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Superhero Bits: Emerald City Comic-Con Postponed, Ninja Turtles Are Becoming Power Rangers & More By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2020 6:00 pm EST Did you know the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are becoming Power Rangers in a crossover comic? Who are the female villains spotted on the set of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier? Will there be a dance-off between Thor and Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3? Are you bummed that Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle has been postponed?...

The 25 Best Television Shows Of The Decade By /Film Staff/Dec. 24, 2019 8:00 am EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) Last week, the /Film team gathered for a surprisingly intense conversation about the best television shows of the past decade. The one rule: the show had to have premiered between 2010 and 2019 (sorry, Breaking Bad and Mad Men). When the smoke cleared, there were 25 shows remaining, along with five battered and bruised runners-up....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In March 2020 By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 21, 2020 2:30 pm EST February is drawing to a close, which means its time for a new month, and all-new titles on Netflix. As usual, Netflix is dropping more originals than classic movies and TV shows these days, but there are a few familiar things arriving in March that are definitely worth checking out. These are all of TV shows and movies coming to Netflix...

The Latest ‘Tenet’ Poster Shows Off The New, And Probably Temporary, Release Date By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 1, 2020 1:00 pm EST Following the most recent delay of Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated espionage thriller Tenet to mid-August, Warner Bros. has released a new poster with the new release date. The poster, which features star John David Washington in front of a tilted cityscape, suggests that Warner Bros. is set on the new August 12 release date, despite delaying the film once before, from its original July 14 release date to July 31....

The Morning Watch: ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3 Easter Eggs, Looking Back At ‘A Goofy Movie’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2021 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, Netflix calls attention to nearly two dozen Easter eggs and callbacks from the third season of The Karate Kid sequel series Cobra Kai....

The Morning Watch: ‘Ghostbusters’ Storyboard Comparison, Using Cuts As A Visual Effect & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 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, see how storyboards for a scene from Ghostbusters compare to what ended up in the theatrical cut of the movie....

The Morning Watch: Looking Back At ‘LOST’ 15 Years Later, ‘Disenchantment’ Part 1 Recap & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2019 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, take a look back at ABC’s captivating series LOST now that it’s been 15 years since the show first premiered on television....

VOTD: ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Music Video With Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $Ign, Lil Yachty And Sueco The Child By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 2020 3:00 pm EST Sonic the Hedgehog arrives in theaters next month, and with it comes a rap theme song from Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty and Sueco the Child. If you’re getting old, most of those names don’t make any sense, but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the 16-bit-styled music video that takes all of those rappers and puts them into Sonic’s video game world....

Water Cooler: Fargo, The Social Dilemma, Beetlejuice, I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, Unpregnant, Death Becomes Her, The Princess Bride, Top Golf & More By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the September 18, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film 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....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 18, 2020 3:30 pm EST Here is the logline for All the Old Knives: This is already a fantastic premise which sounds like a delicious cross between Before Sunset and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Pine and Newton are both incredibly magnetic, alluring actors who can walk that paper-thin line between seduction and sabotage so well. Both of them have starred in spy movies that have called on them to do the same — Pine with the abysmal This Means War and Newton with the slightly better Mission: Impossible 2....

‘Away’ Canceled At Netflix After One Season, Star Hilary Swank Reacts By Ben Pearson/Oct. 20, 2020 3:00 pm EST Netflix seems to be on a cancelation streak as of late, and the science fiction space drama Away is the streaming service’s latest victim. In the wake of cancelations handed down to Netflix shows like Glow, I Am Not Okay with This, Teenage Bounty Hunters, The Society, Altered Carbon, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Away has been canceled after one season....

‘Contagion’ Director Steven Soderbergh Is Leading The Committee To Safely Resume Film Production By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2020 2:00 pm EST With the exception of late night talk shows and animated projects that are being worked on remotely, Hollywood has otherwise shut down feature film and television production. But hopefully sometime soon, Tinseltown will be back at work. However, whenever the ball starts rolling again, it won’t be business as usual, because the entertainment industry will have to slowly ease back into normalcy....

By Chris Evangelista/July 21, 2020 12:30 pm EST The Toronto International Film Festival is going to be very different this year. Due to the coronavirus, the festival is putting its line-up online for press for the first time ever. And while there are still plans for in-person events, like drive-in screenings, things are going to be severely pared-down. Nevertheless, TIFF is still hoping to have a fest, and today they’ve announced their opening night film: the Spike Lee-directed David Byrne’s American Utopia....

/Filmcast Ep. 556 - Sonic The Hedgehog By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 25, 2020 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, Jeff come together to review Sonic the Hedgehog, the new film based on the popular video game franchise. Tune in to find out whether the recent digital makeover helped the film in the box office. Watch the highlights from Sonic’s 25th celebration here. Thanks for our sponsors this week: Lensabl and Quip To get 20% off your first lens replacement order, head to lensabl....

‘Frozen II’ Box Office Forecast Predicts An Opening Weekend As High As $145 Million By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2019 1:30 pm EST This fall brings Frozen II to theaters, the highly anticipated sequel to Walt Disney Animation’s original fantasy musical from all the way back in 2013. Are fans still hungry to see what’s going on with Anna and Elsa after six years? Or have they let it go? If the long range Frozen II box office predictions come to fruition, it would appear that Frozen fever is still alive and well, and the sequel’s opening weekend could more than double the original movie’s debut at the box office....

‘Justice League’ Spoiler Review: The DCEU Stumbles Again By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 20, 2017 7:00 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: the superhero team-up extravaganza Justice League.)You can’t save the world alone, and saving the DCEU might be even more of a challenge....

‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Stops Production In Venice Due To Coronavirus By Ben Pearson/Feb. 25, 2020 7:30 am EST Mission: Impossible 7 has suffered a setback. Due to the coronavirus, Paramount Pictures has altered its plans for a three-week shoot in Venice, Italy, releasing a statement on Monday which essentially explained that they won’t take any unnecessary chances when it comes to the deadly disease. “Out of an abundance of caution for the safety and well-being of our cast and crew, and efforts of the local Venetian government to halt public gatherings in response to the threat of coronavirus, we are altering the production plan for our three-week shoot in Venice, the scheduled first leg of an extensive production for Mission: Impossible 7,” a spokesperson for Paramount said on Monday (via THR)....

‘Moon Knight’ Series Joining The Marvel’s Roster Of Programming On Disney+ [D23] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2019 4:34 pm EST There’s a lot more to the upcoming roster of Marvel projects in the works for Disney+, and this one is definitely coming from the more obscure side of Marvel Comics. Moon Knight (aka Marc Spector) is a character who has been referred to as Marvel’s own version of Batman. The comic book series focuses on a mentally disturbed mercenary turned superhero with dissociative identity disorder who may or may not communicate with a lunar god that gives him superhuman strength under the light of the moon....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 6, 2020 10:30 am EST In 2017, Spoke Art Gallery held its first annual Hayao Miyazaki-inspired art exhibit in San Francisco, featuring art from over 250 artists who celebrated the legendary filmmaker with creations that brought guests into the whimsical worlds created by Miyazaki. Now, Spoke Art has collected the Miyazaki-inspired art into a book, My Neighbor Hayao: Art Inspired by the Films of Miyazaki, which goes on sale today....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Promotes Heidi Gardner And Chris Redd To Regular Cast Members By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2019 9:30 am EST Even though much of the focus on the new season of Saturday Night Live has been about their unfortunate featured player hiring and firing of comedian Shane Gillis, thankfully the late night sketch series is moving on with some much better news. When the opening credits roll on the 45th season premiere this weekend, there will be a couple changes....