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‘The Unfamiliar’ Trailer: An Army Medic Home From War Senses Something Malevolent In Her Home By Chris Evangelista/July 26, 2020 9:00 am EST What if you were experiencing something supernatural in your house, but everyone around you shrugged it off as a mental health condition? That’s the set-up of The Unfamiliar, a creepy-looking British horror movie that just dropped a new trailer. In the film from director Henk Pretorius, an Army medic returns home from war and begins experiencing creepy stuff all over her house....

Daily Podcast: Can A Streaming Service Survive Without Original Content? Should Movie Theaters Offer Variable Pricing For Blockbusters & Smaller Films? By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2019 12:45 pm EST On the July 25, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and tv news, including The Mandalorian, Rocky, NBCUniversal, Hellboy, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Watchmen and movie theaters....

Daily Podcast: Virtual Emmys, Solo Sequel, Little Town, Pixar’s Luca, Scream 5, Tenet & The Office Extended By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the August 3, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Tenet, Virtual Emmys, Solo Sequel, Little Town, Pixar’s Luca, Scream 5, and The Office Extended....

How The Impeccable Sound Design Of ‘Little Women’ Brings Greta Gerwig’s Adaptation To Life By Siddhant Adlakha/Jan. 30, 2020 8:00 am EST Year after year, “award season” sees nominations for sound categories go to big, bombastic films filled with special effects. This isn’t inherently bad — the work that goes into creating and mixing these otherworldly sounds takes immense effort and skill — but in the process, more subtle artistry tends to be overlooked....

James Cameron Congratulates ‘Avengers: Endgame’ For Beating The ‘Avatar’ Box Office Record By Chris Evangelista/July 22, 2019 7:30 am EST There’s a new box office champ in town: Avengers: Endgame finally surpassed previous all-time record holder Avatar to become the highest-grossing movie of all time. To show that he’s not mad about that, Avatar director James Cameron slapped together a very quick little word of congratulations for the folks at Marvel....

Lord And Miller Team With ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir On New Project By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 17, 2019 1:00 pm EST Let me give you some inside baseball talk, folks. Here in the wild world of entertainment journalism certain names garner certain attention. We’re talking about actors, writers, directors, etc. who get people excited. When news breaks about these folks, we must report it. It’s our job. But sometimes the news is maddeningly vague....

Noomi Rapace Breathes Life Into Black List Thriller ‘O2,’ Franck Khalfoun Set To Direct By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 17, 2020 5:30 pm EST Noomi Rapace has been wildly underserved by Hollywood, despite consistently turning out fantastic performances since her breakout role in the 2009 Swedish-language The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. After a stint in blockbuster supporting roles as the go-to global presence, Rapace has found a niche in solid, but also underseen, thrillers....

Our Favorite Minor And Supporting Characters From The Past Year In Cinema By Kristen Lopez/Jan. 22, 2020 9:00 am EST You know that famous quote about how there are no small parts? As we barrel deeper into Oscar season, it’s getting even easier to let the truly sublime minor characters from 2019 slip our minds. The goal of this list is to highlight the performances from the past year that sailed completely under the radar, the characters who had just an incredibly small amount of screentime but deserve recognition....

Quibi Is Now Officially Dead, RIP Quibi By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 1, 2020 9:30 am EST Quibi’s inevitable death comes two months after Quibi Holdings LLC announced it would be shutting down, less than seven months after its April 6 launch. But the mobile streaming platform, which promised subscribers daily output of “quick bite” originals that ran less than 10 minutes long, never really got its foothold in the competitive streaming arena since it launched....

Rewatch Captain America Wielding Thor’s Hammer In This ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Clip By Ben Pearson/July 23, 2019 7:30 am EST It was teased briefly in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but it finally happened on screen four years later in Avengers: Endgame: during a fight with Thanos, Captain America proved he was worthy enough to lift Mjolnir, Thor’s hammer. It was the type of fist-pumping moment that could generate cheers even from fans who hadn’t grown up reading Marvel Comics for their entire lives....

Spoiler Discussion: The Mandalorian Episode 6 “The Prisoner”. By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the December 13, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and Star Wars Insider writer and Full of Sith podcaster Bryan Young to have a spoiler discussion about The Mandalorian Episode 6 “The Prisoner”. Spoiler Discussion: The Mandalorian Episode 6 “The Prisoner”.Other Articles Mentioned: ‘The Mandalorian’ Delivers Its Best Episode Yet With “The Prisoner” All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Sue Nichols Maciorowski, Disney Animation Artist For ‘Hercules,’ ‘Princess And The Frog,’ Dies At 55 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 3, 2020 2:00 pm EST Sue Nichols Maciorowski, a Disney Animation artist whose contributions in visual development and story art helped shape the Disney Renaissance, has died. She was 55 years old. Disney Animation artist Maciorowski, who legacy at the House of Mouse helped build its animation department into the titan it is today, died at 55, according to the Disney Animation Twitter....

Superhero Bits: Why Stephen Amell Pitched An ‘Arrow’ Return, Lexi Rabe Suits Up As Rescue & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2020 6:00 pm EST Why did Stephen Amell pitch a return for Arrow despite the series ending? Want to see Joe Manganiello as Kraven the Hunter? How about Avengers: Endgame star Lexi Rabe dressed up as Rescue? Want to see some leaked promo art from Marvel’s Eternals? Want to see a throwback featurette for the original Blade movie?...

The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures Delays Its Opening Again, This Time To September 2021 By Ben Pearson/Dec. 18, 2020 1:00 pm EST The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been in the works for many years, but tourists and cinephiles are going to have to wait a few more months for it to finally open in Los Angeles. Today, the Academy announced that the museum, which was most recently slated to open in April 2021, will now open its doors in September 2021 due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Why Bucky Didn’t Get Captain America’s Shield, According To Sebastian Stan By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 27, 2020 2:30 pm EST One of the many resounding questions after the era-ending Avengers: Endgame was: Who would become the next Captain America? Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) had hung up the mantle and passed on the iconic shield to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), his friend and ally whose rise from Air Force PTSD counselor to a full-fledged member of Avengers was something to behold....

‘Ant-Man 3’ Will Bring Back Michelle Pfeiffer As Janet Van Dyne By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 9, 2020 1:00 pm EST The original Wasp is coming back for Ant-Man 3. Michelle Pfeiffer, whose Janet van Dyne made her debut in 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp after getting rescued from the Quantum Realm, confirmed that she’ll be returning in Ant-Man 3, which is due to begin filming in spring 2021. She will reunite with leads Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, as Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, respectively, and presumably, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Director Cathy Yan On Her Cinematic Influences And Building An All-Female Superhero Team [Set Visit Interview] By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2019 9:00 am EST Many people have not seen the 2018 film Dead Pigs (it only grossed $4,000 at the box office), but Warner Bros. and Margo Robbie did. And that’s all that matters. With Birds of Prey, director Cathy Yan is getting her chance to show the world what she’s made of....

‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: A Predictable But Strong Father-Son Story [TIFF 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 16, 2020 8:00 am EST Outside of overpriced carriage rides through historic areas, you might not expect to see horses galloping through the streets of Philadelphia. But there’s a century-long tradition of Black horsemanship in the City of Brotherly Love, primarily in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia that persists to this day....

‘Ghosts Of Sugar Land’ Trailer: The Award-Winning Short Documentary Comes To Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 2, 2019 3:30 pm EST In the suburbs of Houston, Texas, a group of concerned friends witnessed the radicalization of their friend, who would go on to travel to Syria to join ISIS in 2018. In January, young teacher Warren Christopher Clark was captured by U.S.-backed forces in Syria during the campaign to liberate the last areas occupied by the terror group....

‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Goes Further Into The Heart Of Darkness By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2019 8:00 am EST After a long hiatus, Mindhunter returns for an all-new stylish season – one overflowing with doom, lit by flashlight beams cutting through clutching darkness. One gets the sense of escalation here – the more the FBI’s blossoming Behavioral Science Unit studies the serial killers, the more serial killers there seem to be. As if the very act of trying to understand these individuals is inadvertently spawning more of them....