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Daily Podcast: Marvel Netflix Shows, Variable Movie Pricing, And More Marvel By Ben Pearson/March 3, 2022 5:54 pm EST On the March 3, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by no one to talk about the latest film and TV news, including the Netflix Marvel shows coming to Disney+, variable movie pricing, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki comments, Ariana DeBose in Kraven the Hunter, and more. Opening Banter: In The News:...

Duty-bound and ready to die MGM Dunbar’s journals form the basis of a voiceover that’s necessary for the man, who’s quiet and taciturn, hardly willing to speak to anybody, let alone provisioner Timmons (Robert Pastorelli), Dunbar’s guide and “the foulest man” he’s ever met. We get a sense immediately of why Dunbar wanted to go to the frontier, as cinematographer Dean Semler crafts painterly, golden-hour images of the plains that gives the movie its spectacle....

Denzel Washington Went Off-Script For His Defining Training Day Moment Warner Bros. Pictures By Collier Jennings/April 8, 2022 1:05 pm EST Whether you’ve seen “Training Day” or not, you’ve probably heard about the “King Kong speech.” Said speech happens toward the end of the film, when Denzel Washington’s Alonzo Harris unleashes a tirade against his former criminal accomplices after his partner Jake (Ethan Hawke) gathers evidence that proves he’s a corrupt cop....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Behind-The-Scenes Video Is Full Of New Footage Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/April 22, 2022 2:40 pm EST A new Sam Raimi movie is always cause for celebration and excitement, regardless of one’s own personal thoughts on the particular franchise that happens to be serving as his vehicle at the moment. With “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” movie fans who have been following Raimi’s career for decades now will get another chance to see the horror aficionado unleashed on a truly epic scale — which will hopefully lead to Hollywood remembering that, hey, Sam Raimi is a wildly talented director who should be allowed to make whatever movies he wants, whenever he wants!...

Jurassic World Dominion Director Colin Trevorrow On Feathered Dinos And Combining Casts [Interview] Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/June 6, 2022 12:00 pm EST “Jurassic World Dominion” marks the conclusion of the second “Jurassic” trilogy, and I got a chance to chat with director Colin Trevorrow about what’s coming. In the film, the dinosaurs are off Isla Nublar and are integrating with human society. Some of them are friendly(ish). Some of them are running in herds....

Minions: The Rise Of Gru Footage Reaction: Yep, This One Has A Cheese Gun [CinemaCon 2022] Illumination Entertainment By Jenna Busch/April 27, 2022 9:03 pm EST We’re barreling through footage from upcoming films at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and our own Ben Pearson is on the ground taking notes so it feels like we’re right there in the audience with him. The next film in the footage parade is Illumination Entertainment’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Will Feature Three Actors Playing Darth Vader Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 10, 2022 11:06 am EST One of the great existential concerns surrounding any new “Star Wars” movie or show these days inevitably comes back to this: is the universe bigger than just the Skywalker family? Every fan has their own passionate opinion about this, but the one that matters most belongs to that of the creative team in charge over at Lucasfilm....

One Scene In The Fisher King Pushed Robin Williams To His Limits Tri-Star Pictures By Lee Adams/June 23, 2022 10:53 am EST “The Fisher King” has always been my favorite Terry Gilliam movie, but I only saw it again recently for the first time since its star, Robin Williams, died so tragically in 2014. I guess what kept me away for so long was the feeling that, given that some of its themes are so closely linked to depression, mental illness, and suicide, it might feel a little too close to the bone, or even intrusive....

Peacemaker Star John Cena Was Rejected From Many Superhero Roles, Including Deadpool HBO Max By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Jan. 16, 2022 10:38 pm EST Sometimes an actor is so perfect for the character they’re portraying that we can’t possibly imagine anyone else doing them justice. Ryan Reynolds was destined to become Deadpool. Nobody could have embodied the first live-action Shaggy as well as Matthew Lillard. And John Cena is absolutely perfect as Peacemaker....

The Sexless Marvel Discourse Continues Warner Bros. The debate around mainstream superhero films’ relative sexlessness is by no means a new one, with director Pedro Almodóvar making similar statements in 2019. Aside from the short run of more mature Netflix TV shows, the Marvel Cinematic Universe in particular is largely sex-free. There are moments like the vague lovemaking scene in “Eternals” and Tony Stark’s frantic makeout session in the first “Iron Man,” but the franchise as a whole remains fairly chaste....

Stop What You’re Doing And Watch Astrid & Lilly Save The World USA and Syfy By BJ Colangelo/April 5, 2022 3:00 pm EST The algorithm gods would like us to believe we’re on the up-and-up with everything Good™ currently at our disposal, but the reality is that we’re trapped in a bubble of content oversaturation. There’s just too much good coming in from all sides and unless someone physically grabs my idiot face and says, “WATCH SEVERANCE,” there’s a good chance I’m going to show up weeks late and binge eight horrors of a dystopian workplace nightmare in one sitting to prepare for the season finale....

More About Run Rabbit Run Gary Sanchez Productions Snook and Reid have previously collaborated in the two-part miniseries “The Secret River,” based on the novel of the same name by Kate Grenville, about a young couple weathering trials and tribulations in 1805 New South Wales. Reid has been going strong with television, having directed episodes of sci-fi comedy “Space Force,” the Dwayne Johnson-produced “Young Rock,” and HBO’s “The Outsider” on top of the episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” that earned her an Emmy nomination....

The Book Of Boba Fett’s Greatest Cameo Is The Smooth Voice Of Boba’s Palace Droid Lucasfilm By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2021 11:31 am EST This post contains spoilers for the first episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” “The Book of Boba Fett” has officially been opened with the first episode of the “Star Wars” series available today on Disney+. The new series picks up after the return of Boba Fett in the second season of “The Mandalorian,” with the bounty hunter taking over the crime syndicate that once belonged to Jabba the Hutt....

The Official Furiosa Synopsis Teases An Action Movie As Simple And Bombastic As Fury Road Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/June 24, 2022 12:19 pm EST Just how good is “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Consider that the commonly accepted wisdom among film circles would tend to suggest that sequels, prequels, spin-offs, and other franchise continuations should be considered inherently inferior to original works. Well, those who hold such hardline stances had no choice but to look the other way when George Miller unleashed his 2015 thrill-a-minute masterpiece upon us unsuspecting audiences, bringing us back to the post-apocalyptic franchise that action junkies simply couldn’t get enough of....

The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Trailer: It’s A Timeline Blitz Netflix By BJ Colangelo/May 19, 2022 10:00 am EST The time has come to revisit the Hargreeves siblings in their quest to save the world, but there’s one teensy, weensy, little problem. Okay, I lied. It’s an unfathomably massive problem that has the potential to wipe out all of existence. “We created a time paradox and our little paradox has brought forth a freakin’ kugelblitz,” Number five explains....

‘He absolutely never, ever does anything but his best’ Lionsgate Movies “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” sees Cage playing a fictionalized or “stylized” version of himself who is debt-ridden and who becomes a CIA informant after a billionaire mega-fan and drug lord, played by “The Mandalorian” star Pedro Pascal, invites him to make a paid birthday party appearance. It’s a meta concept that harkens back to when Cage played screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his fictional twin brother in Spike Jonze’s “Adaptation....

The Weird Connection Between The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel And Rosemary’s Baby By Steven Ward/Feb. 11, 2022 11:34 am EST So what exactly connects these seemingly atypical worlds? Tannis Root and Rose Of the many colorful characters that fill the ranks of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” very few come close to Midge’s own mother, Rose Weissman. And fans know one of her most devoted idiosyncrasies is her compulsive need to consult psychics on the topic of her daughter — particularly over fears that the carefully conceived trajectory of her life won’t stay the course....

Thor: Love And Thunder Trailer Breakdown: Putting Together The Greatest Team Ever Marvel Studios By Erin Brady/June 23, 2022 2:34 pm EST With two weeks until it premieres in theaters, we’ve got another new look at “Thor: Love and Thunder.” While not as detailed as previous trailers (this snippet has no signs of Russell Crowe as Zeus), it does shine a new light on the epic team-up being made to stop Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) from, well, butchering the gods....

Under The Banner Of Heaven Review: Andrew Garfield’s Stunning Crisis Of Faith Steadies An Uneven Murder Mystery FX By Shania Russell/April 25, 2022 12:00 pm EST With true crime continuing its media takeover and murder mysteries leading the prestige drama charge, the idea of a series kicking off with a dead body has become a given. Sure enough, “Under The Banner of Heaven” touts all the trappings we’ve become used to: a small-town community shaken to its core, a grizzly murder based in real life, brooding landscapes with the sun peeking just over the horizon and at the center of it all, one man caught in a crisis state....

Why ILM Was Different Whenever George Lucas Was In The Office Disney+ By Jeremy Mathai/May 27, 2022 5:42 pm EST The biggest reveals and most highly-anticipated updates may have been announced already, but Star Wars Celebration is still going strong through the upcoming weekend and there’s no lack of fascinating tidbits to uncover. The convention is held annually in Anaheim, California, with fans across the globe coming together to celebrate one of the most popular franchises to ever hit the big screen....