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By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 3, 2020 8:00 am EST Star Wars has been making big strides with diversity in front of the camera, but what about behind the camera? Despite the inspiring female characters that are gracing both the big and small screens in various Star Wars projects, Lucasfilm has yet to hire a woman to helm a major Star Wars movie. But that could soon change, according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy....

Musician Biopic Blitz! Timothée Chalamet Bob Dylan Movie Seems To Be On Hold; Wendell Pierce Is Playing B.B. King; Alex Winter’s ‘Zappa’; Bee Gees Documentary By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 4, 2020 5:00 pm EST Musician biopics are nothing new, but we seem to be experiencing an explosion of them lately – primarily because they tend to be Oscar bait. The Academy just can’t resist going gaga over watching an actor slap on a wig and pretend to be a famous rock star....

Shudder Halloween Hotline Will Provide You With Personalized Horror Movie Recommendations Today By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 31, 2019 9:30 am EST Happy Halloween! It’s the spookiest day of the year, when ghosts, goblins, and – most scary of all – children come out in force. It’s also the perfect day to watch horror movies (although honestly, every day is the perfect day for that). If you’re in need of something spooky to watch today, but have no trouble making decisions, the fine folks at Shudder are here to help....

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Could Have Had Two Different Versions At Disneyland And Disney World By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2020 11:00 am EST Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has been open in Disneyland and Disney World for over a year now. Though Disney World opened their Star Wars expansion a month after Disneyland, the two theme park areas are practically identical in their creation (with the exception of some aesthetic choices here and there)....

Superhero Bits: Hear Some Of The ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Score, Details On Batman Day In September & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 31, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to dig into the animated history of Superman? How will players unlock new characters in Marvel’s Avengers and will crossplay be available right away? Will The Boys deal with the pandemic in the third season? Want to hear a track from the Wonder Woman 1984 score and find out how long the movie might be?...

The 100 Best Movies Of The Decade [Part One] By /Film Staff/Dec. 16, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to /Film’s countdown of The 100 Best Movies of the Decade, examining the absolute best movies that were released between 2010 and 2019. This is part one of a five-part series and part of our Best of the Decade series.) Last week, the /Film team sat down for an extended two-part podcast to narrow down the 100 best films of the past decade....

Water Cooler: Disney+ & AppleTV+ Shows, Midway, Little Mermaid Live, Dial M For Murder, Danny Elfman’s Masterclass, Happy Death Day, The Haunting, Little Women & Crokinole By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the November 7, 2019 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 they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 14, 2020 10:00 am EST Jonathan Majors is having a good year. Not only has he earned plenty of praise for his work in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods and HBO’s Lovecraft Country, he’s also joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Deadline reports that Majors is a new addition to the Ant-Man 3 cast, and that he’s likely to play Kang the Conqueror. Of course, the Marvel movies don’t always adhere closely to their comic book sources, so there’s always a chance the movie version of Kang will be somewhat different from his comic counterpart....

‘Becoming You’ Trailer: Apple TV+ Follows 100 Children For 2000 Days To Tell “The Story Of Us” By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 26, 2020 4:30 pm EST The new Apple TV+ docuseries Becoming You follows 100 children from all over the world for 2000 days. What do these kids do in that time? They open a wormhole to another universe and unleash the Great Old Ones! Oh, no, I’m sorry, that’s not what happens at all....

‘Brave New World’ Teaser: Alden Ehrenreich Stars In Peacock’s Adaptation Of The Dystopian Classic By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 16, 2020 8:00 am EST The popular idea of the dystopian future is that of bleak, regimented oppression — heavily influenced by George Orwell’s 1984. But in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduced a different version of dystopia with his sci-fi classic Brave New World, which imagined a world ruled by sex and decadence and controlled by psychological conditioning....

‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3 Release Date Bumped Up One Week Earlier By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 26, 2020 10:00 am EST Cobra Kai fans have been waiting patiently for the third season of The Karate Kid sequel series ever since it was announced that Netflix had picked it up from YouTube and would continue the story of Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and the next generation of young fighters....

‘Joker’ Leads Overwhelmingly White, Male Group Of 2020 BAFTA Nominations By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 7, 2020 7:11 am EST Joker received the most nominations of any film at the BAFTA Film Awards, which will take place at the Royal Albert Hall in London on February 2, 2020. It is followed by The Irishman, with director Martin Scorsese scoring his 14th BAFTA nomination, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Quentin Tarantino earning his 11th BAFTA nod....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Trailer Revealed, Series Debuts In March 2021 By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2020 5:04 pm EST Once upon a time, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was set to be the first ever live-action Marvel Studios TV series. That position has since been overtaken by WandaVision, but fans won’t have to wait much longer to see Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) in action, because the show is set to arrive on Disney+ in March of next year....

‘Wally’s Wonderland’ First Look: Nicolas Cage Is Trapped Inside A Hellish Amusement Park By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 24, 2020 3:00 pm EST Nicolas Cage vs. possessed animatronic characters? Sign me up. Wally’s Wonderland stars Cage as a janitor at an amusement park who ends up having to deal with some demonic animatronics, and a first look image from the flick has found its way online. Sadly, the animatronic characters aren’t in the pic, but Nic Cage is, and honestly though, what more do you need?...

‘Welcome To Chechnya’ Trailer: The LGBQT Sundance Documentary Premieres On HBO In June By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 20, 2020 5:30 pm EST David France’s (How to Survive a Plague) Welcome to Chechnya debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to critical raves, with the powerful LGBTQ documentary collecting the award for best editing and later, at Berlinale, winning the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary. The documentary will soon arrive on HBO, with the network announcing the June premiere date in the official Welcome to Chechnya trailer....

‘Wendy’ First Look: ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director Benh Zeitlin Reimagines ‘Peter Pan’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 18, 2019 10:30 am EST Wendy First Look Directed by Zeitlin, who co-wrote the script with sister Eliza Zeitlin, Wendy looks to be a modern take on the classic tale written by J. M. Barrie. The first image shows star Devin France, who plays Wendy, reading a book by flashlight in a T-shirt. And the second image looks to take place in the “mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued,” showing several children hollering joyfully atop a cliff....

By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2020 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The series will be executive produced by Vaughan and Chiang. They’ll be joined by executive producers Stephany Folsom (writer of Toy Story 4), Christopher Cantwell, and Christopher C. Rogers (creators of Halt and Catch Fire), who will also serve as co-showrunners. The latter trio offered up this statement in the press release:...

Chinese Movie Theaters Start To Re-Open As Coronavirus Outbreak Slows By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 23, 2020 9:30 am EST After months of being battered by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, life is starting to return to normal in China. As the country reports decreasing numbers of new coronavirus cases, hundreds of Chinese movie theaters have started to re-open. But even as more than 500 cinemas have turned on the lights again, the Chinese box office still faces an uphill battle....

Freddy Krueger Nike Shoes Hypebeast (via Bloody Disgusting) brought our attention to the new Freddy Krueger Nike Shoes coming this fall. As you can see, the upper part of the shoe is made of a mesh canvas material that looks like Krueger’s sweater. There’s a grey suede piece on the toecap, as well as a checkered tongue with metallic silver overlays featuring some of the blood usually splatted on Freddy’s gloves....

Michael Sheen And David Tennant Bring Your ‘Good Omens’ Fan Fiction To Life In 30th Anniversary ‘Lockdown’ Video By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 1, 2020 2:30 pm EST Good Omens Lockdown Written by Gaiman and directed by Douglas Mackinnon (Sherlock, Good Omens), the video show Aziraphale and Crowley chatting on the phone, over a set of images of various props from the show like books, cakes, and glasses of wine, as they catch up on what the two of them have been up to in lockdown....