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‘The Grinch’ Box Office Tracking Indicates The Holiday Film Will See Lots Of Green By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2018 2:00 pm EST Halloween hasn’t even happened yet, but it looks like audiences are already in the Christmas spirit. Early The Grinch box office tracking indicates the new animated version of the Dr. Seuss classic is headed towards a $50 million-plus opening weekend. It’s official: people really want to hear Benedict Cumberbatch’s voice coming out of a green monster’s mouth....

‘The Guilty’ Review: Denmark’s Oscar Entry Is A Nifty One-Location Thriller By Siddhant Adlakha/Oct. 19, 2018 9:00 am EST Denmark’s 2019 Oscar entry is the kind of genre film that doesn’t normally make it through the Academy’s gates, but it’s a taut thriller with enough dramatic heft that it may prove to be an exception. High-concept thrillers are often written in reverse, with stories extrapolated (if not merely tacked on) to premises-as-a-selling points....

A New ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Anime Is Coming To Netflix In 2020 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 10, 2018 8:30 am EST While the rest of Hollywood is scrambling to adapt as many anime into live-action movies as possible, Netflix is starting to go the opposite route. Sure, they have to answer for that Death Note adaptation and possibly the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop series, but the streaming giant is getting some points with a new Ghost in the Shell anime series....

Chris Pratt In Talks For Latest From ‘Hell Or High Water’ Creator By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 26, 2018 4:30 am EST Taylor Sheridan, the creator of Hell or Hight Water, Wind River and the Sicario movies, is lining up his next project, and he wants Chris Pratt to star. Pratt has an opening in his schedule due to the shelving of two other projects he was attached to. This new untitled thriller will focus on a black-ops team, and will presumably involve violent men doing violent things, like all of Sheridan’s films....

Disney Park Updates: Main Street Electrical Parade Returns, ‘Inside Out’ Attraction Opens At DCA By Ben Pearson/June 28, 2019 3:15 pm EST For all you theme park lovers out there, here are a couple of brief Disney park updates to send you into the weekend. The beloved Main Street Electrical Parade, which hasn’t been seen in the park since 2017, is being reintroduced for a limited time engagement, and an Inside Out-themed attraction has just opened at Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure....

HBO Will Be Included In AT&T’s WarnerMedia Streaming Service Launching Late 2019 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 10, 2018 12:00 pm EST The planned launch date puts the yet-unnamed WarnerMedia streaming service in direct competition with Disney’s upcoming streaming service, which is generating a lot of buzz for its original Star Wars, Marvel, and Disney titles. So how could WarnerMedia compete? With a little show called Game of Thrones. HBO titles will front the WarnerMedia streaming service, though Stankey said it will still be more expensive than the current HBO “over-the-top” subscription plan....

Is This Spaceship The Key To Unlocking The Biggest Secret Of ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’? By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2019 9:00 am EST The teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is edited very precisely, referencing the original Phantom Menace teaser trailer and Return of the Jedi, but also showing us the heroes we love back together for one final adventure. When I was creating my breakdown of the trailer, one part seemed out of place to me....

John Williams Composed A Beautiful New Arrangement Of A Signature ‘Star Wars’ Theme By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 14, 2018 7:00 am EST Aside from lightsabers, lightspeed and the light side of the Force, there’s one thing that truly makes the saga episodes of Star Wars special, and that’s the music of John Williams. The brilliant composer has written music for Star Wars that is famous around the world, even to those who haven’t seen the movies....

Patty Jenkins To Direct Chris Pine In TNT Series ‘One Day She’ll Darken’ By Jack Giroux/July 28, 2017 3:00 pm EST TNT has given a new collaboration between Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and star Chris Pine the green light. Jenkins will direct Pine in a straight-to-order series, One Day She’ll Darken, based on Fauna Hodel’s autobiography. Pine is about to shoot a new Netflix movie with David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water), and Jenkins is developing Wonder Woman 2, but the plan is to start shooting the six-episode series this fall....

The Morning Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ VFX, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Trailer Easter Eggs & More By Ethan Anderton/April 3, 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, dive into the visual effects that help give Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse such a unique aesthetic....

Tom Holland Sticking With The Russo Brothers For ‘Cherry’ By Chris Evangelista/March 11, 2019 9:45 am EST Cherry, the first post-Marvel film for the Russo Brothers, will have a familiar Marvel face. Tom Holland, who worked with the filmmakers on Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, has signed on to star in the film about a former army medic who becomes a bank robber to fuel his drug addiction....

‘A Knight’s Tale’ Director To Bring ‘Button Man’ Movie Adaptation To Netflix By Ben Pearson/March 15, 2019 2:00 pm EST Brian Helgeland, the Oscar-winning writer of L.A. Confidential, is getting back behind the camera to direct for the first time in four years. Helgeland will direct Button Man for Netflix, a film adaptation of a comic about a hired killer who rebels against a bloody underground sport. Drive and The Neon Demon director Nicolas Winding Refn was in talks to direct this back in 2012, but that version never came to light; now Helgeland will direct and Matt Reeves will produce....

‘Aquaman’ Pre-Sales Outpacing ‘Wonder Woman’, But Don’t Expect As Big Of An Opening Weekend By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2018 11:30 am EST Let’s not forget that Aquaman is opening up against some pretty big competition this weekend. Mary Poppins Returns will be in theaters, Bumblebee is also opening this weekend, and the critically acclaimed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is entering its second weekend. That has audience attention spread across a variety of movies....

‘Chopping Mall’ Remake Won’t Feature Killer Robots, Does The World Even Make Sense Anymore? By Chris Evangelista/March 20, 2018 4:00 pm EST A Chopping Mall remake is in the works, and it won’t feature killer robots. I ask you: what kind of world are we raising our children in when a Chopping Mall remake is void of killer robots? In a new interview, director Robert Hall provides an update on his robotless Chopping Mall remake....

/Filmcast Ep. 203 - Argo (GUEST: Alison Willmore From Filmspotting SVU) By Slashfilmcast/Oct. 14, 2012 5:51 pm EST Dave, Devindra, and Adam explain the narrative pleasures of Seven Psychopaths, wonder why Get the Gringo didn’t do a better job of rehabilitating Mel Gibson’s career, and ponder how accurate movies need to be when they’re “based on a true story.” Alison Willmore joins us from Filmspotting SVU. Read more about Argo’s historical accuracy....

/Filmcast Ep. 302 - Blackhat (GUEST: Matt Singer From ScreenCrush) By Slashfilmcast/Jan. 20, 2015 9:10 pm EST David and Devindra discuss this year’s Oscar nominations. Devindra tries to argue Mulder wasn’t that crazy. David goes on a massive rant about Ultraviolet. Matt Singer joins us from ScreenCrush. Be sure to check out Matt’s review of Blackhat, and listen to the SVUvie awards. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

/Filmcast Ep. 515 - Avengers: Endgame By Slashfilmcast/April 26, 2019 7:00 pm EST After twelve years, 21 movies, and a single consequential snap, we are finally in the endgame! David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Patrick H. Willems, host of the Infinity Podcast, to review Avengers: Endgame and reflect on the past, present, and future of Marvel Cinematic Universe. Check out all the rest of the Endgame coverage on /Film....

‘Seadrift’ Is A Documentary About Migrants And Racial Strife In The ’70s – And It Couldn’t Be More Timely By Caroline Cao/July 4, 2019 12:00 pm EST The documentary Seadrift was in the making before Donald Trump’s presidency spread the wildfire of xenophobia and racism throughout the USA. But the 2016 election made it hard for director Tim Tsai to unsee the nearly word-for-word similarities between the archival footage of KKK rallying against the Seadrift Vietnamese refugee community and the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite The Right” rally....

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Featurette: James Cameron Hypes The Sequel To ‘Terminator 2’ By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2019 7:30 am EST This morning, the first teaser trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate arrived online. Since this Terminator sequel is actually bringing back Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger as an aged T-800 cyborg again, producer James Cameron has some explaining to do as to what’s going on with this sequel....

‘The Matrix’ Could Have Starred Sandra Bullock As Neo By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 27, 2019 2:00 pm EST Will Smith wasn’t the only big name to turn down Neo in The Matrix. It turns out there was a whole line of A-list celebrities that Warner Bros. went through before finally settling on Keanu Reeves, who went on to become the face of the multimillion dollar franchise. But that face almost looked completely different — though certainly familiar to Reeves fans....