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Don’t Believe The Bad Takes: 2018 Has Been A Great Year For Horror Movies By Matt Donato/Nov. 13, 2018 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: don’t believe the hype – 2018 did not kill the horror genre. And why do we have to have this conversation every year?) Blame a man’s foolhardy optimism, but part of me believed 2018 would close without an obscene end-of-year horror genre hot take shouted from left field....

Hip-Hop Is Coming For ‘Game Of Thrones’: The Weeknd, SZA, Travis Scott Collaborating For Season 8 Soundtrack [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 10, 2019 8:56 am EST Rumors of the song recently circulated on Reddit, as well as a Travis Scott fan page, but little is known about the track other than that. The last time a contemporary artist performed a song for the show was “The Rains of Castermere,” which was a song composed by show composer Ramin Djawadi and covered by indie rock band The National, whose version played in the credits of that fateful episode (you know the one)....

Kevin Feige Says Marvel Studios Will Bring Longform Narratives To Disney’s Streaming Service By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2018 1:00 pm EST While fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are rabid with curiosity about what Avengers 4 will bring to the big screen next summer, they’re also wondering about the growing slate of Marvel Studios programming that is being developed for Disney’s upcoming streaming service. Thankfully, Kevin Feige has provided a little bit of insight, albeit cryptically and vaguely....

Sequel Bits: ‘John Wick’, ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Pitch Perfect’, ‘21 Jump Street’, ‘Top Gun’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Fight Club’, ‘The Marine’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 6, 2018 11:00 am EST Behold! Keanu Reeves riding a horse! This is an official image from John Wick Chapter 3, which will once again have Keanu Reeves’ John Wick killing a whole bunch of people while wearing a cool suit. John Wick Chapter 2 ended with John breaking the rules of the hitman hotel The Continental, which made him a marked man....

Russian Doll Where To Watch: NetflixEveryone in their mother is talking about Russian Doll, and I’m no different. Though it took me a bit longer to catch up than most people who binged it that first weekend, I have a good reason: I’m a lifelong Natasha Lyonne fan and have battled many of the same issues she has both on the show and real life. Knowing that it would hit close to home meant I needed to save it for a time when I wasn’t feeling so vulnerable....

Star Wars Episode 9 Title: What Should It Be? And When Can We Expect It? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2019 12:00 pm EST It all started on Monday when Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels tweeted out a vague message hinting that news was on the horizon. Since we expect the first trailer for Star Wars Episode 9 to be released during Star Wars Celebration (taking place from April 11 through 15 at McCormick Place in Chicago), we didn’t expect a trailer....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To More Great And Awful CG, Russo Brothers Career Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 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....

Universal’s Jurassic World Ride Will React To Actual Weather Changes; Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, And BD Wong To Reprise Their Roles By Ben Pearson/May 23, 2019 12:30 pm EST Universal Studios Hollywood’s Jurassic Park attraction was in dire need of an upgrade, and it’s finally getting one in the form of Jurassic World – The Ride, a revamped version of the old attraction which will incorporate elements from the new movies....

‘Alien’ Designer H.R. Giger’s Insane Unused Batmobile Concept Brought To Life In 3D Model [Updated] By Ben Pearson/May 16, 2019 2:00 pm EST A fun piece of trivia is making the rounds again, and since we’ve never written about it at /Film, now’s as good a time as any to share it. H.R. Giger, one of the designers of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien, was hired to create some Batmobile concept art for director Joel Schumacher’s 1995 film Batman Forever – and Giger’s design is just as odd as you’d expect from the man whose mind birthed the Xenomorph....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Now The Highest Grossing Hollywood Movie In China, Sixth Biggest Ever Worldwide By Ben Pearson/May 2, 2019 3:00 pm EST Can Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame do the unthinkable and actually unseat James Cameron’s Avatar as the highest grossing movie ever? (And yes, “not adjusted for inflation.”) The new superhero sequel has been setting box office records ever since it opened last week, and it’s now the highest grossing Hollywood film to ever play in China....

‘Chernobyl’ Trailer: HBO Has A Nuclear Meltdown In A New Five-Part Miniseries By Ethan Anderton/March 12, 2019 4:00 pm EST Chernobyl is the most famous nuclear disaster in history, so much that the name itself is used as a moniker to describe any prospective nuclear accident in order to stress the gravity of the situation. Now HBO is giving the 1986 disaster the miniseries treatment with Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emily Watson starring, and the first Chernobyl trailer has arrived....

‘Doctor Sleep’ Director Explains How He Got Approval From Both Stephen King And The Kubrick Estate [Q&A] By Ben Pearson/June 13, 2019 1:00 pm EST Mike Flanagan, the director of Oculus, Hush, Gerald’s Game, and The Haunting of Hill House, has crafted plenty of cinematic moments that have left audiences with their hearts pounding. But his upcoming film Doctor Sleep, which is both an adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining and a continuation of the story told in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic, gave Flanagan “the two most nerve-wracking moments of [his] entire career” – getting approval from both King himself and Kubrick’s estate....

/Filmcast Ep. 259 - The Lego Movie By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 9, 2014 6:41 pm EST Dave and Devindra get excited about the forthcoming Preacher adaptation, praise the gut-wrenching Broken Circle Breakdown, and remember the amazing Philip Seymour Hoffman. Angie Han joins us for this episode. Be sure to check out Dave’s close-ups video essay and his essay about interpreting Synecdoche, New York. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

/Filmcast Ep 14: Death Race (GUEST: Paul Scheer) By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 26, 2008 9:00 pm EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, Hunter, and Adam discuss the pernicious consequences of remakes, despair over the fate of their favorite actors from The Wire, and dissect as many plotholes from Death Race as they possibly can. Special guest Paul Scheer joins us from Human Giant! Have any questions, comments, concerns, feedback, or praise?...

‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ Is King Of The Weekend Box Office But Not A Monster Hit By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 3, 2019 8:30 am EST Godzilla: King of the Monsters proved to be the reigning champ of the weekend box office as well. On its opening weekend, the Michael Dougherty-directed monster movie raked in $49 million domestically, beating out Aladdin and fellow new entries Rocketman and Ma. But despite its evisceration of the competition, the Godzilla King of the Monsters box office still disappoints in relation to its projected earnings and the rest of the Legendary MonsterVerse franchise....

By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 22, 2019 2:00 pm EST One of the most entertaining moments of the kick-ass John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum trailer involves the dogs owned by Halle Berry’s character getting in on the action. Dogs have always been a big part of this franchise, but this looks like the first entry in the series that allows the dogs to participate in some fighting. These aren’t your typical movie stunt-dogs, though....

‘Parasite’ Trailer: Bong Joon-Ho’s Latest Film Is An Unnerving Family Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 9, 2019 4:00 pm EST With the English-language releases Snowpiercer and Okja, Bong Joon-Ho has made some of the wildest and boldest cross-cultural films in recent memory. Now, the South Korean director makes a return to his home country — and what appears to be a return to his darker, genre-defying style — for his latest film, Parasite....

‘The Raid’ Remake Is Still Happening And Joe Carnahan Shares New Plot Details By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 23, 2019 2:00 pm EST When the scrappy Indonesian martial arts thriller The Raid: Redemption became an instant action classic in 2011, it seemed inevitable that a Hollywood remake would be on its way. Lo and behold, Frank Grillo soon signed on to star in The Raid remake, and director Joe Carnahan signed on three years later....

Cool Stuff: ‘Star Trek’ Captain Picard Facepalm Meme Becomes An Elegant Bronze Bust Statue By Ethan Anderton/May 9, 2019 6:00 am EST In your long history with the internet, you’ve undoubtedly encountered the Star Trek: The Next Generation meme featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) doing the famous facepalm maneuver in embarrassment of something stupid someone said online. Now you can deliver that meme in three-dimensional form right in front of your stupid friends’ faces with an elegant new bronze bust statue of that perfect moment in Star Trek history....

How ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Truly Closes Out Marvel’s Phase 3 By Ben Pearson/July 3, 2019 8:30 am EST It’s been more than three years since the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 3 kicked off with Captain America: Civil War, the film that introduced Tom Holland’s version of Spider-Man to the world. It’s fitting, then, that Phase 3 has now officially come to an end with Spider-Man: Far From Home. A lot has happened since Civil War – The Avengers experienced an unprecedented upheaval in the wake of their battle with Thanos, losing key members along the way; we met characters like Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Captain Marvel; and Holland already holds the record for the most times anyone has played Spider-Man on the big screen....