Posts

‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Trailer: David Fincher’s Crime Drama Tackles The Atlanta Child Murders By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 5, 2019 7:00 am EST It’s been two years since the first season of Mindhunter debuted on Netflix to rave reviews, and the timing couldn’t be better for the highly anticipated second season of David Fincher’s serial killer series. Jonathan Groff’s FBI Agent Holden Ford, Holt McCallany’s Agent Bill Trench, and Anna Torv’s Dr. Wendy Carr return, this time to investigate the racially charged Atlanta Child Murders of the late ’70s and come face-to-face with Charles Manson, played by Damon Herriman…who also plays Manson in Quentin Tarantino’s recently released Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....

‘Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution’ Trailer: The CGI Remake Of The First Pokémon Movie Comes To Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 21, 2020 3:30 pm EST Your heart may be made of stone if you’re not excited (or at least intrigued) by the sleek CGI remake of the Pokémon movie that made you bawl your eyes out at eight years old. So prepare for those tear ducts to well up again, because Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution is coming to Netflix....

‘Shrek 2’ Honest Trailer: The One Starring The Love Child Of Gaston And John Goodman By Ethan Anderton/June 19, 2020 6:00 am EST If there’s one franchise that hasn’t aged as well as some of its animated counterparts, it’s the Shrek franchise. Chock full of dated pop culture references and animation that looks uglier than other animated movies that came out around the same time, these movie also got worse as they went on....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2019 4:00 pm EST Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes, writers of The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, are ready to get creepy again with a whole new horror franchise. The two are developing an entire series of films set around LaLaurie Mansion, a house in New Orleans with a sordid history that may or may not be haunted (also: Nicolas Cage once lived there).Deadline broke the news about the LaLaurie Mansion horror franchise, revealing that the films will be developed and produced by Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes, Doug McKay, Cindy Bond, and Michael Whalen....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2: ‘Ant-Man’ Director Peyton Reed Heads To A Galaxy Far, Far Away By Ben Pearson/May 4, 2020 5:17 pm EST It’s been an eventful Star Wars Day despite the global pandemic, and the day isn’t over yet – Peyton Reed, the director of Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, has revealed that he’s going to be one of the directors of The Mandalorian season 2 on Disney+. See his photo from the set below....

‘The Right Stuff’ TV Series Lands At Disney+ This Fall By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 5, 2020 10:30 am EST The Right Stuff is making a landing at Disney+ this fall. National Geographic’s scripted drama series, based on Tom Wolfe’s bestselling nonfiction account of the early days of NASA, has found a home at Disney+, which will debut the eight-episode TV series this fall. Disney+ announced that National Geographic’s The Right Stuff TV series will premiere on the streaming service this fall....

Avengers Campus Will Officially Open In Disneyland In July 2020 By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2020 7:56 am EST Disney Park-goers, assemble. Avengers Campus will open to the public this summer, and finally, Disney has revealed an official opening date for the Marvel Cinematic Universe-themed land in Disneyland. At the annual Disney shareholders meeting, the company announced that the Avengers Campus opening date has been set for July 2020. The Avengers are coming to Disneyland this summer....

Bong Joon-Ho Breaks Down That ‘Mission Impossible’ Scene In ‘Parasite’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 2, 2019 12:00 pm EST Parasite defies categorization. It’s a tar-black comedy, a razor-sharp social satire, a twisted fairy tale, and a Hitchockian suspense thriller all at once. Director Bong Joon-ho resides in a genre all to his own, and hasn’t pointed to specific influences when making his Palme D’Or winner, which was inspired by his own experiences as a personal tutor to a rich family....

Christopher Nolan Blessed The ‘MacGruber’ TV Series Pilot Read-Through With The Best E-Mail By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2020 9:30 am EST Although MacGruber bombed hard at the box office when it was released in theaters back in 2010, the Saturday Night Live film starring Will Forte has become a cult classic. In fact, the movie has cultivated such a following that the new NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock is allowing director Jorma Taccone to make a MacGruber TV series....

Colin Hanks, Diane Guerrero, And Nelly Join Buddy Holly Biopic ‘Clear Lake’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 26, 2020 3:00 pm EST Colin Hanks, Diane Guerrero, and hip-hop star Nelly are the latest to join the cast of Clear Lake, the upcoming biopic about the iconic 1950s musician Buddy Holly.Variety reports that Hanks, Guerrero, and Nelly have been added to the Clear Lake cast, joining Irish actor Ruairi O’Connor, who has been cast as the legendary musician....

Contest: Win ‘The Dead Center’ On Blu-Ray By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 22, 2019 5:00 pm EST Shane Carruth, director of the mind-bending indie sci-fi films Primer and Upstream Color, stars in The Dead Center, a supernatural thriller loaded with an ominous atmosphere. The Dead Center arrives on Blu-ray this week, and we’re giving away a free copy to one random, lucky /Film reader, because we’re just that generous. Learn how to win The Dead Center on Blu-ray below....

Disney+ Adapting ‘Once On This Island’ Stage Musical Into A Live-Action Movie By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2020 9:30 am EST After finding great success with Hamilton last month, Disney+ is looking to make another musical of their own. A live-action film adaptation of the one-act Broadway musical Once on This Island is in the works at Disney+. Described as a calypso-flavored re-telling of The Little Mermaid, the story set in the Caribbean’s French Antilles focuses on a peasant girl who falls in love with an aristocrat, but of course the romance defies all of the social norms and is threatened at every turn....

Greta Gerwig Made Quentin Tarantino Cry At The Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 3, 2020 3:30 pm EST It’s Friday, we’re all still a bit hungover from the holidays, and the entire world appears to be going to hell. How about a nice, easy-going story to lift your spirits? Last night, Greta Gerwig presented Quentin Tarantino with the Director of the Year award at the 31st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards Gala, and her speech was so touching and kind that it made Tarantino cry....

Idris Elba Film ‘Concrete Cowboy’ Will Trot Onto Netflix In 2021 By Ben Pearson/Oct. 26, 2020 3:30 pm EST Idris Elba (The Wire, Beasts of No Nation) will be appearing as Bloodsport in James Gunn’s comic book movie The Suicide Squad next year, but he’ll be headlining a far more low key project in 2021 as well. Concrete Cowboy, a family drama starring Elba and Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas from Stranger Things), made its debut on this year’s film festival circuit and has now been picked up by Netflix....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies Set In The “Future” Of 2020 By Scott Beggs/Jan. 2, 2020 9:00 am EST If you’re gripped with terror at the uncertainty of the coming year, fear not! A dozen or so movies made over the last half-century take place in 2020, so we have a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen. For the most part, that means grandiose journeys in the stars and disaster here at home....

New COVID-19 Relief Bill Designates $15 Billion For Movie Theaters And Live Event Venues By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 21, 2020 9:30 am EST After weeks of negotiations on a stimulus bill, Congress announced a compromise on a COVID-19 relief bill which, if passed and signed by President Trump, will provide $15 billion in financial support to movie theaters and live event venues. It could be the boost that struggling movie theaters need as many markets remain closed nearly nine months into the coronavirus pandemic, and as industry-shattering decisions push theatrical releases to streaming....

The Best Movies Streaming Right Now The Beach Bum Now Streaming on Hulu Release Date: 2019Genre: ComedyDirector: Harmony KorineCast: Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Martin Lawrence, Jonah HillHarmony Korine’s The Beach Bum exists in a world where the sky is always pink, the water is always sparkling, and everyone is eternally intoxicated. This funny, laid-back saga follows Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a stoner poet prone to floating on cobbled-together barges with topless women....

R.L. Stine’s ‘Just Beyond’ Horror Anthology Graphic Novels Are Getting A Disney+ Series By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2020 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you’re not familiar with Just Beyond, the graphic novel series started being published in September last year with the first installment, The Scare School. Here’s the official synopsis: “I grew up watching “Twilight Zone” reruns and the original “Amazing Stories” with my parents....

She Is Risen: AMC ‘Saint Maud’ Screening Series Will Give You The Creeps With Four Great Horror Movies By Chris Evangelista/March 2, 2020 2:30 pm EST A24 and AMC are teaming up to give you the heebie-jeebies in honor of the upcoming Saint Maud. The Saint Maud screening series – dubbed She Is Risen – will feature showings of female-lead horror movies leading up to an early screening of Saint Maud....

Spoiler Discussion: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the August 2, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to have a spoiler discussion about the latest Quentin Tarantino film, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood. Opening Banter: News is still slow and we wanted to have this spoiler discussion....