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‘Wolfwalkers’ Is Returning To Select Theaters Ahead Of The Oscars By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 6, 2021 12:30 pm EST Wolfwalkers is storming theaters again. Fresh off its Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, the Cartoon Saloon film is getting a theatrical re-release courtesy of animation distributor GKIDS. While Wolfwalkers opened in a few theaters in the fall, the coronavirus led to most people seeing it on Apple TV+ in December, where it was greeted with universal acclaim....

A Chinese Film Beat No Time To Die And Venom 2 At The Box Office MGM By Ryan Scott/Oct. 7, 2021 11:22 am EST There was much talk last weekend about the box office — and for good reason. “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” set records with its $90 million domestic opening, and “No Time to Die” made nearly $120 million in its international rollout. But, amazingly, those weren’t the highest-grossing movies worldwide last weekend....

Blue Bayou Review: An Urgent Immigrant Story Told With A Thoughtful, But Heavy Hand Focus Features By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 15, 2021 10:25 am EST “Where are you from?” It’s a question that immediately puts Justin Chon’s Antonio LeBlanc on edge, and which he avoids answering in his uneasy job interview in “Blue Bayou,” Chon’s third directorial effort. Antonio was born in Korea, but the only home he’s ever known is the Louisiana backwaters....

Casting Bits: Darren Criss In ‘Imogene’, Frank Grillo In ‘Gangster Squad’ And ‘End Of Watch’, Patricia Clarkson In ‘Parks & Recreation’ By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2011 5:25 am EST Glee star Darren Criss has landed a part in Imogene, a dark comedy by American Splendor directors Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini. The Michelle Morgan-penned script revolves around a New York playwright (Kristen Wiig) who fakes a suicide in order to get her ex-boyfriend’s attention....

Claws Season 4: Release Date, Cast, And More TNT By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 30, 2021 10:35 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) As was announced during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, “Claws” is heading toward its fourth and final season after five well-watched and loved years....

Cool Stuff: Save The World With Iron Man’s Nano Gauntlet Prop Replica From Marvel Legends By Ethan Anderton/May 19, 2021 6:00 am EST Marvel Legends has already released the Infinity Gauntlet and the Nano Gauntlet as worn by The Incredible Hulk and Thanos in the climactic battle of Avengers: Endgame. But there’s one more gauntlet left for fans to collect, and thanks to a more flexible glove design, it’ll actually let you snap Thanos out of existence....

Daily Podcast: Ghost Of Tsushima Movie, National Treasure TV Show, Black Adam, Shazam 2, And More By Ben Pearson/March 25, 2021 1:45 pm EST On the March 25, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and TV news, including a Ghost of Tsushima movie, a National Treasure TV show, and casting for Shazam!...

Daily Podcast: Star Wars, Batgirl, Rust, And Dune Spoiler Discussion Warner Bros On the October 25, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson and senior writer and chief film critic Chris Evangelista, to talk about the latest film and TV news, including updates on the Rust shooting, a Star Wars horror movie, Batgirl and a spoiler discussion for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune....

Disney’s The Haunted Mansion Invites Rosario Dawson Through The Front Gates Paramount Television By Shania Russell/Sept. 9, 2021 2:27 pm EST Rosario Dawson is the latest addition to the growing ensemble of “The Haunted Mansion.” The upcoming Disney movie, based on the popular theme park attraction, has been revealing cast members for a few weeks now, starting with the July announcement of Tiffany Haddish and LaKeith Stanfield. Just yesterday, Owen Wilson was added to the cast and the group is now joined by Dawson....

Dune Editor Joe Walker On Finding The Rhythms In Editing, Narrating The Sand Walk Guide [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Oct. 29, 2021 12:53 pm EST The first thing you notice when talking to “Dune” editor Joe Walker over Zoom is, he has a beautiful bookshelf. It’s full of art books and, because he trained as a classical composer, music books. A valuable tip he picked up from production designer friend: organize the books based on color, not alphabetical order....

You’ve Gotta Find Time To Breathe As Beatriz told /Film: I think the most challenging thing sometimes is to figure out where to breathe in his songs because the way that they’re structured is not necessarily… You got to plan it out. You got to literally plan out “Okay. On this eighth note or whatever I’ve got to…” So that I’m ready for the next big chunk of it. Because he composes, right?...

Looking Back On BB-9E, The ‘Star Wars’ Phenomenon That Wasn’t By Evan Saathoff/April 27, 2021 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Galaxy-Wide Star Wars Character Guide, where we give proper due to the smaller figures in Star Wars history.)It’s hard to overestimate how excited the world was to meet BB-8, way back in the day when the new Star Wars trilogy still offered an undiluted fountain of potential and optimism. We didn’t know what story was coming our way, we didn’t know who any of these new characters were, we certainly did not suspect the whole thing would end with Rey fighting her grandfather, Emperor Palpatine....

McG Plans To Bring The Future War Back In Time In Terminator 5 By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2009 2:26 am EST We’ve known since the beginning that Terminator Salvation was being set-up to be the first film in a new trilogy of Terminator movies. We’ve been told that the ending of this new film might divide audiences, as McG admitted that its “not a happy little bow of an ending at all....

New ‘Clue’ Movie Could Be R-Rated, For Some Reason By Chris Evangelista/May 17, 2018 12:30 pm EST Are you ready for an R-rated Clue movie? I sure hope so, because writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who are developing a new Clue film with Ryan Reynolds, say that just might happen. It was that son of a bitch Colonel Mustard, in the goddamn study, with the motherf***ing candlestick. You might remember that Ryan Reynolds is developing a brand new Clue movie with Deadpool 2 writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick....

Paramount+ TV Shows: ‘The Italian Job’, ‘Fatal Attraction’, And More Are Becoming Streaming Series By Ben Pearson/Feb. 24, 2021 4:41 pm EST If you love watching reheated versions of old intellectual property, it seems like you are going to absolutely lose your mind for Paramount+, the soon-to-launch streaming service from ViacomCBS. During an Investor Day presentation, the company backed up a metaphorical dump truck and unloaded a metric ton of Paramount+ TV shows, including the fact that they’re developing TV versions of films like The Italian Job, Fatal Attraction, and The Parallax View, as well as revivals of Frasier, Yo!...

Pop Culture Imports: The Skin I Live In, Raging Fire, & More Foreign Movies And TV Streaming Now Warner Bros. By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2021 5:53 pm EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) It’s time for another edition of Pop Culture Imports, and we’re getting in right under the wire before Halloween. As such, I have a few spooky foreign-language offerings for you, though a few non-horror titles made their way through the cracks (mostly because the Hong Kong action awesomeness of “Raging Fire” could not be tamed)....

Rust Assistant Director Failed To Check The Chamber Of The On-Set Weapon Sam Wasson / Getty Images By Anya Stanley/Oct. 27, 2021 10:30 pm EST For cinematographer Halyna Hutchins to catch a fatal round, shot from a prop gun on the set of the period Western film, “Rust,” a series of failures had to occur, unchecked. The most recent development on the deadly Bonanza Creek Ranch incident is an admission of negligence from the film’s assistant director, Dave Halls....

Sci-Fi Box Office Bombs That Deserve A Second Chance DNA Films By David Court/Sept. 17, 2021 6:56 pm EST As we emerge from the other side of the pandemic, a bunch of big budget science-fiction franchises are about to return to the big screen: Denis Villeneuve’s adaption of “Dune,” Lana Wachowski’s “Matrix 4,” James Cameron’s “Avatar 2: The Klumps,” and Patty Jenkins’ contribution to the eternal Star Wars juggernaut, “Rogue Squadron....

Dune Warner Bros. This is obviously the big one, folks. “Dune,” Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of the sci-fi classic, is arriving in October with its star-studded cast, massive special effects, and an abundance of spice. I know Denis Villeneuve would rather you see this on the big screen, and that’s fair. But I think “Dune” will play just as well at home. In fact, it might play even better, because when I saw the film at an IMAX screening the dialogue was very hard to hear (even worse than “Tenet”)....

The Daily Stream: ‘Locke’ Is 85 Minutes Of Tom Hardy Alone In A Car, And It Is A Transformative Experience By Jeremy Mathai/July 16, 2021 1:03 pm EST The rest of the film plays out under the lonesome, sickly-colored lights of various highways in an exercise that puts our perception to the test. Alternating between Locke putting out fires among his construction team as they scramble to deal with his absence and his attempts to explain himself to his uncomprehending wife and son, these speaker phone conversations prove to be far more gripping than you might assume....