‘Hawkeye’ Disney+ Series Confirms Kate Bishop [Comic-Con 2019] By Jacob Hall/July 20, 2019 6:32 pm EST Marvel and Disney+ are finally going to let Jeremy Renner’s take center stage with Hawkeye, a new series that will draw on the Matt Fraction and David Aja comic series. Renner is back in the role of Hawkeye, and fan-favorite Kate Bishop will be appearing, too. But what of Pizza Dog? We’ll have to wait and see....
‘Joker’ Will Become The First R-Rated Movie To Cross $1 Billion Today By Ben Pearson/Nov. 15, 2019 1:16 pm EST That sound you hear faintly in the distance? That’s the maniacal cackling of Joker, which has become so successful in its global theatrical run that it’s passing the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office today. And this doesn’t just give the movie bragging rights of entering the billion dollar club alongside fellow superhero movies like Avengers: Endgame, The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Incredibles 2, Iron Man 3, Captain America: Civil War, Aquaman, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises....
‘Magic Camp’ Trailer: Adam DeVine Does His Best Jack Black Impression In Disney+ Comedy By Ben Pearson/Aug. 10, 2020 3:30 pm EST We first wrote about Disney’s Magic Camp movie back in 2014, when comedy legend Steve Martin had co-written the screenplay for a film which would have seen him play a man who returns to a magic-themed camp he attended as a child, this time as a counselor. But unfortunately, that version of the movie disappeared in a puff of smoke....
By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 10, 2020 10:30 am EST Last night was a big one for director Bong Joon-ho. Not only did his film Parasite win Best International Film as many predicted, the filmmaker walked away with Oscars for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and (amazingly) Best Picture. It was the first time a foreign language film won the top prize at the Academy Awards, but the Oscar glory doesn’t stop there....
‘Professor Marston And The Wonder Women’ Review: A Funny, Sexy Superhero Origin Story [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 10, 2017 11:00 am EST All of this unfolds rather rotely, and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’s biggest flaw is how stringently it adheres to standard biopic formulas, moving from point A to point B predictably and frequently employing montages to hurry the timeline along. Yet this flaw is easily overcome by the chemistry of its three leads....
‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Trailer Introduces You To The Jangly Man By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2019 1:00 pm EST Things get jangly in this new Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trailer. The film from producer Guillermo del Toro and director André Øvredal brings the traumatizing horror stories for Young Adults to life – and from the looks of things, the movie is going to be plenty scary....
‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Runtime Shorter Than Originally Reported By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 25, 2019 1:00 pm EST It was previously reported that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker would be the longest Star Wars movie yet. Now it looks like reports of the film’s length have been slightly exaggerated. Star Wars director J.J. Abrams set the record straight, confirming that the Rise of Skywalker runtime, while still over two hours, doesn’t exceed The Last Jedi’s length....
‘Tenet’ Spoiler Review: Christopher Nolan Creates Stunning Action In A Frustrating, Muddled Movie By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 4, 2020 8:00 am EST Note: I saw Tenet at a press screening with about four other people, total. We all kept our distance from one another, and as far as I can tell, we all kept our masks on for the entire time. It was a seemingly safe situation, but I cannot in good conscience tell you you must run out to the nearest movie theater anytime soon....
‘The Boss Baby: Family Business’ Trailer: The Boss Baby Is All Grown Up, But Not For Long By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2020 9:30 am EST Just when you thought you were safe from The Boss Baby, his pudgy little arms reach out and pull you back in. A sequel to the hit, Oscar-nominated Dreamworks Animation movie is coming to theaters next spring (fingers crossed!), and the first trailer has just arrived, letting us know that whatever drugs the franchise’s writers are on must be out of this world....
‘The Multivorce’: CBS All Access Developing ‘Rick And Morty’-Style Animated Comedy From ‘Family Guy’ Producer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 28, 2020 1:00 pm EST When you’ve got a pitch like “Marriage Story mixed with Rick and Morty,” you’re bound to receive some attention, or at least a few raised eyebrows. But with the adult animation scene becoming increasingly crowded and bizarre, attention is what a new CBS All Access animated series needs....
‘The Spy’ Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Risks His Life In Netflix’s New Limited Series By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 2019 9:30 am EST Sacha Baron Cohen is best known for crafting wild characters like Borat, Brüno and Ali G, not to mention his recent string of characters from the Emmy-nominated series Who Is America? at Showtime. But over at Netflix, the comedian will be getting deadly serious in a new limited series called The Spy, telling the true story of an Israeli spy named Eli Cohen, who is actually a distant relative of the actor....
‘Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made’ Review: A Weird And Delightful Detective Movie For Kids [Sundance 2020] By Rafael Motamayor/Feb. 5, 2020 11:00 am EST The best part about an indie movie becoming a critical or commercial hit is watching what the filmmaker does next. Do they take that success and use it to helm a big-budget blockbuster? Do they follow up with another personal film? If you’re Academy Award-winning writer/director Tom McCarthy, you take the success of the hard-hitting Spotlight and make a detective noir movie for kids co-starring a 1500-pound “pet” polar bear....
‘Tinseltown’ 1920s Murder Mystery TV Series In The Works From ‘Desperate Housewives’ Writer Kevin Murphy By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 8, 2020 4:00 pm EST It seems like there’s no better time to escape to the past than now, and television is delivering by taking us back to the time of murder mysteries and Hollywood glamour with Tinseltown. A TV series based on William J Mann’s 2014 bestselling book, the Tinseltown TV series is a murder mystery drama set in 1920s Hollywood that is currently in the works from Desperate Housewives writer Kevin Murphy....
‘Tiny Toons Adventures’ Returning On HBO Max As New ‘Tiny Toons Looniversity’ Series By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 28, 2020 11:30 am EST The Animaniacs are coming back to Hulu in November, and now another beloved Warner Bros. cartoon executive produced by Steven Spielberg in the 1990s is making a comeback thanks to HBO Max and Cartoon Network.Tiny Toons Adventures followed a group of young students not entirely dissimilar from the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and the rest of the Looney Tunes as they learned how to be funny from the legendary cartoon characters themselves at Acme Looniversity....
‘WandaVision’ Will Be A “Bonkers” Show That Goes Where Marvel Films Could Not By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2019 7:30 am EST Marvel has played with many genres, from spy thrillers to heists to high school comedy, but the upcoming Disney+ series WandaVision is threatening to blow other Marvel movies out of the water with its genre-bending and general wackiness. Though we know very little about the series centering around Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany’s Vision, we have been frequently promised that this is one of the weirdest Marvel projects to come out of Phase 4....
Cool Stuff: ‘The Dark Knight’ Statue Of The Joker Features An Uncanny Likeness Of Heath Ledger By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 30, 2020 6:00 am EST The Dark Knight is considered one of the greatest superhero movies of all time, and plenty of reverence for the film comes from Heath Ledger’s brief but unforgettable screentime as the The Joker. There has been plenty of merchandise featuring Heath Ledger as the Clown Prince of Crime over the years, but we’ve never seen a collectible with such an uncanny likeness of the actor as we have on this new statue from Queen Studios....
Daily Podcast: The Best Movie Moments Of 2020 (Part 2) By Ben Pearson/Jan. 7, 2021 3:30 pm EST On the January 7, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film managing editor Jacob Hall is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to count down the best movie moments of 2020 (part two!). Opening Banter: Get ready for round two.If you’d like to avoid all discussion of Nomadland, skip from 41:05-43:40....
Disney+ Offering New Three-Year Discount Deal And Banning Netflix Ads Across Disney-Owned Networks By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 9, 2019 12:30 pm EST While Disney+ was already appealing to consumers with a pricetag of just $6.99 per month, a recent Founder’s Circle promotion was even more enticing. The offer for D23 subscribers allowed consumers to pay for three years of the service upfront for around $141, which was $69 less than what it would cost at the regular price....
Eddie Murphy Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ In December, Woody Harrelson Takes Season 45 Premiere By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2019 11:30 am EST NBC sent out a press release and and update to Twitter with the hosts already locked down for SNL: Live from your timeline, we’ve got some news. #SNL pic.twitter.com/7HrcoM8OPg — Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) August 26, 2019 The season premiere will take place on September 28 with host Woody Harrelson....
George Miller Teases Next ‘Mad Max’ And Gives His Take On Superhero Cinema By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 6, 2019 2:30 pm EST George Miller is set to start filming his next film, Three Thousand Years of Longing, with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton this coming March, but already the director is thinking about his next Max Max sequel. The sequel has been long coming since Mad Max: Fury Road transcended expectations to earn a Best Picture nomination at the 2016 Oscars....
