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Daily Podcast: Our Favorite Foreign Films, Star Wars, Stranger Things, Captain Marvel & Transformers By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2017 7:30 am EST On the /Film Daily podcast for August 3, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson to talk about their favorite foreign films of all time, their recent adventures in video editing and podcast studio construction, news including Star Wars Episode 9, Star Wars: the Last Jedi, Han Solo, Stranger Things, Captain Marvel and the future of Transformers....

Jenna Fischer Reveals Pam’s Goodbye To Michael During His Farewell On ‘The Office’ By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2018 6:30 am EST The Office is so great that it’s become one of those shows people always end up watching when they can’t decide what to watch on Netflix. Now that the show has reruns all the time on Comedy Central, people are reliving the good ole days of Dundler-Mifflin all the time, and a nostalgic revelation has just surfaced to satisfy curious fans....

Lara Croft Will Search For Her Father In The ‘Tomb Raider’ Reboot By Jack Giroux/Nov. 22, 2016 2:30 pm EST Producer Graham King (Allied) has said before the Tomb Raider reboot will show how Lara Croft became such an adventurous, globe-trotting archaeologist. Academy Award-winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) is set to play the British video game character in director Roar Uthaug’s (The Wave) film, which King recently described as a “back to the roots story....

LOL: ‘Home Alone’ With Blood Makes For A Much Darker Holiday Comedy By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2017 6:00 am EST Even though The Wet Bandits only walk away with various, scrapes, bruises and burns, after going through Kevin McCallister’s traps in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, the real injuries that would be sustained by Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) would be much worse in real life....

Release Date Announced For ‘Anna And The Apocalypse’, The Christmas Zombie Musical You’ve Always Wanted By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2018 3:30 pm EST Finally, the Christmas-themed zombie musical you’ve been waiting for has a release date. Anna and the Apocalypse will sing and dance its way into theaters this December. Fans of zombies, Christmas and musicals rejoice – Anna and the Apocalypse is just the film for you, and it’s hitting theaters this year....

Sofia Coppola Wanted To Make ‘The Little Mermaid’ A Dark Fairy Tale By Jack Giroux/June 21, 2017 4:30 pm EST Nobody wants to see a Sofia Coppola movie influenced by a committee, including Sofia Coppola. The filmmaker behind Lost in Translation and this week’s The Beguiled was going to make her biggest movie yet with The Little Mermaid, but she exited the project once she realized her vision wasn’t going to go untouched by Universal....

Superhero Bits: The State Of Thor And Jane Foster, The Flash/Supergirl Musical Footage & More By Ethan Anderton/March 14, 2017 5:00 pm EST How did Hugh Jackman embarrass himself in front of his celebrity crush? What are the best X-Men video games ever made? Are Thor and Jane Foster still together in Thor: Ragnarok? What did James McAvoy think of Logan? Which Marvel Cinematic Universe film is currently undergoing reshoots? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Tom Hiddleston Surprises Loki Cosplayers, Matt Reeves’ Favorite Batman Comics & More By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 2018 5:00 pm EST Want to see Tom Hiddleston surprise fans dressed up as Loki? Will the new Spider-Man PS4 video game kick off a whole Marvel video game universe? What are some of Matt Reeves’ favorite Batman comics? Which star of The Walking Dead will appear in Venom? Are you ready for a bunch of deleted scenes on the Avengers: Infinity War home video release?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Ghostbusters’ May Be About Nothing, More ‘Rick & Morty’ Non-Canonical Adventures & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2017 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, a video essay proposes that Ghostbusters might actually be about nothing....

The New ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Trailer Is Here By Jacob Hall/Aug. 11, 2016 7:41 pm EST Erso’s motley band of soldiers, spies, robots, and assassins consists of seasoned Rebel Alliance operative Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), unhinged security droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk), ill-tempered pilot Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed), blind warrior Chirrut Îmwe (Donnie Yen), and blaster-toting tough guy Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen). Their chief opposition comes in the form of Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn), the high-ranking imperial commander in charge of the Death Star project who commands his own squadron of elite soldiers known as Death Troopers....

Timeless Fans Were Not as Responsible For Renewal as They Think [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/Aug. 3, 2017 11:00 am EST When NBC did not renew Timeless for a second season, fans began a “Save Timeless” campaign. NBC seemed to listen and added the show back to its schedule. During an executive session with the Television Critics Association, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt joked that the fans still don’t control his renewal decisions....

Watch: Pixar Short ‘Dante’s Lunch’ Introduces Us To The Determined Dog From ‘Coco’ By Ben Pearson/March 29, 2017 12:30 pm EST While Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory didn’t make a splash at this year’s Academy Awards, the studio did take home a trophy for the short film attached that was attached to it, Alan Barillaro’s adorable Piper. Now the company has released its latest short, Dante’s Lunch, which serves as a nice introduction to the determined, long-tongued dog that will appear in Pixar’s Dìa de Muertos film Coco when it comes out later this fall....

‘Alien: Covenant,’ ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Beauty And The Beast’ And More Previewed In New Photos By Jacob Hall/Jan. 9, 2017 12:00 pm EST Considering how battered and bruised 2016 left the world in general, the only sane thing to do is look at 2017 with caution and fear. Except for the movies. The movies look pretty cool. A bunch of new images from the year’s biggest movies have arrived online, suggesting that we may get to see some pretty cool movies before civilization completely collapses....

‘American Horror Story’ Has Already Been Renewed For Season 10 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 3, 2018 2:15 pm EST Will American Horror Story ever end? Who knows! For now, Ryan Murphy’s over-the-top horror extravaganza has already been renewed for a 10th season. The show is about to head into its 8th season as part of a two-season pickup. There’s always a chance season 10 will be the end of the show. Or maybe it will go on forever....

‘Avengers 4’ Director May Have Debunked The Time-Travel Theory By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 24, 2018 7:30 am EST Avengers 4 remains shrouded in mystery, with not even a title to hint at the plot of the climactic comic book movie. So that has left fans picking apart every photo taken from the Atlanta set of the Marvel Studios film for clues. This has helped to spawn a popular time travel theory which suggests that Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet fractures the Avengers team, sending them spinning off into different timelines....

‘Fast And Furious’ Spin-Off ‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Shifts Release Date By Ben Pearson/May 9, 2018 2:22 pm EST Universal’s upcoming Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw is pumping the brakes and delaying its release date. The upcoming movie, which stars Dwayne Johnson as the perpetually-oiled-up Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham as the Han-murdering Deckard Shaw, will still come out in 2019. Find out the new Hobbs and Shaw release date below....

‘Hunger Games’ & ‘John Wick’ Rides And A ‘Mad Men’ Bar Coming To Times Square By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2017 11:00 am EST Lionsgate is teaming with Parques Reunidos to bring a Lionsgate-branded indoor entertainment center to New York City’s Times Square in 2019. Lionsgate Entertainment City will feature 13 different attractions aimed at teens and young adults. Among the offerings featured, there will be: a Mad Men themed “dining and lounge experience....

‘Ready Player One’ Trailer: A Better Reality Awaits In Steven Spielberg’s Latest Adventure By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2017 10:00 am EST A new Steven Spielberg movie is already slated to arrive before the end of 2017 in the form of the The Post, the true story of the battle between The Washington Post and the government regarding the exposing of a massive cover-up of secrets that spans three decades and four U....

‘Sicario: Day Of The Soldado’ Director Stefano Sollima On Moral Complexity And His ‘Call Of Duty’ Movie [Interview] By Fred Topel/June 29, 2018 1:00 pm EST Alejandro (del Toro) gets called back into action to help Graver (Brolin) go after the Mexican drug cartels. They kidnap Isabel Reyes (Isabela Moner), the daughter of a kingpin, but things don’t go exactly as planned south of the border. Italian director Stefano Sollima makes his Hollywood debut with Sicario: Day of the Soldado....

‘The Bad Batch’ Teaser Trailer: Keanu Reeves Leads A Cult In A Cannibal-Filled Dystopia By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2017 2:30 pm EST Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, felt simultaneously fresh and familiar: it borrowed from the iconography of several decades’ worth of cinema, but it combined those elements in a way we’d never quite seen before. Her sophomore effort, The Bad Batch, looks every bit as attention-grabbing....