your red pens, and join me below for the latest updated release date information for Magic Camp, Aladdin, and more....

Netflix Trailers: Joe Swanberg’s ‘Easy’, ‘Chef’s Table: France’, Time-Loop Thriller ‘ARQ’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2016 2:00 pm EST This morning Netflix released a batch of new trailers for new television shows and movies. We’ve already written about Christopher Guest’s Mascots, but after the jump, you can watch some trailers and clips for the following shows and movies: Easy: an original comedy anthology series written, directed and produced by filmmaker Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas) Chef’s Table: France: A new installment of the critically acclaimed food documentary series, four new episodes dedicated to the world’s most renowned French chefs....

Red Band ‘Super Troopers 2’ Trailer Takes A Trip To Canada By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2018 8:00 am EST The Super Troopers are back, and they’re recycling jokes! After a long 17-year hiatus, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard have returned with a sequel to their most popular film. Now there’s a brand new red band Super Troopers 2 trailer with all the pratfalls, dead bald eagles and culture-clash jokes you can stand!...

See The Full Extended ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ NBA Finals TV Spot By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2017 11:30 am EST Some of the most cringeworthy parts of summer blockbuster season are the weak marketing tie-ins. You know what I’m talking about: that Captain America: Civil War trailer that was actually a glorified Audi car commercial and that ill-advised Dunkirk TV spot that equated the horrors of war with basketball. But when it comes to cross-marketing promotions, the Spider-Man: Homecoming NBA Finals TV spots actually aren’t that bad....

Universal’s ‘The Wolf Man’ Gets Expendable With A New Screenwriter By Jacob Hall/Oct. 13, 2016 4:00 pm EST For the record, Callaham is the second writer brought on to remake The Wolf Man, following in the footsteps of Prisoners writer Aaron Guzikowski. Other writers currently toiling away at new Universal monster movies include Noah Hawley, Ed Solomon, and David Koepp. It’s not clear what we can expect from The Wolf Man and we probably won’t be able to wager a guess until we see the first preview for The Mummy, which stars Sofia Boutella as the title monster and Tom Cruise as her human adversary....

Video: Jordan Peele Responds To ‘Get Out’ Fan Theories By Ben Pearson/Dec. 5, 2017 3:30 pm EST It’s been obvious for years that comedian/actor/writer Jordan Peele was a talented guy. But I don’t think even Peele himself could have expected his debut feature film, Get Out, was going to become one of the best and most talked-about movies of 2017. In a new video, Peele answers fan questions about the movie and responds to some Get Out fan theories, including one that wonders whether the entire movie is the delusion of Rod the TSA agent....

VOTD: ‘Batman V Superman’ VFX Reel Highlights The Details Of The Epic Final Battle By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2017 5:00 am EST We’ve already seen plenty of in-depth looks at the visual effects of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but one more couldn’t hurt. This time, a new VFX reel comes to us from MPC. Unlike the previous reels we’ve seen, most of the work completed by the post-production company dealt with the titular battle between The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel....

By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 2017 6:00 am EST The actors and actresses who play superheroes on the big screen might as well be superheroes in real life as far as their young fans are concerned. When stars like Chris Evans or Gal Gadot step into their roles as Captain America and Wonder Woman, they’re bringing comic book characters to life in a way that fans have only ever seen on a page or in their imagination....

Why The CW Passed On Its ‘Friday The 13th’ Pilot [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 11, 2016 1:30 pm EST The CW was developing a Friday the 13th Crystal Lake TV series to explore the origins of Jason Vorhees. In April, it was reported that The CW had passed on the pilot. Today’s CW executive session for the Television Critics Association was the first chance to ask CW president Mark Pedowitz officially what went wrong....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Super Bowl TV Spot: The Team Suits Up By Ben Pearson/Feb. 4, 2018 6:15 pm EST As two football teams continue to battle it out on the gridiron, Disney and Marvel Studios have released a new look at a fictional battle with world-changing stakes: the Avengers vs. Thanos. Check out a brand new Avengers Infinity War Super Bowl spot below. The first full trailer for Infinity War showcased an impressive showdown between Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and that pesky purple god who’s proven to be the universe’s worst collector of Infinity Stones....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ TV Spot: It’s Kill Or Be Killed By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 29, 2018 6:30 am EST The stakes have never been higher for our favorite heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Death has always dogged the Avengers, but in the latest Avengers: Infinity War TV spot, it’s a kill or be killed situation. The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy face their most daunting foe yet, in the form of Thanos and his henchmen, the Black Order....

‘BoJack Horseman’ Season 5 Trailer: This Is Going To Be A Sensational Season Of Television By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 4, 2018 9:50 am EST BoJack Horseman, one of the most accurate representations of depression, anxiety, and mental illness in general that also happens to be about a cartoon horse-man, is coming back for an all-new feel-bad season. Watch the BoJack Horseman season 5 trailer below! BoJack Horseman Season 5 Trailer BoJack Horseman, everyone’s favorite self-destructive, self-hating anthropomorphic horse actor, is back for another hilarious-but-depressing season of TV....

‘Bright’ Clip: Will Smith And Orc Joel Edgerton Are In A Car Chase By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 15, 2017 3:00 pm EST Bright! It’s definitely a real movie from the director of Suicide Squad and the writer of Victor Frankenstein! Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are mismatched cops in a world of magic. Smith is the tough, no-nonsense human cop, and Edgerton is his Orc partner. Can these two cops from opposite worlds learn to get along?...

By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2018 2:30 pm EST You probably could’ve guessed this was coming, but now it’s official: a Doctor Strange sequel will weave its magic in the not-too-distant future. Marvel President Kevin Feige confirmed the eventual Doctor Strange 2 in a recent interview. So far, Doctor Strange is only one of two Marvel properties to not have a sequel (the other being The Incredible Hulk). Even Ant-Man has a sequel already, hitting theaters in July....

Damn Yankees ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Lands Sam Rockwell And Michelle Williams, With Lin-Manuel Miranda Producing By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2018 4:00 pm EST At last: someone is going to let Sam Rockwell dance on screen again. THR reports Rockwell is set to play legendary choreographer and director Bob Fosse in the limited FX series Fosse/Verdon. Fosse was an influential choreographer, and went on to helm some fantastic films, including Cabaret, Lenny, Star 80 the autobiographical All That Jazz....