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Daily Podcast: The Movies That Define Us By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the April 20, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the movies that define us.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)....

DC’s ‘The Flash’ Is Getting A Page-One Rewrite By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2017 7:30 am EST Last year, Warner Bros.’ The Flash lost not one but two directors, as first Seth Grahame-Smith and then Rick Famuyiwa dropped out. Instead of racing to find a new one, though, the studio is using this as an opportunity to take things in a new direction. Joby Harold, the scribe behind the studio’s upcoming King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, has been tapped to do a page-one rewrite of the script....

Do ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ & ‘Avengers 4’ Have A Combined $1 Billion Budget? By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2017 10:30 am EST Avengers: Infinity War and the yet to be titled fourth Avengers films are shooting concurrently. With one of the biggest star-studded ensemble casts in the history of film, we expected that the films might break the record for the biggest budget movie of all time. But a new report suggests that the movies may have a combined production budget of $1 billion....

FX’s ‘Archer’ Ending After Season 10 By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2016 4:30 pm EST Over the summer, FX renewed its spy spoof Archer for not one, not two, but three seasons, bringing the total season count up to ten and keeping the show on air through about 2019. Once that season ends, though, it’ll be lights out for Sterling and Lana and Malory and the rest of the gang. “The plan is to end Archer after season 10,” series creator Adam Reed said in a recent interview....

Hulu Temporarily Drops Price To $5.99 Per Month To Lure New Subscribers By Ben Pearson/Oct. 9, 2017 3:00 pm EST Good news for anyone who may have been on the fence about subscribing to Hulu: in a bid to lure new subscribers, the streaming service has now lowered its base-level service price to $5.99 per month for new and returning subscribers for the first year. Will that be enough to convince you to shell out a few bucks a month to watch The Handmaid’s Tale?...

James Gunn’s ‘The Belko Experiment’ Red-Band Trailer: When Office Politics Get Bloody By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2016 8:05 pm EST James Gunn has spent most of 2016 keeping his head down and working hard, but he’ll be back in the spotlight next year with a couple of exciting new releases. One, you surely already know about — we’ve been talking about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 since the moment credits rolled on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Joker Origin Movie Will Be ‘Super Dark And Real,’ Because What Else Could It Be? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 30, 2017 7:00 am EST If you for some reason thought that the Joker origin movie would be a lighthearted romp filled with fun and laughter, you’d be wrong. Nothing screams “dark” like a Joker movie that has already been described as “a gritty and grounded hard-boiled crime film set in early-’80s Gotham City....

Jon Favreau Explains How VR Tech Has Influenced His ‘Lion King’ Remake By Jacob Hall/Dec. 1, 2016 10:00 am EST One of the things that has always impressed me about James Cameron as a filmmaker is how he confronts obstacles to achieving his vision – if current technology can’t help him achieve his vision, then he will help develop brand new technology to actually make it happen, damn it! The line between technician and artist has continued to blend in this way over the past 15 years or so, with filmmakers like Peter Jackson and Robert Zemeckis building entire movies around fresh tech, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, but always adding more to the conversation....

New ‘Deadpool 2’ TV Spots Gift Us With Stripper Deadpool And Sun Tan Lotion-Wearing Peter By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 1, 2018 4:00 pm EST Two new Deadpool 2 TV spots know exactly what we want out of the superhero sequel, and they’re giving it to us tenfold. We all want to see more of Peter, the scene-stealing normal dude who just wants to teach us about good skin care. Oh, and some stripper Deadpool vaulting around a pole, if that’s your thing....

Rumor: Disney Wants To Buy Netflix, Could Reed Hastings Replace Bob Iger As CEO? By Jacob Hall/Nov. 14, 2016 12:00 pm EST Anyway, Disney’s next step in becoming the domineering force of the dystopian future involves them possibly acquiring Netflix, a move that would be nothing short of huge for both companies. The story comes our way via TechCrunch and while nothing is set in stone, it does indeed sound like all of the proper pieces are aligning....

Seth Rogen Comedy ‘Flarsky’ Casts Andy Serkis As A Human Male By Ben Pearson/Nov. 22, 2017 8:00 am EST Andy Serkis has built his career on stellar performance-capture work in memorable movies like The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the new Planet of the Apes movies, and now he’s been cast in one of his most challenging roles yet: a human male. Serkis, who has obviously played humans before in movies like The Prestige and Avengers: Age of Ultron, has been added to the cast of a major Hollywood comedy: a Seth Rogen-starrer for Lionsgate called Flarsky....

Superhero Bits: Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange Souvenir, Batman: Rebel Yell & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2016 5:00 pm EST When is the four series crossover of Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow beginning? Will Doctor Strange stay on top for a second weekend at the box office? What is Batman: Rebel Yell and why the hell was it canceled? What did Nicolas Cage think of Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War?...

Thanos’s MCU Origin Won’t Be Revealed Outside Of The Movies [Updated] By Ben Pearson/April 16, 2018 12:30 pm EST Update: Turns out io9 was misinformed on this one. The publisher of this novel originally told them the novel was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon, but they’ve since reached out to reveal that it’s not actually canonical. Our original story follows. Every studio in Hollywood has spent years chasing Marvel Studios’ success with shared universes, but now the people running the Marvel Cinematic Universe are looking elsewhere for some inspiration of their own....

The New ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Poster Features Optimus Prime Standing Over The Corpse Of Your Kid’s Favorite Character By Jacob Hall/Dec. 13, 2016 10:00 am EST Between the Fate of the Furious trailer revealing Vin Diesel’s Dom to be working against the rest of his family and the Transformers: The Last Knight trailer featuring a scene where Optimus Prime battles Bumblebee, we’re awfully close to a new trend: 2017 movies where beloved heroes break bad and turn against their team....

Tyrant Cancelled After Three Seasons By Jack Giroux/Sept. 8, 2016 5:00 am EST Below, learn more about the Tyrant cancellation. Set in the fictional city of Abuddin, Tyrant centers around the Al-Fayeed family. After making a life for himself in America as a pediatrician and a family man, Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner), the son of a Middle-eastern Tyrant, returns home. Despite wanting nothing to do with his father or his brother, he ends up staying after the passing of his father, to help guide his brother Jamal (Ashraf Barhom) as the new President....

By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 7, 2018 6:00 am EST Before Planet of the Apes hit the big screen in 1968, it was first a script written by The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling that adapted Pierre Boulle’s novel. Instead of being set in a more primitive village, the original story would have unfolded in a modern city filled with apes in a sort of satire of contemporary life. It didn’t move forward in this form because it would have been too expensive, but soon we’ll be able to see the Rod Serling Planet of the Apes script in comic book form....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Directors Debunk The Soul Stone Theory By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 8, 2018 4:30 pm EST These days, a fan theory can’t even get a few weeks in the cycle without being debunked immediately by the directors who may have started it in the first place. Or rather, “clarified.” Joe and Anthony Russo are clarifying their comments on the final scene in their film Avengers: Infinity War, and in the process, may have just debunked the popular Infinity War Soul Stone theory and the stone’s role in Avengers 4....

‘Colossal’ Trailer: Anne Hathaway Is A Giant Monster By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 16, 2017 11:00 am EST Giant monster movies have been around for a long time, and so have indie movies about thirtysomethings trying to get their life together. Somehow, one movie has managed to combine both of those subgenres into a single movie that is refreshing, entertaining and positively great. Colossal follows Anne Hathaway as a young socialite who isn’t doing anything valuable with her life....

‘Deadpool 2’ Honest Trailer Brings In Ryan Reynolds To Skewer Honest Trailers Instead By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 2018 6:00 am EST Since the character of Deadpool already makes fun of himself and is self-referential enough to take the wind out of the sails of a movie mocking web series like Honest Trailers (not to mention appearing in his own Honest Trailer for the first movie), there’s only one thing to do: bring in Deadpool to make fun of Honest Trailers....

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Trailer: Barry Jenkins Brings James Baldwin’s Words To Life By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2018 6:15 am EST Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is back with If Beale Street Could Talk, adapted from the James Baldwin novel of the same name. Jenkins’ film follows a pregnant young woman hoping to clear her fiancé’s name after he’s imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Watch the new If Beale Street Could Talk trailer below....