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‘Tigertail’ Trailer: ‘Master Of None’ Co-Creator Alan Yang Makes His Directorial Debut With A Moving Immigration Tale By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 26, 2020 3:30 pm EST Alan Yang has a talent for making us cry over intergenerational immigrant stories. The Master of None co-creator co-wrote with Aziz Ansari the Netflix series’ acclaimed episode “Parents,” which sped through the entire lives of two pairs of immigrant parents, capturing their small joys and big sacrifices they made for the American dream....

BREAKING NEWS Podcast: Marvel Studios Exits Spider-Man, Matrix 4 Announced With Keanu Reeves And Lana Wachowski By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2019 1:34 pm EST On the August 20 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /film senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Chris Evangelista and Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and TV news, including Bond 25’s title, Spider-Man: Far From Home and BREAKING NEWS that Marvel Studios is no longer producing Spider-Man movies and The Matrix 4 is happening with Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski returning....

Did Tom Hardy Just Confirm Andy Serkis As The ‘Venom 2’ Director? By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 1, 2019 9:31 am EST There have been rumors swirling that Andy Serkis was on the verge of landing the Venom 2 director gig, and we might have just gotten confirmation. Quickly deleted confirmation, that is. Venom himself, Tom Hardy, posted a pic of Serkis on his Instagram last night – and then immediately took it down....

Here’s When You’ll Be Able To Watch ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 And ‘WandaVision’ By Ben Pearson/Feb. 4, 2020 2:15 pm EST This afternoon, The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger addressed a group of Disney investors on a company earnings call and revealed some release information about several of Disney+’s hottest upcoming titles, including The Mandalorian season 2, WandaVision, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The Mandalorian Season 2 Release Dates, Plus Marvel Shows...

Marvel’s ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Coming To An End After Season 7 By Ethan Anderton/July 18, 2019 12:00 pm EST Right now, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is in the middle of its sixth season, but ABC has already renewed the show starring Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward for a seventh season. However, Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb has revealed season seven will be the end....

Carol Now Streaming on Netflix Release Date: 2015Genre: Romantic DramaDirector: Todd HaynesCast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, Kyle ChandlerCarol is a Christmas movie. It’s set mostly at Christmas, Rooney Mara wears a Santa hat, it’s called Carol like a Christmas Carol – okay, that last one is a stretch, but you get the idea. Todd Haynes’ gorgeous melodrama finds 1950s shopgirl Rooney Mara falling head over heels for a wealthy woman (Cate Blanchett) who comes into her place of employment one day....

Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Series Has Found The Director It’s Looking For With Deborah Chow By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 27, 2019 2:40 pm EST Disney+‘s Obi-Wan Kenobi series has found the director it has been looking for. Deborah Chow has been tapped to be the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series director for the yet-untitled project, which will debut on the forthcoming Disney streaming service that launches this November. The series, which features the return of Ewan McGregor as the beloved Jedi Master, is set to begin production in 2020....

Original ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Veteran Alan Harris Has Passed Away At 81 By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2020 11:00 am EST Star Wars fans know nearly everyone who played the most minor part in the original trilogy, even those hidden behind helmets, masks and make-up. Actor Alan Harris was lucky enough to play a variety of roles across Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, and he was even an integral part in creating some of the most iconic props of the trilogy....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Stephanie Beatriz Would Love To Play ‘Batwoman’, James Gunn’s Favorite Superhero Movie & More By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2020 6:00 pm EST Go behind the scenes of the recent DC’s Legends of Tomorrow episode “I Am Legend” in this new featurette. Stephanie Beatriz seems interested in playing Batwoman, so Boss Logic mocked up what she might look like. Suit up!...

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Moonstruck’ Hits Your Eye Like A Big, Swooning Melodrama By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 20, 2020 7:00 am EST Cher stars as Loretta, a downbeat Italian-American widow who is convinced that her first marriage was cursed. So when her sweet but dull boyfriend Johnny (Danny Aiello) proposes to her, she accepts on the condition that they do everything right: a proper wedding, with a proper ring, in a proper church....

This Week In Trailers: S#!%house, Ghost Tropic, The Swerve, Kingdom Of Silence, Succor By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 5, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Watch: ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast Looks Back Fondly On The 1984 Classic On ‘Reunited Apart’ By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2020 12:00 pm EST Ghostbusters fans are stuck patiently waiting for the arrival of Ghostbusters: Afterlife since the film was delayed from its original July release date this summer to spring of 2021. Thankfully, Josh Gad has something to hold us over with the latest edition of his nostalgic web series Reunited Apart....

Water Cooler: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Lilo And Stitch, Big Little Lies, Amazing Jonathan Documentary, Undone And More By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2019 2:15 pm EST On the July 24, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

‘1917’ Trailer: Time Is The Enemy In This Sam Mendes World War I Drama By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 3, 2019 1:48 pm EST Sam Mendes takes you back to World War I with 1917, his new epic starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, with Colin Firth, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The film follows two British soldiers on a mission to deliver a message that will stop an attack and save thousands of lives....

‘A Disturbance In The Force’ Trailer: A Documentary That Investigates The Infamous ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 18, 2020 7:30 am EST Even if you’ve never seen the Star Wars Holiday Special, you likely know what it is. It’s an infamous 1978 TV special featuring the cast of Star Wars coked-up out of their minds, celebrating “Life Day,” which is the Star Wars equivalent of Christmas. It was such a disaster that George Lucas, who didn’t have much to do with the special to begin with, wanted it blinked out of existence....

‘Asia’ Review: ‘Unorthodox’ Star Shira Haas Shines In Devastating Mother-Daughter Drama [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 5, 2020 11:00 am EST All the signs of a weepy incurable disease movie show themselves early in Asia, Israeli filmmaker Ruthy Pribar’s tender debut film. But slowly, subtly, Asia sets itself apart from the rest of its sentimental cohorts and shows itself to be a moving and poignant mother-daughter drama of a different kind....

‘Buckaroo Banzai’ Is Finally Getting That Long-Promised Sequel (But As A Novel, Not A Movie) By Ben Pearson/Jan. 13, 2021 12:00 pm EST The 1984 cult classic Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ended with a promise: “Buckaroo Banzai will return in Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.” But the first film was a box office flop, and despite its cult status, that sequel never materialized. Until now. (Sort of....

‘Departure’ Trailer: Christopher Plummer Hires Archie Panjabi To Search For A Missing Plane In Peacock Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 18, 2020 2:30 pm EST Christopher Plummer loves a plain old mystery, having recently appeared in the Rian Johnson whoddunit Knives Out. But this time, he gets a plane mystery, in the new Peacock series, Departure. All right, that sentence doesn’t make much sense, but I couldn’t resist. Watch the Departure trailer below....

‘Love, Victor’ Teaser Clip Turns A Coffee Shop Job Interview Into A Tantalizing Meet Cute By Ethan Anderton/April 27, 2020 3:30 pm EST A series spin-off of the teenage romance feature film Love, Simon was originally destined for premiere on Disney+. However, the series apparently turned out to be a little too adult-oriented for the family friendly streaming service (you know, the one that has a movie about a man having sex with a mermaid), and it made the jump to Hulu....

‘Mank’ Is Supposed To Look, And Sound, Like A Long-Lost Older Film By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 27, 2020 9:30 am EST David Fincher’s Mank is headed our way, marking Fincher’s return to feature filmmaking after 2014’s Gone Girl. The feature will see Fincher heading back to Hollywood in the 1930s, telling the story of Herman J. Mankiewicz, writer of Citizen Kane. It’s Fincher’s first movie in black and white, and in a new interview, Fincher details the work that went into not just making a black and white movie, but making a movie that’s supposed to look – and sound – old....