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By Matt Donato/March 10, 2019 12:40 pm EST Oh yeah, did I mention Long Shot tempts us with the idea of Charlize Theron leading America into a brighter tomorrow? As they’d say in the meme world, “You have my sword.” Theron stars as Secretary of State Charlotte Field, a rockstar politician whose bid for a presidential run is fast-tracked when Bob Odenkirk’s serving POTUS opts out of reelection (in pursuit of his movie career)....

‘The Perfection’ Trailer: Netflix Teases The Craziest Damn Movie You’ll See In 2019 By Jacob Hall/April 15, 2019 11:30 am EST I’m just going to straight with you: you shouldn’t watch the trailer for The Perfection. But you should pencil May 24, 2019 into your calendar because that’s the day this movie drops on Netflix and you should set aside two hours to watch it. And you should know as little as possible....

Too Old to Die Young Trailer Dear Friends! Please allow me to introduce the first trailer for TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG. 🔻👁❤️ See you on Prime Video June 14. 😉 @TOTDYTV #byNWR pic.twitter.com/kl118mhbQK pic.twitter.com/Vyj3GmxH2K — Nicolas Winding Refn (@NicolasWR) April 3, 2019 Well, this looks exactly like my cup of tea. Working with writer Ed Brubaker, Nicolas Winding Refn has cooked up a pulpy, stylish nightmare featuring amoral weirdos inhabiting a dreamy, deadly Los Angeles landscape....

DC Universe’s ‘Swamp Thing’ Casts Will Patton And Virginia Madsen As The Show’s Villains By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 6, 2018 10:30 am EST Meet the Sunderlands. Will Patton and Virginia Madsen have been cast as Avery and Maria Sunderland, respectively, in DC Universe’s upcoming Swamp Thing. The pair will be joining the Swamp Thing cast, which already includes Crystal Reed, and Maria Sten. Deadline reports that the newest residents of DC Universe’s Swamp Thing are Will Patton, recently seen in this year’s Halloween, and Virginia Madsen, who famously tangled with another supernatural monster in Candyman and recently appeared in ABC’s Designated Survivor....

How Does ‘Warner Bros: Horror Made Here’ Compare To Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights & Knotts Scary Farm? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2018 12:00 pm EST Warner Bros is trying to get into the Haloween season horror maze game with Horror Made Here: A Festival of Frights, transforming a portion of their backlot into a small town filled with haunted houses. Over the past five years, I have gotten sucked up in the seasonal haunted maze phenomenon and you may have already read my reports from the events at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights and Knotts Scary Farm here....

New ‘Titans’ And ‘Runaways’ Trailers Give The Young Superheroes The Spotlight By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 1, 2018 11:00 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe are chock-full of mostly adult superheroes, but streaming services are letting the younger roster of super-powered comic book characters take the spotlight. Marvel’s Runaways is returning for a second season on Hulu this winter while Titans is debuting on DC Universe later this month, and two new trailers have arrived to showcase what each of the superhero ensembles have in store for comic book fans....

Nostalgia Reigns As Production Begins On ‘Bill And Ted Face The Music’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 17, 2019 10:30 am EST After long years of rumors and failed talks, the Bill and Ted 3 production begins. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are bringing back the band in Bill & Ted Face the Music, which kicked off production with a gratitude and nostalgia-filled post from Winter, who praised writer Ed Solomon, the writer of the original Bill & Ted movies, for being the rock that holds the bodacious family together....

By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2019 9:30 am EST Yesterday brought the sad news that legendary Star Wars performer Peter Mayhew, the man who brought the Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca to life, had passed away earlier this week. While fans are mourning the loss of one of the sweetest giants Hollywood has ever know, those who knew him best expressed kind words to honor their late friend. Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Kathleen Kennedy, Rian Johnson, J....

This ‘Game Of Thrones’ Character Was Originally Going To Survive The Final Season By Ben Pearson/May 23, 2019 11:30 am EST Death came for a few key players in the final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, but it turns out one character was initially supposed to live through the events of season eight and still be alive when the last episode’s credits rolled. Now Dave Hill, one of the show’s writers, has revealed the identity of that character, and the performer who embodied that character has responded....

TV Bits: ‘Perry Mason’, ‘The Detour’, ‘Accepted’, ‘Away’, ‘She’s Gotta Have It’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ By Chris Evangelista/May 12, 2019 10:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: John Lithgow joins HBO’s Perry Mason reboot. Watch a trailer for the new season of The Detour. Annapurna will produce a series on the college admissions scandal. Hilary Swank will head to space for the Netflix series Away. She’s Gotta Have It season 2 releases its trailer....

Water Cooler: Dracula, LEGO Movie 2, Sixteen Candles, Wayne, Public Enemy, Happy Death Day 2U, Titanic, Isn’t It Romantic?, How To Train Your Dragon, Robin Hood, History Of The Future By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2019 5:30 pm EST On the February 12, 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 writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

What’s Old Is New Again: Ranking The 15 Best Franchise Revivals Of Recent Years By Josh Spiegel/May 31, 2019 12:00 pm EST Reviving old popular culture used to be rare, or at least not terribly common. These days, reviving TV shows and movies for one reason or another is as common as new series themselves. As we all await the return of HBO’s Deadwood with the excellent Deadwood: The Movie (airing this Friday, May 31), it’s time to rank the 15 best revivals of recent TV shows and movies....

‘Age Of Samurai’: Netflix Greenlights Docu-Drama About Japanese Warlord Who May Have Inspired Darth Vader By Ben Pearson/June 14, 2019 5:30 pm EST Netflix has given a greenlight to Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan, a multi-episode docu-drama that follows ancient warlords in feudal Japan. The “stylized drama” will tell the story of the real-life Date Masamune, a legendary warrior who plucked out his own eye and whose armor may have served as an inspiration for Darth Vader’s in the original Star Wars....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Clip: Captain Marvel Wants To Go Take Down Thanos By Ethan Anderton/April 8, 2019 8:30 am EST Last week, Marvel Studios brought some footage from Avengers: Endgame to CinemaCon 2019 for movie theater exhibitors and members of the press to check out. Now you can check out part of the footage that has only been seen be a small group of individuals thanks to an official Avengers Endgame clip that debuted this morning on television....

/Filmcast Ep. 352 - The Finest Hours By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 2, 2016 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss the sad state of American politics, the genius of Louis CK, and the closing of the Ziegfeld theater. 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 What We’ve Been Watching (02:30) David: Trump Rally, An Honest Liar Devindra: Mozart in the Jungle, Fun Home Jeff: Horace and Pete, The Expanse, Mad Dogs (complete) Film News (44:45) The Ziegfeld closes Birth of a Nation wins big Featured Review (1:03:45) The Finest Hours (1:20:30) SPOILERS Credits Our sponsor this week is Casper....

‘Freaks’ Trailer: Emile Hirsch Is An Overly Protective Father In This Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 26, 2019 10:00 am EST Emile Hirsch takes “overprotective father” to the next level in Freaks, a curious sci-fi thriller that reveals very little in its first trailer. Locking his 7-year-old daughter (Lexy Kolker) in their house and boarding up the windows, Hirsch seems to be protecting her from something — but we are kept in the dark about what that is....

‘Hellboy’ Review: One Of The Worst Comic Book Movies Ever Made By Josh Spiegel/April 10, 2019 3:00 pm EST In a word, Hellboy is unpleasant. Other appropriate adjectives to describe this reboot include dreadful, obnoxious, unnecessary, and interminable. Considering the shadow cast by the two Hellboy films written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, it might be easy to presume that this new version simply pales in comparison. Though that’s true, let’s not belabor the point: this Hellboy is quite bad all on its own....

‘Jurassic World’ Is Getting A LEGO Animated Prequel For Some Reason, Watch The Trailer By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2018 12:30 pm EST Just in case Jurassic Park and the two sequels that followed weren’t enough of a prequel to set the stage for Jurassic World, the folks at Universal and NBC created a Jurassic World prequel in the form of a LEGO animated special airing on TV the week after Thanksgiving....

‘Medici: The Magnificent’ Trailer: Sean Bean Navigates Another Conspiring Medieval Family By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 25, 2018 3:00 pm EST Sean Bean in a medieval drama series? What will they think of next! The Game of Thrones actor has found a new scheming medieval family to navigate, except the twist is not that he’s going to die (though that may very well happen) but that Bean is playing the descendent of a character played by his Game of Thrones son, Richard Madden....

‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’ And ‘LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’ Video Games Get Official Trailers By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 10, 2019 7:00 am EST You’ll get two new chances to travel to a galaxy far, far away while sitting on your living room couch thanks to two Star Wars video games that both received new trailers at this year’s E3 video game expo. An official trailer and new gameplay footage for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was released while a brand new LEGO Star Wars game was announced called The Skywalker Saga, promising to cover “all nine films” from the prequels to the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker....