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‘Atlanta’s Missing And Murdered: The Lost Children’ Trailer: New HBO Docuseries Covers The Atlanta Child Murders By Chris Evangelista/March 13, 2020 5:00 pm EST Between 1979 and 1981, 30 African American children and young adults either disappeared or were murdered all throughout Atlanta. Wayne Williams was eventually convicted of two of the crimes, and the general assumption at the time – at least according to law enforcement – was that Williams was guilty of all of the murders....

/Filmcast Ep. 528 - Once Upon A Time In … Hollywood (GUEST: Lindsey Romain From Nerdist) By Slashfilmcast/July 30, 2019 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, Jeff are joined by Lindsey Romain to debate Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the ninth and penultimate film by Quentin Tarantino. Stay after the feature review to hear everyone giving their ranking of the director’s illustrious filmography. Read Lindsey’s Nerdist article about the boat scene in here, and article on why the movie is a love letter to Sharon Tate here....

‘First Man’ Is An Old Fashioned Drama That Never Fully Takes Flight [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2018 5:45 pm EST Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man features exciting sequences and wonderful performances from Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy. But this space adventure never really gets off the ground. What do you know about Neil Armstrong? I’m positive the number one answer to this question, for virtually anyone, is: “He’s the first man to set foot on the moon....

‘For All Mankind’ Season 2 And Sony’s ‘Cinderella’ Join Growing List Of Resumed Productions By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 18, 2020 4:00 pm EST Nature is healing, I guess. Little by little, more halted productions are resuming, even though the coronavirus has yet to go away. The second season of the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind and Sony’s new take on Cinderella are the latest titles to get back to work, with For All Mankind shooting on the Sony lot and Cinderella filming outside of London....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Was Originally Set To Premiere In 2021, According To David Harbour By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 25, 2020 2:00 pm EST The two-year gap between Stranger Things seasons 2 and 3 was already tortuous enough, but fans of the Netflix sci-fi series may have to wait even longer for Stranger Things 4 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread. Production for the fourth season of Stranger Things had begun in Atlanta earlier this year but was suspended earlier this month in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis....

‘The Book Of Boba Fett’ Spin-Off Series Confirmed For Disney+ In December 2021; ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Will Follow By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 21, 2020 7:00 am EST The third series spun off from the events and characters in The Mandalorian does indeed exist, and is in production now. Disney confirmed that the new original series The Book of Boba Fett will be executive produced by Mandalorian masterminds Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, alongside Mandalorian director Robert Rodriguez, and is on its way to Disney+ next year....

‘The Mandalorian’ Special Look Breakdown: The Next Chapter Begins By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2020 8:05 am EST We’re less than two weeks out from the second season premiere of The Mandalorian on Disney+, and last night brought some new footage in a special look at the next chapter of the Star Wars series. Lucasfilm is still keeping plot details under wraps, but one line in this footage stood out among all the other dialogue we’ve heard so far, and it should have fans of Mandalorians very excited....

‘The Vice Guide To Bigfoot’ Trailer And Posters Debut Before Its World Premiere By Ben Pearson/Oct. 22, 2019 2:00 pm EST Even if you don’t watch Vice, you’re certainly familiar with the company’s style of journalism: a hipster-looking journalist ventures into sometimes dangerous, sometimes goofy territory to get a story that Vice thinks needs to be told. That style has been prominently lampooned before in an episode IFC’s Documentary Now! (this clip of Jack Black saying the word “dronez” is a good example), but now a new movie called The Vice Guide to Bigfoot is taking things to the next level....

‘To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ Trailer Promises Not To Break Our Hearts By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 19, 2019 7:30 am EST What happens after the happy ending? Not many rom-coms answer that, but we get to find out whether things remain rosy for Lara Jean Covey and Peter Kavinsky in To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. The sequel to Netflix’s 2018 mega-hit To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, P....

‘WandaVision’ Co-Star Describes The Series As A “Full-On Action Movie Mixed With Sitcoms” By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2020 11:00 am EST The Falcon and the Winter Solider was originally intended to be the first Marvel Studios series to premiere on Disney+ this fall. But production delays brought upon by the coronavirus pandemic messed up that release strategy, and now WandaVision will be the first Disney+ TV series set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

2020 Emmys Officially Going Virtual, Kicking Off What’s Sure To Be A Bizarre Awards Season By Ben Pearson/July 30, 2020 11:30 am EST Who’s ready to watch their favorite TV actors and creatives give virtual acceptance speeches? The 2020 Emmys will officially be a remote awards show, kicking off what will almost positively be a bizarre and straight up weird awards season as the coronavirus pandemic continues. The show, which is being hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, sent out letters to the recent Emmy nominees informing them that no, they don’t have to worry about showing up to an event in person this year....

2020 Oscar Snubs And Surprises: Who Landed The Unlikely Nods And Who Was Overlooked? By /Film Staff/Jan. 13, 2020 8:00 am EST With typically only five nominees per category, someone is always bound to be left by the wayside when the Oscar nominations arrive. 2020 is no different. But with the snubs also come the surprises – the films, filmmakers, and actors who no one expected to land a nomination suddenly find themselves invited to the biggest awards ceremony Hollywood has to offer....

Cassian Andor Series To Bring Back Little-Seen Or Unused ‘Star Wars’ Creatures By Ben Pearson/March 26, 2020 1:03 pm EST The future of movie theaters seems tenuous at the moment, but the prevailing wisdom right now seems to be that when the coronavirus crisis ends, (some) theaters will still be around, even if they’re only used for mega-blockbuster comic book and Star Wars movies. While we wait to learn more about what will happen to the theater industry, let’s turn our attention to Lucasfilm’s future on the small screen – specifically, the Cassian Andor Disney+ series which acts as a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story....

Daily Podcast: ‘Watchmen’ Episode 2 Spoiler Discussion By Ben Pearson/Oct. 28, 2019 2:01 pm EST On the October 28, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista for a spoiler-filled discussion of the second episode of HBO’s Watchmen, entitled “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship.” Opening Banter: Have a theme song for us? Send it our way! In The Spoiler Room: Origins of the “Watch Over This Boy” paper, German secretary writing a flyer which aims to convince black American soldiers to come to Germany Angela takes the old man back to her lair, lashes out in pain behind closed doors, and then interrogates him (Dialogue: There’s a vast and insidious conspiracy right here in Tulsa, but I can’t tell you about it or your head will explode....

Daily Podcast: Star Wars, Plot Holes In Perfect Movies, Reopening Movie Theaters And More By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the April 27, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Star Wars, Plot Holes in Perfect Movies, Reopening Movie Theaters and more....

Movie Theaters In California And Hong Kong Closing Again By Chris Evangelista/July 14, 2020 10:30 am EST At this point, I think I’ve written approximately 700 stories about COVID-19/coronavirus, and I wish I could say I had some good news to offer on this subject for a change. But I don’t. Instead, I’m here to tell you that things that had already re-opened are now shutting down again. So it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut once said....

Netflix Rom-Com ‘Hope’ From ‘Legally Blonde’ Writers Will Star Aubrey Plaza By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 16, 2019 5:00 pm EST Having survived the attacks of Chucky the killer doll in Child’s Play, Aubrey Plaza is now moving on to less deadly fare. The eternally droll actress will star in the Netflix rom-com Hope, written by the screenwriters of Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You, and more. Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami will direct the film....

Netflix Secures ‘Seinfeld’ Streaming Rights Globally, Beating Out Major Competitors By Ben Pearson/Sept. 16, 2019 11:30 am EST The streaming giant has locked down the global streaming rights to Seinfeld for five years, giving Netflix a win after it suffered some notable losses to competing streaming services. Get the details of the Seinfeld Netflix deal below. Earlier this summer, we wrote about how the streaming rights for Seinfeld, the acclaimed comedy starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards, would be up for grabs as soon as its current deal with Hulu expired at the end of 2020....

Superhero Bits: Lupita Nyong’o Honors Chadwick Boseman, ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Was PlayStation’s Most Downloaded Beta & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to go behind the scenes of Marvel’s Avengers? When will the second part of Lucifer’s fifth season be available? Who does Christopher Nolan think should play Green Lantern? Want to see Marvel’s art tribute to Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman? Which Justice League star has come out in support of Ray Fisher?...

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between The World And Me’ Headed To HBO This Fall By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2020 4:30 pm EST Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me stage show, adapted from his book of the same, is being adapted by HBO. This isn’t a filmed version of that show, but rather something that combines elements of that production with documentary footage and animation. The stage production, which played at the Apollo Theater in 2018, took the “difficult but necessary conversations around Black life and death and places them center stage....