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‘The Half Of It’ Is Director Alice Wu’s Ode To Platonic Soulmates [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 1, 2020 1:00 pm EST Alice Wu thought she was done with Hollywood for good. After directing the lesbian romantic dramedy Saving Face to critical acclaim in 2004, which was partly inspired by her own coming-out experiences, Wu left the industry to take care of her mother. “I was just really living my life and it was a very rich time getting to reconnect with my mom as an adult,” Wu told /Film in a phone interview ahead of the premiere of Netflix’s The Half of It, her first feature film in 16 years....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 On Track For October Debut, Obi-Wan Series Still In Development By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 9, 2020 9:30 am EST The Mandalorian season 2 is on track to debut this October on Disney+, but it will still be some time until we see Ewan McGregor don his robes again in the new Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series. The Mandalorian executive producer Jon Favreau, who was one of several Lucasfilm creatives appearing in a virtual panel for the ATX Television Festival, gave an update on the highly anticipated second season, while Obi-Wan TV series director Deborah Chow revealed that the project is still in its early stages....

‘The Sandman’ Netflix Series Is Using The Pandemic To “Perfect” The Scripts [DC FanDome] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2020 12:14 pm EST The Sandman was one of those groundbreaking comic book properties that has long eluded Hollywood. But nevertheless, Neil Gaiman’s surreal, fantastical graphic novel series would leave its mark on pop culture since its publication in 1989, and continues to do so today with the writer continually returning to his beloved series, first to write new adventures for Morpheus, the anthropomorphic personification of Dream, then to help develop the audio and live-action adaptations of The Sandman....

‘The White Tiger’ Trailer: Ramin Bahrani, Priyanka Chopra Tackle India’s Class Struggles In Netflix’s Darkly Comic Adaptation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 28, 2020 5:00 pm EST In 2008, Indian author Aravind Adiga published The White Tiger, a searing, darkly comic account of the underbelly of Indian society and the horrifying lengths that one man would take to break out of its rigid class structure. It was an astounding debut novel, especially coming in the same year that the notoriously sentimental Slumdog Millionaire became an awards darling by painting a fairy tale picture of that same impoverished class of people....

‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy Vs. The Reverend’ Trailer: It’s Like ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ With Jokes By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2020 11:00 am EST Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is back for an all-new interactive special, Kimmy vs. the Reverend. Like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, viewers will be able to control (some of) the action, which may or may not be such a great idea. An all-new Kimmy vs. the Reverend trailer gives you a look at how all of this will work, providing viewers with options like MAKE OUT or PLAN WEDDING, or WAIT FOR UBER or WALK....

‘Utopia Falls’ Trailer: Hip-Hop Is The Revolution For Teens In A Future Dance Dystopia By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 8, 2020 12:00 pm EST What if an entire dystopian colony in the far future was like the town from Footloose? That’s basically the premise of Utopia Falls, an upcoming Hulu sci-fi series set in a distant future where dance becomes the revolution. A dance dance revolution, you might say. But unlike Footloose, not all dance is outlawed here, just hip-hop, which becomes the inspiration for a group of rebellious teens who live in a society built around a…dance competition?...

‘What If…?’ Trailer: An Animated Look At An Alternate MCU By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 10, 2020 5:10 pm EST The Marvel What If…? comics were cool little diversions that asked questions like, “What if The Punisher Had Killed Spider-Man?”, and other non-cannonical scenarios. Now that concept has been grafted onto an animated series for Disney+. The What If…? series “explores what would happen if major moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe occurred differently....

8 Reasons Why ‘Hubie Halloween’ Is Funny, Actually By Evan Saathoff/Oct. 9, 2020 10:00 am EST Even the biggest Adam Sandler fan has to admit that not every at-bat is a homerun. This has been particularly true of his Netflix tenure. The smaller stakes nature of Netflix exhibition has at times allowed Sandler to try fun ideas that would never make it to the big screen (Sandy Wexler) but also get away with lazier executions (The Do-Over)....

Cathy Yan Wants ‘Birds Of Prey’ Sequel To Have A Harley Quinn And Poison Ivy Romance By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 6, 2020 7:30 am EST Birds of Prey director Cathy Yan already has ideas for a sequel. Although a direct Birds of Prey follow-up has not yet officially been confirmed, Yan has already started plotting out where she would take Harley Quinn on her next adventures — and with whom. And that character will be very familiar to longtime fans of Harley Quinn in both her animated and comic book forms....

Cinemark Allowing Shortened Theatrical Windows For Movies On A Case-By-Case Basis Starting This Month By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 5, 2020 12:00 pm EST Movie theaters are still having a tough time right now, so some of the major chains are doing whatever they can in order to better their financial situation. AMC Theatres got some help from a deal they struck with Universal that not only shortened the theatrical window to 17 days but gave theaters some of the VOD revenue when the movie was available to rent digitally at home....

Daily Podcast: Beauty And The Beast Prequel, Taika Waititi’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, A Quiet Place Part II, The Last Of Us, And More By Ben Pearson/March 6, 2020 12:15 pm EST On the March 6, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including early buzz for A Quiet Place Part II, Taika Waititi’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory shows, The Last of Us heading to HBO, a possible Frankenstein movie, the Beauty and the Beast prequel, and more....

Disney+’s ‘Loki’ Series Casts Gugu Mbatha-Raw By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 12, 2020 7:00 am EST Disney+ has added another star to tussle with everyone’s favorite trickster god. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who has recently been seen in the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, has been cast in the upcoming Loki series for Disney+. Mbatha-Raw joins star Tom Hiddleston in the Loki series cast, alongside Sophia Di Martino and the recently cast Owen Wilson....

Disney Parks Announces Its Marvel Land WEB Program Will Be Introduced In Movies, Even Though Spider-Man May Not Appear In Future MCU Films [D23] By /Film Staff/Aug. 25, 2019 11:53 am EST It appears that even though Spider-Man may no longer appear in future Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, the movies may be spinning a WEB of their own without him. WEB, aka the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, is a part of Disney’s theme park narrative that’s tied in to Avengers Campus, the new Marvel-themed land coming to Disney’s California Adventure and Disneyland Paris....

Disney World’s Magical Express Is Going Away In 2022 - Is This The End Of The “Disney Bubble”? By Ben Pearson/Jan. 11, 2021 5:30 pm EST On January 1, 2022, the western world will turn the page on a new calendar year. But for visitors to Walt Disney World, that date will also mark a significant change: the official shutting down of Disney’s Magical Express. Could that date mark be the end of the so-called “Disney bubble” for good?...

The Best Movies Streaming Right Now Wounds Now Streaming on Hulu Release Date: 2019Genre: HorrorDirector: Babak AnvariCast: Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie BeetzWounds debuted at Sundance earlier this year and was met with a somewhat tepid reaction. Perhaps that explains why a film that features Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz ended up unceremoniously dumped onto Hulu. But that doesn’t mean you should skip it. It turns out Wounds is damn effective – and creepy, too....

Our ‘The Book Of Boba Fett’ Wish List: Everything We’d Love To See In The New Disney+ Series By Adam Frazier/Dec. 23, 2020 8:00 am EST As teased in an end-credit sequence following the season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, Boba Fett’s journey will continue in The Book of Boba Fett, a new Disney+ Original Series produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Robert Rodriguez. Set within the timeline of The Mandalorian and starring Temuera Morrison as the titular bounty hunter, along with Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand, The Book of Boba Fett is currently in production and will arrive December 2021 on Disney+....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Jeff Goldblum Reacts To Spider-Man Deal, ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Season 7 Trailer & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2019 6:00 pm EST Ruby Rose stars as Batwoman in a new Arrowverse series coming to The CW, and a new promo has arrived. If Jason Momoa is out with his family, he politely asks that you refrain from asking to take pictures with him....

The Morning Watch: Hollywood Creature Performers, Stuntmen React To Movies Again & More By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 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 it takes to be a Hollywood creature performer that stands in for computer generated animals on film sets like Dumbo....

We Now Have To Wait Until February To See Bob Odenkirk As An Action Movie Star By Ben Pearson/April 7, 2020 3:00 pm EST Universal is making some more changes to its release date calendar due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. While other studios are still hoping to release movies in late July despite the near future remaining unclear, the folks at Universal aren’t taking any chances – they’ve moved Nobody, their Bob Odenkirk action movie, until February of next year....

Wilford Brimley, Star Of ‘Cocoon’ And ‘The Thing’, Has Died At 85 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2020 9:00 am EST Wilford Brimley may best be known as the spokesperson for Quaker Oats and the face of diabetes awareness, not to mention having one of the finest mustaches and a soothing, grandfatherly voice. But he was also a gifted character actor, having appeared in movies such as Cocoon, The Thing, The Natural, and The Firm....