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‘Mulan’ Character Posters And TV Spot Show Everyone’s True Reflection By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 27, 2020 5:00 pm EST Mulan may never pass for a perfect bride, but a new set of Mulan character posters show that she passes as a perfect warrior, inside and out. Disney has released several new Mulan posters spotlighting the characters of the Niki Caro-directed live-action remake, including Yifei Liu as Mulan, Donnie Yen as Commander Tung, Jason Scott Lee as Böri Khan, Yoson An as Cheng Honghui, Gong Li as Xianniang, and Jet Li as the Emperor....

‘Sesame Street’ Theme Park Coming To San Diego In 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 22, 2019 3:30 pm EST Sesame Street is set to make a splash in San Diego. SeaWorld and Sesame Workshop announced the plans to build a new Sesame Street theme park at SeaWorld San Diego, making it the first Sesame Place on the West Coast.The LA Times reports that everyone’s favorite street will be putting down new paving in San Diego....

‘The Mandalorian’ Trailer: The ‘Star Wars’ Universe Expands On Disney+ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 28, 2019 6:13 pm EST Disney+ has a lot to offer subscribers, but perhaps their most buzz-worthy title is The Mandalorian, a live-action series set in the Star Wars universe. Separated entirely from the soon-to-concluded Skywalker Saga, The Mandalorian follows a bounty hunter on the outskirts of the galaxy. Pedro Pascal leads the series, which features episodes directed by Dave Filoni, Taika Waititi, Deborah Chow and more....

‘The New Pope’ Trailer: John Malkovich Takes Charge Of The Church In The Follow-Up To ‘The Young Pope’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 4, 2019 4:00 pm EST You can’t teach a new pope old tricks, and John Malkovich’s John Paul III is certainly more of a stickler for tradition than Jude Law’s flashy Pope Pius XIII of Paolo Sorrentino’s The Young Pope. But thankfully, in the follow-up season of the HBO series The New Pope, this successor seems to have just as much of an ego....

‘The Three-Body Problem’ Series Coming To Netflix From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators David Benioff And D.B. Weiss By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 1, 2020 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Netflix announced that Benioff and Weiss will be developing a series adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning science-fiction trilogy The Three-Body Problem from Chinese author Liu Cixin. Benioff and Weiss will be writing and executive producing The Three-Body Problem alongside Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy, True Blood) under their overall deal with Netflix....

‘The Way Back’ Digital Release Arriving Next Week By Chris Evangelista/March 20, 2020 7:30 am EST The Way Back, the new movie where Ben Affleck plays an alcoholic basketball coach, is the latest recent film to break the theatrical window and head to digital early. With fears of the coronavirus causing theaters across the globe to shut down, several studios have taken the unprecedented steps to release their titles on digital early....

‘Transference’ Trailer: A Promising Blend Of Indie Horror And Superhero Thriller [Exclusive] By Matt Donato/Feb. 10, 2020 12:30 pm EST In the mood for a low-fi X-Men riff that mixes superpowers with Bloodsport aesthetics and some Morgan vibes for good measure? Matthew Ninaber’s Transference looks to be all that on a budget, as comic book influences tease a darker story of discovering powers within. Actually, “comic book influences” is even a stretch as Ninaber isn’t going for colorful or bombastic....

‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Podcast Will Creep You Out In 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 22, 2020 12:30 pm EST Craving even more Unsolved Mysteries? The Netflix revival just returned with new episodes, but if that’s still not enough, here’s good news: there’s an Unsolved Mysteries podcast on the way. The weekly podcast, which comes from the company behind the hit series, will feature new “unsolved cases and take a deep dive into a specific story....

‘We Can Be Heroes’ Director Robert Rodriguez Shares The Lessons He Learned From George Lucas And James Cameron [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Dec. 28, 2020 9:00 am EST It’s a big month for the director, who reintroduced audiences to Boba Fett in a killer episode of The Mandalorian. Both the director’s entry in the Star Wars universe and addition to Netflix’s library bears his signature eye for playful escapism. With almost 30 years in the business, Rodriguez’s childlike wonder for filmmaking remains firmly intact....

Angelina Jolie To Direct ‘Unreasonable Behaviour’, The Story Of War Photographer Don McCullin By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Jolie has been drawn to true stories at the center of war times for most of her directing career. In the Land of Blood and Honey contained a fictional love story, but it was set during the time of the Bosnian War....

Chadwick Boseman Finished Multiple Episodes Of Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ Animated Series By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2020 10:30 am EST Earlier this year, people all over the world were caught off guard by the sudden passing of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman. With the actor no longer with us, the future of Black Panther II remains unclear, though Kevin Feige has confirmed that the character of T’Challa will not be recast with a new actor....

Daily Podcast: New Batmobile, No Time To Die Delay, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Ben Affleck’s McMillions Movie, And More By Ben Pearson/March 4, 2020 1:45 pm EST On the March 4, 2020 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 our first look at The Batmobile from Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the delayed release date of No Time to Die, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Pinkerton, Chad Stahelski’s new project, and more....

Disneyland’s Spider-Man Ride Will Let You Fire Webs From Your Wrists Via Immersive Technology By Ben Pearson/Oct. 8, 2019 1:30 pm EST If you’ve ever thrust your wrist forward while pretending to shoot a web from it, Disney’s upcoming Spider-Man ride is going to try to give riders that sensation courtesy of some new technology. We’ve known for a long time that a new ride was in the works, but thanks to a recent panel at New York Comic Con, a couple of Imagineering executives revealed that it will give each guest the feeling of having Spider-Man’s web-shooters on their wrists as they try to wrangle some Spider-bots that have gotten out of control....

Have The Directors Of ‘Boys State’ Predicted The Future Of American Politics? By Marshall Shaffer/Aug. 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST “That’s politics … I think,” remarks Robert MacDougall, one of the subjects of Boys State, to the filmmakers off-screen. The line encapsulates the dual nature of the documentary, now streaming on Apple TV+, as both a potential microcosm for American political campaigning … or just a discrete experience worth examining for its own merits....

In A Potential Game-Changing Decision, NBCUniversal Will Make Theatrical Movies Available On Demand Immediately By Ben Pearson/March 16, 2020 12:11 pm EST After years of discussions about the possibility of shrinking the theatrical window, NBCUniversal is going to obliterate it altogether. According to a new report, the company is going to release at least some of Universal Pictures’ theatrical offerings on demand at the same time that they hit theaters. When a book is written about this period in history, this may be a crucial turning point in the way the entire industry operates....

Linda Hamilton Would Like To Be Done With ‘Terminator’, Just Like Everyone Else In The World By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2020 3:00 pm EST Can we all finally agree that there shouldn’t be any more Terminator movies? The latest film, Terminator: Dark Fate, wasn’t that bad, but it also wasn’t great, either. And it failed to find an audience to boot. That’s probably a sign that the world is done with the Terminator franchise, and one of the franchise’s biggest stars is fine with that....

Marvel’s ‘Spider-Man 3’ Is Bringing Back Alfred Molina As Doctor Octopus By Ben Pearson/Dec. 8, 2020 11:21 am EST The cast of Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man 3, the follow-up to last year’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, is getting awfully large – and it just added eight more limbs to its roster. A new report says Alfred Molina is returning to the Spider-Man universe for the first time since 2004 to reprise his role from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2....

Movie Theaters Are Destroying Movies, According To Edward Norton (Who Is Correct) By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2019 1:30 pm EST As the 21st-century barrels on, filmmakers and film fans alike are in a constant debate about what modern institution is “ruining movies.” For many people – like Steven Spielberg – it’s the world of streaming sites, like Netflix, that are destroying the sanctity of the so-called “theatrical experience.” But Edward Norton has a different take on this whole matter....

New ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Mondo Posters And Catwoman Figure Go On Sale Tomorrow By Ben Pearson/April 15, 2020 3:00 pm EST Batman: The Animated Series has served as an inspiration for artists like Mondo regular Phantom City Creative for years, and it’s easy to see why: the show is widely, and correctly, acknowledged as one of the best animated series of all time, and it’s full of incredible characters and imagery which are just asking to be filtered through the lens of talented artists and displayed on walls of fans across the world....

The Morning Watch: Will Smith And Tom Holland Do An Escape Room, Stuntmen React To ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 24, 2019 5:00 am EST In this edition, watch as Will Smith and Tom Holland do an escape room as a bit of promotion for their new movie Spies in Disguise. Plus, listen as stuntmen react to action sequences from movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....