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‘The Last Dance’ Trailer: Get A Sneak Peek At ESPN’s Buzzy Michael Jordan Docuseries By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 26, 2019 4:00 pm EST ESPN is debuting The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary series on the Chicago Bulls during their legendary 1997-98 season, Michael Jordan’s final season as a Chicago Bull and the team’s last championship run of their dynasty. The Bulls granted a camera crew unprecedented access for the entire season, as the team went for its second three-peat....

‘The Plot Against America’ Trailer Shows An Alternate, But Eerily Familiar, American History By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2020 11:30 am EST Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America is probably more relevant now than it was when published in 2004, and that should disturb everyone. Roth’s novel is getting the miniseries treatment from HBO, courtesy of The Wire creator David Simon. The story is set during World War II in an alternate America, where Charles Lindbergh wins the presidency and quickly turns the country toward fascism....

‘You’ Season 2 Trailer: More Love And Blood In Netflix’s Hit Psychological Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 16, 2019 2:30 pm EST Joe Goldberg can change his name and his city, but according to the You season 2 trailer, he can never change the fact that he’s a creep. Penn Badgley’s charming psychopath returns in the psychological thriller series that became an unexpected Netflix hit last year. And this time, he’s got his heart set on Love....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1 LEGO Set Is Much Bigger (And Rustier) Than Previous Versions By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 5, 2020 4:00 pm EST Ghostbusters: Afterlife won’t be arriving in theaters until next summer – following two delays brought about by the coronavirus pandemic – but LEGO couldn’t wait to release a huge playset for the Ghostbusters franchise’s signature vehicle. A new LEGO Ghostbusters Ecto-1 set was revealed today, and it’s the biggest building brick version of the signature vehicle so far....

Daily Podcast: Our Favorite Movie Moments Of The Decade By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 19, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the December 19, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film managing editor Jacob Hall is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to share their favorite movie moments of the decade. Opening Banter: Ben and Peter are away, so let’s par-tay. Jacob: The De-Gloving in Gerald’s Game “I Am the Captain Now” in Captain Phillips Chris Furiosa’s Scream in Mad Max: Fury Road The Hotel Fight in Haywire Brad The Van Explosion in MacGruber Avengers Assemble in Avengers: Endgame HT No Man’s Land in Wonder Woman “Shallow” in A Star is Born All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Daily Podcast: The Batman Casting, Bob Iger’s Marvel & Star Wars Revelations, Micronauts & Will Smith Finally Breaks Bad By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2019 12:15 pm EST On the September 24, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and senior writer Ben Pearson to discuss the latest film and tv news, including The Batman casting, Bob Iger’s Marvel and Star Wars revelations, Star Wars Force Friday, a Micronauts movie, and Will Smith finally breaks bad....

Every Season Of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Is Coming To Peacock In October By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2020 12:30 pm EST Before Peacock launched, one of the features that the NBCUniversal streaming service bragged about was that it would be offering every season of Saturday Night Live. But when the service launched earlier this year, it only featured the most recent six seasons, as well as a smattering of content from previous episodes by way of “best of” collections and the “SNL Vault” channel....

Fantastic Fest 2019 Line-Up Includes ‘Jojo Rabbit’, Jim Mickle’s ‘In The Shadow Of The Moon’, Vincenzo Natali’s ‘In The Tall Grass’ & More By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2019 9:00 am EST Summer is almost over, and while that means blockbuster season is winding down and awards season will soon heat up, it also means another Fantastic Fest is almost upon. This year marks the milestone 15th anniversary for the festival that brings us an array of genre films from across the world, ranging from comedy to horror to sci-fi and even more in-between....

Harlan Coben’s ‘Six Years’ Becoming A Film At Netflix, David Ayer To Direct By Chris Evangelista/May 7, 2020 5:30 pm EST Calling all dads and fans of airport paperbacks! David Ayer is bringing Harlan Coben’s Six Years to Netflix. Ayer will direct the adaptation of Coben’s novel about a college professor searching for a woman from his past who has gone missing. Ayer is no stranger to working with Netflix, having directed the Will Smith movie Bright for them....

How Will Movie Theaters Survive Into 2021? Our 4 Burning Questions (And Possible Answers) By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 23, 2020 12:00 pm EST The fall/winter movie season has just effectively been torpedoed. Today, Disney announced that their big winter 2020 titles Black Widow and West Side Story have been pushed to 2021, while Death on the Nile has moved from October to December 2020. While there are still movies holding onto to their upcoming 2020 dates – No Time to Die from MGM, Wonder Woman 1984 and Dune from Warner Bros....

LOL: Simon Pegg And Nick Frost Update The ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Survival Plan For Coronavirus By Ben Pearson/March 19, 2020 3:00 pm EST A scene from Edgar Wright’s 2004 zombie horror comedy Shaun of the Dead has become something of a rallying cry for people when times get tough: when pals Shaun (Simon Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost) realize they’re in the middle of a zombie outbreak, they cycle through several possible plans before settling on one which ends with them going to their favorite pub, where they’ll “have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over....

New ‘Avatar’ Sequel Set Photos Send Soldiers And Stuntmen Into Battle By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2020 8:30 am EST Even though Avatar 2 wasn’t slated to hit theaters until December of 2021, the delays in production brought about by the coronavirus pandemic have forced James Cameron to push the movie back to December 2022 instead. But the cast and crew are still hard at work in New Zealand, where the country has no locally acquired cases of coronavirus....

New ‘Scream’ Sequel Will Bring Courteney Cox Back Again As Gale Weathers By Ben Pearson/July 31, 2020 11:00 am EST Do you like scary movies? Friends star Courteney Cox certainly does, because she has just officially signed on for her fifth Scream movie, once again reprising her role as reporter Gale Weathers. Get more details about Paramount’s relaunch of the horror franchise below. Wes Craven, who directed all four existing Scream films, died in 2015, so Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of the filmmaking group Radio Silence are taking over for this new version, which is apparently taking a page out of the Halloween (2018) playbook and just going by the title Scream....

Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Filmmakers Talk The Challenges Of Creating The Great Before, Early Story Ideas & More [Interview] By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 1, 2020 11:00 am EST Pete Docter is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation, so he already has his hands full. Combine that with the fact that he’s directing the animation studio’s latest movie Soul, and he’s one of the busiest people in Hollywood. But thankfully, he had co-director/writer Kemp Powers, and producer Dana Murray to help him out, not to mention all the talented people at Pixar making his job a little easier....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘#Alive,’ ‘Bacurau,’ ‘Cuties,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 14, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) In this week’s Pop Culture Imports, we have quite a collection of international movies, from the critically acclaimed to the wildly controversial. The latter of which was a controversy that I was reluctant to wade into, but this is a column sharing the best in international titles, and that film at the center of the controversy falls into that category....

Mr. Sunshine – Netflix Country: South KoreaGenre: K-dramaCreators: Kim Eun-sook, Lee Eung-bok.Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Kim Tae-ri, Yoo Yeon-seok, Kim Min-jung, Byun Yo-han. It’s easy to balk at the prospect of watching a historical K-drama: they’re typically longer, stodgier, and a little bit too melodramatic for the already-melodramatic genre. But under the guidance of Kim Eun-sook and Lee Eung-bok — the acclaimed co-creators behind last year’s magnificent fantasy series Goblin and 2016’s hit drama Descendants of the Sun — Mr....

Quibi Could Lose Half A Billion Dollars In 2020 By Chris Evangelista/May 6, 2020 11:00 am EST Oh, Quibi, Quibi, Quibi. Like Icarus, you flew too close to the sun with wings made of wax. And by that I mean you attempted to launch a new streaming service that no one seemed particularly interested in. And it looks like it’s going to cost you to the tune of half a billion dollars....

Steven Spielberg No Longer Directing ‘Indiana Jones 5’; James Mangold Might Take Over Instead By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 26, 2020 10:59 am EST There’s a shake-up regarding Indiana Jones 5: Steven Spielberg is out, James Mangold is possibly in. Spielberg will no longer direct the fifth entry in the adventure series, and is instead planning to hand the franchise over to Ford v Ferrari director James Mangold. The decision to depart is entirely Spielberg’s, and he’ll still be involved as a hands-on producer....

Superhero Bits: Celebrity Superhero Halloween Costumes, New ‘The Eternals’ Details & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see which celebrities dressed as superheroes this Halloween? Will Emily Bett Rickards be back for the final episode of Arrow? Did you know Scarlet Witch almost survived Thanos’ snap? Has Jason Momoa really seen Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League? What comics is Robert Pattinson reading to prepare for The Batman?...

Superhero Bits: Hailee Steinfeld Spotted On ‘Hawkeye’ Set, Alex Ross Teases Unseen Artwork & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see some Alex Ross artwork that hasn’t been released before? Which Marvel movie star supports the campaign to revive the Daredevil series? How long is Wonder Woman 1984? Did you hear Hailee Steinfeld was spotted on the Hawkeye set? Which Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse character has joined Marvel Contest of Champions?...