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‘Frozen 2’ Sets New Record For First-Day Ticket Presales, Tops ‘Toy Story 4’s First Week Of Presales In Two Days By Ben Pearson/Nov. 6, 2019 2:30 pm EST Walt Disney Animation’s Frozen II hasn’t even come out yet, and it’s already broken a record. Tickets for the highly-anticipated sequel went on sale earlier this week, and Fandango reports that in the first day of availability, Frozen II sold more tickets than the previous record-holder, Toy Story 4....

‘Frozen 2’ Trailer: Elsa And Anna Go On A Quest To Save Arendelle By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 23, 2019 6:27 am EST Disney has debuted a new Frozen 2 trailer just in time for fall, a season that will be a key element in the sequel to the wildly popular 2013 fantasy-adventure movie. Leaves are a-swirling and wreaking havoc on the kingdom of Arendelle in Frozen 2, leading sisters Elsa and Anna to embark on a quest to save their kingdom and unearth the secrets to Elsa’s powers....

‘Gone With The Wind’ Removed From HBO Max Library After Plea From ‘12 Years A Slave’ Writer John Ridley By Ethan Anderton/June 10, 2020 8:30 am EST Thanks to the Black Lives Matter protests happening around the world, people are starting to listen more intently when it comes to supporting more diversity and stopping racial prejudice. And that includes the entertainment industry. In fact, HBO Max has listened to the plea of one specific black filmmaker when it comes to removing a film that is highly regarded as a classic but also perpetuates some upsetting, inaccurate depictions of slavery and racial stereotypes....

‘News Of The World’ Featurette: Tom Hanks Tells Us A Story By Ben Pearson/Oct. 30, 2020 4:00 pm EST “I love listening to a great story as much as I like telling one,” Tom Hanks says in a brand new News of the World featurette. In director Paul Greengrass’s western, Hanks plays a storyteller of sorts: his character reads the news to folks in small towns who are so disconnected from world events that they might never hear updates from the “outside world” otherwise....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Trailer: Disney’s Animated Fantasy Movie Assembles A Fellowship Of Warriors By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 26, 2021 7:00 am EST Walt Disney Studios has released a new Raya and the Last Dragon trailer, which shows the titular warrior putting a team together to save the fictional fantasy world of Kumandra. But the team has a few quirky characters already, including a kung fu-fighting baby and a dragon who may have just coasted by in the group project....

‘Rumble’ Trailer: Wrestling Monsters Get Ready To — Well, You Know By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2020 2:00 pm EST You’ve got wrestling movies and you’ve got monster movies, so why not put the two of them together for the best of both worlds? That’s the premise of Rumble, an upcoming animated film from Paramount Animation and WWE Studios, which stars Will Arnett as a monster trying to break into the pro-wrestling world....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Sequel Bringing Back Jamie Foxx As Electro, Somehow By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 1, 2020 12:24 pm EST Here is something I’m 100% certain no one saw coming: the Spider-Man: Far From Home sequel is bringing back Jamie Foxx’s Electro from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, even though that was a completely different franchise with a completely different Spider-Man. There’s some precedent for this, since Far From Home brought back J....

‘The Dig’ Trailer: Carey Mulligan And Ralph Fiennes Uncover A Buried Ship By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 3, 2020 7:30 am EST Carey Mulligan had her flirtation with playing something other than the repressed British housewife, but now she’s back to period dramas — this time playing a repressed British widow. Jokes aside, The Dig, which also stars Ralph Fiennes and Lily James, looks to be the most British drama Netflix has released in a while, and one that the streamer is also squeezing into the Oscar race....

‘The Magicians’ Explores The Repercussions Of Saving The World In “Acting Dean” By Vanessa Armstrong/Feb. 20, 2020 8:00 am EST Just six episodes into the fifth season of The Magicians, and the gang has already saved the world. I suppose that’s a good thing—but what strife or calamity will keep things interesting for the back half of the season? Turns out, there are plenty of other things that are effed up enough to keep things interesting....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: This Is No Place For A Child By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2020 10:00 am EST Disney+ finally released the first trailer for the highly anticipated second season of The Mandalorian, and it gave us a fantastic first look at the next series of adventures for the bounty hunter Din Djarin and his valuable, curious, and powerful little asset known as The Child. In the second season of The Mandalorian, the titular bounty hunter is tasked with reuniting The Child with its own kind, which means seeking out the ancient order of sorcerers known as Jedi....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 10, 2020 12:00 pm EST It’s never a surprise when Hollywood churns out another family comedy featuring an adorable talking dog. Nor is it a surprise that the director of said talking dog comedy is a fan of the Transformers franchise. But it is a little surprising to see Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox, two former Hollywood It stars, playing the good-natured parents of a young boy who invents a technology that allows him to talk to dogs in the Lionsgate comedy Think Like a Dog....

‘Tokyo Godfathers’ Trailer Debuts The First English Dub For Satoshi Kon’s Classic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2020 4:00 pm EST In his short-lived career, Satoshi Kon released nothing but bonafide anime classics and Tokyo Godfathers is no exception. Often touted as the most accessible of the Perfect Blue and Paprika director’s filmography, Tokyo Godfathers is a warm, Frank Capra-esque comedy that has flown under the radar in the Western hemisphere since its release in 2003....

‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Review: It’s Jake Gyllenhaal Vs. Killer Paintings In This Hilarious, Bloody Horror-Comedy [Sundance] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 28, 2019 8:30 am EST Screenwriter Dan Gilroy made his directorial debut with the sharp, exciting Nightcrawler, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal giving an incredible performance. It was an exciting launch to Gilroy’s directorial career that was sadly followed with the lackluster Roman J. Israel, Esq. Let’s call it a sophomore slump, because Gilroy bounces back in a big, bloody way with the hilarious Velvet Buzzsaw....

‘Wonder Woman’ Director Patty Jenkins Signs Overall TV Deal With Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2019 9:30 am EST Patty Jenkins is joining Netflix’s high-profile crowd of creators. The director of Wonder Woman and the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984 has signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix to produce new TV series for the streaming service. It will be her latest foray into television after directing this year’s TNT limited series I Am The Night....

‘Work In Progress’ Trailer: Abby McEnany Accidentally Kills Her Therapist By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 2, 2019 11:00 am EST While Lana Wachowski is currently going solo as the director of the upcoming The Matrix 4, Lilly Wachowski is turning back to TV as the co-writer of Work in Progress, a Showtime comedy created by and starring Chicago improv mainstay Abby McEnany. Described as a “comedy about being out and down,” Work in Progress is a quirky LGBTQ comedy series coming to Showtime this December....

Academy Alters Oscars Rules: Streaming Films Eligible, Sound Categories Combined, And More By Ben Pearson/April 28, 2020 2:30 pm EST The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ board of governors met this morning and voted to make some important changes to eligibility requirements for the 2021 Oscars ceremony. The biggest of these is that the board has nixed the requirement that films need to play in a Los Angeles theater for at least one week for a qualifying run – now, films that were released digitally without playing in theaters at all (like Trolls World Tour) are eligible for Oscars....

Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Makes Filmmaking Return For David O. Russell’s New Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 4, 2020 7:30 am EST Five years after he won an Oscar for his cinematography in The Revenant, Emmanuel Lubezki is set to make his long-awaited return to filmmaking. In his first gig since Terrence Malick’s 2017 film Song to Song, Luzbeki has signed on to film David O. Russell’s star-studded new movie which features the likes of Christian Bale, Michael B....

Daily Podcast: Jacob’s Doctor Sleep Set Visit And Ben’s Interview With It: Chapter Two Director Andy Muschietti By Ben Pearson/Sept. 6, 2019 1:30 pm EST On the September 6, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall to talk about Jacob’s visit to the set of Doctor Sleep. Then, you’ll hear Ben’s interview with It: Chapter Two director Andy Muschietti....

Disney Fandom Has Become An Entrenched And Powerful Tribe – How Did We Get Here? By Andrew Todd/Sept. 2, 2019 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Disney fandom has become a powerful tribe – how did we get here?)It’s natural to seek out people who share our interests. Those are the people with whom we’re most likely to get along....

Here’s How Theaters Hope To Reopen In Time For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ By Chris Evangelista/April 29, 2020 10:30 am EST How are movie theaters planning to bounce-back from the current coronavirus shutdown? John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) just gave an in-depth interview about the steps being taken to get theaters back on their feet. Task forces are being assembled, several options are being weighed, and a commitment to the theatrical experience is holding firm....