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‘Stranger Things’: Shawn Levy To Return As Director In Season 2, Already “Thinking Ahead” To Season 3 By Angie Han/Nov. 8, 2016 12:00 pm EST Stranger Things announced the start of production on season two, last week with a photo that revealed most of the returning cast members. But they’re not the only ones coming back for the next run of episodes. Executive producer Shawn Levy, who directed a couple of the first season, will be back to helm two more installments in season two....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Originally Featured More Odin By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2017 9:30 am EST If you thought Anthony Hopkins’ role as Odin in Thor: Ragnarok seemed a bit small, there’s a reason for that: his scenes were drastically changed after test audiences reacted poorly. In a new interview, Ragnarok director Taika Waititi confirms that the original plan for Odin bothered early test audiences, resulting in a drastic change. Learn more about the Thor Ragnarok deleted scenes involving Odin below....

‘True Lies’ Is Getting A TV Series Reboot At FOX By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2017 11:00 am EST The Hollywood Reporter has the news about the True Lies TV series is in the works. Much to our dismay, Terminator Salvation director McG has been tapped to executive produce the series and direct the pilot. However, before that can happen, the script by Arrow executive producer Marc Guggeheim needs to be finished....

Alexandre Aja And Sam Raimi Team For Horror-Thriller ‘Crawl’ By Chris Evangelista/May 2, 2018 4:30 pm EST A Quiet Place was a big horror hit, so now Paramount wants more scary movies to strike box office gold. Enter Crawl, a new horror-thriller produced by Evil Dead filmmaker Sam Raimi and directed by High Tension director Alexandre Aja. The film focuses on a woman trapped in a house during a hurricane, and being forced to deal with fierce predators....

Cool Stuff: ‘Star Trek’ Tiki Mugs Beam Up Your Favorite Libation By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2017 5:00 am EST For some reason, the tiki mug trend is here to stay, and the latest fan favorite property to get a full set of stylish libation containers is Star Trek. ThinkGeek has announced a full line of tiki mugs inspired by the characters of Star Trek: The Original Series. Favorite crew members Captain James T....

Daily Podcast: Bill & Ted, Call Of Duty, Netflix, Get Out, Blue Sky, Den Of Thieves 2, Han Solo By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2018 5:00 pm EST On the February 14, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest news, including the original script for Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a Call of Duty movie, Netflix acquires more talent, Get Out goes free, Blue Sky Studios is making an animated musical, Den of Thieves somehow got a sequel, and why the Millenium Falcon looks different in Solo: A Star Wars Story....

Daily Podcast: The Best Movies Of Fantastic Fest 2017 Part 1, Star Trek, Gambit & More By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2017 8:30 am EST On the September 26, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson to talk about Star Trek Discovery, the Museum of Ice Cream, Gambit plot details and the possibility of a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie. In Our Feature Presentation, Jacob Hall joins me to discuss the latest on the Alamo Drafthouse situation and share the best films he has seen during the first half of Fantastic Fest 2017....

By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 12, 2017 7:23 am EST Fleming says a “juicy rumor” that is “fast gaining steam” in Hollywood is that “Disney is progressing speedily toward that rumored acquisition of Fox. The version I heard has the Murdoch clan keeping possession of sports and news properties, and the rest of TV and the film studio going to Disney. Radio silence right now from both studios, and given how Disney made the Marvel and Lucasfilm deals under the cone of silence, if this happens we’ll probably only know it when it’s announced....

Disney Will Pull Its Movies From Netflix And Launch A New Streaming Service [Updated] By Jacob Hall/Aug. 11, 2017 8:55 am EST “It’s possible we will continue to license [Star Wars and Marvel movies] to a pay service like Netflix,” Iger said. Our original story follows below. In a piece of news that manages to be simultaneously surprising and not surprising in the slightest, Disney has announced that it is pulling its library of movies from Netflix…and launching its own streaming service....

IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth A new post on the official Disney Parks blog announced that IllumiNations would be closing after the summer 2019 season. It will immediately be replaced with a new fireworks spectacular, but no details beyond that are available yet about the new replacement show. For those who aren’t familiar, Epcot was based on Walt Disney’s undeveloped concept for a futuristic community (the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow), and turned into a theme park long after his death....

Josh Gad And Paul Walter Hauser Campaign To Play The Penguin In ‘The Batman’ By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2018 6:30 am EST Todd Phillips is making a Joker movie. Henry Cavill may or may not be finished playing Superman. The DC Universe is in an odd place right now, so even though there are a few movies coming out soon that could help provide a steadier foundation, one of the biggest of them is Matt Reeves’ The Batman....

Martin Scorsese And Leonardo DiCaprio May Shoot ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Early Next Year By Jack Giroux/July 15, 2017 10:00 am EST Before cameras even start rolling on the new Martin Scorsese Netflix movie, The Irishman, the filmmaker already may have his follow-up project in mind. Scorsese may reteam with Leonardo DiCaprio for an adaptation of David Grann’s (“The Lost City of Z”) “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI....

Meet The Line-Up Of The ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ Reboot By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 9, 2017 12:00 pm EST Meet the next generation’s Britney Spears or Ryan Gosling. Those stars were all part of the ’90s reboot of The Mickey Mouse Club, a Disney Channel entertainment space for aspiring singers, dancers, and performers. And yes, Ryan Gosling used to be a Disney star. Now The Micky Mouse Club is getting a 21st century reboot as a digital program called Club Mickey Mouse....

One Final ‘The Defenders’ Trailer Before They Unite To Save Manhattan By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2017 8:30 am EST Tomorrow brings the assembly of Marvel superheroes known as The Defenders to Netflix, marking the first time Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones) have teamed up to take on a threat. And one final trailer for The Defenders shows just how deadly that threat may be....

Spidey Takes A Load Off In ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Posters; Get A Look At His Homemade Suit In New Toy Pics By Ben Pearson/March 24, 2017 1:30 pm EST Looks like even our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man isn’t above lying down on the job once in a while. Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures have just unveiled two new posters for Spider-Man: Homecoming, and one of them sees Tom Holland’s web-slinger taking a break and listening to music as Avengers Tower looms in the background....

The First ‘Marvel’s The Defenders’ Clip Teases Daredevil’s Return By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2017 4:00 pm EST At San Diego Comic-Con International, producer Jeph Loeb surprised the Hall H crowd with a full screening of the first episode of Marvel and Netflix’s superhero crossover team-up series The Defenders. I wrote about what we learned and shared my brief thoughts about the pilot episode here. But now Netflix has released the first clip from The Defenders online for everyone to enjoy....

Well, That’s Expected: Warwick Davis Returns For Han Solo By Jacob Hall/May 5, 2017 2:30 pm EST There are Star Wars actors and there are Star Wars mainstays, the performers who seem perfectly happy to be linked to the massively successful film series. Warwick Davis made his film debut in 1983’s Return of the Jedi, playing Wicket the Ewok, and he’s been attached at the hip to the saga ever since....

‘13 Reasons Why’ Creator Heard Your Season 2 Complaints, But ‘Insatiable’ Creates New Issues [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/July 29, 2018 4:00 pm EST Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why was a phenomenon for the streaming service, starting conversations about bullying, rape and teen suicide, as well as complaints that it was glamorizing suicide. Season two premiered this year to less of a divided reaction and more just agreement that it was unnecessary and even more problematic....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Behind-The-Scenes Footage Shows Off Practical Sets And Spaceships By Jacob Hall/May 9, 2017 12:30 pm EST When I visited the set of Alien: Covenant last year, I couldn’t help but be bowled over by the sheer scale of the production. It’s one thing to hear about a movie that costs far north of $100 million to produce, but it’s another thing to actually see what that cash is paying for....

‘Archer: Dreamland’ Teaser Trailers: Archer Reinvents Itself As A 1940s Noir By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2017 12:30 pm EST Though it started out as a spoof of James Bond-style spy stories, Archer’s reinvented itself a couple of times over the past few years. There was that time it became a Miami Vice riff in season five, before “un-rebooting” itself in season six. It re-rebooted itself in season seven, this time as a Magnum P....