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/Film Interview: Director Roland Emmerich On The Set Of ‘White House Down’ Everyone thoughtRoland Emmerich’s next movie was going to beSingularity. But there we were, last year, on the Montreal set ofWhite House Down, where even Emmerich himself is surprised. What happened? It’s a simple story of Hollywood going a little old school. A studio buys what they feel is a great script, and executives bend over backwards to get a huge star and director on board so audiences can see the movie as soon as possible....

15 Best Movie Musicals Of All Time, Ranked We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the preface to her seminal book"The Hollywood Musical,“Jane Feuer argues that musicals deserve as much serious consideration by film theorists as any other genre. After all, she says, just because they’re mass entertainment doesn’t mean they’re not doing something worthwhile beneath the surface. “Musicals not only gave the most intense (because the least intellectualized) pleasure to their audience but also supplied a justification for that pleasure,” she wrote....

A New Star Wars Game Is On The Way From Skydance And Lucasfilm Games Another day, another new “Star Wars” video game on the way. Lucasfilm Games has announced a new partnership with Skydance New Media today that will bring a brand new game set within a galaxy far, far away. Amy Henning (“Jak and Daxter,” “Uncharted”) is heading up the division for Skydance and will, as a result, be at the top of the creative pyramid for this mysterious new game....

Alejandro G. Iñárritu Wraps Production On New Film Bardo (Or False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, director of “Birdman,” “The Revenant,” and more, has wrapped production on his latest film. The movie has the delightfully pretentious title “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” and it’s the filmmaker’s first entirely Mexican project in 20 years. Daniel Jimenez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani star in the film, which follows a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns to his native country....

Boogie Nights Ending Explained: Hanging In And Hanging Out With the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film “Licorice Pizza” fast approaching, a reexamination of his similarly ’70s-set breakout “Boogie Nights” feels appropriate. Though packed with unyielding moments of exhilaration and intrigue throughout its 155 minute runtime, the film’s ending drives home sorrowful sentiments on the collapse of the “Golden Age” of filmmaking — both pornographic and commercial — as well as containing the jaw-dropping reveal of Dirk Diggler’s (Mark Wahlberg) impressive prosthetic member....

Cool Stuff: More Big Hero 6 Art Posters From Poster Posse We’ve been featuring the Poster Posse on the site for a while now. As you know, they create a whole online art show worth of art for highly anticipated upcoming movies they’re excited about. Past examples includeGodzilla,Interstellar,Guardians of the Galaxy,X-Men: Days of Future PastandPacific Rim. Blurppy has collected a group of great artists for PosterPosse, and we always love seeing their newest creations....

Craig Gillespie Will Direct Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding Biopic So far,The Finest Hoursis one of the biggest box office bombs of the year. Disney expected a loss of $75 million on theCraig Gillespie-directed drama. That miss followed up hisFright Nightremake andMillion Dollar Arm– two studio movies that, likeThe Finest Hours, also underperformed. It appears as if none of these misfires are slowing Gillespie down, though, because theLars and the Real Girldirector has just signed on to helmI, Tonya, the biopic about disgraced ice skater Tonya Harding....

Daily Podcast: Pirates Of The Caribbean, Marvel Land, Haunting Of Hill House, Girl In The Spider’s Web, Killer Klowns, Joker & George Miller On the June 13, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and tv news, includingPirates of the Caribbean, Marvel Land, The Haunting of Hill House, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Joker, andGeorge Miller....

Danny Trejo Cast In Predators Firm details on producerRobert Rodriguezand directorNimrod Antal’sPredatorsare pretty thin on the ground. We know thatAlex Litvak has been writing the scriptand that much of the film is going to be shot on Rodriguez' Troublemaker lot with some location shootinglikely to take place in Hawaii, but besides themuch discussedand seemingly impossible cameo role from Arnold Schwarzenegger there hasn’t even been much talk of any possible cast members....

Death Proof Is The Tarantino Classic We Don’t Talk About Enough In the eyes of film bros in the mid-2000s, no two filmmakers were cooler thanQuentin TarantinoandRobert Rodriguez. Posters for their films lined the walls of dorm rooms everywhere. They were the renegade badasses of independent film in the 1990s, and the 2000s saw them making their grand action epics. Tarantino returned from a six-year hiatus after “Jackie Brown” with his martial arts spaghetti western revenge two-parter “Kill Bill,” and Rodriguez took comic book stylization to a new level with an adaptation of Frank Miller’s “Sin City” comic books....

Dwayne Johnson Explains Why He Couldn’t Host The Oscars This Year For the first time in 30 years, the Oscarswon’t have a host this year. ComedianKevin Hartwas previously slated to act as master of ceremonies, but some controversy arose following some old jokes on Twitter, and he decided to step down. ButKevin Hartwasn’t even the first choice to host the Oscars. Instead, it was one of hisJumanji: Welcome to the Jungleco-stars....

Edgar Wright Wanted Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World To Be Gene Kelly Meets John Woo Edgar Wright obviously drew inspiration from a bunch of disparate sources for “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” the 2010 film in which Michael Cera faces off with superhero stars likeChris EvansandBrandon Routh— andwins. Wright is, as dubbed byTime, something of a “cinematic DJ,” known for sampling a number of genres to build his surreal, cinematic worlds....

First Look: Death Race Lets make one thing perfectly clear. There are two Paul Andersons" Paul Thomas Anderson andPaul W.S. Anderson. One is a great director who created one of the best films of the year (There Will Be Blood) and what people are calling a cinematic masterpiece, and the other is a hack director who somehow found his place directing video game adaptations. The only reason he’s still in the business is because he attaches himself with film properties with built in fanbases....