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The Morning Watch: Special Effects Make-Up Explained, DC FanDome’s Superman Radio Show & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 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, a special effects make-up artist explains some of the techniques used on movies like The Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, Kill Bill Vol....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Raising Arizona’ Is A Delightfully Weird Metaphor For Parenting By Ben Pearson/Aug. 3, 2020 10:00 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: Raising ArizonaWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: A low-level criminal (Nicolas Cage) marries a decorated police officer (Holly Hunter), but after learning that they can’t have children the old-fashioned way, the pair decides to kidnap the infant son of a local furniture salesman and raise him as their own....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Maniac Cop’ Trilogy Was Ahead Of Its Time By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2020 10:00 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: Maniac Cop, Maniac Cop 2, Maniac Cop 3: Badge of SilenceWhere You Can Stream It: ShudderThe Pitch: An undead cop rises up from the grave and starts murdering people in New York City, sending the Big Apple into panic....

The Quarantine Stream: Robert Mitchum Terrifies In ‘The Night Of The Hunter’ By Ben Pearson/May 30, 2020 11:00 am EST I love this movie for many reasons, chief among them Mitchum’s towering, intimidating performance as the psychopath at the center of the story, but also for Stanley Cortez’s impeccable cinematography. This movie lives in shadows, and darkness seems to creep into the frame from every corner, mirroring the dangers of the outside world which the widow’s children are slowly learning exist....

Water Cooler Podcast: Catching Up With The Films Of 2020 By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2020 1:45 pm EST On the December 10, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the water cooler. Opening Banter:At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Everyone has been playing catch-up with the 2020 movie slate....

Weekend Box Office: ‘Frozen II’ Stays On Top As Disney Breaks Worldwide Box Office Record For The Year By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 9, 2019 3:30 pm EST Frozen II remains number one at the box office, and could end up staying there until next weekend…at which point Disney’s Rise of Skywalker will take over. Congrats, Disney! You’ve finally made it! In other weekend box office news, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out settled in at number 2, Ford v Ferrari held at number 3, and Queen & Slim took fourth place....

‘Bojack Horseman’ Is Ending Because Of Netflix, But The Creator Isn’t Mad About It By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2019 10:30 am EST The Netflix animated series Bojack Horseman is coming to an end with the show’s sixth season. The first eight episodes of the final season just dropped on October 25 (solidifying its place as one of the best animated shows ever), and the second half of the season will arrive sometime in 2020....

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Starts Production With A Behind-The-Scenes Look And A Very Good Dog By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 7, 2019 9:30 am EST You can’t have Cowboy Bebop without the classic anime’s very good corgi, and the Netflix remake is bringing Ein to the forefront in its first behind-the-scenes look at the production. The western sci-fi series begins filming today, and Netflix celebrated the occasion with a special corgi-cam video of the behind-the-scenes production....

‘Don’t Look Up’ Cast Adds Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande And Many More Alongside Jennifer Lawrence By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 14, 2020 1:30 pm EST How’s this for a cast? Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Himesh Patel, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Matthew Perry, Rob Morgan, and Tomer Sisley. They’re all on board Don’t Look Up, a Netflix comedy from Adam McKay. Lawrence was already locked down for the project, and Blacnehtt and Morgan were previously announced as joining the cast....

‘Frozen 2’ Early Buzz: Not As Good As The First, But The Dazzling Visuals And Great Songs Make Up For It By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 8, 2019 7:30 am EST Disney heads into the unknown with Frozen II, its first theatrical sequel to one of its biggest hits. Before Frozen II, most of the beloved Disney animated movies would receive at least one direct-to-video sequel or maybe a TV spin-off. But the incredible success of 2013’s Frozen almost necessitated a sequel that could once again tap into Elsa-mania with the help of brand new songs by Oscar-winning songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and the return of Idina Menzel’s soaring vocals....

‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ Season 2 Trailer: The Campers Must Evolve Or Die By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 15, 2020 4:30 pm EST The animated Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous adventures continue with an all-new season, arriving in January. The DreamWorks Animation/Netflix series follows a bunch of kids dealing with dino-mayhem all over Island Nublar, and season 2 has them stranded on the now-abandoned island. That would be bad enough as it is, but of course, there are all sorts of hungry dinosaurs on this particular island, so things are bound to get hairy....

‘Kill Switch’: Jon Hamm In Talks To Join Steven Soderbergh’s Latest By Chris Evangelista/March 4, 2020 3:30 pm EST Soderbergh briefly retired a few years ago, and by “retired” I mean he stopped making movies to film an entire TV series, The Knick. Then he came back and has been working steadily ever since, delivering quirky, weird flicks like Logan Lucky and Unsane, and two Netflix titles – High Flying Bird, which was great, and The Laundromat, which I haven’t seen, but I’ve heard is…not so great....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Season 7 Clip: Captain Rex Meets Clone Force 99 By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2020 10:30 am EST The seventh and final season premiere of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars arrives this Friday, and Disney+ is kicking things off with a bang by introducing a skilled and deadly new group of Clone Troopers called The Bad Batch. The “defective” experimental squad has some mutations that make them stand out from the rest of the troopers, and Captain Rex is a little leery about their tactics when he meets them in a newly released Clone Wars season 7 clip....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Season 7 Premiere Date Revealed By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2020 11:00 am EST A new year means a whole bunch of new content will be coming to Disney+ in 2020. While Star Wars fans will be waiting until this fall to get new episodes of the hit new series The Mandalorian, they’ll get something else to whet their appetite in the meantime, something they’ve been waiting a long time to see....

‘The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever’: ‘A Quiet Place’ Producers Team Up With ‘Robopocalypse’ Author For Sci-Fi Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2020 4:00 pm EST Variety reports that A Quiet Place producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are teaming up with Daniel H. Wilson, who is best known for writing the New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse, to develop his spec script The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever into a movie for Paramount....

‘The Good Liar’ Review: Ian McKellen And Helen Mirren Bring Their A-Game To This Nasty Thriller By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 13, 2019 9:00 am EST The Good Liar is the latest entry in a slowly expanding subgenre best known as They Don’t Make Movies Like This Anymore dramas. In a time of infinite intellectual property, of franchises and sequels and reboots, The Good Liar is a small oasis in a cinematic desert where once there was more frequent life....

‘The Irishman’ Trailer: A New, Somber Look At Martin Scorsese’s Latest Masterpiece By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2019 9:30 am EST So far, the footage released for The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s crime epic starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, has played up the film’s macabre sense of humor. And it’s true: The Irishman is often very funny. But it’s also a surprisingly melancholy, somber affair – and that’s what this latest trailer is trying to convey....

Christopher Nolan Is Not Happy About WB’s New Deal With HBO Max, Which He Calls “The Worst Streaming Service” By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2020 8:00 am EST Warner Bros. Pictures sent shockwaves through Hollywood last week by announcing that they would be giving all of their 2021 theatrical releases a simultaneous streaming release on HBO Max. This includes major blockbusters like Dune, Godzilla vs Kong, The Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4, and more....

Cool Stuff: NECA Is Delivering A ‘Gremlins’ Christmas Present With Santa Claws By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 29, 2020 6:00 am EST One of the best movies to watch if you’d like a little dark comedy during your holidays is undoubtedly Gremlins. A mix of campy horror comedy, legitimately scary practical monsters, and some of that Amblin Entertainment magic make Joe Dante’s movie a true classic. Now you can bring more of that signature Gremlins holiday cheer and fear to your shelf with a new Christmas-themed action figure pack from NECA featuring a festive Santa Claus version of the monster leader Stripe and a scaled Gizmo for him to carry in his sparkly toy bag....

The Mandalorian Launches Big on Disney+ in Europe While Disney+ is just launching in India, it’s already comfortable across Europe after launching a week and a half ago. The service is now available in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spin, Switzerland, Austria and Ireland, and The Mandalorian is already a huge hit, based on what TV research company Parrot Analytics calls “demand expressions.” Deadline has word from Parrot Analytics that the premiere of the first two episodes of The Mandalorian resulted in 33 million demand expressions, which comes from looking at data across social media, video streaming, photo sharing, blogging and research platforms....