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Universal Studios Announces New Epic Universe Theme Park Coming To Florida By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2019 8:01 am EST Rumors swirled of a new theme park being created by Universal Studios down in Orlando, Florida back in 2015, and today finally brought the official announcement of an all-new park called Epic Universe that will be built in Orange County. It will be the first theme park built from the ground up in Florida since Universal’s Islands of Adventure arrived in 1999....

Water Cooler: Halloween, Mank, Haunters, Seduced: Inside The NXIVM Cult, Almost Famous, Sabotage, Back To The Future Part II, Crimson Peak, On The Rocks, Notorious By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2020 2:30 pm EST On the November 2, 2020 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....

We’re Being Threatened With Three More ‘Has Fallen’ Movies (And TV Spin-Offs, Too) By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2019 12:45 pm EST Even though most sane individuals can agree that the Has Fallen franchise, starring Gerard Butler as a murderous secret service agent, has run its course, we’re probably not done with it yet. Producer Alan Siegel is threatening us all with possible three more Has Fallen movies, and also local-language TV spin-offs that could tie into the future films....

You Need To Watch ‘Rebecca’ Before Seeing Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ By Kalyn Corrigan/Nov. 21, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Knives In, a series about the movies to watch before Rian Johnson’s Knives Out arrives in theaters.)Put on your murder-solving hat, because /Film has given me jurisdiction to dive deep into one film a day in preparation for the release of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, which hits theaters next week....

‘At-Home Variety Show’ Will Bring Star-Studded Performances To The Peacock Streaming Service, With Seth MacFarlane Hosting By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 12, 2020 5:30 pm EST At a time when variety and talk shows have started to dry up, Peacock is flying in to the rescue. NBC’s streaming service announced The At Home Variety Show, a short-form comedy series hosted by Seth MacFarlane and featuring a star-studded line-up of NBCUniversal stars that will aid coronavirus (COVID-19) relief efforts....

‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’ Is Like A Sci-Fi Twist On ‘A Christmas Carol,’ With Bill And Ted Visiting Alternate Versions Of Themselves [Comic-Con 2020] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 25, 2020 4:43 pm EST It took more than a few supernatural forces to bring Bill and Ted back to our screens. Nearly 30 years after Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the third Bill and Ted film will reunite Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as everyone’s favorite bodacious dudes....

‘Black Widow’ Is On Course For Theaters, ‘Black Panther 2’ Won’t Feature A CGI Chadwick Boseman, Kevin Feige Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 11, 2021 9:30 am EST The Marvel Studios schedule was shaken up in a major way when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit, forcing theatrical releases like Black Widow into the next year, and reshuffling the release dates of highly anticipated Disney+ series like WandaVision, Loki, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier....

‘Charm City Kings’ Trailer: A Kid Named Mouse Just Wants To Cruise Through The Streets Of Baltimore By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 9, 2020 3:00 pm EST The size of your dreams can often depend on where you grow up. Since 14-year old Mouse (Jahi Di’Allo Winston) lives in the tough streets of Baltimore in the Sundance selected drama Charm City Kings, his options aren’t exactly plentiful. That’s why right now he only has his sights set on joining the Midnight Clique of dirt-bike riders....

By Chris Evangelista/May 28, 2019 2:00 pm EST Mass extinction has never looked so gorgeous. Over a period of 132 mind-numbing minutes, Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters lays waste to humanity with stunning tableaus colored in ghostly blues and faded golds, resulting in visual landscapes worthy of Aivazovsky’s brush. It’s a pity the world built around all that jaw-dropping monster mayhem is so damn dull. Cities are leveled, Lovecraftian monsters reign supreme, and the only thing I felt was a bad case of ennui....

‘Harriet’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Moves Mountains In A Standard Biopic [TIFF 2019] By Meredith Borders/Sept. 11, 2019 12:00 pm EST Awards and festival-season biopics generally follow a pretty strict pattern, and Kasi Lemmons’ Harriet doesn’t digress too far from that path. But the filmmaker (who debuted her feature film Eve’s Bayou at TIFF twenty-two years ago) went ahead and assured herself a success by casting Cynthia Erivo as abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, and Civil War hero Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross)....

‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Stunt Coordinator Chris O’Hara On Creating “Gung-Fu” And The Athleticism Of Jason Statham [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Nov. 10, 2019 9:00 am EST Chances are, you’ve all been watching and appreciating Chris O’Hara’s work for a long time without even realizing it. He’s been in the stunt world going back to the early ’90s and worked on Fight Club with frequent collaborator, stunt performer-turned-Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch....

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Update: Kathleen Kennedy Confirms It Won’t Be A Reboot By Ben Pearson/Feb. 3, 2020 2:30 pm EST When the still-untitled Indiana Jones 5 was officially announced, its targeted release date was July 19, 2019. Since then, Disney has pushed back its release date several times, and though we haven’t gotten an update in several months, it sounds like director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford are still on board and the project is slowly inching toward production....

‘Monster Hunter’ Will Now Hunt Monsters In Theaters On Christmas Day By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2020 4:30 pm EST Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like Milla Jovovich hunting some monsters. Monster Hunter, the latest effects-heavy team-up between Jovovich and husband Paul W.S. Anderson, will now open on Christmas Day. That puts it directly up against Wonder Woman 1984, but Wonder Woman 1984 is also debuting on HBO Max that same day, so Sony might figure this is their chance to corner big theatrical numbers for that day....

‘No Time To Die’ Delayed Again To October 2021 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2021 5:14 pm EST It’s déjà vu all over again. No Time to Die was one of the first blockbusters to be pushed back in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many thought the situation would be better by now, including MGM, who initially pushed the movie back to November 2020, only to delay it again to April 2021....

‘Ratched’ First Look: Sarah Paulson Digs Into The Origins Of The ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ Villain In Ryan Murphy’s Netflix Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 29, 2020 8:30 am EST What makes a monster? That’s what Ryan Murphy and Sarah Paulson are seeking to find out with the upcoming Netflix series Ratched. Murphy’s prequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest stars Paulson as a younger Nurse Ratched, chronicling how she came to be one of cinema’s most notorious villains....

‘Resident Evil’ 4K Box Set Arriving In November By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 6, 2020 5:30 pm EST The entire Resident Evil film series is getting a fancy 4K Blu-ray box set, and frankly, I’m excited. Are these movies good? I mean…no, not really. But they’re immensely entertaining, and sometimes, that’s enough. The Resident Evil box set will include all six films along with hours of bonus features, and an extended cut of Resident Evil: Apocalypse....

‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Creator Mike McMahan Explains How The Show Finds Comedy Without Mocking ‘Star Trek’ By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST CBS All Access is making the most out of the final frontier with a handful of original Star Trek shows. Star Trek Discovery kicked off the latest era of the franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek: Picard brought back the beloved captain from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will spin-off characters from Discovery....

‘Terminator: Resistance’ Video Game Trailer: Rage Against The Machines This December By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 22, 2019 2:00 pm EST No need to wait for John Connor, you can take the right to Skynet yourself in Reef Entertainment’s upcoming Terminator: Resistance video game. The single first-person shooter based on the film franchise created by James Cameron, Terminator: Resistance lets you play as a brand new character who has been marked for termination....

‘The Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed’, And Gina Rodriguez Wants To Stop Them By Chris Evangelista/May 1, 2020 10:30 am EST Sometimes all you need is a memorable title to sell your project. Perfect example: Paramount just bought a comedy spec script called The Aliens Are Stealing Our Weed, and it’s hard to argue with a title like that. The story follows a pair of marijuana growers who discover that aliens are on Earth, and are – you guessed – stealing our weed....

‘The Batman’ Cast Adds Peter Sarsgaard as…Well, We Don’t Know By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 6, 2019 1:18 pm EST Thought we were done with The Batman casting? Think again. Matt Reeves has revealed that Peter Sarsgaard has joined the already stacked cast of his Batman reboot, but we don’t know who the actor playing. This is a sharp contrast to the other casting announcements from Reeves, which have all come accompanied with the character each respective actor is playing....