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Mark Hamill Praises The Star Wars Prequels For Having ‘Their Own Identity’ Lucasfilm By Max Evry/Sept. 27, 2021 2:22 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Just a few weeks before I graduated high school, “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” came out on May 19, 1999. While it may have struck the wrong chord in a lot of the die hard Original Trilogy fans, it indoctrinated a whole new generation of acolytes over to what has become a kind of pop culture religion....

Natalie Portman Shares Her Mighty Workout Regimen For Thor: Love And Thunder Walt Disney Pictures / Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/Sept. 3, 2021 4:23 pm EST Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster has been missing from the MCU for a couple of movies now. This was explained away as the result of a breakup between her and the Asgardian God, Thor (Chris Hemsworth). But our days of missing the badass astrophysicist are finally drawing to a close....

Russell Crowe Is Playing Zeus In ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2021 1:00 pm EST In Greek mythology, Zeus is the king of the gods of Mount Olympus. That carries over into Marvel comics as well, where Zeus is “a member of the Olympians, a group of humanoid beings that hail from the pocket dimension of Olympus. He was worshiped by the humans of Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire....

Second Wave Announcement For Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2021 Including Virtual Titles By Marisa Mirabal/July 21, 2021 6:55 pm EST Popcorn Frights revealed the second-wave line-up for their 2021 film festival. This time, the slate is focused on their virtual programming and features a hefty amount of premieres, shorts, and an exciting virtual reality line-up. Spooky season starts early this year with Florida’s upcoming genre film festival, Popcorn Frights. The Seventh Annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival will be a hybrid experience with both in-theater and virtual film offerings from August 12-19, 2021....

The Largest Marvel LEGO Set Ever Unleashes Spider-Man’s Villains On The Daily Bugle By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2021 5:00 pm EST If you’re a Spider-Man fan, hopefully you have some money saved up to get your hands on the largest Marvel LEGO set that the building brick company has ever released. The LEGO Group has revealed a Daily Bugle LEGO set, a massive scene featuring a bunch of Spider-Man’s most infamous foes attacking the newspaper office as Peter Parker’s co-workers are hard at work publishing the latest photos of the webslinger....

Watch: This $700 Optimus Prime Toy Is More Than Meets The Eye (Because It Self-Transforms) By Ben Pearson/April 9, 2021 2:00 pm EST Every kid who played with Transformers toys probably wished that they could sit back and watch their Optimus Prime transform on its own. Now that is finally a reality with Hasbro’s collector’s edition Transformers Optimus Prime Auto-Converting Programmable Advanced Robot. For a cool $700, you’ll be able to get your hands on this industry-first auto-converting, interactive, programmable, voice activated, mobile controlled toy....

Water Cooler: Shadow And Bone, The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, The Lady Eve, Haunted: Latin America, And More By Ben Pearson/April 28, 2021 3:15 pm EST On the April 28, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to....

Beartown Trailer I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen reports about prominent student athletes who have committed rape or sexual assault over the years, but unfortunately, it happens all-too-frequently. And sadly, justice can be elusive when sports are an important economic component of a society – whether it’s a university in the U.S. or a small town in Sweden. Beartown, which is based on author Fredrick Backman’s novel Björnstad, is set in the world of junior ice hockey in which a 15-year-old boy, who has been raised in a toxic environment in which being a “winner” trumps all else, seems incapable of understanding that he is not entitled to a woman’s body simply because he’s good at playing sports....

‘Doctor Sleep’ Features An Exact Recreation Of Stanley Kubrick’s Overlook Hotel Sets [Set Visit] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 5, 2019 9:00 am EST Mike Flanagan is excited to show us something. We’re on the set of Doctor Sleep in Atlanta, Georgia and the film’s director is between takes and wants to watch our faces when we see it for the first time. He leads the journalists out of one soundstage and towards another, crossing a long pathway and passing various members of the crew as they hustle about....

/Filmcast Ep. 617 - The Mitchells Vs. The Machines (GUEST: Dan Gvozden From The Amazing Spider-Talk) By Slashfilmcast/May 5, 2021 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, Jeff are joined by Dan Gvozden, host of the podcast The Amazing Spider-Talk, to chat about the new Marvel trailer and more. David drops a major spoiler bomb to Jeff on the British television show Line of Duty. For the feature review, the cast watches the animated Netflix film The Mitchells vs....

‘Ms. Marvel’ Set Photos Reveal Iman Vellani’s Sleek Superhero Suit By Ethan Anderton/June 18, 2021 7:59 am EST Later this year, Marvel Studios is going to put more Marvel in your Marvel Cinematic Universe with the arrival of the new Disney+ series Ms. Marvel. It’s just the beginning for the marvelous new teenage superhero played by actress Iman Vellani, because she’ll also be seen alongside Captain Marvel in the upcoming Marvel Studios sequel The Marvels....

‘New Mutants’ Reshoots Definitely Haven’t Happened Yet, Confirms Maisie Williams By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2019 2:00 pm EST Pity New Mutants. The X-Men spin-off has been caught in limbo for almost a full year now, and it’s not clear if we’ll ever get to see it. The first trailer dropped in October of 2017, and it looked pretty damn cool. Unlike other X-Men films, this appeared to be a horror movie, heavily influenced by A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors....

‘Rugrats’ Reboot Teaser Reveals The Computer Animated Revival Heading To Paramount+ With The Original Voice Cast By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2021 8:00 am EST A few years ago, Nickelodeon announced that a series reboot of the beloved Nicktoon Rugrats was in the works. Rather than sticking with the traditional 2D animation from its heyday, the kids cable network was planning on updating the series with computer animation. Now the new show is finally premiering later this year, but it won’t be on Nickelodeon....

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Featurette Recaps What The Characters Did Before The Disney+ Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 30, 2021 2:30 pm EST What do you remember about the first time The Bad Batch showed up? Introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars as as Clone Force 99, the fan-favorite characters created by Dave Filoni are getting their own spin-off series exploring their adventures in the aftermath of the Clone Wars....

‘This Beast’: ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Creator Heads To Netflix For His Feature Directorial Debut By Ben Pearson/March 8, 2021 5:30 pm EST The creator of Sons of Anarchy and The Bastard Executioner, who has spent a huge percentage of his career writing and producing shows for FX, will make the jump to Netflix to direct his first feature film: a mysterious film called This Beast. According to the NetflixFilm Twitter account, Sutter will write and direct This Beast, which “is set in an 18th century English village besieged by a mysterious and elusive beast....

‘Tremors: Shrieker Island’ Could Mark The End Of The Long-Running Franchise (But Probably Not) By Rob Hunter/Jan. 13, 2021 9:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series where we explore the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. In this edition we return once more to the world of Tremors with the sixth (!) sequel, which is currently available on Netflix.) It’s a new year, and the world of home video sequels continues its slow-motion spread through pop culture....

‘Underwater’ Review: It’s Kristen Stewart Vs. Sea Monsters, What More Do You Need? By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 9, 2020 7:00 am EST Underwater wastes no time. We’re not even three minutes into the film before a catastrophe arises: a major collapse at an underwater research facility. Engineer Norah (Kristen Stewart, sporting a cool haircut and spending a sizable chunk of the movie running around in either a robotic dive suit or her underwear) is at the front-lines of all the explosions, but her problems are only just beginning....

12 Shows Like The Wire That Are Definitely Worth Watching HBO By Liam Gaughan/Nov. 4, 2021 3:37 pm EST “The Wire” is one of the greatest television shows of all time. Alongside “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad,” this gripping exploration of the drug trade in Baltimore was a hallmark of the early stage of “peak TV,” in which networks like HBO and AMC proved they could tell compelling dramatic stories that matched (and frequently surpassed) the films playing in cinemas....

A House On The Bayou Trailer: Blumhouse And Epix Team Up For A Terrifying Dinner Party Epix By Shania Russell/Oct. 4, 2021 10:21 am EST Bonding with your neighbors is very tricky business. Inviting them in could be a great way to get closer … or it could be the sinister start to a new terrifying tale from Blumhouse. The family at the center of “A House on the Bayou” is about to learn that lesson the hard way....

Aaaaaaay! Henry Winkler Is Auctioning His Original Fonzie Jacket CBS Television Distribution By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 1, 2021 3:16 pm EST Originally meant to be a secondary character on the hit show “Happy Days,” fans loved Henry Winkler’s Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli so much, he became a lead alongside Ron Howard’s Richie Cunningham. Fonzie became the de facto “cool guy” character on television with Winkler coining catchphrases, signature hand gestures, and an iconic greaser look that is still referenced even today....