‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Video Digs Into The Many Easter Eggs Throughout The First Trailer By Ethan Anderton/April 5, 2021 8:30 am EST The first trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy arrived over the weekend, and there were plenty of fun background details to notice. After all, the film is set in the “Warner 3000 Server-verse,” which contains all of the characters from Warner Bros. movies and TV shows....
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Embarks On A Dull Spice Recovery Mission In The Filler Episode “Infested” By Caroline Cao/July 23, 2021 7:32 am EST Filler can be a word that’s flung around carelessly. It can be misapplied to episodes in a series that aren’t meant to propel the narrative forward, but simply breathe in the character dynamics. Sometimes filler isn’t literally filler, but a method to load emotional investment and simmer the stakes....
‘The Suicide Squad’ Director James Gunn Reflects On Being Temporarily Fired From ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’ By Jeremy Mathai/July 14, 2021 9:44 am EST Writer/director James Gunn’s ascent to blockbuster filmmaking hasn’t exactly been the smoothest one, to say the least. Many fans woke up one morning in July 2018 to the social media firestorm regarding Gunn and many wildly ill-advised tweets that were disingenuously unearthed by far-right commentators, posts that featured inappropriately crass jokes and made light of topics such as pedophilia and rape....
Healing Factor (Deadpool #66-#69) Marvel Comics Not only is Gail Simone’s “Healing Factor” the funniest Deadpool story ever written, it’s one of the funniest comics ever written — truly. I think about it once a week; there’s an action sequence involving Wade Wilson and a scooter he hopes is manly, one that culminates with a punchline so silly and ecstatic it would make Tim Robinson envious. If “Deadpool 3” is to top the absurdist highs of the X-Factor sequence in “Deadpool 2” or Dopinder’s continued descent into low-level villainy, adapting Simone’s “Healing Factor” would be a wise starting point....
9-1-1 Season 5 Trailer A couple of brief promos have been released for “9-1-1” season 5 so far. Both promise absurdly high stakes. The first one sees the entire city of Los Angeles being hacked, leading to chaotic blackouts. Yes, a whole city. Hacked. Set to the tune of “Fell On Black Days” by Soundgarden. Another promo showcases the chaos that ensues, including zoo animals running through the streets. It’s that kind of show....
A Deepfake Bruce Willis Is Now Starring In Russian Phone Commercials By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2021 2:48 pm EST Bruce Willis can be a very good actor when he tries. Unfortunately, he hasn’t really tried in a long time. When was the last genuinely good Willis performance, where he was clearly engaged with the material and not just cashing a paycheck? Looper, perhaps? A movie that’s almost 10 years old? Or perhaps Moonrise Kingdom, which is also almost a decade old....
Arcane Act III Teaser: The Video Game Adaptation Curse Is Well And Truly Broken On Netflix Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 18, 2021 8:26 am EST Netflix’s “Arcane: League of Legends” isn’t a live-action movie; it’s an animated streaming series. However, over the past two weeks, it has made a convincing case for itself as the show that will break the video game adaptation curse. The series premiered on November 6, 2021, and has taken a novel approach to releasing its nine episodes: splitting them into three-episode acts over three weeks instead of following the binge model and dumping them on the streamer all at once....
Cool Stuff: Mike Mitchell’s Movie Character Portraits At The Mondo Gallery By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2013 12:04 pm EST Is your pop culture art collection cluttered with too many huge movie posters? Do you have a full stack of 27 x 40 inch paper laying around and not enough wall space to display? Are you looking for something smaller, more tasteful but still as awesome and exciting? Mike Mitchell is here to help....
Daily Podcast: Golden Globes Winners, Superman Reboot, Doctor Strange 2, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Terminator & More By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2021 1:15 pm EST On the March 1, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelisa to discuss the latest film and tv news, including the Golden Globes winners, Superman Reboot, Doctor Strange 2, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Terminator & More....
Making It Happen Via The Wrap, Momoa recently guested on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” and the conversation turned around the 3-minute mark to his co-star Dave Bautista, who he works with on both the Apple TV+ drama series “See” as well as the upcoming adaptation of “Dune.” You see, this all started when Bautista tweeted out his very specific wish to star in a movie with Momoa in a “‘Lethal Weapon’ type buddy cop movie” directed by David Leitch....
Edwards Scissorhands House In Florida Has Been Turned Into A Museum For The Movie There are a few movie locations that are genuinely worth some kind of pilgrimage. We’re not the Michelin of movies, but if we were to come up with a list of places worth the visit, we could easily fill it with spots like the hotel from the “The Shining” or all of the castles they used for the “Harry Potter” movies or that random baseball diamond where they shot “Field of Dreams....
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Release Date and where you can watch it Paramount “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is currently slated to hit theaters on June 30, 2023. Disney, which purchased “Indy” producer Lucasfilm in 2012, will be releasing the new sequel. At the height of the pandemic, the studio made some of its top-tier new movies available on Disney+ for free (see: Pixar’s “Soul”), but Disney has since moved back toward exclusive theatrical releases for many of its biggest tentpoles....
Jessica Walter, ‘Arrested Development’ And ‘Archer’ Actress, Dead At 80 By Ben Pearson/March 25, 2021 12:18 pm EST Jessica Walter, the actress who portrayed over-the-top characters like Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development and Malory Archer on the FXX animated series Archer, has died. She was 80 years old. Deadline reports that Walter died in her sleep on Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Her daughter, Brooke Bowman, said the following: “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of my beloved mom Jessica....
John Cho Says Making Harold & Kumar 4 Is Possible, But Complicated Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 7, 2021 12:39 pm EST Years before John Cho played Hikaru Sulu in the “Star Trek” Kelvin timeline and grew thick locks to bring Spike Spiegel to life in the live-action “Cowboy Bebop” series, the actor made his name getting up to all sorts of drug-fueled shenanigans opposite Kai Penn in the “Harold & Kumar” movies....
Last Voyage Of The Demeter First Look: Don’t Let Dracula On Your Boat Film Arts Guild By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 2021 4:10 pm EST “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” a new take on “Dracula” from “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” filmmaker André Øvreda, has wrapped principal photography – and that news comes with our first look at the movie. Sort of. There are no characters in the image, but we do get a look at the wheel of the doomed ship that transports Count Dracula from Transylvania to England....
Listen To A Track From Nicholas Britell’s ‘The Underground Railroad’ Soundtrack By Chris Evangelista/May 7, 2021 4:30 pm EST The Underground Railroad Soundtrack I am very excited to check out The Underground Railroad, and I’m just as excited for Nicholas Britell’s score. Britell’s If Beale Street Could Talk music is almost painfully beautiful; the type of swooning, gorgeous music that burns a hole in the center of your chest as you listen to it....
Marvel’s Disney+ Shows’ Lack Of Showrunners Is Worrying Veteran TV Writers By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 14, 2021 8:30 am EST TV is the writer’s medium, and it’s been that way for a long time. But could Marvel Studios — which has already disrupted the superhero-inundated movie industry to a massive degree — change the TV landscape too? That’s what many TV veterans are worried about, in a new report that hones in on Marvel’s foray into TV with its Disney+ shows WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and their pointed avoidance of a TV staple: the showrunner....
More Nintendo Animated Movies On The Way Following Illumination’s ‘Super Mario’ By Chris Evangelista/May 4, 2021 2:00 pm EST Nintendo has a big animated film on the way: a Super Mario movie coming from the Minion-makers at Illumination. And now it looks like that’s going to be just the beginning. While the details remain vague, there’s plenty of talk within the company about developing other feature animated films to follow Mario....
Netflix Is Doubling Down On Big-Budget Movies By Eric Vespe/July 19, 2021 5:33 pm EST Netflix has been making big moves lately. They were the first big streaming company and are still the top dog in the game, but for the first time since they completely demolished the entertainment landscape, it really feels like they’ve got some serious competition. With Disney+, HBOMax, Hulu, AppleTV+, and a dozen more services all bringing their best to the table (not to mention bags upon bags of money), Netflix knows they can’t rest on their laurels....
A Blast from the Bat-Past Warner Bros. Kilmer had his own problems with the rubber suit, which he detailed extensively in his 2021 documentary, “Val”: “Whatever boyhood excitement I had was crushed by the reality of the Batsuit. Yes, every boy wants to be Batman. They actually want to be him … not necessarily play him in a movie.” Yikes. Good thing Pattinson was able to trade the screen test version in for a newer model, and hopefully had a better time with his Batman role....
