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‘The Shawshank Redemption’ At 25: Hope Springs Eternal In One Of The Greatest Movies Of All Time By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 23, 2019 12:00 pm EST There’s a line in The Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman’s character, Red, tells us, “Prison is no fairy tale world.” Except that’s exactly what it is in this movie. Make no mistake about it: Frank Darabont’s 1994 prison drama, based on a Stephen King novella, endures as a kind of modern fairy tale, albeit one that transplants the most basic of all human emotions to the least romantic of all story settings....

By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 25, 2021 3:30 pm EST The Tomb Raider sequel has found a new director: Misha Green, who developed the HBO adaptation of Lovecraft Country. This film, which marks Green’s feature directorial debut, will bring back Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft. At one point, filmmaker Ben Wheatley was announced to helm the movie, with a script from frequent collaborator Amy Jump. But now Wheatley has moved on to The Meg 2, and Green will write and direct the film....

‘WandaVision’ Was Designed To Be A Love Letter To Sitcoms – And Act As A Test Run For Marvel’s Long-Form Storytelling By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 11, 2021 11:00 am EST What do Urkel, Full House, The Twilight Zone, and The Mandalorian all have in common? They all paved the way, in some fashion, for WandaVision, the upcoming Marvel series on Disney+ and the unlikely first entry in Marvel’s Phase 4. The cast and creative team behind WandaVision gathered for a virtual press conference moderated by Jaleel White of Family Matters fame to dive into Marvel’s big TV experiment — a love letter to sitcoms that will act as a test run for Marvel’s foray into long-form storytelling....

Christopher Nolan Planted The Seeds For ‘Tenet’ In The Opening Scenes Of ‘Memento’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 17, 2020 7:30 am EST Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is all about going backwards and forwards in time in a manner more complex and visually stimulating than any other time travel movie before. So it only makes sense that the filmmaker’s breakout movie Memento, which also played with narrative chronology, planted the seed of what he would bring with his future blockbuster....

Daily Podcast: Can Quibi Change How We View TV Shows? Mission: Impossible, The Batman, The Flash, The Howling & Oscars By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the January 9, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Mission: Impossible and The Batman casting, an update on The Flash, a remake of The Howling, who’s hosting the Oscars, and Quibi’s plans to change the viewing experience....

Listen: ‘The Death Of Dick Long’ Director Releases Free Audio Commentary By Ben Pearson/May 14, 2020 3:15 pm EST If you thought today was just a normal Thursday, think again: it’s Dick Long Day. The indie comedy The Death of Dick Long was one of the funniest movies of last year, and director Daniel Scheinert (one half of the directing duo Daniels, which jointly helmed the Daniel Radcliffe farting corpse movie Swiss Army Man) has taken to Twitter to share a free audio commentary, a homemade soundtrack, and reveal some fun trivia about the making of the film....

Marvel Pushes Back ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ And ‘Spider-Man 3’, Bumps Up ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’ Just A Smidge By Ethan Anderton/April 25, 2020 10:00 am EST Almost all the news about movies nowadays is about release dates being pushed back due to the shutdown of production during the coronavirus pandemic and also the closure of nearly all movie theaters around the United States. Marvel Studios recently made some big changes to their schedule over the next couple years, but apparently that wasn’t enough....

New Concept Art For Disney’s Avengers Campus And Marvel Hotel By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2019 2:00 pm EST At this year’s D23 Expo, we learned that the Marvel-themed land at Disney theme parks around the globe will each be called an Avengers Campus, where guests are “recruited” to help their favorite Marvel superheroes battle the forces of evil. Now there’s a new piece of concept art for the Disneyland Paris version of a new Avengers attraction, as well as some “super” impressive Marvel hotel concept art, giving us a look at the first-ever hotel dedicated entirely to Marvel artwork....

New Disney+ Series ‘Into The Unknown: Making Frozen 2’ Will Take Us Behind-The-Scenes Of The Hit Disney Sequel By Chris Evangelista/May 13, 2020 10:30 am EST Disney+ is ready to head Into the Unknown with a new six-part look behind-the-scenes of Frozen 2. Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 follows the cast and crew as they face challenges to assemble the highly-anticipated sequel, resulting in the biggest animated movie of all time....

New On Blu-Ray: ‘Back To The Future’ Trilogy, ‘Parasite’, ‘El Camino’, ‘Haunt’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2020 10:00 am EST Here are the latest Blu-ray releases you should check out (and maybe even buy; go ahead and treat yourself!) this week. Parasite It feels like a million years ago, but Parasite actually had its big Academy Awards moment this year. Everyone was rooting for Bong Joon-ho’s movie, but everyone assumed the Academy – who are prone to make less-than-great choices – would blow it and Parasite would be ignored....

Paramount Animation Partners With WWE To Develop The Will Arnett-Starring ‘Rumble’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 19, 2019 3:45 pm EST Let’s get ready to…well, you know the drill. But there’s not anything routine about Paramount Animation, the still-fairly untested animation division of Paramount Pictures behind films like Wonder Park and Sherlock Gnomes. But Paramount Animation is starting to kick things into gear in 2020, partnering up with WWE Studios for a new film called Rumble....

By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2020 11:30 am EST Janet Pierson, Director of Film at SXSW, said: No titles have been announced yet, and just which filmmakers will go in for this idea remains to be seen. That said, filmmakers who choose to participate will receive a screening fee for streaming their film over the 10-day period. There’s no launch date in place yet, but everyone is hoping for late April. SXSW has reached out to the 2020 filmmakers with the info....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Hulu And Disney+ In November 2020 By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2020 5:30 pm EST Wow, October is almost over! Then it’s time for November, a month where many of us will either be relieved or horrified (you know why). Also: it’ll be time for Thanksgiving, but since the pandemic is still raging, who the hell knows how we’ll go about that. But enough of these real-world issues – let’s talk about entertainment!...

The Morning Watch: Guillermo Del Toro’s Walk Of Fame Ceremony, Macaulay Culkin Goes To CatCon & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 8, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch as Guillermo del Toro received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles earlier this week....

The Morning Watch: James Corden’s ‘Frozen’ Crosswalk: The Musical, ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Book Comparison & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 22, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch as James Corden rounds up the cast of Frozen 2 for a new edition of his recurring Crosswalk: The Musical segment, bringing the original Frozen to the streets of Los Angeles....

TV Bits: ‘Billions’, ‘F Is For Family’, ‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’, ‘Dickinson’, And More By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 24, 2020 10:00 am EST Billions, a show about Bobby Billions and his billions of friends (note: this is not what the show is actually about) has been renewed for season 6. TV Line reports that the Showtime series just got its renewal and that Corey Stoll has been promoted to a series regular. In the series, “Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis star in a complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance....

VOTD: The Cast Of ‘Cats’ Remixed “Memory” With Jimmy Fallon And Won’t Haunt Your Dreams Like The Movie By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 20, 2019 6:00 am EST While Emperor Palpatine returns to bring evil back to a galaxy far, far away, a different kind of nightmare is brewing in theaters this weekend alongside Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Cats arrives in theaters everywhere today, adapting the long-running hit Broadway musical of the same name....

Writer’s Room: Our 25 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2020 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the January 15, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson, weekend editor Brad Oman and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to narrow down their 25 most anticipated movies of 2020. Opening Banter: Let’s close the book on 2019 and look ahead to the rest of 2020!...

‘Apollo 10 1/2’: Richard Linklater’s Space Age Adventure Will Feature A Combo Of Live Action, Hand Drawn Animation, And CGI By Ben Pearson/July 16, 2020 12:00 pm EST Linklater, the filmmaker behind films like Boyhood and the Before trilogy, is heading to Netflix to direct Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure, which tells the story of the mission to the moon from the perspective of the astronauts and an excited kid who lives near NASA and is watching the whole thing from afar....

‘Giving Voice’ Trailer: Viola Davis, Denzel Washington Pass On August Wilson’s Legacy To Students In Netflix Documentary By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 19, 2020 3:30 pm EST “August was that one writer who saw me. And when I say ‘me,’ I do mean me, but I also mean people like me,” Viola Davis says in the trailer for Giving Voice, an upcoming documentary that honors the legacy of iconic Black playwright August Wilson, whose plays like Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom left an indelible mark on Black history....