Phantom Thread Trailer Paul Thomas Anderson And Daniel Day Lewis Team Up Again

‘Phantom Thread’ Trailer: Paul Thomas Anderson And Daniel Day-Lewis Team Up Again By Jacob Hall/Oct. 23, 2017 7:31 am EST Ten years ago, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborated on There Will Be Blood, an instant masterpiece that may be the single best movie of the 21st century so far. And now, they’re back. The first Phantom Thread trailer is here, offering a look at the reunion between one of the great living filmmakers and quite possibly the finest actor to ever appear in the movies....

January 1, 2023 · 8 min · 1506 words · Frank Obrien

The Birth Of A Nation Has Some Powerful Moments But Is Deeply Problematic Video Review

‘The Birth Of A Nation’ Has Some Powerful Moments But Is Deeply Problematic [Video Review] By David Chen/Oct. 7, 2016 10:00 am EST Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation was one of my most anticipated films this year, due to the rapturous response people had to it at Sundance. Just from reading the plot summary and seeing the trailer, the film’s plot seemed to speak to many aspects of race and racial violence that we desperately need to have in our national conversation today....

January 1, 2023 · 3 min · 622 words · Judith Murray

The Predator Jake Busey Reveals He S Playing The Son Of Gary Busey S Predator 2 Character

‘The Predator’: Jake Busey Reveals He’s Playing The Son Of Gary Busey’s ‘Predator 2’ Character By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 27, 2017 6:30 am EST Jake Busey will be playing the connective tissue between The Predator and the rest of the Predator franchise. The real-life son of Gary Busey, who starred in Predator 2, he recently revealed that his character will also be the son of Busey’s Predator 2 character, Special Agent Peter Keyes....

January 1, 2023 · 6 min · 1073 words · William Jones

Wonder Woman 2 Will Feature Select Scenes Shot With Imax Cameras

‘Wonder Woman 2’ Will Feature Select Scenes Shot With IMAX Cameras By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2018 4:00 pm EST Superhero movies have been embracing the larger-than-life IMAX format for a while now. Christopher Nolan shot large chunks of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX, and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War is the first movie to be shot entirely with IMAX cameras. Now Wonder Woman 2 is getting in on the action....

January 1, 2023 · 3 min · 456 words · Misty Smith

A Batwoman Series Is In Development At The Cw

A ‘Batwoman’ Series Is In Development At The CW By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 17, 2018 9:30 am EST Looks like lesbian superhero Kate Kane will be getting more than just a brief Arrow-verse cameo. Following the exciting reports that Batwoman would be making her Arrow-verse debut in the upcoming crossover event between Greg Berlanti’s CW superhero shows, we’ve learned that the network is developing a full-fledged Batwoman series. Entertainment Weekly reports that The CW is developing a script for a Batwoman series for 2019....

January 1, 2023 · 7 min · 1431 words · Calvin Yeager

A Computer Has Predicted The Most Likely Game Of Thrones Season 8 Deaths

A Computer Has Predicted The Most Likely ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Deaths By Ben Pearson/May 10, 2018 11:00 am EST We have to wait until 2019 to find out which characters are going to die in the next season of HBO’s Game of Thrones…or do we? A data scientist has crafted an algorithm that’s crunched the numbers and predicted the most likely candidates to bite the dust in the upcoming eighth and final season, based on things like the characters’ houses, their title, gender, and more....

January 1, 2023 · 9 min · 1705 words · Christy Cook

Barack And Michelle Obama Officially Strike Multi Year Deal With Netflix

Barack And Michelle Obama Officially Strike Multi-Year Deal With Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2018 10:02 am EST When things seem low, Netflix goes high. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have officially entered a multi-year “storytelling partnership” with the streaming service to produce multiple movies and TV shows. This Netflix deal potentially includes scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and feature films. Yes, you heard that right: scripted series. Buddy-comedy starring President Obama and Vice President Biden, here we come!...

January 1, 2023 · 8 min · 1560 words · Diana Grigsby

Channing Tatum Eyed To Play Van Helsing In Universal S Dark Universe

Channing Tatum Eyed To Play ‘Van Helsing’ In Universal’s Dark Universe By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2017 11:30 am EST In an article about how many film studios are rethinking their approach to franchise filmmaking in the wake of some financial disappointments, The Hollywood Reporter touches on Universal’s attempt to tie their classic monsters into a cohesive shared cinematic universe and casually mentions that the studio is “polishing the script for Van Helsing, aimed for Channing Tatum....

January 1, 2023 · 2 min · 371 words · Catalina Sydnor

Cool Stuff Help Fund Joey Spiotto S Adorable High Fidelity Art Series Book

Cool Stuff: Help Fund Joey Spiotto’s Adorable ‘High Fidelity’ Art Series Book By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2017 5:30 am EST Joey Spiotto is one of our favorite pop culture artists. We’ve featured his work countless times over the years, from contributions he has made to various gallery shows to his own ongoing Storytime art shows turning your favorite movies and TV shows into Golden Books. In fact, his Storytime shows were so popular that he collected dozens of them into a book last year, and all of his fans helped fund the project to make it happen....

January 1, 2023 · 6 min · 1070 words · Anita Davis

Daily Podcast Our Favorite Movies Of Sundance 2018

Daily Podcast: Our Favorite Movies Of Sundance 2018 By Ben Pearson/Jan. 25, 2018 4:30 pm EST Brad’s Choices: Honorable mentions: Eighth GradeBen’s Choices: Others: Hereditary, A Futile and Stupid GestureYou can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm....

January 1, 2023 · 1 min · 142 words · Kyle Bromley

Dc Films To Ditch The Dark And Gritty Vibe And Make The Movies Fun

DC Films To Ditch The Dark And Gritty Vibe And “Make The Movies Fun” By Ben Pearson/June 14, 2017 1:30 pm EST The difference in tone between last year’s grim and dour DC Extended Universe movies Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad and this year’s far more uplifting Wonder Woman couldn’t be more clear, and fans and critics around the world have spoken: they prefer positivity to seeing heroes mope around....

January 1, 2023 · 6 min · 1238 words · Helen Tomblin

Director J A Bayona Says Jurassic World 2 Is Way Bigger Than The Previous Movie

Director J.A. Bayona Says ‘Jurassic World 2’ Is “Way Bigger” Than The Previous Movie By Jacob Hall/Dec. 27, 2016 8:00 am EST Director J.A. Bayona is an inspired choice to take on the sequel to Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World, having revealed an eye for crafting sheer terror with The Orphanage and the ability to create astonishing technical set pieces with The Impossible. His latest movie, A Monster Calls, is very much a crowdpleaser…or whatever you’d call a movie whose cost of admission should come with a package of tissues....

January 1, 2023 · 8 min · 1522 words · Connie Yount

James Wan Wants Aquaman And Mera S Relationship To Evoke Classic Action Adventure Romances

James Wan Wants Aquaman And Mera’s Relationship To Evoke Classic Action-Adventure Romances By Jack Giroux/Oct. 25, 2016 1:30 pm EST Two weeks ago we got our first look at Mera, the Queen of Atlantis and wife of Aquaman (Jason Momoa). She plays a role in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which recently wrapped shooting in London, but the size of her role in that film remains unknown. We do know the character will have a large part to play in James Wan’s Aquaman....

January 1, 2023 · 7 min · 1370 words · Alison Rodriguez

Netflix Orders Martial Arts Series Wu Assassins With The Raid Star Iko Uwais

Netflix Orders Martial Arts Series ‘Wu Assassins’ With ‘The Raid’ Star Iko Uwais By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2018 5:00 pm EST Netflix just ordered a sci-fi martial arts crime series called Wu Assassins starring The Raid’s Iko Uwais, and if that string of words isn’t enough to get you excited, you might want to check your pulse. One of the best action films of the last decade is The Raid, starring Iko Uwais as a man who kicks and punches the hell out of a lot of people in a high-rise building....

January 1, 2023 · 7 min · 1281 words · Martha Croteau

New Solo Characters Include An Alien Named Therm Scissorpunch No Joke

New ‘Solo’ Characters Include An Alien Named Therm Scissorpunch (No Joke) By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2018 12:30 pm EST Folks, please welcome Therm Scissorpunch into the Star Wars universe. Denny’s unveiled their calorie-heavy Solo: A Star Wars Story-inspired menu today, and nestled amongst all those bacon and eggs came the reveal of several new Solo characters – including a lobster-like individual named Therm Scissorpunch. Start writing your Therm Scissorpunch fan-fiction now!...

January 1, 2023 · 7 min · 1392 words · Robert Pope

Potd Steve From Stranger Things Finally Meets His Future Son Jean Ralphio From Parks And Recreation

POTD: Steve From ‘Stranger Things’ Finally Meets His Future Son, Jean-Ralphio From ‘Parks And Recreation’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 2016 8:30 am EST Fans of Stranger Things who also happen to be fans of the comedy series Parks and Recreation have noticed that Joe Keery (who plays Steve on Netflix’s sci-fi show) looks an awful lot like Ben Schwartz, who played Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on the NBC comedy series. Fans hypothesized that since Stranger Things is set in the fictional Indiana town of Hawkins in the 1980s, it only made sense that he would turn out to be the father of Jean-Ralphio in Parks and Recreation’s fictional Indiana town of Pawnee....

January 1, 2023 · 7 min · 1347 words · Michael Finke

Star Wars Clue Steal The Plans Escape The 3D Death Star Save The Galaxy Cool Stuff

Star Wars Clue: Steal The Plans, Escape The 3D Death Star & Save The Galaxy [Cool Stuff] By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2016 7:00 am EST Hasbro has announced Clue: Star Wars Edition, which isn’t just a boring retheme of the classic deduction board game, but a thematic retheme complete with a 3D Death Star board. You play as Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, R2-D2, or C-3PO, aboard the Death Star trying to save the Galaxy from destruction by the Empire....

January 1, 2023 · 5 min · 872 words · William Mclaurin

Superhero Bits Cyborg Teased In The Flash Wonder Woman S Sword Designs Arrow Turns 75 More

Superhero Bits: Cyborg Teased In The Flash, Wonder Woman’s Sword Designs, Arrow Turns 75 & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2016 5:00 pm EST Is the Vote Loki comic book series riffing on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign? Want to see a bunch of alternate designs for Wonder Woman’s sword? What happened when Mike Colter took a baseball bat to the face on the set of Luke Cage? What is Arrow doing on the season premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow?...

January 1, 2023 · 8 min · 1648 words · Douglas Mason

Superhero Bits Deadpool Sings Like Gaston Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 Posters More

Superhero Bits: Deadpool Sings Like Gaston, Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 Posters & More By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2017 5:00 pm EST Have you ever wanted to see Deadpool sing in a bar just like Gaston in Beauty and the Beast? Which Supergirl guest star just got upgraded to a series regular? When is the next trailer for Justice League arriving? What would Michael Shannon look like as Cable? Is Chris Evans up for more Captain America after Avengers: Infinity War?...

January 1, 2023 · 8 min · 1654 words · Glen Goolsby

Superhero Bits Marvel Cruises Jaden Smith S Batman Music Video Injustice 2 Dlc More

Superhero Bits: Marvel Cruises, Jaden Smith’s Batman Music Video, Injustice 2 DLC & More By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2017 5:00 pm EST What kind of events will the Marvel Day at Sea cruises have this fall? What is Jaden Smith doing dressed as a white-suited Batman in his new music video? When do the next three Marvel Studios movies start filming? Who is Henry Ian Cusick playing in Inhumans? What does John Lithgow have to say about passing on The Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman?...

January 1, 2023 · 8 min · 1656 words · Marie Alford