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Peter Jackson’s ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Is Now A Six-Hour Documentary Series, Will Hit Disney+ In November By Ethan Anderton/June 17, 2021 8:31 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Last winter, Peter Jackson released an extended sneak peek at his upcoming documentary The Beatles: Get Back. At the time, the project was going to be a single film created from over 60 hours of previously unseen footage and over 150 hours of unheard audio from pivotal times in the history of The Fab Four....

Rust Assistant Director Has A History With Unsafe Situations On Set, According To Former Crew Members Sam Wasson/Getty Images By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 26, 2021 8:25 am EST Assistant director Dave Halls, who was involved in the fatal shooting accident that caused the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last Thursday during the production of “Rust,” had a history of contributing to unsafe conditions on the set of films, according to three crew members who worked with him in the past....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Has A Hidden Spoiler That Technically Isn’t There Walt Disney Pictures / Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/Nov. 17, 2021 12:30 pm EST The much-anticipated new trailer for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally arrived, and the only thing louder than the MCU multiverse fanfare is the intense speculation. Even when they’re giving us two minutes of movie footage, Marvel is keeping the cards close to their chest....

Spoiler Discussion: WandaVision Episode 5 “On A Very Special Episode…” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2021 3:00 pm EST On the February 5, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and Sean Gerber from the MCU Fanshow to have a spoiler filled discussion about WandaVision episode 5. Opening Banter: Brad will return next week!In The Spoiler Room: WandaVision Episode 5 “On A Very Special Episode…” Feedback Brief reactions Breakdown Speculation All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

By Ben Pearson/Aug. 17, 2021 2:35 pm EST According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sterling K. Brown and Randall Park are teaming up for this untitled action comedy that’s being compared to Walter Hill’s classic buddy cop classic 48 Hrs. The outlet says “the story centers on two estranged childhood best friends, to be played by Brown and Park, who now find themselves on opposite sides of the law. Framed and on the run, the two must survive each other long enough to clear their names and stop an international criminal enterprise....

Superhero Bits: Batman Gets A Crossover Comic With ‘Fortnite’, LEGO Set May Provide ‘Shang-Chi’ First Look & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2021 6:00 pm EST Did you hear there’s a new comic putting Batman in the world of Fortnite? Want to know about all the new characters in Spawn Universe? Which Guardians of the Galaxy scene did James Gunn rewrite on set? What do Anthony & Joe Russo remember being a difficult part of the Spider-Man casting process?...

Superhero Bits: Beware Of Spider-Man Spoilers, Marvel Introduces A Villain Worse Than Thanos & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/Nov. 9, 2021 5:02 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Taika Waititi Played Four Different Characters In ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2017 12:00 pm EST I’d imagine that directing a Marvel Studios movie would come with a tremendous amount of pressure, but Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi made it look like a breeze. Not only did he completely overhaul the Thor franchise into an outright comedy (a decision that seemed to work wonders at the box office), but the New Zealand-born Waititi stepped in and played Korg, one of the movie’s funniest supporting characters....

The 14 Scariest Mythological Monsters In Horror Movies Scanbox Entertainment By Chad Collins/Dec. 1, 2021 2:15 pm EST Movie monsters are mythic in their own right. The tales of Michael Myers and Pennywise the Clown are no different, both in form and narrative structure, than the legends of yore. They are modern parallels to Medusa and Hades, mythic monsters with penchants for death and destruction. Horror movies in particular are defined by their monsters....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Tourist, Skyline, How Do You Know, Yogi Bear By Adam Quigley/March 24, 2011 1:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You’ve heard of crimes of passion. The Tourist is the opposite. It’s a film so deprived of spirit or spontaneity that it seems to vanish from existence the moment its credits roll — or at least it would were it not for the spectacularly inane surprise ending, carelessly followed by a wholly inappropriate song selection (by the nonetheless great MUSE, who were also weirdly featured in the film’s trailer)....

This Week In Trailers: A Space In Time, Vanquish, About Endlessness, Us Kids, Monday By Christopher Stipp/March 13, 2021 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Thora Birch Has Left Tim Burton’s Wednesday Series Quiver Distribution By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 9, 2021 5:47 pm EST It’s a sad day for fans of Thora Birch, who unfortunately had to exit “Wednesday,” the live-action Addams Family series for Netflix from Tim Burton. Birch had already begun filming episodes, but left the set in Romania to return home due to an emergency. In the exclusive news break from Deadline, a rep from series producer MGM stated, “Thora has returned to the States to attend to a personal matter and will not be returning to the production....

Tick, tick…BOOM! Trailer: Lin-Manuel Miranda Directs Andrew Garfield In A New Musical About The Creator Of Rent Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 4, 2021 10:53 am EST Lin-Manuel Miranda continues his quest for world domination by now making his feature directorial debut. Miranda has been responsible for several successful works, but the Netflix musical “tick, tick…BOOM!” marks the first time he’s helmed a feature film. Based on the musical of the same name by Jonathan Larson, “tick, tick…BOOM!...

Why ‘The Dark Tower’ Failed, According To Stephen King By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 26, 2017 7:30 am EST We’re in a new age of Stephen King adaptations, with new and upcoming films like It, Gerald’s Game, and 1922 winning over critics and audiences alike. But, like King’s own catalogue, there are plenty of stinkers. The Dark Tower was the long-awaited adaptation of King’s magnum opus, the multiverse-spanning sci-fi series of the same name....

‘Cruella’ Early Buzz: The Disney Villain’s Origin Story Is Surprisingly Great And Full Of Style By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2021 10:00 am EST Cruella doesn’t seem to be high on anyone’s must-see list as we kick off a quiet blockbuster summer. But if the early buzz is any indicator, we’re sleeping on what could end up being one of the best live-action Disney movies inspired by one of their animated classics....

‘Flag Day’ Trailer: Sean Penn Directs His Daughter In A Family Crime Drama By Vanessa Armstrong/July 28, 2021 10:36 am EST Sean Penn’s latest film, Flag Day, stormed Cannes this year and will be coming to the masses soon. The film follows the counterfeiter John Vogel, but is really about Vogel’s relationship with his daughter, Jennifer. Penn directed the film and also plays John, with his real-life daughter, Dylan Penn, playing Jennifer....

‘Muppet Man’ Will Bring Jim Henson’s Life To The Big Screen In A Disney Biopic By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 22, 2021 7:30 am EST Disney and The Jim Henson Company are teaming up to bring Jim Henson’s incredible life to the big screen. The Jim Henson biopic Muppet Man is currently in development at Disney, with The Current War writer Michael Mitnick set to pen the story of the legendary puppeteer....

‘Overboard’ Trailer: A Big Lie Creates A Nice Little Family In The Remake With Anna Faris And Eugenio Derbez By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 13, 2018 8:00 am EST No one was clamoring for a remake of Overboard, but here we are with a new version of the amnesiac romantic comedy. Anna Faris stars in a new take on the 1987 movie starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, which does away with some of the more problematic elements of the original story....

‘The Sparks Brothers’ Director Edgar Wright’s Top 10 Sparks Albums – Mostly In His Own Words By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2021 9:15 am EST “The tricky thing with Sparks is that – and this is a good thing about the band – there’s no one album that tells you the whole story.” That’s Edgar Wright, the director of the new documentary The Sparks Brothers, explaining why any list of Sparks music on the Internet is only going to scratch the surface of this enigmatic, massively influential band that mainstream music lovers have probably never heard of....

‘Three-Body Problem’ Adaptation From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Showrunners Taps Derek Tsang To Direct By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 20, 2021 6:43 am EST If you’re going to take a swing, you might as well swing big. That’s not always the most successful baseball approach, but Netflix is taking it to heart when it comes to their The Three-Body Problem series from former Game of Thrones showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The streamer has settled on its first director for the show: Derek Tsang, a Hong Kong filmmaker best known for his award-winning film Better Days....