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‘Swamp Thing’ Showrunner Mark Verheiden Says Cutting Episodes Didn’t Change The Season [Interview] By Fred Topel/May 31, 2019 7:00 am EST Swamp Thing is not Mark Verheiden’s first comic book adaptation. He wrote the screenplay for Timecop, based on his own comic, and the screenplay for The Mask. He also wrote for Daredevil on Netflix. Now he is running DC Universe’s Swamp Thing alongside Gary Dauberman.Verheiden spoke with /Film by phone this week....

‘The Christmas Chronicles’ Trailer: Take Another Look At Kurt Russell’s Hot Santa By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 1, 2018 10:00 am EST Halloween has passed and we’re officially into November, which means only one thing: it’s Christmas time, friends. Break out the ugly holiday sweaters and get ready for a jaunt with Kurt Russell as hot Santa Claus, because Netflix is already tapping into the Christmas season frenzy by releasing another The Christmas Chronicles trailer....

‘The Wrong Man’ Review: Ross Golan’s Music Is Set To Animation In A Promising Cinematic Experiment [Tribeca] By Caroline Cao/May 1, 2019 4:00 pm EST Tribeca Review: The Wrong Man Animated Film Wavers in Its Vision Against Ross Golan’s Exalted SoundtrackI came into The Wrong Man blind to the context, as this was my intro to the voice and sound of multi-platinum musician Ross Golan and the vision of co-director and animator John Hwang....

‘Wonder Woman 3’ Could End A Trilogy For Director Patty Jenkins By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 25, 2019 7:00 am EST In an interview with Vanity Fair for her new TNT limited series I Am the Night, starring Wonder Woman star Chris Pine, Jenkins revealed that she has already started sketching out plans for the third entry in Diana Prince’s big screen adventures: We’re still more than a year out from the release of Wonder Woman 1984, but Jenkins appears to already have a plot for Wonder Woman 3 in mind....

Disney To Reboot ‘Beauty And The Beast’ On Broadway By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 6, 2019 4:00 pm EST It’s a tale as old as time that Disney can’t get enough of rebooting its wildly popular properties on the screen and on the stage. Disney Theatrical is developing a revival of the Broadway musical that kicked off the 25-year era of the stageplay subsidiary of the House of Mouse: Beauty and the Beast....

How Noomi Rapace Almost Died Filming ‘Close’ (And The Cameras Weren’t Even Rolling) [Interview] By Fred Topel/Jan. 16, 2019 9:00 am EST Swedish actor Noomi Rapace went international when the original Swedish productions of the Girl WIth The Dragon Tattoo trilogy caught on around the world. Now she’s been in Hollywood productions like Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and three films for Netflix, including this week’s Close. In Close, Rapace plays Sam, a bodyguard for Zoe (Sophie Nelisse), the daughter of a mining company CEO....

Now There’s A New ‘Emma’ Adaptation On The Way With ‘Split’ Star Anya Taylor-Joy By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2018 11:00 am EST If you’re not a classic literature fan, then you may not be familiar with Emma, a novel written by Jane Austen. The book was adapted into a film of the same name starring Gwyneth Paltrow in 1996, however, the year before it was adapted in a much different fashion in the form of the generation-defining high school comedy Clueless....

Road To Endgame: ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Breaks From The Marvel Formula, But Does It Matter To The Larger MCU? By Siddhant Adlakha/April 22, 2019 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Endgame, where we revisit the first 22 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask, “How did we get here?” In this edition: Ant-Man and the Wasp is an easy, breezy, meaningless entry.)As the Marvel Cinematic Universe increases in bombast, it needs the occasional palette-cleanser....

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Take A Tour Of Batuu Without Any Of Those Pesky Other People Around By Ethan Anderton/June 6, 2019 2:00 pm EST All of this talk about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge might be resulting in a little bit of heartache if you’re not among the first people to be heading to the Disneyland theme park expansion in its first month of operation. Or maybe you’re just sick of hearing about it altogether....

Star Wars Bits: Warwick Davis Returns, Resistance Hits Our Screens, And Photos From The Episode IX Set Hit The Web By Rosie Knight/Oct. 14, 2018 1:00 pm EST This time on Star Wars Bits: Warwick Davis shares his Expanded Universe dreams Star Wars Resistance’s Christopher Sean talks representation The first (alleged) photos from the set of Episode IX leak You can take home Luke Skywalker on Crait And much, much more… Star Wars Resistance has hit our screens and it’s an utterly lovely escape....

Superhero Bits: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ In Claymation, ‘Hellboy’ Comes To Blu-Ray & More By Ethan Anderton/June 12, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see a claymation Guardians of the Galaxy short? How can Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel teach your kids about language? Is a Batman 80th anniversary mural coming to your city? When does the Hellboy reboot come to home video? What does Macaualay Culkin say about rumors of him playing The Joker?...

The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - Making A Reality Show About Filmmaking (GUESTS: Chris Moore And Josh Shader From The Chair) By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 19, 2015 8:25 pm EST David speaks with producers Chris Moore (American Pie, Good Will Hunting) and Josh Shader about what it was like to make the Starz original series The Chair. They discuss advice for first-time filmmakers, what it’s like to feel Zachary Quinto’s wrath, the difficulty of getting indie films seen, and how they might approach The Chair: Season 2 differently....

‘A Star Is Born’ Returning To Theaters With New Music And New Footage By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 27, 2019 12:00 pm EST A Star Is Born was nominated for eight Oscars last weekend, but it only walked away with one for Best Original Song. However, performance of “Shallow” by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga was one of the biggest moments of the night. Now, Warner Bros. Pictures is going to ride that wave with an extended cut of the film being released in theaters with new footage and new music....

‘Diamantino’ Review: A Surrealist Celebrity Romp About… Everything? [NYFF] By Siddhant Adlakha/Oct. 5, 2018 11:00 am EST The New York Film Festival’s Projections section is filled to the brim with the avant-garde, and this year’s lineup is no exception. Tsai Ming-liang’s Your Face is composed entirely of silent close-ups, while Albert Serra’s Roi Soleil is an hour of King Louis XIV moaning and writhing. The former feels like a museum exhibit; the latter is a filmed version of one....

‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Remains A Powerful Parable About How We Remember Those We Love And Those We Lose By Leigh Monson/April 9, 2019 9:00 am EST (To celebrate the release of Missing Link, we’re revisiting the stop-motion animated films of Laika this week and discussing why they’re so special. Today: Kubo and the Two Strings is a moving parable of love and remembrance.)Memory is a fragile, fickle, formative thing....

‘Narcos: Mexico’ Trailer Shows The Origins Of The Drug War By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 9, 2018 3:00 pm EST Narcos continues with the prequel/spin-off Narcos: Mexico. The hit Netflix series goes back to the beginning to reveal the start of the drug war in the 1980s. Michael Peña and Diego Luna star in the show, which tracks the Guadalajara Cartel in the ’80s as it brings together traffickers and slowly amasses an empire....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Clip: Miles Morales Takes A Leap Of Faith By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 12, 2018 2:30 pm EST Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is as good as you’ve heard, and maybe even better. It’s a colorful, emotional, action-packed animated film with a real heart, and it might just be the best Spider-Man movie yet. The hype for Spider-Verse already feels like it’s through the roof, so you probably don’t need anything extra to get your butt in the theater....

‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: ‘Attack The Block’ Director Joe Cornish Returns With A Perfectly Fine Family Adventure By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 21, 2019 7:00 am EST An old-fashioned streak of adventure runs throughout The Kid Who Would Be King, a riff on the King Arthur legend gussied up for modern times. It’s a decent enough family film, largely dependent on the charm of its young cast, that manages to be slightly disappointing only if you recognize the name of its writer/director....

‘The Kitchen’ Trailer: This Crime Drama Starring Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, And Melissa McCarthy Is No Laughing Matter By Ben Pearson/May 30, 2019 11:15 am EST For a film starring two of Hollywood’s most high-profile comedians, there’s not much to laugh at in The Kitchen. Anyone looking for the physical comedy we’ve come to associate with Melissa McCarthy or the over-the-top antics we often expect from Tiffany Haddish should look elsewhere, because this 1970s mob thriller teams them with Elisabeth Moss and trades jokes for straight-faced, no-nonsense drama....

‘The Nutcracker And The Four Realms’ Review: An Uneven But Delightfully Oddball Fairy Tale Adventure By Karen Han/Oct. 31, 2018 5:00 pm EST Whatever algorithm it is through which modern Disney movies are made (young women whose smarts are demonstrated by a penchant for tinkering, a missing parent, dubious authority figures, a cast peppered with recognizable stars), it’s hit a high point with The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. Though the film occasionally descends into the same CGI soup that made the recent Beauty and the Beast so baffling, it manages to keep a firmer grip on reality — which means that its flights into fancy are that much more of a delight....