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Cool Stuff: Hasbro Turned The Trademark Blaster Rifle From ‘The Mandalorian’ Into A NERF Gun By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2020 6:00 am EST Every week there’s new merchandise from The Mandalorian as episodes from the second season continue to unfold. However, since many of the most recent episodes are filled with plenty of secrets, including the return of Star Wars characters like Ahsoka Tano and Boba Fett, there haven’t been a lot of Black Series action figures, Funko POPs or other collectibles bringing those new characters to shelves....

Daily Podcast: The Future Of Movie Theaters & Film Productions, Wolfman Reboot, Suicide Squad: The Ayer Cut, Martin Scorsese, Upgrade TV Series. By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the June 3, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Alien, the future of movie theaters and movie productions, Wolfman reboot, Suicide Squad: The Ayer Cut, Martin Scorsese and an Upgrade tv series....

Disneyland To Reopen In Mid-July, In Time For The Park’s 65th Anniversary By Ben Pearson/June 10, 2020 3:10 pm EST July 17 isn’t just the day Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is expected to open and hopefully save American movie theaters from extinction. That date also marks the 65th anniversary of California’s Disneyland, the world’s first major theme park, and The Walt Disney Company isn’t going to let the coronavirus pandemic stop the celebration....

James Cameron Says ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Beating His Box Office Record Gives Him Hope For His ‘Avatar’ Sequels By Ben Pearson/Sept. 11, 2019 5:30 pm EST Director James Cameron held the top spot on the box office charts for more than twenty years, first with 1997’s Titanic and then overtaking his own record with 2009’s Avatar. But that record was toppled earlier this year by Avengers: Endgame, and while Cameron sent a congratulatory message to Marvel Studios after Endgame surpassed Avatar, some have wondered how he really felt about losing that top spot after so many years....

Laura Dern To Have ‘Just One Drink’ In Nick Hornby Quibi Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 22, 2020 4:00 pm EST Did you watch Marriage Story and think, “Man, I would love a whole series that’s just Laura Dern with a drink in her hand giving sage advice and yelling about the patriarchy”? Quibi will take you up on that request. The mobile streaming platform, which will offer bite-sized pieces of content made to be consumed in 10 minutes or less, has tapped Dern to star in the forthcoming series Just One Drink, which will be penned by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author Nick Hornby (Brooklyn, About a Boy)....

Such News! ‘Bridgerton’ Has Been Renewed For A Second Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 21, 2021 10:30 am EST Such news! Bridgerton has been renewed for a second season. The Shonda Rhimes-produced Regency era romantic drama is due for another season of sordid affairs and gossip, with Netflix announcing a Bridgerton season 2 renewal the only way they could: through an invitation from Lady Whistledown. Lady Whistledown is the resident gossip of Bridgerton, the hit Regency soap that has taken Netflix by storm, so it’s only fitting that the mysterious lady should announce the show’s season 2 renewal....

Superhero Bits: Charlize Theron Hasn’t Been Offered A Marvel Movie Yet, Zales Has Pricey ‘Wonder Woman’ Jewelry & More By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to get your kids a new Spider-Man graphic novel for young readers? Did you hear Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda is canceled? Want some time travel tips from the cast of Agents of SHIELD? What does Ruby Rose have to say about the new Batwoman?...

The Best Movies & TV Shows Coming To Netflix In February 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 20, 2021 3:00 pm EST It’s that time again! Time to talk about what new stuff is hitting Netflix next month. And let me tell you, folks, the line-up for February is looking a little anemic. Netflix has spent the last few years going all-in on their original programming, which means that they’re snapping up less and less familiar titles....

UPDATED: ‘Chicken Run 2’ Lands At Netflix, A New ‘Mission: Impossible’-Style Heist Is Teased By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2020 6:45 am EST UPDATE: According to Newsweek, Mel Gibson will not be reprising his role as the chicken Rocky. Our original story from June 24, 2020 follows below. Today marks the exact 20th anniversary of Aardman Animation’s stop-motion animated comedy Chicken Run hitting theaters, a movie that still holds the honor of being the highest grossing stop-motion animated movie of all time....

Walmart Will Convert Parking Lots Into Drive-Ins This Summer, Teams With Tribeca For Touring Screening Series By Ben Pearson/July 2, 2020 4:30 pm EST Growing up as a teenager in the South, I had a few friends who would occasionally congregate in the local Walmart parking lot, because sometimes it didn’t feel like there was anywhere else to go or anything better to do. Now 160 Walmart parking lots across the country will become gathering places for folks who are desperate to get of their houses during the pandemic....

‘16 States’: ‘Don’t Breathe’ Director Fede Alvarez To Direct Zombie Pandemic Movie For Lionsgate By Ben Pearson/April 10, 2020 4:00 pm EST Fede Alvarez, the filmmaker behind Don’t Breathe and the remake of Evil Dead, has a new thriller in the works. He’ll tackle 16 States, a zombie pandemic thriller (timely!) which was written by the guys behind Crazy Stupid Love and Bad Santa. Lionsgate just secured the rights to the script after a bidding war....

‘Automatons’: The Stop-Motion Animated Comedy From The ‘Bill And Ted’ Screenwriters May Find New Life, Ed Solomon Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 4, 2020 2:30 pm EST Let’s time travel back to 2004. Bill & Ted writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson were working on the stop-motion animated Automatons, a wildly absurd comedy about a pair of neurotic robots who were built to kill Hitler, only to be buried at the bottom of the ocean and emerge 70 years too late....

‘Coastal Elites’: HBO’s Scripted Quarantine Comedy Invites Bette Midler, Issa Rae, And More On Zoom By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 5, 2020 4:00 pm EST The most star-studded group of elites is getting together over Zoom for HBO’s socially distanced comedy Coastal Elites. Created by playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick and directed by Jay Roach, Coastal Elites is a scripted quarantine comedy starring Bette Midler, Issa Rae, Sarah Paulson, Dan Levy, and Kaitlyn Dever in a satire that “explores our current world of deeply divided politics and the universal pursuit of human connection....

Dolittle Character Featurettes You ever wish for a movie where Rami Malek voices a cowardly gorilla? Dolittle is granting your very specific wish in a film that almost feels like a parody of that one John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch bit. But we as an audience are no strangers to celebrity stunt casting in thankless voiceover roles, especially as CGI has evolved so much that we never need to see a real animal on the screen again....

/Film’s 10 Most Anticipated Movies Of The 2020 Sundance Film Festival By /Film Staff/Jan. 21, 2020 9:00 am EST Chris Evangelista: Sundance is upon us yet again. It’s time to get excited for a whole new year of new movies. Unlike many other festivals that arrive as the year ticks on, Sundance is particularly exciting because almost everything there is fresh and unseen. That means you can either be blessed with wonderful surprises – or crushing disappointments....

‘Gomorrah’ Season 3 Trailer: The Italian Crime Drama Heads To HBO Max In January By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 22, 2020 4:00 pm EST Gomorrah, the Italian crime drama series that debuted on Sky Atlantic, is now streaming on HBO Max, and a new (to Americans, at least) season is about to arrive. Gomorrah season 3 actually premiered back in 2017 on Sky Atlantic, but it will make its American debut on HBO Max in January....

‘In The Tall Grass’ Review: Stephen King & Joe Hill’s Disturbing Story Gets An Appropriately Disturbing Adaptation [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 21, 2019 9:00 am EST Just how scary can grass be? Ask Stephen King and Joe Hill, who crafted an immensely disturbing tale of terror called In the Tall Grass. Then ask director Vincenzo Natali, who has taken King and Hill’s story and worked it into an off-the-wall crazy adaptation that mostly captures the madness of the story…but not quite....

‘Into The Dark’ Delivers Tasty Thanksgiving Horror With ‘Pilgrim’ By Matt Donato/Nov. 5, 2019 1:00 pm EST (Blumhouse Television and Hulu have partnered for a monthly horror anthology series titled Into The Dark, set to release a full holiday-themed feature the first Friday of every month. Horror anthology expert Matt Donato will be tackling the series one-by-one, stacking up the entries as they become streamable.)As a preacher of the good holiday horror word, Thanksgiving’s scant offerings leave my stomach rumbling....

‘Invincible’ Debuts A Colorful, Blood-Splattered Trailer For Animated Superhero Series [NYCC] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 8, 2020 2:30 pm EST “If you think you’ve seen something like this before, you haven’t,” creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) teased at the virtual New York Comic-Con panel for his upcoming animated superhero series Invincible. Based on his acclaimed comic book of the same name, Invincible follows a 17-year-old son of a superhero, who begins to develop superpowers of his own, and discovers that the job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be....

‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Filming Will Resume In September By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2020 11:30 am EST Mission: Impossible 7, the latest excuse for Tom Cruise to risk his life, is currently on hold due to the coronavirus. But the production is gearing up to start shooting soon. According to co-star Simon Pegg, the latest IMF adventure will resume filming this September. Pegg isn’t quite sure how production will resume, and it goes without saying that the behind-the-scenes process will be considerably different than when everything halted....