Why George A. Romero’s Vision For Resident Evil Never Made It To Film Constantin Film By Travis Yates/April 11, 2022 3:11 pm EST Talk about the one that got away! With the 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead” and its subsequent sequels, filmmaker George A. Romero cemented his legacy as the king of the zombie film. He singlehandedly created the horror subgenre while using zombies for social and political critique....
Why We’ll Never See Akira Kurosawa’s Original Version Of The Idiot Shochiku By Witney Seibold/Feb. 16, 2022 12:50 pm EST “The Idiot” was Akira Kurosawa’s 12th feature film as a director, and was released in 1951 in-between his more celebrated masterworks “Rashomon” and “Ikiru.” The film is an outlier in Kurosawa’s filmography in that it’s typically dismissed by critics as a lesser work from the master’s early era. This dismissal comes with an asterisk, however, as the version available to the public — it is currently on The Criterion Channel — is not complete....
No wizards for Ridley Scott, thank you very much Disney Scott could be referring to one of two Disney “wizard films” here. The first is “The Merlin Saga,” a film based on T.A. Barron’s book series that explores the life of the legendary wizard Merlin as a young man long before he mentored King Arthur. Scott was said to be in talks to direct the film in January 2018, with Philippa Boyens (the screenwriter behind “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy) penning the screenplay....
15 Best Tom Cruise Movies Ranked Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/May 5, 2022 12:55 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Tom Cruise isn’t just the greatest movie star working today … he has been an icon for nearly 40 years. A top box office draw, his taste in projects has kept him on the A-list for the long haul. Despite his popularity, Cruise only seems to pick projects that he’s interested in....
A Short History Of Spock’s Love Life: T’Pring Explained Paramount By Lyvie Scott/May 5, 2022 9:30 am EST It seems like “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is boldly going where few “Trek” voyages have gone before. The new series has pulled the curtain back on an exciting era in “Star Trek” history, which means that some of the fandom’s most pressing questions will finally be answered. What was the U.S.S. Enterprise like before Kirk stepped onto the bridge, and what was up with its former captain, Christopher Pike?...
Against The Ice Review: A Beautiful Slow Burn Set In A Frozen Wasteland Netflix By Danielle Ryan/March 2, 2022 7:00 pm EST Some true stories are almost too incredible to be believed, like Denmark’s Arctic Expedition in 1909. Led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, the team set out to dispute the United State’s claim on Northeast Greenland. If the team could prove that Greenland was one massive piece of land and not two separate ones, as the U....
Archive 81 Trailer: There’s Nothing Scarier Than Old VHS Tapes In Netflix’s New Horror Series Netflix By Shania Russell/Jan. 5, 2022 3:00 pm EST Prepare yourselves, conspiracy lovers: Netflix is inviting subscribers down a twisty new rabbit hole. The streamer just released a full trailer for “Archive 81,” the supernatural found-footage series loosely based on Daniel Powell and Marc Sollinger’s horror podcast of the same name. The upcoming series certainly takes after its source material by following an unsuspecting archivist swept away by a dangerous mystery, but a change in format also gives the story a lot more options....
Christopher Nolan Had No Plan B For David Bowie Turning Down The Prestige Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/June 24, 2022 1:07 pm EST When Christopher Nolan was casting “The Prestige,” there was only one person he had in mind for the role of Nikola Tesla, based on the real-life inventor. David Bowie took some convincing, but he eventually agreed to play Tesla — which is a good thing, since Nolan didn’t have a backup plan in place for what to do without him....
Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: Kimi, Cinderella, Cold Mountain, Murderville, And More HBO Max On the February 15, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: What we’ve been Doing: Brad went to Utah to visit his girlfriend and wants to plug her parents’ restaurant, Pogo’s Great Pizza & Chicken, bought a new TV, interviewed Penelope Spheeris for the 30th anniversary of Wayne’s World....
A Spotlight On Psychological Horror Zentropa Entertainments /Film has exclusively learned that CURIA’s February Creator Spotlight Collection will be curated by director Aaron Morgan. “The Art of Self-Defense” filmmaker Riley Stearns chose the December selections, while “Unloveable” filmmaker Suzi Yoonessi chose the January slate. Morgan is a filmmaker with a penchant for horror, and has directed three short films including the award-winning 2020 short “Seek.” CURIA plans to highlight more short films than ever this month in conjunction with Morgan’s guest curation....
End Of Watch Is Becoming A TV Series At Fox StudioCanal “End of Watch” was one of Ayer’s better-reviewed films, and it earned Peña and cinematographer Roman Vasyanov Independent Spirit Award nominations. This isn’t the first time that a movie Ayer wrote has made the leap to the small screen. He also penned the script for “Training Day,” directed by Antoine Fuqua, and that film became a short-lived CBS series starring the late Bill Paxton....
I, Chihuahua Concept Art Reveals Maya And The Three Director’s New Animated Film About A Luchador Dog Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/March 23, 2022 1:00 pm EST Last year was an embarrassment of riches for animation fans, especially on TV. From “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” capturing the extremely online generation, to the absolute visual marvel that was “Arcane,” many of the best animated movies and shows of the year came to us via Netflix....
John Woo And Oliver Stone Had A Kung-Fu Project That Never Made It To Production Eureka Video By Mike Williams/March 24, 2022 8:37 am EST While some folks might boil him down to dual-wielding handguns and doves, John Woo has had a long and varied directing career. His first full directorial debut was way back in 1974 on the kung fu action flick “The Young Dragons.” After directing several action and comedy films, Woo finally found his calling with 1986’s “A Better Tomorrow....
Kathryn Bigelow Had To Fight For Keanu Reeves To Star In Point Break By Lyvie Scott/March 11, 2022 10:34 am EST I’ll be honest: I didn’t fully understand “Point Break” at first. It was a movie that predated my interest in film — more importantly, I was not alive when it first came out — and so I believed the reviews that condemned its “machismo” or “shallow” sensibilities. I didn’t think the story of an FBI agent falling in with a band of adrenaline junkies who also robbed banks would appeal to me (ironically, I have always been majorly obsessed with “Fast & Furious” movies)....
Legacy: The True Story Of The L.A. Lakers Teaser: Hulu Doc Is A Mix Of Winning Time And Succession Hulu By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 21, 2022 4:01 pm EST For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And, like clockwork, for every prestige biography miniseries, there is a docuseries from another network waiting in the wings to tell its version of the story. This time, it’s “Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers....
Summon a better suit (for the opulence of the Overvoid) Marvel Studios In a Twitter thread earlier this month, showrunner Jeremy Slater revealed the backstory behind Moon Knight’s costume. He contrasted it with “all the Stark/nanotech suits that currently populate the MCU,” saying that it was inspired by Alex Ross’s comic book artwork for the “Universe X” version of Moon Knight. The idea, according to Slater, is that the costume is “conjured into existence like the bandages on a mummy....
Murderville: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 18, 2022 10:40 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) U.S. remakes of British TV shows are practically their own cottage industry, with some (like “Queer as Folk,” “The Office,” and “Veep”) becoming hits and even eclipsing their forerunners in popularity, while others (such as “Life on Mars”) simply fail to catch on in the States....
Samuel L. Jackson Receives An Honorary Oscar And Also A Salmon Oscar Miramax Films By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 26, 2022 2:27 pm EST In the latest questionable decision in an awards season full of questionable decisions, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences witnessed what will likely be some of the most compelling acceptance speeches of Oscar weekend during an un-aired ceremony on Friday. The Governors Awards, an annual event that has taken place since 2009, gave out lifetime achievement awards to industry greats Elaine May, Danny Glover, Liv Ullmann, and Samuel L....
Scream Directors Reveal Details About The Spoiler-Y Cameo, You Know The One Paramount Pictures The new “Scream” is chock-full of homages and allusions to the franchise’s past, some overt and some more subtle. One of the biggest of them involves a legacy character who is no longer with us … and if you want to know more, get your butt ready for some spoilers. Billy Loomis (once again played by Skeet Ulrich) returns to us in the new “Scream,” and directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin opened up about the decision to include the beloved-yet-hated character in their film to Collider in an interview:...
Shining Girls Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Attempts To Catch A Killer In A Reality-Shifting Mystery Series Apple TV+ By Jeremy Mathai/March 29, 2022 10:30 am EST At this point, if anyone in Hollywood is selling a story that happens to center on a haunted, damaged, and obsessively driven woman, they sure as hell better be giving Elisabeth Moss a call. The supremely talented star of “Mad Men,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Her Smell,” “The Invisible Man,” and “Shirley” (among many, many other notable projects, of course) has all but cornered the market in playing these specific types of leads, going above and beyond to embody such rich characters with a fierce and unwavering sense of commitment....
