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Bruce Lee Box Set Coming To The Criterion Collection In July, Will Include Five Films And Loads Of Special Features By Chris Evangelista/April 13, 2020 1:30 pm EST The Criterion Collection just made a surprise announcement that’s bound to excite a lot of people: a Bruce Lee box set. Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits features five of Lee’s iconic films, and comes packed with special features – including alternate versions of the films, interviews, documentaries, and more....

Cool Stuff: New Iron Studios ‘Jurassic Park’ Statues Include The Triceratops And Dilophosaurus By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2020 6:00 am EST If you intend to have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, then you might want to think about picking up these two new Jurassic Park statues from Iron Studios. One features the deadly, poison-spewing Dilophosaurus who dispatched with the deceitful Dennis Nedry in a grisly fashion. The other is the sick Triceratops that brings about childlike wonder in both Dr....

Eddie Murphy Gets His First Emmy Ever For Hosting ‘SNL’, ‘The Last Dance’ And Ludwig Göransson Are Winners Too By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2020 11:00 am EST With the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards airing tonight on ABC, the Creative Arts Emmys wrapped up their awards ceremonies last night with the final round of winners, and there were several victors that we thought were worth celebrating. Eddie Murphy walked away with his first Emmy win ever for his celebrated stint hosting Saturday Night Live last year....

Exclusive: Alamo Drafthouse Audiences Pick The Best Films Of 2019, Rank The ‘Star Wars’ Movies, And More In A New Infographic By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 27, 2020 8:00 am EST We’re almost a full month into 2020, but the folks at the Alamo Drafthouse chain of theaters aren’t done looking back on the films of 2019. They’ve been crunching the numbers and they’ve given us an exclusive first look at what their audiences thought were they best films of 2019....

Martin Scorsese Looking To Netflix, Apple & More To Pay For ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ By Ethan Anderton/April 10, 2020 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After delivering the epic crime drama The Irishman last year and earning Netflix no less than 10 Oscar nominations, as well as a slew of other accolades, director Martin Scorsese is still having trouble finding funding for his next movie....

New ‘Last Night In Soho’ Image Features Thomasin McKenzie Looking Appropriately Afraid In Edgar Wright’s Upcoming Horror Movie By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2021 2:30 pm EST I’m very excited to see Last Night in Soho, Edgar Wright’s first straight-up horror movie (as opposed to the horror-comedies he’s made before). The movie was due out in 2020, but of course, the coronavirus got in the way. Now, Wright’s Soho is set to arrive in 2021, and there’s a new image from the film to drum up hype....

No Movie Theater In The U.S. Will Be Screening ‘Gemini Man’ As Director Ang Lee Intended By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 9, 2019 8:30 am EST If you were pumped to see Ang Lee’s Gemini Man in the 120 frames-per-second high frame rate 4K 3D format that director Ang Lee intended, you might want to sit down for some bad news. Not a single movie theater in America will be screening Lee’s film in that desired format....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 20, 2019 6:00 pm EST Marvel Studios’ first Asian feature film protagonist will be making his debut in the highly anticipated Shang-Chi, which is set to be directed by Short Term 12’s Destin Daniel Cretton. While little is known yet about what Shang-Chi will be about, Marvel teased some more details at its all-encompassing San Diego Comic-Con panel. Find out what we learned at about Shang-Chi at Comic-Con....

Spoiler Discussion: The Mandalorian Episode 4 “Sanctuary” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2019 12:00 pm EST On the December 2, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and Bryan Young from Star Wars Insider and the Full of Sith podcast to have a spoiler-filled discussion about The Mandalorian episode 4, titled “Sanctuary”. Opening Banter: Peter is going to be out until Friday as he will be on assignment at Disney World covering the opening of Rise of the Resistance....

Superhero Bits: Behind The VFX Of Hulk, Alex Ross Imagines Brandon Routh’s Superman Return & More By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see how Alex Ross imagined Brandon Routh as the Kingdom Come version of Superman? Could Baron Zemo bring back Hydra in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? How was Hulk created for Avengers: Endgame? Do you think the X-Men need a break before entering the MCU? Want to see some of the bloopers that happened while shooting Avengers: Endgame?...

Superhero Bits: New ‘Superman: Red Son’ Clip, How ‘DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow’ Meets ‘Supernatural’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 12, 2020 6:00 pm EST Could Nebula’s story have more to tell in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? How is the DC’s Legends of Tomorrow crossover with Supernatural explained? Which character had a bunch of fight footage cut from Avengers: Endgame? Want to see the first set photos from Shang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings?...

The 10 Funniest Performers Of The Decade By Danielle Solzman/Dec. 25, 2019 10:00 am EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) Choosing the top ten funniest performers of the 2010s was not easy. If there’s one thing to know about comedy, it’s that it is subjective. What’s funny to one person may not be funny to someone else. One thing I took into account while making this list is how reliable these performers were over the past decade....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To Pan’s Labyrinth, ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ With Lightsabers & More By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 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. In this edition, watch as visual effects artists react to Pan’s Labyrinth, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl, and more....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Bedazzled’ Is A Comedic Tour De Force From The Under-Appreciated Brendan Fraser By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 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 Movie: BedazzledWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser) is a socially repellent, over-zealous and dweeby computer company employee who is avoided by his co-workers and has absolutely zero friends....

Theme Park Bits: Disney Villains After Hours Update, Murphy Beds Down At Disney, And More By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 30, 2019 8:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: The nighttime villain experience at Walt Disney World is getting an upgrade. Watch out for the Murphy beds at Disney’s new resort. When will droids roam freely in Galaxy’s Edge? And more! At the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, people are already gearing up for the big return of Disney Villains After Hours....

VOTD: ‘Pitch Perfect’ Cast Reunites Virtually With A Barden Bellas Music Video For Charity By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2020 6:00 am EST If you thought Pitch Perfect 3 was the last time the Barden Bellas would get back together make some aca-awesome a cappella music with their mouths, think again. As the musical competition circuit announcers John Smith (John Michael Higgins) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden-Feinberger (Elizabeth Banks) so succinctly put it, “It seems that not even a quarantine could keep them from harassing us with another musical performance....

VOTD: Ross & Matt Duffer’s Definitive List Of ‘Stranger Things’ Movie References By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2019 6:00 am EST Any fan of Stranger Things can tell you that part of the show’s appeal is how it taps into the nostalgia of movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s by emulating and paying homage to them. Whether it’s from the kids referencing the movies or scenes taking visual inspiration from them, the influence of cinema from decades ago is all over the Netflix series....

By Ben Pearson/April 9, 2020 12:00 pm EST In Back to the Future Part II, there’s a subplot in which Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly travels to an alternate version of the future which is bleak and terrible. It’s easy to imagine that we’re currently living in a worse version of that timeline in the real world, but while things are pretty dire right now, there’s a small ray of light, too....

‘Black Adam’ Cast Adds ‘The Invisible Man’ Star Aldis Hodge As Hawkman By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2020 1:59 pm EST Black Adam has found its Hawkman: Aldis Hodge, seen earlier this year in The Invisible Man and soon to appear in Regina King’s excellent One Night in Miami. Hodge is in talks to join the Dwayne Johnson film for director Jaume Collet-Serra. Black Adam is a serving as a spin-off of Shazam!...

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 29, 2020 12:52 pm EST There is an explicit political connection in this movie: the film not only features the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Guiliani, but it also explores the relationship between Donald Trump and the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Evidently Vice President Mike Pence factors into the narrative as well. We’re guessing Baron Cohen was able to make these guys look pretty foolish, and that’s a driving force behind the push for this to be released by the election....