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Michael Keaton To Play Tech Giant John McAfee In ‘King Of The Jungle,’ Replacing Johnny Depp By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 29, 2018 10:30 am EST Hopefully you won’t have to update your computer in order to see the true story of tech giant John McAfee in a new project called King of the Jungle that will be directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You, Phillip Morris). That might not sound all that exciting on the surface, but Michael Keaton is on board to play McAfee in a movie that is being described as more of a dark comedy than a traditional biopic....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘A Star Is Born’, ‘Widows’, ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘The Sisters Brothers’, ‘Robin Hood’ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 19, 2019 3:00 pm EST This week’s Blu-ray round-up features not one, but two highly underrated films from 2018 – a heist flick and a Western. You’ll also find a big Hollywood musical, two very different Disney films, and yet another reboot of Robin Hood. These are the new Blu-ray releases and their special features you should check out this week and beyond....

The Morning Watch: Questioning M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’, ‘Pet Sematary’ Comparison & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 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, some important questions are asked about M....

The Oscars 2019 Honest Trailer: Which Best Picture Winner Will Upset People This Year? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 22, 2019 6:00 am EST This weekend brings the 91st Academy Awards to ABC, and it’s probably going to be a complete disaster. Not only is there no host for the ceremony, but The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pissed everyone off by cutting a few awards from the live broadcast (only to reinstate them in the show)....

This Week In Trailers: To Dust, Piercing, The Vanishing, Arctic, American Renegades By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 24, 2018 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

VOTD: A Hollywood Stuntman Reacts To ‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’, ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ & More By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2019 6:00 am EST Imagine being able to work alongside Hollywood’s biggest stars, but no one knows your name and almost never sees your face. This is the life of a stuntman, and if they do their job right, then you end up believing that your favorite movie stars just jumped onto a train, got smashed through a window, or flipped a car on the highway....

‘Brightburn’ Director David Yarovesky On How His Mother Inspired This Superhero Horror Movie [Interview] By Eric Vespe/May 22, 2019 1:00 pm EST This weekend sees the release of Brightburn, a movie that flew mostly under the radar until they dropped their first trailer and people realized the little genre movie James Gunn was producing was a superhero horror film.Gunn’s longtime friend and protege David Yarovesky directed Brightburn from a script by Brian and Mark Gunn and they all aimed to do something new in the both the horror and superhero landscapes....

‘Child’s Play’ Remake Makes Chucky More Sympathetic, If That’s Something You’re Interested In By Chris Evangelista/May 22, 2019 4:30 pm EST Sympathetic villains can often be intriguing, but sometimes you just can’t beat a straight-up-evil antagonist. While watching the films in the original Child’s Play franchise, I never once stopped and thought, “I sure wish Chucky were more sympathetic!” But that’s apparently exactly what we’re getting in the upcoming Child’s Play remake, at least according to Lars Klevberg....

‘Deadwood’ Movie Begins Production With Original Cast Returning By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 5, 2018 10:00 am EST Tell your god to ready for blood, because it’s finally happening. HBO has announced the Deadwood movie has officially begun production, and the original cast is returning. There have been talks of a Deadwood movie ever since the original show went off the air in 2006. As the years ticked on, it seemed less and less likely that we’d ever return to the foul-mouth world of David Milch’s anti-Western....

/Filmcast Ep. 387 - The Birth Of A Nation By Slashfilmcast/Oct. 11, 2016 8:00 pm EST David and Devindra tussle over the journalistic merits of Netflix’s Amanda Knox while Jeff reviews HBO’s fall line-up and impugns David’s television tastes. You can watch David’s video review of Birth of a Nation, and read up on the controversy behind The Birth of a Nation, as well as the recent controversy within the film community itself....

/Filmcast Ep. 59 - Brüno (GUEST: Eric D. Snider) By Slashfilmcast/July 15, 2009 1:46 pm EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley praise the choice of Ryan Reynolds for The Green Lantern, finally get around to discussing some big changes to the Oscar nomination process, and analyze the social experiment that is Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno. Prolific online critic Eric D. Snider joins us for our review....

/Filmcast Ep. 66 - Gamer (GUEST: Jordan Hoffman From UGO) By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 8, 2009 5:45 pm EST In this week’s /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley reflect on the prospect of a fifth Rambo film, assess the merits of Mike Judge’s Extract and Robert Siegel’s Big Fan, and try to dissect the Boondock Saints phenomenon. Special guest Jordan Hoffman joins us from UGO Movieblog. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Teaser Has No New Footage, But Hints At The War To Come By Ben Pearson/Dec. 6, 2018 2:23 pm EST Ready to head back to Westeros? Of course you are, and HBO knows it. In fact, they know you’re so ready that they’re out here dropping a Game of Thrones season 8 teaser that has absolutely zero live-action footage in it. This isn’t a stirring recap of the show’s best moments, a sneak peek at a familiar character, or even a voiceover with a line from the new season....

‘Ghostbusters’ 2020 Sequel Confirmed To Bring Back Original Cast Members By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 8, 2019 6:52 pm EST Jason Reitman’s upcoming Ghostbusters may be introducing a new generation of proton pack-wielding ghost hunters, but the director knows that there will always be a group of actors that audiences are always going to call. At the first-ever Ghostbusters Fan Fest, Reitman cryptically hinted that several of the 1984 film’s legacy cast members will be reprising their roles as part of the 2020 Ghostbusters sequel cast....

‘Stranger Things’ Returning To Halloween Horror Nights 2019 With New Mazes By Ben Pearson/March 27, 2019 12:00 pm EST We just hit the first day of spring, but Universal Studios is already looking ahead to the fall. The company announced that the hit Netflix series Stranger Things is making its triumphant return to Halloween Horror Nights this year, and a new teaser video is here to prove it. And while last year’s mazes were focused on the show’s first season, this year’s will be inspired by seasons two and three....

‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Could Lose Up To $50 Million At The Box Office By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 29, 2019 2:00 pm EST Only a month into 2019, The Kid Who Would Be King marks the lowest launch for a wide-release from a major studio this year. According to Variety, rival studios estimate that the fantasy-adventure could lose around $50 million, taking marketing and production costs into account. That’s a big hit to Cornish, on whom anticipation was riding high for his second feature after the critically acclaimed sci-fi hit Attack the Block....

By Ethan Anderton/July 12, 2019 9:30 am EST Earlier this year, we got one hell of a sneak peek at the first live-action Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian. The project is coming to Disney+ when the new streaming subscription services launches this fall, and it sounds like Lucasfilm and Disney are banking on this being a big hit for them before it even debuts, because writer and executive producer Jon Favreau is already hashing out what will happen in The Mandalorian season 2....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Will Feature The Return Of Jai Courtney As Captain Boomerang By Ben Pearson/March 29, 2019 2:24 pm EST Last we heard, Aquaman and Shazam! producer Peter Safran was on record saying that Warner Bros. and DC’s The Suicide Squad is going to be a “total reboot”, separate from David Ayer’s 2016 original movie. But wouldn’t you know it, Captain Boomerang has drunkenly crashed into this story to confuse things all over again....

Apple And Netflix Are Making Deals With Major Studios – And Reshaping Hollywood By Ben Pearson/Nov. 27, 2018 5:00 pm EST In the wake of production company A24 (the company behind movies like Moonlight, Lady Bird, Hereditary, and Spring Breakers) teaming up with Apple to produce movies for the tech giant, Paramount Pictures has now signed a multi-picture deal to produce movies for Netflix. Read on for how these two deals are defying conventional wisdom from other studios and how they could upend Hollywood from the inside....

Daily Podcast: ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Spoiler Discussion By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 2, 2019 5:30 pm EST On the January 2, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista, to talk about the new Netflix choose-your-own-adventure original movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.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)....