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Daily Podcast: The 50 Best Movie Moments Of 2021 (Part 1) Warner Bros. On the January 18, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by senior news editor Jacob Hall, and editors Hoai-Tran Bui & Bradford Oman, and chief film critic Chris Evangelista for Part 1 of their discussion narrowing down the best movie moments of 2021. All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Is The Most Gruesome Marvel Movie Yet Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/May 7, 2022 9:00 am EST Sam Raimi is a director who has been primarily known for two things throughout his illustrious career: horror and superhero movies. The man behind “The Evil Dead” and the original “Spider-Man” trilogy is a master of his craft and, even though he’s accomplished much outside of these genres (see “The Quick and the Dead”), these two categories are most closely associated with his filmmaking....

Francis Ford Coppola Had To Cut Marlon Brando’s The Godfather Part II Cameo Paramount Pictures By Caroline Madden/May 3, 2022 10:56 am EST After the financial and critical success of “The Godfather,” audiences eagerly awaited the sequel. The original author and screenwriter, Mario Puzo, had begun the script before the first film was released (via Oscars). In “Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola” by Gene Phillips, Puzo relayed his idea for the sequel:...

How Morbius Compares To His Original Comic Book Appearance Marvel Comics/Sony Pictures By Mike Williams/April 8, 2022 8:48 am EST Last week, audiences were introduced to Morbius, the Living Vampire. The occasional Spider-Man antagonist headlined his own film, “Morbius,” where he was portrayed by Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto. Despite many harsh reviews and muted audience reception, “Morbius” was the number one film at the box office. The film is just an adaptation of the Marvel Comics character, however, presenting a version of Dr....

The brilliant mind of Stuart Freeborn Lucasfilm Freeborn’s original design for Yoda might have been a little creepy, but he would eventually refine it into something unforgettable. The special effects makeup master was already well known by the time he was hired to make movie magic for George Lucas. Directors would frequently come back to Freeborn, and he worked with some of the biggest names in genre cinema in the 1960s and ’70s....

Netflix’s The Sea Beast Successfully Defeated The Greatest Monster In Animation: Ropes Netflix By BJ Colangelo/June 9, 2022 10:43 am EST The medium of animation allows filmmakers to take their creativity to lengths and worlds that don’t seem possible within the confines of live-action storytelling. Animated movies have allowed viewers to look inside horrific worlds of stolen identities, colorful nostalgia trips with adorable hormone kaijus, and even the depths of our own personalities....

South Park: The Streaming Wars teaser trailer According to the official announcement from Paramount+, “South Park: The Streaming Wars” will debut in the U.S. first, with a second release internationally in all areas where Paramount+ is currently available. The premise of the film is said to center on yet another conflict between Cartman and his mother, locked in a “battle of wills” while an even bigger storm brews that threatens the very existence of South Park....

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Will Be Its Last, Confirms Patrick Stewart ViacomCBS By Jacob Hall/Jan. 26, 2022 2:36 pm EST When “Star Trek: Picard” debuted on Paramount+ — back in January of 2020 when it was still called CBS All Access — the buzz was enormous. While certain fans were ambivalent (well, this author was ambivalent), many others were eager to see Patrick Stewart, 81, returning to the role he made famous in 1987, and continued to make famous through seven seasons of television and four feature films....

Stranger Things Season 4 Will Feature Several Movie-Length Episodes Netflix By Jenna Busch/May 18, 2022 5:16 pm EST I guess if you’re going to spend $30 million per episode on season 4 of “Stranger Things,” it’s good that some of the episodes are long ones. According to an interview The Wrap did with the Duffer Brothers, two of the new episodes are going to be over two hours each. That’s the length of most movies....

Taxi Driver Derived Its Visual Style From Some Of Martin Scorsese’s Favorite Films Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/May 27, 2022 9:03 am EST One of the great joys in life is listening to Martin Scorsese talk about the movies he loves. Few people speak with more understanding and enthusiasm for an art for than Scorsese does with cinema. He is one of the true omnivores of the medium and absorbs every kind of movie from all over the world....

The Batman Production Team Wants To Make ‘The Best Batman Ever Made’ Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 22, 2021 10:19 am EST Everyone has their preferred flavor of Batman movie, whether it’s Tim Burton’s lavishly Gothic take on the franchise, Zack Snyder’s grimly gloomy vision of the Caped Crusader’s world, or even Joel Schumacher’s opulently campy portrayal of Gotham City and its masked defender. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy remains the most critically admired iteration of the property so far, but, as the saying goes, heavy is the head that wears the crown, and Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” is absolutely gunning to outdo Nolan at his own Bat-game....

What is The Gray Man about? Netflix Based on American novelist Mark Greaney’s book series of the same name, the film follows the CIA’s most skilled mercenary, Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), a man whose true identity is unknown and who accidentally uncovers dark, incriminating agency secrets. His former colleague and newfound nemesis, the psychopathic Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), puts a bounty on his head and leads the search to capture him on a globetrotting mission....

The John Huston Western Classic That Inspired The Wild Bunch Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/March 9, 2022 4:58 pm EST Sam Peckinpah’s elegiac revisionist Western “The Wild Bunch” inspired leagues of filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Kathryn Bigelow. Its story of a gang of aging outlaws battling an ever-changing, rapidly mechanizing Western landscape shifted the trajectory of the Western picture, ensuring its place among the greatest films of all time. Hollywood has been trying to launch a “Wild Bunch” remake for over a decade now, beginning with a proposed Tony Scott version (starring Will Smith, who would also produce) that stalled with his death in 2012, along with one directed by “Hands of Stone” filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz, and eventually, David Ayer was up to helm a remake based on his own script....

Cameron’s Treatment: What Was Different? Aspen Rock/Shutterstock In the ’90s, Cameron was working with a now-defunct independent studio called Carolco Pictures. The production company had backed a number of hits, including “Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall,” and Cameron’s “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” — and their lucky streak seemed to continue after landing the rights to Spider-Man in 1990. Cameron presented the studio with a “scriptment” (that is, a script and treatment combined) detailing plans for a Spider-Man movie of his own....

What We Do In The Shadows Season 4 Trailer Breakdown: It’s Time To Party Like It’s 999 FX By Danielle Ryan/June 23, 2022 2:32 pm EST “What We Do in the Shadows,” the FX comedy series about a crew of vampires living in Staten Island, is back to bless fans with a fourth season. The end of season 3 left the characters scattered to the wind, with Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) sailing to England for an important international Vampiric Council meeting with her husband Lazlo (Matt Berry), not knowing that he hasn’t gone along with her but trapped bodyguard/familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) in his coffin instead....

Avengers: Endgame Funeral Scene Marvel Studios In a moving sacrifice, Tony Stark reunited the survivors with the people they lost during Thanos’s snap, giving up his own life in the process. Rest in peace, Iron Man. Tony’s funeral is well-attended, and the camera swoops through the crowd past several groupings of characters: Pepper Potts and their daughter, Morgan; Black Panther, Shuri, and Okoye; Peter Parker, Captain Marvel, Nick Fury, the list goes on…it’s an impressive gathering of superhero characters....

Why Stanley Kubrick Decided To Scrap The Shining’s Original Ending Warner Bros. By Michael Boyle/June 17, 2022 8:43 pm EST Stanley Kubrick made a lot of changes to Stephen King’s source material when making “The Shining.” Rather than have protagonist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) slowly spiral into insanity as he does in the book, Kubrick has Jack start off unhinged and only get worse from there. Whereas Danny’s imaginary friend is presented in the book as a kid named Toby, in the movie, Danny is shown talking to his finger....

There Will Be A Blood War VIZ Media The “Thousand Year Blood War” story arc ties up nearly every loose end in the “Bleach” saga and features the greatest battle of Ichigo’s life. When Hollows start disappearing and a mysterious group known as the Wandenreich declares war against the Soul Society, Ichigo is drawn into the conflict, learning more about the true nature of his powers and his past along the way....

Whether you’re pro-Supe or anti-Supe … get ready Prime Video While a teaser trailer for season 3 of “The Boys” has already been released during the announcement of the show’s premiere date, fans can expect an extended trailer in the coming weeks, potentially teasing more about what Vought and the Seven are up to. Of course, fans will also be expecting to see more of the “diabolical” Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), and what the titular gang is up to, now that they’ve all gone their separate ways, as shown at the end of season 2....

‘Spaces inform character a lot of the time.’ FX “New Jazz” is a very “Twilight Zone”-esque episode. Do you have a lot of questions thematically, or what’s going on internally that are informing some of your choices? I would say yes and no. The conversation about the visual style starts in a broader sense at the very beginning of prep, and then as some of the tactile things like the choice of locations start to become apparent as you’re prepping, then you start whittling down those conversations into specifics about specific episodes, and you also start to get a sense of what the episode is....