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Producer Shawn Levy On What To Expect From ‘Stranger Things’ Season Two By Jack Giroux/Sept. 26, 2016 3:14 pm EST Stranger Things season two begins shooting next month. Since cameras haven’t started rolling yet, we don’t know much about what The Duffer Brothers have planned for their follow-up to the wildly popular first season, but they’ve been sharing bread crumbs of information now and then. Producer and director Shawn Levy hasn’t released any new revelatory information about season two, either, but he does say the next season will feature some “next-level” stuff and that the show will age along with its young characters....

Robert Englund Returning As Freddy Krueger For An Episode Of ‘The Goldbergs’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2018 4:00 pm EST Before the summer break, the ABC comedy series The Goldbergs got a visit from a certain big-headed parody of Darth Vader in an episode that paid homage to Spaceballs, complete with a voice cameo from Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet himself. Now the show that waxes nostalgic about the 1980s will be paid a visit by an icon from the horror genre just in time for Halloween....

Sony Accidentally Uploaded An Entire Movie To YouTube Instead Of A Trailer By Chris Evangelista/July 3, 2018 12:00 pm EST You may not have heard of the film Khali the Killer, but for a brief, shining moment today, you could’ve watched the whole film for free. Because some unlucky intern at Sony accidentally uploaded the entire movie to the Sony YouTube page, instead of uploading the trailer. Whoops. In 2014, a hacker group hacked Sony Pictures, releasing confidential data, emails and even screeners of then-unreleased films....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Differences Between Marvel & DC Fans, Everything Wrong With Civil War & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 29, 2016 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With Halloween coming up, here’s a good guide to make your own Deathstroke mask for a costume. Heroic Hollywood gives 15 reasons why you should watch Smallville when the whole series hits Hulu soon....

The Morning Watch: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Edition - Surprising Fans, Cast Trivia & More By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 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 Avengers: Infinity War edition, some of the cast members from Marvel’s epic sequel surprises fans on Jimmy Kimmel Live while others play a round of “Guess the Avenger....

The Morning Watch: Justin Roiland’s Voiceover Tips, One Second Of Every Episode Of ‘The Office’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 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, get some tips about recording voiceover for an animated series from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland....

The Morning Watch: Physics Of ‘The Last Jedi’, Jack Black Performs ‘Everybody Polka’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 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, dig into the physics of a certain sequence in Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

The Reason Motorcycles Don’t Exist In The Pixar ‘Cars’ Universe By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 2017 10:00 am EST Disney and Pixar’s Cars films raise many questions: Where did all the humans go? What brought all those cars to life? Why do they keep making these movies? There are plenty of theories for some of these queries, but there’s one question that’s has long gone unanswered: why are there no motorcycles in this universe of sentient vehicles?...

These New ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Details Will Be Lost In Time, Like Tears In Rain By Jacob Hall/Jan. 3, 2017 10:06 am EST Today brings us two pieces of Blade Runner 2049 news, both of which could be seen as spoilers and both of which should be taken with the necessary grain of salt. This paragraph exists to warn you away from reading further if you want to go into this one blind....

Tommy Wiseau Wants To Stage ‘The Room’ On Broadway By Chris Evangelista/March 2, 2018 1:00 pm EST The Room refuses to die. One of the best worst movies ever made continues to flourish, thanks to a cult following and the hit comedy The Disaster Artist. Now, Tommy Wiseau, the madman/genius behind the inept flick wants to stage The Room on Broadway. Watch out, Hamilton – you’re about to have some serious competition....

Will ‘Avatar 2’ Get Delayed Again? Sigourney Weaver Not Sure 2018 Date Is ‘‘Realistic’’ By Angie Han/Dec. 12, 2016 11:30 am EST When asked about the Avatar 2 release date, however, Weaver cast doubt on its viability. “We haven’t started it, so I don’t know how realistic that date is, but I think it’s going to be very exciting,” she told THR at a recent screening of A Monster Calls. Indeed, the fact that Avatar 2 doesn’t even seem to have a start date right now does not bode well for its ability to open within two years....

‘A Monster Calls’ Pushed Back A Couple Months, May Be On The Hunt For Awards By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2016 6:00 am EST Right now we’re in a bit of a dead zone between the blockbuster summer season and awards season, but that’s going to change once Snowden arrives in the middle of September as we start to move into October. However, one of the movies that I was looking forward to quite a bit has just been bumped back from its original October release date into December....

‘American Horror Story’ Season Six Theme Revealed By Jack Giroux/Sept. 15, 2016 3:30 pm EST After months of waiting, fans of American Horror Story finally learned what season six of the anthology series is about. The latest season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s show is titled American Horror Story: Roanoke, and it’s inspired by shows like Unsolved Mysteries and other programs featuring interviews and reenactments. Season six is, as some guessed, related to the mystery of the Roanoke Colony....

‘Avengers’ Screenwriter Originally Tried To Reduce Thor’s Role By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2018 3:30 pm EST Everybody loves Thor now, primarily due to Chris Hemsworth’s charming, slightly goofy take on the character, and Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok. But folks at Marvel weren’t always convinced of Thor’s durability. The Avengers screenwriter Zak Penn confirms that early Avengers scripts attempted to reduce Thor’s screentime – until the casting of Chris Hemsworth changed everyone’s mind....

‘Black Mirror’ Goes Retro In First Season 3 Images By Angie Han/Aug. 18, 2016 2:30 pm EST Netflix announced last year that it was picking up Black Mirror for a third season, and last month revealed that the new episodes would premiere this fall. But as we say in the age of Instagram and Facebook, pics or it didn’t happen. So showrunner Charlie Brooker has now shared the first Black Mirror season 3 images for us to enjoy....

‘Black Panther’ Deleted Scenes Feature More Father And Son Moments By Chris Evangelista/May 3, 2018 12:30 pm EST Two new Black Panther deleted scenes have found their way online. These scenes explore the bond between T’Challa and his father, T’Chaka, the former Black Panther. The other day, we shared a Black Panther deleted scene featuring Okoye and W’Kabi. Now here are two new deleted scenes featuring Black Panther himself. Both these scenes revolve around one theme: T’Challa’s relationship with his father T’Chaka....

/Film Daily Podcast: James Bond 25, Justice League, Thor: Ragnarok, Stranger Things 2, Infinity War, Captain Marvel & Spider-Man By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2017 7:00 am EST On /Film Daily for July 25, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest news in the world of movies: a new James Bond film, Justice League reshoots, director’s credits, the percentage of improvisation in Thor: Ragnarok, overlooked details in the Stranger Things 2 trailer, why Thanos has henchmen in Avengers: Infinity War, why the Skrulls are being added to the MCU in Captain Marvel, and details on more Avengers who were originally supposed to appear in Spider-Man: Homecoming....

‘I, Tonya’ Trailer: Margot Robbie Goes For Oscar Gold By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 1, 2017 6:31 am EST The shocking truth behind the tabloid story of Olympic Figure Skater Tonya Harding comes to life in the darkly comedic I, Tonya. Margot Robbie goes for the gold, playing the disgraced Harding as she struggles to fit into a world that refuses to accept her. A new I, Tonya red band trailer gives us an up close and personal look at Craig Gillespie’s new film....

‘Mercury 13’ Trailer: The Untold Story Of Female Pilots Who Secretly Reached For The Stars By Ethan Anderton/April 10, 2018 4:00 pm EST There was a time when being an astronaut was the dream of many Americans. However, all of the talk was about putting the first person in space, and all of the astronauts being sent up in rockets and landing on the moon were men. But there were plenty of women who wanted a chance to venture outside of the Earth’s atmosphere....

‘Sherlock’ Season 4 Teaser Puts Benedict Cumberbatch And Martin Freeman In Hot Water By Jacob Hall/Dec. 1, 2016 11:00 am EST Excluding 2016’s Victorian-era special episode, it’s been nearly three years since a proper episode of Sherlock has aired. But we’re in the final stretch now, with the season four premiere set to air on BBC in the U.K. and on PBS in the United States on January 1, 2017. To remind you that the show’s return is right around the corner, a mysterious new teaser trailer has arrived....