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The 2021 Emmys Add An Award For Stunt Performers, Change Nomination Rules For TV Movies, Anthology Series & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2020 9:00 am EST After the 2020 Emmys ceremony went virtual this year due to COVID-19, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic will still be felt when the 2021 Emmys come around next fall. The Television Academy has instituted some rule changes for next year’s awards, and along with some standard housekeeping and restructuring, they’ve changed the rules for consideration for TV movies since so many movies intended for theaters ended up being released on television instead....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Extracurricular’ Is A Dark And Hyperviolent ‘Risky Business’ For The Rideshare Era By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 16, 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 Show: ExtracurricularWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: A poor but intelligent high school student (Kim Dong-hee from Itaewon Class) creates an app for prostitution services to try to escape his dead-end life....

The Quarantine Stream: Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat’ Reveals The Best Side Of America…Not! By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 12, 2020 7:00 am EST The genius satire of Borat first comes from crafting a character who fits into the shortsighted and uneducated perspective that many Americans have about countries like Kazakhstan. The depiction of the country itself is one of parody, making Borat’s hometown look like a poor, incestuous, crime-ridden village. Then it’s thrown into overdrive when Borat interacts with real people who somehow believe that a person like Borat could be so ignorant and uncivilized....

Universal Orlando, Legoland Florida Officially Re-Opening In June With Social Distancing Restrictions By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2020 1:30 pm EST Universal Orlando and Legoland Florida are planning to re-open as soon as this June — but with social distancing restrictions put in place to ensure the safety of their guests. Universal Orlando plans to re-open the park to team members on June 1 and June 2 before opening to invited guests and annual passholders on June 3 and June 4, and finally, the public on June 5....

Video Tour: D23 Expo 2019 Imagineering & Archives Pavilions By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2019 9:00 am EST D23 Expo 2019 gives us a sneak preview at the future of Disney theme parks including Marvel and Star Warsa, a look at the art of costume design from Walt Disney Archives, and the future of the Disney+ streaming service. Watch our D23 Expo video tour. The video comes from our new YouTube channel Ordinary Adventures, so please subscribe if you haven’t done so already!...

Water Cooler: Hamilton, Palm Springs, Starship Troopers, Entourage, The Exorcist, Princess Bride, Japan Sinks: 2020, Walk Hard, Devolution, Downtown Disney, Lockout, Drive-In Movies By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2020 3:15 pm EST On the July 10, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

‘Aladdin’ Honest Trailer: You Ain’t Never Had A Friend Like This, Except That Other ‘Aladdin’ Movie By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 2019 6:00 am EST For a movie called Aladdin, all of the buzz leading up to the release of Disney’s remake of the classic 1992 animated movie was about the horrifying version of Genie as played by a buff, computer generated, blue Will Smith. Thankfully, Genie wasn’t all that terrifying in the final cut of the movie....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: “Something Unforgivable” Brings The Show’s Best Season Yet To An Ominous Conclusion By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2020 8:00 am EST This week on Better Call Saul: Kim and Jimmy have a conversation! Lalo has some folks over to his house! Nacho is in deep trouble! Everything is so tense that I want to scream! Lalo and Nacho What a season this has been. I’ve long maintained that Better Call Saul is currently the best show on TV right now, and season 5 as a whole has justified that opinion....

‘Bullet Train’ Keeps Getting More Crowded, As Logan Lerman Joins Star-Studded Action Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 20, 2020 12:30 pm EST Deadline reports that Logan Lerman is set to join the cast of Bullet Train, the action thriller directed by Hobbs & Shaw filmmaker David Leitch and starring Brad Pitt, along with a whole host of stars which includes the aforementioned King, Beetz, Shannon, and Gaga, as well as Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, and Andrew Koji....

‘El Camino’ Details: Vince Gilligan Calls The Movie A “Closed-Ended Story”, Here’s Where It Will Play In Theaters By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2019 10:30 am EST Last November, we exclusively told you that Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad movie would feature the return of Aaron Paul and be about what happens to Jesse Pinkman after the series finale. Since then, Gilligan has done a masterful job of keeping the plot details vague and not giving anything away, but a new report has some El Camino details, including that it’s a “closed-ended story” and that it features more than 10 characters from Breaking Bad....

‘Goodfellas’ And ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Writers Developing Showtime Drama About The Mafia By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2020 10:30 am EST More than a decade after HBO’s acclaimed mob drama The Sopranos went off the air, Showtime is developing an hour-long drama series of its own about the mafia – and this new show comes from a former Sopranos writer. Terence Winter, who won four Emmys for his work writing The Sopranos, is writing a series based on the history of organized crime in America, and he’s teaming up with mega-producer Brian Grazer and Goodfellas and Casino writer Nicholas Pileggi to bring it to the small screen....

‘Hercules’ Remake Won’t Be A “Literal Translation” Of The Animated Movie By Chris Evangelista/May 7, 2020 1:00 pm EST Disney is hellbent on remaking as many of their animated classics as they can, and Hercules recently joined the ever-growing line-up. The remake of the 1997 animated musical is being produced by the Russo Brothers, and while it’s still way too early to see how things will shake out, the Russos are promising their take on the material is going to offer something new, and not follow in the footsteps of the recent shot-for-shot Lion King remake....

‘Lady And The Tramp’ Review: The First Disney+ Original is…Totally Adequate? By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 4, 2019 7:00 am EST The slew of live-action and computer-animated remakes of Disney’s hand-drawn animated classics have largely managed to feel creatively bereft, but they have never been entirely pointless. Why does a remake of Aladdin or Dumbo or The Lion King exist? If nothing else, to further fill the coffers of the Walt Disney Company, so that its executives can pull a Scrooge McDuck and dive through the cash....

‘Mank’ Soundtrack From Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross Now Streaming By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2020 12:30 pm EST Hey, do you need 1 hour and 33 minutes of music to fill your day? Well, you’re in luck, because here comes the Mank soundtrack! The score, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, runs for 52 tracks, which is pretty damn long, even for a soundtrack. Mank, David Fincher’s film about the writing of Citizen Kane, hits Netflix today, and with it comes the release of the soundtrack, which you can stream below....

‘Mission: Impossible’ 7 And 8 Add ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Star Pom Klementieff By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2019 11:00 am EST It’s time for yet another very attractive person to accept a Mission (or two). Pom Klementieff, who plays Mantis in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and was recently seen in the new season of Black Mirror, has joined the Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 casts, according to director Christopher McQuarrie....

‘No Time To Die’: Rami Malek’s Bond Villain Is “Bigger” Than Blofeld, Cary Fukunaga Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 3, 2020 2:30 pm EST No Time to Die is already going to be a major event when it hits theaters next year: it’s the swan song for Daniel Craig, who makes his final outing as James Bond, it comes after nearly a year of pandemic delays, and it features recent Oscar winner Rami Malek as a mysterious villain....

‘Small Axe: Lovers Rock’ Trailer: Steve McQueen Invites You To A Party By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 16, 2020 4:00 pm EST Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology consists of five original films set from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s that “tell personal stories from London’s West Indian community.” The first trailer for one of those films – Lovers Rock – is here. Small Axe films played at the New York Film Festival this year, and Lovers Rock seemed to be the title that drummed-up the most buzz, telling the tale of a house party in the 1980s....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Features A Secret George Lucas Cameo By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 5, 2020 1:00 pm EST Every new Star Wars movie is chock full of cameos, but a cameo by the creator of the franchise himself, George Lucas, seems like one you couldn’t miss. But Lucas managed to sneak into Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker through a classic cinematic in-joke from the movie’s sound designers....

‘The Old Guard’ Clips: Charlize Theron’s Group Of Immortal Soldiers Meets A New Member By Ben Pearson/July 2, 2020 3:00 pm EST Love & Basketball director Gina Prince-Bythewood has comic book properties on the brain. For a while, she was attached to direct a Silver & Black movie for Sony about Marvel characters Silver Sable and Black Cat (that project fell apart). She recently directed an episode of the Freeform series Cloak & Dagger....

‘WandaVision’ Review: Marvel Studios’ First Disney+ Series Is A Charming And Unnerving Departure From Formula By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 14, 2021 9:00 am EST Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about WandaVision right off the bat is how funny it is. Not “Marvel funny,” the kind of tongue-in-cheek sardonic humor that has become a staple of the films since Robert Downey Jr. first quipped about super secret boy bands. But classic sitcom funny, as if head writer Jac Schaeffer really studied up on all the jokes and comedic beats of every ’50s sitcom....