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Daily Podcast: An It Prequel Show, Project Artemis, And More Spy Kids Warner Bros. On the March 31, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writer BJ Colangelo to talk about the latest film and TV news, including “Project Artemis,” a “Spy Kids” reboot, and an “It” prequel series. Opening Banter: In The News: Project Artemis: Jason Bateman Will Direct Avengers Reunion As Chris Evans And Scarlett Johansson Join The Cast...

Daniels Took A Hard Stance On The LGBTQ+ Plotline In Everything Everywhere All At Once A24 By Danielle Ryan/April 8, 2022 12:44 pm EST “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a lot of things, but most of all, it’s a work of clear, uncompromising vision from filmmaking duo Daniels (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). In the film, Michelle Yeoh’s character Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American laundromat owner, has a hard time accepting the fact that her daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), is a lesbian (this is before and during the action-packed adventure through the multiverse that powers the film’s plot)....

Dark Glasses Teaser: The Gruesome Return Of A Giallo Giant Canal+ By Anya Stanley/Feb. 9, 2022 12:19 pm EST Dario Argento is back, baby. The Italian “Master of Horror” has a decades-spanning career in the horror genre, enjoying especially great notoriety in the 1970s and ’80s with his visually striking and exquisitely violent giallo films. From the Animal Trilogy — “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage” (1970), “The Cat o’ Nine Tails” (1971), and “Four Flies on Grey Velvet” (1971) — to his Three Mothers Trilogy, consisting of “Suspiria” (1977), “Inferno” (1980) and “The Mother of Tears” (2007), to once-banned Video Nasties “Deep Red” (1975) and “Tenebrae” (1982), Argento’s work has influenced modern genre filmmakers from Eli Roth to James Wan....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Footage Reaction: All Nightmares Are Real [CinemaCon 2022] Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch AND Ryan Scott/April 27, 2022 2:07 pm EST CinemaCon madness is afoot, and all the upcoming blockbusters are showing footage to assembled press and theater owners. And /Film is on the ground in Las Vegas, writing it all up for you! One of the most anticipated films on the horizon for comic book and superhero fans is Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Is Rated PG-13 For ‘Frightening Images’ And ‘Violence’ Marvel Studios By Sandy Schaefer/April 13, 2022 11:58 am EST With Marvel’s “Moon Knight” series now half-way through its first (only?) season on Disney+, the House of Ideas is gearing up for the release of the next Marvel Cinematic Universe film, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Surprisingly, the MCU sequel will break from tradition by becoming the first movie in the franchise to release with an NC-17 rating, joining Andrew Dominik’s already somewhat controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde” on the short list of recent films to receive that increasingly rare classification from the MPAA....

Every Easter Egg In Stranger Things Season 4 Episode 7 Netflix By Danielle Ryan/May 31, 2022 1:18 pm EST The first part of the fourth season of “Stranger Things” is at its end with episode 7, as fans will have to wait until July 1, 2022 for the massive two-part finale. Until then, they’re likely to go back and re-watch the season for clues and hints about what’s the come, and maybe catch some more of the fun Easter eggs planted throughout....

“Pivoting” premiered in January of this year, and it starred Maggie Q, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Eliza Coupe as three Long Island women coping with the death of their childhood friend. Per the official synopsis, their manner of coping involved hitting the reset button and pivoting to new life paths through “a series of impulsive, ill-advised and self-indulgent decisions.” How Our Kind of People would have continued “Our Kind of People” starred Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, Morris Chestnut, and Joe Morton, among others, with Dacosta playing Angela Vaughn, billed by Fox as “a strong-willed, single mom” who was “out to reclaim her family’s name” after she discovered a dark secret about her mother’s past that would shake up a wealthy community....

Harley Quinn Spin-Off Noonan’s Ordered To Series At HBO Max HBO Max By Ben F. Silverio/April 27, 2022 3:47 pm EST While fans of HBO Max’s “Harley Quinn” anxiously await the third season of the acclaimed animated series, an interesting bit of news came up at this year’s SXSW. Series co-creator Patrick Schumacker teased that a spin-off starring Matt Oberg’s Kite Man was currently in the works. Titled “Noonan’s,” the series would be like “Cheers” with Kite Man as Sam Malone and the villains of Gotham as his patrons....

‘I don’t think Benedict Cumberbatch even knows if he’s in this movie or not’ Sony Pictures Like any blockbuster franchise that loses a director at an inopportune moment, Marvel has had prior experience with needing someone to step in and guide a film to completion by a certain deadline. Many fans certainly hoped that wouldn’t be the case with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” particularly when a filmmaker as talented as Sam Raimi was recruited to work his own magic on the film....

John Cena’s Tighty-Whitey Dance Scene In Peacemaker Was Filmed On Day One Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 14, 2022 12:23 pm EST The premiere of the HBO Max series “Peacemaker” features a scene that’s impossible to forget, and it was also one of the first filmed. During a watch-along for the series on Twitter, writer and director James Gunn revealed that Peacemaker’s tighty-whitey dance sequence towards the end of the first episode was shot on the first day of production, helping to set the tone for the rest of the remarkable and ridiculous shoot....

Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Concept Artist Teases A Very Different Middle-Earth Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 10, 2022 1:46 pm EST “Lord of the Rings” fans will get their long-awaited return to Middle-earth this fall, when the prequel to the beloved series arrives on Prime Video. “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” looks like an epic fantasy-adventure on scale with the Peter Jackson films themselves (the series is among the most expensive ever made), but its world also may look somewhat unfamiliar to fans of the original film trilogy....

M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock At The Cabin Has Begun Filming Universal By Rafael Motamayor/April 19, 2022 5:11 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan quickly became one of the great horror filmmakers of the early aughts, with bangers like “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs” showing great promise. But years before Marvel started handing out multi-million-dollar franchises to indie directors, Shyamalan started going big and making a string of bad blockbuster movies. But Hollywood does love a comeback story, and Shyamalan has been on a welcome home tour the past few years, ever since he returned to the horror genre with “The Visit” in 2015 (no, that is not his only horror movie, no matter what he says)....

Well, that was surprising HBO In an interview with Teen Vogue (via Indiewire), Williams said of the scene: “The first time that I was surprised by Arya I guess was probably in the final series where she whips off her clothes and sleeps with Gendry. I thought that Arya was queer, you know? So…yeah. That was a surprise.” Though I admit that the possibility never crossed my mind, it makes total sense....

Dunkirk Warner Bros. Christopher Nolan took the idea of an immersive war film to a whole new level in the breathtaking “Dunkirk” (2017). Set in 1940, the film centers around the white-knuckle evacuation of the Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at Dunkirk as the Germans advanced into France. “Dunkirk” is broken into three distinct segments — one for land, sea, and air — and each one’s timeline intertwines and overlaps with the others....

Natalie Martinez Has Joined The Cast Of Bad Monkey From Ted Lasso Co-Creator Bill Lawrence Universal Television By Danielle Ryan/March 20, 2022 12:23 pm EST The next project from “Ted Lasso” showrunner Bill Lawrence is rounding out its cast with actress Natalie Martinez. Per Deadline, the actress will play opposite Vince Vaughn in the series “Bad Monkey,” based on the darkly funny Carl Hiaasen novel of the same name. Martinez rounds out a talented and intriguing cast that already includes Michelle Monaghan (“True Detective”), Jodie Turner-Smith (“Queen & Slim”), Meredith Hagner (“Search Party”), Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe”), and Arturo Luis Soria (“Insatiable”), with “Saturday Night Live” cast member Alex Moffat in a guest role....

Peacemaker Actor Freddie Stroma On Playing Vigilante, A Dangerous BFF [Interview] HBO Max By Jack Giroux/Feb. 25, 2022 3:54 pm EST Freddie Stroma plays the very dangerous “yes man” in Peacemaker’s life, Adrian Chase, AKA Vigilante. In Vigilante’s story, in which he casts himself as a hero, he also casts himself as Peacemaker’s BFF. He’s less of a sidekick, and more of Chris’ partner in crime — and life. He’s also unhinged and, all jokes aside, terrifying....

Pinocchio Footage Reaction: Guillermo Del Toro Delivers A Darker, Personal Take On A Timeless Tale [Annecy] Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/June 15, 2022 10:31 am EST When Guillermo del Toro takes the stage, you know you’re in for something special. The Oscar-winning director got a rockstar’s welcome at the end of the Netflix Animation showcase at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with a standing ovation to boot. Introducing footage from his animated directorial debut, “Pinocchio,” del Toro talked about his love of animation, and how he particularly felt in love with stop-motion, “a form of animation perpetually on the brink of extinction,” as he described it....

New cast additions for Let The Right One In ABC Studios Joining Demián Bichir and Madison Taylor Baez are Željko Ivanek (“Madam Secretary”) as Arthur, a scientist and former CEO of a now disgraced pharmaceutical empire, Grace Gummer (“Mr. Robot, “Dr. Death”) as his adult daughter Claire, and Fernanda Andrade (“Narcos: Mexico”) as Mark’s wife and Eleanor’s mother Elizabeth. Anika Noni Rose, Kevin Carroll, Nick Stahl, Ian Foreman, and Jacob Buster are also set to star....

Here’s what all the shows are about The CW Not to be biased, but “Gotham Knights” emerges as the most interesting (and potentially promising) show out of the trio. Offering a relatively fresh storyline, “Gotham Knights” is situated after Bruce Wayne’s murder, wherein his adopted son (played by Oscar Morgan) allies himself with the children of Batman’s rogues to get to the bottom of the mystery. One impetus for this unlikely alliance is that they are prime suspects in the Caped Crusader’s murder, prompting them to do everything they can to clear their names....

The Daily Stream: Andrew Garfield Gives An Oscar-Worthy Performance In Tick, Tick… BOOM! Netflix By Shania Russell/March 25, 2022 5:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “tick, tick… BOOM!” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Although I could take this opportunity to begin an impassioned speech about the works of Jonathan Larson — whose smash hit “Rent” reshaped the modern theater scene and became one of the longest-running shows on Broadway — I shall restrain my theater kid sensibilities for the sake of appealing to the masses: Andrew Garfield is the star of this show, shining brighter than ever before....