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‘Muppets Now’ Delivers Bite-Sized Comedy For The YouTube Generation With Mixed Results By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2020 9:00 am EST Despite successfully bringing back the Muppets on the big screen in 2011, Disney hasn’t really figured out how to make Jim Henson’s beloved characters make their triumphant return to the small screen. Their latest attempt to bring the Muppets to modern audiences comes in the form of Muppets Now, a new Disney+ series comprised of a variety of mini-shows featuring everyone’s favorite Muppet characters running what feels like their own YouTube channels, focusing on cooking, lifestyle, science experiments, mastering a skill, celebrity guests, and a zany game show....

By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2019 5:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There’s already plenty of content for the biggest Disney fanatics available to stream on Disney+ right now. But next month, a new feature-length documentary called One Day at Disney will be available, allowing fans to see what a day in the life at Disney is like for a variety of employees working for the massive multimedia conglomerate....

‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Will Have Its Day In Court On HBO By Chris Evangelista/July 22, 2020 11:30 am EST Get ready for more of Matthew Rhys wearing rumpled suits and yelling “Objection!” while bathed in moody noir lighting. HBO has gone ahead and ordered Perry Mason season 2, which makes sense since the first season feels like an extended prequel. When first announced, Perry Mason was going to be a limited series, but HBO clearly had a change of heart and wanted to keep the series going....

‘Rick And Morty’ Co-Creator Justin Roiland Likes The Idea Of Releasing One Episode Each Month By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2020 12:00 pm EST Rick and Morty has had an inconsistent journey when it comes to new seasons arriving on Adult Swim. It took a year and a half to get season three on air in 2017 after the second season finale in 2015, and it was over two years before the fourth season arrived on Adult Swim following the third season finale....

‘Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Series Writer Talks Expanding A Feature Film Into Six Episodes By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 10, 2019 10:00 am EST Disney and Lucasfilm will be releasing the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, when Disney+ launches in just a couple days on November 12. But they’re already hard at work on the next round of Star Wars content that will be coming to the streaming service, and that includes a six episode series focusing on Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi eight years after the events of Revenge of the Sith....

‘The Midnight Sky’ Trailer: George Clooney Makes Contact With The Last Surviving Humans By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 10, 2020 8:00 am EST Netflix has released the final The Midnight Sky trailer ahead of the George Clooney space drama’s theatrical debut tomorrow. Clooney directs and stars in the star-studded science fiction epic, which has received decidedly mixed reviews despite Netflix’s clear Oscar hopes for the film. Watch the final The Midnight Sky trailer below....

‘The Murders At White House Farm’ Trailer: The Story Of One Of Britain’s Most Brutal Murders By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 18, 2020 4:30 pm EST In 1985, near the village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, England, a family of five was brutally murdered at White House Farm. At first, it looked like a murder-suicide situation – but then suspicion turned to another, still-living member of the family. The Murders at White House Farm dramatizes the story, drawing on “extensive research, interviews and published accounts....

‘The Platform’ Review: ‘Cube’ Meets ‘Don Quixote’ In This Dystopian Horror Film [TIFF 2019] By Meredith Borders/Sept. 12, 2019 7:00 am EST Goreng (Iván Massagué) has volunteered to enter The Pit for six months in order to earn his associate’s degree, have some quiet time to finally read Don Quixote and kick his smoking habit. But what The Administration hasn’t told him is that The Pit is a vertically stacked prison leaving its inmates to starve or cannibalize each other, in Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s sci-fi dystopian horror The Platform....

‘This Is Spinal Tap’ Cast Will Crank Virtual Reunions Up To 11 By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2020 5:30 pm EST If the upcoming virtual reunions featuring the casts of Wet Hot American Summer and HBO’s Veep weren’t enough of an October surprise, we’ve got another exciting assembly of comedy talent that will rock your socks off. The cast and writers of This Is Spinal Tap (which includes Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest) will be reuniting virtually with co-writer, director and mockumentary co-star Rob Reiner for a livestream event that will be hosted by comedian Patton Oswalt....

31 Days Of Streaming Horror: ‘The Cell’ Turns Pain And Suffering Into Art By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 12, 2019 8:00 am EST Welcome to 31 Days of Streaming Horror. Every day this October we’ll be highlighting a different streaming horror movie to help you get into the Halloween spirit. Today’s entry: The Cell (2000). The Cell Now Streaming on Netflix Sub-Genre: Serial killer thriller that belongs in the modern art wing of a museumBest Setting to Watch It In: Trapped in the mind of a murdererHow Scary Is It?...

All Eight ‘Harry Potter’ Movies Will Be Available On Peacock This October By Ben Pearson/Aug. 5, 2020 11:00 am EST The Harry Potter movies are an extremely important film franchise for Warner Bros. However, just a few months after the launch of HBO Max, Warner’s new streaming service, all eight original Potter movies are leaving the service and shuffling over to a service run by one of WB’s biggest rivals: NBCUniversal....

Bill Murray Lives Through ‘Groundhog Day’ All Over Again In Jeep’s Super Bowl Commercial By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2020 9:00 am EST We’ve already seen Bryan Cranston recreate The Shining for Mountain Dew, Rick and Morty get invaded by Pringles, and a bunch of pop culture characters pick up groceries at Walmart. But Jeep may come away with the win with their Groundhog Day Super Bowl commercial that brings back Bill Murray as weather man Phil Connors stuck in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania all over again....

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Has Been Delayed Again, This Time To Mid-August By Ben Pearson/June 25, 2020 7:03 pm EST Perhaps it’s cruel fate that Christopher Nolan’s new movie, Tenet, deals with the concept of time, because the release date for his highly-anticipated spy thriller is hopping all over the calendar. A new report says that after Warner Bros. recently delayed Tenet from its original July 14 release date to July 31, the film has now been pushed back yet again, this time to August 12, 2020....

Cool Stuff: Reebok Releasing Two New Pairs Of ‘Ghostbusters’ Sneakers For Halloween By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 22, 2020 6:00 am EST If bustin’ makes you feel good, Reebok is about to make it feel that much better with sneakers inspired by Ghostbusters. Arriving just in time for Halloween, these two new pairs of Ghostbusters sneakers take cues from the classic uniforms worn by the boys in beige (even though Larry King calls them the boys in gray in the movie), as well as the the team’s signature vehicle, the Ecto-1....

Daily Podcast: The Hunt Controversy, Aladdin 2, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, HBO Max, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 13, 2019 12:50 pm EST On the August 13 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and TV news, including Universal canceling the release of The Hunt, a new Stephen King film, Disney’s plans for Fox, Aladdin 2, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and the streaming value of shows like The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and Seinfeld....

David F. Sandberg Shows You How He Made ‘Shadowed’, His Horror Short Filmed While Under Quarantine By Chris Evangelista/April 8, 2020 1:00 pm EST Last week, Shazam director David F. Sandberg went back to his roots and released a new horror short, Shadowed. When I wrote up the story, I mentioned that not only am I a fan of Sandberg’s short horror films, I’m also a fan of when he uploads behind-the-scenes making-of videos....

How The Technology Used To Make Jon Favreau’s ‘The Lion King’ Could Change Entertainment As We Know It By Ben Pearson/July 29, 2019 9:00 am EST Back in 2017, I caught a glimpse of the future. During a visit to the set of Jon Favreau’s The Lion King, we got a look at the technology the director and his team used to create the film’s locations in virtual reality. Using a video game engine called Unity, all of the movie’s sets were built as explorable environments that can be visited and scouted by simply donning a virtual reality headset....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 24, 2020 9:30 am EST We’re a couple weeks into practicing self-quarantine to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the boredom may be beginning to set in. But not for the players of the newly released Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the wholesome Nintendo Switch game in which players spend their days catching fish, building houses, and paying off loans. But most importantly, they’re recreating movie scenes....

Spoiler Discussion: The Mandalorian Episode 8 “Redemption” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 27, 2019 7:38 pm EST On the December 30, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and Star Wars Insider writer and Full of Sith podcaster Bryan Young to have a spoiler discussion about The Mandalorian Episode 8 “Redemption.” Our Feature Presentation: Spoiler discussion for The Mandalorian Episode 8 “Redemption.“Other Articles Mentioned: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Officially Set for Fall 2020 Bryan’s review: ‘The Mandalorian’ Offers Some “Redemption” in an Incredible Season Finale All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Kumail Nanjiani Becomes Wolverine, ‘The Boys’ Season 2 First Look At Stormfront & More By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2020 6:00 pm EST Check out Spawn kicking some ass as a new playable character in Mortal Kombat 11 downloadable content. On Marvel Hero Project, Astonishing Austin started a garden for his home community when food is scarce. Neil deGrasse Tyson confirmed Marvel Comics is “hands down” more scientifically accurate than DC Comics....