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‘The Irishman’ Wins AARP’s “Best Movie For Grownups” Award, Because Old Folks Apparently Have Good Taste By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 13, 2020 3:30 pm EST This just in: old people love The Irishman! I know these days we all like to sit around and say “Okay, boomer!” at the olds, but in this case, let’s all agree they got something right. The AARP’s 19th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards were held over the weekend, and Martin Scorsese’s mob epic claimed the top honor....

‘The Last Of Us’ Gets A Series Order At HBO; Could This Be The First Great Video Game Adaptation? By Ben Pearson/Nov. 20, 2020 11:50 am EST It’s official: Joel and Ellie are coming to television. HBO has given a series order to The Last of Us, a television adaptation of Naughty Dog’s wildly popular video game about a smuggler and a young girl who must make their way across a zombie-infested America in the hopes of developing a cure for a virus that has ravaged the globe....

‘The Mandalorian’ Composer Ludwig Goransson On How His Score Gives The Title Character A Face [Interview] By Fred Topel/Dec. 2, 2019 11:00 am EST The Mandalorian sounds different from any other Star Wars movie or show we’ve seen before. Gone is the classic John Williams score and the more traditional scores from Michael Giacchino and John Powell. The Jon Favreau-created series embraces its western influences in the soundscape, with some industrial sounds mixed in for good measure....

‘The New Mutants’ IMAX Poster Really Wants You To Believe The Movie Is Opening In Theaters This Month By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 12, 2020 11:00 am EST Yesterday, we received word that Disney sent out a letter to movie theaters across the land, telling them they could start selling movie tickets for The New Mutants next week. Why? Because Disney swears on Walt Disney’s frozen head that The New Mutants is opening in theaters this month....

‘The New Mutants’ Secures Another Release Date, Aims To Hit Theaters This Summer By Ben Pearson/May 13, 2020 11:00 am EST For director Josh Boone and all the people involved with Fox’s superhero film The New Mutants, the past few years must have felt like they were caught in an episode of The Twilight Zone. The same cycle has occurred over and over again: a new release date for the film is announced, a flurry of marketing materials is released, and then, inevitably, the date is pushed back for one reason or another....

‘The Plot Against America’ Trailer: Maybe Electing Charles Lindbergh President Wasn’t The Best Idea By Ben Pearson/Feb. 18, 2020 4:00 pm EST “There’s a lot of hate out there, and he knows how to tap into it.” That’s a line from this new trailer for HBO’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, but it just as easily be about the current occupant of the White House. The six-episode limited series is set in an alternate history of the United States during the 1940 presidential election, but the parallels to our real world political environment today are stark and unsettling....

‘X-Men’ And ‘Spider-Man’ Cartoons From The 1990s Are Available On Disney+ By Ben Pearson/Sept. 12, 2019 11:30 am EST Disney+ is currently available in the Netherlands as part of a sneak preview of the company’s new streaming service, and some of those early subscribers noticed that both X-Men: The Animated Series and Spider-Man: The Animated Series are available to stream. Their inclusion in the Disney+ library is news to us, but as someone who spent a considerable portion of my childhood watching these shows, I’m psyched to see them so easily available again....

2020 Sundance Film Festival Awards: ‘Minari’ Impresses Both Jurors And Audiences By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2020 12:00 pm EST Coming Away with the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic category, as well as the Audience Award, is Minari from director Lee Isaac Chung. The film follows a 7-year-old Korean-American boy whose life is turned upside down when his father decides to move their family to rural Arkansas and start a farm in the mid-1980s....

AMC, Regal, And Cinemark Are Suing New Jersey To Open Theaters Sooner By Chris Evangelista/July 7, 2020 9:35 am EST Today in “We’re probably all doomed” news: movie theater giants AMC, Regal, and Cinemark are taking the state of New Jersey to court, claiming a First Amendment right to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. You know – that deadly pandemic that appears to be getting worse, and not better? Yeah, that one....

Apple TV+ Is Already Renewing Its Shows With Second Seasons Of ‘Dickinson,’ ‘See,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 15, 2019 10:30 am EST According to THR, production for Dickinson season 2 started soon after the first trailers stirred up some online buzz. Apple has already poured truckloads of cash into See, with a whopping $240 million already spent for the first two seasons of the series. Knight pens the series with The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence helming season 1, though it’s uncertain if he will return for a second season as THR notes a “change at the top” may be in the show’s future....

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Releasing Force FX Elite Darksaber And Repainted Boba Fett Helmet From ‘The Mandalorian’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now that the second season of The Mandalorian is over, it appears that Mando Mondays will be coming to an end for a little while. But Hasbro is going out with a bang by revealing two new role-playing items that will get fans ready for the return of cosplaying at conventions next year....

Cool Stuff: Michael Myers Comes Home For ‘Halloween’ As A New Sideshow Collectibles Figure By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 2020 6:00 am EST Halloween will always be known as the night he came home, and soon you’ll be able to bring home the Sideshow Collectible version of the slasher known as Michael Myers. But hardcore horror fans will tell you that he was credited as The Shape in the original Halloween from 1978, which is where this 1/6 scale figure of the iconic killer comes from....

Daily Podcast: Spider-Man Back In MCU, Steve Jobs Tried To Kill Disney Animation, The Irishman Early Buzz, & Uncharted Finds New Director By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2019 12:15 pm EST On the September 27, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and tv news, including Spider-Man, Steve Jobs, AppleTV+, The Irishman, and Uncharted. In The News: Brad: Spider-Man Will Stay in the Marvel Cinematic Universe As Disney and Sony Announce New Deal Peter: Steve Jobs Wanted Bob Iger To Shut Down Disney Animation After Pixar Acquisition Brad: Apple TV+ Hopes to Release Some Original Movies in Theaters Before Sending Them to Streaming Peter: ‘The Irishman’ Early Buzz: Martin Scorsese Has Made Another Masterpiece Brad: ‘Uncharted’ Movie Back on Track with ‘Bumblebee’ Director Travis Knight Taking Over Other Articles Mentioned: “We Could Say Anything to Each Other”: Bob Iger Remembers Steve Jobs All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Even Tinder Is A Streaming Service Now; Get Details About The App’s First Original Series By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2019 2:00 pm EST Yep, the dating app is getting into the streaming game now with its first Tinder original series, an untitled show which debuts next month that centers on the end of the world. Could the apocalypse be triggered by the fact that there are too many streaming services? Tune in to find out!...

Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ Series Will Now Arrive On Disney+ In 2020 By Jacob Hall/Jan. 1, 2020 11:19 am EST Now that The Mandalorian has finished its first season, Disney+ has to do something to keep those millions of subscribers satiated (you know, beyond that massive catalog of classic films and such). A new video announcing what’s coming to the streaming service in 2020 is mostly familiar titles, but there’s one noteworthy addition....

Nicholas Hoult Joins ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ And ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ By Ben Pearson/Jan. 9, 2020 11:30 am EST What a lovely day for Nicholas Hoult. The Mad Max: Fury Road and X-Men franchise star is the latest recruit of the Mission: Impossible film series, with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie and Hoult jointly announcing that the actor will be joining the cast of both Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8. Here’s how it played out on Instagram this morning, with McQuarrie posing a question and Hoult quickly answering:...

Pedro Almodóvar Is Teaming Up Again With Penélope Cruz For His Motherhood-Themed Drama ‘Madres Paralelas’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 2, 2020 3:30 pm EST There was a big hoopla earlier this year when Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar announced that he would be following up his Oscar-nominated masterwork Pain & Glory with his first-ever English language feature. But before the auteur crosses the Atlantic to make his foray into the English language, Almodóvar will be returning to his roots once again to do what he does best: make a Madrid-set movie about mothers with his longtime collaborator Penélope Cruz....

Rian Johnson Briefly Considered An Anakin Skywalker Appearance In ‘The Last Jedi’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 2, 2020 7:30 am EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi is back in the news again. The divisive eighth installment in the Skywalker Saga has a few new fun facts for you, unveiled by none other than writer/director Rian Johnson, who engaged in an informal Q&A of sorts on Twitter about the 2017 Star Wars movie....

Robert Rodriguez Heads To Netflix With Priyanka Chopra For ‘We Can Be Heroes’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 2019 10:30 am EST Every week, it seems like another high profile filmmaker heads to Netflix to make a movie, and this week it’s Alita: Battle Angel and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez signing up for a new project at the streaming service. We Can Be Heroes will have Robert Rodriguez writing, directing and producing an original story with Isn’t It Romantic and Baywatch co-star Priyanka Chopra Jonas starring, though the story will focus on a group of kids whose parents are kidnapped by aliens, but it’s not just an alien abduction story....

The Morning Watch: ‘Terminator’ Recap Before ‘Dark Fate’, ‘The Lion King’ Recording Sessions & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 28, 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, find out what you need to remember about the Terminator franchise before you head off to see Terminator: Dark Fate this week....