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‘The Passion Of The Christ’ At 15: Untangling The Crown Of Thorns Of A Divisive Religious Blockbuster By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 25, 2019 11:00 am EST Some fast facts: Deadpool came close to unseating it, but after fifteen years, the all-time highest-grossing R-rated movie in the U.S. is still a subtitled film about the last hours of Jesus Christ’s life. Another comic book movie, Black Panther, has since surpassed it as #1, but for over a decade, The Passion of the Christ was also the highest-grossing February movie in the U....

‘The Witcher’ Season 2 Trailer: Geralt Is Back To Slay More Monsters – And Do The Surrogate Dad Thing By Danielle Ryan/July 9, 2021 2:14 pm EST Get your coins ready to toss, because there’s even more The Witcher goodness coming your way, courtesy of a flurry of announcements out of WitcherCon. On top of the season premiere date (December 17, 2021) and some first-look photos and the names of the episodes, Netflix also debuted the season 2 trailer, and you can watch it right now....

Animation Legend Don Bluth, Creator Of ‘The Land Before Time’ And More, Has Formed A New Animation Studio By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 2020 12:30 pm EST Don Bluth made waves in the 1980s and 1990s as an animation alternative to what was being made by Walt Disney Animation Studios. With titles like The Secret of NIMH, The Land Before Time, An American Tail, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, and Anastasia, Don Bluth Productions carved out a nice niche for themselves during the Disney renaissance....

Daily Podcast: For All Mankind, The Only Good Indians, Say Nothing, Annette, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 5, 2021 1:57 pm EST On the August 5, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film senior news editor Jacob Hall to talk about what they’ve been up to at the water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Jacob has been helping with the /Film redesign and achieving something close to financial freedom....

Disney May Be Abandoning 4K Physical Releases Of Catalog Titles, Disney Denies Plans To Discontinue 4K Releases [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 10, 2020 7:30 am EST Hold onto your physical media, because it may start to look pretty lonely on your shelves over the next few years. The demand for physical media has slowly stagnated as streaming has become king, but the promise of new 4K Ultra HD editions of catalog titles has always kept a light burning for the home video format....

Jesse Best Ass-Kicking Moment: N/AFighting Characteristics: Jesse choked so hard during his race against Johnny Tran at Race Wars that he literally freaked out and sped off into the desert rather than deal with the consequences of his actions. He strikes me as the type of kid who would agree to fight you at 3 P.M. at the big oak tree, but when you get there, you see him ride by in the passenger seat of his mom’s minivan....

Grogu From The Mandalorian Is Getting His Own Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Sept. 9, 2021 3:02 pm EST Baby Yoda is crashing the “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” this year. Funko and Lucasfilm have announced that a gigantic Grogu balloon, in honor of “The Mandalorian,” will be part of the annual festivities this year. Yes, Funko. The toymaker responsible for those wildly popular bobbleheads. Rather than go with a standard Grogu that “Star Wars” fans are familiar with, the idea here is to model the balloon after the vinyl toy produced by Funko....

James Gunn’s Greatest Horror Tale Yet: Working For Microsoft By Devindra Hardawar/April 26, 2009 9:49 am EST A while back, director James Gunn (Slither) produced a series of shorts for Xbox Live that gathered together some of the new talent in horror films today. Dubbed Horror Does Comedy, the series was supposed to allow Gunn and other horror directors like James Wan (Saw) and David Slade (Hard Candy) creative freedom to produce some quick and dirty content exclusively for Xbox Live....

Marvel Producer Explains Which Current Avengers Could Take Down The Eternals Walt Disney Pictures / Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/Oct. 13, 2021 3:00 pm EST Long before Hulk smashed buildings and Thor wielded a magical hammer, the Eternals arrived on Earth as humanity’s first superheroes. In less than a month, we’ll not only get a glimpse at their origins but all they’ve done for the planet with their great and ancient power....

Quentin Tarantino Would Love To Make A ‘Rambo’ Movie With Adam Driver By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 5, 2021 6:00 am EST Quentin Tarantino is writing a book of film criticism called Cinema Speculation, and in that spirit, we may need to file Tarantino’s Rambo under cinema speculation for now. However, he is indeed out there talking about what his version of Rambo would look like, and it sounds like it would be much closer to First Blood, the 1972 David Morrell novel that served as the source material for the 1982 film adaptation, co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone....

Regé-Jean Page Shines In A Lively, Hilarious, And Extremely Musical ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 21, 2021 1:00 pm EST Let me be honest here. When I first heard that Regé-Jean Page was hosting Saturday Night Live, this was the first time that I had no idea who the hell that was. I was totally aware of Bridgerton, but didn’t realize he was on it until I looked it up....

Star Trek: Discovery Director Reveals How He Brought The Season’s Latest Episode To Life [Interview] Paramount+ By Vanessa Armstrong/Dec. 9, 2021 10:13 am EST The fourth episode of this season of “Star Trek: Discovery” dropped today and includes a lot of critical moments for a lot of characters. /Film had a chance to talk with director John Ottman about shooting these pivotal moments for the show, including how he handled some tough-to-shoot-in location sequences....

A Questionable Call Look, far be it from me to second-guess the bean-counters and marketing gurus who literally do this sort of thing for a living. That said, isn’t it pretty counterintuitive to tout an exclusive, one-time streaming event through the studio’s own proprietary rental platform…only to then turn around and just make the film available through the usual means a day later? Undoubtedly, there are already quite a number of people who’ve paid for tickets to watch The Green Knight during that “special” screening at the specific time, under the impression that it wouldn’t be available to stream for quite some time and unaware that they could’ve waited less than 24 hours to rent the movie and watch it whenever they wanted to....

A Fistful of Dollars Unidis Everyone should know the look: his eyes squinting into camera, the curled lip, his hands hovering above his handgun and rifles. It’s the standard spaghetti western vibe, a world in which a mysterious stranger will sometimes pop up and perform acts of heroism against mustache-twirling villains. “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), modeled on Akira Kurosawa’s classic “Yojimbo” (1961), is one of many Clint Eastwood westerns directed by Sergio Leone, and remains an action classic to this day....

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Sony Pictures There’s no point in sugarcoating it: “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is absolutely ridiculous. But in a world filled with period dramas that somehow all look and feel similar, it’s surprisingly refreshing to have one film that dares to ask, “Hey, what would happen if we just put zombies in this?” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” follows the basic plotline of the original Jane Austen novel, except that amidst the parties at Netherfield Hall and comically awkward visits from Mr....

The Best Movies And Shows Coming To Hulu In September 2021 Lionsgate By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 2, 2021 4:43 pm EST September has arrived quicker than most of us could’ve anticipated, and, no matter what a certain Green Day song might suggest, you’re going to want to stay awake for the entirety of this month. Well, okay, maybe not the entirety. Continue to get that CDC-recommended 7 or more hours of sleep a night, please!...

The Expanse Season 6 Trailer “We’re broken, trying desperately to keep ourselves going, pretending we’re not.” This statement is not only my inner monologue for the last 15 months, but also what the formidable Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo) says in voiceover in the teaser, reminding us that the last season of “The Expanse” saw billions of people killed. “We must remember the lives we’ve lost. The pain we’ve suffered,” Avasarala goes on....

This The Harder They Fall Easter Egg Is A Touching Tribute To Chadwick Boseman Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 4, 2021 8:59 am EST “The Harder They Fall” marks the feature-length directorial debut of musician-turned-filmmaker Jeymes Samuel, AKA The Bullitts, who is seeking to reclaim the Old West with a vision of the New West, populated by Black actors. The movie is streaming now on Netflix, and it stars Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Idris Elba, Regina King, Lakeith Stanfield, Delroy Lindo, and more....

VOTD: Video Essay Examines How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 9, 2021 5:00 pm EST “How did they do that?” There are so many feats of filmmaking that leave us baffled, but there are many more that are so seamless that they are invisible to the eye. One of which is an age-old technique that has only been refined as modern technologies improve: filming mirror scenes. Reflective surfaces are the enemy of the camera, catching equipment and crew members on the screen when they don’t want to be, and calling attention to the artifice of it all....

Who Is Arishem In Eternals? The Leader Of The Four Celestial Hosts Explained Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 5, 2021 1:55 pm EST Once upon a time, Marvel fans lost their minds over getting just the slightest hint of the otherworldly Celestials during one brief moment in the first “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie and a subsequent trip into the disembodied head of another. Since then, the James Gunn’s “Guardians” sequel introduced a villain named “Ego the Living Planet,” “Thor: Ragnarok” ended with a giant fire monster wiping out the entire realm of Asgard, and Thanos snapped half the universe out of existence (don’t worry, they got better!...