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Pixar Brought In A Star Wars Heavyweight For Some Help On Wall-E Walt Disney Studios By Steven Ward/July 1, 2022 5:27 pm EST When it comes to Pixar — and indeed most any animated feature — human characters are not par the course. Many of the animation studio’s iconic shorts and feature-length films relegate people to periphery roles. From “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo” to “A Bugs Life” and “Cars,” all are brought to life to imbue new magic to the previously mundane....

Sam Raimi-Produced Boy Kills World Loses Samara Weaving But Gains Jessica Rothe Blumhouse Productions By Jenna Busch/Jan. 12, 2022 10:48 am EST Well, this is what you call an embarrassment of riches. Sam Raimi and Roy Lee are producing the film “Boy Kills World,” and they’ve had an actress change. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the person playing one of the lead roles in the film, Samara Weaving, has just been replaced by Jessica Rothe....

Samuel L. Jackson Blabs About Martin Freeman’s (Unannounced) Involvement In Secret Invasion Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/March 14, 2022 3:56 pm EST Samuel L. Jackson may have just leaked some casting info about the upcoming series “Secret Invasion.” I can just imagine which words he’ll use if someone tries to tell him he did something wrong. At an event in New York called, “Samuel L. Jackson: In Conversation with Josh Horowitz” (via Games Radar), he spoke about the cast that is being assembled (no, I actually didn’t write that on purpose) for the upcoming Disney+ series that features the Skrulls....

Star Wars Celebration Anaheim panel schedule Lucasfilm StarWars.com and StarWarsCelebration.com recently revealed the Celebration Anaheim schedule, which will be held May 26-29, 2022, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Here are some highlights: Lucasfilm’s Studio Showcase Thursday, May 26 | 11:00AM – 12:30PM Star Wars Celebration returns, launching with a must-see showcase that will kick the weekend’s festivities into hyperdrive. Lucasfilm’s current crop of live-action filmmakers will be joined by special guests to discuss the many Star Wars adventures coming soon, including ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi,’ ‘Andor,’ and ‘The Mandalorian....

Star Wars TV Is Finally Giving Tusken Raiders The Spotlight, And It’s About Time Lucasfilm By Lyvie Scott/Jan. 6, 2022 5:40 pm EST As a near-lifelong “Star Wars” fan, I’ve found that enjoying the galaxy far, far away gets exponentially harder as years pass. My identity as a woman of color, as well as the constraints that come with it, staunchly influences my opinion on everything. So I’ve found that my appreciation for “Star Wars” — a decidedly-white franchise that has only recently begun seeking out minority voices — now hinges exclusively on how said voices are elevated (or — let’s be real — ignored)....

Vincent Paramount Pictures Vincent Schnider is part of the “sleazy Kyle Gallner canon,” which is comprised of unsavory roles played by the highly underrated Kyle Gallner and includes (but is not limited to) Simon in “Dinner In America” and Hansil in “Outsiders.” Sleazy Kyle Gallner is generally excellent, and “Scream” makes efficient use of that particular energy, setting him up as a brooding biker who dates teens before swiftly dispatching of them....

The Master TWC Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” features Joaquin Phoenix as a drunken man with PTSD from World War II and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a charismatic cult leader inspired by L. Ron Hubbard. When these two get together, look out! A slow-burn featuring two amazing lead performances, “The Master” also features a stellar Amy Adams as Hoffman’s cold-eyed wife, who knows Phoenix’s character is bad news from the jump....

The Daily Stream: The Great Doesn’t Care About Prestige Period Shows (Or Facts) Hulu By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 24, 2022 6:00 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 Series: “The Great” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: A self-described “Occasionally True Story” that evolves into “An Almost Entirely Untrue Story” by the end of season 2, “The Great” centers on a young Catherine II (Elle Fanning), who would go on to become Catherine the Great and the longest-reigning Empress in Russia’s history....

‘Hello, Clarice’ Orion Pictures Late ’80s and early ’90s TV was lacking in diverse, non-traditional female characters, but certain films helped bridge the gap. Ellen Ripley is an unquestionable badass in “Alien” and Sarah Connor is a hardened warrior in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” but an FBI trainee with a good bag and cheap shoes inspired the creation of Scully. It’s difficult to watch “The Silence of the Lambs” without being transfixed by Hannibal Lecter, but the character of Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) deserves just as much respect....

This Game Of Thrones Actor Almost Played The Doctor On Doctor Who BBC By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 14, 2022 10:53 am EST There’s a reason why the Time Lord from “Doctor Who” has been championing time travel for over 50 years on the silver screen. The BBC series is teeming with well-developed characters, the plot is clever, and the monsters are not too monstrous but monstrous enough to keep the story going....

Uncharted Review: Uninspired Action-Adventure Movies Belong In A Museum Sony Pictures By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 15, 2022 12:00 am EST There is a frightening trend in action tentpoles nowadays: when the frame is not being filled with CGI explosions and various stuntmen doing acrobatic flips off camera, it’s being filled with quips. Worse yet, they’re not even funny quips, but they roll off the tongues of our devastatingly handsome leading men so quickly that you’re halfway to chuckling before you register that there wasn’t even a joke....

Veneciafrenia Trailer: Alex De La Iglesia Turns Carnival Of Venice Into The Purge Sony By Rafael Motamayor/March 1, 2022 1:15 pm EST Álex de la Iglesia is one of the biggest names in Spanish horror even if he hasn’t achieved mainstream success in the U.S. His film “The Day of the Beast” is a phenomenal horror comedy, and his recent TV series “30 Coins” is one of the best religious horror stories ever, with a distinct style and bonkers story....

Who Is The Skull Cowboy And Why Was He Cut From The Crow? Miramax By Lee Adams/March 25, 2022 11:42 am EST It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when superhero movies were still relatively thin on the ground. Let’s cast our minds back to the 1990s. What did we have? Christopher Reeve was still most people’s Superman, although his tenure bottomed out several years earlier with the Cold War-themed “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace....

Why Anthony Hopkins Is So Easy To Work With, According To Olivia Colman Lionsgate By Miyako Pleines/April 8, 2022 3:48 pm EST There are many great actors in Hollywood. People who, if you are an actor yourself, you probably have on your list of dream people to star in a film with. Having just won his second Oscar for his performance in last year’s Best Picture nominee “The Father,” Anthony Hopkins is definitely one of these people....

Why David Fincher Thinks He Shouldn’t Have Directed The Game PolyGram Films By Witney Seibold/May 11, 2022 11:20 am EST Director David Fincher’s first feature, “Alien 3,” was, by all accounts, a massive disappointment. Not only did it encounter a litany of production problems, but the film wasn’t well-received critically (it currently holds a 46% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes), even if it was a modest hit. Later, in his film “Fight Club,” Fincher would include a scene of a man going through a video store with an electromagnet merrily erasing all the VHS tapes of “Alien 3,” so audiences can intuit how he feels about the whole affair....

Letting a good thing go Disney The fourth “Pirates” film, “On Stranger Tides,” was a departure from the initial trilogy in every sense of the word. Though Captain Jack was present and accounted for — and would even be joined by Geoffrey Rush’s Captain Barbosa — everything else felt drastically different. Sure, there were mermaids (and Penelope Cruz!), but each stilted attempt to introduce a new romance just served as a painful reminder that Will and Elizabeth were nowhere to be found....

Why Paul Dano Was Drawn To Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/March 22, 2022 6:06 pm EST Paul Dano is enjoying a well-deserved victory lap in the biggest spotlight possible thanks to his tremendous and chilling performance in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman.” The actor, known for appearing (and getting beat up) in various lower-budget movies, always seemed like an unconventional pick for the role of the homicidal, serial-killing Riddler....

Alfonso Cuaron Explains Why Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Was So Cloudy Warner Bros. By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Jan. 1, 2022 1:40 pm EST Chris Columbus gave up his directorial duties following “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” because he wanted to spend more time with his children. So, Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón was brought in to helm “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” the third film in the franchise....

Attack The Block’s Aliens Were Just As Terrifying Behind The Scenes Optimum Releasing By BJ Colangelo/March 23, 2022 1:00 pm EST Before John Boyega became everyone’s favorite rebellious stormtrooper and righteous critic of the sidelining of people of color in the “Star Wars” universe, he had his breakthrough role as Moses in the British indie alien favorite, “Attack the Block.” After Moses and his best gang of mates rob a young nurse named Sam (Doctor Who herself, Jodie Whittaker) on Guy Fawkes Night, they find their low-income housing block in South London invaded by brutal alien beasts....

Daily Podcast: What Netflix Needs To Beat Disney In The Streaming Wars, This Is Spinal Tap 2, And More Marvel Studios By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2022 4:47 pm EST On the May 12, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news, including what Netflix needs to do to beat Disney in the streaming wars, “This is Spinal Tap 2,” and the possibility of a “Moon Knight” season 2....