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‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Footage Reaction: Arnold Schwarzenegger And Linda Hamilton Are Back [CinemaCon 2019] By /Film Staff/April 4, 2019 11:43 am EST No fate but the one we saw at CinemaCon 2019. The new Terminator sequel will attempt to inject life back into the longrunning franchise once again with the highly anticipated return of series legends Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. Will that gambit pay off? We’ll have to see based on the first Terminator: Dark Fate footage shown at Paramount’s panel at CinemaCon....

A24 Delays ‘Under The Silver Lake’ Again To Spring 2019 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 1, 2018 5:00 pm EST A24 is trying to turn silver into box office gold with yet another release date delay for David Robert Mitchell’s divisive neo-noir, Under the Silver Lake. The beloved indie studio is pushing back the release date to April 2019, making this the second delay for the darkly comic noir starring Andrew Garfield....

Controversial ‘The House That Jack Built’ Director’s Cut To Play In Theaters One Night Only By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 31, 2018 7:30 am EST Lars von Trier returned to Cannes this year after being banned from the festival for 7 years, and immediately infuriated everyone. The film von Trier brought with him, the serial killer drama The House That Jack Built, was derided as needlessly cruel, overly violent, and downright terrible. And now the general public will have a chance to see it!...

Daisy Ridley Teases ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Lightsaber Fight, Colin Trevorrow’s Different Take By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2019 10:00 am EST With Avengers: Endgame out of the way, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is probably the next most anticipated movie of 2019. The film will bring the Skywalker saga in the Star Wars universe to an end, but after a certain menacing laugh was heard at the end of the first teaser trailer, fans are filled with infinitely more questions about how this will all come to a head....

Horror Short ‘Behind’ Being Adapted Into Feature Film With Sam Raimi Producing By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 11, 2019 11:30 am EST Horror shorts are becoming a goldmine for Hollywood. More and more, producers are turning to short horror films as fodder for feature-length adaptations. The Babadook, Lights Out, Mama and more all originated as short films. The trend continues with Behind, a short film written and directed by Angel Gomez that will now be turned into a feature, with Sam Raimi producing....

John Cena In Talks To Suit Up For James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ By Ben Pearson/April 17, 2019 11:31 am EST Looks like writer/director James Gunn truly is using a similar formula with DC’s The Suicide Squad as he did with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – at least when it comes to casting. Gunn chose Dave Bautista, a former wrestler, to play one of the members of his ensemble in Guardians, and now a new report says that former wrestler John Cena is in talks to join returning players Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, and fellow newcomer Idris Elba in the ensemble cast of The Suicide Squad....

Satan’s Slaves Now Streaming on Shudder Matt: If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve been barraged by Satan’s Slaves tweets ever since my review hit /Film back in April. Joko Anwar’s impossibly terrorizing familial paranormal nightmare does “James Wan” with an Indonesian flavor. Festival after festival acceptance passed with no distribution until horror streaming juggernaut Shudder finally snatched it up. While Anwar’s heavy-duty haunted house flick deserves the widest of releases, it’s found a perfect home on Shudder where it’ll be promoted, praised, and talked about in all the right circles....

Star Wars Bits: How J.J. Abrams Will Use Carrie Fisher In ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’, Plus ‘Vader Immortal’, ‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’, And More By Ben Pearson/June 14, 2019 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: New information has come to light about how J.J. Abrams plans to utilize footage of Carrie Fisher in The Rise of Skywalker Mark Hamill talks about riding Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Check out a teaser for the Vader Immortal VR experience John Williams had “unfinished business” with Star Wars And more!...

Superhero Bits: Thanos Gets A Build-A-Bear, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Tickets Sales Are Huge & More By Ethan Anderton/April 2, 2019 6:00 pm EST What can you expect from the second season of The Tick? Does the Avengers: Endgame poster with Groot hint at his possible survival somehow? Want to know about the history of the rivalry between Marvel Comics and DC Comics? Want to win a customized Shazam! Xbox One? Does the a Build-a-Bear plush of Thanos spoil a certain aspect of Avengers: Endgame?...

The 15 Greatest ‘Game Of Thrones’ Moments: Shocking Suicides, Brutal Betrayals, And Dangerous Dragons By /Film Staff/April 11, 2019 11:00 am EST Game of Thrones returns for its eighth and final season this weekend, so you know what that means: it’s time to rank things. And a show as epic as this offers a great deal to rank. Yesterday, we ranked the 10 best episodes. Today, we’re ranking the 15 best moments of the entire series....

‘Back To The Future’, ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’, And More Get New Posters In This Amblin Art Show By Ben Pearson/June 5, 2019 3:30 pm EST Bottleneck Gallery, one of the world’s best pop culture poster purveyors, is teaming with Vice Press for a new Amblin art show called Amblinesque, which pays tribute to the movies of director Steven Spielberg and his Amblin production company. Talented artists Matt Ferguson and Foley have created some spectacular new takes on films like Back to the Future, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gremlins, and E....

‘Captain Marvel’ Spoiler Discussion Podcast By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2019 12:10 pm EST On the March 8, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, writer Hoai-Tran Bui and special guest, Sean Gerber from Superhero News and Marvel Studios News podcast to have a Captain Marvel spoiler discussion.You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it)....

‘Chronicles Of Narnia’ Netflix Series Brings In ‘Coco’ Writer Matthew Aldrich By Chris Evangelista/June 12, 2019 2:00 pm EST Netflix announced a Chronicles of Narnia TV series and a new batch of movie adaptations last year, and now it looks like the streaming service is finally getting ready to step through the wardrobe. Matthew Aldrich, co-writer of Pixar’s Coco, has been brought in to serve as the Chronicles of Narnia Netflix series architect, overseeing development and creative decisions on multiple projects....

‘Counterpart’ Canceled At Starz After Two Seasons, But It Might Be Picked Up Elsewhere By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2019 4:30 pm EST Before the likes of Netflix and Hulu came around, most shows that got canceled were gone forever. But thanks to the popularity of streaming services, we’re now living in an age where the axing of a show doesn’t necessarily mean it’s dead. Another show has been added to the purgatory of cancellation for the time being, but there’s a chance it might be picked up elsewhere....

‘Deadpool 2’ And ‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Director David Leitch Eyes Vampire Movie ‘Undying Love’ By Ben Pearson/Jan. 31, 2019 1:30 pm EST The year is 2012. The Grey had recently hit theaters, and director Joe Carnahan was hired to write and direct a film adaptation of the comic book series Undying Love, a vampire romance that’s also described as a “horror-action tale.” Fast forward seven years. That project never saw the light of day, but it still hasn’t had a stake driven through its heart....

‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘The Shining,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ And More Added To National Film Registry By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 12, 2018 11:30 am EST The Library of Congress has announced its 25 new inductees to the National Film Registry, the archive that protects and preserves “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films” to American film history. As of 2018, there are 727 films in the registry — a surprisingly small amount considering cinema’s rich and long history....

‘Leftover Women’ Review: A Touching Lens On Filial Piety And Singlehood In China [Tribeca] By Caroline Cao/April 29, 2019 2:00 pm EST 34-year-old Qiu HuaMei wears a hopeful expression as she chats with a potential Mr. Right. She chats about the male chauvinism culture that lingers in her hometown. At first, he has an ear for her until he reveals that he is uncomfortable with the idea of a wife smarter than him....

‘Morbius’ Image: Jared Leto Is The World’s Most Boring Living Vampire By Chris Evangelista/April 5, 2019 9:35 am EST There’s a chance former Joker Jared Leto saw all the coverage Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker movie was getting this week, and felt a little left out. Not to be upstaged, the actor took to Twitter to drop a new official look at his new anti-hero film Morbius. It’s…not very exciting. The image shows Leto in character, I guess, but all it appears to be is the actor standing in a crowd wearing a hoodie....

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 2, 2019 1:30 pm EST The Travel Channel is bringing back the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not TV series, and they’ve found a great host. Legendary cult actor Bruce Campbell, and his prominent chin, will guide viewers through a series that shines a light on “the extraordinary, the death defying, the odd and the unusual.” There have been several Believe It Or Not shows, all springing from the brand Robert Ripley created 100 years ago....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets John Mulaney And Idris Elba To Host In March By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 20, 2019 3:30 pm EST After last weekend’s new episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by first-time host Don Cheadle, the late night sketch comedy series is done with February. But they’ve already got us excited for March, when we’ll get an SNL veteran returning to host for a second time, and another first-time host who hasn’t really stretched his comedic muscles very often....