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Can You Watch The Book Of Boba Fett Without Seeing The Mandalorian? Lucasfilm By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Dec. 29, 2021 5:06 pm EST How accessible is “The Book of Boba Fett” to someone who isn’t a “Star Wars” superfan? What if you’re like me, and you’ve seen some of the movies, watched the occasional “Clone Wars” episode, and still hasn’t gotten around to watching “The Mandalorian” despite their daughter’s current obsession with Grogu?...

Do you wanna taste it? Hot Toys Here are the full details for the Peacemaker collectible figure from Hot Toys. Please note that it only comes with the (1) attachable tongue, so you’ll want to safeguard that thing. Put it in your back pocket, but don’t sit on it … unless. Well, what you do with it after hours is your business. (Cue Wig Wam’s “Do Ya Wanna Taste It.”)...

Daily Podcast: Swan Song Interviews With Writer/Director Benjamin Cleary And Star Naomie Harris AppleTV+ By Ben Pearson/Dec. 31, 2021 3:59 pm EST On the December 31, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson presents an interview episode with writer/director Benjamin Cleary and actress Naomie Harris from the AppleTV+ sci-fi drama “Swan Song.” Opening Banter: In Our Feature Presentation: Swan Song Director Benjamin Cleary On Envisioning The Future In His Sci-Fi Drama [Interview]...

What we think Kevin Can F**k Himself season 2 will be about Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger with Allison’s life going through the wringer. She and Patty’s plan for hitman Nick to kill Kevin backfired with Kevin still alive and shooting Nick in the midst of the conflict. Allison then plants drugs and cash at Nick’s house to frame him, so no one will find out it was Patty selling the pills from her salon all along....

How A Writers’ Room Running Joke Eventually Became Better Call Saul Sony Pictures Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 13, 2022 8:35 am EST “Better Call Saul” returns for its final season this year having already proven itself as one of the best prequels in TV history. The series took a nugget of an idea from “Breaking Bad”— what if that sleazy lawyer had a backstory? — and somehow turned it into a phenomenal slow burn character study....

How Michael Bay’s Signature Shot Saved Bad Boys From Sony Sony By Jeremy Smith/June 17, 2022 8:30 am EST For a $19 million movie, there was a lot riding on Michael Bay’s “Bad Boys.” The action-comedy marked the official return of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, the ultimate style-over-substance duo, who, after knocking out era-defining blockbusters in “Flashdance,” “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Top Gun,” flamed out in 1990 when the wildly excessive “Days of Thunder” fell woefully short of box-office expectations....

Hunger Games Filmmaker Francis Lawrence To Direct Sci-Fi Film Stalag-X Lionsgate By Sandy Schaefer/March 18, 2022 11:18 am EST Never one to stick with a single genre, director Francis Lawrence has attached himself to a new project in the form of “Stalag-X,” a sci-fi film based on the 2018 graphic novel of the same name written by Kevin J. Anderson and Steven L. Sears (with Mike Ratera providing the artwork)....

It’s Ethan Coen’s Turn To Go Solo - With A Lesbian Road Trip Movie Stefania D’alessandro/Getty Images By Sandy Schaefer/April 1, 2022 2:52 pm EST Joel Coen recently directed a film without his brother, Ethan Coen, for the first time, and the result was 2021’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” a pretty darn terrific movie that re-imagined Shakespeare’s classic tragedy as a black-and-white, noir-flavored, expressionist nightmare. Now, it seems that Ethan is getting back in the director’s chair for a solo project of his own, despite the Coens’ longtime composer, Carter Burwell, having previously claimed that Ethan “didn’t want to make movies anymore” and instead intended to focus on writing original plays for the time being....

Jason Bateman Exits Apple’s Space Race Movie Artemis Over Creative Differences Netflix By Jeremy Smith/June 7, 2022 9:48 pm EST It appears “Project Artemis” is not the project for Jason Bateman. A few months after Apple acquired the production for a cool $100 million, the “Ozark” star is stepping down as director of the space race movie starring the mighty Marvel duo of Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans. It’s yet another one of those “creative difference” scenarios, but according to Deadline, the parting was amicable....

Leslie Grace Describes Working With Brendan Fraser On Batgirl, Now We Want To Work With Brendan Fraser Universal Pictures By Jeff Ewing/April 15, 2022 3:04 pm EST While we still don’t have a release date for HBO Max’s upcoming “Batgirl” movie, we do know just enough to be excited about the mysterious forthcoming DC property. There’s little doubt that “In The Heights” standout Leslie Grace will be an impressive Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, and initial photos reveal a great, comic-accurate costume....

Loki Season 2 Reportedly Set To Begin Filming This Summer Disney+ By Ryan Scott/Feb. 1, 2022 1:41 pm EST Heads up, Marvel fans, it looks like everyone’s favorite trickster god is getting back to mischief this summer. A new report reveals that “Loki” season 2 is expected to begin filming this summer, which should put the Marvel Cinematic Universe series on track to arrive next year. According to a roundup of projects gearing up for production in the United Kingdom (via Backstage), “Loki” season 2 will apparently get cameras rolling at Pinewood Studios sometime this summer....

The trend of darker, divisive Star Wars sequels Disney/Lucasfilm For all the love it gets nowadays, it’s easy to forget that, as highlighted by StarWars.com, “The Empire Strikes Back” initially divided moviegoers and critics over its darker story and themes. It also kicked off a trend of making the second entry in each “Star Wars” film trilogy more downbeat and character-driven than the chapters before them. This continued in 2002 with “Attack of the Clones,” a movie in which a galaxy far, far plunges into civil war, all while Anakin Skywalker moves ever closer to becoming Darth Vader after murdering the Tusken Raiders who kidnapped his mother....

Mayans MC Season 4 Teaser: The Sons Of Anarchy Are On Their Way FX By Danielle Ryan/March 25, 2022 2:26 pm EST Motorcycle gangs are like big, messed-up families, and there’s about to be a very messy family reunion on the fourth season of “Mayans M.C.” The series is a spin-off of the successful FX series “Sons of Anarchy,” taking place after the events of that series. The spin-off has tried to move away from the original series, following the outlaw Mayans Motorcycle Club and their members, specifically Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes (J....

Michael B. Jordan And Yahya Abdul-Mateen II To Make I Helped Destroy People For Prime Video Warner Bros. Pictures Correction 3/22/22: An earlier version of this article suggested Jordan would be co-starring in this project. In fact, he is only on board as a producer. We regret the error. If you’ve got true crime and white collar crime fatigue, set your weary eyes into the near future, where Michael B. Jordan (“Black Panther”) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“Aquaman”) will be teaming up to make what might be one of the most interesting thrillers of the next few years....

Minions: The Rise of Gru exceeds expectations Universal Pictures According to Box Office Mojo, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” opened to a staggering $107 million domestically through Sunday and, when adding in the Monday holiday, it did $125.2 million worth of business in North America alone. That makes it the biggest July 4th opening weekend ever. The previous record was held by 2011’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” ($115.8 million). Yes, the Minions have triumphed over the Transformers in an impressive victory, to say the very least of it....

Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical Trailer: Children Love To Revolt (And Sing And Dance) Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/June 15, 2022 11:29 am EST Roald Dahl’s book-loving, super-powered young heroine Matilda Wormwood is heading back to the big screen. The author’s beloved 1988 kids novel “Matilda” was previously adapted into director Danny DeVito’s darkly-comical 1996 family movie of the same name, with Mara Wilson starring as Matilda opposite Pam Ferris as Agatha Trunchbull, the tyrannical principal of Crunchem Hall who delights in torturing her students by throwing them like Olympic hammers and subjecting them to twisted, abusive forms of discipline....

Sleepaway Camp United Film “Sleepaway Camp” is an odd little movie. The story centers on an unknown killer racking up bodies and blood at a summer camp called Camp Arawak. Released in 1983, this unusual slasher (written and directed by Robert Hiltzik) features an abrasive quality in its writing and performances and a heightened campiness that may not work for everyone. It also has one of the most shocking and controversial twist endings in horror history....

The Adam Project Ending Explained: Enjoy Yourselves, It’s Later Than You Think Netflix By Ben F. Silverio/March 11, 2022 5:11 pm EST They say that time waits for no one. But if you have a time machine, that definitely helps you catch up. And in the case of Netflix’s new time travel adventure movie “The Adam Project,” Ryan Reynolds’ Adam Reed needs to catch up before the timeline falls to complete ruin....

That was fun, wasn’t it? Entertainment One In an interview with FilmInk, conducted ahead of a special screening at the Sydney Film Festival in 2019, both Kent and Davis explained the precautions they took to shield Wiseman from some of the film’s more terrifying material. It was particularly fraught for Davis, who cusses at Samuel and who has to yell some pretty horrible things at him. Kent would shoot Davis’ scenes separately from Wiseman’s, which Davis had to get used to, while Davis would rehearse the more intense scenes with Wiseman, always being careful to accentuate that it was just a game, and that what they were doing was just fun: “It’s complicated, but we knew what the situation was going to be....

So What Happens in Citizen Kane Again? Mercury Productions/RKO Radio Pictures The story opens with an old man on his deathbed. He whispers “Rosebud,” a snowglobe slips from his grasp and shatters on the floor, and his nurse enters. He is dead. A strident newsreel obituary reveals that the deceased is Charles Foster Kane, the immensely wealthy and influential newspaper magnate and industrialist, who went from humble beginnings at a failing New York tabloid to building a vast media empire....