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‘My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising’ Review: Dazzling Fight Sequences With A Plot That’s Less Than Ultra By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 24, 2020 8:00 am EST My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising does little to break this mold. The second theatrical movie for the popular superhero anime series (the first, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, hit theaters in 2018), Heroes Rising is an impressive piece of fan-service with beautiful character work and some of the most inventive and dazzling fight sequences that the series has ever seen....

‘Search Party’ Season 4 Trailer Is All About Finding Dory By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 6, 2021 10:30 am EST What happens when the searcher becomes the searchee? Alia Shawkat’s Dory will soon find out in season 4 of the comedy thriller Search Party. The cult hit was picked up by HBO Max for its third season, and is now going strong with a fourth season on the way. Watch the Search Party season 4 trailer below....

‘Tenet’ Release Date Updates: Will The Movie Be Pushed Further? [UPDATE] By Chris Evangelista/July 8, 2020 11:00 am EST UPDATE: The info for this story was taken from a report in The Hollywood Reporter, but a source close to the production has told us THR’s reporting on the matter was inaccurate. We’ve updated parts of our story below. Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was originally set to open July 17, and the entire movie industry – studios, theater owners, etc....

‘The Independent’: Kumail Nanjiani Adds A Political Thriller To His Resumé By Ben Pearson/Feb. 25, 2020 12:30 pm EST THR says that a company called The Exchange is financing the movie and is introducing it to potential buyers at this year’s European Film Market in Berlin. Evan Parter is producing The Independent alongside the Emmy-winning duo of Sam Bisbee and Theodora Dunlap, whose credits include Hearts Beat Loud and Infinitely Polar Bear, and Ryan Cunningham from production company Anonymous Content....

‘The Shed’ Trailer: Teens Use A Mysterious Shed To Get Revenge On Their Bullies By Ben Pearson/Oct. 17, 2019 7:30 am EST When two bullied teens discover a terrible evil lurking in their backyard shed, they use it to strike back against the jackasses who have tormented them for years. But when it comes to getting revenge, how far is too far? That idea seems to be at the heart of a new indie horror film called The Shed, and you can check out the first trailer for the movie below....

‘Welcome To The Blumhouse’ Review: ‘Black Box’ And ‘The Lie’ Both Play With Perception And Deception – With Mixed Results By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 5, 2020 9:00 am EST Think of Black Box as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as a horror movie. It’s a story of memory or lack thereof. But while Eternal Sunshine was all about erasing memories via sketchy science, Black Box wants to bring them back. Nolan (Mamoudou Athie) has survived a car crash that killed his wife and turned him into a single parent in the process....

Amblin Picks Up ‘Cheshire Crossing’, Which Features Female Characters From ‘Wizard Of Oz’, ‘Alice In Wonderland’, And ‘Peter Pan’ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 17, 2019 8:00 am EST The Hollywood Reporter says that Erin Cressida Wilson will write the screenplay for Cheshire Crossing. Wilson wrote Secretary, Chloe, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children, The Girl on the Train, and is currently working on a live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for Disney, so she already has some experience writing for classic fairy tale characters....

AMC Theaters Plan To Reopen In Time For Big Studio Movies ‘Tenet’ And ‘Mulan’ By Chris Evangelista/April 24, 2020 3:30 pm EST Georgia, and a few more states, are making headlines by planning to reopen some businesses – including movie theaters – sooner than expected. Yet while theatres in certain places will be allowed to open soon, many of them have no plans to take advantage of this opportunity. Including AMC Theaters, who have announced they have no plans to open until at least July, when there will be big new movies to screen like Tenet and Mulan....

Emergency Podcast: Warner Bros’ 2021 Movies Going Direct To HBO Max - Is This The Death Of Movie Theaters? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2020 12:20 pm EST On the December 3, 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 may be the single biggest piece of movie news this year....

Focus Features Launching Movie Mondays With A Free Livestream Of Films Throughout April By Ethan Anderton/April 3, 2020 4:30 pm EST Since movie and television productions are currently on hold, entertainment companies are showing solidarity by making a lot of free content available for people to enjoy while they self-quarantine at home. HBO is the latest to offer up some premium content for free, and even Marvel Comics is getting in on the free content supply....

Milo Ventimiglia’s Evel Knievel Limited Series Not Moving Forward At USA Network By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 14, 2020 5:30 pm EST Milo Ventimiglia’s Evel Knievel series didn’t stick the landing at USA Network. The network will not be going forward with the limited series, which would’ve been titled Evel, about the daredevil stuntman. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shut down the series right before production was set to begin.The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that USA Network has scrapped the Evel Knievel limited series starring Milo Ventimiglia as the famous daredevil....

New ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Movie In The Works, But Will It Be Another Reboot? By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2019 1:30 pm EST THR has the scope on the new Planet of the Apes movie, adding the disclaimer that it’s “unclear whether the new Apes project is meant to be a new reboot or an extension of the previous film series.” I’m not a betting man, but I’m going to assume this is going to be a whole new reboot, simply because that’s the way Hollywood works....

Nicolas Cage, Richard Stanley, And Joely Richardson On The Cosmic Horrors Of ‘Color Out Of Space’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 23, 2020 9:00 am EST (This interview originally ran last September following the Toronto International Film Festival. Color Out of Space opens this weekend.) After crafting cult genre curiosities like Hardware and Dust Devil, South African filmmaker Richard Stanley was presented with the opportunity to break into Hollywood productions with a big adaptation of The Island of Dr....

Rosario Dawson Will Star In Ava DuVernay’s ‘DMZ’ TV Series For HBO Max By Ben Pearson/Jan. 22, 2020 11:30 am EST Director/executive producer Ava DuVernay (13th, Selma) has found the star of DMZ, her upcoming HBO Max adaptation of the Vertigo comic book series. Rosario Dawson (Rent, Unstoppable) will lead the streaming series, and you can learn details about her character below. The Hollywood Reporter first broke the Rosario Dawson DMZ news, revealing Dawson as the first cast member of the forthcoming series....

Superhero Bits: Batman Rumors Made Robert Pattinson Mad, People’s Choice Awards Love Marvel & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 4, 2019 6:00 pm EST What People’s Choice Awards nominations did Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home get? What heated topic with the Falcon and the Winter Soldier series address? Why was Robert Pattinson mad when rumors about him playing Batman surfaced? What did Professor Hulk accidentally create with the time machine in Avengers: Endgame?...

The 80 Greatest Shots In Disney Animation History [Part Four] By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 13, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Greatest Shots in Disney Animation History, a limited series where Disney expert Josh Spiegel selects and ranks the defining moments in one of the greatest, most important, and most influential collections of films ever made.) This part of the ongoing list covers entries 50 through 41. Hercules: Hercules becomes a god What does a demigod have to do to convince his family that he’s a true god?...

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In August 2019 By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2019 9:30 am EST Summer is coming to an end, so you’re probably enjoying as much of this nice weather as you can. But in between trips to the beach and last minute vacations, you might want to lounge on the couch and kick back with what’s new on Netflix. The list of TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in August 2019 just arrived, and it features some classic comedies, one of the most popular sports franchises of all-time, a couple Nickelodeon specials, the first Netflix production from Barack & Michelle Obama, and more....

The Morning Watch: Harrison Ford In A ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ DeepFake, The Comfort Of Time Loop Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 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....

Theme Park Bits: Walt Disney World Is Open Once Again By Josh Spiegel/July 14, 2020 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Downtown Disney has reopened. Walt Disney World begins its slow rollout to guests. And more! To start off today’s Theme Park Bits, let’s talk about the biggest news: Walt Disney World is open again. (And you shouldn’t go. It’s incredibly dangerous to do so, especially in Florida....

‘Black Panther II’ Will Not Recast T’Challa In The Wake Of Chadwick Boseman’s Death By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2020 5:11 pm EST During Disney’s investor presentation, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige revealed that Black Panther 2 (or Black Panther II, as a title card on screen indicated) will not recast T’Challa, the character played by the late Chadwick Boseman. Read Feige’s full quote below. “Chadwick Boseman was an immensely talented actor and an inspirational individual who affected all of our lives professionally and personally,” Feige said....