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‘Knives Out’ Still Adding Great Cast Members, Like Christopher Plummer By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 2, 2018 4:30 pm EST Oh, you thought Rian Johnson’s Knives Out was done casting? Think again! The already stacked cast of Johnson’s mystery thriller just added yet another noteworthy name: Christopher Plummer. Like most of the roles in the film, next to nothing is known about who Plummer is playing. But the veteran actor joins a cast that includes Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Lakeith Stanfield, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette and Ana de Armas....

‘Miss Bala’ Trailer: Gina Rodriguez Finally Becomes An Action Star By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 16, 2018 12:30 pm EST Welcome to the era of Gina Rodriguez, action star. The Jane the Virgin star and Annihilation scene-stealer is finally stepping into the role that she was always meant to be in: action hero. Rodriguez makes her action star debut in the Miss Bala trailer, where she plays a young woman forced to become a mole for the DEA in a drug cartel....

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ 35mm Screenings Coming To Alamo Drafthouse Theaters By Chris Evangelista/July 11, 2019 10:00 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse is going all-in on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The theater chain will screen the filmmaker’s latest on 35mm at 19 locations across the country. Featuring vintage 35mm trailers and special repertory programming, this entire scenario seems custom-made to entice cinephiles across the land....

‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’ Is The Wildest Nicolas Cage Movie Ever Made, According To Nicolas Cage By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 13, 2018 3:00 pm EST Nicolas Cage has developed a reputation as a bit of an eccentric. No matter what movie he appears in, audiences look forward to seeing the actor unleash some of his patented Cage Rage, in which he lets loose and goes wild. More often than not, Cage doesn’t disappoint....

‘The 4400’ Reboot Coming To The CW, Once Again Proving That No TV Show Will Ever Really Die By Ben Pearson/Nov. 7, 2018 2:00 pm EST When TV shows get cancelled or even come to a natural end, they’re not truly over – instead, they wait in limbo until a network gets desperate enough to resurrect a piece of intellectual property that has name recognition. Both movies and television have used this tactic countless times in recent years, and The CW – who just did this with Charmed, by the way – is going back to the well once again with a reboot of the USA Network mystery series The 4400....

30 Years Later, Michael Keaton Is Still The Best Batman By Joshua Meyer/June 20, 2019 8:00 am EST The casting of Robert Pattinson as the next Batman has led to a predictable round of online petitioning to remove the former Twilight heartthrob from the role. If you’ve been alive and been a Batman fan long enough, you might be left thinking, “How soon we forget.” Years ago, a similar outcry accompanied the casting of Heath Ledger — himself a teen heartthrob turned serious dramatic actor — as the Joker....

Armie Hammer’s ‘Justice League Mortal’ Batman Would’ve Been “Truly Psychotic” By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 14, 2018 3:30 pm EST You may not know this, but Armie Hammer came very close to playing Batman in George Miller’s never-made Justice League Mortal. We’ll never know if Hammer would’ve made a good Batman or not, but now we know how he would’ve portrayed the character – as a psychotic. According to Hammer, he really wanted to lean into how freakin’ nuts it is to have a billionaire running around dressed as a giant bat....

Daily Podcast: 2019 Sundance Film Festival Most Anticipated Movies By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2019 5:30 pm EST On the January 23, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about our most anticipated films of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it)....

How ‘Birds Of Prey’ Director Cathy Yan Got The Job By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 31, 2018 10:30 am EST A lot of eyes are trained on Birds of Prey, Warner Bros.’ first all-female superhero team in its DC Extended Universe, anchored by fan-favorite villain Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). So how did the relatively unknown filmmaker Cathy Yan land the job, beating out several other directors in the process? “I did my homework,” the Dead Pigs director explained while talking about her pitch process....

James Cameron Congratulates ‘Avengers: Endgame’ On Sinking ‘Titanic’ At The Box Office By Ethan Anderton/May 9, 2019 8:30 am EST Last weekend, Avengers: Endgame quickly passed the box office milestone of $2 billion worldwide, and when all was said and done, it had passed Titanic as the #2 highest grossing movie of all time at the global box office. As has become customary with box office achievements in Hollywood, producer and director James Cameron has congratulated Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios for sinking Titanic with a cheeky image....

John Wick Is Officially In The World Of Fortnite, So Watch Your Back By Ben Pearson/May 16, 2019 9:30 am EST John Wick has invaded the world of Fortnite. A new trailer has arrived for a LTM (limited time mode) in the game which features the character from the Keanu Reeves-starring action movies, and after some early rumors suggested he was on the way, players better watch their backs, because Baba Yaga is officially here....

Original ‘Aladdin’ Screenwriter Isn’t Happy About Lack Of Compensation For Live-Action Remake By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 15, 2018 8:30 am EST Last week, the first teaser for Disney’s live-action remake of their contemporary classic Aladdin arrived with middling reactions. With the exception of a few key establishing shots of the city of Agrabah and the Cave of Wonders, as well as the first glimpse at Mena Massoud as Aladdin reaching for the genie’s lamp, the teaser was rather lackluster....

Patrick Stewart Was Going To Turn Down The Picard Spin-Off Until He Heard The Pitch By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2019 2:00 pm EST The upcoming Picard Star Trek spin-off series almost didn’t have its beloved captain at the helm. It was announced in August 2018 that Patrick Stewart would reprise his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in an upcoming Star Trek series for CBS All Access, but it turns out it took a little wrangling for the actor to boldly return to the role....

Sequel Bits: ‘Halloween’, ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’, ‘Anchorman 3’, ‘Rambo 5’, Cybertron & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 24, 2018 1:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Jamie Lee Curtis is in the dark about another Halloween J.K Rowling teases Fantastic Beasts 3 Steve Carell is still up for Anchorman 3 Bumblebee director Travis Knight wants a Cybertron movie All that and more Even though the recent revival of Halloween didn’t exactly leave things open-ended, the success of the movie and chatter behind the scenes has indicated that a sequel might be in the works....

The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - Mad Men Season 7 (Part 1) And Hannibal Season 2 By Slashfilmcast/June 15, 2014 2:09 pm EST In this bonus episode, David and Devindra discuss the season finales of Mad Men Season 7 (Part 1) and Hannibal Season 2. Spoilers abound. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, like us on Facebook! Download or Play Now in your Browser:Subscribe to the /Filmcast: SHOWNOTES...

The ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ Movie Is Back On With ‘Bumblebee’ Director Travis Knight By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2019 6:30 am EST Warner Bros. is putting its money on Travis Knight, the director of the surprise critical success Bumblebee, to helm its reboot The Six Billion Dollar Man. The Laika chief has been tapped as the new Six Billion Dollar Man director, replacing Damian Szifron after the project was picked up by Warner Bros....

The 13 Best Episodes Of Modern ‘Doctor Who’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 1, 2018 9:00 am EST As we near the debut of Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor, what better time to rank the 13 best episodes of the Doctor Who revival? It’s been a long road up until the BBC sci-fi series finally cast its first female Doctor, and it’s a journey that has been filled with silly lows and soaring highs (and we have a handy guide just to navigate them)....

VOTD: The Avengers Defeated Thanos, But Can They Beat An Escape Room? By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2019 6:00 am EST The Avengers were able to undo the death of half the universe and get rid of Thanos and his whole army. But how will they fare when they’re faced with the difficult task of working together to solve puzzles and get out of an escape room? For those who don’t know, an escape room is a puzzle-solving game where you and a group of friends (or strangers) are placed inside of a room, and the only way to get out is to use your surroundings to figure out how to escape....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Box Office Projections Suggest The Biggest Opening Weekend Of All Time By Chris Evangelista/April 4, 2019 10:30 am EST You don’t need the Time Stone to look into the future and know that Avengers: Endgame is going to make all the money at the box office. When tickets for the super-sequel went on sale this week, records were broken – along with AMC’s website, which crashed. But just how well will Endgame do when it opens this month?...

‘Blue Beetle’ Movie In The Works, Will Star The DCEU’s First Latino Superhero By Jacob Hall/Nov. 29, 2018 1:33 pm EST That sound you hear is Warner Bros. taking a long hard look at how Marvel Studios has elevated so many second-string superheroes into box office sensations and muttering “Why can’t we do that?” And with a new Blue Beetle movie, it certainly sounds like they’re going to try to do just that....