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This Week In Trailers: Fireball, White Noise, City Hall, Farewell Amor, The Reagans By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 24, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Weta Digital Launches Its Own Animation Division; Peter Jackson And Fran Walsh To Create New Animated Projects By Ben Pearson/June 19, 2020 3:00 pm EST Over the past 25 years, Weta Digital has created visual effects for some of the biggest pieces of pop culture the world has ever seen, ranging from The Lord of the Rings franchise to Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame. Now the company is doing something it’s never done before: producing original content under a new animation division....

‘30 Rock’ And ‘Scrubs’ Episodes Featuring Blackface Removed From Streaming And Syndication By Ethan Anderton/June 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST Following in the footsteps of shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and David Cross and Bob Odenkirk’s comedy series With Bob and David, several episodes of NBC’s 30 Rock and ABC’s Scrubs are being pulled from streaming and syndication due to white actors appearing in blackface. 30 Rock series creator and star Tina Fey requested that content providers pull four episodes from circulation, and shortly thereafter, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence confirmed that they were following suit by pulling three episodes from streaming....

‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark’ Clip Takes You To A Creepy Carnival By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 9, 2019 2:00 pm EST The new Are You Afraid of the Dark? reboot is arriving this week, just in time for Halloween season. A whole-new Midnight Society will gather to tell some scary stories – only this time, the stories are coming to life. A new, and surprisingly long, Are You Afraid of the Dark clip brings the Midnight Society together at a creepy carnival....

‘Bloodline’ Trailer: Seann William Scott Is A ‘Dexter’-Esque Serial Killer By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2019 5:30 pm EST If you’re longing for the early days of the Showtime drama Dexter, a new movie called Bloodline seems like it may scratch that specific itch. Seann William Scott trades his smirky comedic persona for a creepy blank stare here, playing a high school social worker who systematically murders the abusers of his students....

‘Deep Blue Sea 3’ Trailer: Who’s Hat Will Be Like A Shark’s Fin This Time? By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 2020 4:00 pm EST We can all agree that Deep Blue Sea is a fun movie, right? Is it a masterpiece? Oh, heavens, no! But it’s an entertaining yarn about genetically enhanced sharks chowing down on some unlucky humans, and sometimes, that’s all you need. Believe it or not, there’s a Deep Blue Sea sequel that went right to home media....

‘Earth At Night In Color’ Exclusive Clip: “Refuge In The Darkness” Shows Brown Bears After Dark By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2020 2:30 pm EST Earth at Night in Color is not your average nature docuseries. The new Apple TV+ show uses special cameras and a unique editing process to capture crystal-clear footage of animals at night. Normally when shows want to do this sort of thing they rely on night vision, but the Earth at Night in Color process has bright, clear footage that would be pitch-black in other circumstances....

Monstrous Empathy With only two additional director credits to his name, it may seem strange to frame Gretel & Hansel as the “first” film Osgood Perkins has directed that he did not himself write. After all, it’s not like this represents some massive departure from an established career. Then again, nothing about Perkins’s career has been normal. From child actor to indie screenwriter and emerging hyphenate, there’s a sense of discovery to his work that sometimes falls by the wayside with other filmmakers....

‘Honey, I Shrunk The Kids’ Director Joe Johnston Returning For ‘Shrunk’ Reboot By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2019 10:30 am EST Back in the spring, /Film exclusively reported that Walt Disney Pictures was working on a reboot of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The movie would continue in the same universe as the original film series, with Josh Gad playing the son of Rick Moranis’ character, Wayne Szalinski. Now a grown-up scientist himself, the Szalinksi son ends up accidentally shrinking his own kids....

‘Mank’ Trailer Breakdown: Who Is Who In David Fincher’s New Hollywood Drama By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 8, 2020 12:00 pm EST Happy Mank day, everyone! The trailer for David Fincher’s long-awaited return to feature films dropped today, and it’s stylish and cheeky in all the right ways. There’s even an old-timey Netflix logo to seal the deal. To be fair, though, this is really a teaser, so there’s not a whole lot of detail....

‘Nailed It! Holiday!’ Season 2 Trailer: The Best Worst Baking Show Is Back By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2019 3:45 pm EST Netflix has a lot of cooking and baking shows, but in my humble opinion, the best of the best is Nailed It! The series takes a group of very unprofessional bakers and asks them to recreate fancy, Instagram-ready treats. The results are disastrous. That may sound like a mean-spirited show that mocks its contestants, but Nailed It!...

‘Noelle’ Review: This Unfunny Disney+ Original Is Best Left Unwrapped By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 14, 2019 1:00 pm EST Noelle would seem to have all the necessary elements you’d want to find in a feature comedy: a few recognizable actors, a high-concept premise, a character arc, setpieces, etc. But there’s something just…off about the whole affair, from its opening moments. Maybe the key problem here is that the basic conclusion of the movie is such an obvious, foregone conclusion....

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Is Playing In IMAX For A Limited Time By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2019 1:30 pm EST As far as I can tell, writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s films have thus far never been available to watch in IMAX Theatres – but there’s a first time for everything. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino’s 1960s hang-out movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, is now available to watch in the world’s most immersive film exhibition experience....

‘Surviving Death’ Trailer: Netflix Series Explores What Happens After We Die By Ben Pearson/Jan. 4, 2021 4:30 pm EST Not content with exploring what happens when a woman named Emily visits Paris or what happens when a queen has a gambit, Netflix is setting its sights on a topic that is far more existential: what happens after we die? In contrast to my goofy introductory paragraph, Surviving Death, a new six-episode series coming to the streamer this week, is a deadly serious show that looks to engage with one of mankind’s biggest questions through research and first-hand accounts with people who have died and come back to life....

‘Tehran’ Trailer: AppleTV+ Initiates Its Own Espionage Thriller By Ben Pearson/Sept. 2, 2020 3:00 pm EST While Netflix continues to lead in the streaming wars thanks to its constant global expansion, a comparatively newer streaming service is pushing for some more global appeal of its own. AppleTV+ has unveiled a new trailer for Tehran, an espionage thriller which has shades of Steven Spielberg’s Munich and follows an undercover Israeli agent whose mission to dismantle Iran’s nuclear reactor goes bad....

‘The Joy Luck Club’ Cast Will Reunite For A Virtual Book Club With Author Amy Tan By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 5, 2020 4:00 pm EST Bring your best dumplings and moon cakes, because The Joy Luck Club is getting back together. The cast of The Joy Luck Club is reuniting in a virtual “book club” to discuss the beloved 1989 novel with the author Amy Tan. The nonprofit organization Gold House will be hosting The Joy Luck Club reunion, which will include Lauren Tom, Ming-Na Wen, Rosalind Chao, and Tamlyn Tomita....

‘The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda Costs More Than Your Pitiful Life By Ben Pearson/Jan. 14, 2020 1:00 pm EST Say what you will about the overall quality of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (I have plenty of gripes, but I’ll bite my tongue for now), but one thing we can all agree on is that the first live-action Star Wars show looks expensive as hell. And it turns out that Baby Yoda, First of His Name, King of the Internet, Subject of Memes, Breaker of Hearts, and Lord of Cuteness, has an extremely high price tag....

‘Westworld’ Season 3 Trailer: Bring Yourself Back Online By Chris Evangelista/July 20, 2019 1:29 pm EST Westworld season 2 essentially rebooted the entire show, moving beyond the park and introducing a whole new world for characters to explore. That means you can expect a new experience with Westworld season 3, and a new main character, too – played by Aaron Paul. A new Westworld season 3 trailer arrived during the SDCC panel, and you can glimpse it below....

Daily Podcast: Big Star Wars Changes, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Netflix, And Universal Studios By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2019 12:18 pm EST On the October 29, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and television news, including Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Netflix, and Universal Studios. In The News: Peter: ‘Game of Thrones’ Directors David Benioff & D....

Disney+ Reboots ‘Turner & Hooch’ As A TV Series With Josh Peck In The Lead By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 10, 2020 2:30 pm EST Deadline reports that Disney has tapped Josh Peck to play the lead in Turner & Hooch, a TV series reboot of the 1989 buddy cop comedy movie originally starring Tom Hanks as an uptight police officer who gets partnered with a dog. The character has been upgraded to a U....