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The Morning Watch: Pawn Stars Undervalue Superman, How To Make A Perfect Action Scene & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 24, 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, the Pawn Stars drastically undervalue a key piece of Superman memorabilia from the 1970s....

Watch: This Rejected ‘Deadpool’ Animated Series Pitch Brings The Pain And Wisecracks By Ethan Anderton/March 30, 2018 1:30 pm EST If you’re still disappointed that the Deadpool animated series previously ordered by FX isn’t happening anymore, and the hilarious script pages mocking the cancellation written by would-be showrunner Donald Glover only made you lament the show’s cancellation even more, we have a treat that might make you feel a little better....

Watch All The Shameless Product Placement In Michael Bay Movies By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2017 6:00 am EST Since the Transformers franchise is based on a toy created by Hasbro, the movies themselves are basically giant commercials meant to sell action figures to kids and cars to adults. But even beyond that obvious use of product placement, there is still much more shameless and egregious wedging in of brand name products right in front of Michael Bay’s camera....

‘12 Monkeys’ Renewed For A Fourth And Final Season By Jack Giroux/March 17, 2017 6:30 am EST Below, learn more about the 12 Monkeys final season. 12 Monkeys returns for its third season in May, with Syfy is airing all 10 episodes over three consecutive nights, starting with the first four episodes on Friday, May 19. That means 12 Monkeys fans now have a comfy weekend of binge-watching to anticipate. The series, like Gilliam’s film, is about a time traveler (Aaron Stanford) and a virologist (Amanda Schull) working together to save the future....

‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ Season 2 First Look Photos Go Heavy On Disguises By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 7, 2017 12:30 pm EST Netflix brought Lemony Snicket’s delightfully macabre A Series of Unfortunate Events to life earlier this year, and fans hungry for more pun-laced gloom are in luck. The first official images from the Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris have arrived, and they are practically overflowing with disguises. See the A Series of Unfortunate Events season 2 images below....

‘Alien: Covenant’: Apple Style Ad For Their Advanced Android Walter By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2017 2:30 pm EST Our own Jacob Hall visited the set of Alien: Covenant last year, where we learned a lot about the latest presumably doomed mission of the Weyland-Yutani corporation, including details on Michael Fassbender’s new android. The android David resulted in some backlash (because he was totally creepy and weird), so Walter has been created without human emotions....

‘American Horror Story’ Season 7 Trailer: It All Begins On Election Night By Jack Giroux/Aug. 22, 2017 12:32 pm EST The new season of American Horror Story takes place in present day, so the anthology show will now deal with some modern horrors like last year’s presidential election. Yesterday we saw the new credits sequence for the upcoming season featuring an unsettling Donald Trump mask and Hilary Clinton. As for how much the series actually has to say about the election, we’ll find out next month when the hit FX series returns....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Has Already Sold More Advance Tickets Than The Last 7 MCU Movies Combined By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 11, 2018 8:30 am EST Avengers: Infinity War is putting a Hulk-sized fist through presale ticket records. After breaking the first-day ticket sales record set just a few months earlier by Black Panther, the highly anticipated superhero ensemble has just smashed another record.Infinity War has sold more advance tickets than the past seven Marvel Cinematic Universe movies combined....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Live Concert Casts Zooey Deschanel As Belle By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2018 4:00 pm EST Disney’s live-action adaptation of its animated classic Beauty and the Beast was a huge hit last year, but it didn’t satisfy all the fans out there. Some were particularly disappointed with the obviously enhanced vocal work of Harry Potter franchise star Emma Watson when singing as the charming, sharp, bookworm villager Belle....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Honest Trailer: This Is What Happens When Your Villains Kinda Suck By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2016 6:00 am EST This week brought Captain America: Civil War to Blu-ray and DVD, which means Marvel’s hit summer blockbuster is ready to get the Honest Trailer treatment. While the idea of having The Avengers be their own villains seems like a big deal, let’s not forget that these superheroes have fought each other plenty of times before....

‘Deadpool 2’ Trailer: He’s Just A Clown Dressed Up As A Sex Toy By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 2018 6:34 am EST Out of nowhere today came the final trailer for Deadpool 2, and it just might be the best one yet. For anyone worried that the sequel wasn’t going to replicate the attitude and fun of the first movie, this should put those concerns to rest. The final Deadpool 2 trailer gives the impression that the writers had a little more confidence when it comes to throwing around references and slinging dirt....

‘Doctor Strange’ Will Not Feature Night Nurse; New Featurette Digs Into The Characters By Angie Han/Oct. 13, 2016 4:30 pm EST Although Doctor Strange is the 14th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, all of its core characters are new to the big screen. Sure, comic book fans might know about the Sorcerer Supreme or the Ancient One already, and sure, even casual moviegoers are probably familiar with the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton....

‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Sequel In Jeopardy Due To The Weinstein Company Issues By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 2, 2017 12:00 pm EST Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was all set to make a sequel to his hit documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, and then The Weinstein Company came crashing down. TWC’s Harvey and Bob Weinstein had originally committed $6 million to Moore’s film Fahrenheit 11/9, but in the wake of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein and his ouster from the company, Moore no longer wants his Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel associated with TWC....

‘Fast And Furious’ Drama Continues: Tyrese Shares Video Of The Rock Dissing Tyrese’s 2015 Album By Ben Pearson/Oct. 12, 2017 3:00 pm EST Who would have ever thought there’d be more Fast and Furious drama off screen than in all of the franchise’s movies combined? The latest shots fired come from Tyrese Gibson, who recently begged Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson not to make a spin-off movie and then flew into an Instagram rage and specifically blamed Johnson when Universal announced Fast 9 was being delayed and the spin-off was indeed happening....

‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ Wins Best Picture…at The All Def Movie Awards By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 27, 2017 6:30 am EST Over the weekend, the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards and the 89th cademy Awards both honored Moonlight with the top honors for the Best Picture of 2016. It’s amazing that director Barry Jenkins had his movie recognized for being the stellar piece of cinema that it is. But we need to talk about another Best Picture winner that was seen perhaps even less than the indie Moonlight....

‘Professor Marston And The Wonder Women’ Clip Urges Women To Create Their Own Destiny By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2017 12:00 pm EST Professor Marston and the Wonder Women reveals the rather surprising story of the creator of Wonder Woman, Dr. William Moulton Marston, and the unconventional relationship he had with two women. It’s a charming, thoughtful film that goes places you might not expect it to, and a new clip offers a brief glimpse of the film’s themes....

‘The Grudge’ Remake Is Now Cursed With A Lawsuit By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 3, 2018 11:30 am EST The upcoming The Grudge remake may be in a bit of trouble. Taka lchise, producer of the original Japanese Grudge (Ju-on) franchise, has filed a breach of contract lawsuit, claiming that he was not offered a producer credit on the new movie. The Grudge remake is already filming, but this new development might curse it to an uncertain future....

A MoviePass Outage Crashed The App Friday Night – Here’s How To Get A Refund By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2018 2:00 pm EST A strange scene descended upon movie theaters across the country Friday night. Dozens of confused moviegoers loitered outside movie theater lobbies, furiously swiping at their phones while MoviePass headquarters likely received hundreds of phone calls complaining about the app being down. A MoviePass outage had foiled Friday movie night, on the weekend that the latest Marvel Studios movie had premiered and the ticket-buying service was meant to roll out its divisive peak pricing feature....

Cool Stuff: Bring Home A Life-Size Baby Blue Velociraptor Statue From ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2018 6:00 am EST Remember the life-size hatching velociprator egg statue from Jurassic Park? Well, now you can pick up the next stage in growth of the speedy, intelligent dinosaur in the form of the best thing to come out the franchise revival with Jurassic World. Both Prime 1 Studio and Chronicle Collectibles are releasing their own life-size statues of the baby velociraptor named Blue, seen in video form in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom....

Daily Podcast: Is Ready Player One Spielberg’s Worst Movie? Magic In NYC, Rad, Lost In Space & More By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2018 5:30 pm EST On the April 2, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is back, joined by weekend editor Brad Oman, writer Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the water cooler, and a heated discussion: is Ready Player One really Steven Spielberg’s worst movie?...