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Disney+ Day One Downloads Reach 3.2 Million (But Don’t Expect Them To Share Ratings) By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 13, 2019 11:00 am EST Oh, you thought we were done talking about Disney+? Well, guess again. After a big fiery launch for the Disney streaming service yesterday it’s time to sort through the ashes and see what’s what. According to Disney themselves, Disney+ netted 3.2 million app downloads yesterday. They also claim they’ve added 10 million subscribers in the last 24 hours....

Dwayne Johnson Has Some Good News (And A Punny Holiday Hat) With John Krasinski By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 22, 2020 12:00 pm EST In the early days of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, John Krasinski shined a light on the uplifting stories of the world with Some Good News, a charmingly lo-fi web series in which the Quiet Place director gave the spotlight to good deeds amid the overwhelming dread and rising body count of the pandemic....

George Miller Wants To Shoot ‘Mad Max’ Furiosa Prequel Next Year, And Has Auditioned Anya Taylor-Joy For The Lead By Ben Pearson/March 27, 2020 7:30 am EST It’s been nearly five full years since director George Miller set the movie world on fire with Mad Max: Fury Road, one of the ballsiest films ever made and easily one of the greatest movies of the past decade. A possible sequel was mired in legal troubles for a while, but last year, it seemed as if things were finally in place for not just one movie, but multiple Mad Max movies to get underway....

More Human Than Human: A ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Spoiler Review By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 9, 2017 7:00 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.)Any review of Blade Runner 2049 is by default a spoiler review. Warner Brothers and director Denis Villeneuve have gone to extreme lengths to keep the majority of details about their sci-fi sequel a secret, including limiting press screenings and issuing stern warnings to the press who did see the film to not reveal anything....

Theme Park Bits: Avengers Campus Opening At DCA, M&M Store, And More By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 3, 2020 6:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Disney announces an opening date for its Marvel land in DCA. The M&M Store is coming to Orlando. And more! One of the biggest, most exciting upcoming areas at the Disneyland Resort is dedicated to all things Marvel. Though Marvel characters have made their way into Hollywood Land, they’re getting a unique campus all to themselves, fittingly titled the Avengers Campus....

Val Kilmer And Alamo Drafthouse Took Us To Tombstone And The Danger Zone In One Epic Weekend By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 6, 2019 12:00 pm EST Everyone has a favorite Val Kilmer movie. Since the early ’80s, Kilmer has been a beloved actor in Hollywood with films like Real Genius, Willow, Batman Forever and Heat. Starring in several films that are staples in many people’s childhood and young adult life, Kilmer was the perfect choice to spotlight for a Rolling Roadshow weekend – especially with the recent announcement of Top Gun 2: Maverick, the sequel to his 1986 action film where he portrayed his infamous (yet lovable) role as IceMan alongside Tom Cruise....

Water Cooler: Host, Lovecraft Country, The Rental, Black Is King, An American Pickle, Ip Man 4, The Secret Garden, Into The Unknown, Muppets Now, Speed Cubers, 21 Chump Street, Love On The Spectrum By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the August 7, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

Weekend Box Office: ‘It Chapter Two’ Stays At Number One, ‘Hustlers’ Hustle Up A Win, ‘The Goldfinch’ Fails To Fly By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 16, 2019 5:00 pm EST Another weekend has ended, which means two things: one, we all have to return to the drudgery of work. And two, the weekend box office results are in. While there were a few new contenders at the multiplex, Pennywise and the Losers’ Club held fast with It Chapter Two staying at number one....

‘Antebellum’ Star Lily Cowles On Learning To Be An Ally [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 17, 2020 11:00 am EST It’s Lily Cowles’ Sarah who gets to say the opening text of Antebellum: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” It’s a quote by William Faulkner around which directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz frame their horror film, the idea that racism is as well and truly alive as it was in the Antebellum South....

‘Antlers’ Trailer: Keri Russell Deals With A Creepy Kid And An Even Creepier Monster By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 10, 2019 10:30 am EST Time for one final trailer for Antlers, the incredibly creepy-looking new horror film from director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro. Keri Russell plays a teacher who discovers one of her students has a secret involving some sort of bone-crunching, goo-dripping monster that may or may not be the Wendigo....

By Ben Pearson/Oct. 13, 2020 11:03 am EST Murphy reprises the role of Prince Akeem, who this time “is set to become king of the fictional country of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America — a street-savvy Queens native named Lavelle. To honor the former king’s dying wish to groom his grandson as the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi set off to America....

‘Fahrenheit 451’ Review: An Adaptation With Some Heat, But Not Enough Fire By Chris Evangelista/May 18, 2018 6:30 am EST Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 gets a slick, stylish update for the Trump era courtesy of 99 Homes director Ramin Bahrani. On the surface, taking Bradbury’s book about the suppression of knowledge and setting it firmly in a world that seems to be crafted in the image of Donald Trump makes sense, and there’s a potentially brilliant movie to be made from this concept....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 28, 2020 4:30 pm EST Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Mulan may not share a lot in common with its animated counterpart, but one thing it will share is the best Disney song: Christina Aguilera’s “Reflection.” The ballad that the pop singer recorded for the 1998 Disney movie (and which subsequently helped launch her career) was the sweeping centerpiece for the film and remains one of its most iconic songs....

‘Ozark’ Season 3 Teaser Reveals March Release Date, See New Images By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 8, 2020 9:30 am EST What could be next for the Byrd family? The crafty family led by Jason Bateman’s patriarch have found themselves involved in all manner of schemes in the Netflix crime drama Ozark, which is heading into its third season this year. Netflix has released the first Ozark season 3 teaser announcing the show’s spring release date as well as a slew of new images that give us a sneak preview of what the Byrds have up their sleeves....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ TV Series Honest Trailer: A Prequel That Got Rebooted As A New Prequel By Ethan Anderton/May 6, 2020 6:00 am EST Before The Clone Wars was a hit computer animated Star Wars series that ended too soon and came back to life for one final season, there was a 2D animated adaptation of the throwaway line of dialogue from Star Wars: A New Hope. Filling in some of the gap between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, we follow the Jedi and endless laser-blasting Clone Troopers as they charge into a barrage of droid armies over and over again, all with the cloaks dramatically blowing in the wind....

‘Stranger Things’ And ‘Bill And Ted’ Are Both Releasing New Comic Books By Chris Evangelista/June 20, 2020 11:00 am EST Attention, fans of comic book spin-offs: Two big pieces of pop culture entertainment are getting their own comics for your reading pleasure. Stranger Things will continue onto the printed page with Stranger Things Meets Dungeons and Dragons, while the upcoming Bill and Ted Face the Music will be releasing a prequel comic titled Bill & Ted Are Doomed....

‘The AGFA Horror Trailer Show’ Will Bring Rare Trailers, Commercials & More To Alamo Drafthouse Theaters By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2020 9:30 am EST Despite the rise in digital projection, there are still 35mm screenings of new releases, as well as repertory screenings of older movies at select theaters across the country. But The American Genre Film Archive will offer up something different on 35mm for those lucky enough to be near the right theaters....

‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Will Be Re-Released In 4K To Help Re-Open U.K. Cinemas By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 18, 2020 4:00 pm EST The Force may be with U.K. cinemas, which will receive a boost from the remastered 4K edition Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back as they re-open their doors this July. Disney is screening The Empire Strikes Back 4K edition for U.K. audiences as the country’s theaters open as part of the government’s economic recovery plan....

‘The Golden Glove’ Review: One Of The Most Disturbing Serial Killer Movies In Decades [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2019 5:00 pm EST Fatih Akin’s The Golden Glove is the rawest, most real, and most brutal serial killer movie since Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Unflinchingly gruesome, and covered in a thick layer of grime, Akin’s film tells the true story of Fritz Honka, a murderer who stalked 1970s Hamburg, preying on the weak, the old, and the destitute....

The Invisible Man Trailer After the failed Dark Universe, can Universal get back on track with their classic monsters? As a fan of the Universal Monsters, I sure hope so. The studio definitely seem to be going down the right path with The Invisible Man, which has Leigh Whannell putting a modern spin on this classic tale. In The Invisible Man, Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia Klass, a woman trapped in a violent relationship with a scientist, played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen....