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Not All Theatrical Movies Will Go Straight To Streaming, Theater Owners Say By Ben Pearson/March 17, 2020 12:00 pm EST Yesterday, NBCUniversal made the potentially game-changing announcement that it would be releasing some of its theatrical movies on demand starting this week, shattering the theatrical exhibition window that has been in place for decades. Other studios soon followed, and speculation ran rampant about whether this decision marks the end of movie theaters....

Paul Williams On His Struggles With ‘Phantom Of The Paradise’ And Why Kermit The Frog Is The Most Powerful Character He’s Ever Worked With [Interview] By Jason Gorber/July 30, 2019 7:00 am EST Actor, writer, singer, lyricist, musician, Oscar winner and survivor – for more than five decades Paul Williams has been all this and more. As an actor he’s appeared in everything from Battle for the Planet of the Apes to Smokey and the Bandit and Baby Driver....

Superhero Bits: ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Season 6 Trailer, Todd McFarlane’s Batman & More By Ethan Anderton/July 18, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see what’s coming in the final four episodes of Agents of SHIELD season six? Did you notice the menacing message in the Young Justice episode titles? Ready for a new Watchmen trailer this weekend? What did some Spider-Man: Far From Home deleted scenes provide for MJ? Who is the first character inducted into the Comic-Con Museum Character Hall of Fame?...

Superhero Bits: Snyder Cut Of ‘Justice League’ Photographed, ‘Harley Quinn’ Pilot Coming To TBS & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 4, 2019 6:00 pm EST Would you like to see a live-action Batman Beyond series with Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne? Want to see some alternate designs for Bro Thor in Avengers: Endgame? Has Zack Snyder proven that his cut of Justice League exists? When can you watch the pilot for Harley Quinn on cable?...

That ‘Clueless’ TV Series Is Officially Heading To Peacock By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 14, 2020 4:00 pm EST A Clueless TV series is headed to Peacock, because everything old is new again. The series will focus not on Cher, the main character played in the film by Alicia Silverstone, but rather Cher’s friend Dionne, who was played by Stacey Dash. This series has been in the works since 2019, where it’s been in development at CBS Studios....

Visiting The Set Of ‘VFW’, A Fangoria Production Drenched In Blood And Brotherhood By Marisa Mirabal/Feb. 17, 2020 2:00 pm EST VFW stands for Veterans of Foreign Wars. It is a non-profit veterans service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from the active, guard and reserve forces. Part of their mission is “to foster camaraderie among United States veterans of overseas conflicts”. Writers Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle along with Director Joe Begos (The Mind’s Eye, Bliss) take a blood-spattering approach to brotherhood and camaraderie in their latest feature VFW....

Warner Bros. International Will Use Artificial Intelligence To Help Select Release Dates [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 9, 2020 4:00 pm EST Update: An in-the-know source has reached out to correct some of the information in this story. Turns out that Cinelytic is only being used by Warner Bros. International as an additive tool to help select release dates, and not, as many have suggested, in any sort of major creative capacity....

Star Wars: Tales from Galaxy’s Edge High Republic Story Trailer The High Republic adventure within Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge is called Temple of Darkness, and it seems like this is the main reason that Frank Oz was brought in as Yoda. This part of the VR experience is a 15-minute story that finds players controlling Ady Sun’Zee (voiced by Ellie Araiza), a Jedi Padawan studying at a remote Jedi research facility on Batuu....

Water Cooler: Cherry, In & Of Itself, Critical Thinking, Deadliest Catch, Downton Abbey, The Straight Story By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2021 2:30 pm EST On the January 13, 2021 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....

‘Avatar 2’ Behind-The-Scenes Photo Has Kate Winslet Taking A Dive By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 26, 2020 3:00 pm EST Another day, another goofy Avatar 2 behind-the-scenes photo. Since so much of James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel is going to be created digitally, much of the behind-the-scenes imagery has looked rather silly, with actors in motion-capture suits floating in big water tanks. And this latest image – which features Kate Winslet posing like Dracula at the YMCA pool, is no exception....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Prequel Series In Development At Disney+, Will Focus On Gaston And LeFou’s Origin Story By Ben Pearson/March 6, 2020 10:46 am EST Josh Gad, who played LeFou in Disney’s 2017 live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, is developing a Beauty and the Beast prequel series for Disney+ which will reunite Gad with his co-star Luke Evans and explore the origins of Gaston and LeFou.The Hollywood Reporter says that Evans and Gad, who played the manly soldier Gaston and his pitiful sidekick LeFou, respectively, in the 2017 film, will star in “a six-episode musical event” for Disney’s streaming service which will feature music from Disney legend Alan Menken, who won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the 1991 animated version of Beauty and the Beast and also returned for the live-action version....

‘Bel-Air’: The ‘Fresh Prince’ Reboot Gets A Two-Season Order At Peacock By Ben Pearson/Sept. 8, 2020 4:00 pm EST We’ve been following the news about Bel-Air, a dramatic reimagining of Will Smith’s 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, for over a year. Now, the new reboot finally has a home. Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, has just given the upcoming drama series a two-season order – something Smith calls “unprecedented” since the order was granted based on a pitch....

‘Come Away’ Reveals Just How Difficult Adapting Fairy Tales Can Be By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 27, 2020 12:00 pm EST The trick to adapting Peter Pan is embracing that it’s a tragedy at its core. So many children’s stories are sadder and often more horrifying than they appear, though only in ways that become more clear once the reader grows up. Two of the most familiar English-language children’s stories, and among the most frequently adapted, are Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, each of which gets blended into an odd remix in the new live-action fantasy drama Come Away....

/Filmcast Ep. 535 - Hustlers (GUEST: Inkoo Kang From Slate) By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 24, 2019 7:01 pm EST Jeff is back with limericks while David is away. Devindra and Jeff are joined by Slate staff writer Inkoo Kang to discuss Hustlers. Stripping away the star-studded cast, does the latest film by Lorene Scafaria have substance on top of style? Listen and subscribe to David’s newest podcast Culturally Relevant. Check out Jeff Cannata’s D&D show Dungeon Run....

‘Friends’ Will Be There For You On The Big Screen For A Three-Night 25th Anniversary Fathom Event By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2019 6:00 am EST Every now and then a television show is popular enough to warrant a big screen adaptation. Though NBC’s Friends was one of the most popular sitcoms of all-time, it never made the leap to theaters. But that changes this year for the show’s 25th anniversary....

‘Frozen 2’ Footage Digs Into Anna And Elsa’s Past And Teases Mysterious Music [D23] By /Film Staff/Aug. 24, 2019 12:51 pm EST Do you want to build a sequel? Six years after Frozen iced box office records, Frozen 2 is ready to take us back to Arendelle, and beyond. Will the same audiences that flocked to the first film be willing to line up again for this sequel? Probably! The first trailers were vague to the extreme, but we got to see some new footage at D23....

‘John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch’ Throws Back To Classic Children’s Television Programming By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 20, 2019 11:30 am EST If getting stand-up specials, new seasons of Big Mouth, the Oh, Hello! Broadway special, and episodes of Documentary Now! wasn’t enough John Mulaney for you on Netflix, we have good news. Netflix has announced the launch of John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, a comedy special that “aims to recapture the magic of that bygone television era when children sang songs about their feelings with celebrity guests on funky outdoor sets....

‘Little Voice’ Trailer: A New Apple TV+ Series From J.J. Abrams and Sara Bareilles By Chris Evangelista/June 24, 2020 3:00 pm EST J.J. Abrams and Sara Bareilles may not seem like a likely creative combination, but that’s exactly what’s happened with Little Voice. The upcoming Apple TV+ series hails from Abrams, Bareilles, and Jessie Nelson, and is described as “a love letter to the diverse musicality of New York” featuring original music from Sara Bareilles....

‘Narcos’ Will Be Available To Stream For Free Outside Of Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 12, 2020 1:00 pm EST What would be the equivalent of syndication for Netflix, a streaming service with thousands of original titles that are exclusive to its platform? For at least one Netflix series, Narcos, it will be its free streaming debut on Pluto TV, a free streaming television service that has managed to get the streaming rights to the critically acclaimed Netflix crime drama....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Swings Onto Home Video This Month; Watch A Clip From The Bonus Features By Ben Pearson/Sept. 3, 2019 5:00 pm EST Because of the well-publicized falling out between Disney and Sony, it appears that Spider-Man: Far From Home might mark the final time Tom Holland’s Spider-Man makes an appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. An extended cut of the film is back in theaters now, but for those who don’t want to make the trek to a theater to check it out, the Spidey sequel is swinging onto home video later this month with plenty of bonus features in tow....