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‘Generation Wealth’ Trailer: Look Upon Our Cultural Excess, Ye Mighty, And Despair By Ben Pearson/April 5, 2018 3:00 pm EST Lauren Greenfield, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, is back. Her newest movie, Generation Wealth, is an exploration of materialism, cultural excess, and the perversion and mutation of the American Dream. The film is gripping and horrifying in equal measure. Check out the new Generation Wealth trailer below and see what I mean....

‘Ready Player One’ Honest Trailer: A Na’vi Who Joined A Boy Band Saves The Virtual World By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2018 6:00 am EST After hitting the big screen in March, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One has already taken some licks for being a glorified trip down memory lane full of seemingly heartless pop culture references to movies that are far better than the one you’re watching. But the Ready Player One Honest Trailer still has some last minute jabs to get in as the movie arrives on Blu-ray and DVD this week....

‘The Get Down’ Part II Trailer: The Time Is Now By Jack Giroux/March 10, 2017 7:30 am EST The Get Down, co-cretor Baz Luhrmann’s (The Great Gatsby) and Netflix’s depiction of the 1970s New York music scene, returns for part two on April 7, 2017. The show picks up a year later in 1978, with Ezekiel “Books” Figuero (Justice Smith) and Mylene Cruz (Herizen F. Guardiola) now having to make more sacrifices for their music....

By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 30, 2017 2:30 pm EST For me, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival was a lackluster year. I missed some of the big buzz films and whileI saw some good movies (The Big Sick being the best of the bunch), it just didn’t measure up to past years in Park City. I might be that bigger, more depressing things were happening in the world outside of indie cinema. Or it just might be that my schedule was poorly planned....

Daily Podcast: Pacific Rim Uprising Interviews With John Boyega And Steven S. DeKnight By Ben Pearson/March 23, 2018 5:00 pm EST On the March 23, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson presents a Pacific Rim Uprising-themed episode of the show, featuring interviews with star John Boyega and writer/director Steven S. DeKnight.You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it)....

By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2016 10:30 am EST Not many studios could get mainstream audiences excited about a new short film, but Pixar isn’t most studios. The company has just released a cute little teaser announcing their next new short: Lou, directed by longtime Pixar animator Dave Mullins. Check it out below. Mullins shared the teaser for his new Pixar short Lou on Instagram. I’m so excited to announce that I’m directing Pixar’s next short film “Lou”!...

HBO’s Cinemax And Sky Enlists ‘The Raid’ Director Gareth Evans For Gangland Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 21, 2017 9:30 am EST This time, Evans is tackling a gangland drama set in contemporary London for HBO’s Cinemax and Sky networks. Titled Gangs of London, the drama is unrelated to the PSP video game of the same name, according to Deadline. The outlet describes the series as a “big budget gangland drama” and follows with a brief synopsis:...

Here’s What Happens When You Sync ‘Cloverfield’ And ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ By Ben Pearson/Feb. 7, 2018 3:00 pm EST It’s been less than three days since Netflix surprised the world by releasing The Cloverfield Paradox immediately after the Super Bowl. If you think that’s not enough time to pinpoint incredibly obscure Easter eggs, you don’t know Cloverfield fans. These people are hardcore, and someone has already discovered a surprisingly cool thing that happens when you sync up the 2008 movie with the latest entry in the franchise....

If Gandalf Returns For That ‘Lord Of The Rings’ TV Series, Ian McKellen Wants In By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2017 10:30 am EST Appearing on the Graham Norton radio show (via Variety), McKellen revealed that while no one has contacted him about playing Gandalf again, the thought of someone else playing the character is preposterous. “I haven’t said yes because I haven’t been asked,” the actor said, “but are you suggesting someone else is going to play it?...

John Waters’ Top 10 Films Of 2016: ‘Krisha’, ‘Tickled’, ‘Everybody Wants Some!!" & More By Angie Han/Dec. 3, 2016 11:00 am EST After a while, all the top 10 lists and awards nominations start to blur. Sure, everyone’s choices are a little bit different, but a consensus starts to form around certain titles. (This year, those seem to include the very deserving Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea.) But you can always leave it to John Waters to pick a few that are completely off the beaten path....

Joss Whedon Wants To Make ‘A Star Wars Story’ By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2016 4:30 pm EST There are lots of Star Wars fans who’d love to see Joss Whedon take a crack at the franchise, and now you can count Joss Whedon among them. The Avengers director admitted he wants to make a Star Wars movie — but not just any Star Wars movie. He would like to direct one of the Star Wars Story spinoffs, like Rogue One....

Melissa McCarthy To Star In Puppet Thriller ‘The Happytime Murders’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2017 9:30 am EST If you’ve ever wanted a movie that married the reality-blending dark comedy of Who Killed Roger Rabbit with a classic Jim Henson muppet production, you’re in luck. Puppet noir The Happytime Murders is in the works (again) with an incredibly capable comedy actress. Melissa McCarthy will star in The Happytime Murders, a noir puppet comedy directed by Brian Henson about a world in which humans and puppets warily co-exist....

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Neill Blomkamp Finally Kills ‘Alien 5,’ Revives ‘District 9’ Spin-Off Idea By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 5, 2017 3:00 pm EST Neill Blomkamp may be temporarily stepping away from feature films to focus his energies on his new experimental Oats Studios, but that doesn’t mean he’s not entertaining the notion of returning to the world of District 9, the sci-fi movie that put him on the map. It does mean, however, that he’s finally killing that Alien 5 project that he’s been been teasing for a long, long time....

Netflix’s Solution For Opening Credits Getting In The Way Of Your Bingewatching By Jack Giroux/March 22, 2017 10:30 am EST Don’t have time for a minute or two of opening credits while devouring a show on Netflix? Then hit the newly added skip intro button. You can now more easily – although it was easy in the first place – skip past some (pretty terrific) opening credits sequences on Netflix. Let’s take a closer look at Netflix’s new skip intro option....

Netflix Willing To Make ‘Master Of None’ Season 3 If Aziz Ansari Desires, But Unsure About ‘Arrested Development’ [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/July 29, 2018 2:30 pm EST Netflix Vice President of Original Programming Cindy Holland made her first appearance before the Television Critics Association to take questions from reporters about some of their upcoming programming on the streaming service, including a couple shows whose future has remained somewhat uncertain....

New ‘Flatliners’ Trailer: Some Nasty Side Effects… By Jack Giroux/July 30, 2017 10:00 am EST Below, watch the new Flatliners trailer. Ellen Page (Inception), Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Nina Dobrev (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), James Norton (Happy Valley), and Kiersey Clemons (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising) star as five medical students who take some bad trips to the other side. They’ll stop each others’ hearts for a couple minutes and then resuscitate their friends....

New ‘Westworld’ Trailer: “Do You Know What This Dream Means?” By Jack Giroux/Sept. 13, 2016 12:30 pm EST The marketing for HBO’s Westworld continues to impress. The footage we’ve seen so far has promised an ambitious, fun and thoughtful piece of science-fiction, and fingers crossed that’s what we’ll see next month when the series finally premieres on HBO. Another trailer – this time showing more of the world from Dolores Abernathy’s (Evan Rachel Wood) perspective – has been released for Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s loose remake of Michael Crichton’s film....

POTD: The Indominus Rex Of ‘Jurassic World’ Almost Looked Completely Different By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2017 6:00 am EST When Jurassic World hit theaters in the summer of 2015, it had to at least try to match the screen presence of the majestic but deadly tyrannosaurus rex from the original Jurassic Park. That’s easier said than done, and despite having a meta sort of storyline about the fully functional Jurassic World creating a genetic hybrid beast to keep the park’s attendees interested, the so-called Indominus Rex wasn’t all that impressive....

Rian Johnson’s New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Will Capture The “Spirit” Of The Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 4, 2018 7:30 am EST Rian Johnson is starting fresh with his new Star Wars trilogy. After throwing much of the Star Wars mythology out the window in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he’s returning to the spirit of the original trilogy to shape his new films. Johnson is still in the early stages of planning the new Star Wars trilogy, but he already has a vision of what those films will look like....