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Spider-Man: Freshman Year Will Explore Peter Parker’s Early Days In Disney+ Animated Series Sony Animation By Shania Russell/Nov. 12, 2021 12:54 pm EST Over the past few years we’ve watched Tom Holland’s Peter Parker grow up in the MCU, going from a bubbly kid with superpowers to a full blown Avenger. It went so fast that we forgot to savor his childhood! But now that Marvel is in full-on powerhouse mode, churning out not just movies but new series, they have just enough wiggle room to jump back in time....

The Extreme Lengths Brad Pitt Went To For His Fight Club Role By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 13, 2021 9:28 am EST David Fincher’s “Fight Club” is a film with a troubled legacy, perhaps because it has been misunderstood or because the film itself makes the unglamorous glamorous. An early darling of the DVD market, once likened to “The Graduate” of its generation, Fincher’s 1999 adaptation of the eponymous Chuck Palahniuk novel was never not controversial....

The Inevitable “Why People Think King Shark Is Hot” Thinkpiece By Kayleigh Donaldson/Aug. 3, 2021 9:39 am EST When it was announced that James Gunn would direct a new Suicide Squad movie for Warner Bros. and DC, a few things felt inevitable. There would be debates about Gunn taking over the reins of the franchise from the oft-maligned David Ayer. Some fans wondered if this signaled yet another new direction for the franchise....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Fruits Basket’ Is A Wholesome Slice-Of-Life Anime That Is A Treat For The Eyes And The Heart By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 2, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series: Fruits Basket (2019)Where You Can Stream It: Crunchyroll (with subtitles), Hulu (dubbed in English)The Pitch: Recently orphaned high school teenager Tohru Honda finds herself living in a house with her handsome classmate Yuki Sohma and his two cousins — Yuki’s hot-headed rival Kyo, and the group’s de facto guardian, Shigure....

Who is Kro? Kro was born to the race of Deviants, an evolutionary offshoot of humanity created by the Celestials but cursed with an unstable genetic code. As the name implies, no two Deviants are alike. The flaw of their design is that each member of the race has unique characteristics. Kro won the genetic lottery — whatever set him apart from the others, has allowed him to live out a prolonged existence alongside other immortal Eternals....

‘Arizona’ Review: Danny McBride Is An Unhinged Serial Killer [Sundance] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 24, 2018 4:00 pm EST Jonathan Watson, the longtime assistant director on films as varied as Bad Boys and The Truman Show, makes his directorial debut with Arizona, a thriller set in the midst of the late 2000s economic housing crisis that stars Rosemarie DeWitt as a single mom realtor on the run from a deranged homeowner played by Danny McBride....

By Ben Pearson/Feb. 25, 2021 12:00 pm EST But there are still some unanswered questions about what exactly that “larger G.I. Joe universe” entails. Will it include the Stephen Sommers movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra? Will it incorporate the events of G.I. Joe: Retaliation? Or will it ignore those two feature films and instead serve as a bridge to Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, the upcoming movie that stars Henry Golding in the title role, and the planned follow-up film that is “not quite a sequel but rather an expansion to take audience goers deeper into the world of Joe”?...

‘Godzilla: Singular Point’ Is A Striking Anime Love Letter To Kaiju Movies By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 5, 2021 11:24 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.) As great as the recent MonsterVerse movies can get, they also have a fundamental flaw: human characters that are difficult to like to relate to, and don’t contribute much to the movies at large....

‘Luke Cage’ Star Mike Colter Reflects On The Show’s Cancelation: “There Were So Many Places We Could Have Taken It” By Shania Russell/July 6, 2021 1:06 pm EST It’s really difficult to remember a time before we all subscribed to 100 different streaming services, but let’s try to flash back a bit. About a million years ago (back in 2015) when Netflix ruled the streaming space, they began a partnership with Marvel to produce several interconnected series that built up to Marvel’s Defenders....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Tickets And Premier Access Are Available For Pre-Order Now By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 5, 2021 10:00 am EST Raya and the Last Dragon had an unusual production process. Completed almost entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic, Raya and the Last Dragon is also getting an unusual release — though it’s one that’s sort of becoming the norm amid the ongoing pandemic. The Disney animated fantasy-adventure epic will be hitting both theaters and Disney+ Premier Access (meaning you will have to pay that extra $30 fee) next month, and you can pre-order both now....

Andy Serkis Suggests A Venom And Spider-Man Crossover ‘Is Going To Happen,’ But We Shouldn’t Rush It Sony Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 15, 2021 8:25 am EST It’s “the question on everyone’s lips,” and Andy Serkis knows it: when is Venom going to meet Spider-Man? Onscreen, that is. Spider-Man and Venom have already met plenty of times in the pages of Marvel Comics. They’ve even spent some time alone on a desert island together, with Venom hunting Spider-Man, camouflaging himself among the trees....

Bohemian Rhapsody Screenwriter Challenges Studio Claims That The Movie Lost $51 Million By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 24, 2021 10:23 am EST Made on a budget of $55 million, “Bohemian Rhapsody” took in almost a billion dollars worldwide. It was the highest-grossing non-franchise film of 2018, but according to Fox, the film’s distributor, it still has not turned a profit, and in fact lost $51 million. McMarten is a four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for producing and twice for writing, on the biopics “The Theory of Everything,” “The Darkest Hour,” and “The Two Popes....

Hulu’s Jordan Helman Discussed The Potential Future Of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, Season 5 May Be Last By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 9, 2021 7:17 pm EST The Handmaid’s Tale might be looking to quit while it’s ahead. Hulu’s dystopian drama, starring Elizabeth Moss, saw a jump in viewership between its third and fourth seasons, and writers are currently hard at work breaking the story for the fifth season. According to Jordan Helman, Head of Scripted Originals at Hulu, it could be the final season, as the show makes way for a new Margaret Atwood adaption based on The Testaments....

Indigenous Basketball Film ‘Rez Ball’ Lands At Netflix, LeBron James Will Produce By Marisa Mirabal/Aug. 9, 2021 6:42 pm EST After squaring off on the court with classic cartoons in Space Jam: A New Legacy, LeBron James is back on board for another basketball feature. James will produce Netflix’s upcoming Rez Ball, a coming-of-age sports drama from Reservation Dogs duo Sydney Freeland and Sterlin Harjo. Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, a perfect day to premiere FX’s latest show Reservation Dogs....

Interview: Shawn Ryan, Creator Of ‘The Chicago Code’ By David Chen/March 25, 2011 10:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After the jump, read a full transcript (edited for clarity) of my 40-minute conversation with Shawn Ryan. It’s rare, in-depth look into what it’s like to create and manage a big-budget broadcast TV show and I’d urge you to give it a look. You can also download the audio from the interview through the /Filmcast....

Jared Leto Was Responsible For The “We Live In A Society” Line In The ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Trailer By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 18, 2021 3:30 pm EST It was a line that reverberated throughout the internet when it was uttered in a trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League: “We live in a society.” For those unfamiliar, that’s a well-known internet meme, and not something you’d expect to see in a serious-minded superhero movie....

And the Survey Says… Disney With 624 residents in the United States asked to pick the worst villain in Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the winner by a considerable margin was “Ant-Man” baddie Darren Cross AKA Yellowjacket, who received just over 22% of the vote. In second place is “Thor: The Dark World” villain Malekith (16.35%), closely followed by Alexander Pierce (15.87%), the former secretary of defense who was revealed to be a Hydra leader in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier....

Nick Offerman Joins ‘Pam & Tommy’ Cast For Hulu Series About The Famous Sex Tape By Ben Pearson/April 7, 2021 4:30 pm EST Nick Offerman has played cops, killers, a reluctant small town bureaucrat, a tech genius, and dozens more characters over the course of his career, but he’s about to add an incredibly niche notch to his acting belt. Offerman has been cast as real-life porn impresario Uncle Miltie in Pam & Tommy, the Hulu limited series about model/actress Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and their famous sex tape that “went viral” in the late 1990s, before that became a widely used term....

Peacemaker Teaser Trailer James Gunn, who directed “The Suicide Squad,” wrote the series in addition to directing several episodes. Jody Hill (“Eastbound and Down”), Rosemary Rodriguez (“The Walking Dead”), and Brad Anderson (“Session 9”) will all direct an episode each. The cast includes Danielle Brooks (“Orange Is the New Black”) as Leota Adebayo, Robert Patrick (“Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) as Auggie Smith, Jennifer Holland (“Brightburn”) as Emilia Harcourt, Chris Conrad (“Patriot”) as Vigilante/Adrian Chase, and Steve Agee (“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Pixar Reveals New Sparkshorts Coming To Disney+, Including Hand-Drawn Short ‘Twenty Something’ By Shania Russell/July 21, 2021 3:58 pm EST Pixar just announced two new SparkShorts are on their way to Dinsey+, along with a feature-length documentary about the SparkShorts filmmaking process. If the name SparkShorts looks familiar, it’s because you’ve likely already seen some films in the series. It’s a Pixar Animation program designed to discover new storytellers and uplift their voices through creative animation techniques....