Obi-Wan Kenobi Was Retooled After It Was Too Similar To The Mandalorian The trailer for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” has had people buzzing since the second it came out. I have watched it more times than I can count, looking for clues to what’s coming. Who is he talking to when he says, “The fight is done. We lost”? Is it Qui-Gon Jinn’s Force ghost? Who might we see? Today we learnedthat the series was changed a bit since its inception....

Prince Musical In The Works: Artist’s Songs To Be Turned Into A Movie, But It Won’t Be A Biopic Step aside,Purple Rain: anotherPrincemusical is on the way. Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to several songs from the acclaimed musician whodied in 2016, and the studio is currently developing a musical that will utilize those classic Prince tracks to tell an original, fictional story. But unlike the 1984 rock musicalPurple Rain, this movie won’t involve biographical elements of Prince’s real life....

Ryan Gosling Directorial Debut ‘Lost River’ Going Straight To Video You won’t see the nextRyan Goslingfilmin theaters.Lost River, the film Ryan Gosling directed, and which premiered at Cannes this year to puzzled, if not outright hostile reactions, will be released by Warner Bros. only on video. The stigma associated with the phrase “direct to video” has slowly but steadily decreased, perhaps since Roger Ebert highlightedRed Rock Westas a quality film that just happened to be dumped to HBO and video in ‘93/‘94....

Scott Shepherd Set To Have His Day Ruined By Matt Damon In The Next ‘Bourne’ Movie ActorScott Shepherdmay not have too many film credits to his name, but he seems to have everything required to become a great modern “that guy.” You know, an actor whose name you may not necessarily know, but whose presence is unmistakable. You watch him hold his own against Tom Hanks inBridge of Spiesand you’re convinced that you’ve seen him in a dozen other movies....

Sequel Bits: Kick-Ass 2, Piranha 3DD, Anchorman 2, Good Day To Die Hard, Snow White And Huntsman 2, Star Trek 2 So much to get to today. After the jump read about: It’s kind of incredible but it seems likeKick-Ass 2is actually happening. First, writer/directorJeff Wadlowsigned on to adaptMark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s comic book with Matthew Vaughn producing. Next up, the actors have to sign on since none of them had sequel deals....

Superhero Bits: ‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ Cast Reunion, ‘Captain Marvel’ Concept Art & More What is Marvel Comics' newAbsolute Carnageevent? Want to see aCaptain Marveldesign that gave her short hair? Did you knowThanos' snap almost didn’t happen inAvengers: Infinity War? Want to see an awesomeX-Men: The Animated Seriescast reunion panel? Who was revealed as the real big bad behind the final season ofGotham? What kind of villains are we dealing with inBlack Widow?...

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3, The Avengers, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Judge Dredd WasJeremy Rennerdissatisfied with his role inThe Avengers? Who wasPresident Obama’s favorite actor inThe Dark Knight Rises? HasCall Me Maybemade the switch to the superhero genre? Which stunt, captured on the set ofThe Dark Knight Rises, didn’t make it into the final film? When mightThe Avengers 2be released? Where isIron Man 3shooting this weekend? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

The Morning Watch: Mel Stuart Looks Back At ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’, ‘The Birdcage’ Comparison & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, listen asWilly Wonka and the Chocolate FactorydirectorMel Stuartreflects on the making of the delicious movie for its 50th anniversary....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘La Haine’ Is A Racially Charged Classic More Relevant Now Than Ever (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:La HaineWhere You Can Stream It:KanopyThe Pitch:Aa trio of friends wander aimlessly through the French suburbs, distracting themselves from the cycles of poverty and discrimation that entrap themby debating their favorite movies and posturing as Robert de Niro-inspired gangsters....

The Shrink Next Door Trailer: Paul Rudd Is Will Ferrell’s Very Unethical Therapist In The Apple TV+ Series “Anchorman” alums Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell are reuniting to portray a decade-spanning friendship, much more complicated than it seems. “The Shrink Next Door” is a dark comedy based on the true story of a soft-spoken, anxiety stricken man and the therapist who turns his life around … before taking it over....

The Thing Crew Risked Their Lives For One Shot Of The Spaceship Everything would have been fine if only those Norwegians hadn’t blown up the ice that buried a 100,000-year-old alien spaceship. But, like most of humanity, curiosity got the better of them and they unleashed an alien species hellbent on taking over the world. On a superficial level (there’s a prequel that goes into way more depth about this whole thing), this is basically the backstory for the plot of John Carpenter’s 1982 science fiction horror movie “The Thing” in which a scrappy team of American arctic explorers discovers they are under attack by a shape-shifting alien that wants to assimilate into human form and bring an end to the human race....

Universal’s New Werewolf Movie Now Shooting, Headed Straight To DVD This summer we started to hear rumblings that Universal wasprepping a new Wolfman movie, and that this might essentially be a reboot of the character, and one that acts like the recentThe Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro, didn’t happen. Those reports were partially correct. Roger Corman veteranLouis Morneau(Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead;The Hitcher II: I’ve Been Waiting;Bats),tipped as the director for this projecta few months back, started production today on a film called, for now,Untitled Werewolf Thriller....

X-Men? Fantastic Four? Marvel Has Contingency Story Plans In Case They Get Character Rights Back I attended a Q&A with Marvel headKevin Feigelast night which you’re able to read about elsewhere on the site (Infinity Stones/Infinity Warand thefuture of the Marvel Universe). One quote in particular no one seems to be focusing on is something Feige said when answering my question about how they can insert a character like Spider-Man into the long-term arc leading to Infinity War, which has clearly already been plotted far in advance....