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‘Avengers: Endgame’ Getting ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Trailer Added After The Credits By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 10, 2019 8:30 am EST Avengers: Endgame may not have an end-credits scene, but fans will get the closest thing to it: the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer. Ongoing Avengers: Endgame screenings will have new Spider-Man: Far From Home teases added in front of and behind the film, including a pre-film message from Spidey himself, Tom Holland....

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Is The Champion Of The Box Office With $50 Million Opening By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 5, 2018 11:30 am EST Queen is one of those bands that everyone sings along with when one of their trademark tunes comes on the radio. So it should come as no surprise that a rock biopic bearing the title of one of their most famous songs topped the box office last weekend. Bohemian Rhapsody, the story of the unique rock band Queen and their energetic frontman Freddie Mercury, landed at the top of the box office this weekend....

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Flops In China, While ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ Holds No. 1 At The Domestic Box Office By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 3, 2018 12:30 pm EST Crazy Rich Asians finally made its premiere in the second biggest movie market in the world, but sadly, China wasn’t crazy about the rom-com phenomenon. Though Crazy Rich Asians became a summer hit Stateside, raking in more than $173 million at the U.S. box office, it would be lucky to score more than $1 million in its opening weekend in China....

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Featurette Counts The Connections To ‘Harry Potter’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 8, 2018 10:30 am EST The Wizarding World is getting infinitely bigger with each new Fantastic Beasts movie, but the newest Fantastic Beasts 2 featurette is here to remind you that it all ties back to a little movie series called Harry Potter. Warner Bros. has released a magical featurette for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald cataloguing all the connections between the prequel spin-off and the magical adventure series that started it all....

/Filmcast Ep. 80 - Invictus (GUEST: Anne Thompson From IndieWire) By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 15, 2009 7:47 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss the creative bankruptcy of the Death at a Funeral Remake, gush about Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant, and review The Mel Brooks Collection on Blu-Ray. Special guest Anne Thompson from Indiewire joins us. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Friends From College’ Season 2 Trailer Doesn’t Want To Fall Back On Destructive Habits By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 3, 2019 3:00 pm EST Those wacky Friends From College are back with a second season of a show I didn’t even know existed! The amount of original content on Netflix has become staggering, to the point where it’s hard to keep track of it all. But this series boasts a highly impressive cast, so it’s likely worth checking out....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Clothing Line, Behind-The-Scenes Books Announced As HBO Series Heads Into Final Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 13, 2019 4:00 pm EST Soon, you too can take the black…T-shirt with a Game of Thrones logo emblazoned on it. As the final season of the acclaimed HBO fantasy series makes its way to the small screen, several new Game of Thrones merchandise lines have made themselves available to fans. The first is the Game of Thrones capsule collection by John Varvatos, an 11-piece menswear clothing line that includes luxury coats and pants created in a medieval style inspired by Westeros, as well as more traditional graphic T-shirts....

‘Jezebel’ Review: A Sexy And Strange Middle-Finger To Stereotypes And Tropes [SXSW] By Joi Childs/March 20, 2019 12:00 pm EST Sabrina is talking to someone on the phone in the first scene of Jezebel. She’s hard at work as a phone sex operator, moaning in her husky voice to really sell her performance. What makes the scene jarring is realizing her younger sister Tiffany is wide awake nearby, hearing everything.Thus begins a film that explores financial independence and sex work from the lens of a young Black woman to great effect....

‘Shazam!’ Review: Hilarity And Heart Make This Throwback Superhero Movie A Breath Of Fresh Air By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 23, 2019 3:00 pm EST A raucous, charming kid adventure that is a delight to behold from start to finish, Shazam! feels like a throwback both to ’80s comedies and to the superhero movies of the early 2000s, with abundant callbacks to both genres. But rather than playing like an appeal to nostalgia, Shazam!...

‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Trailer: School’s Out For Medieval Action By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 2018 7:30 am EST When it comes to live-action adventure movies for kids, quality options are few and far between and nowhere near as abundant or exciting as they were in the ’80s and ’90s. But director Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) is hoping to spice things up for families early next year with a medieval, magical adventure that actually does something interesting with the myth of King Arthur....

‘The Orville’ Season 2 Teaser: Get Ready For A Bitchin’ New Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2018 4:30 pm EST The Orville Season 2 Teaser The second season of The Orville finds MacFarlane’s sardonic Captain Ed Mercer separated from his ship, with his crew determined to find him. Lead by his ex-wife and first officer Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki), the crew of The Orville search the far reaches of the galaxy to find Captain Mercer — hopefully before he finds out what happens after staring down an alien gun....

2018 Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Winners: ‘The Hate U Give’ Takes Best Picture By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 7, 2018 3:00 pm EST It’s only been a few days since the members of the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society released the nominees for their annual awards, and the winners have already been determined. However, don’t expect this to be an indication of how any of the major awards are going to go down later this season....

Apple TV+ Trailer Touts Steven Spielberg, Sofia Coppola, J.J. Abrams, Ron Howard & More By Ethan Anderton/March 25, 2019 1:00 pm EST Today brought Apple’s announcement of their new subscription streaming service AppleTV+. While the presentation didn’t have much footage to show from the various original program that will be part of the service launching this fall, they had no problem showing off the slate of storytellers that they already have working on shows....

Danny DeVito Joins The ‘Jumanji’ Sequel In Mystery Role By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 4, 2019 1:00 pm EST Danny DeVito is the latest high-profile actor to venture into the jungle for the third Jumanji film, in an undisclosed role. The follow-up to the massively successful Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the Jumanji sequel cast is steadily adding some comedy heavyweights, including DeVito and the recently announced Awkwafina, who join original cast members Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan....

Disney Box Office Tops $7 Billion For 2018, The Studio’s Second-Best Year Ever By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 11, 2018 2:00 pm EST Hard up for cash? Try to get in good with the House of Mouse. With three weeks left in the fever dream that is 2018, this year’s Disney box office has hit $7 billion globally. The reason for such success is obvious – The Nutcracker and the Four Realms! Yes, the Disney fantasy film took in $7 billion dollars at the box office, total!...

Everything Wrong With The Final Season Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ By Danielle Ryan/May 17, 2019 9:00 am EST Now that the dust has settled around what’s left of King’s Landing, there is room to examine why some fans have felt betrayed by season eight of Game of Thrones. The fan reaction to the episode has been divisive, with some overzealous and misguided fans petitioning for a “redo” of this season. While I’m certainly not among those folks, I found myself very angry at my favorite dragon show more than once this season....

Marvel’s ‘Loki’ Series First Look Takes Tom Hiddleston Back To The 1970s By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2019 1:00 pm EST Disney+ won’t debut until this November, but we’ve got a first look at one of the shows Marvel Studios is making for the streaming subscription service. You might remember last night there was a Disney investor meeting in April where some details about the new Marvel Studios shows coming to Disney+ were discussed....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To See After You See ‘Glass’ By Scott Beggs/Jan. 15, 2019 11:30 am EST The first act of The Incredibles is still the fairest portrayal of what superhero home life would look like. The flurry of domestic bliss and panic mirrors a lot of families with young children, but there’s an additional anxious hum to the rhythm of their lives. That fear of being caught, of suppressing who they are for the “greater good” of a fearful, misinformed larger society imbues every choice they make....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘The Girl In The Spider’s Web’, ‘Overlord’, ‘At Eternity’s Gate’, ‘Valentine’, ‘Cobra’ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2019 12:00 pm EST This week’s Blu-ray round-up features a reboot of a remake, a rumored Cloverfield sequel that became something else, a tragic drama about a painter, a slasher movie set around Valentine’s Day, and Sylvester Stallone cutting up pizza with a pair of scissors. These are the new Blu-ray releases and their special features you should check out this week and beyond....

Now Scream This: The Best Horror Movies About Family To Stream This Thanksgiving By /Film Staff/Nov. 21, 2018 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: Thanksgiving – the nightmare that is cyclical forced family engagements. Another night spent dodging questions about how you’re almost thirty and still not “settling down,” forced to seek comfort inside a whiskey bottle while averting Aunt Sally’s searing judgemental snark (“hypothetically”)....