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Is ‘The Room’ Director Tommy Wiseau Making A Big Shark Movie Called ‘Big Shark’? By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 6, 2019 1:30 pm EST Hey, what do you think Tommy Wiseau has been up to? If you guessed “Making a shark movie,” you are correct. The auteur behind The Room has revealed a look at his new movie, which is called, appropriately enough, Big Shark. The film is set in New Orleans, and focuses on three firefighters trying to save the world…from a big shark....

Liev Schreiber Hosts The Best ‘Saturday Night Live’ Of The Season (So Far) By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2018 9:00 am EST Even though the Showtime series Ray Donovan started all the way back in 2013, apparently it took five years for Lorne Michael to decide that Liev Schreiber deserved a chance to host Saturday Night Live. Even the host himself said that in his dreams he saw this happening a lot earlier in his career....

Marvel And Indian Musician A.R. Rahman Teamed Up For An ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Song – Here’s Why That’s A Big Deal By Siddhant Adlakha/April 1, 2019 2:30 pm EST Avengers: Endgame is a big deal globally. It could gross as much as $800 million worldwide on opening weekend alone, shattering the $640 million record set by its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War. A solid $43 million of Infinity War’s eventual haul was owed to India, where it made nearly three times as much money as Avengers: Age of Ultron and became the highest-earning foreign film and one of the top 20 grossing films in the country — ever....

New ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Trailer Is Now Sony’s Most Viewed Trailer In 24 Hours By Ethan Anderton/May 8, 2019 3:30 pm EST Marvel fans have been buzzing about Spider-Man: Far From Home since the new trailer arrived, revealing the prominence that the multiverse seems to be playing in the plot of the sequel. And if the viewing numbers for the latest trailer are any indication, fans aren’t any less hungry for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after the epic conclusion in Avengers: Endgame....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘Halloween’, ‘First Man’, ‘8MM’, ‘Hell Fest’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 9, 2019 12:00 pm EST It’s 2019, but the films of 2018 are still trickling onto Blu-ray, and I’m here to help you sort through some of them. This week, we examine the Blu release of David Gordon Green’s Halloween, the underrated Neil Armstrong pic First Man, Joel Schumacher’s sleazy Nicolas Cage thriller 8MM, and the indie horror flick Hell Fest....

The Morning Watch: ‘Mary Poppins’ Edition: Honest Trailer, Book Comparison & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 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, in honor of the opening of Mary Poppins Returns, the folks at Honest Trailers take aim at the original Mary Poppins from 1964....

‘22 July’ Featurette Takes You Behind-The-Scenes Of The Intense Paul Greengrass Netflix Film By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 12, 2018 4:30 pm EST Paul Greengrass’ emotionally harrowing 22 July hit Netflix this week, and while it might be a hard film to watch, it might be an important one as well. The movie chronicles Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack, when 77 people were killed when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb before carrying out a mass shooting....

‘American Gods’ Season 2 Featurette: The Old Gods And The New Gods Go To War By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 2, 2019 10:00 am EST The gods walk among us, and they’re about to go to war. Starz has released a new American Gods season 2 featurette that delves into the oncoming war between the Old Gods, led by the enigmatic Wednesday (Ian McShane), and the New Gods, who rule over a people held captive by the media and technology....

‘Annabelle Comes Home’ VR Experience Lets You Explore The Warren Artifact Room By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 2019 2:00 pm EST Annabelle Comes Home hits theaters later this month. But before the haunted doll unleashes even more terror in the household of Ed & Lorraine Warren, you can explore their infamous artifact room, full of items tied to all sorts of evil entities, demons, spirits and more. You can get a glimpse at the new Annabelle Comes Home VR experience below....

‘Burning Cane’ Review: A Hypnotic Southern Fable That Burns Itself Into Your Memory [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 16, 2019 11:00 am EST Burning Cane is a movie that flows over you: It’s less a structured narrative than a series of arcane images, each more beguiling and haunting than the last. The film, which deservedly won the Founders Award for best narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, is an incredible debut for a 19-year-old filmmaker just out of high school — Burning Cane feels like the product of decades lived, of tragedies untold....

‘Easy A’ Spin-Off Movie In Development, Original Film’s Writer To Write And Direct By Ben Pearson/June 21, 2019 4:30 pm EST Emma Stone became a star after her breakout appearance in Superbad back in 2007, but her first major solo lead performance was in the 2010 comedy Easy A, a then-modern riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s literary classic The Scarlet Letter. Now, nearly a decade later, an Easy A spin-off film is officially in the works at Screen Gems....

‘Mortal Engines’ Director Gives A Lame Excuse For Hester’s Sexy Scar By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 12, 2018 3:30 pm EST One of the reasons the Mortal Engines books stand out from the rest of their YA cohorts is because of its heroine’s grotesque facial disfigurement. For every Twilight or Hunger Games whose beautiful brunette saved the world while being at the center of an agonizing love triangle, there was Hester Shaw, who was described as “portrait that had been furiously crossed out,” with her stump of a nose and missing eye....

‘Queer Eye’ Season 4 Trailer: The Fab Five Shows Some School Spirit By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2019 3:00 pm EST Queer Eye is coming back this summer for a fourth season (and a fifth season is on the way). This time, the Fab Five stuck around Kansas City, Missouri after making the move to the Midwest for the show’s third season. And while we’ve learned plenty about co-hosts Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, and Tan France across three seasons, this time we’ll be digging deep into one of the host’s formative years by going back to their high school for a makeover....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Producer Michelle Rejwan Will Now Oversee All Live Action ‘Star Wars’ Productions At Lucasfilm By Ben Pearson/June 17, 2019 3:00 pm EST Michelle Rejwan began her career as an assistant and worked her way up through the ranks to become a producer on this year’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Now her ascent has reached an even higher peak: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has hired Rejwan as the Senior Vice President of Live Action Production and Development at the company....

‘The Grimm Legacy’: Disney+ Has Its Eye On A YA Fantasy Franchise By Ben Pearson/Feb. 5, 2019 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Gleeson, an Irish filmmaker who’s written movies like Don’t Go and Cowboys & Angels, is about to have his most high-profile credit with Tolkien later this year. Right now he’s just attached to write The Grimm Legacy, and no director has been set yet....

‘The LEGO Batman Movie 2’ Is Happening, Says Director Chris McKay By Ben Pearson/Dec. 6, 2018 3:00 pm EST Did anyone else assume that a sequel to 2017’s The LEGO Batman Movie had already been announced? I could have sworn that Warner Animation Group had given a sequel the go-ahead, but it turns out that no announcement ever came through official channels – that is, until director Chris McKay revealed on Twitter that he’s working on The LEGO Batman Movie 2 “right now....

‘The Terror’ Season 2 Director Found, World War II Setting Confirmed By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 17, 2018 4:00 pm EST The Terror season 2 director has been found. Josef Kubota Wladyka, who has helmed episodes of Netflix’s Narcos, will direct the second season of AMC’s historical horror show. As previously reported, the second season will take place during World War II, in a Japanese-American internment camp. The first season was inspired by the true story of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Arctic in the 1800s....

By Ben Pearson/March 5, 2019 1:00 pm EST Hollywood has been sleeping on a Rip Van Winkle movie, but it looks like they’re about to get a wake up call. Cynthia Erivo, who broke out last year in a big way with roles in Steve McQueen’s heist film Widows and Drew Goddard’s period thriller Bad Times at the El Royale, is attached to star in a musical film adaptation of the classic Washington Irving short story....

‘Years & Years’ Trailer: Emma Thompson Is A Divisive Politician In HBO’s Dystopian Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 17, 2019 9:30 am EST A powerful political leader who stokes anti-immigrant fears and weaponizes an increasingly polarized community? Where have we heard that before? Years & Years may be a new HBO limited series that depicts a dystopian near-future in which Emma Thompson plays a charming and controversial government leader who threatens to tear Britain apart, but it feels alarmingly relevant to today’s political landscape....

Ep. 369 - Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping By Slashfilmcast/June 7, 2016 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss the problematic ramifications of Quicksilver, and report on the state of the summer movie wager. Also, Devindra finally has his say about X-Men Apocalypse. Be sure to check out Matt Singer’s rundown of the X-Men timeline and Scott Mendelson’s piece on summer sequels. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....