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Universal Drops Joe Carnahan’s ‘Stretch’ Two Months Before Release By Angie Han/Jan. 22, 2014 10:30 am EST Jason Blum made a heck of a lot of money for Universal last summer. His film The Purge cost just $3 million to make and raked in nearly $90 million at the global box office. Nevertheless, Universal apparently isn’t feeling too great about his next project for the studio. Universal has scrapped plans to release Joe Carnahan’s Stretch, just two months before it was set to open....

VOTD: Hollywood ASST By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2009 12:00 am EST Everyone loves white guys trying to rap, right? Hollywood ASST is a rap video made by a bunch of Hollywood assistants (and /Film readers) who shot the video over the course of several months while working 50+ hour weeks for a movie director. I’m not sure if this is too “inside baseball” for the /Film readers in middle america (some of you watch Entourage, right?...

Why Doesn’t Bradley Cooper Play Rocket Raccoon On The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Set? Marvel Studios Bradley Cooper provides the voice for the brash and reckless Rocket Raccoon in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. However, unlike actors such as Andy Serkis, he doesn’t actually work on set to do any motion capture work to bring the anthropomorphic raccoon to life. Instead, it’s James Gunn’s brother Sean Gunn (who also plays the Ravager named Kraglin) who provides a point of reference for Rocket Raccoon on screen, appearing in a green screen colored unitard....

Why Ridley Scott Backed Out Of Adapting Dune 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 2, 2021 2:56 pm EST Oh, to be Ridley Scott and have the ability to say absolutely anything that happens to be on his mind at any given moment. As if it wasn’t enough of a gift that we received not just one, but two entertaining and well-received films from him this year covering very different subjects — “The Last Duel” and “House of Gucci” — we continue to enjoy a double dose of Scott’s press duties throughout 2021....

‘God Bless America’ Red-Band Trailer: Death To Selfish, Arrogant Scum! By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2012 2:13 pm EST Have you ever felt a flash of murderous hate for someone who regularly behaves like a total dickbag? Have you wanted to live in a world free of reality-TV personalities who, through their perverse celebrity status, have a greater effect on behavior than do people whose lives are truly upstanding? Have you wanted to just slap the living s*** out of someone who wouldn’t stop texting in a movie?...

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Cast Adds ‘Hannibal’ And ‘Another Round’ Star Mads Mikkelsen By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2021 9:59 am EST Things are clearly heating up with Indiana Jones 5. Just last week we learned that Phoebe Waller-Bridge was joining Harrison Ford in the James Mangold-directed pic. Now the cast has another new addition: Mads Mikkelsen, star of Casino Royale, Hannibal, the recent Another Round, and so much more. There’s no word yet on who Mikkelsen is playing, and I’m sure the immediate conclusion everyone will jump to is that Mikkelsen is the film’s villain, since he tends to specialize in playing morally dubious characters in Hollywood productions....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Production Diaries: Kelly Marie Tran Reveals Her Makeshift At-Home Recording Studio By Chris Evangelista/March 4, 2021 2:30 pm EST Raya and the Last Dragon, the latest animated entry from Walt Disney Animation Studios, hits theaters and Disney+ with Premier Access this Friday, which means it’s time for a fun little behind-the-scenes look at the flick. The video below features Kelly Marie Tran, who voices the eponymous character, showing off the makeshift recording studio she set up at home to record her lines....

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “Cut And Run” By Bryan Young/May 7, 2021 10:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for the second episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, titled “Cut and Run.” As the Bad Batch make their way from Kamino following the events of the first episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, they need somewhere to hide and lay low for a while....

‘The Magicians’ Sets The Stakes For A Harrowing Season Finale With “The Secret Sea” By Vanessa Armstrong/April 11, 2019 7:00 am EST The two major story arcs this season of The Magicians—the journey of the Eliot-Monster and the Library’s steady descent toward fascism—come together in a murderous way this episode and tee up next week’s finale to be one full of more murders. Who will be killed next week, however, remains to be seen: Will the old gods die, hunted down by the Evil Eliot and Evil Julia?...

‘The Mandalorian’ Will Not Recast Gina Carano’s Character With A New Actress By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2021 10:00 am EST It’s been one week since Lucasfilm confirmed that Gina Carano would not be returning as Cara Dune in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian on Disney+. The studio opted not to renew Carano’s contract for a new season of The Mandalorian after she shared an Instagram story comparing the current U....

2021 Summer Box Office Was Up 893 Percent — But Pump The Brakes On The Celebration Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Sept. 10, 2021 2:46 pm EST It is absolutely no secret that the summer moviegoing season last year was virtually non-existent. The pandemic all but obliterated what is usually the busiest time of the year for Hollywood. Sure, Russell Crowe got crazy in “Unhinged” and Christopher Nolan tried to save cinemas with “Tenet,” but the box office was ultimately but a grain of sand on the beach compared to normal times....

Brett Ratner Steps Down As Producer Of Oscar Telecast By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2011 5:33 pm EST When we ran a review of Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist at the end of last week, a section of the comments that followed were dominated by discussion of Ratner’s perceived character, and the fact that many /Film staffers aren’t exactly fond of the guy. Some readers even expressed sympathy for the fact that Ratner gets so little love....

Casting Bits: Malin Akerman In ‘Cottage Country’, Diego Klattenhoff In ‘Pacific Rim’, John Hurt In ‘Labyrinth’ By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2011 5:00 am EST Malin Akerman has signed on to star with Tyler Labine, Lucy Punch, and Daniel Petronijevic in Cottage Country, an dark indie comedy by Canadian director Peter Wellington. Written by Jeremy Boxen (Endgame), the story follows Todd (Labine) as he plans to propose to Cammie (Akerman) at his family cottage....

Cool Stuff: Super7’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Ultimates Figures Are Back For A Limited Time By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2021 6:00 am EST Back in the fall of 2019, the collectible toy makers at Super7 announced a new line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures based on the original Playmates action figures released back in the 1990. Unfortunately, all four of the turtles have come and gone over the past year and a half, and if you missed the pre-order window for them you were out of luck....

Daily Podcast: Last Night In Soho Trailer Reaction, Portal Movie, Game Of Thrones Spin-Off Gets A Writer, And More By Ben Pearson/May 25, 2021 1:15 pm EST On the May 25, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest film and TV news, including the Last Night in Soho trailer, Hardcore, a Portal movie, a Game of Thrones spinoff called 10,000 Ships, and F9....

Disenchanted Stars Tease The Long-Awaited Enchanted Sequel In New Video Disney By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 12, 2021 9:20 am EST It’s been nearly 15 years since we last visited Giselle of Andalasia (Amy Adams), her real-life “prince charming,” Robert (Patrick Dempsey), his daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey), Robert’s ex-fiance Nancy (Idina Menzel), Nancy’s fairy tale prince Edward (James Marsden), and Giselle’s chipmunk companion, Pip (Jeff Bennett and Kevin Lima) banded together to defeat the evil sorceress Narissa (Susan Sarandon) and her former servant Nathaniel in the magical live-action world of “Enchanted....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Trailer: The Sorcerer Supreme Returns Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Dec. 22, 2021 11:05 am EST It has been a long time since the Sorcerer Supreme took top billing in the Marvel Cinematic universe. But Benedict Cumberbatch is finally getting a solo sequel with “Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness,” and we’ve got the trailer to prove it. This movie has been on Marvel’s to-do list for a long time, and while it wasn’t easy getting here, the crazy multiverse business is finally coming our way....

Every Edgar Wright Movie Ranked From Worst To Best Focus Features By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 27, 2021 2:06 pm EST For many cinephiles, Edgar Wright’s ascent over the past two decades has been particularly gratifying. As he’s made the jumps from British TV to cult comedies to full-blown studio filmmaking, Wright’s profile — and his budgets — have increased, and yet none of his success has diminished the dynamism of his signature style....

Kevin Feige On Why Hawkeye’s Holiday Setting And Street-Level Stakes Are Refreshing Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 16, 2021 4:13 pm EST To this point, the common assumption of how to set one piece of superhero media apart from others in an increasingly crowded blockbuster market has been to ape a particular genre with enough easily identifiable elements before dumping all the usual superhero tropes on top. After all, that’s how you normalize the ideas that, for instance, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is a “throwback ’70s political thriller” or that “Ant-Man” is a “crime/heist thriller....

Legendary TV Producer Norman Lear’s Entire Catalog Is Coming To Streaming By Danielle Ryan/July 15, 2021 10:47 am EST TV With Something to Say Lear’s work is especially important because he was one of the first television writers willing to tackle difficult real-world subjects. His shows confronted racism, created discussions about abortion rights, and addressed the difficulties faced by people living in poverty. Lear never shied away from taking on the challenging aspects of being alive, and his work is all the better for it....