‘The Martian’ Early Buzz: Ridley Scott And Matt Damon Fly High Ridley Scott’s last foray into outer space wasn’t so well received, and it’s got his fans feeling ambivalent about his next planned outing on the spaceship Prometheus. But in between, Scott returned to space forThe Martian, a much more grounded sort of sci-fi adventure. The early trailers have looked very promising, as has that cast – but then, you could’ve said the same thing about any of his last few misses....

‘The Meg’ International Trailer Sinks Its Jaws Into New Footage The only thing that can save the summer at this point isJason Stathamfighting a big-ass prehistoric shark. Thankfully, a newThe Meginternational trailer just swam online, bringing with it a ton of new footage. The Meg International Trailer Ah, summer. A time of sandy beaches, sunlight glinting off the sea, and of course, giant, prehistoric sharks. Jason Statham is going to close out the summer movie season withThe Meg, a big, dumb monster movie about a bunch of people trying to stop a a 75-foot-long Megalodon....

‘Top Gun 2’ May Get A New Version Of ‘Danger Zone’ By Kenny Loggins And A Mystery Rock Act Top Gun 2has defied the odds, and after decades of hype and promise, the adrenaline-fueled sequel is finally in production. Tom Cruiseposted a photo from the set last week, and barring some kind of insurmountable obstacle, the movie titledTop Gun: Maverickwill be on the big screen for the summer of 2019. And when it arrives, it may have a new version of the signature rock song that made all the high-flying jet sequences that much more memorable....

‘Toy Story 4’ Director Josh Cooley To Make His Live-Action Directorial Debut With ‘Malamander’ Toy Story 4director and longtime Pixar artistJosh Cooleyis making the leap to live-action. The director of the Oscar-winningToy Story 4is set to make his live-action directorial debut with Sony’sMalamander, an adaptation of the bestselling children’s adventure book by Thomas Taylor. Many an acclaimed animation director has successfully made the transition to live-action.Toy Story 4director Josh Cooley is aiming to be the latest one....

/Answers: Our Favorite ‘Star Wars’ Moments Every week in/Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. In this week’s edition, we’re celebrating the release ofStar Wars: The Last Jediby fondlyrecalling our favoriteStar Warsmovie moments, the individual beats or reveals or lines of dialogue that stand out above all else for us. Lindsey Romain: Leia Senses Luke is in Danger I can’t really put my finger on why this moment, of anyStar Warsmoment, comes to mind when I attempt to nail down a favorite....

Antoine Fuqua To Direct ‘The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace’ Antoine FuquahasThe Equalizerin theaters now, and this week set up a new film to direct. He’s now attached to direct a film based on the bookThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, which as the title suggests tells the story of a young man who made it to Yale, only to face a violent end....

Apple TV+ Is Offering Several Of Its Originals For Free To Non-Subscribers For A Limited Time For a limited time, customers across the world can start watching a collection of Apple TV+ Originals for free. Seven Apple Originals, including the acclaimed alternate history seriesFor All Mankind,the M. Night Shymalan thriller seriesServant, and Kumail Nanjiani’s inspiringLittle America, will be available to watch on the Apple TV app, to customers in over 100 countries and regions....

Daily Podcast: What Do Sith Troopers Mean For Rise Of Skywalker? Evil Dead, Sherlock Holmes 3, Spike Jonze, Hobbs And Shaw And Zack Snyder On the July 31, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chiefPeter Scirettais joined by /Film weekend editorBrad Oman, senior writerBen Pearsonand writerHoai-Tran Buito talk about the latest film and tv news, includingStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, Evil Dead, Sherlock Holmes 3, Spike Jonze, Hobbs and ShawandZack Snyder....

David Goyer Hired To Write WB’s Next Superman Film, The Man Of Steel It’s a big day for movement on the comic book movie front. We just had word onMarvel’s casting approachtoCaptain America, and now there is some new detail about the nextSupermanmovie from DC and Warner Bros. While recent reports thatChristopher Nolanis mentoring the new Superman film were denied by DC and WB, we’re now told thatDavid Goyer, who has worked with Nolan on hisBatmanfilms, has been hired to write the new Superman film,The Man of Steel....

Does Lucasfilm’s ‘Han Solo’ Movie Crew Shirt Reveal The Film’s Official Title? We’re still just over six months away from the release of Rian Johnson’sStar Wars: The Last Jedi, butStar Warsfans are an eager bunch and are actively hunting down any information they can get about Lucasfilm’s next film after that. Specifically,Phil LordandChris Miller’sstill-officially-untitled young Han Solo movie that featuresAlden Ehrenreichtaking over the role from Harrison Ford. You know the old saying: fandom’s gonna fan....

Don’t Look Up Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio And Jennifer Lawrence Try To Warn Us About The End Of The World There have been plenty of movies about the end of the world. Within that subgenre, a handful of them have been about an asteroid being on a collision course with Earth and threatening to destroy the planet. In 1998 alone there were two of them in the same year. Now director Adam McKay is trying his hand at the end of the world with “Don’t Look Up,” another story about a comet that spells extinction-level trouble for the citizens of this planet....

Early Buzz: First Review Praises Wong Kar Wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ As A Moody, Gorgeous Martial Arts Exercise Feels like we’ve waited forever forWong Kar Wai’s new film, but in reality it has been only (only!) about six years since his last feature,My Blueberry Nights. Hardly “forever,” but with that said, this movie was announced a decade ago, in 2002. And so, after several delays, Wong’s newThe Grandmaster, starringTony Leung Chiu Waias the legendary martial arts master Ip Man, is finally opening in China....

Elizabeth Hurley Will Be ‘Wonder Woman’ Villain Where hasElizabeth Hurleybeen? She hasn’t had a screen role since 2004, seemingly spending her time raising family and doing charity work in the meantime. Now she’s making her way back to movie screens — she’s got a voice role in the animated filmThe Wild Bunch, and now says that she’ll be the ‘evil villain’ in the newWonder WomanTV series. The info comes via the actress’Twitteraccount, where she said,...