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The Five Essential Scenes Of ‘The Twilight Saga’ To Revisit Now That All The Films Are Streaming By Shania Russell/July 16, 2021 1:43 pm EST Cancel your weekend plans, the entire Twilight Saga just hit Netflix! Yes, a crucial moment in the Twilight renaissance is finally upon us: all five movies streaming in one place. These movies need no further introduction – we all know about them, whether or not we want to....

Touching Love Story Venom: Let There Be Carnage Comes To Blu-Ray In December Sony By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 18, 2021 3:24 pm EST Eddie Brock and his alien parasite/boyfriend Venom are coming home this November and December. The home media release dates for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” were announced today, with word coming that the sequel would first hit digital near the end of this month before arriving on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD in December....

West Side Story Trailer Breakdown: See How Spielberg’s Remake Compares To The Original 20th Century Studios By Ben Pearson/Sept. 15, 2021 4:34 pm EST Steven Spielberg, arguably the greatest filmmaker alive today, is taking on a fascinating challenge for his next project: he’s remaking a classic. A new trailer for his version of “West Side Story” dropped this morning, so let’s take a closer look and compare and contrast some of Spielberg’s choices with those of director Robert Wise, who helmed the original 1961 movie....

Young Justice: Is Season 4 Still Happening? Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 1, 2021 8:52 am EST (Welcome to Will There Be Another Season?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) Fans of “Young Justice” were given quite the treat a couple of years back when Warner Bros. finally caved and offered up a third season of the beloved animated series. The advent of HBO Max made the long-awaited “Young Justice” season 3 possible....

‘Cruella’ Review: Disney’s Latest Live-Action Reboot Is Better Than You’d Expect, But Still Lacking By Josh Spiegel/May 26, 2021 7:00 am EST Each of Disney’s live-action/CGI remakes, reboots, revivals, and re-imaginings has run up against the same challenge. Whether they’re about a boy growing up in the jungle, a young woman falling in love with a beast, or a girl falling through a rabbit hole to a magical fantasy world, these films must resolve a question their sources didn’t: how original can these films truly be?...

/Filmcast Ep. 619 - Those Who Wish Me Dead (GUEST: Roxana Hadadi) By Slashfilmcast/May 19, 2021 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Roxana Hadadi to chat about COVID vaccination and the Saw franchise. Tune in to hear David’s Jigsaw impression. For the feature review, the cast watches Those Who Wish Me Dead, the action thriller directed by Taylor Sheridan starring Angelina Jolie. Follow Roxana Hadidi on Twitter!...

‘Men,’ The New Film From Director Alex Garland, Has Begun Production With Jessie Buckley Starring By Ben Pearson/April 5, 2021 12:00 pm EST After his directorial debut Ex Machina turned heads in 2015, writer/director Alex Garland returned three years later with Annihilation, a mesmerizing and profound sci-fi film that unsettled and moved audiences in equal measure. He headed to television with last year’s ambitious Hulu series Devs, but now he’s coming back to the big screen with Men, a new film that has now officially begun production....

‘Mission: Impossible III’ Brought Tom Cruise Into The Chaotic World Of J.J. Abrams By Josh Spiegel/July 20, 2021 7:35 am EST (Welcome to Man on a Mission, a monthly series where we revisit the films of the Mission: Impossible franchise as we sprint toward the release of the seventh film.)Tom Cruise needed to change the subject. One of the biggest movie stars in the world, he had recently become vastly more well-known less for his films than for his public statements on psychology and Scientology, the latter of which has counted him as one of its most devoted and famous followers for decades....

‘The Mandalorian’ Uses One Of Cinema’s Oldest Techniques To Bring Its Characters To Life By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 6, 2019 10:00 am EST More than halfway through the first season of Disney+’s marquee original show The Mandalorian, the question everyone is asking, both on screen and off, is whether or not the title character is ever going to show us his face. The eponymous bounty hunter may not be Boba Fett or his father Jango, but he sports a similarly sleek helmet and has only taken it off once briefly (without showing the audience his face underneath)....

‘The Tomorrow War’ Review: Chris Pratt Fights For The Future In A Surprisingly Fun Blast From The Past By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 1, 2021 12:00 pm EST There’s a brand of cheesy, cornball, slightly trashy sci-fi blockbuster from the ’90s that died with the Clinton years as movies gave way to Bush-era cynicism (and Michael Bay-driven cacophony). You know the type: Independence Day and Volcano, movies that revolved around a misfit band of heroes and which naively believed a divided world could be united by a really good speech from Bill Pullman....

11 Things That Make Absolutely No Sense In Loki Disney/Marvel By Alli Martin/Oct. 5, 2021 7:25 pm EST The first season of “Loki” is an intricate time travel tap dance, with everyone swaying to the tune of He Who Remains. But even with its deft plotting, smooth continuity, and lots of exposition (thank you, Jonathan Majors), “Loki” Season 1 left viewers with several questions. While the meat of “Loki” is absolutely sound, a few details don’t add up without doing some mental gymnastics....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2021 4:30 pm EST Brändström was nominated for an international Emmy for the 2004 TV movie Julie, chevalier de Maupin. But she’s probably best known Stateside for directing episodes of The Witcher, The Man in the High Castle, and Outlander. Most recently, she’s directed episodes of Jupiter’s Legacy. Her experience on The Witcher in particular, for the episodes “Rare Species” and “Bottled Appetites,” should be perfect training for a high-fantasy epic like Lord of the Rings, which is based on J....

Behind Polka-Dot Man’s Triumphant “I’m A Superhero!” Moment In ‘The Suicide Squad’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 9, 2021 7:00 am EST David Dastmalchian’s first on-screen acting gig was a comic book movie. He was an unnerving yet sympathetic presence in The Dark Knight as a nameless henchman for the Joker. As a life-long comic book fan and writer, Dastmalchian’s role in Christopher Nolan’s epic was a thrilling, as well as life-changing, experience, kicking off a career in the superhero genre that would see him pulling off heists with Ant-Man and crossing paths with The Flash....

Comic Series and Coffee Table Book Titan Publishing “Cowboy Bebop: The Comic Series” is a four-issue limited series. Set in the year 2171, it will follow the Bebop spaceship crew as they “chase an ex-gang member who holds a vest which gives the wearer unlimited luck.” It’s written by Dan Watters, with interior art by Lamar Mathurin and cover art by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau. Issue #1 lands in December 2021 and the full series will be collected in trade paperback form in May 2022....

Daily Podcast: Jonathan Majors In Creed III, A Scrapped WandaVision Cameo, Mare Of Easttown Season 2, And More By Ben Pearson/June 2, 2021 1:45 pm EST On the June 2, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including a potential Mare of Easttown season 2, some Creed 3 casting news, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel, and that scrapped Doctor Strange cameo in WandaVision....

Fear The Walking Dead Season 8 Renewed With Kim Dickens Returning As Series Regular AMC By Jenna Busch/Dec. 6, 2021 8:39 pm EST “Fear the Walking Dead” fans can breathe a sigh of relief. During the Sunday night episode of “Talking Dead,” it was announced that the series is coming back for an eighth season on AMC. In addition, according to Deadline, former cast member Kim Dickens will return to the series in the second half of season 7....

First ‘Loki’ Poster Starts The Clock On The Countdown To The New Marvel Disney+ Series [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 18, 2021 11:30 am EST Update: We’ve embedded a new video about the poster featuring Loki stars Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. Our original article follows. The laugh track has barely died out for WandaVision, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier hasn’t even gotten off the ground yet, but Marvel Studios is already starting the clock on the countdown to Loki....

Hocus Pocus 2 Has Begun Production With Original Cast Members Back To Wreak Witchy Havoc Walt Disney Pictures By Max Evry/Nov. 1, 2021 10:16 am EST It looks like Disney+ has one more Halloween trick up their sleeve. Yesterday the streamer revealed a whole gaggle of new and returning cast members for “Hocus Pocus 2,” including that modern-day man of a thousand faces Doug Jones (“Star Trek: Discovery,” “The Shape of Water”) coming back as the late Billy Butcherson....

Interview: ‘Prometheus’ Star Charlize Theron Talks About Working With Practical Sets Vs. CG, Responds To Internet Theories About Her Character And More By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2012 1:00 pm EST Last week in London I had the opportunity to sit at a table with other journalists and interview Prometheus star Charlize Theron. Charlize talks the evolution of the script from when she first read it to shoot, the secrecy of the production, the brilliance of working on practical sets vs....

James Gunn Explains The Major Differences Between Making Marvel And DC Films, ‘Guardians 3’ May Be His Last With Marvel By Danielle Ryan/July 14, 2021 11:52 am EST Director James Gunn has been on an emotional rollercoaster in the past few years. First, he had incredible success with the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies for Marvel. Then, in the summer of 2018, controversial old tweets of Gunn’s surfaced, and he was fired by the company as a result....