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Hugh Jackman And Rebecca Ferguson To Reteam For Sci-Fi Thriller From ‘Westworld’s Lisa Joy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 30, 2019 11:30 am EST Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson are two of the most magnetic movie stars working today, and their chemistry felt a little wasted in The Greatest Showman. So it’s good they’re reuniting in a sci-fi romantic thriller from the co-creator of HBO’s Westworld, Lisa Joy. Jackman and Ferguson are set to star in Reminiscence, an ambitious sci-fi thriller that will mark Joy’s feature directorial debut....

Mondo ‘Black Panther’ And ‘Destroyer’ Posters Go On Sale Tomorrow By Ben Pearson/Feb. 20, 2019 5:30 pm EST While a Best Picture win for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther seems unlikely at the Oscars this weekend, fans will be able to celebrate the character by snagging two new Mondo posters that will be available for purchase tomorrow. Plus, the fantastic Nicole Kidman cop drama Destroyer also gets the Mondo treatment in a piece that strikingly depicts downtown Los Angeles as a collection of loaded guns....

Rumor: ‘Star Wars’ Movies From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators May Head To The Old Republic By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2019 3:00 pm EST After Star Wars Episode 9 hits theaters this winter, we don’t know what’s coming next on the big screen from the galaxy far, far away. Director Rian Johnson has a new Star Wars trilogy he’s working on, and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have another (supposed) trilogy that will be completely separate from the primary saga and the aforementioned developing trilogy....

Superhero Bits: Which ‘Daredevil’ Star Auditioned For Captain America, Mysterio May Be Married & More By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2019 6:00 pm EST Which Daredevil star originally auditioned for Captain America over 10 years ago? Want to see how Batman looks in the series finale of Gotham? Did a school really send out a warning letter to stop kids from spoiling Avengers: Endgame for others? Is Mysterio married in Spider-Man: Far From Home?...

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 82 - The Top 10 Films Of 2009 By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 31, 2009 7:56 am EST In this episode, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley countdown their top 10 films of 2009. They also run down some honorable mentions and name some of their biggest disappointments. Thanks to everyone who listened for a great year! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

This Week In Trailers: The Society, Beats, Broken Bread, Echo In The Canyon, Loopers: The Caddie’s Long Walk By Christopher Stipp/April 6, 2019 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Will Smith To Star In Biopic About Venus & Serena Williams’ Dad, Because Their Dad Is Clearly The Obvious Choice For The Biopic Treatment By Ben Pearson/March 5, 2019 8:00 am EST Update: Variety reports that Warner Bros. is on the verge of signing on the dotted line to buy King Richard, which means we will probably see this one arrive sooner rather than later. Our original story continues below.Will Smith (Men in Black, Suicide Squad) is attached to star in King Richard, a biopic about Richard Williams, the father of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams....

Win A ‘Mission: Impossible’ Prize Pack Containing The 6-Movie Collection, Vinyl Soundtrack And More By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2018 7:30 am EST Mission: Impossible – Fallout, one of the year’s best action films, arrives on Blu-ray this week. To celebrate, we’re going to send you on a deadly mission to retrieve plutonium! Just kidding – we’re giving away prizes! You can score a whole bunch of Mission: Impossible swag, including the 6-film 4K Blu-ray collection, and the Mondo vinyl soundtrack of the first Mission: Impossible....

YouTube Offering ‘The Terminator’, ‘Rocky’ And Dozens More Movies For Free (With Ads) By Ben Pearson/Nov. 19, 2018 1:30 pm EST Now YouTube is offering you an alternative to watching a garbage copy of the movie that only takes up half of the screen because it was uploaded illegally. The world’s largest streaming video platform is now offering legitimate versions of nearly 100 films to audiences for free – movies like The Terminator, Legally Blonde, the first five Rocky films, and Hackers....

‘21 Bridges’ Trailer: Chadwick Boseman Shuts Down Manhattan To Solve A Murder By Chris Evangelista/April 25, 2019 6:00 am EST Chadwick Boseman is a cop on the hunt in the 21 Bridges trailer. The thriller, produced by Avengers: Endgame directors the Russo Brothers, finds Boseman shutting down every exit to Manhattan in order to find out who murdered eight cops in one location. But the more he digs, the more he starts to suspect things aren’t as they seem....

/Filmcast Ep. 231 - Arrested Development (GUEST: Joanna Robinson From Pajiba) By Slashfilmcast/June 11, 2013 11:13 pm EST Dave, Devindra, Germain Lussier, and Joanna Robinson discuss the rise of cat videos, the necessity of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, the miracle of World War Z, and the greatness of Monsters University. Also, here’s how they made that plane scene in Fast and Furious 6. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Good Omens’ Trailer: Welcome To The End Times By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 6, 2019 6:08 am EST Good Omens Trailer Based on the classic 1990 novel of the same name by Gaiman and Pratchett, Good Omens follows a fussy angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and a rebellious demon Crowley (David Tennant) who have grown attached to each other and to Earth in the past few centuries. But their comfortable existence is shattered when Armageddon descends upon Earth in the form of the Antichrist....

‘His Dark Materials’ Teaser Trailer: James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ruth Wilson Lead A Star-Studded Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 25, 2019 4:00 pm EST BBC has released the first look at its big-budget adaptation of His Dark Materials. The teaser trailer gives audiences a glimpse at the star-studded cast of the fantasy miniseries, which is set to adapt all three novels of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed fantasy series, led by James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ruth Wilson, and Dafne Keen....

‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ Remake Still Happening, But New Line Is More Focused On ‘Conjuring’ Franchise Now By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 26, 2018 4:30 pm EST The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is currently sleeping, but you can expect New Line to wake it up sometime soon. The series, which helped save the once-floundering studio from financial ruin, will launch yet another remake…eventually. That’s what screenwriter David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick claims, at least....

‘Sadie’ Director Megan Griffiths Tells Us How To Get People To Care About Your Indie Film By David Chen/April 23, 2019 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. But in today’s media-saturated world, it’s arguably just as hard to convince people to care about your small indie film. If you have a tiny movie, how do you get it out there? What strategy do you use?...

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Art Director Amy Beth Christenson On Building The Colossus [Interview] By Caroline Cao/March 14, 2019 1:00 pm EST From the first episode of Star Wars Resistance, I knew I was falling in love with the Colossus, one of the finest locations in the Star Wars universe. The Colossus is simple in concept: an isolated refueling station on a water planet, a speck from space. Yet it is inhabited by characters, an economy, colorful ships, a culture of racing, and a thriving community of humans, aliens, and droids....

‘The Hole In The Ground’ Trailer: One Of 2019’s First Great Horror Movies By Jacob Hall/Jan. 28, 2019 4:30 pm EST We’ve seen plenty of horror movies about killer kids over the years, so it takes something special to stand out. And if the word out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival is any indication, The Hole in the Ground manages to do just that. You can watch a new trailer for the film below, which has been picked up by indie powerhouse A24 for a theatrical release....

‘Wayne’ Trailer: Deadpool Writers’ YouTube Originals Show Is A Gritty Action-Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 20, 2018 7:30 am EST Disgruntled teens on the run from oppressive adults, expressing their nihilistic worldview through wry wit and brutal violence, seems to be a popular template these days for a TV show. It worked for Netflix’s critically acclaimed The End of the F***ing World, and now the new YouTube Premium series Wayne looks to capture that lightning in a bottle again....

Before and After the Snap One of the biggest problems Markus and McFeely say they ran into in crafting Infinity War and Endgame was determining just when to have Thanos snap away half the universe (and half the MCU characters) – and then when to bring everyone back. “We realized fairly early on that if we didn’t do it at the end of the first movie, the first movie wasn’t going to have an end,” Markus says....

Chris Pratt Confirms James Gunn’s “Off The Chain” ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’ Script Still Being Used By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 7, 2019 10:50 am EST Since then, Guardians 3 has been on hold. And while it’s been mentioned here and there that Gunn’s script would likely be used, we now have our most definitive confirmation yet. It comes from franchise star Chris Pratt, who told MTV News that Gunn’s script will be used, and that “It’s off the chain, it’s so good....