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Kevin Feige Wins More Control At Marvel Studios In Behind The Scenes Restructuring Chances are, many Marvel fans don’t even know the nameIke Perlmutter. Ask people who runsMarvel Studiosand the name you’ll hear will beKevin Feige. Even Feige reports to someone, however. Since 2007, when Feige was made president of production at Marvel Studios, that someone has been Ike Perlmutter, who became CEO of Marvel Entertainment in 2005. Things changed last week, however, as Feige managed to tweak the corporate structure at Marvel and Disney....

Mail Bag: Framing Movie Posters, Great 4K Blu-Rays, Multiverse Possibilities, Crying In Movies, Single-Player Board Games On the July 06, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chiefPeter Scirettais joined by managing editorJacob Hall, weekend editorBrad Oman, senior writerBen Pearsonand writerChris Evangelistato answer some long lingering questions in the Mail Bag. Opening Banter: We have a lot of emails to get into today. In The Mailbag: Ben P from Los Angeles writes in: “Hi Chris, I know you’ve mentioned in the past that you’re open to non-movie-related questions, so maybe you can help me out with this situation....

Marvel’s What If…? Episode Endings Could Lead To Sequel Stories For Variant Characters The Watcher asks one simple question: “What if…” Sometimes that meanswhat if T’Challawas picked up by the Ravengers instead of Peter Quill, orwhat if Peggy Cartertook the super-soldier serum. But the biggest question has gone unanswered … until now. What if these episodes of Disney+’s “What If…?” weren’t just one-shots? Well, we might have a little info to consider in the form of a quote from the show’s head writer, A....

Movie Playlist: Jay Baruchel Welcome to another edition of Movie Playlist, where we talk to the writers, directors, and stars about their favorite films. I’ve always found the celebrity playlists on iTunes to be interesting. Most everyone in the film business moved to Hollywood after discovering their love of films. And I’ve always love talking to people about their favorite films. So talking to the people who make the movies about their favorite films just seemed like a natural idea....

Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes’ And WB’s Will Smith-Starring ‘King Richard’ Hit With Lawsuits Welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all, to today’s movie lawsuit round-up extravaganza! Can it be an extravaganza if there are only two lawsuits? Let’s not worry about the specifics! Netflix’sEnola Holmes, a movie about Sherlock Holmes' younger sister, and Warner Bros.‘King Richard, a biopic of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams’ father, have both had suits filed against them....

New ‘New Mutants’ Trailer Coming In January, Implying The Movie Might Actually Be Released Some Day RememberThe New Mutants? The horror-tingedX-Menspin-off was supposed to open in theaters in 2018, back before Fox became the property of Disney. Since then, the film has shuffled around several times, with many coming to believe theJosh Boone-directed pic would never see the light of day. But maybe, just maybe, thoseNew Mutantswill have their day. According to Boone, a newNew Mutantstrailer is going to drop sometime in January....

New ‘Nymphomaniac’ Image, Film Opens Christmas Day In Denmark Lars von Triermay have been banned (or “banned”) from Cannes two years ago for statements made while promotingMelancholia, but that hasn’t stopped him from having a presence at the fest this year. His new film(s), the two-partNymphomaniac, weren’t finished in time for the fest, but the release of a new image (above) and a press release are keeping Trier in the global cinema conversation as Cannes kicks off this year....

New ‘Peanuts’ Movie First Look: Charlie Brown And Snoopy Head Back To The Big Screen The last time Charlie Brown and Snoopy were in their own big-screen feature was in 1980. But 2015 is the 65th anniversary of the debut ofCharles Schulz’s comic strip ‘Peanuts,’ and also the 50th anniversary of their wonderful specialA Charlie Brown Christmas. And so a newPeanutsmovie is finally going to arrive. This time the characters will be brought to life via CG (“we’ll see that Snoopy has soft-white fur” says the cartoonist’s son Craig Schulz) and presented in 3D....

New ‘Sicario: Day Of The Soldado’ Clip Has Its Eyes On The Prize Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to the anxiety-inducingSicario, is one of the summer’s dark horse films. No one was asking for a sequel toSicario, but maybe it’ll turn out to be an entertaining surprise. At the very least, this newSicario: Day of the Soldadoclip indicates the film will have plenty of intense moments. Watch it below....

Rachel McAdams May Join Jason Bateman In ‘Game Night’ Rachel McAdams(Doctor Strange) is close to signing up to star in the ensemble comedyGame Night, whichJonathan GoldsteinandJohn Francis Daley(Vacationremake) are directing. Actor and co-producerJason Bateman’s involvement in the project began almost four years ago, and he remains attached to star. The dark, ensemble comedy is about a game night gone horribly wrong. Below, learn more about the Jason Batman comedy. Game Nightis about a group of couples whose regular game night turns into a murder mystery....

Reviews Of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Hit The Net “Must escape.” Last month, we posted about an alleged, albeit totes sketchy, earlyfirst reviewofIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullwhich called it “the best of the Indy sequels.” Well, the film recently screened and reviews are beginning to trickle in. Umm, they are not positiveat all. Update: a new one is positive, summarized here at the end....

Ridley Scott Offers More Hints On Possible ‘Prometheus’ And ‘Blade Runner’ Sequels The fate of aPrometheussequel is likely being decided as we speak…on Blu-ray shelves nationwide.Ridley Scott’s return to theAlienuniverse just came out on Blu-ray after its slightly disappointing U.S box office, grossing just over $126 million. When combined with its international take, though, the film was a moderate hit, grossing just over $400 million. That’s not a number that guarantees a follow up but the movie hasgenerated a ton of discussionand a strong showing in the home market would surely help the sequel’s case immensely....

Rumor: Taylor Swift, Lea Michele, Scarlett Johansson, Evan Rachel Wood Vying For ‘Les Miserables’ The cast ofTom Hooper’sLes Miserablesis already plenty star-studded, withHugh Jackman,Russell Crowe,Anne Hathaway, and up-and-comerEddie Redmayneall signed on at present — but as anyone familiar with the book or stage musical can attest, that still leaves several juicy roles remaining to be filled. One of the most notable is the part of Éponine, perhaps best remembered for her big solo number “On My Own,” but that could change soon....