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Universal Studios’ Super Nintendo World Opening Delayed Indefinitely In Japan By Ben Pearson/June 29, 2020 2:00 pm EST We’ve been waiting for this news to break since the middle of March, but now it’s finally happened: a new report says Universal Studios Japan is delaying the opening of its new Super Nintendo World indefinitely. The new land, which has been in the works for years, was originally going to open next month, but the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seemingly put those plans on hold....

VOTD: How ‘Joker’ Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2019 6:00 am EST For better or worse, Joker is likely going to be a big contender during awards season. Sure, it’s nice that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences might pay more attention to a genre that has mostly only ever been popular among general audiences, but it’s a shame that the movie had to be one with so little to actually say....

Watch: ‘Conan’ Heads To Greenland Next Week, Gives A Weather Report, Visits Icebergs & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2019 10:30 am EST Conan O’Brien has made waves by doing extensive traveling for remote specials for his late night talk show spin-off Conan Without Borders on TBS, which has also revamped its format to be just a half-hour show most of the time. And his next trip will take him to Greenland, where Conan tried to keep the country from falling into the hands of President Donald Trump....

Watch: The ‘Stranger Things’ Cast Get Festive While Playing Dungeons & Dragons By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 18, 2020 5:30 pm EST Dungeons & Dragons just got a whole lot stranger. Four cast members of Netflix’s hit sci-fi show Stranger Things sat down for a game of the tabletop RPG for a special actual play session, lead by Wizards of the Coast principal story designer Chris Perkins. Stranger Things stars David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Natalia Dyer participated in the session as a holiday gift to long-suffering fans, who have been waiting nearly two years for the next season of the Netflix show....

Water Cooler: Vietnam, 1917, Knives Out, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, Little Women, Hustlers, And More By Ben Pearson/Dec. 5, 2019 2:45 pm EST On the December 5, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

‘All Together Now’ Photos: ‘Moana’ Star Auli’i Cravalho Takes The Lead In A New Netflix Movie By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2020 3:30 pm EST Since her breakout role as the voice behind Disney’s Moana, actress Auli’i Cravalho has popped up in several short-lived TV shows, but now she’s getting her own Netflix movie. Cravalho stars in All Together Now, a forthcoming drama from Hearts Beat Loud director Brett Haley that was formerly titled Sorta Like a Rock Star....

‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve Slams WB’s HBO Max Decision, AMC Needs $750 Million To Survive 2021 By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2020 1:30 pm EST “Warner Bros. might have just killed the Dune franchise.” Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the mega-budgeted movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel, does not mince words in a new editorial published by Variety. After being blindsided by the news that Warner Bros. is releasing its entire 2021 slate of films (including Dune) in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously, Villeneuve blasted the studio’s parent company in this new editorial, saying, “AT&T has hijacked one of the most respectable and important studios in film history....

‘Falling’ Review: Viggo Mortensen’s Directorial Debut Is A Total Disaster [TIFF 2020] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 17, 2020 2:00 pm EST “Sorry to bring you into this world just to die.” So begins Falling, Viggo Mortensen’s frustrating and flawed father/son drama that demands rather than earns empathy from its deeply unlikeable central character and his near saintly son.Told over two timelines, Mortensen’s script (and directorial debut) shows Willis as a young father (Sverrir Gudnason) and an elderly, sundowning parent (Lance Henriksen)....

‘Isabella’ Review: The Women Take The Stage In A Surreal Shakespeare Riff [NYFF] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 8, 2020 8:00 am EST All the world’s a stage, but many of its players are riddled with self-doubt in Matías Piñeiro’s surreal exploration of female identity through the works of William Shakespeare. Isabella is the Argentinian director’s latest post-modern spin on Shakespeare, following two women who are imperfect reflections of each other as they audition for the part of Isabella in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure....

‘Mindhunter’ Season 3 Put On Indefinite Hold As Cast Released From Contracts By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 16, 2020 8:00 am EST Mindhunter season 3 has been put on indefinite hold by Netflix. David Fincher’s critically acclaimed crime drama has been thrust into limbo and the cast members have been released from their contracts, on account of the executive producer’s busy schedule with producing the second season of Love, Death and Robots and shooting his upcoming feature film Mank....

‘Parasite’ Sets New Streaming Record For Hulu In Just One Week By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 15, 2020 11:30 am EST Glory to the holy wi-fi that is fueling the people streaming Parasite on Hulu. It’s thanks to those subscribers that watched Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning thriller that the movie set the all-time streaming records for most-watched independent or foreign language film on Hulu. It’s just the latest accolade collected by Parasite – it won the Palme D’Or at Cannes last year and went on to take home four Oscars, including a historic Best Picture win....

‘Shirley’ Trailer Highlights Elisabeth Moss’ Hypnotic Performance By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2020 5:30 pm EST How do you make a biographical drama about Shirley Jackson, one of the most renowned American horror writers of the past century? You cast Elisabeth Moss to do her best woman-on-the-edge performance yet, and turn the biopic into a horror movie. Shirley has received raves since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and genre fans eagerly anticipated its theatrical release....

‘The Boys’ Honest Trailer: What The DC Universe Would Be If Zack Snyder Didn’t Get Studio Notes By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 2, 2020 6:00 am EST The Boys Honest Trailer Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, and Batman all get extremely dark revamps as original superheroes in this series based on the comic written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson. It has all the superpowers you’d expect from comic book superheroes, but with an insane amount of corrupt and devious behavior, and buckets of blood....

‘Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn’ Trailer: HBO Documentary Examines Racially-Motivated Killing 30 Years Later By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 17, 2020 5:30 pm EST On August 23, 1989, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old Black teenager from East New York, Brooklyn, was shot to death by a group of white youths from the predominantly Italian-American working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst. The killing sparked outrage throughout the Black communities in New York City, culminating in a series of protest marches through the neighborhood led by the Reverend Al Sharpton....

Cool Stuff: Rey’s Dark Side Lightsaber From ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Can Be Yours By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2019 6:00 am EST During the marketing campaign for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, one of the most shocking moments came at the conclusion of the retrospective “special look” trailer when a dark side version of Rey was shown. One of the things that made her villainous appearance all the more menacing was a new hinged double-bladed lightsaber that allowed her to wield both blades parallel to each other....

John Boyega Says ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Was “A Bit Iffy”, Laments Character Arcs In The New Trilogy By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2019 5:30 pm EST It’s been two years since Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and people still – still! – can’t seem to move past it. And I’m not just talking about fans of the franchise who lurk in the dark corners of the internet: John Boyega himself is still talking out here about it (although he’s being asked about it in interviews, so that’s different than if he were just firing off these quotes unprompted)....

Live-Action ‘Powerpuff Girls’ Show In The Works At The CW By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2020 5:30 pm EST Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup may be heading back to TV, but in a way you’ve never seen them before: in live-action. The CW is reportedly developing a live-action Powerpuff Girls sequel series, which takes place years after the events of the Cartoon Network animated show. Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Juno) is writing and executive producing, and Greg Berlanti, the architect of The CW’s Arrowverse and shows like Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, is on board as an executive producer....

Luca Guadagnino’s Unmade ‘Suspiria’ Sequel Sounds Like It Would’ve Been Off The Walls By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2020 2:00 pm EST But when asked if we would ever get to see Part 2, Guadagnino replied, “How? How, my dear? The movie made absolutely nothing. It was a disaster at the box office. I know that people are liking it more and more now. I loved making that movie. It’s very dear to me....

New ‘Dune’ Images Tease The Epic Battles And Timothée Chalamet’s Desert Odyssey By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 31, 2020 8:30 am EST As we get closer to the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, it appears that Warner Bros. has been happy to let the spice flow. And by spice, I mean spicy new images from the highly anticipated film based on Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel. Last week, we got an exciting new look at the sandworm, but this time we get to see more of the people who reside on the desert planet Arrakis....

Superhero Bits: ‘Superman & Lois’ Rumors, Chadwick Boseman Not Interested In Doing Disney+ Shows & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see Adam Savage’s collection of Marvel prop replicas he made? Will Superboy and Damian Wayne be part of the Superman & Lois series? When does the spin-off series Green Arrow and the Canaries take place? Which Runaways cast member isn’t returning for the third season?...