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A New Doctor Strange 2 TV Spot Finally Confirms The Illuminati Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/April 26, 2022 9:44 am EST Marvel Studios should really be called the House of Secrets, if you think about it. Each movie reveals so incredibly little about the plot that you can have three people watch the same trailer and they’ll give you six different interpretations of what the movie will be about. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was originally going to be sold as an entirely different movie before Alfred Molina went ahead and just confirmed his return as Doc Ock, all nonchalant....

American Gigolo Teaser: Who Framed Julian Kaye For Murder? Showtime By Jenna Busch/May 31, 2022 4:34 pm EST Showtime has released a new teaser trailer for their upcoming series “American Gigolo” starring Jon Bernthal. It’s a short teaser, but we do get a sense of this being a continuation of the 1980 movie starring Richard Gere, despite the fact that it’s called a “reimagining.” In the film, Gere’s Julian, a male escort, is accused of murder and sent to prison....

Boruto Wasn’t The Only Idea For A Naruto Spin-Off Shueisha By Mike Williams/May 18, 2022 8:55 am EST It’s been an odd road for “Naruto” creator Masashi Kishimoto since the end of his popular manga. Kishimoto gave his blessing to the creation of “Boruto: Naruto Next Generations,” a manga from “Boruto: Naruto the Movie” writer Ukyo Kodachi and artist Mikio Ikemoto. The manga also led the popular anime adaptation. Kishimoto then created the manga series “Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru,” a science fiction with art from Akira Okubo....

Both Elvis And The Black Phone Won Big At The Box Office Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/June 27, 2022 11:47 am EST We are very firmly in the midst of the summer box office and while last year welcomed moviegoers back to theaters in a meaningful way, things were still on uncertain ground. This weekend, with the release of Warner Bros.’ “Elvis” and Universal’s “The Black Phone,” it has become clear that we are in a much better place in terms of the theatrical distribution side of the movie business than we were a year ago....

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes Trailer: A Chilling Never Before Seen Look At One Of The World’s Greatest Tragedies HBO By BJ Colangelo/June 3, 2022 9:12 pm EST On April 26, 1986, the core of the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat melted down, causing a nuclear accident that released airborne radioactive contamination for about nine days in what is still classified as the worst nuclear disaster in history, both in cost and casualties....

Chris Hemsworth’s Spiderhead Dance Was A Moment Of Self-Discovery Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/July 1, 2022 1:21 pm EST Chris Hemsworth’s “Spiderhead” character, Steve Abnesti, is a distinctly modern antagonist. He’s a CEO who hides his sociopathic outlook behind a casual smile and dudebro attitude, assuring his employees he’s “just like them” while not-so-subtly lording his power over those around him. He recalls Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac) from “Ex Machina,” down to the pair’s shared fondness for impromptu dancing....

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Has Landed Vikings Star Gustaf Skårsgard History Channel By Danielle Ryan/March 15, 2022 2:13 pm EST Christopher Nolan is collecting actors like Pokémon for his latest directorial effort, “Oppenheimer,” a historical drama about the people who created the first atomic bomb. The cast is already absolutely stacked, but it had one fatal flaw: There weren’t any Skarsgårds! The Swedish family is known for its thespians, including father Stellan (“Thor: The Dark World”), and brothers Alexander (“The Northman”), Gustaf (“Westworld”), Bill (“It”), and Valter (“Black Lake”)....

Daily Podcast: Spider-Man: No Way Home Box Office & More Spoiler Discussion Sony By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2022 3:02 pm EST On the January 3, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to talk about “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” including how the film is destroying box office records and some spoiler reveals from the screenwriters. Opening Banter: Happy New Year!...

DeVito goes with his gut Miramax The producer tends to act on instinct when it comes to choosing his projects. DeVito “hadn’t even seen Reservoir Dogs” when he agreed to fund “Pulp Fiction,” he admitted to The Guardian. In fact, the crime thriller “wasn’t even written” yet. He attached himself to the project because he “liked the way [Tarantino] was talking about” his new idea. DeVito just had a good feeling about Tarantino, he explained on “Fresh Air....

Here’s All The Concept Art From The Book Of Boba Fett Episode 5 Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 26, 2022 12:13 pm EST The following article contains spoilers for the latest episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” You have been warned! Well, there’s no sense beating around the bush. How’d everyone enjoy the season 3 premiere of “The Mandalorian”? All joking aside, the concluding moments of last week’s episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” certainly set up the (re)appearance of Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin … but I’m not sure anyone expected creator Jon Favreau and director Bryce Dallas Howard (who continues to kill it behind the director’s chair after a couple of warm-ups on “The Mandalorian”) to dedicate a whole full-length episode to the fan-favorite Mando, putting Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) on the backburner entirely....

Here’s When You Can Watch Ti West’s X At Home A24 By BJ Colangelo/March 29, 2022 2:44 pm EST Back in 2005, Ti West first appeared on the scene with an odd little horror film called “The Roost” featuring killer bats, the reanimated dead, and Tom Noonan as a horror host. His follow up, the thrilling “Trigger Man,” flew by viewers and went mostly underseen, but when West released “The House of the Devil” in 2009, he established himself as one of horror’s most exciting new voices....

How Moon Knight Stands Out From The Rest Of The MCU, Both Comedically And Heroically Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/March 21, 2022 6:22 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe has a formula, one that the studio has built over 20+ movies in almost 15 years. But we’re seeing the formula evolve, with movies like “Iron Man 3,” or now with TV shows like “WandaVision,” changing up the format and delivering exciting movies that feel unlike anything that came before it....

The Best Annie – One of my favorite recurring premises on “Saturday Night Live” that comes around every now and then is recreating a famous musical sequence from a movie while throwing some kind of new wrinkle into the proceedings that upends everything. In this case, it’s Jason Sudeikis as a character who feels lifted from Dan Aykroyd in the early years of “SNL.” While little orphan Annie is being introduced to all those working in her new mansion home, the entire staff is learning about Ricky, who has some kind of mysterious job that he does for Daddy Warbucks....

Netflix Ponies Up $65 Million For Exorcism Thriller From Lee Daniels In Heated Bidding War Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 24, 2022 1:29 pm EST Since the dawn of the moving picture, horror has always been one of the most prolific and profitable genres of film, but considering how disparaged the genre is by the awards circuit, it’s still exciting whenever a bidding war takes place on a new title. Seven different bidders were possessed this weekend in an auction for a new exorcism movie, directed by Academy Award-nominated director, Lee Daniels....

Rear Window Ending Explained: Spying On Your Neighbors Is Fun (Until It’s Not) Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 3, 2022 3:41 pm EST There’s something inherently voyeuristic about cinema. Just because you’re peering into the lives of fictional characters (or, in the case of a documentary, a manipulated version of real events), that doesn’t mean you’re not still gaining some form of enjoyment from watching the struggles of others. But how do you explore this idea on-screen without making a movie that comes across as either a hypocritical exercise in the very thing it’s critiquing or a tedious polemic?...

Somehow, The 2000 Dungeons & Dragons Movie Got Two Straight-To-Video Sequels New Line Cinema By Witney Seibold/May 4, 2022 5:59 pm EST “Dungeons & Dragons” was first conceived and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in the early 1970s, and first published as a game in 1974. “Dungeons & Dragons” was derived from a 1971 medieval-themed game that Gygax had developed with Jeff Perren called “Chainmail,” and both games centered on the fineries of medieval combat, using dice and statistics to determine damage given to, and inflicted by, foes....

‘I went ahead and started recording a bunch of vegetables’ Netflix Did a lot of sound effects carry over from past seasons or did the change in tone alter a lot of the “Stranger Things” sound effects audiences know now? So a lot of the stuff that did carry over was stuff that was initially established by Craig Henighan, the lead sound designer. Craig and I have worked together for over 15 years now....

Superhero Bits: Stan Lee’s Birthday, The Batman Plot Details & More Stan Lee’s Twitter By Ryan Scott/Dec. 28, 2021 5:18 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.)...

Tales From The Box Office: How Godzilla Vs. Kong Battled The Pandemic (And Won) Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Jan. 8, 2022 3:31 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) 2020 feels both like an eternity ago and just yesterday all at the same time. Yet here we are in 2022, facing down another uncertain year in pandemic land, particularly as it relates to big movies and how they’re going to fare at the box office....

Best: Meaningful horror Netflix “Stranger Things” doesn’t shy away from shocking horror. When Barb was cruelly dispatched in the show’s first season, it proved the Duffer Brothers’ show meant business. Whether you most remember Bob getting mauled by Demodogs or the many casualties of The Mind Flayer, the losses of life are memorable. More than that, they’re often meaningful. To paraphrase Paul Reiser’s Owens, though, each time “Stranger Things” returns it must come back “stronger, smarter, and deadlier....