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‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Season 2 Featurette Teases Plot Twists, Guest Stars By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 15, 2020 7:30 am EST It feels like eons since What We Do in the Shadows debuted on FX last year, but the vampire mockumentary series based on Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s 2014 comedy is back from the dead. The series returns for its second season today, and in celebration, FX has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette that dives into all the juicy plot developments and star-studded cameos....

‘Young Rock’: The Rock Shares A Pitch Video For His New NBC Sitcom By Ben Pearson/Oct. 22, 2020 1:00 pm EST Dwayne Johnson hasn’t appeared in a movie since last year’s Jumanji: The Next Level. That’s through no fault of his own, of course – the pandemic has pushed back a couple of his projects which, ideally, would have been released by now. But that means that we’ve gone many months without seeing a new Rock vehicle, and diehard fans are probably wondering when they’ll be able to see his next project....

Cool Stuff: ‘Groundhog Day’ Is Getting The Funko POP Treatment, Including A New Board Game By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2020 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Okay campers, rise and shine! And don’t forget your booties ‘cause it’s cold out there. Well, at least it’s starting to get cold out there as we head into the holiday season, and if you’ve got someone in your family whose a big Groundhog Day fan, then Funko POP has a couple new items that you might want to pick up....

Cool Stuff: Grey Matter Art Honors Iconic Marvel Comic Covers With 80th Anniversary Posters By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 2019 2:00 pm EST Marvel Comics is celebrating their 80th anniversary this year, and to help pay tribute to the long history of superheroes over eight decades, Grey Matter Art is releasing three new posters commemorating three of the most famous covers of all-time, each featuring the comic debut of Spider-Man, the X-Men and Wolverine....

Daily Podcast: Todd Phillips & Joaquin Phoenix Talk ‘Joker’, Also: Funko, Jurassic World, Infinity Saga By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2019 12:15 pm EST On the September 16, 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 Funko movie, Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow, and The Infinity Saga. In Our Feature Presentation, we talk with Joker director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix....

HBO Max Has More Than Four Million Subscribers One Month After Launch, AT&T Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2020 9:30 am EST AT&T CEO John Stankey told analysts during the company’s latest earnings call that HBO and HBO Max accumulated a combined 36.3 million subscribers by the end of June, The Verge reports. The company didn’t immediately disclose the number of HBO Max subscribers, but Stankey continued that roughly three million retail customers, and an additional million activations through AT&T platforms (AKA bundled plans) brought the HBO Max subscriber count to four million....

Monty Python Co-Founder And Comedy Legend Terry Jones Dead At 77 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 22, 2020 7:31 am EST Another comedy legend has passed. Terry Jones, a founding member of the Monty Python troupe and a renowned comedian, screenwriter, filmmaker, poet, historian, and author, has died at age 77. Terry Jones died Tuesday evening in his North London home, his agent confirmed to the BBC. The poet and former Python had been suffering from dementia, which had been publicly revealed by his son, Bill, in September 2016, rendering him unable to speak....

Nightstream Online Horror Film Festival Announces Films And Special Events By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2020 9:30 am EST Nightstream, the online horror festival that brings together Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights, has announced its film lineup as well as its special events. The fest will serve as the world premiere of Run, starring Sarah Paulson. The four-day festival includes a line-up of feature films selected by all five festival programming teams, alongside eighteen distinct short blocks and an impressive slate of events, panels, and masterclasses, including conversations with filmmakers Nia DaCosta on Candyman and Mary Harron for the 20th anniversary of American Psycho, as well as Beck/Woods, the screenwriting team behind A Quiet Place....

Peacock Announces New Comedies From Tina Fey And Mike Schur, Sets Late-Night Show Block By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 10, 2020 1:00 pm EST Peacock is fluffing up its feathers and building its slate of originals with new comedies from 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and The Good Place creator Mike Schur. The new comedies, alongside the new MacGruber series with Will Forte and two “late-night” shows headlined by Amber Ruffin and Larry Wilmore, are part of Peacock’s slate of projects designed to boost the new platform’s presence in the streaming wars....

Regal Cinemas Reopening On July 10; Will Require Guests To Wear Masks [Updated] By Ben Pearson/June 19, 2020 1:00 pm EST Update: After AMC Theatres reversed course regarding patrons wearing masks, Regal Cinemas has also announced that it will require guests to wear masks when its theaters reopen next month. “As related to our employees, guests will also be required to wear masks,” they said in a statement. “Disposable masks will be made available as needed....

Star Wars Bits: Ashley Eckstein’s New Book, Sam Witwer Discusses Maul, Dave Filoni Explains Duel Of The Fates, John Boyega Talks Force-Sensitive Finn, And More! By Adam Frazier/May 15, 2020 4:00 pm EST I Am a Padawan Over at StarWars.com, Amy Richau has an excellent interview with Eckstein her talks about writing the book and what the character means to her. You can order your own copy of I Am a Padawan now, and be sure to also check out Dan Brooks’ interview with the book’s artist, Shane Clester....

The Live-Action ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Takes The Lead In This Past Weekend’s Pandemic Box Office By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2020 5:30 pm EST It’s a tale as old as time: re-release Beauty and the Beast in theaters, and it will take the top spot. But this time, it’s the live-action Beauty and the Beast, and the theaters are a handful of drive-ins and local cinemas that are still open during pandemic times....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Itaewon Class’ Is An Addicting Revenge Drama Dressed Up In Boardroom Politics By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 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 Series: Itaewon ClassWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: A Count of Monte Cristo revenge drama meets the boardroom politics of Succession in the K-drama Itaewon Class, which follows an ex-con who seeks to take down the biggest restaurant corporation in Korea, after the family running it put him away in prison....

Theme Park Bits: Updates On Coronavirus At Disney Resorts, Mickey And Minnie’s Runaway Railway, And More By Josh Spiegel/March 7, 2020 11:00 am EST In much happier news, but still related to Disney, Downtown Disney in Anaheim has regained one of its longer-lasting locations. What was once known as Jamba Juice, the place to get smoothies, shakes, and bowls, is now…Jamba, a place to get…smoothies, shakes, and bowls. Re-branding aside, most of the same menu items are still available at Jamba, which is still in its previous location....

Why Doug Liman Dropped Out Of ‘Justice League: Dark’ And ‘Gambit’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 20, 2019 10:00 am EST Doug Liman has been attached to a couple comic book properties over the years, neither of which made their way beyond the planning stages. First there was 20th Century Fox’s embattled X-Men spin-off Gambit, which Liman left before shortly boarding and departing Warner Bros.’ Justice League Dark. But it’s not because the Edge of Tomorrow director is trying to live by his acclaimed 2014 film’s mantra of “live, die, repeat” in his career....

‘Altered Carbon: Resleeved’ Trailer: Netflix Loves Their CG-Animated Anime Spin-Offs By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 10, 2020 5:00 pm EST Netflix seems to have a fixation — nay, an addiction — to CG-animated animes. And I’m begging you, please stop. We tolerated it for The Dragon Prince, which delivered a captivating story despite its unusual animation style, and we suffered through the Godzilla animes. We’re ignoring the Pokémon movie remake. But now Netflix is giving Altered Carbon, a sci-fi series based on the novel by Richard K....

‘Doctor Who’ Could Lose Two Companions At This Year’s Holiday Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 4, 2020 11:30 am EST Team TARDIS might be going down two members this holiday season. According to a new report, Doctor Who stars Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole — who have played Graham and Ryan, the traveling companions to Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor, for the past two seasons — are set to leave the series in this year’s upcoming holiday special....

‘F9’ Might Be Taking Off To Space, Ludacris Hints By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 10, 2020 10:00 am EST We’ve joked about it time and time again: what if Fast and Furious went to space? After all, the action franchise has escalated so far beyond the bounds of its gritty street racing beginnings — the latest films have basically turned them into world class superspies — so why not? Well, after eight films of NOS, bank heists, and sending cars flying out of airplanes, Fast and Furious may finally be going supersonic....

‘Fargo’ Season 4 Review: An Ambitious, Overstuffed, Ultra-Quirky Crime Saga By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 15, 2020 9:00 am EST The Coen Brothers make movies about quirky characters, but it would be nice if Noah Hawley and the team behind the Fargo TV series would remember that there’s more to those movies than the quirk. In adapting both the Fargo movie and borrowing several other beats from the Big Book of Coen, the Fargo TV series leans heavily on the quirkiness, and season 4 practically goes overboard, populating this latest installment with a collection of individuals who all behave like visitors from another planet....

‘Firestarter’ Remake Could Still Shoot This Year If Things Go Blumhouse’s Way By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2020 3:00 pm EST Firestarter, Stephen King’s 1980 novel about a young woman with pyrokinetic abilities, is getting a new film adaptation from Blumhouse. That’s not new info. What is new, though, is screenwriter Scott Teems revealing that Blumhouse is still hoping to shoot the film this year, coronavirus be damned. Speaking with MovieWeb, Teems said:...