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Susanne Bier Will Direct ‘The Undoing’ Limited Series, Starring Nicole Kidman By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2018 4:30 pm EST Susanne Bier, director of The Night Manager and the upcoming Bird Box, will direct Nicole Kidman in HBO’s The Undoing limited series. This will be Kidman’s second starring role in a limited HBO series, following her work on Big Little Lies. Appropriately enough, Big Little Lies writer David E. Kelley will also be writing The Undoing, a mystery based on the novel You Should Have Known....

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 127 - Lying About Movies (GUEST: Katey Rich From Cinemablend) By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 20, 2010 7:34 am EST The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient audio file....

The Morning Watch: ‘Jurassic World’ Fallen Kingdom’ VFX, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Is ‘Footloose’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 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. In this edition, take a closer look at the impressive digital dinosaurs of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom....

Video: Unboxing ‘Batman: Gotham City Chronicles’, The Greatest Batman Board Game Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2019 8:30 am EST Last year, Monolith Games took to Kickstarter to launch a new Batman miniatures board game called Batman: Gotham City Chronicles. I was a backer of the project, and I was certainly not alone as the project had nearly 20,000 backers, collecting a grand total of $4.4 million. A year has passed and over the weekend, a humongous package arrived at my door....

‘Cold Pursuit’ Clip: Don’t Try To Best Liam Neeson By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 3, 2019 1:00 pm EST The lesson in all Liam Neeson movies seem to be: don’t underestimate Liam Neeson. But many men do, and it ends in them getting their heads brutally bashed in by the gravelly-voiced vengeance-seeker. Neeson has another cold weather thriller on his hands with Cold Pursuit, a remake of a 2014 Norwegian black comedy titled In Order of Disappearance....

‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile’ Trailer: Zac Efron Becomes Ted Bundy By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2019 4:30 pm EST Zac Efron gives what is undoubtedly the performance of his career in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Efron plays notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in a film that attempts to show how Bundy manipulated those closest to him into believing he was a perfectly normal, perfectly nice guy. Netflix scooped up the film at Sundance, and will bring it to viewers this May....

/Filmcast Ep. 322 - Jurassic World By Slashfilmcast/June 13, 2015 3:01 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss Rodney Ascher’s latest documentary, praise the brilliance of the hard-to-obtain Borgen and assess the viral sensation of Kung Fury. Special guest Joanna Robinson joins us from Vanity Fair. Be sure to read Joanna’s interview with BD Wong and why the wardrobe of Jurassic World matters. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

/Filmcast Ep. 469 – Solo: A Star Wars Story By Slashfilmcast/May 25, 2018 2:00 pm EST You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook. Listen and Subscribe Below: Featured ReviewSolo: A Star Wars StoryCredits: Editing assistance for this episode was provided by Brian Davids. Our music sometimes comes from the work of Adam Warrock....

‘Frozen 2’ Says “Let It Go” To Its Original Release Date By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 1, 2018 1:30 pm EST Good news for people who have been waiting a very long time for Frozen 2: you’ll get to see it slightly sooner than expected. The animated Disney sequel has bumped its release date up a week, which isn’t really the biggest release date change, but it’s better than nothing. The film follows the smash 2013 animated hit Frozen, which lodged the song “Let It Go” in everyone’s brains like a parasite....

‘On The Basis Of Sex’ Review: A Competent Case For Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Icon, But Not The Human Being By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 24, 2018 9:00 am EST There’s a scene in almost every teen TV drama where the teacher describes the theme of the episode that will come to pass over the next 45 minutes. The majority of On the Basis of Sex is like that. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic stars Felicity Jones as the trailblazing lawyer who later becomes one of our foremost Supreme Court justices and only the second female Supreme Court justice in history....

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Engages Michael Chabon As Official Showrunner By Chris Evangelista/June 27, 2019 10:00 am EST It was previously announced that Star Trek: Picard wouldn’t have a traditional showrunner, but instead be managed by an entire team. That’s changed. Writer Michael Chabon has been named the official showrunner of the CBS All Access series, which finds Patrick Stewart returning to the iconic role he originated on Star Trek: The Next Generation....

‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Follow-Up To ‘Get Out’ Is A Frightening And Relevant Tale Of Terror By Joi Childs/March 9, 2019 7:38 am EST At the SXSW Premiere of US, director/writer/producer Jordan Peele reflected on going beyond the standard horror beats. “I love horror” he mused about the conventions of the genre and what inspires him. “At the same time, who cares?” he said to laughs.This perfectly captures what US does: it’s a carelessness to how Peele approaches the story, but not in a lazy or disrespectful way....

By Ben Pearson/Nov. 2, 2018 3:30 pm EST The studio is looking for data-driven connections here: if audiences have previously seen action films with male leads, are they more likely to see another action film with a male lead? Using the trailer for Logan, Merlin discovered that these were the most common labels: But they’re not just concerned with what appears in the trailers – they’re also looking at when it appears, and for how long:...

Disney CinemaCon 2019 Footage Reaction: Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story 4, Aladdin, The Lion King, And More By Ben Pearson/April 3, 2019 6:04 pm EST On the April 3, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson to discuss all the footage and trailers they saw during the Walt Disney Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2019. Footage screened includes Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story 4, Aladdin, The Lion King, and more....

Great, Bob! Damon Lindelof’s ‘Watchmen’ Casts ‘Mad Men’ Actor James Wolk By Ben Pearson/Nov. 7, 2018 7:30 am EST The former Mad Men actor – Wolk was famously on the receiving end of Vincent Kartheiser’s meme-worthy “Not great, Bob!” zinger, hence the headline of this article – is the latest to join the cast of HBO’s Watchmen. LOST creator Damon Lindelof is “remixing” the iconic superhero graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons for the small screen, and Wolk has joined a sprawling cast as a major recurring character....

Interview: ‘The Neon Demon’ Director Nicolas Winding Refn On Narcissism And The Essence Of Creativity By Jack Giroux/June 30, 2016 7:00 am EST Nicolas Winding Refn’s name appears many times in The Neon Demon, in both the opening and closing credits. But even if his name weren’t mentioned, nobody would mistake this darkly funny horror movie as anything but a Refn film. This time around, however, the director behind Only God Forgives, Drive, and Bronson tells a story from a woman’s perspective — which is a first in his career....

Jeremy Renner Turned Down A Role In Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Hellboy’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 8, 2019 5:00 pm EST Before he was the one “useless” superhero in Marvel’s The Avengers, Jeremy Renner could have played another belittled character in another superhero movie. The Avengers: Endgame actor revealed that he had turned down a major role in Guillermo del Toro’s first Hellboy movie, and that he has “zero regrets” over it. But no, it wasn’t Hellboy....

MoviePass Shutting Down For Several Weeks For Maintenance, Regal Cinemas Finally Starts Their Own Subscription By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2019 11:00 am EST Back in April, we heard that the movie ticket subscription service MoviePass had lost 90% of their subscribers after all the problems they’ve had over the past year or so. The company claimed these numbers were false, but they’ve yet to prove otherwise. However, even though Sinemia has shut down entirely after facing similar business problems, MoviePass still clings to life, but as of now, they won’t be available for several weeks due to maintenance that will reportedly improve the company’s mobile app....

By Chris Evangelista/June 24, 2019 4:30 pm EST Having already worked with Hulu for Catch-22, George Clooney now wants in on that Netflix action. Clooney will direct and star in Good Morning, Midnight, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film destined for the streaming service. The film will be adapted from the 2016 sci-fi novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton about a scientist in the Arctic trying to make contact with a spacecraft returning to Earth....

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Concept Art Gives Us A Look At Resistance And First Order Shops By Ben Pearson/April 5, 2019 5:00 pm EST At this point, we pretty much know what to expect from Disney’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. We’ve detailed their two big attractions, the Millennium Falcon ride and Rise of the Resistance (the latter of which won’t be operational when the new land first opens). But as we approach this summer’s grand opening, we’re starting to see a bit more of the minutiae from inside the park....