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‘Jay And Silent Bob Reboot’ Panel Got Meta As Kevin Smith Presented Clips [Comic-Con 2019] By Vanessa Armstrong/July 21, 2019 1:00 pm EST It wouldn’t be Comic-Con without a panel from filmmaker, television director, comic writer, and pop culture influencer Kevin Smith. However, this year didn’t just have the Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma director gabbing away and telling showbiz stories. At Comic-Con, the Kevin Smith Reboots Hall H panel debuted some clips for the filmmaker’s forthcoming comedy Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, a sequel/reboot of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back....

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series Adds ‘PEN15’ Star And Creator Maya Erskine By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2021 10:00 am EST At the end of March, Disney+ and Lucasfilm revealed the primary cast for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series that picks up 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. But there’s one more addition that wasn’t included in that line-up. Maya Erskine, the star and co-creator of Hulu’s comedy series PEN15, has been tapped for a supporting role in the series....

‘Salem’s Lot Movie Has The Good Taste To Cast Alfre Woodard ABC Television Studio By Eric Vespe/Sept. 3, 2021 8:40 pm EST The hits just keep on coming with Gary Dauberman’s “‘Salem’s Lot.” The more we hear about the cast, the better it sounds. That latest wonderful character actor to join up for this Stephen King vampire tale is none other than Alfre Woodard (“Luke Cage” and “Clemency”). She’ll be playing the role of Dr....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Star David Dastmalchian Thought About Universal Monsters “Every Day” While Filming [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Aug. 6, 2021 6:50 am EST David Dastmalchian grew up watching monster movies. The comic book-loving kid from Kansas loved Hammer films and Universal Monster movies, and those films about sympathetic creatures connected with him. In The Suicide Squad, he plays Polka-Dot Man, a role cut from the same cloth, a character with more pain than power....

What Does This Loss Mean? Peacock Seeing such a staggering number at a loss may make people assume the service is failing, but that isn’t necessarily the case. Companies like Netflix and Uber got their start operating at massive losses, practicing what is known as a growth-before-profit ideology. As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell stated, “Everything on Peacock is heading in the right direction, and there is really nothing from a trajectory perspective that is any different from what it was last quarter....

Daily Podcast: A Magic Kingdom TV Universe, Blue Beetle Movie, And That Time Dracula Impersonated Satan By Ben Pearson/Feb. 23, 2021 3:30 pm EST On the February 23, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Disney’s Magic Kingdom TV universe, a Blue Beetle movie, The Great Gatsby animated movie, and an Easy Rawlins TV show....

Elvis: Release Date, Cast, And More MGM By Sandy Schaefer/Nov. 5, 2021 10:23 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) If there’s one thing you can count on from Australian multi-hyphenate Baz Luhrmann, it’s that whatever he’s going to do, he’s going to do it “big.” Whether that means making a nearly three-hour long romantic epic (“Australia”), reinventing the grammar of the Hollywood movie musical (“Moulin Rouge!...

Fantastic Fest Review And Video Blog: Trick ‘R Treat By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2009 7:13 am EST F*** Pointless Remakes. F*** Shitty Sequels. And F*** Rob Zombie. (Excuse the vulgarity, as we don’t use it often on /Fim — but when it is used, it is used to effect, to express a point. A bit of a warning, I have one more coming…) Trick r Treat is the best Halloween movie since John Carptenter’s 1978 classic....

Hawkeye Episode 5 Just Tied Itself To Spider-Man: No Way Home With One Line Of Dialogue Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Dec. 15, 2021 11:15 am EST We are rapidly approaching the conclusion of “Hawkeye” on Disney+, with the game-changing episode 5 in the books. Titled “Ronin,” the episode brought an awful lot to the table, so fans would be forgiven if they perhaps missed a quick connection to the upcoming “Spider-Man: No Way Home....

How ‘The Vigil’ And ‘Saint Maud’ Use Horror To Explore The Nexus Between Religion, Trauma, And Mental Health By Joshua Meyer/March 9, 2021 10:00 am EST Being alone indoors is a common facet of pandemic life, but in The Vigil and Saint Maud, it’s also a recipe for religious horror. These two films, which recently hit VOD and streaming, bend in opposite directions yet are cut from the same cloth. Both have first-time writer-directors at the helm and both are distributed by indie-horror labels (IFC Midnight and A24, respectively)....

Jerry Seinfeld Is Making A Movie About Pop-Tarts For Netflix, And No, This Headline Is Not A Joke By Ben Pearson/June 23, 2021 12:09 pm EST Jerry Seinfeld has been refining a stand-up comedy bit about Pop-Tarts for more than 10 years, and now he’s preparing to take it to an entirely different level – he’s going to make a film about it. A new report says Seinfeld will direct, produce, co-write, and star in Unfrosted, a movie about the creation of the most reliable of boxed breakfast staples, the Pop-Tart....

Liam Neeson Is As Surprised As You That He Keeps Making Those Action Movies By Ben Pearson/June 24, 2021 12:20 pm EST In 2015, Liam Neeson, the star of the Taken films, predicted he probably had “maybe two more years” of action films in him. In 2017, the actor implied that his action movie days might be behind him, only to immediately retract that statement and promise that he would “be doing action movies until they bury me in the ground....

Potential ‘Pacific Rim’ And ‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Crossover Would Not Have Featured Jaegers Fighting The Titans By Ben Pearson/Feb. 12, 2021 4:30 pm EST 2018’s Pacific Rim Uprising made more that $290 million worldwide, but with a reported $150 million budget plus advertising costs on top of that, it wasn’t successful enough to lead to a third film in the Pacific Rim franchise. But after reading this latest update from Uprising director Steven S....

Queenpins: Release Date, Cast And More By Shania Russell/July 21, 2021 1:15 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) A comedy about counterfeit coupons is on the way, which doesn’t sound real or thrilling, but actually has the makings of an entertaining ride. The release of Queenpins is quickly approaching and if you’re in need of more info on the film, look no further than this guide....

Seeing Double: ‘DeepStar Six’ Vs. ‘Leviathan’ In A Battle Of The 1989 Sea Monster Movies By Rob Hunter/Oct. 12, 2017 11:30 am EST (Welcome to Seeing Double, a series where two strangely similar films released around the same time are put head-to-head. This time: we flash back to 1989, when undersea creatures attacked in both DeepStar Six and Leviathan!) This month’s face-off comes with a creature feature theme in honor of Halloween and we’re pitting two underwater monster movies against each other....

Sparks On The Evolution Of ‘Annette’, Ceding Control, Their Next Project(s), And More [Interview] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 20, 2021 2:39 pm EST This week, I had the opportunity to speak with Sparks (real names: Ron and Russell Mael) about the evolution of this project, ceding creative control to Carax, and much more. Read our full conversation below. I initially thought Edgar Wright’s recent documentary was my introduction to your work, but in doing research for this, I realized that I had actually heard some of your stuff well before that because you did the soundtrack for the Jean-Claude Van Damme film Knock Off in the late ’90s....

Superhero Bits: Green Lantern, Captain America, Batman: Arkham City, Thor, Powers By Germain Lussier/June 21, 2011 12:00 pm EST What’s the huge Spider-Man spoiler that’s all over the mainstream media today? What’s Robin going to look like in Batman: Arkham City? Was that Dark Knight Rises trailer real? When will the final Captain America: The First Avenger trailer appear? And are people devoting a lot of time to making fun of Green Lantern?...

The 11 Greatest Paul Thomas Anderson Scenes Annapurna Pictures By Fiona Underhill/Aug. 29, 2021 11:02 pm EST Paul Thomas Anderson came out of the ’90s indie film boom, which also popularized directors like David O. Russell, Cameron Crowe, the Coen brothers, Gus Van Sant, Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Payne and more. Anderson has always moved at his own pace, with five year gaps between some of his films, andworks on his own terms....

The Funniest Fan Theory The Coen Brothers Have Ever Heard By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 30, 2021 12:10 pm EST The Coen Brothers are often cagey about the meaning of their films, and in the case of “Barton Fink” — their uncategorizable 1991 film starring John Turturro and John Goodman — perhaps there is no grand unifying message to it. That hasn’t stopped critics and academics from analyzing the movie to death, and there are now long Wikipedia sections about its symbolism and themes....

The Matrix Resurrections First Look Is Here – Here’s How You Can See It Warner Bros. By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 7, 2021 1:06 pm EST Director Lana Wachowski is bringing us a fourth “Matrix” movie, titled “The Matrix Resurrections,” at the end of this year. Are you ready to take the red pill and follow Neo once again? Or is the blue pill more your speed? A new interactive website lets you decide which pill to take, and gives us teasing glimpses of the trailer, which is set to arrive this Thursday....