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‘Synchronic’ Trailer: Justin Benson And Aaron Moorhead Send Anthony Mackie On A Strange Trip Justin BensonandAaron Moorhead, the filmmakers behindResolution,Spring, andThe Endless, are back withSynchronic. Once again, the filmmakers are playing around with space and time, and it might be their most ambitious film yet. In the film,Anthony Mackieplays a paramedic in New Orleans who finds himself going on a series of very,verystrange trips. Watch theSynchronictrailer below. Synchronic Trailer I’m a big fan of the work of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, especiallySpring, a movie that’s like an H....

‘Tell Me A Story’ Trailer: Fairy Tales Meet Horror In This CBS All Access Show Happy Halloween, here are some of your favorite fairy tales, made sexy and scary. Created byThe Vampire DiariescreatorKevin Williamson, the CBS All Access ShowTell Me aStoryreimagines three classic fairy tales, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and Hansel and Gretel in a “dark and twisted psychological thriller.” The streaming service has released the official fullTell Me a Storytrailer for the series which, in honor of the month of October, doubles down on the horror elements of this modern reimagining....

‘The Harder They Come’ Remake In The Works In the pantheon of great music-related movies,Perry Henzell’sThe Harder They Comestands tall. The Jamaica-set film stars reggae starJimmy Cliffas an aspiring songwriter who arrives in Kingston, Jamaica only to be drawn into crime, and is set to one of the all-time great soundtracks. That soundtrack, in fact, was instrumental in bringing reggae to global attention. Even those who emerged from college with a total disdain for reggae thanks to over-exposure to the same ten party songs could probably find something to love by discovering this soundtrack in context with the film....

‘The Peripheral’: ‘Midsommar’ Actor Jack Reynor Will Star In Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy Amazon Series Jack Reynor, AKA the guy who got stuffed into a bear at the end ofMidsommar, has joined the cast ofThe Peripheral, a new Amazon series fromWestworldcreatorsJonathan NolanandLisa Joy.The Peripheralalso starsChloë Grace MoretzandGary Carrand is based on a sci-fi novel from William Gibson, described as “a dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind — and what lies beyond....

‘Traitor’ Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff Replaces Ed Zwick As Director Of ‘American Assassin’ Thanks to the James Bond film series and stuff like the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan films and theBournemovies, production companies and studios look at any series of espionage novels with dollar signs in their eyes. Sure, there are many examples of thriller novel to film adaptations that failed to ignite a franchise, but no one ever built a successful movie series by not adapting books....

‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Season 3 Teaser Peddles A Nice Bone, An Evil Bucket, And More We’re just over a month away from seeing the triumphant return ofWhat We Do in the Shadowsfor a third season of FX. Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Laszlo (Matt Berry), and Colin (Mark Proksch) are all back as the vampire roommates, but there might be a change in their dynamic now that Nandor’s familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) has been revealed to be a deadly vampire hunter....

/Answers: Favorite Movie Mentor Every week in/Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. This week’s edition asks “Who is your favorite movie mentor?“As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team. This week, we are also joined byCars 3directorBrian Fee. If you’d like to share your pick for your favorite movie mentor, please send your thoughts to slashfilmpitches@gmail.com for a chance to be featured on the site....

2016 Golden Tomato Winners Announced: Find Out The Best Reviewed Movies And TV Shows Of The Year There are a handful of movie websites I visit every single day for both work and avoiding work and Rotten Tomatoes as one of them. As the internet’s most popular (and also most prone to fanboy raging) movie review aggregate site, Rotten Tomatoes assembles reviews from critics and tabulates a score based on the number of positive reactions versus negative reactions....

Anatomy Of A Scandal First Look: The Creator Of Big Little Lies Makes A Courtroom Thriller For Netflix “Big Little Lies” and “The Undoing” showrunner David E. Kelley continues to crank out limited series adaptations of high society thrillers like nobody’s business. The latest one, “Anatomy of A Scandal,” is set to drop on Netflix on April 15. New first look images give us a peek inside the moody-looking, Sienna Miller-led drama....

Anime Fans Save Studio Ghibli Museum With Massive Crowdfunding Initiative Studio Ghibli’s movies are cherished the world over by anime fans, and theGhibli Museum, located in Tokyo, has long offered the faithful a chance to go deeper and explore the hidden world behind their favorite films. Whether it be aHayao Miyazakimovie likePrincess MononokeorSpirited Awayor a film bythe lateIsao TakahatalikeGrave of the Fireflies, you’re guaranteed to find something of interest in the museum’s treasure trove of production history and interactive exhibits....

Another BBC ‘Great Expectations’ Adaptation Is Coming From ‘Peaky Blinders’ Creator Steven Knight Do we really need a newGreat Expectationsadaptation? Probably not, but as long as the BBC keeps recycling its costumes, we’ll keep getting more adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. However, BBC’s newly announced adaptation ofGreat Expectationshas a writer that could give the Dickens classic a gritty edge.Steven Knight, best known for creating the stylish 20th century gangster dramaPeaky Blinders, is set to write and executive produce the six-part BBC One/FX limited series adaptation ofGreat Expectationsfollowing the success of his dark 2019A Christmas Carol....

Dailies From Joel Schumacher’s Creek Show Up Online Joel Schumacher’sCreek– which I thought was still calledTown Creek, untilQuiet Earthtold me otherwise – is completed and ready to roll out, though I’m yet to see that any trailer or other marketing materials have been issued. Curiously, however, a series of dailies for the film have turned up online and been discovered by the aforementioned QE team. The most striking element isDarko Suvak’s cinematography, which continues Schumacher’s recent trend of collaborating with exiting directors of photography from John Mathieson to Matthew Libatique....

Disney Confirms Standalone Star Wars Films; May Be Released Between New Core Episodes Last night word broke that LucasFilm and Disney areplanningto build the first standaloneStar Warsfilm around Yoda. That rumor was the latest piece in a puzzle that also included tidbits about screenwriterSimon KinbergandLawrence Kasdanwriting standalone filmsfor George Lucas’s universe, and big plans on Disney’s part to exploit theStar Warsproperty on a regular basis going forward. Now Disney CEOBob Iger, in a television appearance, has confirmed plans for standalone films and that Kinberg and Kasdan are, indeed, writing films that won’t be labeled as primaryStar Warsepisodes....