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Disney Halts ‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Shoot In Prague Over Coronavirus Concerns By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2020 7:30 am EST The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has halted production in Prague due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. The government of Prague has closed down schools and placed restrictions on events and travel, and the Disney+ series is abiding by those rules, shutting down the short shoot that had been planned in the Czech Republic city....

Netflix’s ‘Matilda’ Remake Will Put Ralph Fiennes In Drag To Play Miss Trunchbull By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 4, 2020 9:30 am EST Ralph Fiennes isn’t the first name you’d think of to play Miss Trunchbull, the intimidating and monstrous villain of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. But you should start imagining him in a dress, because he’s set to play the antagonist of Netflix’s feature film adaptation of the Matilda The Musical. Deadline reports that Ralph Fiennes is attached to star as Miss Trunchbull in Netflix and Working Title’s Matilda....

New On Blu-Ray And Digital: ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘Bad Boys For Life’, ‘The Rhythm Section’, ‘The Gentlemen’ By Chris Evangelista/April 30, 2020 8:00 am EST Hello, everyone still stuck at home! Are you in search of new forms of entertainment to free your mind from existential dread? Well, you’ve come to the right place. These are the new Blu-ray releases (and digital releases, too) you should check out this week....

Pop Culture Imports: Best Foreign-Language Movies You Might Have Missed This Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 24, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) We’re coming up on the end of the year, and the time when most outlets and critics have released their best of the year lists. Among the usual suspects are a few foreign-language films you’ve never heard of (and no, we’re not talking about Minari), or that might’ve slipped you by....

Samuel L. Jackson And Ryan Reynolds Are In Love With Each Other In Quibi’s ‘Futha Mucka’ Animated Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 22, 2020 5:30 pm EST Loved the foul-mouthed banter between Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds in The Hitman’s Bodyguard? You’ll soon get more of it in animated form with a new Quibi animated series Futha Mucka. The Hitman’s Bodyguard co-stars are reuniting for the (probably just as expletive-laden) animated series for Quibi, in which they star as fictionalized versions of themselves who are…in love with each other?...

See How Gorgeous ‘The Mandalorian’ Concept Art Compares To The Actual Scenes In The Series By Ethan Anderton/April 10, 2020 9:30 am EST Right now, we’re in-between seasons of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. The second season is slated to arrive this fall after the first season was a huge success for the launch of the Disney+ streaming service late last year. While you wait for new episodes, why not take a look back at some of the stunning concept art used in planning the Star Wars spin-off and see how the artwork compares to the final scenes we saw in the series?...

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Opening In Disney World Begins With Longer Lines Than Disneyland By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2019 12:30 pm EST When Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opened at Disneyland earlier this summer, we covered it quite extensively. But how did the grand opening of the Star Wars expansion at Disney World fare this week? Well, it should come as no surprise that the crowds waiting to get into Galaxy’s Edge arrived in the wee hours of the morning, resulting in the new land hitting capacity within minutes of the park opening....

Timothée Chalamet To Play Bob Dylan In James Mangold’s ‘Going Electric’ By Ben Pearson/Jan. 6, 2020 4:04 pm EST The young performer is in negotiations to play Dylan in Going Electric, a new film by Logan and Ford v Ferrari director James Mangold which is set during the mid 1960s, when Dylan transitioned from playing acoustic folk music to plugging in and jamming to some rock ’n roll songs – much to the chagrin of the folk purist fan community....

Video: Halloween Horror Nights 2019 Orlando Is AMAZING & TERRIFYING By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2019 9:04 am EST We are long-time fans of Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios Hollywood but have never been to the version in Universal Studios Florida. The opening nights usually occur on the same exact night, but this year Universal Orlando Resort opened their version a week earlier. So last night we got to experience Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando for the first time ever....

Watch: The Director And Cast Of ‘Host’ Join Us For A Real Online Seance By /Film Staff/Aug. 18, 2020 7:00 am EST In the new horror film Host, a group of friends convene over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic to participate in an online seance. Evil forces are contacted. Things go wrong. Lots of screaming and terror ensues. Naturally, this meant the /Film crew had to do one thing: we had to meet up with the director, writers, and cast of Host for a real online seance....

Water Cooler: Soul, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Fletch, Casey Neistat, French Exit, The Sixth Sense, Shutter Island By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the October 9, 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....

‘1917’ Co-Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns On Crafting The One-Shot War Epic [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Dec. 31, 2019 7:00 am EST Over the last few years, Mendes and Wilson-Cairns collaborated and wrote a handful of scripts together, but for one reason or another, they never became movies. After what they’ve accomplished with 1917, we can only imagine what they could’ve done together sooner. They aimed high and didn’t miss their target on this one....

‘1917’ Is The Favorite To Win Best Picture At The 2020 Oscars, According To Oddsmakers By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 4, 2020 9:30 am EST 1917 has taken the lead in the 2020 Oscar race. The Sam Mendes-directed World War I drama is the favorite to win among betting aggregators, who released their 2020 Oscars predictions for all the major categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, and the acting nominees. The betting aggregators from US-Bookies....

‘Avengers’ Video Game Trailer Reassembles Earth’s Mightiest Heroes By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2019 2:00 pm EST The Avengers video game – where all the characters sort of look like their movie counterpoints, but not quite – is launching next year, but a new gameplay trailer is ready to walk you through the action. Learn about the plot – which involves the Avengers breaking up the team after a mishap, and then having to reunite five years later – and see actual gameplay footage....

‘Away’ Trailer: Hilary Swank Misses Her Family As She Embarks On A Mission To Mars By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2020 2:00 pm EST Earlier this year, Hilary Swank got caught up in The Hunt. But over at Netflix, she’ll be leaving Earth behind in the new space drama series Away, which finds her as an astronaut on a high stakes mission to Mars. Not only does she have to deal with the pressure of her job, but also of leaving behind her family and home....

‘Big Mouth’ Spin-Off ‘Human Resources’ Coming From Nick Kroll And Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2019 3:30 pm EST Netflix has already given the raunchy, hormone-fueled animated comedy series Big Mouth an order for three more seasons following the third season, which debuts today. But during the show’s panels at New York Comic-Con, another expansion was announced. Big Mouth co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll announced a new spin-off series called Human Resources, which will focus on the office that employs and keeps track of the various hormone monsters that are paired off with kids during their pubescent adventures....

‘Black Monday’ Season 2 Trailer: Don Cheadle Is Back With A Bigger Wig And Even Bigger Performance In Showtime’s Dark Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2020 5:00 pm EST How does Don Cheadle outdo his Emmy-nominated performance as Maurice “Mo” Monroe in the first season of Showtime’s dark comedy Black Monday? Go bigger. Bigger in his scenery-chewing performance, and bigger in his hair, which now falls past his shoulders in one of the wackiest TV wigs we’ve seen in a while....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 15, 2020 12:00 pm EST Black Widow may have to go into hiding for a few more months. The long-awaited Black Widow movie may be delayed once again as Disney considers reshuffling its film slate in the wake of disappointing Mulan box office numbers. That reshuffling may also push the anticipated Pixar film Soul to Disney+, where Disney has found success with its animated films amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

‘Detective Pikachu’ Honest Trailer: The Third Best Hard-Boiled Detective Movie With Cartoon Animals By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 26, 2019 6:00 am EST Even though Detective Pikachu might now hold the title of the best video game movie of all-time, it’s still only the third best hard-boiled detective movie with cartoon animals. But that’s only because the movie gets by on the cuteness of a little Pikachu voiced by Ryan Reynolds and wearing a detective hat on his cute, furry, little face....

‘Free Guy’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Is Living In A Video Game Somehow More Chaotic Than 2020 By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2020 6:15 am EST If you thought 2020 was full of insanity, imagine what life would be like if we were living in a video game like Grand Theft Auto. That’s the premise of a new movie called Free Guy, following Ryan Reynolds as a non-playable background character in an open world video game who suddenly wants a little more out of his life, setting him up to be the game’s new hero....