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Paul Schrader Wants To Follow ‘First Reformed’ With A Western Starring Ethan Hawke And Willem Dafoe By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 15, 2019 1:30 pm EST Paul Schrader has never gone away, but his career is encountering a sudden upswing thanks to his acclaimed 2018 film First Reformed. So what’s next for Schrader? According to the man himself, he wants to make a Western called Nine Men from Now, and he hopes Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe will star....

Satanic Temple Raises Hell With $50 Million ‘Sabrina’ Lawsuit By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2018 3:15 pm EST Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has unleashed the fires of hell…through litigation. The Satanic Temple has filed a $50 million copyright lawsuit against Warner Bros. and Netflix, claiming the Baphomet statue spotted in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a rip-off of a statue the Temple had created themselves. No amount of magic, black or otherwise, is going to make this disappear, and the Sabrina lawsuit is moving forward…for now....

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 123 - Movies That Outsmarted Us (GUEST: Tasha Robinson From AV Club) By Slashfilmcast/Nov. 21, 2010 9:27 am 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 /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 65 - On The Nature Of Spoilers By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 4, 2009 3:23 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 /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - 21 Jump Street And Undefeated By Slashfilmcast/March 16, 2012 5:00 pm EST In this bonus episode, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss two fantastic new releases out this weekend: 21 Jump Street and Undefeated. Also: Peter Sciretta returns to the /Filmcast! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us for our next live broadcast on Sunday (3/25) at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST at slashfilm....

The /Filmcast: IFFB Bonus Ep. - Bobcat Goldthwait, Director Of Willow Creek By Slashfilmcast/April 27, 2013 1:00 pm EST The Independent Film Festival of Boston is in full swing! While I’m unable to attend, I was thrilled to be able to grab some time with writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait, whose newest film, Willow Creek, will be premiering at IFFB. Bobcat chatted with me about the veracity of the Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot footage, the making of his films, and the benefits of impersonating him on Twitter....

The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale: What Worked And What Didn’t Work By Danielle Ryan/May 21, 2019 11:30 am EST The final season of Game of Thrones has been divisive at best. The rushed pacing and certain character choices left many fans feeling bitter after the penultimate episode, “The Bells”. I was one of those fans, and I detailed my grievances with the series as I prepared for the final episode. I prepared myself to be angry, to be bitter, but above all, to be disappointed....

Warner Bros. Won’t Have A Hall H Panel At Comic-Con, But ‘IT Chapter Two’ Is Coming To ScareDiego By Chris Evangelista/June 5, 2019 11:30 am EST Summer is almost here, which means San Diego Comic-Con is right around the corner. And this year’s Comic-Con has a surprise in store. Or rather, not in store: Warner Bros. won’t be bringing anything to the fabled Hall H this year. The studio could’ve easily had panels relating to Wonder Woman 1984, Joker and even Matt Reeves’s The Batman....

WarnerMedia Reveals First Details On The Streaming Subscription Replacing FilmStruck By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 30, 2018 4:00 pm EST Cinephiles were rather upset that WarnerMedia was shutting down the movie streaming subscription service FilmStruck, many of them prominent filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, Edgar Wright, Barry Jenkins, Kathleen Kennedy, Christopher Nolan and more. But the media giant reassured movie lovers that they would have a new iteration of FilmStruck coming sometime in 2019, though it might not go by that name....

Watch: The Original Cast Of ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch’ Reacts To Netflix’s ‘Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 31, 2018 5:30 am EST Sabrina, meet Sabrina. Sabrina the Teenage Witch may not have a lot in common with Netflix’s new dark take on the Archie Comics character, but that doesn’t mean that the cast of the ’90s sitcom isn’t down to get a little Satanic. Following the release of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on the streaming platform, Netflix has given us a delightful little featurette showing the Sabrina the Teenage Witch cast reacting to an episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina....

‘Bad Boys 3’ Cast Adds Vanessa Hudgens And More By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2018 3:15 pm EST The Bad Boys 3 cast is starting to come together. The film has just added Alexander Ludwig, Vanessa Hudgens, and Charles Melton to star alongside Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Hudgens, Ludwig, and Melton are playing a highly-specialized police unit that clashes with Smith and Lawrence’s characters on the job. More on the Bad Boys 3 cast below....

‘Black Panther’ And ‘The Favourite’ Are Favorites At The 2019 Costume Designers Guild Awards By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 20, 2019 1:30 pm EST Two favorites to win the Oscar for Costume Design were also highly favored at the 2019 Costume Designers Guild Awards. The guild handed top awards to Oscar costume design front-runners Black Panther and The Favourite at its ceremony on Tuesday night, which recognized the best in Hollywood costume design....

‘Evil Dead 2’ 4K Trailer Is Ready To Swallow Your Soul By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 15, 2019 4:15 pm EST Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 are very different films, even if they’re essentially telling the same story. Sam Raimi’s first Evil Dead is attempting to be a serious horror movie, while Evil Dead 2 slips into slapstick comedy territory. That slapstick angle seems to be the one people remember the most when they think of Evil Dead, making the sequel the far more prominent film....

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Tracking For A $65-75 Million Opening Weekend By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 25, 2018 4:00 pm EST Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is set to have a magical opening weekend at the box office. The sequel to 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set to score around the same opening box office when it opens in November, with industry insiders setting the box office tracking between $65-$75 million....

‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Release Date Set For November 2021 By Chris Evangelista/April 29, 2019 9:30 am EST The third entry in the somewhat shaky Fantastic Beasts franchise has conjured up a release date: November 2021. Fantastic Beasts 3, which will eventually have an official, ungainly title, will continue the Harry Potter prequel series from J.K. Rowling and director David Yates. Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and all his wizard pals will return once again, like it or not....

‘Heat’ Novel From Director Michael Mann Due Out Next Year By Chris Evangelista/July 4, 2019 6:00 pm EST Three years ago, word came that Michael Mann would be returning to the world of Heat with a prequel novel. But after the initial announcement, no additional info arose, and you’d be forgiven for forgetting the project was even happening. Now, Mann himself has provided an update, stating that a Heat novel is definitely still in the works, and will be published next year....

‘Men In Black International’ Image Shows Off Cool Suits, Cooler Weaponry By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 7, 2018 8:30 am EST The new Men In Black movie, officially titled Men In Black International, is half a year away from release, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start getting hyped for it now. To help with that hype, handsome Aussie Chris Hemsworth took to Twitter to post a pic from the film. The image features Hemsworth and co-star Tessa Thompson dressed to the nines, brandishing some new alien-fighting weaponry....

‘The Devil All The Time’ Replaces Chris Evans With Sebastian Stan By Ben Pearson/Feb. 15, 2019 1:45 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When Chris Evans goes somewhere, Sebastian Stan usually isn’t far behind – at least in Marvel Studios movies. But that’s also turned out to be true today in the real world. Evans has just dropped out of an upcoming Netflix film called The Devil All The Time, but Stan has stepped in to replace him....

‘The Stand’ TV Series Cast Wants James Marsden, Amber Heard, Whoopi Goldberg And More By Chris Evangelista/June 21, 2019 1:31 pm EST The Stand TV series is beginning to gather together what will surely be a huge cast. While nothing is finalized yet, a new report indicates several names that CBS All Access wants to join their big Stephen King adaptation. Names like James Marsden, Amber Heard, Whoopi Goldberg, and more....

Apple Officially Announces New Streaming Video Service, AppleTV+, Which Debuts This Fall By Ben Pearson/March 25, 2019 12:12 pm EST Nearly two years after first announcing that they’d be entering the streaming video realm in a significant way, Apple has finally pulled back the curtain and revealed some major details about its new video service, which is called AppleTV+. Here’s everything we know about it. Apple reportedly spent about a billion dollars on original content last year, and now we’re finally starting to get a better idea of what they have in store: AppleTV+, a “new service unlike anything that’s been done before....