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America Ferrera Is Checking Out Of ‘Superstore’ After Five Seasons By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 1, 2020 12:00 pm EST Superstore’s favorite employee is clocking out for the last time. Star and executive producer America Ferrera is leaving Superstore at the end of the NBC comedy’s currently airing fifth season. The series has already been renewed through 2021 will continue on without their most valuable employee. According to The Hollywood Reporter, America Ferrera is leaving Superstore after five seasons on the job....

Bob Iger’s Disney Exit Surprised More Than Just Industry Analysts, And He Leaves Some Uncertainty In His Wake By Ben Pearson/Feb. 26, 2020 8:30 am EST Yesterday, Bob Iger stepped down as the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, handing the reins to Disney parks chief Bob Chapek. The news came as a huge surprise to Hollywood, industry analysts, and even a major player within the Disney company, and in the wake of the big announcement, some questions linger about the future of the company’s streaming platforms....

Daily Podcast: DC Fandome, Tenet, Planes, Trains, And Automobiles, 47 Ronin, From A Buick 8, An American Pickle & MODOK By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the August 17, 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 DC Fandome, Tenet, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, 47 Ronin, From a Buick, An American Pickle, and MODOK....

Don Winslow Says No Adaptation Of His Books Will Film In Georgia Until Voter Suppression Is Addressed By Ben Pearson/June 11, 2020 4:30 pm EST Don Winslow, the author of books like The Force and the Cartel trilogy, has optioned the rights to several of his novels to studios and TV networks. But in the wake of this week’s egregious voter suppression in Georgia, Winslow is taking action. “I will allow no film or television show based on one of my works to be shot in the state of Georgia until its government takes immediate, real and concrete steps to ensure free and fair elections and to end voter suppression,” he writes in a recent op-ed, and he’s calling on the rest of Hollywood to also boycott Georgia until the issue can be addressed in a serious, meaningful way....

HBO’s ‘Ballers’ Is Making Its Final Touchdown With Season 5 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 23, 2019 2:30 pm EST Ballers is nearing the endzone now. The upcoming fifth season of the HBO football comedy will be its last, according to star and executive producer Dwayne Johnson. The fifth and final season will debut this Sunday on HBO. Dwayne Johnson announced that Ballers will end with its upcoming season 5 on Instagram, sharing, “My heart is full of gratitude to all of you for rockin’ with us every season....

How ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Flips The Dynamic Between Diana And Steve [Set Visit] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 19, 2020 12:00 pm EST “That was definitely one of the highlights comedically in the first one, you know, straight man, funny man,” Pine said. “And in this, it’s flipped.” Pine enjoyed being the less knowledgeable one this time around, showing a new side to Steve Trevor: The new dynamic also shifts their power dynamic, which was somewhat criticized the first time around for partially perpetuating the “born sexy yesterday” trope — the naive, ultra-powerful woman who falls immediately for the first man she sees (though I would argue that Wonder Woman subverts this trope)....

Huzzah! ‘The Great’ Season 2 Is Coming To Hulu By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 2, 2020 1:30 pm EST The Great will continue its reign for a second season. Just two months after The Favourite writer Tony McNamara’s historical satire series debuted on Hulu to positive reviews and a healthy response from content-starved quarantine viewers, the streamer has renewed The Great for a season 2. After all, Russia wasn’t changed in a day....

J.J. Abrams Addresses The Unconventional ‘The Last Jedi’, And Suggests A Future Beyond ‘Episode 9’ By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2019 11:30 am EST We’re just over a week away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and the discourse continues to roll as we inch closer to the final entry in the Skywalker saga. Today, a lengthy profile in The New York Times resulted in some interesting quotes from J....

Matt Reeves Confirms Colin Farrell As The Penguin In ‘The Batman’ [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 6, 2020 4:30 pm EST Update 1/6/2020: Thus far, Farrell was one of the only major actors who had not been officially confirmed by Matt Reeves to be a part of The Batman’s cast. But that finally changed late this afternoon with the following tweet: Wait — is that you, #Oz ? 🦇 pic.twitter.com/xHj9m6OXhf — Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) January 6, 2020...

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Are Getting A Crossover Comic By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2019 5:00 pm EST The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have had an endless array of comic book crossovers throughout their long history. They’ve met up with Archie, ALF, and Garfield, and more recently the heroes in a half-shell worked with the Ghostbusters and Batman. Now BOOM! Studios has the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles slated to crossover with Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, the original iteration of the Japanese-imported superhero team, in a new limited comic series starting this winter....

The El Capitan Theatre Offering Concessions To-Go This Weekend By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2020 1:30 pm EST You most likely can’t go to the movies right now. But you can spend a ridiculous amount of money on movie snacks – provided you’re somewhere near Hollywood. The El Capitan Theatre, the restored movie palace on Hollywood Blvd. owned by Disney, is selling concession bundles for your “movie night at home,” or if you just want to go home and eat a bunch of movie theater food, alone in the dark with all the curtains drawn so no one can see what you’re doing....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Mandalorian’ Beskar Vs Marvel’s Vibranium And Adamantium, Remembering ‘The Munsters’ Christmas & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out whether Wolverine’s adamantium claws and skeleton from the X-Men movies or Captain America/Black Panther’s vibranium would be stronger than The Mandalorian’s beskar armor from the Star Wars universe....

The Morning Watch: Analyzing Severe Movie Injuries, ‘Star Wars’ Starfighters Explained & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, listen as an emergency physician analyzes injuries in movies like John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Titanic, Casino Royale, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and more....

TV Bits: ‘The Crown,’ ‘Jeopardy!’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘The End Of The F***ing World’, And More By Ben Pearson/Oct. 11, 2019 4:00 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Helena Bonham Carter did some…interesting research for her role in The Crown The Walking Dead overseer suggests that ninjas could be involved going forward Alex Trebek is staying realistic about his chances to continue hosting Jeopardy! Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World gets a season 2 premiere date And more!...

‘A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood’ Review: It’s Such A Good Feeling, A Very Good Feeling [TIFF 2019] By Meredith Borders/Sept. 9, 2019 8:00 am EST After the beautiful documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor slayed hearts and flooded tear ducts last year, I admit to thinking, “Do we really need a fictionalized version of Fred Rogers’ story?” And then I saw A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and got my answer: we can never have too much Mister Rogers....

‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Spoiler Review: Yes, It’s Still All About Family By Jason Gorber/Aug. 6, 2019 8:00 am EST Spoiler alert: It’s about family.And that’s it? We can end this article there, right?Okay. We’ll go beyond that. When taking about Hobbs and Shaw, the latest film in the Fast and Furious saga, it helps to step back a bit when reflecting on the ridiculousness of the first spin-off from what I’ve dubbed the Fast and Furii (I’ll keep going ’till it catches on, dammit)....

By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 22, 2019 8:30 am EST The latest Homecoming season 2 news comes courtesy of Deadline. Like Sam Esmail in season 1, Kyle Patrick Alvarez will direct every episode of season 2. Homecoming is based on the podcast of the same name, but season 2 is going to heavily divert from its source material. Season 1 featured Julia Roberts as a social worker with amnesia. Over the course of the season, Roberts’ character uncovers more about her past, and her connection to a soldier played by Stephan James....

‘In Treatment’ Revival: ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Breakout Uzo Aduba Will Star As A New Therapist By Ben Pearson/Oct. 28, 2020 5:30 pm EST Three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba is heading to HBO. Aduba, who played Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, will be the star of In Treatment, HBO’s therapy drama that is being resurrected after it seemingly ran its course back in 2010....

‘Magic Of Disney’s Animal Kingdom’ Trailer: Escape Current Events With This Docuseries About Animals By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2020 5:00 pm EST Things are rough right now, gang, so we could all use an escape, or a distraction. So how about animals? I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of animals. In fact, you might say I like animals more than I like human beings. And Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom will provide an up-close look at the goings-on within Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, and The Seas with Nemo & Friends at EPCOT....

‘Nightbitch’ Will Star Amy Adams As A Woman Who Thinks She Is Turning Into A Dog By Ethan Anderton/July 31, 2020 11:30 am EST In what sounds like a joke from 30 Rock, Oscar nominee Amy Adams is set to star in a new movie called Nightbitch at Annapurna Pictures where a new mother is becoming increasingly concerned that she’s transforming into a dog. Yes, this is a totally real movie, and Tracy Jordan is somehow not involved despite his previous work on the dog transformation movie Fat Bitch....