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Daily Podcast: The Matrix Resurrections Trailer Reaction And Speculation Warner Bros. By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2021 4:49 pm EST On the September 10, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer and weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to give their reactions and speculate about the new trailer for “The Matrix Resurrections.” Trailer Reaction: “The Matrix Resurrections” Brief reactions to The Matrix Resurrections trailer....

Dave Filoni Seemingly Confirms Captain Rex In ‘Return Of The Jedi’ By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2017 6:30 am EST Star Wars Rebels showrunner Dave Filoni seemingly confirmed at Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017 that Captain Rex, a character we first met in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is also around in 1983’s Return of the Jedi. Let’s take a look at the evidence. During Thursday afternoon’s Dave Filoni: Animated Origins and Unexpected Fates panel, the Rebels and Clone Wars creator seemed to confirm a popular fan theory....

Dune Star Jason Momoa Is Honored To Be Working With Denis Villeneuve [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Oct. 22, 2021 9:45 am EST Jason Momoa is a spirited action hero. Even when he simply walks into a room in “Dune,” he does so with as much bravado as when he takes out a room full of enemy soldiers. Playing the great warrior, Duncan Idaho, Momoa brings swashbuckling fun to Denis Villeneuve’s massive art film....

Early Buzz: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ Earns Cannes Praise By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2011 1:29 pm EST The first Cannes screening of Drive, the new film from Nicolas Winding Refn that stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston and Albert Brooks, ended not long ago. Reviews aren’t up yet, but a sampling of Twitter reactions suggests the movie has one of the most positive consensus opinions of the Cannes premieres so far — I think only We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Artist rival it for near-unanimity of positive opinion....

Encanto Review: A Sweet But Formulaic New Disney Adventure Disney By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 15, 2021 9:00 am EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has come a long way since the arrival of its first full-length animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” nearly 85 years ago. The studio’s massive legacy is hard to shake when watching their 60th animated feature, “Encanto,” in part because the new film is proof of how many strides have been made by its animators and creative team (a majority of those long-overdue strides made in just the last decade)....

Expendables 4 Recruits Andy Garcia To The Cast Anchor Bay Entertainment By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 10, 2021 5:07 pm EST Actor Andy Garcia knows his way around an ensemble film, and now the actor is set to star in one of the biggest action ensembles on the planet. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Garcia will be joining the cast of the upcoming action sequel “The Expendables 4”. Garcia, who many fans know from the “Ocean’s” films, will once more be joining a massive cast of high-profile stars....

“I Always Love To Have A New Challenge” Film-Clinic Mohamed Diab has a lot on his plate right now. He might be right in the middle of production for “Moon Knight,” but he’s currently in Venice for the world premiere of his new film “Amira.” The Egyptian writer/director is responsible for the script of one of Egypt’s highest-grossing films ever with “The Island” in 2007, made his directing debut with “Cairo 678” in 2010, and debuting “Clash” six years later at Cannes Film Festival....

A More Innocent Time Columbia Pictures Simonsen said he had a conversation with Patricia Sullivan at Grundman Mastering, who was the sound mastering engineer for “Afterlife,” about that very thing, and that her answer was simple: “It was a more innocent time.” The composer went on to clarify that with his own thoughts: “I think that there was a spirit back then, and people could kind of go for it, and it was okay....

Getting Fabulously Paranormal Canal+ Stewart is currently hard at work on her directorial debut, “The Chronology of Water,” based on Lidia Yuknavitch’s best-selling novel of the same name. She also has a few other projects up her sleeve, including that gay ghost-hunting series that I will 100% watch. She described the series to the New Yorker as “a paranormal romp in a queer space.” I’m not entirely sure what that means other than having queer ghost-hunters, but even that sounds refreshingly different....

Liam Neeson’s Philip Marlowe Thriller Casts Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, As Filming Starts Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 15, 2021 1:02 pm EST The cast for the Liam Neeson-starring noir thriller, “Marlowe,” just keeps getting more and more impressive. Oh, that’s right, Liam Neeson is starring in a noir thriller called “Marlowe,” which you would be forgiven for either not knowing about at all or for letting that information slip from your mind....

MGM’s Road House Reboot May Be Back In Business With Jake Gyllenhaal And Doug Liman In Talks United Artists By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 10, 2021 10:01 pm EST Slam a shot or two and put your fists up, “Road House” is back in the minds and hearts of some Hollywood execs and they’re trying to make its long-forgotten reboot a reality. The last time we wrote about a “Road House” reboot was way back in 2015 when former UFC fighter Ronda Rousey was going to take on Patrick Swayze’s career-defining role as a rough and tumble cooler with a heart of gold....

Revisiting ‘Aladdin And The King Of Thieves,’ Disney’s Best Direct-To-Video Sequel That Also Stars Aladdin’s Hot Dad By Rafael Motamayor/March 11, 2021 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Before Disney started producing endless remakes of its classic animated films and dumping some of them on Disney+ (ahem, Lady and the Tramp), they used to make endless sequels to classic animated films and dump them on VHS....

Ryan Murphy’s Netflix Series ‘The Watcher’ Will Terrorize Naomi Watts And Bobby Cannavale By Chris Evangelista/June 14, 2021 2:54 pm EST The Watcher, a new Ryan Murphy Netflix series inspired by creepy true events, has found its leads. Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale will star in the series as a married couple who move into the dream home – only to then start receiving disturbing letters from someone calling themselves The Watcher....

Shang-Chi Will Make Streaming Debut As Part Of Disney+ Day Later This Year Marvel By Anya Stanley/Sept. 21, 2021 5:28 pm EST On the second Friday in November, the Walt Disney Company will be hosting a multilevel global celebration, named, appropriately enough, Disney+ Day. Disney’s streaming service subscribers will have access to new content, as well as a sneak peek at upcoming releases. Fresh entertainment drops from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic arrive on November 12, so mark your calendars....

Stephen Lang To Lead Hawkeye: Wastelanders Scripted Podcast For Marvel And SiriusXM Screen Gems By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 22, 2021 9:23 am EST SiriusXM continues to expand its line of Marvel podcasts with “Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye,” a new 10-episode scripted series that will feature Stephen Lang (“Avatar,” “Don’t Breathe”) as the voice of the Avenger and archer extraordinaire. Jeremy Renner has his own live-action “Hawkeye” series coming to Disney+ on November 24, 2021, but before that, you’ll be able to hear the audio adventures of Old Man Hawkeye on SiriusXM....

The Daily Stream: ‘Summer Wars’ Signaled The Arrival Of A New Anime Auteur, But Mamoru Hosoda Is More Than “The Next Miyazaki” By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 13, 2021 8:44 am 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: Summer WarsWhere You Can Stream It: FunimationThe Pitch: Timid high school junior and math genius Kenji Koiso is strong-armed into posing as the boyfriend for fellow student Natsuki Shinohara, a spirited high school senior who drags Kenji to the rural town of Ueda for her great-grandmother’s 90th birthday....

Why It’s Essential Viewing Showbox When’s the last time you watched a movie that began with its main character singing away to a pop song without a care in the world and ended as a gut-wrenching, tear-jerking rumination on the cost of freedom? Directed by Jang Hoon and written by Eom Yu-na, “A Taxi Driver” only betrays a more conventional approach with its bookends: an opening title card that quickly establishes the political backdrop of a particularly fraught moment in South Korean history and brief footage of a real-life figure portrayed in the film....

The Daily Stream: Luca Guadagnino Wants You To Ugly Cry While Watching ‘We Are Who We Are’ (And You Should) By Shania Russell/July 2, 2021 7:00 am EST The series follows introverted 14-year old Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer) whose mothers (played by Chloe Sevingy and Alice Braga) move him to a new military base in Italy. He quickly befriends fellow army brat Caitlin (newcomer Jordan Kristine Seamón), forming the kind of magical friendship that instantly imprints on their lives....

The Many Saints Of Newark: Release Date, Trailer And More By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2021 11:50 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.)The Sopranos gets an origin story with the new film The Many Saints of Newark. The movie takes us back to the teenage days of Tony Soprano and shows us how he got sucked into a life of crime....

The Marvels Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Disney “The Marvels” is scheduled to hit U.S. theaters on February 17, 2023. The film commenced principal photography in August 2021, and its production timeline and release could always be affected by the pandemic or Disney’s ever-changing release strategy. However, unless its Mickey Mouse-eared distributor alters its plans, you should be able to see “The Marvels” on the big screen early in 2023, with a Disney+ and VOD/home media release soon to follow....