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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 4 Happening At CBS All Access, Filming Starts Next Month By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2020 3:00 pm EST CBS All Access, which should probably change its name to the Star Trek Channel at this point, just went ahead and ordered Star Trek: Discovery season 4. Well, the decision probably wasn’t just made, because it turns out production is set to start next month. In all likelihood, CBS All Access made the decision months ago, but waited to announce now because Star Trek: Discovery season 3 just premiered....

‘Sylvie’s Love’ Trailer: Tessa Thompson And Nnamdi Asomugha Fall In Love In 1950s And 1960s New York By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 14, 2020 12:00 pm EST Sylvie’s Love Trailer Well, this sure looks gorgeous. In Sylvie’s Love, “Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war....

‘The Aeronauts’ Trailer: Hot Air Balloons, Weather, And Thrills! By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 24, 2019 2:00 pm EST Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones star in The Aeronauts, which follows wealthy young widow Amelia Wren (Jones) and headstrong scientist James Glaisher (Redmayne) as they confront the elements and risk their lives in order to fly a hot air balloon higher than anyone has done before. But this isn’t just to set a record, it’s to determine whether or not the weather can be predicted....

‘The Sandman’ Netflix Series Will Be Updated To Take Place In 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 20, 2020 5:00 pm EST When The Sandman was initially published in 1989, Neil Gaiman’s horror-fantasy comic series was praised as a groundbreaking piece of art, aided by the surreal and often unnerving illustrations by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, and Michael Zulli. The story of the anthropomorphic personification of Dream as he returns to his realm after a decades-long imprisonment was striking in its blending of reality and fantasy — and a fair few DC characters, beloved and otherwise — set against the gritty contemporary backdrop of the ’90s....

Adam F. Goldberg Never Says Die On ‘The Goonies 2,’ Sets Up Pitch With Richard Donner With New Concept Art By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2020 7:00 am EST Adam F. Goldberg will never say die on his mission to get The Goonies 2 made. The creator of the ABC series The Goldbergs, a family comedy series which revels in the nostalgia of the 1980s, has spent the long months of quarantine taking his nostalgia for the beloved 1985 Richard Donner adventure film and doing something with it....

Exclusive ‘Good Boys’ Clip Goes Behind-The-Scenes Of The Raunchy Comedy By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2019 1:30 pm EST Good Boys arrives on digital today and Blu-ray in November, and in honor of that release, we’re sharing an exclusive clip. Go behind-the-scenes of the hit raunchy comedy and find out just what it is that makes those Good Boys so darn good. The clip is pulled directly from the many special features packed onto the Blu-ray and release, giving you yet another excuse to support physical media....

Funko’s New Hollywood Store Is An Instagramers Wet Dream By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2019 12:00 pm EST Last night we were invited to help celebrate the grand opening of the Funko store on Hollywood Boulevard. The 40,000 square-foot Funko Hollywood store will officially open to the public on Monday, November 18, 2019, with a ton of instagramable photo ops featuring characters and locations ranging from Disney animation, Marvel, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Stranger Things, Jurassic Park, It, DC, Star Wars and much much more....

HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ Adds Carrie Coon To Cast, Replacing Amanda Peet By Chris Evangelista/May 2, 2020 12:00 pm EST Carrie Coon, one of those performers who is good in literally anything, is replacing Amanda Peet as one of the leads of HBO’s The Gilded Age. Peet had to drop out due to scheduling issues, and now Coon will take over her part in the period drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes....

How ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Is Like ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ And What It Holds Over From ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Aug. 2, 2019 8:30 am EST CBS All Access executives spoke to the Television Critics Association on Thursday and promised they would have Star Trek: Picard ready to present in January. Patrick Stewart returns to the role of Jean-Luc Picard, and the show’s Comic-Con panel revealed that Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes and Voyager’s Jeri Ryan would also appear on the show....

How ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Fits Into The Skywalker Saga By Bryan Young/Dec. 23, 2019 9:00 am EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is fashioned to be the final punctuation mark on the nine films of the Skywalker Saga. It takes moments and ideas from every single one of the eight films and does its measured best to pay them off in some way or another. For added measure, it even throws in ideas and characters from the animated installments of the saga....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 25, 2020 11:00 am EST Mark-Paul Gosselaar doesn’t just have the ability to freeze time, he has the ability to go back in time too. And he’s going back all the way to season 1 of Saved by the Bell for a new retrospective podcast about the classic ’90s sitcom in which Gosselaar starred for 4 seasons on NBC. Gosselaar is revisiting all 16 episodes of season 1 of Saved by the Bell for a new retrospective podcast series “Zack to the Future,” in which he and Funny or Die’s “Zack Morris Is Trash” creator and narrator Dashiell Driscoll will break down each episode of the sitcom’s inaugural 1989 season....

New ‘Bad Trip’ Trailers: Eric Andre And Lil Rey Howery Pull Off Shocking Hidden Camera Pranks By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 2020 5:30 pm EST There was a time when Jackass was not only a hit series on MTV, but it was a successful film franchise, bringing insane and dangerous pranks and stunts to the big screen. Now Jackass franchise producer and director Jeff Tremaine is bringing pranks back to the big screen along with director Kitao Sakurai and comedy collaborators Eric Andre, Lil Rey Howery and Dan Curry....

Podcast: In-Depth Reaction & Analysis Of The Final ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2019 11:52 am EST On the October 22, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman for an in depth reaction and analysis of the final Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer. Opening Banter: Did you get tickets? ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Sets New Record for Most Ticket Pre-Sales in First Hour In Our Feature Presentation: ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Trailer Breakdown: Long Have We Waited for This VLOG: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Trailer Reaction: We Got Emotional!...

Pop Culture Imports: An Intimate South Korean Love Affair, A Raunchy Argentinian Drama, A Cannes Golden Camera Nominee, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 31, 2019 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) This is a column that operates in multitudes, because only in Pop Culture Imports would you have a fluffy romantic K-drama right next to a sobering Austrian human trafficking film....

See How A Shot From Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Evolves From Storyboard To The Final Animation By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2020 1:00 pm EST Pixar’s Soul will be arriving on Disney+ on Christmas Day instead of getting the theatrical release that we all were hoping for at some point. That’s truly disappointing, because the animation in this movie is absolutely stunning, from the photorealistic New York City to the ethereal planes of The Great Before and The Great Beyond....

Superhero Bits: ‘WandaVision’ Rumors, Read The ‘Joker’ Screenplay, Morgan Stark Goes Sledding & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2020 6:00 pm EST Could we see Quicksilver pop up in WandaVision? When will the Green Arrow and the Canaries backdoor pilot air and what will it entail? Want to read the entire Joker screenplay? Does Marvel have full control of Hulk and Namor again? Want to see Morgan Stark take Captain America’s shield sledding?...

The Clock Tower: ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’ Is Over, So Let’s Talk About It By Amelia Emberwing/Jan. 16, 2020 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.)Every major event, whether it be on the big screen or small, tells you that its world will never be the same by the time the credits roll....

The Morning Watch: Kids Remix ‘Star Wars’ Scenes In LEGO, Will Goss’ ‘Sweet Steel’ Short Film & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 7, 2019 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....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Old Guard’ Is The Kind Of Mid-Tier Action Movie That Can Thrive On Netflix By Jacob Hall/July 20, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: The Old GuardWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: An adaptation of the Image comic series of the same name, The Old Guard follows a team of immortal mercenaries who struggle with isolation and loneliness while killing bad guys....

Theme Park Bits: Cinderella Castle Makeover, Frozen In Disneyland Paris, And More By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 23, 2020 9:00 am EST We’re still about 18 months away from the 50th anniversary of the Magic Kingdom in Orlando. The landmark symbol of the Orlando theme park is the Cinderella Castle, and as the old saying goes, make it blue! Oh, sorry, I was too busy looking at this concept art of the Cinderella Castle after the royal makeover that was absolutely dominating Disney Twitter earlier this week....