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Charlize Theron’s ‘The Old Guard’ Adds Matthias Schoenaerts And ‘Aladdin’s Hot Jafar Marwan Kenzari By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 31, 2019 2:30 pm EST Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, and Luca Marinelli will be taking orders from Charlize Theron in the upcoming Netflix action film The Old Guard. The co-production between Netflix and Skydance media is a sci-fi action film starring Theron as a leader of a small, covert group of immortal mercenaries who discover the existence of a new immortal....

Cool Stuff: Craig Drake’s Latest Art Show Honors ‘Star Wars’, ‘Lost In Translation’, ‘RoboCop’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 17, 2018 6:00 am EST Artist Craig Drake has returned with his fifth solo art show at Hero Complex Gallery, and with it comes a stellar collection of new posters created by the artist in his signature style. The new Craig Drake art honors some of the strongest, fiercest, feistiest and most memorable females in films like Blade Runner, The Empire Strikes Back, Beetlejuice, Basic Instinct Kingsman: The Secret Service and Lost in Translation....

Disney To Make Live-Action ‘Hunchback Of Notre Dame’ Musical Possibly Starring Josh Gad By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 16, 2019 10:30 am EST The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the next beloved Disney animated staple to get the live-action treatment. The live-action musical, simply titled Hunchback, will adapt not only 1996 Disney film but the 1831 Victor Hugo novel upon which it was based. And if you’re wondering exactly how they’re going to turn this surprisingly dark Disney animated movie into a family-friendly live-action film, the House of Mouse is reportedly eyeing its favorite comedic bit player, Josh Gad, for the lead....

Female-Led ‘Kung Fu’ Sequel Series In Development At Fox By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 10, 2018 4:00 pm EST The original series, which ran from 1972 to 1975, arrived at the height of the martial arts craze in America and starred David Carradine as a half-Chinese Shaolin monk who wanders the American West. Now a Kung Fu sequel series has been picked up for a pilot by Fox, which hopes to revamp it with a modern audience in mind....

For The First Time In Thirty Years, The Oscars Won’t Have A Host By Ben Pearson/Jan. 9, 2019 11:10 am EST After weeks of back and forth nonsense with Kevin Hart, it’s finally settled: the 91st Academy Awards will not have a host. Unless, of course, the Academy changes their minds again at the last minute – but at this point, we’re only 46 days from the ceremony, and asking anyone to take such a high-profile job with so little time to prepare seems near-impossible....

HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Series Casts Naomi Watts In A Lead Role By Ben Pearson/Oct. 30, 2018 1:30 pm EST Naomi Watts is heading to Westeros. A new report says that the two-time Oscar nominee has been cast in a lead role in HBO’s still-untitled Game of Thrones prequel series, which is set thousands of years before the events of the current show. Learn more below. Variety reports that Watts, who earned Oscar nominations for her work in 21 Grams and The Impossible, will be playing “a charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret....

Netflix Oscar Eligibility Remains Intact As The Academy Votes Not To Change Key Rule By Ethan Anderton/April 24, 2019 7:48 am EST Earlier this year, Roma was a huge contender and winner at the Oscars. Not only did the film earn a trophy for director Alfonso Cuarón, as well as taking home the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but it was one of the Best Picture nominees. But that didn’t sit too well with some members of The Academy, because Roma was a Netflix movie, and it barely met the eligibility requirements for being released in theaters to qualify for a potential nomination....

Netflix Plans To Keep Making Marvel Shows For The Foreseeable Future By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 17, 2018 1:30 pm EST The Netflix Marvel TV shows aren’t going away any time soon. Despite the looming threat of the upcoming Disney streaming platform and Netflix’s surprising decision to cancel Iron Fist after the better-received second season, Netflix isn’t ringing the death knell for its acclaimed Marvel series. The Marvel universe stopped being #AllConnected a long time ago, but Netflix is adamant on maintaining its universe of street-level superhero shows....

Pual Rudd Unsure About ‘Ant-Man 3’ Happening, Encourages Fans To Start A Campaign By Ethan Anderton/June 13, 2019 2:30 pm EST Though it’s primarily the original Avengers who get the spotlight in this summer’s massive hit Avengers: Endgame, none of it would be possible without Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man. However, when it comes to the superhero’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seems that franchise star Paul Rudd doesn’t know if Ant-Man 3 will give him another chance to flex his Pym Particles....

Sam Raimi Didn’t Want Stan Lee in Spider-Man It’s a signature trait of most movies based on Marvel Comics to feature a cameo from Stan Lee. It was something fans looked forward to all the time, but early on when comic book movies were on the rise, it wasn’t something that was expected. And Sam Raimi initially didn’t want it to happen at all in the first Spider-Man movie in 2001....

Sequel Bits: ‘Practical Magic’, ‘Annabelle 3’, ‘Men In Black’, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’, ‘Fantastic Beasts’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 21, 2018 9:00 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Evan Rachel Wood would be down for a Practical Magic sequel, if anyone wants to make that happen. Annabelle 3 adds Katie Sarife in a leading role. Chris Hemsworth announces the Men In Black reboot has wrapped. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Superhero Bits: ‘Teen Titans Go Vs Teen Titans’ Trailer, Kevin Feige Won’t Confirm ‘Black Widow’ Production & More By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2019 6:00 pm EST What is the total runtime of MCU movies after Spider-Man: Far From Home? Want some cool classic X-Men Funko POPs? Are you excited to see the Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans animated movie? Why are people bullying a young star from Avengers: Endgame? Is Andy Serkis going to be in The Batman?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Rocks, Creating The Dothraki Language, Dragon Power Levels & More By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch as Game Of Thrones co-creator Dan Weiss and composer Ramin Djawadi sit down with some of rock’s finest to create an electric new cover of the show’s theme song....

The Morning Watch: Making Of ‘The Predator’ Dogs, The Philosophy Of J.R.R. Tolkien & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 2, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out how the new hounds of the sequel The Predator were created....

The Morning Watch: The Grinch Was Right, What You Need To Remember For ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 83 - The Things That Move In The Dark (Season Finale) By Slashfilmcast/June 9, 2017 6:41 pm EST When I was little, I was afraid of the dark. Not anymore. That is where answers hide. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and Hollywood, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky....

Voicing Chucky In The ‘Child’s Play’ Remake Intimidated Mark Hamill Almost As Much As The Joker By Ethan Anderton/June 12, 2019 8:30 am EST Whether you like it or not, the remake of Child’s Play is bringing a new version of Chucky to the big screen. Making the prospect of the horror redux a little more palatable is the fact that Star Wars icon Mark Hamill is using his versatile voice to bring the serial killing doll to life....

The Clueless Speech Remade As you can see, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield are the ones who are absolutely on board for having fun with this experiment (something that actually hit YouTube in March of 2017, but was only recently brought to our attention by Birth.Movies.Death). While Garfield mostly goes for hamming it up and going overboard as a typical valley girl, Driver does some legit cold reading and shows why he’s one of the finest actors working today....

Water Cooler: Halloween, Conjuring, Sabrina, Incredibles, Haunting Of Hill House, Adam Sandler, Sorry To Bother You, Streets Of Fire, The Mummy, Maniac, Red Dead Redemption 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the October 30, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

Water Cooler: Is This A Disappointing Summer For Movies? Godzilla, Toy Story 4, MIB: International, Shaft, Letterkenny, Dark, Chernobyl, Rocketman, The Substitute, Drunk History, Battlebots & BedJet 3 By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2019 2:27 pm EST On the June 18, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....