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‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Trailer: Get Cozy With The Vampire Roommates Of The FX Mockumentary Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 4, 2019 10:00 am EST After teasing us for months with brief character TV spots, FX has released the official What We Do in the Shadows trailer for the vampire mockumentary series. The first trailer also unveils the official March premiere date for the series while giving us a thorough introduction of all the vampire roommates at the center of the highly anticipated series....

‘Widows’ Featurette: How Chicago Shapes The Steve McQueen Heist Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 14, 2018 2:00 pm EST “We’re after the truth. I don’t go to a location with a stencil. I adapt to the environment,” reads a quote by director Steve McQueen at the beginning of the newest Widows featurette about the film’s Chicago location. The gritty heist thriller, penned by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, is set in the Windy City, and couldn’t take place anywhere else....

AMC Theatres Launching AMC Artisan Films To Boost Smaller Movies By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 28, 2019 3:30 pm EST As superhero blockbusters dominate one half of the movie industry and Disney the other half, there leaves no room for the small independent films. But while online we can only opine the meager box office numbers of Booksmart, AMC Theatres is doing something about it. AMC Theatres, the world’s largest exhibitor, is launching a new marketing and programming initiative called AMC Artisan Films that will boost smaller films and hopefully get more people in the the theaters to see mid-budget, critically acclaimed hits like Late Night instead of Avengers: Endgame for the 50th time....

Chris Evans Gets Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ With Daniel Craig By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2018 2:25 pm EST Now that Chris Evans has bid a fond farewell to Captain America following the completion of reshoots on Avengers 4, he’s lining up action elsewhere with a new project. Knives Out is a new murder mystery from Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson that already has James Bond franchise star Daniel Craig on board to star....

Daily Podcast: Our Favorite Films And TV Shows Of 2019 So Far By Ben Pearson/May 31, 2019 2:23 pm EST On the May 31, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss their favorite pieces of entertainment of 2019 so far. Opening banter:In Our Feature Presentation: Jacob: Chernobyl, Us, Booksmart Runners Up: The Perfection, Good Boys, Barry HT: John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, Fleabag, Shazam!...

Exclusive ‘On The Basis Of Sex’ Clip Reveals The Real Ruth Bader Ginsburg Helped With The Script By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2019 5:30 pm EST On the Basis of Sex is a biopic that deals with the early half of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and career, before she became a now-legendary Supreme Court Justice. If you were wondering how accurate the film is, the exclusive On the Basis of Sex clip below provides the answer: pretty darn accurate....

MoviePass Films Still Exists, Releasing Horror Film ‘The Reckoning’ From Director Neil Marshall By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2018 3:30 pm EST Rumors of the death of MoviePass have been greatly exaggerated. Sort of. While the theater subscription service has gone through an extremely rough patch in the last few months, they’re still around – and so is MoviePass Films, the folks that brought us Gotti! The latest venture from MoviePass Films is a horror flick from The Descent and Hellboy reboot director Neil Marshall....

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 56 - Movie Food And Favorite Song Usages (GUEST: Matt Singer From IFC News) By Slashfilmcast/June 28, 2009 8:27 pm EST The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient audio file....

The 10 Best Movie Capes Of 2018 By Rebecca Pahle/Dec. 24, 2018 7:00 am EST Capes: They’re not just for superheroes. And they never were, thank you very much. Throughout the history of film, capes have been giving high drama to every genre, from historical epics to horror films to character-based dramas to high-fashion romps to, yes, the superhero movie. They’re dramatic, impractical (yes, Edna Mode, “no capes!,” we know), and too, too damn cool....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Snaps Box Office Records With $1.2 Billion Global Opening By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2019 10:07 am EST Avengers: Endgame winning the weekend box office around the world was a foregone conclusion, but even the most generous box office analysts never predicted it was going to be this big. Walt Disney Studios and Marvel Studios have announced the record-shattering Avengers Endgame box office numbers from the film’s opening weekend, and the totals are staggering....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ TV Spot Announces The Beginning Of Summer Movie Season By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2019 12:00 pm EST Still not sold on Avengers: Endgame? Perhaps more footage will do the trick! A new Endgame TV spot offers up some quick shots from the mega-sequel, and officially announces the beginning of summer. “I know when summer starts,” you might be saying. “June!” Incorrect! Now that Marvel and Disney own everything, they get to declare when the seasons change!...

By Ben Pearson/Jan. 30, 2019 10:58 am EST After years of rumors and false starts, Bad Boys For Life is really, truly, actually happening – and after seeing some recent camera tests of Will Smith posing on a sound stage, we now have our first official look at Smith and co-star Martin Lawrence reunited, straight from Smith’s Instagram account. Bad Boys For Life First Look View this post on Instagram...

‘Blair Witch’ Video Game Will Take Players Back To Burkittsville By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2019 12:30 pm EST The Blair Witch Project will live on with a new Blair Witch game due out this summer. The first-person, story-driven psychological horror game is based on the horror hit, and takes place in 1996 – which conveniently sidesteps the two Blair Witch movie sequels. The storyline involves an ex-cop searching for a boy who went missing in the allegedly haunted woods surrounding Burkittsville....

‘Ghost Draft’: Chris Pratt Teaming With ‘LEGO Batman’ Director Chris McKay For New Sci-Fi Film By Ben Pearson/Feb. 13, 2019 2:15 pm EST Chris Pratt, who provided the voice for the lead character in The LEGO Movie and The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, is in negotiations to star in a new live-action science fiction film from Chris McKay, who previously directed The LEGO Batman Movie. It’s called Ghost Draft, and it will be financed and produced by Skydance Media....

‘I Am The Night’ And When A-List Talent Makes Unremarkable Television By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 25, 2019 9:00 am EST One of the hallmarks of Peak TV – the era in which we live where there’s just so much good TV, too much for any one person to watch – is the presence of people you typically only associate with the big screen. Certainly, some of the agreed-upon best TV shows of the 21st century are able to tell longer-form stories than any film, or even series of films, could....

‘Shazam’ Filmmakers On How The Movie Connects To The DCEU, Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam, And More [Interview] By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2019 4:00 pm EST Last week, I joined a small group of journalists at a post production facility on the Warner Bros. studio lot to see a sneak peek of footage from the upcoming superhero film Shazam! After getting an early look at a few minutes of the movie, we spoke with director David F....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Delivers “Such Sweet Sorrow” With The Penultimate Episode Of Season 2 By Monique Jones/April 15, 2019 1:00 pm EST I am beside myself.Why am I writing in italics? Because I know no other way to describe my anxiety after seeing the penultimate Season 2 episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “Such Sweet Sorrow.“Billed as the first part of a two-part season finale, “Such Sweet Sorrow” increased the drama a thousand-fold....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Is Apparently Bringing Back The Emperor, And That Feels Like A Mistake By Chris Evangelista/April 12, 2019 11:30 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: one writer has a bad feeling about The Rise of Skywalker…) The Star Wars: Episode IX trailer just blew up the internet, revealing some kick-ass action scenes, a stunning visual aesthetic, and a somewhat clunky title (Rise of Skywalker)....

‘The Challenger’ Casts Michelle Williams As Astronaut Christa McAuliffe By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 3, 2018 4:30 pm EST Here’s a film that’s bound to be a bit depressing. Michelle Williams, who can be seen later this week in Venom, has just landed the role of Christa McAuliffe in The Challenger, a movie based on the 1986 space shuttle disaster that shocked the world. McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space, but the shuttle exploded upon takeoff, killing all seven astronauts on board....

Daily Podcast: Back To The Future, Aquaman, Roald Dahl, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gotham Awards, Spider-Man, Lion King & More By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the November 27, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest tv and film news, including the deaths of Ricky Jay, Bernardo Bertucci and Stephen Hillenburg, Back to the Future, Aquaman, Roald Dahl, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gotham Awards, Lion King....