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‘Swamp Thing’ Cast Adds ‘Lost’ Actor Kevin Durand As Floronic Man By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 12, 2018 4:00 pm EST DC Universe’s Swamp Thing series continues to amass actors. The latest: Kevin Durand, who appeared on Lost, Legion and more, has come aboard the Swamp Thing cast as Dr. Jason Woodrue, a character who eventually becomes the super-villain Floronic Man. Swamp Thing brings the monstrous comic book character created by by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson to life, placing it alongside other DC Universe shows like Titans and Doom Patrol....

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Reveals New ‘Star Wars’ Black Series Figures, An Innovative Lightsaber Prototype & More By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2019 10:00 am EST It wouldn’t be Star Wars Celebration if we didn’t find out about a bunch of new toys coming to us from a galaxy far, far away. The Hasbro panel unveiled the next line of the popular Star Wars Black Series figures that will be available in the new Archive line, as well as some figures you’ll only be able to get at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge....

Daily Podcast: If You Were Stranded On An Island With Only One Director’s Filmography To Watch, Who Would It Be? By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2019 12:45 pm EST On the June 6, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Swamp Thing, JJ Abrams, and Marvel. And In the Mailbag, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson joins us to discuss which director’s movies we would want with us if we were stranded on an island....

Google Play Store Will Make All Movie Rentals 99 Cents On Thanksgiving, Giving You The Perfect Excuse To Ignore Your Family By Jacob Hall/Nov. 21, 2018 2:30 pm EST And this year, Google is making it very easy to make the latter happen. This Thanksgiving, all movie rentals will be 99 cents on the Google Play Store. Why spend time with family when this provides the perfect opportunity to finally get around to watching Skyscraper?...

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, barbecues, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice cream vendor. At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, it will be precisely 6:43 P.M. on Maple Street…This is Maple Street on a late Saturday afternoon. Maple Street in the last calm and reflective moment – before the monsters came....

Is A ‘Fast And Furious’ Female Spin-Off In Development? By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 1, 2018 2:00 pm EST Vin Diesel may have just accidentally announced a Fast and Furious female spin-off, as he is sometimes prone to do. The actor and producer was engaging in some Instagram hype for his next project, Bloodshot, when he not-so-casually dropped a hint regarding the potential spin-off before quickly changing the subject. See for yourself below....

James Gandolfini’s Son To Play Young Tony In ‘The Sopranos’ Prequel Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 23, 2019 6:30 am EST Michael Gandolfini will be stepping into his late father’s shoes to play the younger version of James Gandolfini’s most iconic role. The Deuce actor will be starring as a young Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark, the prequel film to The Sopranos, David Chase’s seminal HBO crime drama series....

MoviePass Changing Business Model Yet Again, Will Now Focus On Their Own Films By Chris Evangelista/March 7, 2019 8:30 am EST Per The Wrap, MoviePass is going to start focusing more on their MoviePass Films, in an effort towards forming “a much more interconnected” business model between the MoviePass subscription service and their own distributed films. In other words, they want the MoviePass card to work primarily for MoviePass movies. The hope is that by making MoviePass Films accessible to MoviePass card holders, the MoviePass subscription service will flourish – while also helping their own films at the box office....

Netflix Launching A Production Hub In New Mexico, Totaling $1 Billion In Business Over 10 Years By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 9, 2018 11:00 am EST Even though Hollywood is the hub of the entertainment industry, the space for production has become more scarce with tech companies and start-ups taking up more and more of the real estate that would otherwise commonly be used for film and television production. That leaves some major players looking for production space and finding it outside Tinseltown, and Netflix has just decided to spend a truckload of money outside of Los Angeles with a new production hub in Albuquerque, New Mexico....

Now Scream This: ‘Mandy’, ‘Maniac’ And Other Amazing Horror Movies You Can Stream Right Now By /Film Staff/Dec. 5, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: Apologies for the lack of theme this week – blame me. My stack of Christmas Horror screeners and awards season voting catch-up has grown into an untamable beast filling half my apartment....

Pam Grier Wants Spike Lee To Direct Her Biopic [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Feb. 6, 2019 11:30 am EST Pam Grier co-stars on the ABC comedy Bless This Mess. Speaking with reporters after the Bless This Mess panel for the Television Critics Association, Grier discussed the biopic about her life that is in the works. Given her storied career from Roger Corman movies to landmark black action heroine movies like Coffy and Foxy Brown to a career in television drama, a movie about this legend seems like a no-brainer....

Rian Johnson Is Still Working On His Own ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy, Contrary To Rumors Otherwise By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2019 8:00 am EST Back in the fall of 2017, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson would be at the helm of an entirely new Star Wars trilogy. Since then, we haven’t heard anything about the project other than the first movie might arrive in 2020. That’s largely because he’s been busy bringing together an incredible cast for his murder mystery thriller Knives Out....

Maniac, Season 1 Where To Watch: Netflix Created By: Patrick Somerville Starring: Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Justin Theroux, Sonoya Mizuno, Sally Field Maniac doesn’t necessarily need my promotion, as its one of the more major television events of the year. Recent Oscar-winner Emma Stone and two-time nominee Jonah Hill star as two strangers who join a pharmaceutical trial to tend to their individual mental illnesses. The two start the trial, but are flagged after they respond in odd ways, and what follows is a series of hallucinations and dream sequences that inquire about deeper truths, like human connection and possibility....

Studios Want To Shrink The Home Video Window In 2019 By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2018 11:30 am EST Theater chains and major movie studios are gearing up for a fight over early VOD releases. Major studios Warner Bros. and Universal are both said to be considering early video-on-demand releases in 2019 – something that won’t sit very well with theaters. This battle has been raging for years, heightened by the increasing popularity of streaming video, as well as an effort to combat piracy....

Superhero Bits: The Tesseract’s MCU Journey Explained, J. Jonah James Reacts To The Snap & More By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 2019 6:00 pm EST How would J. Jonah Jameson deal with the snap of Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? What is Captain Marvel’s CinemaScore? Did you know an X-Men actor walked off set during production? Who is John Glover playing in Shazam? What caused the continued delay of the Gambit movie?...

The 2018 Summer Movie Wager Results And Podcast By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 12, 2018 6:30 pm EST Devindra Hardawar, David Chen, Germain Lussier, Jeff Cannata, Peter Sciretta, and Kristy Puchko reconvene to discuss the results of their 2018 box office summer movie wager results. Did Jeff make a catastrophic mistake by including Christopher Robin or did the surprise slump of Solo: A Star Wars Story help someone eek out a victory? Below, you’ll find the actual box office rankings for this summer, as well as Dave, Jeff, Peter, Germain and Kristy’s original rankings....

The Morning Watch: Marvel’s Biggest Disappointments, ‘Stranger Things’ Book Secret Code & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 20, 2018 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 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....

VOTD: How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Quickly Crafts Pre-Recorded Sketches In Just A Few Days By Ethan Anderton/April 23, 2019 6:00 am EST The novelty of the landmark late night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live is that it’s performed live on Saturday night in Studio 8H in 30 Rockefeller Plaza. But even though most of the show is done in front of a live studio audience, there are a handful of pre-recorded sketches that make it to air....

‘24’ Is Getting Remade Into A Japanese TV Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 8, 2019 4:00 pm EST Livedoor reports (via Kotaku) that TV Asahi is currently developing a Japanese remake of the Kiefer Sutherland series, which will retell the first season and adapt it to a new setting. The original series, which premiered in 2001, follows counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer through the unique framing device of real-time storytelling — each episode unfolds in real-time and covers a single hour in Jack Bauer’s terrorism-filled day....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Featurette Shows How Marvel De-Aged Michelle Pfeiffer And Created More VFX By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2018 6:30 am EST Ant-Man and the Wasp is now available on Blu-ray, but a new featurette about the film breaks down several of the movie’s impressive visual effects, including how VFX artists de-aged Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer for flashback scenes. Watch the featurette below! Ant-Man and the Wasp Featurette In the above video, Danielle Costa, Vice President of Visual Effects at Marvel Studios, walks you through several of Ant-Man and the Wasp’s big special effects....