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Vin Diesel Says Steven Spielberg Told Him To Direct Again Or Else It Would Be A “Crime Of Cinema” By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2020 5:00 pm EST Did you know Vin Diesel once directed a feature film? It’s true! The Fast and Furious star made his feature directorial debut with the 1997 flick Strays. And while he’s directed a couple of shorts and a TV episode since then, we have yet to see the return of Vin Diesel: Filmmaker....

Water Cooler: Console Wars, Trial Of The Chicago 7, Nomadland, Pen15, Too Funny To Fail, And More By Ben Pearson/Sept. 25, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the September 25, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler....

‘Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens’ Trailer: Awkwafina Heads To Comedy Central By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2019 4:30 pm EST Awkwafina continues her meteoric rise with a new Comedy Central series, Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens (yes, that’s the full title). The series is loosely based on the star’s real life, and finds her playing Nora Lin (Awkwafina’s real name is Nora Lum), a “20-something woman in Queens who strives for a larger than life existence....

‘Bad Hair’ Trailer: A Horror-Satire About A Killer Weave From Director Justin Simien By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 1, 2020 2:00 pm EST There’s a killer weave in Bad Hair – literally. This horror-satire from Dear White People director Justin Simien follows a young woman in the 1980s who gets a weave that appears to have a mind of its own. The film played Sundance and is headed to Hulu this month, and a new Bad Hair trailer just arrived to announce the release....

‘Blair Witch’ Gameplay Trailer: Sure, It’s Scary, But You Also Get To Interact With A Dog By Chris Evangelista/July 29, 2019 5:30 pm EST When will people learn to stay the hell out of the cursed woods of Burkittsville? Those spooky woods made famous by The Blair Witch Project are being explored once again – this time in a Blair Witch video game. A new gameplay trailer gives us a better look at what’s in store, and it features what you might expect: scary woods, spooky ruins, video camera footage, and mysterious supernatural happenings....

‘Dear Evan Hansen’: Julianne Moore To Sing With Amy Adams In Movie Musical By Ben Pearson/Sept. 1, 2020 3:30 pm EST A movie adaptation of the popular musical Dear Evan Hansen has been in the works since 2018, and its casting is really starting to ramp up. This past Friday, Oscar nominee Amy Adams was hired to play the mother of a dead teenager at the center of the story. Today, Oscar winner Julianne Moore is the latest person to join the Dear Evan Hansen cast....

‘Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian’ Reminds Us That The Legacy Of George Lucas Goes Far Beyond ‘Star Wars’ By Ethan Anderton/May 8, 2020 8:00 am EST The second episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian has arrived, and in it, executive producer Jon Favreau hones in on the legacy of Star Wars and how it impacted the making of The Mandalorian. For this episode, he’s brought in some longtime Star Wars veterans and Lucasfilm collaborators to discuss the saga, including the company’s president Kathleen Kennedy, Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisors John Knoll and Richard Bluff, and animation director Hal Hickel....

‘High Desert’: Patricia Arquette To Play A Private Detective In AppleTV+ Series, Ben Stiller Directing By Ben Pearson/Sept. 23, 2020 2:00 pm EST Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette are reuniting once again. The two previously shared the screen in David O. Russell’s 1996 comedy Flirting with Disaster, and Stiller recently directed Arquette in Showtime’s prison series Escape at Dannemora. Now he’ll direct the Oscar-winning actress again in High Desert, a new show that’s coming to the AppleTV+ streaming service....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 27, 2020 5:30 pm EST Hey, are you a killer maid? If so, you might be interested in I’m a Killer Maid, a new TV series being developed by Legendary from a series of popular Chinese webcomics. It’s being hailed as a “rare example of Chinese IP being developed for an audience outside China,” and is being described as “Mary Poppins turned John Wick…with shades of Freaky Friday and Killing Eve....

‘Mulan’, ‘The New Mutants’, And ‘Antlers’ Release Dates Delayed Due To Coronavirus By Chris Evangelista/March 12, 2020 3:03 pm EST The latest in the seemingly never-ending stream of coronavirus delay news: Disney is delaying the release dates of Mulan, The New Mutants, and Antlers all due to fears of the virus. These three titles join a growing list of films being pushed off their release dates, including No Time to Die, My Spy, A Quiet Place Part II, The Lovebirds, and F9....

‘No Time To Die’ Photos: Daniel Craig Returns As 007 Along With New And Familiar Faces By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 4, 2019 1:00 pm EST A proper glimpse at 007’s next mission arrived this week with the first trailer for No Time to Die. It certainly looks like a better outing for Daniel Craig than Spectre, and considering this is his send-off as James Bond, that’s good news for fans. But the movie is still roughly five months away, so we’ll have to sink our teeth into some slick official images from the movie in the meantime...

By Chris Evangelista/March 4, 2020 3:00 pm EST What’s new at Disney+? The Disney streaming service burst onto the scene late last year, got everyone talking with The Mandalorian, and then…kind of quieted down. But Disney+ is still going strong, and they’re greenlighting new shows as we speak. One such new show is a docuseries called Parenting Without Borders, which will be hosted by Jessica Alba. The series will follow Alba around the world as she looks at various parenting practices....

‘Return Of The Orca’ Hopes To Recreate The Boat From ‘Jaws’ To Support Shark Conservation By Chris Evangelista/July 26, 2020 2:00 pm EST The Orca, the famous boat from Jaws, is about to rise from the depths once again – and for a good cause, to boot. Online Jaws groups Making the Monster and The Daily Jaws are teaming to raise funds to restore a Nova Scotia lobster boat currently called Lydia and turn it into a replica of the boat that Quint, Brody, and Hooper headed out on to stop the shark that was plaguing Amity Island....

‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Opening Crawl Revealed – Here’s What Was Going On 200 Years Before The Prequels By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 7, 2020 7:30 am EST Earlier this year, Lucasfilm revealed the identity of the mysterious project they’d been working on which had been codenamed “Project Luminous.” It was Star Wars: The High Republic, a medium-spanning storytelling initiative comprised of books, comics, and potentially even video games, TV shows, and movies....

‘The Art Of Political Murder’ Trailer: George Clooney Executive Produced This HBO Doc About A Murdered Bishop By Ben Pearson/Nov. 26, 2020 9:00 am EST HBO’s collection of new crime-centric documentaries continues next month with The Art of Political Murder, which recounts the 1998 murder of Juan Gerardi, a Guatemalan bishop and human rights activist who was killed for blaming the country’s military for some of the atrocities in its brutal, multi-decade civil war....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 12, 2020 11:30 am EST The plot of Matt Reeves’ The Batman is still fairly cloaked in mystery, but the director and stars continue to hint at what the latest Caped Crusader outing will entail. Here’s what we know: Robert Pattinson will don the cape and cowl in an adventure that takes place early on in Batman’s career, taking him face-to-face with familiar rogues like Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz), the Riddler (Paul Dano), and Penguin (Colin Farrell)....

‘Uncharted’ Movie Adds Mark Wahlberg As Tom Holland’s Mentor By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 13, 2019 1:30 pm EST Years ago, Mark Wahlberg was floated as a possible lead for an Uncharted movie. Now, the Uncharted movie is finally happening, and while Wahlberg won’t be the lead, he’s going to be in the film after all. Wahlberg has joined the Uncharted movie cast as Victor “Sully” Sullivan, a mentor to main character Nathan Drake, played by Tom Holland....

‘We Are Freestyle Love Supreme’ Documentary And ‘Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge’ Premieres Delayed In Solidarity With Protesters By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2020 8:30 am EST Right now, all attention is on the extremely necessary protests unfolding in the United States and the rest of the world after the unlawful murder of George Floyd at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In an effort to make sure the focus stays on these historical protests, Hollywood creators are delaying some projects that were intended to debut this week....

Cool Stuff: Ludwig Göransson’s ‘Black Panther’ Score Pulses Into Mondo’s Vinyl Soundtrack Collection By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 17, 2019 6:00 am EST In case you hadn’t heard, Mondo will slowly be releasing all of the soundtracks to the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They started with a bit of a softball by releasing Ant-Man and the Wasp back in April, but now they’re giving one of Marvel’s best soundtracks the vinyl treatment....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Fast And Furious’ LEGO Technic Set Builds Dom’s Dodge Charger A Quarter-Brick At A Time By Ethan Anderton/March 30, 2020 5:30 pm EST LEGO has struck a deal with Universal Pictures and the Fast and Furious franchise to bring new playsets to life inspired by the wild action movies starring Vin Diesel. Right out of the gate, LEGO is knocking it out of the park with a new LEGO Technic set of Dom’s Dodge Charger, the trademark muscle car with a V8 engine, double-wishbone suspension, a wheelie bar, and the always helpful nitro in the trunk....