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Star Wars Celebration Is Officially Back With An In-Person Event Lucasfilm By Jeff Ewing/March 7, 2022 3:39 pm EST “Star Wars Celebration,” the days-long fan convention, boasts major announcements, screenings, celebrity guest appearances, new merchandise, exhibits, and more. In 2020, the event was one of many that were canceled due to the pandemic. Celebration was slated to return between August 18-21, 2022 before being shifted up to May 2022. Today, the official website confirmed that the 2022 iteration of Star Wars Celebration will be going on as planned....

Volume 1 Track Listing Netflix Side A: 01. What’s the internet? 02. I wouldn’t remember me either. 03. Teens 04. Journalistic Instinct 05. 100% Convinced 06. In the closet (at Rink O Mania) 07. Does that make us friends? 08. My BOOBS Hurt. 09. Unambiguous True Love 10. Stuck in 1983 Side B: 01. Hawkins National Lab 02. Hellfire Club 03. Buried Memories 04. Fancy Bomb 05. We are NOT Heroes 06....

Nightmare Alley Searchlight Pictures Now Streaming on HBO Max and Hulu. “Nightmare Alley” is the latest from Guillermo del Toro, and you’d think that would be enough to put butts in seats. But no, del Toro’s film flopped at the box office. Now, it’s streaming, and I can only hope those who avoided it finally discover what a great, nasty piece of work it is. Bradley Cooper plays a carnie who leaves behind the low-rent sideshow in order to launch his own big nightclub career as a phony mesmerist....

The Book Of Boba Fett Ending Explained: Honor Prevails Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Feb. 9, 2022 11:52 am EST After seven weeks, a whole lot of discussion, and much non-linear build-up, “The Book of Boba Fett” has reached its conclusion with Chapter 7 of the “Star Wars” show now available on Disney+. As anyone would expect from anything connected to a galaxy far, far away, the conclusion brought a lot to the table and left much up for discussion....

The Boys’ Best Satire So Far Is Sex, Drugs, And Herogasm Prime Studios By Danielle Ryan/June 26, 2022 11:00 am EST The superhero satire “The Boys” makes fun of a whole lot of things, ranging from political affiliations to crass commercialism, but the season 3 episode “Herogasm” skewered one of pop culture’s time-held traditions: sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Drug-fueled orgies have mostly been depicted in various forms of media as unspeakably cool, with gorgeous people languidly performing sex acts in various states of undress....

The Chaotic Way Casablanca’s Script Was Put Together Warner Bros. By Lyvie Scott/Jan. 4, 2022 11:46 am EST For a film of any pedigree, a perpetually-changing screenplay and a bevy of behind-the-scenes drama usually points to imminent disaster — at least by today’s standards. Back in Hollywood’s Golden Age though, that wasn’t always the case. One of the greatest examples of this might be “Casablanca,” your favorite movie critic’s favorite movie....

The Enterprise’s First Captain: Admiral Robert April Explained Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 5, 2022 8:30 am EST No show has mined more canonical information from unused material than “Star Trek.” Case in point: The new series “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is based on characters and events from the two-part original series episode “The Menagerie,” wherein a non-verbal and wheelchair-using Captain Pike (Sean Kenney) hijacked the Enterprise (with Spock’s help) to return to the planet Talos IV where he had gone on a mission a few years prior to his injuries....

The Girl From Plainville Teaser: An Awful Subject For Entertainment Hulu By Jenna Busch/Feb. 8, 2022 3:51 pm EST Hulu has released a new teaser for their upcoming series “The Girl From Plainville,” starring Elle Fanning. The series is based on the real-life case of Michelle Carter, the young woman who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself through text messages. Fanning is a magnificent actress....

The Morning Watch: Moonfall VFX Breakdown, Making Of Modern Star Trek Action Figures & More DNEG By Danielle Ryan/April 18, 2022 8:00 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, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, see the behind-the-scenes visual effects magic used to create some of the wildest scenes in the sci-fi action spectacle “Moonfall....

The One Thing Fans Should Do While Watching All Of Us Are Dead Netflix By BJ Colangelo/March 1, 2022 10:39 am EST It’s hard to overstate just how monumentally popular the South Korean zombie series “All Of Us Are Dead” has been on Netflix. The show became the platform’s fifth most popular non-English series debut, following behind the record-shattering “Squid Game” and parts 4, 3, and 5 of “Money Heist” in second, third, and fourth place....

The Pentaverate Trailer: Mike Myers Is Everywhere Netflix By Jenna Busch/April 28, 2022 4:08 pm EST One actor playing multiple characters, secret societies … it sounds like Marvel with Oscar Isaac successfully and beautifully playing two (and probably three) versions of his character in “Moon Knight,” or the Illuminati, which was just confirmed by a “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” clip. Unfortunately, the trailer for the new Netflix series “The Pentaverate” suffers in comparison....

The Sea Beast Invites You To Sing Along To A Sea Shanty In An Adorable Music Video Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/June 30, 2022 11:49 am EST Dive into the world of dangerous beasts and tenacious hunters with this banger sea shanty from the animated adventure film, “The Sea Beast.” Titled “Captain Crow,” the sea shanty is obviously extremely catchy and chronicles the tale of the titular character, who is called “the greatest of all hunters” by one of the kids telling the story....

The Similarities Between Alexander Skarsgard’s True Blood And The Northman Characters Are ‘Not A Complete Coincidence’ HBO By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 14, 2022 1:38 pm EST If you’ve noticed the similarities between Alexander Skarsgård’s “The Northman” role as Amleth and his character Eric Northman in “True Blood,” know in your heart that the character overlaps are no coincidence. In a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Skarsgård talked about how the narrative of Robert Eggers’ Viking epic, “The Northman,” sounded like a spin-off for his “True Blood” character, confirming it is “not a complete coincidence....

The WGA West Is Urging Hollywood To ‘Reassess’ Production In Florida In Light Of The Don’t Say Gay Bill A24 By BJ Colangelo/March 15, 2022 8:45 pm EST With the revolting HB 1557 aka the “Don’t Say Gay” bill passing in the Florida state legislature last week and heading for Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk, the WGA West is urging Hollywood to reconsider filming projects in the sunshine state. The guild put out an official statement today, encouraging studios to spend their production dollars elsewhere....

Why Does Disney Still Lack Faith In Diverse Animated Movies? Disney By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Jan. 9, 2022 3:50 pm EST Disney’s recent announcement that “Turning Red” will debut on Disney+ in lieu of a theatrical release is the latest disappointment in a series of them, as the media giant has been routinely relegating a diverse array of animated films to its streaming platform during the pandemic. In addition to “Turning Red” (which features an Asian protagonist), Disney previously opted to release “Soul,” featuring Disney’s first Black male protagonist, exclusively on Disney+ after canceling its theatrical run due to pandemic concerns....

15 Underrated Thrillers You Really Need To See Universal Pictures By Liam Gaughan/May 5, 2022 2:27 pm EST What makes a thriller movie? Does it shock the viewer, or leave them feeling uneasy? Do they center mostly on crime stories, or could it be any film that gets an audience excited and their blood pumping? Is a psychological thriller the same thing as an “elevated horror” movie? Or, can a thriller be something that makes us laugh and shake our heads at the same time?...

Beavis And Butt-Head Do The Universe Trailer: The World’s Dumbest Duo Are Back Paramount By Danielle Ryan/June 2, 2022 4:17 pm EST Earth’s two biggest giggling cartoon morons are about to go where no two-dimensional doofus has gone before, because Paramount+ has released a trailer for “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe.” While there has been talk of a sequel to the 1996 film “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America” for awhile now, the trailer presents something wildly different than anything we’ve heard before....

Like something out of a comic book Warner Bros. Pictures According to Heller, it was not kung-fu, but comic books that played a large part in shaping the visual language of “Enter The Dragon”: “When we first started thinking about the look of the film, there was a comic strip called Terry and the Pirates, and that became sort of the genesis of the whole look of the film. It was about a Dragon Lady and Chinese pirates, and it was a wonderful moment in time about adventure....

Christopher Nolan Originally Had Much Humbler Plans For The Prestige Touchstone Pictures By Mike Shutt/June 20, 2022 8:53 am EST When filmmakers reach a certain stature in Hollywood, many find it difficult to go backward. They have become accustomed to a certain scale and scope that it becomes rather second nature. Even when these people came up scraping together a few dollars wherever they could to make their first films, the comfort the bigger budget gives them alters how they approach their moviemaking....

Daily Podcast: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episodes 1-3 Spoiler Discussion Lucasfilm By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2022 8:06 pm EST On the June 1, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film’s Star Wars expert Bryan Young to have a spoiler-filled discussion about Obi-Wan Kenobi Episodes 1-3. Opening Banter: Brad could not join us as he’s out sick. We hope he gets better soon. In The Spoiler Room: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episodes 1-3...