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Blumhouse ‘Dracula’ Will Remain Faithful To Bram Stoker’s Book, According To Director Karyn Kusama By Chris Evangelista/June 9, 2020 11:00 am EST Karyn Kusama, director of Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation, and Destroyer, is set to raise Dracula from his moldy tomb for Blumhouse, and that’s worth getting excited about. Sure, there are countless film takes on Bram Stoker’s bloodsucking count, but Kusama is such a unique, exciting director to tackle this material....

Cool Stuff: Enormous ‘Star Wars’ LEGO Star Destroyer Is Nearly Four-Feet Long, Has Over 4,700 Pieces By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 5, 2019 3:00 pm EST There’s a new Star Wars LEGO Star Destroyer coming to shelves next month. Actually, it might be the only thing that fits on a given shelf since it measures a whopping 43 inches long and is made up of 4,784 pieces. There will be no one to stop the Empire this time....

HBO’s ‘The Last Of Us’ TV Show Hires Composer Gustavo Santaolalla, Who Created The Video Game’s Score By Ben Pearson/March 12, 2020 1:30 pm EST Composer Gustavo Santaolalla, who won back-to-back Academy Awards in the mid-2000s for his scores for Brokeback Mountain and Babel, made his first foray into composing scores for video games with 2013’s The Last of Us. That game, which is widely considered among the best of all time, is now being adapted into an HBO television show, and Santaolalla will be bringing his talents back into the TV world to tackle the show’s score....

New ‘Star Wars’ Comic May Reveal More About Luke’s Lost Lightsaber After ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2019 2:30 pm EST In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the lightsaber handed down to Luke Skywalker by Obi-Wan Kenobi from his former apprentice Anakin Skywalker makes a surprising appearance. But many fans were wondering just how it came to be in the hands of Maz Kanata when Rey stumbles upon it in the basement of her castle....

Revisiting ‘Bedknobs And Broomsticks’, Disney’s Odd Attempt To Recapture That ‘Mary Poppins’ Magic By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 20, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Perhaps the most quintessential film in the Walt Disney Pictures canon is Mary Poppins. You know the music, whether you like it or not. Mary Poppins turned its eponymous lead, Julie Andrews, into a legitimate, out-and-out worldwide star, garnering her a well-deserved Academy Award....

Revisiting ‘The Liberty Story’, Disney’s Patriotic And Problematic Tribute To An America That Never Was By Josh Spiegel/June 26, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)One of the most important things you have to know about Walt Disney is that he was a patriot. Every word of that sentence is true, and in different ways....

The Knights Of Ren Apparently Have Names, And One Of Them Is Trudgen (Don’t Laugh) By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 13, 2019 4:00 pm EST Fans have demanded to see more of the Knights of Ren in the new Star Wars trilogy, and they’re finally getting their wish with The Rise of Skywalker. Kylo Ren’s old buddies are back, and they all look like goofy steampunk hockey goalies. The characters are still shrouded in secrecy, so much so that we don’t even know their names....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘A Wilderness Of Error’ Tries To Solve A Mystery That Might Have Already Been Solved By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 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 TV Series: A Wilderness of Error Where You Can Stream It: FX on HuluThe Pitch: A docu-series based on the book by award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris that explores the story of Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald, who was convicted of murdering his entire family....

This Week In Trailers: Mister America, Baxu And The Giants, Only You, The Sound Of Silence, Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 7, 2019 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Watch: Stephen Colbert Stars In A ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Spin-Off About Aragorn’s Twin Brother By Ben Pearson/Nov. 23, 2019 10:00 am EST Talk show host Stephen Colbert is well-established as one of the world’s preeminent scholars of the works of author J.R.R. Tolkien (well, at least in the pop culture realm). He reads Tolkien’s Elvish language, has interviewed Smaug, and is such a big fan that he even scored an extremely brief role in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as “Laketown spy....

Watch An Exclusive ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Clip From The New Digital Release By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2019 2:00 pm EST Rambo: Last Blood, Sylvester Stallone’s (allegedly) last outing as his iconic one-man army character, hits digital today. To coincide with the release, we’re debuting an exclusive Rambo: Last Blood clip highlighting the movie’s score, which comes from composer Brian Tyler, and incorporates elements of Jerry Goldsmith’s music from the first three Rambo movies....

Watercooler: The Half Of It, Never Have I Ever, Pirates Of The Caribbean, High And Low, Bloodshot, Den Of Thieves, Clone Wars, Wild Cards By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the May 8, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

Why ‘Doctor Sleep’ Director Mike Flanagan Set Out To Make A Sequel To ‘The Shining’ [Set Visit] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 5, 2019 10:30 am EST Doctor Sleep matters because The Shining matters. Whether you love the original Stephen King novel or the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation (Or both! It’s possible!), the story of the cursed Overlook Hotel looms large in our collective imaginations. When Doctor Sleep was published in 2013, it immediately leapt onto Hollywood’s radar....

Why Mike Judge Is Ending ‘Silicon Valley’ And The One Thing They Never Got To Do [Exclusive] By Fred Topel/July 25, 2019 10:30 am EST Silicon Valley was the first live-action show Mike Judge created, and it’s been a winner. Applying Judge’s brand of satire to the tech startup world has fueled five seasons of comedy. The upcoming sixth season of Silicon Valley will be its final season and wrap up the story of the Pied Piper gang....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 3, 2020 11:30 am EST Disney is rolling back plans to release a 4K edition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in U.K. theaters. The company announced three weeks ago that it would re-release the remastered 4K edition of the acclaimed Star Wars film to help boost attendance at U.K. theaters. But amid delays of major releases and theaters pushing back their reopening plans, Disney has scrapped those plans....

‘Killer Inside: The Mind Of Aaron Hernandez’ Trailer: Netflix Docuseries Chronicles The Fall Of The Convicted Athlete By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 22, 2019 11:00 am EST Netflix has released the trailer for its newest true-crime docuseries Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez. Directed by Geno McDermott, Killer Inside chronicles the fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, who in 2015 was convicted of murder, two years before he was found dead in his cell by suicide....

‘Shelly’, A Comedy About An Assassin Befriending Her High School Bully, Will Star Awkwafina And Karen Gillan By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 3, 2020 3:30 pm EST This sounds fun! And I like both Awkwafina and Gillan, so I think this whole endeavor has a lot of potential. It also has some Grosse Pointe Blank vibes, what with the assassin/high school element. That’s not a complaint – Grosse Pointe Blank rules. Let’s all watch it together sometime, okay?...

‘Small Axe’ Trailer: Steve McQueen’s Anthology Series Invites You To Sing The Song Of Revolution By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 9, 2020 1:00 pm EST Small Axe Trailer In my review for Mangrove, the first of McQueen’s feature films in his Small Axe anthology, I wondered whether the proper way to portray Black pain was to counterbalance it with Black joy. The latest trailer for Small Axe seems to answer this, focusing on the joy that can be found within London’s embattled West Indian community in the films of the Small Axe anthology, named after the Jamaican proverb, “If you are a big tree, we are the small axe....

‘Tenet’ Blu-Ray, 4K And Digital Release Set For December By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 5, 2020 11:00 am EST If you missed Tenet in theaters due to obvious reasons, here’s good news: Christopher Nolan’s latest action epic is headed to 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital in December, just in time for the holidays. The home media release is, unfortunately, lacking in special features. But on the plus side, you’ll be able to turn the subtitles on and figure out what the hell everyone in this movie is mumbling about....

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Review Round-Up: Yep, It’s The Third-Best ‘Terminator’ Movie By Ben Pearson/Oct. 22, 2019 4:35 pm EST Just a few days after the social media embargo lifted on Terminator: Dark Fate, the new sci-fi sequel from director Tim Miller, the full review embargo has now also lifted. In the early reactions, one thing was repeated again and again: Dark Fate is the best movie in this franchise since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day....