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Want to see fans demand the trailer for Captain Marvel in the form of a rap? When is the second annual Adam West Day in Walla Walla, Washington? Why was Serena Williams banned from wearing a Black Panther inspired catsuit? Want to find out how to build a custom LEGO Batmobile ? When was Batman first referred to as The Dark Knight ? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits . This rap video featuring fans demanding the first trailer for Captain Marvel has gone viral across the web. The Flash showrunner Todd Helbing says Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton) is getting back to journalism . Take a look at these amazing pieces of concept art from Marvel's Spider-Man! #SpiderManPS4 #BeGreater pic.twitter.com/29IdEn4zTt — Marvel Games (@MarvelGames) August 28, 2018 Some concept art for the upcoming Spider-Man PS4 video game shows off early designs for levels and more. Marie Severin , comics legend and Spider-Woman co-creator, passed away at the age of 89 on ...

On the August 31, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including early buzz about Bradley Cooper ’s A Star is Born , the fate of Woody Allen ’s next movie, Wesley Snipes teasing Blade 4 , and Star Wars Land’s cantina, which will bring alcohol to Disneyland for the first time ever (publicly, anyway). You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes , Google Play , Overcast , Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). In The News : ‘A Star is Born’ Early Buzz: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Have Delivered a Hit Woody Allen’s Next Movie ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ Shelved By Amazon ‘Blade 4’ and Other Possible ‘Blade’ Projects Teased By Wesley Snipes Star Wars Land Will Have a Cantina, Bringing Alcohol to Disneyland for the First Time Ever Publicly   Other articles mentioned...

In the early days of The Simpsons , one of the most highly publicized episodes was “Stark Raving Dad,” featuring a mental patient character named Leon Kompowsky. That’s because the character, who thought he was Michael Jackson , was supposedly voiced by the King of Pop himself. But for years, fans of The Simpsons weren’t sure if Michael Jackson really voiced the character or if it was all some kind of prank. Now we have our answer. The Simpsons creator Matt Groening recently spoke to Australian TV series The Weekly (via Mashable ), and he was asked whether it was really Michael Jackson voicing Leon Kompowsky. After all, the late pop artist was credited as John Jay Smith, and rumors have always persisted about whether or not the voice really belonged to Jackson. But Groening confirmed the casting: “We really did have him. He has the voice of someone doing a Michael Jackson bit.” Interestingly enough, though, Michael Jackson couldn’t do his own singing on the show. Groening expl...

City of Lies , the Johnny Depp movie about the murder of the Notorious B.I.G., has run into more trouble. Global Road Entertainment and Miramax are now being sued for failing to distribute the film, which was pulled from release at the start of August. Will the latest  City of Lies lawsuit finally lead to distribution, or is this one Johnny Depp film unlikely to ever see the light of day? They should retitle this film  City of Problems , am I right, folks?  City of Lies , a movie where Depp plays a real-life cop looking into the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. following the death of Tupac Shakur, has run into even more legal woes. The Wrap reports Bank Leumi, who put up $23.2 million in loans to finance  City of Lies , have filed a lawsuit against Global Road Entertainment and Miramax for failing to release the movie. This is just the latest snag in an already troubled production. A location manager on the film previously filed a lawsuit claiming...

Searching isn’t the first movie to be told entirely through computer and mobile screens, but it might be the first movie to take advantage of the narrative format in such a clever and impeccable fashion. Now you can see how the movie came together in post-production and how complicated it is to bring a movie like this to life and make it feel authentic. The Making of Searching Featurette It took over a year and half for editors @willmerrick and @rick_dobson to assemble #SearchingMovie . Here’s just a TINY sneak peek at all the work it took to create just ONE single shot of the movie. **Searching is in theaters nationwide this Friday!** pic.twitter.com/PgrUcxZT71 — Searching (@SearchingMovie) August 29, 2018 The above video showcases how the graphics and animation are created to make viewers feel like they’re watching the story of Searching playing out on the screens of John Cho ‘s computer, cell phone, iPad and other mobile devices. What it comes down to is a lot of graphic...

Dave Bautista may be part of two major sci-fi franchises, but he sadly missed out on starring in a third. The  Guardians of the Galaxy and  Blade Runner 2049 actor impressed with his supporting turns in both series, but Bautista revealed that he aimed for the stars, and got rejected by them — twice. In an interview with Flickering Myth , Bautista said that he is a major  Star Wars fan and even auditioned twice for roles in the seminal sci-fi franchise. Unfortunately, that only resulted in him getting turned down twice: “I’ve actually auditioned for a couple of Star Wars [movies] and they’ve turned me down. It was always a dream of mine to be in a Star Wars film. I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of the latest installments. I particularly loved Rogue One. I thought it was a really great film and I love that they went a little bit dark with it. I thought it was really interesting.” Bautista didn’t reveal which films he auditioned for, but w...

The Coen Brothers are back with  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs . Originally planned as an anthology TV series, the Coens re-edited  Buster into a film, which just debuted at the Venice Film Festival. Reviews of the Western comedy are flooding in, and they hint at a movie that will wow Coen Brothers fans, and possibly perplex everyone else. See the  Ballad of Buster Scruggs early buzz below. Over at The Guardian , Peter Bradshaw has high praise for  Buster Scruggs , saying the film is a “hilarious, beautifully made, very enjoyable and rather disturbing anthology of stories from the old west,” and adding: This is a handsomely made picture, with a richly plausible musical score by Carter Burwell; it is an old-school western in many ways and if there is something comic or self-satirising about it, this doesn’t mean it is pure pastiche. There is a commitment to the genre, although the sheer eerie starkness of what is shown has an ironising effect: tiny individ...

The  Cats movie has coughed-up a release date that will put it directly up against  Star Wars: Episode 9 . There was a time when other studios would flee from a  Star Wars release date like a feline during a thunderstorm. But perhaps Universal is feeling frisky after the  Solo underperformance. Which means you can now expect Tom Hooper ‘s musical adaptation starring  Taylor Swift , James Corden , Jennifer Hudson , and Ian McKellan to give  Episode 9 a run for its money at the Christmas 2019 box office. More on the  Cats movie release date below. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s  Cats , the fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history, is finally pouncing onto the big screen. Big Broadway hits usually take a few years to make the transition from stage to screen – for instance, don’t expect a  Hamilton movie for a few years – and enough time has passed to make the  Cats movie a reality. The musical is going to meow its way into theaters...

Another week, another horror film festival in the books. It’s barely been 14 days since my Fantasia Film Festival recap highlighted the scariest and most splendid programming notes of Montreal’s three-week-long shindig, but that didn’t stop New York City’s Scary Movies XI from happening. Each August, the Film Society of Lincoln Center spooks Manhattan with a week-long curation of Halloween season holdovers as a gift to genre fans. It’s not as flashy or up-all-night as such all-encompassing events like Fantastic Fest, but it provides noteworthy screenings in an accessible after-work style for even a Brooklynite like myself. When has more horror content ever been a bad thing? As we do here at /Film, I’ve come up with various superlatives that hit upon trends and highs from Scary Movies XI. “Best Actor,” “Worst ( Best ) Breakup,” a “THANK ODEN THIS GOT DISTRIBUTION” award, etc. And there were no shortage of nominees, either. With titles like Anna and the Apocalypse , Lords of Chaos , ...