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Michael B. Jordan And Michael Shannon To Star In HBO’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 20, 2017 9:30 am EST Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon are teaming up to star in Fahrenheit 451, the HBO Films adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi dystopian novel. Well, “team up” is a misnomer, as Jordan will be playing the young, disillusioned “fireman” in a dystopian future who abandons the government-sanctioned burning of books, while Shannon will be playing his former mentor with whom he clashes....

Neill Blomkamp Wants To Make An ‘Elysium’ Sequel: “I Can Do It Better” By Ben Pearson/July 18, 2017 9:00 am EST The year is 2013, and Neill Blomkamp is still a promising up-and-coming director riding a wave of positive buzz for his feature film debut, District 9, which earned four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. His new follow-up film, Elysium, earns more money at the worldwide box office, but fails to garner the same level of critical praise as District 9....

Of Course Ben Mendelsohn Thinks ‘Captain Marvel’ Skrulls Are Just “Misunderstood” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 10, 2018 9:30 am EST Ben Mendelsohn has played his fair share of blockbuster baddies. From Rogue One, to Ready Player One, to the upcoming Robin Hood: Origins, to Captain Marvel— if there’s a buttoned up villain with salt-and-pepper hair, you can almost always expect him to have Ben Mendelsohn’s face. Though that’s not entirely the case for Captain Marvel, which sees Mendelsohn donning layers of green facial prosthetics and a skin-tight leather get-up to play a Skrull leader....

Superhero Bits: Shi’ar Empire In X-Men, Infinity War In Wakanda, Dr. Poison’s Mask & More By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2017 5:00 pm EST What was the hardest scene to score in Wonder Woman? Which X-Men: Dark Phoenix cast member is no longer able to be in the movie, and will the Shi-ar Empire be in the movie? Will Avengers: Infinity War take us to Wakanda? Which comic book movie is the most tweeted about movie of 2017?...

The ‘Rogue One’ Darth Vader Ending Was A Last-Minute Addition By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2017 12:30 pm EST One of the most exciting moments for Star Wars fans in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story must be the ending sequence, which involves an action scene featuring Darth Vader. Now that the film is finally approaching its home video release, director Gareth Edwards has been talking about some of the more spoilery details....

Watch The Entire Rebooted ‘DuckTales’ Pilot Online For Free By Jack Giroux/Aug. 15, 2017 5:00 am EST Two days ago, DuckTales returned with an all new style and cast on Disney XD. Season one of the 2-D animated series is 21 half-hour episodes and two hour-long specials. Before the show even premiered, Disney ordered a season two. They’re clearly confident in the reboot. If they weren’t, then maybe they wouldn’t have released the first episode of the revival online....

’80s Teen Comedy ‘License To Drive’ Getting A Female-Driven Reboot By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 15, 2017 4:00 pm EST The ’80s teen comedy originally starring the Two Coreys, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, is getting a gender-bent reboot courtesy of producer John Davis, recently behind big-screen reboots like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Victor Frankenstein. No word yet on whether the movie will bring back Heather Graham, who made her feature film debut in the 1988 film, for a cameo....

‘Blade Runner’ Honest Trailer: Rain, Cigarettes, Hookers And Stuff By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2017 6:00 am EST With the first screenings of Blade Runner 2049 hitting theaters for sneak previews this evening, plenty of viewers who never went out of their way to watch the original 1982 sci-fi noir that came before are catching up with Ridley Scott’s masterful, visual marvel. So it’s the perfect time to make fun of it....

‘Disjointed’ Teaser: Kathy Bates Wishes You A Happy 4/20 By Jack Giroux/April 20, 2017 4:30 pm EST To celebrate 4/20, Netflix announced the premiere date of Disjointed, a “half-baked” drama starring Kathy Bates as the proud owner of a cannabis dispensary. Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory) and the former head writer of The Daily Show, David Javerbaum, co-created the series, which is available to stream starting this August. Below, watch a Disjointed teaser....

‘Jumanji’, ‘The Dark Tower’, ‘The Equalizer 2’, ‘Flatliners’, And Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ All Delayed By Angie Han/Nov. 3, 2016 1:30 pm EST Sony is reorganizing its release calendar, and that means a few big titles are getting shifted around. First off, The Dark Tower has been postponed from February 2017 to summer 2017, as we reported earlier today… and it’s taking over Jumanji’s slot, which means Jumanji is now getting pushed to Christmas 2017....

‘Lord Of The Rings’ Mini-Reunion: A King, An Elf And Some Hobbits Walk Into A Diner [POTD] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2017 5:30 am EST This past December marked the 15th anniversary of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first chapter in one of the greatest film trilogies of all time. Since that’s not exactly a celebratory, milestone anniversary, there wasn’t much pomp and circumstance. But a little over a month later, a mini-reunion of some of the members of the fellowship has taken place....

‘Love, Simon’ Trailer: The Charming Coming-Out Movie Now Has A “Romantic AF” Soundtrack By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 1:30 pm EST Teen romance movies are a dime a dozen, but Love, Simon has the benefit of being a major teen romance film revolving around a gay character. Sure, plenty of indie films and prestige flicks have explored the heartache of young gay love or the excruciating fear of coming out, but have any of them done it to an upbeat pop soundtrack?...

‘Moana’ Clip: Hear Lin-Manuel Miranda Sing ‘‘We Know The Way’’ By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2016 2:30 pm EST Chances are you’ve already seen Moana, and if you’ve already seen Moana, chances are you’ve got the songs stuck in your head. Maybe you’ve tried to get your fix by streaming the soundtrack on Spotify or downloading it on iTunes. But it’s just not the same without the bright, expressive visuals by Disney Animation, is it?...

‘Polaroid’ Trailer: What Do You Do With A Haunted Camera? By Jacob Hall/June 29, 2017 3:30 pm EST Everything is haunted! Everything is scary when all objects are possessed! Everything is haunted! And teenagers are in distress! You know the drill before your even watch the Polaroid trailer: there’s an evil camera, haunted by some kind of demonic presence, that kills all of the unfortunate young adults who let themselves be photographed by it....

‘Ready Player One’ Promo Invites You To Join The Leaderboard And Win A Prize By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2018 12:30 pm EST Real VR has nothing on the Oasis on Ready Player One. But alas, the completely immersive technology in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming science-fiction movie is decades away from existence. But you can get a little taste of what it would be like to enter the virtual world of the Oasis with a new Ready Player One contest: the Join the Leaderboard sweepstakes....

‘The Dark Tower’ Has Been Delayed Again By Jacob Hall/March 30, 2017 4:06 pm EST If everything had gone according to plan, we would have seen Nikolaj Arcel’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower by now. The film was originally scheduled for a January 13, 2017 release date before being pushed back to February 17. From there, it was pushed back to July 28. And now, it looks like the quest for reach Dark Tower has just gotten a little longer, as Sony has delayed the film once more....

By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 18, 2018 9:45 am EST UPDATE: The source for this rumor has clarified what he meant by this news, but it doesn’t make it any less perplexing. Get the full update at the end of the story. Fans couldn’t have been more pleased when Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced they would join forces to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sony’s ownership of the Spider-Man rights kept the hero from meeting the Avengers for years, but an agreement to share the rights in order to benefit both Sony and Marvel brought the wallcrawler home to kick off his own new franchise and be a key part in the future of the MCU....

AMC Considering Charging Different Prices For Seats Within The Same Theater By Ben Pearson/Dec. 28, 2017 12:30 pm EST At the AMC Universal CityWalk 19 in Los Angeles – the AMC Theaters location that’s closest to where I live – a single ticket to see a non-matinee screening tonight currently costs $17.75 (plus a $1.75 convenience fee for ordering the ticket online, bringing the total to $19.50). Now we’ve learned that AMC is looking into the possibility of charging different prices for different seats within the same theater....

Bob Odenkirk To Star In Action Movie From ‘John Wick’ Writer By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 12, 2018 2:00 pm EST Bob Odenkirk, of Mr. Show and Better Call Saul fame, is about to become an action star. Odenkirk will produce and star in the new action thriller called Nobody, from John Wick and Atomic Blonde producers, with a screenplay from John Wick writer Derek Kolstad. This news is both extremely unexpected and extremely cool....

Daily Podcast: Jurassic World 3, Adam Sandler, Bill & Ted 3, Netflix Maybe Buying EuropaCorp, The Tommyknockers, Kate McKinnon By Ben Pearson/March 30, 2018 5:00 pm EST On the March 30, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about Jurassic World 3, a pair of buzzed-about directors uniting with Adam Sandler, a new Kate McKinnon comedy, The Tommyknockers movie, Reed Morano’s Anne Frank film, Bill & Ted 3’s status, and Netflix possibly buying EuropaCorp....