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By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2020 10:45 am EST Apple just scooped up Cherry, the first movie from the Russo Brothers since Avengers: Endgame, and the Russo’s first non-superhero movie in a long, long time. The project reunites them with Tom Holland, who plays a war vet with PTSD who becomes a bank robber. It’s based on the novel by Nico Walker, which is in part based on Walker’s true story (he’s a US Army veteran currently serving time in prison for bank robbery)....

‘Cobra Kai’ Creators Reveal Which Characters Can Return To The Show And What To Expect From Season 4 [Interview] By Fred Topel/Jan. 15, 2021 9:00 am EST The good news was that Cobra Kai season 3 premiered on Netflix earlier than previously annoyed. The bad news was that meant we couldn’t schedule an interview with creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald until the new year. It was a small price to pay for getting Cobra Kai early, especially for the fans who’ve been waiting almost two years since season 2 on YouTube....

‘Come Away’ Review: A Delightful Origin Story Of Peter Before Pan And Alice Before Wonderland [Sundance 2020] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST When animation directors make the jump to directing live-action, the transition can be fraught. Just ask Andrew Stanton, whose live-action debut, John Carter, was a huge bomb for Disney several years ago. Thankfully though, Brenda Chapman, the director of Prince of Egypt and Pixar’s Oscar-winning Brave, successfully makes the leap with Come Away, a delightful fairytale that imagines what might have happened if Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland were siblings before they became the characters we know and love....

‘Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Is A One-Hour Behind-The-Scenes Special By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2020 8:30 am EST Not too long ago, it was reported that The Mandalorian season 2 would be followed by another season of the documentary series Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian. The first season consisted of eight episodes that went behind the scenes of the making of the Star Wars series, revealing the secretive development of the series, its incredible concept art, the innovative technology used, and, of course, the puppeteers behind Baby Yoda....

‘Dora And The Lost City Of Gold’ Review: A Perfectly Pleasant If Unremarkable Family Adventure By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 5, 2019 10:00 am EST At first blush, a feature film based on the Nick Jr. cartoon Dora the Explorer seems like a non-starter. The show, designed to help preschoolers grasp Spanish-language terms for English phrases, doesn’t scream out for the cinematic treatment, and definitely not the live-action feature treatment. Yet such a film now exists: Dora and the Lost City of Gold both manages to broadly acknowledge its inspiration while cutting its own path as a tween-friendly version of Indiana Jones....

/Filmcast Ep. 548 - Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 20, 2019 6:30 am EST David, Devindra, Jeff, and Peter awaken to devote an entire episode to Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, the third installment in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Are the cast ready for the return of the J.J. Abrams? Or are they reminiscing the last director? Stay tuned… Thanks to our sponsor this week: PrettyLitter Change your kitty litter today!...

‘L.A.’s Finest’ Season 2 Trailer: Gabrielle Union And Jessica Alba Are Back By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 1, 2020 2:00 pm EST Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba are back and ready to take on crime in Los Angeles. The TV series spin-off of the Bad Boys franchise, which is the first original series from Spectrum, is back with L.A.’s Finest season 2. Watch the L.A.’s Finest season 2 trailer below. LA’s Finest Season 2 Trailer...

‘Little Joe’ Director Jessica Hausner On Combining Genres And Maintaining A Personal Stamp [Interview] By Marshall Shaffer/Dec. 6, 2019 4:30 pm EST The plot itself may sound familiar: a working single mother, Emily Beecham’s Alice, feels torn between duties to her teenage son and her laboratory work. As a plant breeder, she’s on the cusp of a breakthrough on engineering a plant that can chemically induce happiness in its owner. However, her creation might be altering people in a more insidious and imperceptible way à la Invasion of the Body Snatchers....

‘Palm Springs’ Trailer: Andy Samberg Is Stuck In A Time Loop By Chris Evangelista/June 16, 2020 11:30 am EST Andy Samberg is in a Groundhog Day situation in Palm Springs, a new comedy hitting drive-ins and Hulu next month. Samberg plays an unlucky guy stuck in a time loop, reliving the same long day at a Palm Springs wedding over and over again. Things get further complicated when someone else at the wedding, played by Cristin Milioti, ends up in the time loop as well....

‘Parasite’ Series From Bong Joon-Ho And Adam McKay Will Expand The Movie By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 13, 2020 12:30 pm EST Last week we were all caught off guard by the news that a Parasite series was headed to HBO. Despite the involvement of Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, many were skeptical about the project, with the addition of The Big Short director Adam McKay raising an eyebrow or two. The biggest question seemed to be: just what the hell is this?...

‘Perry Mason’ Review: A Pulpy, Hard-Boiled Series With Great Acting And A Messy Story By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 2020 10:00 am EST If you know Perry Mason at all, you likely know the character from the long-running late ’50s, early ’60s TV legal drama starring Raymond Burr as the famous lawyer who was known for getting suspects to blurt out confessions while on the witness stand. The roots of the character go back even further, from a series of novels starting in the 1930s to a radio serial that ran from the mid-1940s until the mid-’50s....

‘Shaun The Sheep’ Is Getting A BBC/Netflix Christmas Special In 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 6, 2020 3:30 pm EST Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king: We’re getting a Shaun the Sheep Christmas special. Fans of the Aardman Animations series can flock to their televisions on Christmas day 2021, when a special 30-minute Shaun the Sheep Christmas special will premiere on BBC One in the U.K. and Netflix everywhere else....

‘Star Wars’ Disney+ TV Shows Could Become Movies, Teases Disney CEO Bob Iger By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 30, 2019 10:00 am EST Baby Yoda might be destined for the big screen. The cute little co-star of The Mandalorian stole the hearts of audiences who flocked to the Star Wars live-action series on Disney+, proving that the sci-fi franchise can still take over the pop culture zeitgeist outside of the movie theaters. But with the Skywalker Saga coming to an end, is TV and streaming where Star Wars is destined to reign for the next couple of years?...

‘Tenet’ Piracy: WB Faces Significant Challenges In Protecting Christopher Nolan’s New Movie By Ben Pearson/Aug. 17, 2020 5:00 pm EST When the decision was made to stagger the release of Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated spy thriller Tenet in multiple countries across multiple weeks, the threat of piracy became even more potent. But now, just days away from the film’s debut overseas, Warner Bros. faces significant challenges in containing the movie’s tightly-held secrets....

‘The Agoraphobics Detective Society’ Enlists Brian Cox, Claes Bang In A Filmed-Under-Quarantine Whodunit Pilot By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 14, 2020 9:30 am EST There’s nothing like a good whodunit to offer us comfort during trying times. No matter the mystery, or the high-profile actors involved, you can bet that the case will be closed and the culprit brought to justice. And U.K. producer Maggie Monteith is putting the power of the whodunit to good use, with a filmed-from-home TV pilot of The Agoraphobics Detective Society starring Brian Cox and Claes Bang that will help out film and TV freelancers impacted by the coronavirus....

‘The Little Mermaid’ Live-Action Remake Wants Harry Styles As Prince Eric By Chris Evangelista/July 16, 2019 1:00 pm EST Disney’s live-action Little Mermaid remake may have just found its Prince Eric. Harry Styles, the One Direction artist who made his acting debut in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, is in talks to join Halle Bailey in the Rob Marshall-directed update. Melissa McCarthy is also in talks to play the evil Ursula, and Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina are likely to lend their voices to some supporting animals....

‘The New Mutants’ TV Spot Unleashes Magik By Chris Evangelista/March 10, 2020 12:30 pm EST Okay, I guess we can all safely assume The New Mutants is finally coming out. The long-delayed X-Men spin-off has a rating, a release date, and now, a new TV spot. The spot below plays up the action and throws in a few groan-worthy quips. But it also features some neat elements, too – like Anya Taylor-Joy’s Magik brandishing a giant glowing sword....

‘The Simpsons’ Replaces Hank Azaria With Alex Désert As The Voice Of Carl In Season 32 Premiere By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 25, 2020 9:30 am EST Three years ago, Hari Kondabolu released a documentary called The Problem with Apu, which snowballed into a years-long discussion about The Simpsons and the racial stereotypes it may have perpetuated with a mostly white writer’s room and voice cast. Earlier this year, it resulted in Hank Azaria stepping down from voicing Apu to leave room for an actual Indian actor to voice the character....

Frequent Superhero Dabbler Ben Affleck Calls Marvel’s Kevin Feige The Greatest Producer “Who’s Ever Lived” By Ben Pearson/Jan. 19, 2021 4:30 pm EST It’s safe to say that Ben Affleck, an Oscar-winning polymath who’s worked as a director/actor/writer/producer, knows a thing or two about producing movies. And during a recent roundtable discussion, he had some strong praise for fellow film producer Kevin Feige, calling him the “greatest” and “most successful producer who’s ever lived....

Hulu’s ‘Into The Dark’ Gets Presidential With The Disappointing ‘The Current Occupant’ By Matt Donato/July 17, 2020 10:00 am EST (Blumhouse Television and Hulu have partnered for a monthly horror anthology series titled Into The Dark, set to release a full holiday-themed feature every month. Horror anthology expert Matt Donato will be tackling the series one-by-one, stacking up the entries as they become streamable.)Last year’s fourth of July segment of Into The Dark was a fireworks display of nightmarish nationalism that distorted the “American Dream....