Lol Family Guy Honors Adam West With A Tribute Video And Overdue Change To Quahog

LOL: ‘Family Guy’ Honors Adam West With A Tribute Video And Overdue Change To Quahog By Ethan Anderton/May 13, 2019 6:00 am EST It’s been nearly two years since Adam West passed away. The actor became famous for playing Batman on TV and the big screen in the 1960s, but in recent years, he may have been better known for playing a wacky version of himself as the mayor of the Rhode Island city of Quahog on the FOX animated series Family Guy....

March 17, 2022 · 4 min · 772 words · William Richter

Peter Jackson S Wwi Documentary They Shall Not Grow Old Expanding To 500 Theaters

Peter Jackson’s WWI Documentary ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Expanding To 500 Theaters By Jacob Hall/Jan. 25, 2019 7:30 am EST Documentaries about World War I don’t exactly set the box office on fire, but Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old bucked that trend. The doc opened late last year as part of a special Fathom Events presentation and proceeded to become the highest grossing release in the company’s history, making over $8 million....

March 17, 2022 · 7 min · 1396 words · Janice Mccain

Stan Lee S Final Video Expresses Love For All His Fans As The Avengers Honor The Marvel Legend

Stan Lee’s Final Video Expresses Love For All His Fans As ‘The Avengers’ Honor The Marvel Legend By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 15, 2018 9:30 am EST Ever since the passing of Stan Lee, tributes have been pouring out all over the place from fans, collaborators, and those who knew the Marvel Comics legend best. But that love went both ways, and a new video of Stan Lee recently surfaced through his official Twitter account that showed how much the co-creator of Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and more cared for all of his fans....

March 17, 2022 · 8 min · 1548 words · Linda Paiva

The Morning Watch Best Movie Trailers Of 2018 24 Hour Bird Box Challenge More

The Morning Watch: Best Movie Trailers Of 2018, 24-Hour ‘Bird Box’ Challenge & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 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, count down the Best Movie Trailers of 2018....

March 17, 2022 · 4 min · 831 words · Lyle Mbonu

The Official Captain Marvel Website Has Been Given A Gloriously 90S Makeover

The Official ‘Captain Marvel’ Website Has Been Given A Gloriously 90s Makeover By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 9, 2019 11:00 am EST Most of the stories in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have taken place in present day. Yes, Captain America: The First Avenger went all the way back to World War II (Thor goes back even further than that if you think about it), and there have been flashbacks to the past across the films here and there....

March 17, 2022 · 9 min · 1792 words · Miranda Riera

Water Cooler Horror Made Here Ireland First Man You Ve Got Mail Searching Halloween Big Mouth The Hate U Give Zelda

Water Cooler: Horror Made Here, Ireland, First Man, You’ve Got Mail, Searching, Halloween, Big Mouth, The Hate U Give, Zelda By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the October 15 2018 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 we’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

March 17, 2022 · 5 min · 936 words · Florence Akers

Alita Battle Angel Makes Big Bucks In International Markets But Is It Enough To Warrant A Sequel

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Makes Big Bucks In International Markets, But Is It Enough To Warrant A Sequel? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2019 4:30 pm EST If Alita: Battle Angel performs along the lines of films like Ready Player One, Terminator Genisys and The Maze Runner (all of which had similarly sized openings in China, as well as the rest of the world), then Forbes says it has a chance of ending up with a global total of $450 million....

March 16, 2022 · 1 min · 195 words · Kathleen Coop

Alita Battle Angel Star Christoph Waltz On Working With Robert Rodriguez And Cinematographer Bill Pope Interview

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Star Christoph Waltz On Working With Robert Rodriguez And Cinematographer Bill Pope [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Feb. 15, 2019 9:00 am EST Alita: Battle Angel isn’t a movie set in the future that’s all about doom and gloom. Director Robert Rodriguez’s grand spectacle tells a story with genuine warmth and kindness, thanks in no small part to the presence of actor Christoph Waltz. Playing Dr. Dyson Ido, who discovers Alita in a heap of trash and jolts her back to life, Waltz helps make Rodriguez’s adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s manga series more heartfelt than a typical studio movie (which Alita: Battle Angel most certainly is not)....

March 16, 2022 · 17 min · 3531 words · Magali Chan

Atlanta Season 3 Is Being Written Right Now But Won T Air In Time For The 2019 Emmys Tca 2019

‘Atlanta’ Season 3 Is Being Written Right Now, But Won’t Air In Time For The 2019 Emmys [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Feb. 4, 2019 11:19 am EST Atlanta has become Donald Glover’s most popular creative endeavor, and that’s saying a lot considering his music career and his roles in Community and Solo: A Star Wars Story. It takes a lot longer for him to produce a season of Atlanta though, because Glover creates, produces, cowrites and stars on the show....

March 16, 2022 · 4 min · 750 words · Sarah Kretschmer

Filmcast Ep 126 Monsters Guest Matt Singer From Ifc News

/Filmcast Ep. 126 - Monsters (GUEST: Matt Singer From IFC News) By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 7, 2010 9:51 pm EST This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss the prospects of Jodie Foster’s Beaver, ponder a Buffy reboot, wonder if Mark Wahlberg can fill in for Nolan North, and mourn the passing of some amazing cinematic talents. Special guest Matt Singer joins us from IFC News. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

March 16, 2022 · 2 min · 354 words · Danny Haynes

Love Death And Robots Renewed For A Second Season At Netflix

‘Love, Death And Robots’ Renewed For A Second Season At Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 10, 2019 1:30 pm EST Tim Miller and David Fincher’s offbeat animated anthology series Love, Death and Robots has been renewed for another season at Netflix. The experimental anthology series will be telling more violent and sexy sci-fi tales for a second season, this time with Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3 director Jennifer Yuh Nelson working as the supervising director....

March 16, 2022 · 5 min · 990 words · John Simpson

She Ra And The Princesses Of Power Season 2 Trailer Netflix S Powerful Animated Series Is Back

‘She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power’ Season 2 Trailer: Netflix’s Powerful Animated Series Is Back By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 1, 2019 1:00 pm EST She-Ra and the Princesses of Power reigned as one of Netflix’s best animated series last year, thanks to the fresh take on the ’80s cartoon and the complex, layered relationships between the show’s many female characters. From princesses Adora (Aimee Carrero), Glimmer (Karen Fukuhara), Perfuma (Genesis Rodriguez) and Mermista (Vella Lovell) to Adora’s former best friend-turned-enemy Catra (AJ Michalka), She-Ra fans weren’t left wanting for rich and varied depictions of all kinds of women....

March 16, 2022 · 7 min · 1343 words · Foster Hooker

Netflix Film Spiderhead Will Be Helmed By Top Gun 2 And Tron Legacy Director Joseph Kosinski

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 1, 2019 4:00 pm EST Joseph Kosinski is currently directing Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, but as soon as he’s done with that, he’s flying on over to Netflix. Kosinski has been tapped to helm Spiderhead, a sci-fi film from Deadpool and Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Based on a George Saunders short story, Spiderhead focuses on convicts in the near-future who agree to become test subjects for scientific experiments in exchange for reduced prison sentences....

March 16, 2022 · 4 min · 659 words · Janet Sharick

Rami Malek Talks About His Bond 25 Villain And The Condition He Had For Taking The Role

Rami Malek Talks About His ‘Bond 25’ Villain And The Condition He Had For Taking The Role By Ben Pearson/July 3, 2019 11:30 am EST Oscar winner Rami Malek is parlaying his Bohemian Rhapsody success into franchise movie stardom, taking the role of a shady villain in the still-untitled James Bond 25. All we knew about the bad guy so far came from the official press release, which referred to him as “a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology,” but now Malek is giving us a few more details about his character....

March 16, 2022 · 6 min · 1237 words · Judith Coulson

Sequel Bits Avatar Toy Story 4 Glass Bird Box The Amityville Murders Mallrats 2 The Lego Movie 2 Mary Poppins Rambo 5

Sequel Bits: ‘Avatar’, ‘Toy Story 4’, ‘Glass’, ‘Bird Box’, ‘The Amityville Murders,’ ‘Mallrats 2’, ‘The LEGO Movie 2’, ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Rambo 5’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 12, 2019 10:00 am EST While it often feels as if Avatar has been forgotten, the movie did $2.6 billion worldwide, so obviously people care about it. Will the sequels do as well? We’ll see. The first one is due out December 18, 2020. “The new ones are a continuation of the former one, so the characters will become more familiar because they’ve only been in one movie…I can’t get into all the details, but there’s obviously character development and story development as part of Avatar 2 and 3....

March 16, 2022 · 6 min · 1184 words · Douglas Haugen

Superhero Bits Young Justice Synopses Entourage Helps Promote Aquaman More

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Young Justice’ Synopses, ‘Entourage’ Helps Promote ‘Aquaman’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2018 6:00 pm EST Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel topped IMDb’s list of their users’ most anticipated movies of 2019.Shazam director David F. Sandberg praised Aquaman for having some “spectacular action and visuals.” Here’s a new clip from the upcoming premiere of the fifth and final season of Gotham, coming early on in 2019....

March 16, 2022 · 2 min · 385 words · David Richert

Watch Ant Man And The Wasp Ride Videos From Hong Kong Disneyland

Watch: ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Ride Videos From Hong Kong Disneyland By Ben Pearson/March 29, 2019 10:48 am EST Earlier this year, we saw some official footage from a new Marvel-themed attraction called Ant-Man and the Wasp: Nano Battle! in Hong Kong Disneyland. But now that the attraction has opened its doors to the public, several Ant-Man and the Wasp ride videos have popped up that give us a closer look....

March 16, 2022 · 6 min · 1264 words · Rusty Rosasco

Aladdin Review A Well Meaning But Hollow Remake Of A Classic

‘Aladdin’ Review: A Well-Meaning But Hollow Remake Of A Classic By Josh Spiegel/May 22, 2019 7:00 am EST At a crucial juncture in the new live-action Aladdin, our eponymous hero is in the puffed-up guise of a fancy prince, supposedly encountering the comely Princess Jasmine for the first time. In reality, though, they’ve met before even as Aladdin is trying to pretend otherwise. In this moment, Aladdin is hopelessly tongue-tied, desperate to please but failing at just about every moment, valiant effort aside....

March 15, 2022 · 9 min · 1834 words · Stella Boucher

Aquaman Is Officially Completed James Wan Announces

‘Aquaman’ Is Officially Completed, James Wan Announces By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 5, 2018 8:30 am EST A month before its theatrical release, Aquaman is finally complete. Director James Wan has confirmed the completion of post-production for the latest DC superhero adventure. An exhausted James Wan took to Instagram to confirm that the two-year production of Aquaman is officially over, and that he’s going to take a very long nap. The last few months have been dedicated to polishing the visual effects for the Jason Momoa superhero film, for which Wan thanked his VFX, editorial, and sound teams for working “tirelessly” in his Instagram post:...

March 15, 2022 · 6 min · 1143 words · Roberta Graser

Beanpole Review An Unflinching Unforgettable Experience Cannes

‘Beanpole’ Review: An Unflinching, Unforgettable Experience [Cannes] By Jason Gorber/June 10, 2019 12:00 pm EST Kantemir Balagov’s bleak, brilliant Beanpole tells a very different story about the aftermath of the Second World War than what we’re used to seeing. Few countries were more violently affected than the Soviet Union, and this tale of the effect on the postbellum populace does justice to the scars left by the conflagration. The result is an emotionally shattering portrayal of two women and their struggles to adjust to their civilian lives....

March 15, 2022 · 6 min · 1096 words · Frank Russell