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It’s A Wonderful Life When It’s a Wonderful Life arrived in theaters in 1946, it underperformed at the box office. And yet, over the years, Frank Capra’s holiday-tinged melodrama has become an immortal classic. Even though a large chunk of the movie doesn’t take place during Christmas, repeated TV viewing around Christmas time turned Capra’s film into a popular holiday staple. Despite the film’s popularity, it’s never been available to stream – until now....

‘Lobo’ TV Show Coming To Syfy, Will Be A Spin-Off Of ‘Krypton’ By Ben Pearson/June 12, 2019 2:30 pm EST DC has been trying to make a Lobo movie for years, but the foul-mouthed intergalactic bounty hunter is coming to the small screen first in Krypton season 2. Now a new report says the character will be hanging out in the TV realm for a while longer, because Syfy is developing a Lobo TV show that will function as a spin-off of Krypton....

‘Sesame Street’ Movie Lands ‘Portlandia’ Co-Creator Jonathan Krisel To Direct By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 28, 2018 3:00 pm EST The Muppets had their big theatrical comeback in 2011, now it’s Sesame Street’s turn. Warner Bros. has tapped Portlandia co-creator Jonathan Krisel to direct a live-action Sesame Street movie. More on the Sesame Street movie below.Variety is reporting the news that Jonathan Krisel is the Sesame Street movie director. The movie is described as a musical, with Shawn Levy and Michael Aguilar producing a script from Mike Rosolio and Chris Galletta....

‘The Newsroom’ Could Get A Revival If Aaron Sorkin Stops Being So Busy [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2019 2:30 pm EST UPDATE: Aaron Sorkin has clarified that a revival of The Newsroom isn’t something he’s actively working on, even though it’s something he would love to do. Watch his explanation from The Late Late Show with James Corden.Aaron Sorkin’s cable news drama series The Newsroom ended back in 2014 after only three seasons....

‘Us’ Trailer: Jordan Peele Returns With A New Tale Of Terror By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 25, 2018 6:00 am EST Get Out director Jordan Peele returns to the horror genre with Us, and that should be more than enough to pique your interest. With Get Out, Peele announced himself as an incredible new voice in the horror and thriller genre, and the fact that he’s sticking with that genre for now is exciting....

Alternate ‘Halloween’ Opening Scene Brought Back Dr. Loomis, Just To Kill Him By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2018 10:30 am EST Donald Pleasence’s tortured Dr. Loomis chased Michael Myers on screen for nearly 20 years in the many Halloween sequels, but in the new Halloween, things are different. All the sequels following the first movie are rendered null and void here, which asks a big question: what happened to Dr. Loomis after the end of 1978’s Halloween?...

BBC Polls Critics, Releases 100 Greatest Foreign Films List By Ben Pearson/Oct. 30, 2018 3:30 pm EST Over the past few years, the BBC has conducted polls to discover the 100 greatest American films, 100 greatest comedies, and 100 greatest films of the 21st century. Now they’re at it again, but this time they’ve kicked Hollywood to the curb and instead focused on films that are made in a language other than English....

Billy Zane To Play Marlon Brando In Biopic ‘Waltzing With Brando’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 12, 2019 12:00 pm EST If you uploaded Billy Zane’s face into one of those apps that compare faces to other celebrities’ faces, you’d probably get Marlon Brando. And it seems like Zane himself realized that, because he is set to play the legendary actor himself in Waltzing with Brando, a biopic based on a memoir by Brando’s architect, Bernard Judge....

Mickey: The True Original Exhibition Celebrates 90 Years Of The Head Mouse In Charge By Joi Childs/Nov. 12, 2018 9:00 am EST Walt said it best: it was all started by a mouse. Disney is celebrating their most iconic character in an interactive way, with an 16K square-foot exhibition in NYC called Mickey: The True Original Exhibition that’s a fun commemoration of Mickey’s influence on art and pop culture. Darren Romanelli, curator & creative director of the exhibition, was on hand for press previews of the space, speaking about how this experience came to life: “I have a unique relationship with Mickey Mouse....

Producers Guild Awards Best Picture Win Cements ‘Green Book’ As The Oscar Front-Runner By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 21, 2019 8:30 am EST With its Saturday night ceremony, the Producers Guild of America has effectively crowned Green Book the front-runner for the Best Picture Oscar. Green Book looks most likely to win the Oscar race after it took the top award at the PGA Awards, which historically has been a reliable predictor for the Oscar Best Picture winner....

‘A Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ Review: A Highly Evocative Story Of Love, Lust And Longing [Cannes] By Jason Gorber/June 1, 2019 11:00 am EST A Portrait of a Lady on Fire is, as the title evokes, an artistically rich and provocative film out of Cannes, one where the passions and obsessions of two women ignite in ways rarely seen on screen. A tour-de-force film by director Céline Sciamma, the film is both evocative and enervating, casting a spell on the audience that feels as dreamlike as the Britany seaside location....

‘Booksmart’ Screenwriter Katie Silberman On Crafting A Unique High School Movie And The New Wave Of Romantic Comedies [Interview] By Danielle Solzman/May 23, 2019 12:00 pm EST When I first watched Booksmart during its world premiere at SXSW, I fell in love with this high school comedy in an instant. When we talk about the films that we wished we had while growing up, this is one of them. It feels like an instant classic....

SHOWNOTES What We’ve Been Watching David Chen (06:01): Place Beyond the Pines, Detropia, El Bulli Devindra (19:38): Hannibal, Spring Breakers, Room 237 Joanna (38:50): Mad Men, Top Of The Lake News Stories (48:20) Remembering Roger Ebert Featured Review (58:32) Trance (1:16:16) SPOILERS Credits A big thanks to our sponsor, Audible. Get a free audio book download by going to audiblepodcast.com/Filmcast. Our music sometimes comes from the work of Adam Warrock. You can download our theme song here....

/Filmcast Ep. 341 - Spectre And Beasts Of No Nation (GUEST: Tasha Robinson From Next Picture Show) By Slashfilmcast/Nov. 10, 2015 10:16 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Tasha Robinson from Next Picture Show to discuss the brilliance of Amy, the resilience of The Wolfpack, and WTF is Shia Labeouf doing these days? Be sure to check out Tasha’s interview with Crystal Moselle, why modern movies mistreat twists, and Bob Chipman’s review of Spectre....

By Ben Pearson/Jan. 8, 2019 11:26 am EST HBO hasn’t yet revealed the title of its new Game of Thrones “successor show,” but at least now we know who will direct it. S.J. Clarkson, who is currently slated to become the first woman to direct a Star Trek movie, will be taking a trip to George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world as she directs the pilot for the untitled prequel. And the rest of the main roles in the Game of Thrones prequel cast have been filled as well, so read on to find out who will be starring in the new HBO series....

‘Shaft’ Review: Apart From Samuel L. Jackson, There’s Little To Dig About This Generic Action Sequel By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 13, 2019 7:00 am EST In 2019’s Shaft, the latest film to take on the name of the 1971 Blaxploitation classic, Samuel L. Jackson’s John Shaft II bemoans the softening-up of the younger generation, and their fixation with tight pants, coconut water, and lemon towers. “Men need to be men,” he declares to his straight-laced son John Shaft Jr....

‘Shazam!’ May Be The The Most Positive Superhero Movie Ever Made – But It Has One Serious Failing By Jacob Hall/April 8, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Shazam! is a delightful movie about finding your ideal self – but it fails in one key way.)Shazam! continues the onscreen DC Universe’s pivot to brighter, more joyful entertainment and it does it with a big, goofy grin on its face....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 3 Trailer: Let The Revolution Begin By Ben Pearson/May 1, 2019 9:10 am EST After a bleak second season, Hulu’s acclaimed drama The Handmaid’s Tale is returning this summer, and it looks like June’s (Elisabeth Moss) climactic decision at the end of season 2 is going to pay off in a big way. A new trailer for season 3 has arrived and it seems to herald a change in tone for the show, leaving the misery porn behind and moving into an exciting new phase in which June begins to actually affect some serious change in the oppressive regime of Gilead....

Disney Won’t Debut New ‘Star Wars’ Movies Through Their Streaming Service First By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2019 12:00 pm EST Even though Disney is planning a lot of original content for debut on their forthcoming Disney+ subscription streaming service launching late in 2019, one of their biggest franchises won’t be debuting any new movies there. In a recent interview, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that even though they’re spending big bucks on new projects like The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars series ever, the feature-length adventures from a galaxy far, far away are simply too big to premiere only in their streaming library....

Guillermo Del Toro Writing And Directing Secret Bad Robot Project ‘Zanbato’ By Chris Evangelista/March 1, 2019 11:58 am EST Guillermo del Toro hasn’t set up a live-action directing project since winning an Oscar for The Shape of Water, but it looks like that’s about to change. The filmmaker is writing and directing a movie a for Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot which is said to be about “young female ninja”, although del Toro himself has weighed in to say that’s not 100% accurate....