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Apple’s Streaming Video Service Could Launch As Soon As April By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 29, 2019 9:30 am EST Apple’s big names and high-profile talent, as well as the ubiquity of their products (which will reportedly feature its original titles for free) position the tech company as the next big streaming competitor. Though reports of its family-friendly fare have drawn some skepticism, this surprisingly close launch date suggests that Apple is confident in its original titles — or it’s desperate to take the attention away from Disney+, which has the intimidating combined power of its Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney originals....

Disney Announces Triple Force Friday For ‘Star Wars Episode 9’ And Frozen Fan Fest For ‘Frozen 2’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 15, 2019 7:30 am EST When Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi merchandise first hit shelves a few months before the movies arrived in theaters, they were given a special day for fans to run out and buy anything they could get their hands on: Force Friday....

Exclusive: The ‘Child’s Play’ Television Series Is Tentatively Titled ‘Chucky’, Will Return To The Tone Of The Early Films [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Feb. 12, 2019 8:00 am EST Last month, Syfy officially announced the Child’s Play TV series that creator Don Mancini has long been teasing. Mancini will collaborate with Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca, who hired Mancini as a writer on Channel Zero.Antosca spoke with /Film about his new Hulu series The Act, but we were able to get an update on the Chucky series he’s developing with Mancini....

How ‘The Great Mouse Detective’ Helped Save Disney Animation During Its Darkest Hour By Josh Spiegel/May 7, 2019 11:00 am EST (Revisiting the Renaissance is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of the 13 films of the Disney Renaissance, released between 1986 and 1999. Today’s column both serves as an introduction to the series, and tackles the first film of the Renaissance, 1986’s The Great Mouse Detective....

John Cena To Star In Jason Bateman-Directed Netflix Movie About A Movie Studio Come To Life By Jacob Hall/Jan. 25, 2019 1:45 pm EST Jason Bateman has been quietly flexing his muscles behind the camera. John Cena has been proving himself to be a comedic force in recent years. And screenwriter Mark Perez wrote one of the best studio comedies in the recent member with last year’s Game Night. Put them all together, and you have a new action/comedy coming to Netflix that sounds a bit like “A Night at the Museum goes to the movies,” albeit with a creative team that will skew a bit more adult....

Marvel Heroes Take The Stage In One-Act High School Plays By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 24, 2019 3:00 pm EST Maybe the closest thing we’ll get to seeing the glory that is “The Tragedy of Loki of Asgard,” the barely-seen play that graces our eyeballs for only three minutes in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok, is the upcoming series of one-act Marvel plays that can be put on by high schoolers. At the very least, both Thor and Loki are among the heroes set to take center stage in one of the various one-act plays available for high school theater programs to purchase through the newly announced Marvel Spotlight....

Michael Crichton’s ‘Micro’ Still In The Works At Amblin, New Writers Hired By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 12, 2018 4:00 am EST A Micro movie, adapted from one of the final novels of Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, has been in development at Amblin Entertainment since 2015. Now there’s an update on the project: Neil Widener and Gavin James have been hired to take over screenplay duties. The film’s plot appears to be lifted right out of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, focusing on a group of people shrunk down to miniature size and forced to navigate the rain forrest....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch If You See ‘Escape Room’ By Scott Beggs/Jan. 2, 2019 12:00 pm EST The first escape room I did was in the office park section of Amsterdam in 2011. The building was nondescript, live escape rooms were still a novel concept, and I had visions of Taken running through my head. The paranoia was just strong enough to make me send a tweet telling people to call Interpol if I didn’t tweet again an hour later....

Netflix Drops ‘The Wandering Earth’ On Its Service With Zero Fanfare By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 6, 2019 1:30 pm EST Amid all the hoopla about how much money Avengers: Endgame has made, one little sci-fi film maintains its No. 3 spot on the highest-grossing movies of 2019. The Wandering Earth is the biggest movie that barely anyone in the West has heard of: China’s second highest-grossing film of all time, 2019’s third highest-grossing film worldwide, the second highest-grossing non-English film of all time, and one of the top 20 highest-grossing science fiction films of all time....

The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - Django Unchained By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 24, 2012 3:30 pm EST Dave, Devindra, and Adam tackle Quentin Tarantino’s latest historical epic, Django Unchained. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - Django Unchained By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 24, 2012 3:30 pm EST Dave, Devindra, and Adam tackle Quentin Tarantino’s latest historical epic, Django Unchained....

This Week In Trailers: Searching For Ingmar Bergman, Rabbit, A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot, Brewmaster By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 13, 2018 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Which Transformers Character Wasn’t Allowed To Appear In ‘Bumblebee’? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2018 7:30 am EST There’s a large array of Transformers available for use on the big screen, especially after years of toy manufacturing, video games, comics and more. But there was one single character that was explicitly forbidden from appearing in Bumblebee. Sorry for being intentionally mysterious, but saying this character isn’t in Bumblebee might be considered a spoiler for some sensitive fans out there....

‘Bumblebee’ Deleted Scenes Include Original Opening Sequence And A Car Wash Gone Wrong By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 20, 2019 4:30 pm EST With Bumblebee speeding toward its Blu-ray release next month, Paramount has released several deleted scenes from the film’s special features, including an alternate opening scene that points to a darker, more serious version of the Transformers spin-off movie. Watch the Bumblebee deleted scenes below. Bumblebee Deleted Scenes Love or hate the opening sequence on Cybertron, it gives us a Transformers action sequence that is candy-colored and thrilling to watch — and the closest approximation to watching a Transformers cartoon in live-action as you can get....

‘Captain Marvel’ Clip: Brie Larson Catches A Train But Has Trouble Catching A Skrull By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2019 10:00 am EST We’ve got just over a month until Brie Larson makes her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain Marvel. That means the marketing campaign from Marvel Studios is in full swing, and with it comes the first official Captain Marvel clip. Captain Marvel Clip The first Captain Marvel clip debuted when Brie Larson appeared on The Ellen Show, and it provides an extended look at an action sequence we’ve seen teased in the trailers....

‘Captain Marvel’ Scene Breakdown Reveals Brie Larson Could Have Punched A Kid Instead Of An Old Woman By Chris Evangelista/March 11, 2019 2:30 pm EST Want to know how directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck staged the big train scene in Captain Marvel? Well then it’s your lucky day, because there’s a video devoted to that very thing! In the Captain Marvel scene breakdown below, Boden and Fleck walk you through the scene in question, revealing influences, behind-the-scenes info, and more....

/Filmcast Ep. 312 - Furious 7 By Slashfilmcast/April 2, 2015 9:21 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss the powerful new film by Alex Gibney, Going Clear, as well as the uproar around the new host of The Daily Show. Be sure to check out David’s new advice podcast with Stephen Tobolowsky, and read Scott Mendelson’s piece on the Furious 7 franchise, Maria Bustillos’ take on Going Clear, and Matt Singer’s insane ranking of the Furious films....

/Filmcast Ep. 35 - Towelhead (GUEST: Stephen Tobolowsky) By Slashfilmcast/Jan. 27, 2009 7:52 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss their thoughts on this year’s deeply unsatisfying Oscar nominations, reflect on the intellectual bankruptcy of a Tom and Jerry movie, and vehemently debate the merits of Alan Ball’s Towelhead. We’re joined by special guest and /Filmcast favorite, actor Stephen Tobolowsky promoting the new Blu-Ray release of Groundhog Day....

‘Lilo And Stitch’ Live-Action Remake Coming From Disney By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 3, 2018 11:15 am EST Time for yet another live-action Disney remake. Lilo and Stitch is following in the footsteps of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book and many more as Disney plans to make a live-action remake of the 2002 animated film. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, who are also working on the live-action Aladdin remake, will produce....

‘NYPD Blue’ Reboot On The Way (And An ‘Alice’ Reboot, Too) By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2018 1:30 pm EST The future of TV will be made up of nothing but reboots of old shows, so you might as well get used to it. Case in point: a new NYPD Blue reboot is headed to ABC, featuring the son of Dennis Franz’s Detective Andy Sipowicz. And over at Fox, you can expect a reboot of the ’70s sitcom Alice from Diablo Cody and Liz Astrof....

‘Stranger Things: Six’ Prequel Comic Introduces Another Psychic Teen By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2019 11:30 am EST Before Eleven, there was Six. No, this is not a failed attempt at counting, but a preview of the upcoming Stranger Things prequel comic, which follows a psychic teen who came to Hawkins, Indiana long before Eleven crushed a Coca-Cola can. Stranger Things: Six is an upcoming four-issue miniseries from Dark Horse Comics that takes place prior to the events of season 1 of Stranger Things, Netflix’s flagship genre show that will make its long-awaited season 3 premiere this summer....