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‘The Suicide Squad’ Featurette Promises A Lot Of Characters Are Going To Die By Chris Evangelista/July 26, 2021 12:13 pm EST Get ready to see every single character in The Suicide Squad die! Okay, that’s clearly an exaggeration. But the upcoming film really is leaning hard into the fact that seemingly everyone is expendable. In a new The Suicide Squad featurette, director James Gunn talks about how the studio gave him carte blanche to kill pretty much any character in the flick, and that was a type of freedom he relished....

By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2021 11:15 am EST What is The Wheel of Time? Yesterday, the show’s Twitter feed published a photo of a clapboard from the set and announced, “And the wheel keeps weaving…Filming for Season 2 of our series kicks off today!” Thomas Napper, who helmed 2017’s indie boxing drama Jawbone and served as the second unit director on recent live-action Disney movies like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Mary Poppins Returns, is directing....

15 Things That Bothered Us About ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By SlashFilm Staff/July 23, 2012 10:00 am EST Between those of us at /Film, we’ve already seen The Dark Knight Rises several times and have found that many questions and problems still linger in our minds (see Dave’s review and Germain’s review). What’s consistently baffling about Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is people’s willingness to forgive Nolan for extremely problematic staging and editing, and for screenwriting crimes that would put any other writer/director in “script jail....

5 Frances McDormand Movies To Stream After The French Dispatch Searchlight Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 20, 2021 5:03 pm EST Wes Anderson’s newest movie, “The French Dispatch,” hits theaters this week. /Film’s own Hoai-Tran Bui wrote of the movie in her review: “‘The French Dispatch’ is so breathlessly stylized that one might accuse it of being airless and emotionally inert (and indeed, many have). But that’s not the case at all....

Animal Kingdom Season 5 Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Eddy Chen/TNT After a nearly two-year break, Animal Kingdom season 5 premieres this Sunday, July 11, 2021, at 9:00 P.M. ET on TNT. You can also check out the show on the TNT app, if you’ve cut cable out of your life. What is Animal Kingdom? Eddy Chen/TNT Based on the acclaimed David Michôd crime thriller from 2010, Animal Kingdom is about a teenage boy named Joshua “J” Cody who goes to live with his criminal family after his mother dies....

Blumhouse Movie ‘Adrift’ Will Reunite ‘Requiem For A Dream’ Team Darren Aronofsky And Jared Leto By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 28, 2021 11:00 am EST Jared Leto is reuniting with his Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky for Adrift, a Blumhouse film based on a short story by Koji Suzuki, the author of the Ring novels that inspired both Ringu and the American remake The Ring. The story follows the crew of a fishing trawler that comes across an abandoned yacht on the open sea....

Daily Podcast: The Book Of Boba Fett, Spider-Man: No Way Home, F9, And Knives Out 2 By Ben Pearson/June 14, 2021 2:15 pm EST On the June 12, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest film and TV news, including The Book of Boba Fett, Knives Out 2, F9, and Spider-Man: No Way Home....

Daily Podcast: What If…? Episode 4 Takes A Strange Turn Disney+ By Ben Pearson/Sept. 1, 2021 5:57 pm EST On the September 1, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior writer and weekend editor Brad Oman to have a spoiler-filled discussion about the fourth episode of Marvel’s “What If…?” Opening Banter: In The Spoiler Room: What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?...

Dozens Of Cinematographers Sign Open Letter Refusing To Work On Sets With Functional Firearms In Rust Aftermath Fred Hayes / Getty Images By Anya Stanley/Nov. 3, 2021 10:52 pm EST New updates have emerged in the fallout from last month’s fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” claiming the life of a crewmember and injuring its director. On October 21st, actor Alec Baldwin discharged an on-set weapon while rehearsing for a scene on his film (which he also produces), “Rust....

Who is Elvira? NBC Productions The alter-ego of actress Cassandra Peterson, Elvira first appeared as the hostess of the horror movie television program “Movie Macabre” that originally aired from 1981 to 1986. She started off as just another regional horror hostess, but after the release of the 1988 feature film “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark,” Elvira was solidified as a global horror treasure. In the years that followed, Elvira evolved from a cult icon to a mainstream brand....

Encounter Trailer Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat. Encounter: Release Date, Cast, And More By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 30, 2021 8:46 am EST “Encounter” appears to be an interesting case of splitting the difference. Premiering at Telluride Film Festival and starring the indie favorite Riz Ahmed, the film certainly has the look and feel of a throwback mid-budget film … but with a sci-fi premise that should prove to be genre-friendly....

The Story So Far Paramount Pictures Back in 2016, Miller filed a copyright termination to regain the rights to “Friday the 13th,” as he penned the screenplay for the original horror hit that spawned a massive franchise and, eventually, made Jason Voorhees an icon of the genre. U.S. copyright law allows authors to reclaim the rights to what they created after a set number of years. In 2018, a federal judge ruled in Miller’s favor....

How Dune’s Atreides Family Were Modeled On The Romanoffs [Exclusive] Warner Bros. Pictures By Shania Russell/Nov. 4, 2021 3:49 pm EST Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is a breathtaking sci-fi epic, set in the distant future of a galactic empire. The sprawling tale covers everything from the rise and fall of empires to the power of destiny, and even manages a splash of colossal, extraterrestrial sand worms, threatening the lives of all who walk a particularly important desert planet....

How The Crown Helped Kristen Stewart Play Princess Diana In Spencer Neon By Shania Russell/Oct. 28, 2021 11:31 am EST Princess Diana has been a subject of fascination since she married into the royal family. In the 40 years since, there’s been no shortage of biographies, documentaries, and fictional retellings — some more distasteful than others — but lately we’ve been inundated with new dramatizations of the People’s Princess. Diana recently stole center stage in season 4 of “The Crown,” was the focus of a cringe-worthy Broadway musical, has a new docuseries coming to CNN and will soon be portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Pablo Larraín’s latest, “Spencer....

How The Hilarious, Chilling World Of ‘Made For Love’ Came To Life [Interview] By Jacob Hall/April 2, 2021 9:00 am EST Made for Love is a television show set in the near-future, but it’s about the here and now. A woman escaping from an abusive relationship. A tech mogul with too much power and not enough humanity. A general sense of chaos and an awareness that the world is always on the verge of a total meltdown....

Injustice Red Band Trailer: Superman Goes Dark In Blood-Drenched New Look Warner Bros. Animation By Max Evry/Sept. 22, 2021 2:28 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Zack Snyder’s deeply held fever dream of an uber-fascist Superman murdering people by the score and obliterating folks with his scary laser eyes was heavily inspired by the 2013 video game “Injustice: Gods Among Us” and its comic book spin-offs....

James Gunn Has Some Suggestions On How To Keep Superhero Movies From Becoming “Really, Really Boring” By Jeremy Mathai/July 22, 2021 7:54 am EST Superhero movies are, quite simply, the top dog in the game right now. Dating back to 2012, every year-end box office summary for worldwide grosses has included at least one superhero movie (and oftentimes two or more) in the top ten…including last year’s pandemic-skewed totals! With success, however, comes the temptation to curtail innovation, and that’s exactly what outspoken and opinionated director James Gunn is zeroing in on with his latest comments....

Joel Kinnaman Signs Up For ‘In Treatment’ Reboot At HBO By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 29, 2021 5:00 pm EST The reimagined reboot of the 2008 HBO drama starring Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest, which was originally based on the Israeli series BeTipul, stars Aduba as the “observant, empathetic” psychotherapist who meets a diverse trio of patients in session while wrestling with her own issues. The half-hour drama series also stars the previously-announced cast members Anthony Ramos, Liza Colón-Zayas, John Benjamin Hickey, and Quintessa Swindell....

Michael Keaton Doesn’t Understand the MCU Either In case you think that the Flash script is the only comic book property that confused Keaton, the actor also admitted that he’s not exactly knowledgeable when it comes to how the Marvel Cinematic Universe works. That’s especially true when discussing another comic book movie role that he’ll be reprising in Morbius. The Morbius movie is adapting the Marvel Comics character as part of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, which features dozens of Spider-Man adjacent heroes and villains....

The Whole Package Criterion Criterion’s release of “One Night in Miami” will feature a 4K digital transfer approved by Regina King with a 5.1 DTS sound mix. Bonus features include a conversation between King and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, a conversation with King and screenwriter Kemp Powers, the conversation between King and Barry Jenkins done for The Director’s Cut – A DGA Podcast, a feature on the sound design, and an essay by critic Gene Seymour, and new making-of featurettes with King, the actors, and the heads of the departments that brought this period film to life....