The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘Shazam’, What’s Left Of Buster From ‘Mythbusters’ & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, the VFX artists at Corridor Crew are joined by directorDavid F....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Echo In The Canyon’ Details The Creative Explosion Of Folk Rock In The 1960s (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:Echo in the CanyonWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & The Papas, Buffalo Springfield, and several other bands who are associated with the “California Sound” of folk rock all lived within a few miles of each other in the 1960s, and The Wallflowers front man Jakob Dylan (Bob Dylan’s son) interviews tons of people – including many surviving members of those bands – about that explosively creative period in music history....

Watch The First Four Minutes Of Jonathan Levine’s Zom-Rom-Com ‘Warm Bodies’ Both paranormal romances and zombie thrillers have abounded on the big screen in recent years, but next year’sWarm Bodiespromises to do something a little different by combining the two subgenres. Directed byJonathan Levine(50/50) based on the book byIsaac Marion, the zom-rom-com follows an unlikely relationship between the handsome-but-undead R (Nicholas Hoult) and the very-much-alive Julie (Teresa Palmer). The promos we’ve seen so far suggest a movie that’s equal parts sweet and funny....

Welcome To The Party, Pal: Notes From A ‘Die Hard’ Tour Of Nakatomi Plaza And 30th Anniversary Screening (We recently celebrated the 30th anniversary ofDie Hard, arguably the greatest action movie of all time. /Film has explored the film from every anglewith a whole series of articles. To conclude our coverage, we took a special tour of the film’s locations and attended a spectacular screening on the Fox lot.) By now, everyone knows that the filmmakers behindDie Hardutilized 20th Century Fox’s Fox Plaza, a real skyscraper in Los Angeles’s Century City, to stand in for the movie’s famous Nakatomi Plaza....

Why The Time Is Right For “Screenlife” Movies Like ‘Searching’ And ‘Unfriended’ Everything happens on the internet now, and that poses problems for filmmakers.For decades, movies and TV have struggled with how to depict the decidedly un-cinematic act of using computers. In the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s, the typical approaches were to hype up the user interface with animation and 3D graphics, put the user in virtual reality, or make the computer talk....

‘300’ Sequel No Longer Called ‘Xerxes’ 300was a success that went beyond the expectations of everyone involved in the film, and plans for a sequel were very quickly put into motion. Before anything could happenFrank Millerhad toget the sequel goingas a graphic novel, and from that directorZack Snyderstartedworking on a script. Despite the fact that he’s now working intensely to makeSuperman: The Man of Steel, Mr. Snyder has finished and submitted the script for what was until recently calledXerxes....

‘Fast 8’ Set Video Gets The Whole Gang Back Together Production is underway onFast 8, the next sequel in the long-runningFast and Furiousfranchise. Recently the film because the first major Hollywood movie to shoot in Cuba, so that will be something cool to see on the big screen next spring. But this past week marked the first time Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) got his whole team together on set all at once....

‘Hal’ Review: A New Doc About One Of The Most Uncompromising Filmmakers Of The 1970s [Sundance] Anyone who knows the films of the lateHal Ashbyoften finds it difficult to put into words exactly what it was that separated his work from that of other directors that rose to success in the 1970s. In many ways, his significance and influence as a filmmaker is best understood in the works of more contemporary directors who were deeply inspired and empowered by Ashby’s maverick nature and refusal to allow his work to be altered or influenced by anyone but those around him that he trusted and with whom he worked closely—and uncompromising nature that eventually came back to haunt him as the 1980s brought about an era where profits and accountants ruled the studios, while art took a back seat....

‘Infinite’ Replaces Captain America With A Hamburger Salesman In what has to be one of the biggest examples of downgrading ever, theAntoine FuquafilmInfiniteis set to replaceChris EvanswithMark Wahlberg. Evans just recently dropped out of the acton thriller, and Wahlberg is now in talks to take over his role in the film about near-immortal men and women reincarnated over the centuries. So I guess this is kind of likeHighlander, with Mark Wahlberg....

‘Luckiest Girl Alive’: Mila Kunis To Star In Netflix’s Adaptation Of The Best-Selling Novel “Her perfect life is a perfect lie.” That’s how the official description begins for authorJessica Knoll’s 2015 novelLuckiest Girl Alive, which is being turned into a thriller movie at Netflix. And the streamer has now hired an actress to step into the lead role:Mila Kunis(Ted,Forgetting Sarah Marshall), who has been relatively quiet for the past few years....

‘Mulan’ Trailer: Will Disney’s Next Live-Action Remake Bring Honor To Us All? Disney’s remake ofAladdinjust recentlycrossed the $900 million markat the worldwide box office, making it only the sixth live-action Disney film to cross that major milestone. So there’s no better time to keep the hype train going than by teasing the next remake of one of their beloved animated classics. Mulanis based on the 1998 feature animated action adventure inspired by one of China’s most popular folktales....

‘Once Were Brothers’ Giveaway: Win The Blu-Ray, The Band’s 50th Anniversary Box Set, And More Daniel Roher’s documentaryOnce Were Brothers:Robbie Robertson and The Bandoffers an intimate, never-before-seen look into the early years of the Bob Dylan-backing band that would become musical legends in their own right. After debuting to positive reviews at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,Once Were Brothershit limited theaters in February 2020. But fans of The Band can get another chance to show their love for the roots rock group with aOnce Were Brothersgiveaway contest that we’re hosting at /Film....

‘Soul’ Trailer: Pixar’s Latest Gets Existential Pixar is about to get existential withSoul, their latest original movie with a wild premise. When the soul of jazz musician Joe Gardner ends up being separated from his body (he’s apparently not dead, at least according to the official synopsis), he finds himself transported to the place where our souls originate before finding their ways into our bodies. Yeah, it sounds weird, but also kind of amazing....