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Disney+ Series Nautilus Finds Its Captain Nemo In Shazad Latif CBS Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 12, 2021 9:15 am EST Disney’s next live-action adaptation of a classic tale is gearing up to be one of their most interesting projects yet. After many studios have attempted to bring Jules Verne’s novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” to life over the last several decades with little success, the studio is now putting a fresh spin on familiar ground....

Dune Costume Designer Jacqueline West On How To Make A Stillsuit [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Nov. 6, 2021 3:24 pm EST “Dune” costumer designer Jacqueline West is one of the best in the business. The three-time Academy Award nominee’s previous credits include “Argo,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Revenant,” and “The Social Network.” She’s also frequently collaborated with Terrence Malick, having worked on “The New World” and “The Tree of Life,” to name a few....

Eternals Is A ‘New, Special Step’ For The MCU, Kevin Feige Says DFree/Shutterstock By Anya Stanley/Oct. 19, 2021 6:13 pm EST It’s a joyous Tuesday to Marvel fans, as the fanfare for Chloe Zhao’s “Eternals” has begun. The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s twenty-sixth film has just premiered in L.A., launching a countdown for an upcoming wider release next month. Today, the cast and director of the superhero picture, along with longtime Marvel producer and studio president Kevin Feige, held a virtual press conference ahead of the film’s theatrical release....

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Clip: Finn Wolfhard Experiences Some Stranger Things Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2021 10:37 am EST “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is nearly upon us. Originally meant to be released last summer, the sequel that picks up the original “Ghostbusters” franchise arrives in theaters next week. If you’re too impatient to wait, Sony Pictures has released a brief new clip from the movie that finds “Stranger Things” star Finn Wolfhard as Trevor, who is sparking up a conversation with Summerville, Oklahoma local Lucky (Celeste O’Connor) as they sit in a vintage elevator that drops into a mine shaft....

Haddonfield in the Spotlight Universal Pictures Much of the “Halloween” franchise — at least the installments that are frequently considered the best of the bunch — mine the experiences of Laurie Strode for suspense and character identification. And rightfully so, given that she’s the very embodiment of the “final girl” archetype in horror films chosen to represent the virtues and viewpoint of the audience. But there are only so many novel ways to convey her experience, and “Halloween Kills” feels a bit like a nodding acknowledgment that the series cannot just turn to Jamie Lee Curtis and her iconography as a “get out of jail free” card....

Hawkeye Director Teases Yelena Belova And Clint’s First Meeting: ‘We Know Their Past’ Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 16, 2021 8:47 pm EST Man, Hawkeye just can’t catch a break. With the exception of (the now-late) Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton is the only member of the Avengers without any actual superpowers — no, “Can shoot a bow and arrow really, really well” would not fly on a superhero résumé and you shouldn’t let it count, either....

How Tom Holland Blew His Audition For Star Wars Marvel Studios/Sony Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 10, 2021 10:22 am EST Tom Holland has mentioned his failed “Star Wars” audition in passing before, but now we’re finally getting privy to the details. According to a new interview with YouTube’s Hot Ones, it turns out the actor lost all composure during a line reading for the latest trilogy, collapsing into a giggle fit that he couldn’t come back from....

Interview: Adam Scott On His Buzzing, Dark Performance In The Vicious Kind, Party Down Season 2, Shaming Kenny Powers, And Memories Of His First Kiss By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 16, 2010 5:36 am EST In recent times, Adam Scott has sparkled in pop-culture for two masterful performances as manicured, modern cornholios in the Will Ferrell-endorsed comedies Step Brothers and Eastbound & Down. In the former, his character coached an obnoxious wife and kids in a caravan acapella of “Sweet Child of Mine,” while faithfully rocking a Bluetooth headset....

James Gunn Explains How The Suicide Squad Spin-Off Can Redeem Peacemaker Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 23, 2021 10:27 am EST John Cena’s Peacemaker was easily one of the biggest pleasant surprises in “The Suicide Squad,” at least for those of us who knew nothing about the character previously. The team of villains and antiheroes looking for redemption needed to be balanced out with at least one genuine bad guy, which was a role that Peacemaker went above and beyond to fill....

Jon Bernthal Is Open To Returning As The Punisher, But Only If He Can ‘Do It Right’ Netflix By Jenna Busch/Dec. 4, 2021 11:25 am EST Jon Bernthal made his debut as Frank Castle, aka the Punisher, in the second season of the Netflix series “Daredevil (which should absolutely be canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) He was then given his own Netflix series that ran for two seasons. As Disney prepared to launch its own streaming service as a competitor to Netflix, Marvel’s partnership with Netflix dissipated and all the TV shows in the “Defenders” side-franchise — “The Punisher” included — got canceled and dropped off the radar....

Kenya Barris-Produced Documentary ‘Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali’ Will Head To Netflix By Joshua Meyer/July 23, 2021 6:23 am EST “I want to do in-your-face s**t.” This is the quote that accompanied headlines about Kenya Barris’s departure from Netflix. In a desire to tell edgier, more diverse stories, the creator of Black-ish and co-creator (with Larry Wilmore) of its spin-off Grown-ish had walked away from a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal with the streamer to help launch BET Studios....

LOL: McG Calls Off Dick Measuring Contest By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2009 12:03 am EST Terminator Salvation director McG and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen director Michael Bay have been going back and fourth, in a friendly feud about big summer blockbusters with big giant robots. In April, things were taken to the next level when McG challenged Bay to a dick measuring contest. “Michael Bay has a big c**k,” McG told Details Magazine ....

Mass Trailer Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton meet with Reed Birney and Ann Dowd in the small room of a local church. It’s the first time these parents have met in a calm, quiet setting since the incident in question, but they clearly have a history in the wake of tragedy and all the legal proceedings that followed. The tension is palpable, and the emotions are high. It’s an unnerving drama in the most satisfying way, but it will leave you exhausted....

We fight. We always fight! We ended Green’s “Halloween” with a pile of bodies and a burning house with Michael Myers (played by both James Jude Courtney and, in some scenes, Nick Castle) left inside — but you can’t kill the boogeyman. As seen in the above clip, “Halloween Kills” has Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her family discovering that Myers did not burn to death in the basement as planned....

Spoiler Discussion: WandaVision Episode 7 “Breaking The Fourth Wall” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2021 10:30 am EST On the February 19, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman to have a spoiler filled discussion about WandaVision Episode 7 “Breaking The Fourth Wall”. Opening Banter: Brad is back and snapped and made half of the hosts disappear. Peter is recording from a location outside of his normal closet studio, so he might not sound as good....

Superhero Bits: ‘Titans’ Adds Scarecrow To Season 3, ‘Hellboy’ Board Game Expansion Packs & More By Ethan Anderton/April 29, 2021 6:00 pm EST When will the Spider-Man universe series Silk start shooting? Want to pick up some expansion packs for the Hellboy board game? Who is playing Scarecrow in the third season of Titans? What unanswered questions remain after The Falcon and The Winter Soldier finale? What Marvel movie was Eternals director Chloé Zhao originally considered for?...

Superhero Bits: How ‘Watchmen’ Influenced ‘Justice League’, ‘Ant-Man 3’ Has A Weird Working Title & More By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 2021 6:00 pm EST How did Watchmen influence Zack Snyder’s take on Justice League? What was Fietro’s appearance in WandaVision meant to pay homage to? What is the working title for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania? Why is a Japan resident running for mayor dressed as Joker? What did Elizabeth Olsen have to say about the multiverse in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?...

The Daily Stream: ‘Set It Up’ Is The Definition Of A Rewatchable Movie By Shania Russell/July 20, 2021 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: Set It UpWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: As all the best romantic comedies do, Set It Up begins with a scheme: two tired and starving-for-a-social-life assistants hatch a genius (if slightly selfish) plan to make their workaholic bosses fall in love with each other....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To The Mandalorian, Spider-Man Web Slingers Ride Through & More By Ethan Anderton/June 7, 2021 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, see what the visual effects artists from Corridor Crew think of the VFX work done for virtual production on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian....

Tim Burton’s ‘Wednesday’ Casts Catherine Zeta-Jones As Morticia Addams By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2021 2:16 pm EST Snap snap: Catherine Zeta-Jones has been cast to play Addams family matriarch Morticia Addams in Wednesday, the upcoming live-action Netflix series from famed filmmaker Tim Burton. This casting comes hot on the heels of a report last week that beloved character actor Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights) will be playing Gomez Addams, so the cast is starting to shape up nicely....