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YouTube Originals Will Be Free To Watch Starting September 24 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 19, 2019 10:00 am EST YouTube is living up to its promise to make all its YouTube Originals free. Starting this September, YouTube Originals like Cobra Kai, Impulse, Step Up: High Water, Mind Field, Foursome, and more will be available to stream to non-paying viewers. However, YouTube Premium subscribers will still enjoy the better viewing experience. Last year, YouTube promised to make its original shows – which are currently exclusive to paying Premium members – available for free to non-paying viewers as ad-supporting programming....

‘Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum’ Remake Will Offer A New Take On The South Korean Found Footage Horror Movie By Chris Evangelista/May 29, 2020 4:30 pm EST Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, a very spooky found footage movie from South Korea, is getting an inevitable American remake. The original film follows a team of ghost hunters filming their overnight stay in a supposedly haunted asylum that turns out to be – you guessed it – really haunted....

‘Hannah Gadsby: Douglas’ Trailer: The Stand-Up Comedian Returns To Netflix After The Success Of ‘Nanette’ By Ben Pearson/May 12, 2020 3:30 pm EST Two years ago, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby took the world by storm with her Netflix stand-up special Nanette, an unconventional mixture of comedy and tragedy which earned rave reviews and scored Gadsby an Emmy for Outstanding Writing and a Peabody Award to boot. Now she’s heading back to the streaming service with Hannah Gadsby: Douglas, a new special which directly addresses Nanette’s success and continues to explore other humorous corners of Gadsby’s brain....

‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie Concept Art Revealed As Solid Snake Gets Desperate For A Mission In Quarantine By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2020 10:00 am EST Here’s what Jordan Vogt-Roberts posted to Twitter a couple days ago, teasing some Metal Gear Solid sneak peeks: I wish I could share more frequent updates on the film adaptation of @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN’s seminal METAL GEAR SOLID… But❗️I can share this codec from the legends @DavidBHayter, @4pauleiding & @christophran as we celebrate MGS and try to make the world whole again....

‘Promising Young Woman’ Trailer: Carey Mulligan Takes Revenge On “Nice Guys” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 11, 2019 2:00 pm EST Carey Mulligan has spent her career playing buttoned-up types or damaged ingenues, so it’s exciting to see her unleashed and angry in Promising Young Woman. Mulligan stars in the darkly comic thriller as a traumatized woman who leads a double life taking revenge on self-declared “nice guys” who are actually would-be assaulters....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Sequel Officially Swings Into Production By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2020 8:30 am EST Even though plenty of animated projects have been able to continue production after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the film and television industry around the world, Sony Pictures still ended up pushing back the release date for the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel by six months, all the way back to the fall of 2022....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Announces New Cast Members, Including ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ Star Robert Englund By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 20, 2020 9:30 am EST The kids of Hawkins, Indiana are about to meet a new nightmare in Stranger Things season 4. Netflix announced new cast members for Stranger Things 4, the upcoming fourth installment of the streamer’s flagship sci-fi horror series, and it includes none other than Freddy Krueger himself. Robert Englund, the star of Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street horror franchise, is joining the Stranger Things 4 cast alongside a slew of newcomers, including new series regulars Jamie Campbell Bower (The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) and Eduardo Franco (Booksmart)....

‘The Godmother’ Will Turn Jennifer Lopez Into A Drug Lord By Chris Evangelista/July 26, 2019 1:30 pm EST Jennifer Lopez is going to build herself a drug empire in The Godmother, a new movie based on the true story of Griselda “La Madrina” Blanco. Blanco was a Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and a major part of the Miami cocaine drug trade during the ’80s. Blanco was a major focus of the Cocaine Cowboys documentaries....

By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2020 2:15 pm EST The Knick, one of the best shows of the 21st century, is coming back. Created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, the Cinemax series ran for two seasons, with Steven Soderberg directing all 20 episodes. Cinemax canceled the show after two seasons, but Soderbergh and company were able to wrap things up, albeit in surprising, often unsettling ways. Still, fans have longed for more, and it sounds like we’re finally going to get it, thanks to Barry Jenkins and Knick star André Holland....

‘The Photograph’ Trailer: Issa Rae And LaKeith Stanfield Fall For Each Other By Ben Pearson/Nov. 3, 2019 9:00 am EST You may still be tidying up after last night’s Halloween celebration, but Universal already wants you to lock down your plans for Valentine’s Day. That’s when the studio is releasing The Photograph, a new romantic comedy/drama starring Issa Rae (HBO’s Insecure) and LaKeith Stanfield (FX’s Atlanta). Check out the film’s first trailer below....

20 Years Ago, ‘Galaxy Quest’ Offered One Of Cinema’s Most Positive Portrayals Of Dedicated Fandom By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 25, 2019 8:00 am EST The nascent days of the Internet brought with it a recognizable and often critical depiction of fandom in popular culture. The most familiar representation of the modern fan comes courtesy of The Simpsons, with its obese Comic Book Guy character. Arguably, that’s also one of the more insulting depictions of fans, as the otherwise unnamed Comic Book Guy is unnecessarily obsessive, snide, immature, lonely, and virginal....

Daily Podcast: Face/Off Remake, The Mandalorian, AppleTV+, The Muppets, Hawkeye, And Rian Johnson’s Knives Out By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2019 12:45 pm EST On the September 10, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and senior writer Ben Pearson to discuss the latest film and tv news, including a Face/Off remake, The Mandalorian season 2, AppleTV+, See, The Muppets, Hawkeye casting, and a possible Rian Johnson’s Knives Out universe....

Daily Podcast: Twister & Pirates Of The Caribbean Reboots, Scott Pilgrim Animated Series, Colin Trevorrow’s Atlantis, Jurassic World By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the June 26, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including COVID movie delays, Pandemic film productions, a Scott Pilgrim animated series, Colin Trevorrow’s Atlantis, Jurassic World casting and a Twister reboot....

Daily Podcast: Wonder Woman 3, Future DC Movies For HBO MAX, Exorcist, Barry Jenkins’ Lion King, What If And She Hulk By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the December 28, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Wonder Woman 3, Future DC Movies for HBO MAX, Exorcist, Barry Jenkins’ Lion King, What If and She Hulk....

Fantastic Fest 2020 Offering Free Virtual Screenings Of Films To Anyone In The United States By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2020 3:00 pm EST Fantastic Fest 2020 is going (mostly) virtual this year, and unlike many of the other film festivals of the pandemic era, this one is opening its digital doors to every person in the United States. While there will be a couple of in-person events in Austin, Texas, the annual home of the festival, most of the screenings will be free for anyone to watch in the U....

Mickey And Minnie’s Runaway Railway Songwriters Explain How You Write A Theme Park Ride Theme Song [Interview] By Josh Spiegel/March 25, 2020 10:00 am EST It took more than 90 years, but Mickey Mouse finally got a theme-park attraction at the beginning of March 2020. (Ah, the beginning of March 2020, when the Disney theme parks were…y’know, open. It was a simpler time, two whole weeks ago.) Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, currently at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in the Walt Disney World Resort (and currently in construction at Disneyland Park, arriving in 2022), takes guests on a wild ride themed to the modern, Flash-animated Mickey Mouse shorts that can be found on Disney XD and Disney+....

Netflix Renews ‘Sex Education’ For Season 3 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 10, 2020 4:00 pm EST Netflix is staying in school for another season of Sex Education. The streaming giant wants us to keep talking about Sex, baby, renewing the British teen comedy for a third season. The Sex Education season 3 renewal comes a month after the second season debuted on Netflix to critical acclaim, cementing the Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson-starring series as a breakout hit for the streaming service....

Superhero Bits: ‘Avengers: Damage Control’ VR Featurette, Official ‘Watchmen’ Podcast Arrives & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2019 6:00 pm EST Which DC Comics villain did Cardi B dress as for Halloween? Who is the latest Arrow cast member returning for the final season of the show? Which Marvel movie star doesn’t know that they’re supposed to be in the animated What If? series? Want to go behind the scenes of the Avengers: Damage Control VR experience?...

The Morning Watch: A Disco ‘Star Wars’ Christmas Light Display, ‘Cobra Kai’ Recap Before Season 3 & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 31, 2020 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....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘The Mandalorian’, Analyzing A Perfect Episode Of ‘The Simpsons’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 3, 2020 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....