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/Film Daily Podcast: D23 Expo 2017, Infinity War, Star Wars Land, Wreck It Ralph 2, Lion King & Much More By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2017 11:00 am EST On /Film Daily for July 17, 2017, Peter Sciretta talks about all the big announcements, huge reveals, and footage previewed at Disney’s every-other-year fan convention D23 Expo. We learn about Avengers: Infinity War, Wreck It Ralph 2, The Lion King, Star Wars Land, Coco, Toy Story 4, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and much much more....

‘Gringo’ Trailer: David Oyelowo And Charlize Theron Blaze A Trail Across Mexico By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 20, 2017 3:30 pm EST Titling your movie after a slur is always a gamble, but casting award-winning actors in your marijuana black comedy may be even more so. Gringo stars David Oyelowo in his most broad comedic performance yet, playing a mild-mannered businessman who is tasked with delivering a formula for a new weed pill to a lab in Mexico....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Trailer: Meet Kurt Russell’s Ego The Living Planet By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2017 8:49 pm EST Your favorite galaxy-saving a-holes are back… or they’re about to be really soon, in any case. Marvel Studios has just dropped the new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer, which assembles the whole gang: Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), and Baby Groot (Vin Diesel)....

‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’ Launch Trailer: Spidey Swings Into Action By Ben Pearson/Sept. 7, 2018 4:00 pm EST If you’ve ever wanted to swing through the skies like Spider-Man, well, this guy’s Kickstarter project may be the closest you actually get. But for the next best thing, PlayStation 4 users can play Marvel’s Spider-Man, Sony Interactive and Insomniac Games’ spectacular new video game featuring your friendly neighborhood webslinger as its protagonist. The game is available right now, and Sony has debuted a cool new launch trailer that showcases many of the story’s villains....

‘Mother!’ TV Spot Leans Into The Divisive Reactions To Aronofsky’s Latest Film By Ben Pearson/Sept. 20, 2017 4:00 pm EST Cinephiles rejoice anytime writer/director Darren Aronofsky makes a new movie, because love him or hate him, his films always give us plenty to talk about. That’s especially true with mother!, his horror thriller that’s been ripping audiences apart since it made its festival debut. The film is so divisive, in fact, that it earned a rare “F” CinemaScore when it opened in wider release last week and even inspired Paramount Pictures to release a statement defending their decision to distribute the film in the first place....

‘The Incredible Jessica James’ Teaser Trailer: Jessica Williams Is A Confident Delight By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2017 12:30 pm EST You might know Jessica Williams from her time as a correspondent on The Daily Show when Jon Stewart was still hosting the show. However, her indie romantic comedy that debuted at Sundance earlier this year has started turning some heads. Hopefully, she’ll become a movie star. The Incredible Jessica James finds Jones playing an aspiring playwright in New York City....

‘The Mountain Between Us’ First Look Photos: Idris Elba And Kate Winslet Survive A Plane Crash By Ben Pearson/May 30, 2017 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Two of England’s best acting exports are joining forces for a survival romance about two people who escape the wreckage of a plane crash. Idris Elba and Kate Winslet star in The Mountain Between Us as a surgeon and photojournalist, respectively, who are injured in a crash and must rely on each other to survive in the freezing Colorado mountains....

‘The Promise’ Trailer: Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale, A Love Triangle, And The Armenian Genocide By Jacob Hall/Sept. 13, 2016 12:00 pm EST I can’t tell if the core premise of The Promise is glibly offensive or admirably old school in a Hollywood Golden Age kind of way. Here’s a sweeping, epic romance starring Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale, two of the most recognizable actors on the planet…that happens to be set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide, which saw the brutal deaths of 1....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 3:00 pm EST Here is the official synopsis for The Tick: In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, Arthur (Newman), an accountant with mental health issues and zero powers, comes to suspect his city is owned by a global super-villain, The Terror (Jackie Earle Haley) who has been long thought dead. As Arthur struggles to uncover the conspiracy he falls in league with a strange blue superhero – The Tick (Serafinowicz)....

‘The Void’ NSFW Teaser: A Nice And Gory Trailer To Start The Day With By Jack Giroux/Feb. 16, 2017 6:30 am EST The Void trailer is not safe for work, but if you’re at work, go ahead and watch it anyway. It’s only 40 seconds of joyously grotesque horror. The teaser goes by so fast nobody in the office will notice you’re watching a new look at Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s ’80s-set horror movie, which features a quote from our very own Jacob Hall, who called it “pure cosmic dread....

2018 DGA Awards Winners: Guillermo Del Toro And Jordan Peele Are Honored By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 4, 2018 10:00 am EST Last night the Directors Guild of America handed out their awards honoring the best achievements in directing from the previous year. This includes directing for feature films as well as dramatic and comedic television. So who came away with the big prizes? On the feature film side of things, Guillermo del Toro took the top prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his “Three Amigos” compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñárritu....

Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie Will Arrive Before The Justice League Sequel By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2016 3:18 pm EST For awhile now, Warner Bros. Pictures has had their release slate for the DC Extended Universe locked down for the next few years with some minor changes here and tehre. However, there has been another change made to the schedule in order to accommodate a movie that wasn’t part of the original ambitious schedule for DC Comics movies down the pipeline....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 23, 2018 10:30 am EST The cable giant, which owns NBCUniversal, released the following statement: While no final decision has been made, at this point the work to finance the all-cash offer and make the key regulatory filings is well advanced." But as the AT&T and Time Warner merger nears a solution, conglomerates are scrambling to corner larger markets of the entertainment industry — whether it means starting their own streaming services or engineering comic book movie crossover events....

Disneyland Testing Dynamic Pricing Models With $299 Pixar Pier Ticket By Ben Pearson/June 19, 2018 4:30 pm EST Are you ready for the experience of buying a ticket to a theme park to become like the experience of buying a plane ticket? Strap in, because Disneyland dynamic pricing tests are happening right now, and it could impact the way the theme park operates as next year’s opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge looms large on the horizon....

Here’s How ‘Stranger Things’ Perfectly Recreates The 1980s By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2018 12:15 pm EST If Netflix’s Stranger Things is functioning correctly, you’re not consciously noticing all of the show’s little details that fill out the backgrounds of its 1980s-set world. But industry veterans are currently putting in their votes for this year’s Emmy Awards, which means Netflix actively wants to showcase all of the work that goes into creating Hawkins, Indiana and the spooky world of The Upside Down....

How Peter Jackson Got Evangeline Lilly Out Of Retirement By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 7, 2018 10:00 am EST Evangeline Lilly has become a pivotal part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, stealing the show in Ant-Man and now getting promoted to double-billing for Ant-Man and the Wasp. But it almost never happened — if not for Peter Jackson. Lilly shot to fame after the beloved ABC sci-fi series LOST premiered in 2004 to rave reviews, with Lilly transforming from unknown to household name virtually overnight....

Marvel Television Casts Squirrel Girl And The Rest Of The ‘New Warriors’ By Ben Pearson/July 10, 2017 1:57 pm EST As superheroes continue to dominate the box office, Marvel Television is expanding its reach from ABC (Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter) and Netflix (The Defenders and its individual preceding shows) to Freeform, the network formerly known as ABC Family. Cloak and Dagger will be their first show on Freeform in 2018, and it’ll be followed by New Warriors, a series from Cougar Town creator Kevin Biegel that involves the fan favorite character Squirrel Girl and a handful of other superpowered teens....

The Morning Watch: ‘Star Trek’ Battles ‘Star Wars’, ‘Lost In Translation’ Video Essay & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 25, 2017 6:00 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, the crew of the USS Enterprise comes up against a threat the likes of which they’ve never seen in a mash-up of Star Wars and Star Trek....

The Morning Watch: Full Voldemort Origins Fan Film, A Chat With Paul Thomas Anderson & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2018 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, watch the full unofficial Harry Potter fan film Voldemort: Origins of the Heir, providing more details about Tom Riddle’s turn to the darkness....

This Week In Trailers: From The Bridge, Nico, 1988, Holiday, Cold War, Bonding By Christopher Stipp/July 22, 2018 12:00 pm EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...