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‘Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge’ Trailer Reveals Gameplay Footage As Frank Oz Joins The Cast As Yoda By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2020 7:30 am EST Star Wars: Tales from Galaxy’s Edge, the new immersive VR experience from Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB, is coming to Oculus Quest platforms this fall. Now, new trailer finally reveals some gameplay footage from the new adventure that unfolds on Batuu, the canonical planet from the Star Wars-themed Disney theme park expansion....

‘Star Wars’ Voice Actor Tom Kane Mostly Unable To Speak After Suffering A Stroke In November By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 31, 2020 2:00 pm EST Unless you’re a hardcore animation fan, you probably don’t know the name Tom Kane, but there’s a very good chance you’ve heard his voice sometime over the past 25 years. Tom Kane is probably best known for voicing Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and various other Star Wars animated TV shows and video games....

‘The Bridgewater Triangle’ Series Coming From ‘Legion’ Creator Noah Hawley By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 23, 2019 3:30 pm EST Noah Hawley has yet another series coming to FX. The Fargo and Legion creator will produce The Bridgewater Triangle for the network, based on a short story by Brian Miller. The story is inspired by a real area in southeastern Massachusetts said to be a hot spot of paranormal phenomena. The series is being described as “an apocalyptic horror thriller....

‘The Old Guard’ Honest Trailer: This Is Just Poor Immortal Time Management By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 2020 6:00 am EST Netflix is back with another forgettable action movie starring A-list talent whose soul purpose seem to be to burn through money in what might be the biggest money laundering scheme of all time. Either that, or Netflix is just throwing anything and everything at the wall and seeing what sticks....

‘The One And Only Ivan’ Trailer: There’s Some Disney Magic In This Story Of A Gorilla In Captivity By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2020 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Along with remaking all of their animated classics into live-action spectacles, Disney has also been leaning into using photorealistic computer generated animals to lead their stories. From Lady and the Tramp to The Lion King, the animation studio is bringing very convincing digital animals to the screen, for better or worse....

Daily Podcast: Justice League Reshoots, Nick Fury, M. Night Shyamalan, Black Adam, And More By Ben Pearson/Sept. 28, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the September 28, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and TV news, including Zack Snyder’s Justice League reshoots, M. Night Shyamalan’s next film, The Knick season 3, Marvel’s Nick Fury show, Avatar 2, and Black Adam....

David Fincher’s ‘Mank’ Slated To Arrive On Netflix In October By Ethan Anderton/June 12, 2020 11:00 am EST This year will go down as one of the weirdest and messiest in Hollywood’s history. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the release of some of the biggest movies of the year have been pushed back to late 2020 or even the summer of 2021, and it remains to be seen how The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will handle the annual Academy Awards....

New ‘Snowpiercer’ Trailer Makes One Last Attempt To Get You On Board The Crazy Train By Ethan Anderton/May 6, 2020 10:00 am EST The long-delayed Snowpiercer series is finally arriving at TNT this month, and one final trailer has arrived for the show inspired by Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 adaptation of Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette’s graphic novel Le Transperceneige. Snowpiercer stars Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) as passengers on a train that runs in perpetual motion around a world that has become a frozen wasteland....

Stephen King Has Idea For ‘Friday The 13th’ Novel Told From Jason Voorhees’ POV By Chris Evangelista/June 19, 2020 1:00 pm EST Stephen King is always working on something. The prolific master of horror seems to churn out a book every few months, firing away at one tale of terror after the next, with no signs of slowing down. King is such an institution that he can probably get literally anything published at this point, even a grocery list....

The ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Gag Reel Is Mostly Will Smith Goofing Around By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 2, 2020 5:30 pm EST Will Smith is a charming dude, and he knows it. And Sony Pictures knows it, making Smith the central star of the Bad Boys For Life gag reel that it just dropped to celebrate the action-comedy’s release on digital platforms. Watch the Bad Boys For Life gag reel below....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Almost Famous’ Makes You Want To Be Uncool By Ben Pearson/Nov. 3, 2020 7:00 am EST Blending his own memories with some fictionalized flourishes, Crowe manages to recreate an insular world which feels totally authentic – a subculture most are never privy to, but one that’s endlessly fascinating to explore. Penny Lane (the Oscar-nominated Kate Hudson) and the Band-Aids serve as a subculture within that subculture, providing yet another layer of relationship dynamics for the 15-year-old William to observe and sift through....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 18, 2019 5:00 pm EST Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink, and you’re dead. At least, you’ll be dead in the video game Doctor Who: The Edge of Time, the upcoming virtual-reality game based on the long-running BBC sci-fi series. And okay, you can probably blink (there isn’t a VR technology quite advanced enough to detect blinking yet), but you will still have to follow the Doctor’s other instructions: Don’t turn your back and don’t look away....

Will Studios Delay Films Like ‘F9’, ‘Wonder Woman 1984’, And ‘Black Widow’ Due To The Coronavirus? Here Are Their Current Plans By Ben Pearson/March 5, 2020 1:30 pm EST With the coronavirus (aka COVID-19) continuing to spread around the world, the film industry is bracing for whiplash: after a record-breaking year at the box office in 2019, some analysts are predicting the virus could result in at least a $5 billion loss in 2020....

‘Agent King’ Animated Series Turns Elvis Presley Into A Government Spy With A Jetpack By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2019 12:30 pm EST The cult favorite movie Bubba Ho-Tep already gave us quite the wild portrayal of Elvis Presley as he spent his days in a nursing home and eventually teamed up with a man claiming to be John F. Kennedy in order to stop a re-animated ancient Egyptian mummy. But now, as Graceland’s Elvis Week comes to an end, we’ve learned that the beloved entertainer is getting animated and turned into a government spy, thanks to a new animated action comedy series in the works from Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation....

‘I’m No Longer Here’ Trailer: Mexican Teen Drama Brings Cumbia Culture To Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 16, 2020 12:00 pm EST Netflix has done a fantastic job of boosting international film festival darlings, even if they get buried underneath the sea of content that the streaming giant churns out every day. Netflix’s latest festival acquisition is the Mexican teen drama I’m No Longer Here, from writer/director Fernando Frías de la Parra, who recently came off the success of the first season of HBO’s Los Espookys....

‘Into The Unknown: Making Frozen 2’ Added Even More Pressure To Creating A Hit Disney Sequel By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2020 7:30 am EST Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2, a six-part documentary series about the final year of production on the hit animated sequel, arrives today on Disney+. As you can read in our review, the series provides one of the most in-depth looks behind the scenes of making a feature length animated movie....

‘Jojo Rabbit’ Might Not Have Been Made If Taika Waititi Said No To Playing Hitler By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2019 4:00 pm EST I loved Jojo Rabbit when I saw it at TIFF, but some critics seem altogether mixed on Taika Waititi’s “anti-hate satire.” I get it – the movie is dealing with tricky subject matter, and the tone – which is a mix of comedy and melancholy – isn’t going to work for everyone....

‘Paranormal Activity 7’ Brings Back Writer Christopher Landon By Chris Evangelista/March 2, 2020 2:00 pm EST Christopher Landon, who wrote Paranormal Activity 2 through 5 (and directed 5, too) is returning to the franchise for the new film – the seventh in the series. Not much is known about Paranormal Activity 7, but it’s safe to assume the movie will involve found-footage and also things going bump in the night. It’s currently slated for a March 19, 2021 release date....

‘Scream 5’ – Which Is Just Titled ‘Scream’ – Has Wrapped Filming And Will Hit Theaters In 2022 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 18, 2020 8:35 am EST Scream 5 is on track to hit its January 2022 release date. The upcoming sequel/reboot, which is officially and confusingly titled Scream, has officially wrapped filming after a three-month production in Wilmington, North Carolina amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Original Scream writer Kevin Williamson revealed in a tweet Wednesday that the new Scream has wrapped production, and that sequel/reboot is just titled Scream, the same as the original....

‘Steven Universe Future’ Keeps Things Real And Painful In Its Latest Episodes By Caroline Cao/March 13, 2020 2:00 pm EST “Together Forever” and “Growing Pains” are the most heart-stopping pair of episodes yet of Steven Universe Future. “Together Forever” begins mundanely as usual, with the eponymous Steven (Zach Callison) skyping with his human companion Connie (Grace Rolek) and discussing her college plans. He’s saddened to realize Connie will be so far away once she leaves....