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‘F9’ Featurette: John Cena Shows Off His Supercars In Weekly ‘Fast And Furious’ Videos By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 14, 2021 5:00 pm EST A new F9 featurette has been released and….it’s John Cena! The newest cast member of the Fast and Furious franchise is releasing a weekly video series called “Get Fast & Furious with John Cena” to show off the supercars the characters will be driving in the ninth installment of the franchise....

‘Host’ Executive Producer And Cast Are Creating A Live-Action, Real-Time Horror Video Game Called ‘Ghosts’ By Ethan Anderton/April 9, 2021 3:30 pm EST Back in the 1990s, there was a strange wave of video games that used live-action footage (called full-motion video) instead of traditional graphics. Using actual low resolution video footage, B-movie actors, and shoestring budget sets, the intention was to create a game that offered a little more realism than your average 32-bit cartridge game....

‘Logan’ Review Round-Up: Fans Finally Get The Wolverine Movie They Deserve By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 20, 2017 10:00 am EST In just under two weeks, Logan will hit theaters, giving us what is supposed to be the last outing for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Thankfully, it sounds like this movie not only gives fans the Wolverine movie they’ve been waiting to see for years, but it also gives Hugh Jackman a powerful send off as the adamantium-clad mutant....

‘Mythic Quest’ Season 2 Trailer: Getting Along With Co-Workers Is A Full Time Job By Chris Evangelista/April 12, 2021 10:30 am EST Mythic Quest returns to Apple TV+ for an all-new season next month, and here’s the trailer to prove it. The series is a workplace comedy focusing on the team that built the biggest (fictional) multiplayer video game of all time, and, like most workplace comedies, there’s very little work being done – but plenty of shenanigans....

‘Paranoia Agent’ Is A Funny And Terrifying Anime About Anxiety And Escapism By Rafael Motamayor/March 31, 2021 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)It’s not hyperbole to say it feels like the world is on fire, and it’s very tempting to want to get away from it all and look for some escapism. Of course, leave it to the late, great Satoshi Kon to find a way to masterfully teach us about the dangers of escapism and the importance of confronting trauma and reality, no matter how hard it is, in his first — and only — TV show....

‘Tenet’ Is Christopher Nolan’s “Quantum Cold War” Movie, But Is Not About Time Travel According To Robert Pattinson By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 12, 2020 11:30 am EST There’s no simple, straightforward answer for a Christopher Nolan movie. His films have been subject to endless theories and speculation, particularly before they come out. His upcoming feature film Tenet is no exception — very little is known about the mysterious action thriller starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, which has only released one frustratingly cryptic, but very cool-looking, trailer....

‘The Crown’ Season 5 Reveals First Look At Imelda Staunton As Queen Elizabeth II By Shania Russell/July 30, 2021 9:53 am EST Although the actual royal family isn’t exactly at the height of its power, Netflix’ version of the monarchy has been thriving for years now. The latest season of their British drama The Crown has been dubbed the very best, ramping up the drama as it explored the courting and initial fallout of Princess Diana and Prince Charles....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Showrunner Malcolm Spellman Wants To Revolutionize What A Marvel Hero Can Be [Interview] By Jacob Hall/March 15, 2021 7:00 am EST The Falcon and the Winter Soldier initially looks and sounds like another entry in the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it’s got a lot on its mind. Yes, this is a buddy-action series starring Captain America’s BFFs. Yes, it features big action, charming actors, and enough Easter eggs to choke a comic book geek....

11 Things We’ve Learned About Pixar’s ‘Brave’ [D23 Expo] By Germain Lussier/Aug. 22, 2011 9:00 am EST It’s hard to fathom that Brave, Pixar’s next feature film, is still almost a year away. To date, fans have seen the exciting, yet deliberately non-revealing, teaser trailer, a few concept images, and that’s about it. The D23 Expo changed that, though, as attendees got a much better idea of what June 22, 2012 holds....

A New Phantom Of The Opera Adaptation Will Be Set In The French Quarter Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 10, 2021 10:03 pm EST My sincerest apologies to anyone who clicked on this headline and assumed there was going to be a new adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, “The Phantom of the Opera,” but this news story is about the 1910 Gaston Leroux French novel of the same name that went on to inspire the Universal Monsters’ 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, that later inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber (heretofore known as ALW)....

Ari Aster’s ‘Disappointments Blvd’ Keeps Getting Better As Zoe Lister-Jones, Stephen McKinley Henderson, And Parker Posey Join The Cast By Eric Vespe/July 21, 2021 7:15 pm EST Ari Aster’s latest project, Disappointments Blvd., came out of the gates strong with Joaquin Phoenix announced as the lead, and the more actors that sign on the more exciting the movie looks.Deadline revealed a bunch of new actors attached to the film, which would be Aster’s follow-up to Midsommar....

Boba Fett’s Armor Explained: How Did He Get It And What Can It Do? Disney/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 19, 2021 8:01 pm EST Notorious “Star Wars” bounty hunter Boba Fett is easy to recognize, thanks to his trademark Mandalorian armor. He first showed up in the animated segment of the infamous 1978 “Star Wars Holiday Special” (a sequence titled “The Story of the Faithful Wookiee”), long before anyone knew what a Mandalorian even was....

Colin Farrell’s Penguin Is A Supporting Player In ‘The Batman,’ Has Only “Five Or Six Scenes” By Joshua Meyer/July 16, 2021 4:42 pm EST Riddle me this: how much screentime does the Penguin have in The Batman, the upcoming DC standalone film starring Robert Pattinson? Er, if you read the headline above, you should already have a big hint about the answer to that. But let’s explore what Richard Kind — that is to say Colin Farrell in makeup that makes him look like Mr....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Harry Potter’ LEGO Set Builds Icons Of Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2021 9:13 am EST LEGO has already released countless playsets that let you recreate many scenes from the Harry Potter franchise. But a new Harry Potter LEGO set aimed at adult builders is looking to piece together some familiar items from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The new LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Icons Collectors’ Edition building brick set is an intricately detailed display model featuring Harry’s loyal owl Hedwig, an admission letter to Hogwarts, Harry’s magic wand, and a variety of items that will make it look like you just returned from a year at the LEGO version of the school of witchcraft and wizardry....

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: The Beatles: Get Back, The French Dispatch, West Side Story, And More Disney+ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 30, 2021 3:27 pm EST On the November 30, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior writer and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:...

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: The Many Saints Of Newark, Black Widow, Nightmare Alley, Romeo + Juliet, And More Warner Bros. By Ben Pearson/Sept. 21, 2021 4:10 pm EST On the September 21, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior writer and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler:...

Game Of Thrones Prequel Tales Of Dunk And Egg Lands A Writer HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 30, 2021 12:29 pm EST The “Game of Thrones” watch might have ended, but what is dead may never die. Or something like that. Extremely nerdy and egregiously mixed metaphors aside, fans of author George R.R. Martin’s fantasy series of novels have no shortage of live-action adaptations to look forward to these days. In their ongoing quest to fill the giant “Game of Thrones”-shaped hole at the center of their programming since the hit show’s conclusion in 2019, HBO has moved forward with multiple spin-offs of the wildly popular property....

Hulu has enough Veronica Mars for now Hulu For fans who’d seen the three seasons of Veronica Mars and the movie, the fourth season was a major event. For Hulu, the fourth season made the first three seasons an asset to their library. Now they don’t need any more. “We were thrilled with the entire Veronica Mars experience that we brought to our viewers,” Erwich said. “It was a really unique set of content in terms of having past episodes and then a new seasons....

Joss Whedon Wanted Zooey Deschanel To Play The Wasp In An Early Draft Of The Avengers By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 20, 2021 9:22 pm EST “The Story of Marvel Studios” is a book littered with behind-the-scenes details about the formation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s easy to take the whole shared-universe movie conceit for granted now that it’s been done in the MCU, but back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, this was still a relatively new, novel idea....

Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Dreyfuss And Brian Cox Join Red By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2009 9:17 am EST There are a great many comic books being adapted to film these days, and it’s easy to get lost as you wade through the sea of adaptations, potential projects and also-ran efforts. But a good cast will get and keep my attention every time, and the lineup for Red, Robert Schwentke’s adaptation of the Warren Ellis-penned comic book....