Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: Moonfall, House Of Leaves, Raffles, Porco Rosso, And More Lionsgate By Ben Pearson/Feb. 3, 2022 4:58 pm EST On the February 3, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Ryan Scott to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: What we’ve been Reading:...
Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: West Side Story, Peaky Blinders, Spider-Man: No Way Home, And More 20th Century Studios By Ben Pearson/Dec. 28, 2021 3:22 pm EST On the December 28, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to discuss what we’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: What we’ve been Reading:...
Daily Podcast: Spider-Man: No Way Home, Another Suicide Squad TV Series, & Snow White Criticism Warner Bros By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2022 4:01 pm EST On the January 27, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to discuss the latest film and TV news, including “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” another “Suicide Squad” TV series, and Disney’s response to “Snow White” criticism....
DC League of Super-Pets Release Date and Where to Watch It Warner Bros. Pictures “DC League of Super-Pets” is currently slated to arrive in theaters on July 29, 2022. We first heard about the project back in 2018 when it was in development under the more simple title “Super Pets.” However, Warner Bros. and DC Comics likely wanted to make sure the DC branding was clear, and “League of Super-Pets” sounds a little less childish than just “Super-Pets” on its own....
Dear Readers, Bridgerton Season 2 Has Set Its Netflix Premiere Date Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 29, 2021 8:36 am EST Fans of “Bridgerton” have been thirsty for another season of the steamy Regency-era romance since its first debuted, and now we finally know when the show will be back. Lady Whistledown herself delivered the news to the cast in the form of one of her customary newsletters. But hot royal gossip can’t be contained, and neither can this news: “Bridgerton” will officially be back on March 25, 2022....
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Has Lowest Opening Weekend In Harry Potter Franchise Warner Bros. By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 18, 2022 10:59 am EST “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the third installment in the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise, managed to collect a mere $43 million (against a $200 million budget) in its domestic box office debut (via Variety). This definitely is not great news for the franchise, given the circumstances that surround the booting of the remaining “Fantastic Beasts” films altogether amid an endless string of controversies....
King Kong made Jackson ‘want to become a filmmaker’ RKO Radio Pictures Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933’s “King Kong” was truly ground-breaking in the way it blended stop-motion effects with miniatures, matte paintings, and live-action footage to create the illusion of real-life human actors interacting with Kong and the other giant, fantastical denizens of Skull Island. For all the things that have aged poorly about the film (not least of which is the racist subtext and the imperialist portrayal of Skull Island’s Kong-worshipping natives), there are shots in the movie as convincing to this day as anything computers can cook up....
KIMI Trailer The “KIMI” trailer has shades of 2018’s “Unsane,” which makes sense as that was also a movie directed by Soderbergh about a woman who stumbles upon a situation that exposes a greater societal failing, only to find herself undermined by those around her constantly questioning her sanity. Its premise also recalls “The Conversation” and “Rear Window” (just as Soderbergh said it would months ago) as well as lean, mean thrillers like “Panic Room” and “Premium Rush,” both of which were tellingly penned by “KIMI” scribe David Koepp....
Lightyear Footage Reaction: Pixar Evokes Sci-Fi Favorites In A Family Friendly Package [CinemaCon 2022] Pixar By Jeremy Mathai AND Jenna Busch/April 27, 2022 2:44 pm EST CinemaCon is in full swing in Las Vegas, and /Film is there, covering some highly anticipated films. One of those films is “Lightyear,” the animated film from Pixar that will show us the origin of another animated character, Buzz Lightyear, the toy Andy got for his birthday in the “Toy Story” films....
Mission: Impossible Actor Henry Czerny Joins Scream 6, Let The Czernaissance Begin! ABC By BJ Colangelo/June 23, 2022 4:05 pm EST Henry Czerny is one of those actors that may not be a household name like “Tom Cruise” or “Matthew McConaughey,” but if Czerny is attached to the project, trust and believe you’re in for a great time. Known primarily for films your dad probably watched ad nauseum on a Sunday afternoon like “Mission: Impossible,” “Clear and Present Danger,” and “The Ice Storm,” Czerny has also made quite the mark in the world of horror, starring in films like “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” and the criminally underseen zombie comedy, “Fido....
Netflix Introduces Elliot Page’s Viktor Hargreeves For The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Elliot Page / Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 29, 2022 6:44 pm EST It’s rare these days for a noteworthy Twitter post to bring anything but unadulterated exhaustion, but Netflix broke through the chaos today to casually drop a bit of lovely news. Elliot Page will be returning to “The Umbrella Academy” this year, but his character has been through some changes since we last saw him....
Obi-Wan Trailer: May The 4th Be With The New Disney+ Show Disney+ By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 4, 2022 8:49 am EST Happy “Star Wars” day and May the 4th be with you! A second trailer for the upcoming Disney+ show, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” just dropped, offering more insight into the time period between “Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith” and “Star Wars: A New Hope,” with Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) being the focal point....
Oscar Isaac Wants Moon Knight To Team Up With The Hulk, Which Makes Perfect Sense Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/March 30, 2022 12:48 pm EST Even after 14 years and nearly 30 movies that have built up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it is easy to take for granted how special it feels to see these decades-long Marvel Comics characters interact on the big (and small) screen. Two decades ago it would have been impossible to imagine Spider-Man and Doctor Strange fighting each other or Hawkeye talking about Kingpin....
Peaky Blinders’ Story Will Continue Into World War II And Beyond Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 17, 2022 4:21 pm EST If you thought you had a handle on where exactly in history that the Birmingham-set gangster series “Peaky Blinders” would finally call it quits, think again. This comes directly by order of the Peaky Blinders themselves — or, rather, series creator Steven Knight. The “Locke” and “Spencer” writer has previously made his intentions known for the Cillian Murphy-led crime drama to come to an end upon the outset of World War II....
Ron Howard Nearly Directed Inside Man Instead Of Spike Lee Universal Pictures Ron Howard is a curious director. For all the Oscar love he got for films like “A Beautiful Mind,” “Cinderella Man,” and “Frost/Nixon,” I don’t see them as his best work. His sci-fi and fantasy movies (“Splash,” “Cocoon,” “Willow,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story”) tend to resonate with me far more than most of his awards-friendly true-story dramas, save for “Apollo 13” and “Rush....
Scream Screenwriters Have ‘Amazing Ideas’ For Another Sequel Spyglass Entertainment By Anya Stanley/Jan. 26, 2022 10:18 am EST Horror fans both cheer and bemoan franchise sequels. But, to be fair, the “Scream” movies planted their flag early with promises of more entries; as original co-killer Stu Macher put it, “These days, you gotta have a sequel!” In the weeks following the release of the franchise’s fifth entry, “Scream” (2022) is certainly justifying another visit back to Woodsboro: with an opening weekend box office debut near $40 million and making $85 million worldwide on its $24 million budget, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s “Scream” reminds studios that horror is hot and audiences want thrills....
Magic Mike’s Last Dance Has ‘Theatrical Potential’ Warner Bros. Since his (very brief) retirement from making movies in the early 2010s, the majority of Steven Soderbergh’s directorial efforts have either been TV shows or films that went straight to streaming, with the exceptions of 2017’s “Logan Lucky” and 2018’s “Unsane.” For now, though, the filmmaker is refusing to rule out the possibility of “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” playing in theaters after it goes live on HBO Max:...
Casper Universal Pictures Perhaps one of the best transitional horror movies ever made, the family flick “Casper,” is an all-time ghostly great. Based on the popular Harvey comics series “Casper the Friendly Ghost,” the 1995 supernatural, dark fantasy dramedy has a lot more going for it than most remember. Often remembered as a silly children’s movie about a CGI ghost kid looking for a friend, “Casper” is a surprisingly powerful examination of neglect, grief, and our inability to process the finality of death....
J. Jonah Jameson Sony Pictures J. Jonah Jameson is ostensibly Alex Jones in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and, in the parlance of an infamous meme, he always has been. Jameson is a hack. His cowardice yields cheapness and cut corners. There is nothing Jameson won’t do or say to force a story into the shape he desires. In “No Way Home,” that is his one defining factor. It’s as solid as the green screen he pontificates in front of....
The Last Three Daniel Craig James Bond Films Won The Oscar For Best Original Song MGM By Ryan Scott/March 27, 2022 11:59 pm EST The Oscars brought with them a great many surprises this year, but one of the night’s most surprising wins came when recording star Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell won the award for Best Original Song for “No Time to Die,” the theme from Daniel Craig’s fifth and final “James Bond” film of the same name....
