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‘Westworld’ Season Finale Reveals Images And Synopsis By Jacob Hall/Nov. 30, 2016 3:00 pm EST There are a few larger points to be made about Westworld. We can discuss how thrilling genre entertainment for adults has become increasingly in short supply on the big screen but has found a home on television. We can talk about how truly weird it is that someone made a TV adaptation of a 1973 Michael Crichton movie and how it’s astonishing that it’s any good at all, let alone pretty great....

‘World Of Tomorrow 2’: Don Hertzfeldt’s Oscar-Nominated Short Is Getting A Sequel By Ben Pearson/Aug. 20, 2017 11:00 am EST Don Hertzfeldt’s short film World of Tomorrow packs more ideas and genuine emotions into its 16-minute run time than many contemporary full-length feature films even attempt, so it’s no wonder the movie was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film at the 2016 Academy Awards. If you haven’t seen it, you can remedy that by checking it out on Netflix, because it’s streaming there right now for subscribers to watch....

‘X-Force’ Director Drew Goddard Talks About Picking Up The Pieces After ‘Deadpool 2’ By Ben Pearson/May 30, 2018 2:00 pm EST Warning: spoilers for Deadpool 2 below. In a new interview, Goddard – who served as a script consultant on Deadpool 2 – told Entertainment Weekly about his first reaction to the scene in the movie in which a significant percentage of the newly-formed X-Force squad are promptly killed off just seconds into their first mission....

20th Century Women Trailer: Annette Bening Tries To Raise A Good Man In 1970s California By Angie Han/Nov. 1, 2016 7:00 am EST Is there ever really a right time for a teenage boy to come of age? Put aside the nostalgia for the past and the optimism for the future for a second, and you’ll find that each era provides its own ups and downs, some universal and some unique....

Daily Podcast: Quentin Tarantino, Solo, J.J. Abrams, Swamp Thing, Wolverine, Robin Hood By Ben Pearson/May 3, 2018 4:30 pm EST On the May 3, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski’s expulsion from the Academy, the Robin Hood trailer, J.J. Abrams’ new superhero movie, some changes for Conan O’Brien’s talk show, Ryan Reynolds’ hope for the return of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, a Quentin Tarantino Lord of the Rings movie, Solo’s box office projections, and Channel Zero’s fourth season....

Disney’s Live-Action ‘Mulan’ Casts Chinese Actress Liu Yifei As Its Star By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 29, 2017 2:00 pm EST Disney has honored its promise to cast a Chinese actress as the star of its live-action adaptation of Mulan. Chinese actress Liu Yifei has been cast as Fa Mulan, the warrior woman who saves all of China in the classic Chinese myth and 1998 animated Disney film. Liu’s casting marks the end of a year-long search for the Mulan star, who Disney assured us would be of Chinese descent after outcry over issues of whitewashing in Hollywood....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 10, 2017 12:30 pm EST Harvey Weinstein, who for the past week has been the subject of scrutiny after a New York Times report unearthed decades of the influential Hollywood figure’s sexual harassment against women, has been accused of rape by three different women. Two new reports feature 20 more women going public with Weinstein’s harassment or assault, including Hollywood royalty Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. The reports come two days after Weinstein was fired from his position at the Weinstein Company, where one-third of the board of directors has resigned....

Hulu Will Add 3,000 Episodes Of ‘MAS*H’, ‘NYPD Blue’, And More By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2017 12:30 pm EST Hill Street Blues and The Bob Newhart Show will also be available in full, as will every episode of more modern shows like How I Met Your Mother, Burn Notice, Bones, Glee, Raising Hope, The Bernie Mac Show, Better Off Ted, Reba, Life in Pieces, White Collar, The Practice, Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment 23, The Grinder, Blue Collar, Saving Grace, Lie to Me, Graceland, Dollhouse, Wilfred, and The Glades....

Local Comic-Cons Will Be Legally Required To Change Their Names By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2018 2:30 pm EST The future of any Comic-Con other than San Diego Comic-Con and its official equivalents is now in serious doubt thanks to an injunction. A judge has ruled against Salt Lake Comic-Con from using titles “Comic Con” and “Comic-Con”, as well as any phonetic equivalents (like ComiKon). In short, if you have a local Comic-Con near you, it’s probably going to be changing its name very quickly....

Marvel’s ‘The Defenders’ Teaser Announces The Return Of Misty Knight & Karen Page By Angie Han/Oct. 31, 2016 12:00 pm EST Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist were all confirmed for The Defenders before they were even cast, and happily it looks like some of their friends will be along for the ride as well. A new Defenders teaser announces that Daredevil’s Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Luke Cage’s Misty Knight (Simone Missick) are both slated to return....

Michael Showalter, David Wain & Michael Ian Black Are Going On A ‘Moon Cruise’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2016 6:30 am EST You’d be hard pressed to find a more gifted, tight-knit trio of comedians and content creators than David Wain, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black. These three have been friends for years, even once having their own comedy act known as Stella before going on to become creators and writers of the sketch comedy series The State....

Netflix To Give Awards Season Theatrical Runs To ‘Roma,’ ‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs,’ And ‘22 July’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 30, 2018 9:30 am EST A day after it was reported that Netflix was considering theatrical releases for its highly anticipated prestige pictures, it has been confirmed that the streaming giant will give limited theatrical runs to Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Paul Greengrass’ 22 July....

The ‘Happy!’ Trailer Pairs Christopher Meloni With An Imaginary Friend By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 8, 2017 2:00 pm EST There have been a lot of shows and movies about corrupt, broken down cops trying to make amends for their dirty deeds, but have any of those movies and shows paired the cop with an imaginary friend? No, they absolutely have not. But Happy! does exactly that. The new Syfy series adapts a graphic novel from Grant Morrison, and the first twisted trailer has just dropped to give you a sense of the lunacy on display....

‘47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter’ Trailer: Rinse, Shark, Repeat By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2018 4:00 pm EST As The Meg prepares to swim into theaters, the first trailer for a different killer shark movie has surfaced online. 47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter, previously titled 48 Meters Down, is the sequel to last year’s surprise low-budget hit. The original was made for under $6 million and ended up pulling in $44 million domestically, so a sequel was quickly given the go-ahead....

‘A Monster Calls’: Liam Neeson Reads The Entire First Chapter Of Patrick Ness’ Book By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 23, 2016 10:00 am EST This weekend brings the release of A Monster Calls, the adaptation of Patrick Ness’ book of the same name, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Greenaway Medal back in 2012. The film hails from The Impossible director J.A. Bayona, who will next direct Jurassic World 2, and it follows a young boy coping with his mother’s illness by way of a monster who suddenly appears in his backyard....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Villains The Black Order May Be Thanos’ Children By Jacob Hall/June 14, 2017 3:30 pm EST We’ve been hearing for some time that Thanos will be backed up by a group known as the Black Order in Infinity War. However, a new rumor suggests that this team has been given a cinematic makeover that will differentiate them from their comic book counterparts. They may be Thanos’ children....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Clip: Luke Evans & Josh Gad Sing “Gaston” By Angie Han/Feb. 14, 2017 12:30 pm EST It seems like just about everyone loves Disney’s classic Beauty and the Beast, which means just about everyone’s got their own favorite musical number from it. Some smile at “Belle” or swoon at “Beauty and the Beast”; others are taken in by the grandeur of “Be Our Guest” or the sweetness of “Something There....

By Jacob Hall/Jan. 17, 2018 7:00 am EST Joseph Kahn’s Bodied made the festival rounds in 2017, but it didn’t secure a distributor or find theatrical release that year. That’s the one and only reason this satirical, take-no-prisoners comedy set in the world of competitive battle rap didn’t land in my top 10 of the year. Seriously. It’s that good. And it deserves to be seen with a big audience....

‘City Of Tiny Lights’ Trailer: Riz Ahmed Is A Neo-Noir Private Eye By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2017 11:00 am EST Riz Ahmed seemed to be freaking everywhere in 2016, from The Night Of to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be slowing down any in 2017. He’s got a guest spot on Girls and a supporting role in Una, and he’ll be getting a lead role all to himself in City of Tiny Lights....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Featurette: The Gang’s All Here And Having A Good Time By Jacob Hall/April 24, 2017 4:30 pm EST Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hits theaters in less than two weeks and our third most anticipated movie of the summer has been receiving mostly warm notices so far. James Gunn’s sequel to his 2014 hit looks to double down on everything that made the first movie such a smash: strange but lovable characters, wild action, colorful science fiction, and heroes who spend as much time bickering as they do guarding the galaxy....