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Daily Podcast: The Conners, Dear White People, Sinemia, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Terror, Disneyland, And More By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the June 22, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest news, including The Conners, The Terror season 2, Sinemia, Point Blank, Dear White People, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and Disneyland’s dynamic pricing....

Exclusive: Jordana Brewster Still Doesn’t Know If She’s In ‘Fast 8’ [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 16, 2016 11:00 am EST “I’m not really sure what’s happening with my role,” Brewster said when I asked if she’d wrapped Fast 8. A logical question as she was gearing up to do weekly episodes of Lethal Weapon. Brewster appeared at the TCA last year as part of the cast of ABC’s Secrets and Lies....

Frank Oz Thinks Disney Is Mishandling ‘The Muppets: “They Don’t Get It” By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 22, 2018 7:30 am EST It’s because Disney just doesn’t “get it,” master puppeteer and former Muppets performer Frank Oz says. Disney can’t seem to crack the Muppets code. The company has released two solid Muppets movies and one bungled TV series — with an animated Muppet Babies on the way — but Disney still can’t seem to instill that same warmth that the original Muppet shows and movies radiated....

Jared Leto Will Play ‘Morbius’ In Spider-Man Spin-Off Movie By Chris Evangelista/June 27, 2018 12:30 pm EST Sony’s Spider-Verse continues to weave its web. Jared Leto will star in Morbius, a Spider-Man spin-off about antihero Morbius the Living Vampire. Daniel Espinosa, the director of Life, will helm the film, with a script from the duo behind Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot. Sony is hell-bent on making their “Spider-Verse” (or whatever it’s actually called) work....

Josh Gad Continues To Try To Pry ‘Star Wars’ Answers From Daisy Ridley By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2017 9:30 am EST After Disney announced that the eighth episode of the Skywalker saga would be titled Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Frozen star Josh Gad posted a video on facebook jokingly grilling Daisy Ridley, his co-star in the currently filming Kenneth Branagh remake of Murder on the Orient Express, about who is the titular Last Jedi....

New ‘Valerian’ Poster Seems To Feature An Intriguing ‘Fifth Element’ Reference By Ethan Anderton/April 29, 2017 11:00 am EST This summer, director Luc Besson returns to sci-fi in a big way with an adaptation of the French comic Valerian and Laureline in the form of the feature film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The movie came in at #7 on our list of anticipated wide releases coming to theaters this summer, and it looks like it’s going to be something wild and action-packed....

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 9, 2017 10:00 am EST When Disney revealed they were planning on creating a new streaming service of their own, it seemed almost a given that they would start producing their own original content for it – which they later confirmed they would indeed be doing. But what about Disney produced content that already exists on other streaming services? Namely, the Marvel shows that are so popular on Netflix?...

Ryan Murphy Spills Details On That ‘American Horror Story’ Crossover Season By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2017 11:30 am EST Now that American Horror Story has been renewed for three more seasons, the question is what they plan to do with them. We know that one of the ideas involves a crossover season that will mash up Murder House and Coven (seasons 1 and 3, respectively), and today creator Ryan Murphy has a few more details on what exactly that will entail....

Sam Mendes In Talks To Direct ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’ By Jack Giroux/April 7, 2017 4:00 pm EST After spending a few years of exploring James Bond’s personal demons, director Sam Mendes is considering adding another comic book adaptation to his filmography with My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. The director, who previously adapted Road to Perdition for the big screen, is in talks to turn Emil Ferris’ acclaimed graphic novel into a movie for Sony....

The Morning Watch: ‘Star Trek’ Props Tour, ‘Stranger Things 2’ British Fan Film & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 28, 2017 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 as Adam Savage takes a tour of a slew of Star Trek props that are going up for auction soon....

The Morning Watch: Making The Weather Of ‘Isle Of Dogs’, The Creation Of Stefon On ‘SNL’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2018 5:00 am EST In this edition, find out how the weather and other elements were created in the stop-motion animated canine adventure Isle of Dogs. Plus, learn how the beloved Saturday Night Live character Stefon was created, and check out some confessions from Stephen Colbert and Cookie Monster....

This New ‘Coco’ Clip Is Jaw-Dropping By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2017 2:00 pm EST Disney and Pixar’s Coco is already generating buzz due to its early release in Mexico and many critics and audiences have praised the film as another winner for animation giants. Rather than sit back and wait for the film’s late November release, Disney and Pixar have released yet another clip to give audiences a taste of the film’s stunning animation....

Watch A Cheesy Campus Tour Video For Charles Xavier’s School For The Gifted By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2016 5:00 am EST Watch the X-Men Apocalypse campus tour video after the jump. This video unfortunately isn’t nearly as cool as the one used to tease the movie before it hit theaters. It mostly just uses footage from X-Men: Apocalypse, but just with a 4:3 aspect ratio and artificially created tracking problems and dated graphics....

Wes Anderson Directed A Christmas Short Film Starring Adrien Brody By Jacob Hall/Nov. 28, 2016 10:30 am EST Technically, Come Together is a commercial for the Swedish clothing company H&M, but this is a Wes Anderson project down to its bones. Everything that Anderson loves is on full display here: an unplaceable time and location, meticulously detailed sets, casual cynicism offset by a hesitant affection for humanity at its core, and a camera that does its best to transform a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane....

‘American Gigolo’ TV Series Coming To Showtime From Neil LaBute & Jerry Bruckheimer By Jack Giroux/Nov. 9, 2016 6:30 am EST If you’re going to hire somebody to write an American Gigolo TV series, Neil LaBute isn’t a bad writer for the job. Showtime and Paramount TV have hired playwright, screenwriter, and director behind In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things, and The Wicker Man remake to adapt Paul Schrader’s ’80s classic, American Gigolo, for television....

‘BlacKkKlansman’ Clips: John David Washington Prepares To Infiltrate The Ku Klux Klan By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2018 4:30 pm EST Alongside the giant shark swimming into theaters this weekend in the form of The Meg, director Spike Lee is coming back to the big screen with what many have called his best and most accessible film in over a decade (though our own review finds the film to be a little clumsy while also enjoyable and outrageous)....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Costumes Revealed In New HBO Promo By Jacob Hall/April 7, 2017 12:30 pm EST I kid because I love. In fact, I love so much that I’ve gone through a new trio of HBO videos to pick out the shots that reveal the Game of Thrones cast in their season 7 costumes, some of which are brand new and some of which say a great deal about where we find these characters in the penultimate season....

‘Isle Of Dogs’ Reviews Round-Up: They’re Good Dogs By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 15, 2018 2:15 pm EST Isle of Dogs, one of /Film’s most anticipated films of 2018, just had its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, and reviews are leaping in. The consensus? They’re very good dogs, folks. Wes Anderson’s latest stop motion marvel features an all-star cast that includes Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Ken Watanabe, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Courtney B....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2017 3:00 pm EST With Joss Whedon overseeing the reshoots for Zack Snyder’s Justice League as it goes through a mid-movie pivot to Warner Bros.’ new “optimistic,” less gritty mantra, we can’t help but wonder if this movie may be cracking under the burden. Hopefully, the last-minute additions are not an indication of doom, but of better, more action-packed things to come. Hopefully. In less than three weeks I will be reunited with these badass amazon warriors again!...

‘Marshall’ Trailer: Chadwick Boseman Enters The Courtroom As Thurgood Marshall By Ethan Anderton/June 22, 2017 7:30 am EST Chadwick Boseman has already played a few significant figures from pop culture history with solid performances as the color barrier-breaking Jackie Robinson in 42 and the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, in Get On Up. Now he’s playing one of the most significant figures in legal and United States history in Marshall....