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Digital Movie & TV Provider UltraViolet Is Dead After July 31, Here’s How To Save Your Movies By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2019 11:00 am EST Here’s what the official UltraViolet website has to say about the shutdown (which was announced January this year): If you have an UltraViolet Library, you will be receiving direct updates from us as additional information becomes available.You are also likely to receive information directly from the retailer(s) you use to access your movies and TV shows....

Disney+ Will Release Weekly Episodes Of Its Streaming Shows Instead Of Using The Binge Model By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2019 11:34 am EST Disney+ is positioning itself as a major competitor to Netflix, but one question we’ve had for months is how the new streaming service will make its episodes available for consumption. Will they copy the Netflix model, releasing entire seasons at once for maximum bingeability? Or will they choose a method more akin to something like Hulu, where only one episode of a series is released per week?...

Dracula-Inspired Horror Series ‘Brides’ Coming From ‘Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina’ Creator [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 9, 2020 9:30 am EST ABC announced a new vampire series from creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Berlanti Productions. Described as an adaptation of Dracula, The Brides will focus on a trio of vampire women. Aguirre-Sacasa has horror experience with his Netflix adaptation of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke confirmed that Dracula will be a character on the show, but will not be the focus....

HBO Responds To ‘Game Of Thrones’ Fan Petition, Offers Update On Prequel Pilot [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/July 24, 2019 4:00 pm EST HBO is between Game of Thrones this Television Critics Association press tour. After many years of answering questions about the upcoming season of Game of Thrones, or the ending, this summer finds HBO taking a breather after their landmark series has wrapped, although they are developing a prequel....

Jason Momoa To Voice Frosty The Snowman In A Live-Action Movie (Yes, Really) By Ben Pearson/July 1, 2020 12:00 pm EST I hope you’re ready to celebrate Christmas in July, because we’ve all just received one of the best movie news gifts of the year: none other than Jason Momoa (Aquaman) will be lending his voice to the character of Frosty the Snowman in a brand new movie. And this won’t be an animated movie, like the 1969 Rankin & Bass classic....

Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon Among The Star-Studded Presenters At The 2020 Golden Globes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 3, 2020 4:30 pm EST Awards season is heating up and this weekend the Golden Globes will kick it into high gear with a glitzy, buzzy (and hopefully slightly buzzed) ceremony. The 2020 Golden Globe presenters have been announced, and the line-up is as star-studded as you’d expect, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Tiffany Haddish among the glamorous stars set to present at the ceremony....

Netflix Claims The Launch Of Disney+ Changes Nothing For Them By Ben Pearson/Nov. 14, 2019 3:00 pm EST Netflix wants you to know that they are not concerned about the launch of Disney+, a service that will quickly become one of their biggest competitors. Speaking at the Paley International Council Summit in New York today, Netflix chief creative officer Ted Sarandos was asked what has changed at Netflix in the wake of Disney+’s release earlier this week, and he responded, “I don’t mean to say this [as] anything but the truth, which is — nothing, really....

New ‘Jackass’ Movie Hopping In A Shopping Cart And Crashing Into Theaters In 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2019 9:30 am EST Remember Jackass? The nihilistic show (and later movies) that featured a bunch of young guys torturing themselves, and each other, for our viewing pleasure? Well, it’s back. Don’t ask why, it just is. Details are non-existant at this point. We don’t even know if the original surviving Jackasses will be returning to subject themselves to all sorts of R-rated pain....

Noah Baumbach To Adapt Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’, Starring Greta Gerwig And Adam Driver By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 14, 2021 1:00 pm EST According to a Production Weekly listing (via Jason Osia on Twitter), Baumbach is set to direct a feature film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s acclaimed 1985 novel White Noise. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, reuniting with the director after two previous collaborations on Frances Ha and The Meyerowitz Stories, are set to star in the drama produced by Netflix....

Peacock Is Expanding Its Kids Shows With ‘Trollstopia’, ‘The Mighty Ones’, ‘Cleopatra In Space’, ‘Where’s Waldo?’, And More By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2020 9:00 am EST Peacock, one of the ten zillion different streaming services we have on our hands these days, is expanding its youth-oriented programming with new shows, new episodes, and free candy that flies out of the TV! I made that last one up, but the rest of the sentence is true....

Spoiler Discussion: The Mandalorian Chapter 15 “The Believer” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 11, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the December 11, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and special guest Bryan Young (from Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com and Full of Sith podcast) for a spoiler-filled conversation about the seventh episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian season two, entitled “The Believer”. Opening Banter: Peter is recording from a different location this week so he may sound a lot different....

Taylor Swift And Andrew Lloyd Webber Set Sights On The Oscars With A ‘Cats’ Original Song By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 25, 2019 8:30 am EST Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber put their paws together to compose an original song for Cats, Tom Hooper’s mystifying adaptation of Webber’s Tony-winning stage musical. The pop singer and the legendary musical composer collaborated to compose an original song called “Beautiful Ghost” in a clear bid to earn the film an Oscar nomination....

The 80 Greatest Shots In Disney Animation History [Part Seven] By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 18, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Greatest Shots in Disney Animation History, a limited series where Disney expert Josh Spiegel selects and ranks the defining moments in one of the greatest, most important, and most influential collections of films ever made.) This part of the ongoing list covers entries 20 through 11. Fantasia 2000: The opening shot of “Rhapsody in Blue” The best sequence of Fantasia 2000 is, hands down, the “Rhapsody in Blue” sequence directed by Disney animator Eric Goldberg....

The Morning Watch: Character Creation Secrets Of ‘Rick And Morty’, ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ Live Commentary & More By Ethan Anderton/May 1, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Terrace House’ Is The Voyeuristic Escapism We Need Right Now By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 14, 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: Terrace HouseWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Three men and three women from different walks of life move into a plush minimalist house together in Japan....

The Return Of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Is A Bit Rough With Chris Rock And Plenty Of Coronavirus Sketches By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2020 10:00 am EST Saturday Night Live made its triumphant return to Studio 8H, complete with a live audience tested for COVID-19 and socially distanced for safety, including a floor crowd full of first responders. Unfortunately, the return of SNL was a little bit rough, perhaps shaken up by the new normal of producing the show with enhanced safety protocols....

Toronto International Film Festival Refuses To Postpone, Considering Digital Options By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2020 11:30 am EST In a normal year, the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off in September. But 2020 is not a normal year by any stretch of the imagination, and TIFF is now facing a big decision. Due to the coronavirus, many of this year’s film festivals have already been canceled, or at the very least delayed....

Weekend Box Office: No One Can Defeat ‘Joker’, Not Even ‘The Addams Family’ Or ‘Gemini Man’ (But Hey, How About That ‘Parasite’!) By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 14, 2019 2:30 pm EST The weekend box office returns are in, and once again, Joker reigns supreme. The Todd Phillips movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as a crazy killer clown who loves to dance ended up at the top of the box office for the second week in a row....

‘76 Days’ Review: This Documentary About The Early Days Of COVID-19 Is The Most Frightening Movie Of The Year [TIFF 2020] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 17, 2020 9:00 am EST Forget anything in the genre-centric Midnight Madness slate: the documentary 76 Days is the horror film of TIFF 2020. Tracing the COVID-19 outbreak in a Wuhan medical facility for the duration of that city’s lockdown, it manages in a concise and remarkable way to illustrate not only the ravages of this new virus but how its effects continue to resonate no matter the political forces looking to downplay its risks....

By Ben Pearson/Feb. 12, 2020 2:30 pm EST The old-fashioned murder mystery is back in style, and Hollywood is striking while the iron is hot. 20th Century Studios is developing a remake of acclaimed mystery author Agatha Christie’s classic novel And Then There Were None, and the studio has hired the husband and wife team of Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, the writers of the Kristen Stewart drama Seberg, to write the new version....