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Netflix Making A ‘Dragon’s Lair’ Movie Based On Legendary Arcade Game, Ryan Reynolds To Star And Produce By Ben Pearson/March 27, 2020 2:22 pm EST If you didn’t grow up playing video games in arcades, you may only be familiar with Dragon’s Lair from its appearance in the second season of Stranger Things. But the medieval-themed fantasy adventure was once the most popular video game in the country, and now Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) is set to star in a live-action film adaptation....

New ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Photos: Diana Spreads Her Wings And Dances The Night Away By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2020 3:00 pm EST Wonder Woman 1984 won’t be coming out in June as originally planned thanks to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down movie theaters. As of now, the DC Comics sequel is slated for release in August, but we’re still getting new details about the movie thanks to magazines who had to prep their promotional spreads for the movie months in advance....

Pop Culture Imports: Netflix’s Most Relatable Anime, An Irreverent Israeli Comedy, And The Superhero Movie Antidote To ‘Infinity War’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2018 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) It looks like summer may finally be peeking out from behind the clouds — and you know what that means. It’s time to take refuge indoors as the weather becomes unbearably hot....

Rumor: A Bearded Jar Jar Binks Will Appear In The Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ Series By Ben Pearson/Jan. 10, 2020 2:21 pm EST Looks like Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi will be encountering a familiar face in his upcoming Disney+ series. A new rumor claims that Jar Jar Binks, perhaps the most hated character from George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels, is going to appear in the new show – and this time, Jar Jar will have a beard....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Superman & Lois’ Trailer, ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Sequel Rumored & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2021 6:00 pm EST The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik has a new Flash Facts book with fundamental STEM lessons for kids. Marvel Comics has teased a new version of Heroes Reborn, the 1996-1997 crossover event, is coming soon. Catch up with Batwoman co-star Camrus Johnson in this interview released in conjunction with season 2....

Superhero Bits: Alternate ‘Iron Man 2’ Suitcase Armor, ‘Harley Quinn’ Takes A Jab At Snyder Cut Bros & More By Ethan Anderton/May 1, 2020 6:00 pm EST How did the animated Harley Quinn series mock the nastier side of The Snyder Cut bros? Could Batman beat Iron Man in a fight? How did Captain America: The Winter Soldier almost open? When will The Eternals LEGO sets start to arrive? Which character from The Flash is returning before the end of the season?...

SXSW Midnighter ‘The Toll’ Is Holding Screenings In Austin And Los Angeles This Weekend – Here’s How You Can Get Tickets By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 13, 2020 8:30 am EST SXSW may be canceled, but midnight always come back around. At least, this SXSW Midnighter does. Michael Nader’s horror movie The Toll, which was set to have its world premiere at the Austin-based film festival before it was canceled due to coronavirus concerns, is still planning to debut this weekend....

By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2020 2:18 pm EST Here’s the statement released by SXSW, which is quite a bummer, despite the sensible reasoning behind it: We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Mulholland Drive’ Is Dream-Logic Storytelling At Its Finest And Most Beguiling By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Mulholland DriveWhere You Can Stream It: The Criterion ChannelThe Pitch: Cheerful aspiring actress Betty (Naomi Watts) arrives in Los Angeles and discovers a beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring), who has lost her memory after a horrible car crash, sleeping in her aunt’s apartment....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Zodiac’ Is A Modern Masterpiece By Chris Evangelista/June 12, 2020 7:00 am EST David Fincher knows how to make serial killers entertaining. After the mishap of Alien 3, his career recovered – and bloomed – thanks to Seven. And he also had a hand in Netflix’s fantastic serial killer series Mindhunter. But the best work in Fincher’s multiple murder filmography is Zodiac, a full-blown masterpiece. This isn’t your traditional serial killer flick....

TV Bits: ‘Masters Of The Universe’, ‘After Life’, ‘Yellowstone’, ‘Project Blue Book’, ‘Fuller House’, And More By Chris Evangelista/May 17, 2020 9:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: CBS has renewed – and canceled – several shows. Kevin Smith gives an update on his Masters of the Universe series. Ricky Gervais’ After Life gets a third season at Netflix. Watch a trailer for Yellowstone season 3. Peacock signs a deal with Apple....

Video: ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ Should Be Like THIS Every Night: Lightsaber Battles & Flying X-Wings By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2019 9:05 am EST Last week I traveled to Walt Disney World in Florida to experience the grand opening of Rise of the Resistance, the new ride in Hollywood Studios’ Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. For the opening dedication, Disney closed Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost for a grand party, which included life-size X-Wing drones, a lightsaber battle stunt show, fireworks and much more....

Watch: Oprah Winfrey Interviews Barack Obama During The Pandemic Using Incredible Green Screen Technology By Ben Pearson/Nov. 19, 2020 3:00 pm EST The coronavirus pandemic has ripped through our society, leaving death and disruption in its path. One of the least important changes it has caused is that pretty much every interview now has taken on the same dull, boxy aesthetic because they’re almost always captured using programs like Zoom....

Water Cooler: Lion King, Star Wars: The High Republic, Brahms: The Boy 2, Onward, Love Is Blind, Brightburn, The Call Of The Wild, Cheer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the February 25, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

A.P. Bio Season 3 Clip Paula Pell is hilarious as the school secretary Helen. Yes, this is an over-the-top bit of physical comedy, but she’s not just a slapstick comedienne throughout the series. She’s an odd ball of energy who is more than dedicated to her job and doing whatever Principal Durbin (Patton Oswalt) needs. But here she’s being given some slack to finish her high school education, and she just so happens to walk in when Jack is plotting against an old woman who runs a dollhouse shop....

‘Bird Box’ Sequel In Development At Netflix, Based On Josh Malerman’s Follow-Up Novel ‘Malorie’ By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2020 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Bird Box was Netflix’s big winter event movie just before Christmas back in 2018. Sandra Bullock starred in the adaptation of Josh Malerman’s sci-fi thriller novel of the same name, which takes place in the aftermath of the decimation of the world’s population by an mysterious entity that compels people to commit suicide, usually in a gruesome fashion, after they’ve laid their eyes upon it....

‘I’ll Be Gone In The Dark’ Trailer: Michelle McNamara Hunts For The Golden State Killer By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2020 1:00 pm EST The late Michelle McNamara’s bestselling True Crime book about the Golden State Killer gets the HBO docuseries treatment with I’ll Be Gone In the Dark. In the 1970s and ’80s, a killer prowled California, committing 50 home-invasion rapes and 12 murders and evading capture for years. McNamara, a True Crime blogger and the wife of comedian Patton Oswalt, grew obsessed with cracking the case, and died before completing the book....

‘Justice League Dark’ Concept Art Teases What Doug Liman’s Abandoned Movie Could Have Looked Like By Ben Pearson/Aug. 26, 2020 3:00 pm EST For years, Doug Liman, the director of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, and the upcoming movie that will literally launch Tom Cruise into space, was attached to direct Justice League Dark, a sort of oddball superhero team-up movie for Warner Bros. which would have featured lower-tier characters like Swamp Thing, Zatanna, Constantine, Deadman, and Jason Blood appearing together in live-action for the first time....

‘Men In Black: International’ Honest Trailer: Anyone Have A Neuralyzer So We Can Forget This Nonsense? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2020 6:00 am EST What happens when you take two of the charismatic, beautiful stars of Thor: Ragnarok and team them up in Sony’s blockbuster sci-fi comedy franchise Men in Black? Turns out you get the absolute minimum amount of effort from everyone involved, and the most fun you’ll have is seeing how long you can last before you fall asleep....

‘Moonfall’, The Roland Emmerich Movie About The Moon Crashing Into Earth, Recruits Stanley Tucci By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 14, 2020 10:30 am EST Deadline has the scoop on the latest Moonfall casting, revealing that Stanley Tucci and John Bradley will be starring alongside Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and Charlie Plummer. In the film, “a mysterious force that knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it....