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‘Confederate’ TV Show Confirmed To Be Officially Dead At HBO By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 16, 2020 10:30 am EST HBO has officially axed Confederate, the controversial alt-history slavery drama from Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. But the series, which was met with near-universal derision when it was announced three years ago, seemed like it was dead on arrival to begin with. No updates had been given since Benioff and Weiss quietly pulled back from the series amid the intense backlash following its announcement in 2017....

‘Glass’ Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Superhero Sequel Is Anything But Super By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 9, 2019 1:30 pm EST With Glass, M. Night Shyamalan brings together the worlds of Unbreakable and Split, and the result is depressing and disappointing. After regaining most of his directorial mojo with his most recent work, Shyamalan now takes a huge, unfortunate step backwards, tarnishing the legacy of Unbreakable, his best movie, in the process....

‘Knives Out’ Sequel Will Put Daniel Craig Back On The Case Of Another Rian Johnson Whodunit [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 6, 2020 3:04 pm EST Update: Deadline reports that today, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer confirmed that a Knives Out sequel is officially moving forward, and he hinted that, according to the outlet, “a production start for a follow-up…is imminent.” That aligns with Johnson’s previously-stated desire to get rolling on a sequel quickly....

‘Like A Boss’ Trailer: Tiffany Haddish And Rose Byrne Throw Down With Salma Hayek By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 12, 2019 3:00 pm EST The beauty industry is about to get a little uglier. Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne star in Like a Boss, a comedy that is not based on The Lonely Island song. Instead it’s about two best friends who find themselves in debt after years of running their cosmetics business and are faced with the prospect of big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna (Salma Hayek)....

‘Moonbase 8’ Trailer: John C. Reilly, Fred Armisen, And Tim Heidecker Train For A Space Journey – And Things Go Very Wrong By Ben Pearson/Sept. 14, 2020 2:00 pm EST A24 and Showtime are teaming up for a new comedy series called Moonbase 8, which stars three hilarious actors: John C. Reilly (Step Brothers), Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live), and Tim Heidecker (Tom Goes to the Mayor). Now the first teaser trailer has arrived, and it hints at what happens when a space training mission goes horribly, horribly wrong....

‘National Treasure’ TV Series Getting Ready To Solve History’s Mysteries At Disney+ By Chris Evangelista/May 7, 2020 12:41 pm EST Disney is all-in on more National Treasure. Not only is a new National Treasure sequel in the works, there’s also a National Treasure TV series being developed for Disney+. There’s a catch, though. The TV series will feature a younger cast, which means that we won’t get the pleasure of seeing Nicolas Cage run around the country finding puzzles left by Ben Franklin and other famous dead guys....

‘Respect’ Teaser: Jennifer Hudson Is Aretha Franklin In This New Biopic By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2019 10:30 am EST Jennifer Hudson is coming for that Oscar, so everyone might want to get the hell out of her way. The actress and singer can currently be seen in Tom Hooper’s nightmarish Cats, and while she’s probably not about to get an awards season nod for that, come next year, all bets are off....

‘Sex Education’ Season 2 Trailer: Messy Is Normal By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 7, 2020 4:30 pm EST Ready for more Sex Education? The Netflix series is coming back for more. The second season of the show starring Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson and her somewhat questionable accent is dropping this month, and ahead of that premiere, there’s a new trailer full of smooching, running, dancing, and a lot of pratfalls. Watch the Sex Education season 2 trailer below....

‘Star Wars Squadrons’ Gameplay Footage Revealed With Details On Characters, Ships, Game Modes & More By Ethan Anderton/June 19, 2020 8:30 am EST Earlier this week, we saw the first trailer for a new Star Wars space combat video game called Star Wars Squadrons. Players will throw on a flight suit and hop into the cockpits of signature starfighters from both the Rebel Alliance (now the New Republic) and the Galactic Empire....

‘The Batman’ Concept Art Gives Us A Better Look At The New Batmobile By Chris Evangelista/June 1, 2020 3:00 pm EST One of these days, we’ll all get to see The Batman, the Matt Reeves-directed reboot about everyone’s favorite billionaire crime-fighter. The production is currently on hold due to the coronavirus, but everyone involved seems ready and raring to get back to work, including Paul Dano. Dano plays the Riddler in the upcoming movie, and in a recent interview, the actor spoke about how excited he is about the whole endeavor....

‘The Father’ Review: Anthony Hopkins Gives One Of His Greatest Performances In One Of The Best Films Of 2020 [TIFF] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 24, 2020 10:00 am EST One of the main joys of film festivals is to go into a film knowing as little as possible, guided by the hopes that the programmers have selected something worthy of your time. I’d missed Florian Zeller’s film The Father at its Sundance premiere, conflating it with another film about an ailing old-man as one of several dramas I skipped in order to focus on that fest’s remarkable doc slate....

‘The Howling’ Remake Headed To Netflix With ‘It’ Director Andy Muschietti By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 9, 2020 12:00 pm EST It director Andy Muschietti is ready to bark at the moon with a remake of The Howling. The filmmaker has previously expressed interest in remaking Joe Dante’s 1981 werewolf pic, and not he says it’s actually happening – at Netflix. The original followed a reporter (Dee Wallace) who heads to a mountain resort for some much needed R&R....

‘The Irishman’ Is Martin Scorsese’s Greatest Argument Against His Longtime Critics By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 18, 2019 9:00 am EST You may find it hard to believe, but Martin Scorsese has been in the news recently. On a cynical level, it’s arguably a bit convenient that Scorsese’s fully thought-out and reasonably critical opinions of both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and blockbuster cinema as a whole have become such a flashpoint of critical discourse over the last few weeks....

‘The Mandalorian’ Episode 1 Spoiler Discussion Podcast By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2019 12:15 pm EST On the November 12, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and special guest Bryan Young (from Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com and Full of Sith podcast) for a spoiler-filled conversation about the first episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, entitled “Chapter One”. Opening Banter: It’s Peter’s birthday In Our Feature Presentation: The Mandalorian Chapter One Brief reactions Episode title Running time New star wars brand opening Who is The Mandalorian?...

‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 3 Trailer Has A Surprise ‘Gilmore Girls’ Cameo By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 14, 2019 9:30 am EST The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 Trailer Fresh off its four Emmy wins earlier this year, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is back with a whirlwind trailer full of cameos and lots of fabulous new outfits for Brosnahan’s titular rising comedian. Midge Maisel is making a splash across the globe as she embarks on a world USO tour and has to learn to juggle her many responsibilities while on the road....

Sandman Audio Drama This summer you’ll be able to hear Neil Gaiman read The Sandman to you with a full audio production from Audible. Presented as a multi-part Audible Original audio drama series, the production hopes to bring Gaiman’s classic comic series to life via “meticulously sound-designed, richly immersive audio.” Here’s the synopsis being used for the adaptation: When an occultist attempts to capture the physical embodiment of Death in a bargain for eternal life, he instead mistakenly traps Death’s younger brother Morpheus, the King of Dreams....

‘The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent’ Will Recreate Scenes From Nicolas Cage Movies By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 21, 2020 4:00 pm EST Nicolas Cage is about to take on the ultimate Nicolas Cage role: Nicolas Cage. Cage is playing a fictionalized version of himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which finds the actor reckoning with his career choices while also getting mixed up in a plot involving the CIA and a drug cartel kingpin....

‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Will Be “Louder And More Bombastic” Than ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 25, 2019 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Thor: Ragnarok changed the trajectory of Marvel’s God of Thunder in a big way back in 2017. The franchise found new life with director Taika Waititi taking a hard turn into comedy and sending Chris Hemsworth to a more zany corner of the cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he even brought Mark Ruffalo as Hulk along with him....

‘Tomb Raider’ Sequel Set For 2021, ‘Free Fire’ Filmmaker Ben Wheatley To Direct By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 4, 2019 9:30 am EST Alicia Vikander’s Tomb Raider series has found another director to lead its expedition. Ben Wheatley, who has proven to be a filmmaker to watch with critically acclaimed blackly comic thrillers like High-Rise and Free Fire, has been tapped by MGM as the Tomb Raider sequel director. The follow-up to the Roar Uthaug-directed 2018 Tomb Raider is set to come to theaters in March 2021....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 22, 2020 3:00 pm EST Tuca & Bertie is getting a second wind. Following Netflix’s cancelation of Lisa Hanawalt’s critically acclaimed animated comedy after just one season, Adult Swim has swooped in to pick up Tuca & Bertie for a second season. Tuca and Bertie season 2 has been greenlit for a 10-episode order by the network, which has slated the release for 2021. Created by Hanawalt and produced by Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Tuca & Bertie seemed like it had everything going for it....