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YouTube Limits Video Quality, Netflix Suspends Phone Customer Support Amid Coronavirus Crisis By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 25, 2020 7:30 am EST Despite the vast majority of the world’s population being stuck inside with nothing to do but binge-watch for the foreseeable future, even streaming services are getting hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. YouTube is limiting the video quality of its video streams worldwide for the next month, while Netflix, Hulu, and Roku are all scaling back customer service support....

‘Chicken Run’ Star Julia Sawalha Is Being Replaced In The Sequel Because Her Voice Sounds “Too Old” By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2020 8:30 am EST If you were excited about a sequel to Chicken Run after 20 years, we have some news that is supremely disappointing. British actress Julia Sawalha, who voiced the character Ginger in the original stop-motion animated movie from Aardman Animation, recently revealed that she will not be reprising her role in Chicken Run 2 for one very stupid reason....

‘Manhunt: Deadly Games’ Trailer: Ready For More Richard Jewell-Based Entertainment? By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2020 12:00 pm EST Last year, Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell hit theaters and became mired in controversy for the way it depicted a journalist, played by Olivia Wilde. While the film didn’t do very well at the box office, it did receive some praise – and even earned co-star Kathy Bates an Oscar nomination. Now, the series Manhunt will also take a crack at the Richard Jewell story with Manhunt: Deadly Games....

‘Selena: The Series’ Trailer: The Iconic Tejano Singer Gets The Netflix Series Treatment By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 6, 2020 5:00 pm EST In her short-lived career, Selena managed to become one of the most iconic Tejano singers in history, getting dubbed the “Queen of Tejano music” for her crossover success from Mexico to America. Even after her life was tragically cut short, Selena Quintanilla has managed to live on — in her beloved songs, in the Jennifer Lopez biopic that launched the actress to fame, and now in a new Netflix series that will bring her story to life once again....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 25, 2019 5:30 pm EST Talk about starting off with a bang: The 100 is getting a prequel series, set right after a nuclear apocalypse kills off most of the human population. The CW series has been running for 6 seasons now, and a backdoor pilot for a The 100 prequel has just been ordered ahead of the seventh and final season. A potential 100 prequel has been a possibility for a few years, but now that the end is truly near for the main series, The CW seems ready to move ahead....

‘The Flash’ Fires Actor Hartley Sawyer For Racist, Misogynistic Tweets By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2020 3:00 pm EST Hartley Sawyer, an actor who has played Ralph Dibny, aka Elongated Man, on The Flash since season 4, has been fired from The CW series. The actor was let go after old offensive tweets came to light featuring language deemed racist and misogynistic. Sawyer posted the tweets before he was hired on The Flash, and his Twitter account has since been deleted, but screenshots have been heavily circulating online in the last few weeks....

‘Valentine’ Is A Fascinating Artifact From The Post-‘Scream’ Horror Landscape By Matt St.Clair/Feb. 19, 2020 1:00 pm EST Back when Scream was released in 1996, it revitalized the slasher genre formula with its blend of self-referential humor and genuine scares. Once it became a cultural and box office phenomenon, it ushered in a new era of horror films in a similar vein such as I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Faculty....

‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Season 2 Teaser Puts On A Sensual Puppet Show By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 6, 2020 4:30 pm EST What We Do in the Shadows is back with more supernatural shenanigans. FX has released a teaser for the second season of the supernatural comedy series, which returns in April. But while we’re still a month out from the return of What We Do in the Shadows, the teaser gives us a little update as to what the vampire roommates have been up to since we saw them last....

‘Young Ahmed’ Review: A Realistic But Uneven Look At The Effects Of Extremism [NYFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Oct. 8, 2019 10:00 am EST In Young Ahmed, theme and narrative feel like one in the same. On its face, this is not some kind of disqualifying feature. But there are many moments in the film where it feels as if the film is a political statement in search of a narrative. While the Dardennes stop short of outright polemicizing, they might have been better served to just embrace more explicit messaging if they intended to elevate political undertones to such an undeniable extent....

Action-Packed ‘Jack Ryan’ Season 2 Trailer Sets November Premiere Date By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2019 11:30 am EST Jack Ryan Season 2 Trailer The second season comes more than a year after the first season premiered in August 2018 to generally positive reviews but overwhelming popular success. But season 2, which was renewed quickly after the show’s debut with a go-ahead for a third season, will hopefully spice things up a little for Krasinksi’s Jack Ryan....

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Is Releasing An Ahsoka Tano Force FX Elite Lightsaber By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2020 12:45 pm EST Hasbro is continuing to expand their line-up of Star Wars Force FX Elite lightsabers. Hot on the heels of the release of Emperor Palpatine’s lightsaber from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, as well as the deep cut of Darth Revan’s lightsaber from the Knights of the Old Republic video game, comes the saber of one of the most beloved characters from the animated side of Star Wars....

Daily Podcast: Justice League, Scorpion King, Wonder Woman 1984, Christopher Nolan, Short Circuit, Lilo & Stich And Judd Apatow By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the November 16, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista and to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Justice League, Scorpion King, Wonder Woman 1984, Christopher Nolan, Short Circuit, Lilo & Stich, and Judd Apatow....

Daily Podcast: Labyrinth 2, Disney World, Indiana Jones 5, Jurassic World Dominion, Snyder Cut, Suicide Squad And Ghostbusters By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the May 27, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Labyrinth, Disney World, Indiana Jones 5, Jurassic World Dominion, Snyder Cut, Suicide Squad and Ghostbusters....

Disney Buys More Land In Florida West Of Magic Kingdom By Ben Pearson/April 1, 2020 4:00 pm EST Even though The Walt Disney Company is laying off construction workers and keeping its theme parks closed in the short term due to the coronavirus crisis, the Mouse House is still playing the long game when it comes to the theme park business. A new report says that an entity related to Disney has bought more than two dozen acres of land near the western edge of the Magic Kingdom for a little over one million dollars....

Context is King Full disclosure: I hated The Last Jedi when it came out. I hated it last year. I hated it after I saw The Rise of Skywalker, which I loved. I won’t go in-depth into my reasoning now, but you can see my thoughts at the time here, here, and here if you want. After re-watching The Last Jedi in the wake of the context of The Rise of Skywalker and supplemental materials such as the Kylo Ren comic, some of my former opinions have changed....

Revisiting ‘Davy Crockett: King Of The Wild Frontier,’ Disney’s Largely Forgotten Live-Action Blockbuster By Josh Spiegel/June 3, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)It may be hard to wrap your head around, but there was once a time when the Walt Disney Company wasn’t solely dedicated to building out franchises. They were, from a cold and calculated point of view, always dedicated to intellectual property....

Riz Ahmed on Returning For More Venom and Star Wars: Nah Meanwhile, Ahmed was asked by THR if he might return to the worlds of Venom or Star Wars. The actor played villain Carlton Drake in 2018’s Venom, and hero Bodhi Rook in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And, in both cases, his characters died. “I think I’m done in Venom,” Ahmed said. “It’s pretty conclusive. Dude got blown up in a spaceship....

Sam Raimi Confirms He’s Directing ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2020 9:00 am EST It’s more or less been common knowledge since February that Sam Raimi was going to be directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the sequel to Doctor Strange. We even wrote about it back then. But now Raimi has gone ahead and confirmed the news himself, just in case you wanted even more proof that this was happening....

Sequel Bits: ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’, ‘Ghostbusters 2020’, ‘LEGO Jurassic World’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2019 5:30 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: See a familiar substance on the set of Ghostbusters 2020 Get a heartwarming new look at Bill & Ted Face the Music Check out an expansion of Jurassic World in LEGO form Find out who else has joined Coming 2 America A sneak peek at Bill & Ted Face the Music came from a bittersweet but heartwarming update from the New Jersey branch of the Make-A-Wish foundation....

Stephen King Fantasy Series ‘The Eyes Of The Dragon’ No Longer Happening At Hulu By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2020 8:30 am EST Back in 2019, we learned that Hulu was moving forward with an Eyes of the Dragon TV series, based on the Stephen King fantasy novel of the same name. Seth Grahame-Smith, who served as producer on the two It films, was set as showrunner, and the general consensus was that this was a chance for Hulu to have their own Game of Thrones-like series....