Is It Okay For Filmmakers To Lie To Press/Fans? Can Avengers: Endgame Overtake Avatar At The Box Office? Hawkeye, Donald Glover, Child’s Play, Grease & Star Wars Episode 9

On the April 11, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Donald Glover, Child’s Play, Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye, Grease and Star Wars Episode 9.

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Opening Banter: We survived Hotelpocalypse… but do we have a place to stay for Comic Con?

In The News:

• Ben: Donald Glover and Rihanna’s ‘Guava Island’ Movie Drops on Amazon Prime Video This Weekend
• Chris: ‘Child’s Play’ Remake Score Will Be Composed by Bear McCreary Using a ‘Toy Orchestra’
• Peter: The Russo Brothers Explain Why They Lied About The ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Title
• Ben: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Sold Five Times More Tickets Than ‘Infinity War’ in the First Week at Fandango
• Chris: ‘Hawkeye’ TV Series With Jeremy Renner Coming to Disney+
• Ben: ‘Grease’ Prequel ‘Summer Loving’ Gearing Up at Paramount with Writer John August
• Star Wars:
  • Ben: How ‘Star Wars Episode 9’ Responds to ‘The Last Jedi,’ According to J.J Abrams
  • Chris: Why J.J. Abrams Almost Turned Down ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’
  • Ben: ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’s Tight Development Schedule Might Have Created “Something Incredibly Special”

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