The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In June 2019 By Chris Evangelista/May 22, 2019 4:00 pm EST You know the drill: new month, new movies. June is coming, and bringing it with it a whole new slew of titles you’ll be able to stream on Netflix. Check out the best new TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in June 2019. Movies Coming to Netflix in June 2019...
The Morning Watch: The Story Behind ‘SNL’s Diner Lobster, Limitations Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe & More By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2019 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, a video essay dives into the limitations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that you might not be aware of....
Theme Park Bits: A New Rivers Of Light, Galaxy’s Edge Reservations, And More By Josh Spiegel/April 26, 2019 6:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway is headed to Disneyland. The Hard Rock Cafe is sticking around at Universal Orlando for a long time. More reservation details at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge have come out. And more! There’s plenty of new attractions being installed at the Disneyland Resort, but that doesn’t mean that the Imagineers are done adding to the original park....
Water Cooler: Midsommar, Yesterday, Child’s Play, Toy Story 4, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Dead To Me, Awake, New Coke, Spirited Away, The Perfection, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2019 2:08 pm EST On the June 25, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what we’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....
‘Avengers 4’ Will Feature The Surprising Return Of This ‘Captain America’ Character By Ben Pearson/Oct. 25, 2018 12:30 pm EST In comic book movies, dead characters are only dead until they’re needed again. Marvel Studios is no stranger to cinematic resurrections, and now an actor has revealed that a character from the Captain America franchise will make a surprising return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in next year’s Avengers 4. Does this appearance confirm a long-standing theory about what might happen in the superhero sequel?...
‘Dune’ Will Reunite ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ And ‘Deadpool 2’ Star Josh Brolin With His ‘Sicario’ Director By Ben Pearson/Feb. 13, 2019 12:24 pm EST Josh Brolin, who recently played Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Cable in Deadpool 2, is heading to outer space as part of the increasingly-awesome Dune cast. Blade Runner 2049 and Sicario director Denis Villeneuve is adapting author Frank Herbert’s acclaimed science fiction novel into two movies, and has already managed to lock down one of the year’s most impressive collections of actors, including Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem....
‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Featurette Unveils Story Details, Online Ticket Sales By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 16, 2018 10:00 am EST With a month left to go before Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald flies into movie theaters, Warner Bros. has released a new featurette revealing more about the plot of the secretive sequel. With those new story details comes the announcement of online ticket sales for a special early screening of the latest film in the Harry Potter spin-off series....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Board Game ‘Oathbreaker’ Details Revealed And Watch A Behind-The-Scenes Prosthetics Video By Ben Pearson/March 13, 2019 11:30 am EST Two and a half months from now, HBO’s Game of Thrones will be over. Yes, a prequel series is in the works and author George R.R. Martin is still working on finishing his novels to wrap up his story on the page, but this could be the last we see of Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister, and the rest of the fan-favorite characters for quite some time....
‘John Wick 3’ Promises Highest Kill Count Yet, Plus Get A Look At Anjelica Huston In The Sequel By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 26, 2018 2:30 pm EST The John Wick franchise isn’t shy about racking up the kills as the titular assassin tears through the ranks of the secret organization known as The Continental. John Wick: Chapter 2 had a kill count of 128, which was quite the increase from the first film’s count of 84....
‘Judy’ Trailer: Renée Zellwegger Takes You Somewhere Over The Rainbow As Judy Garland By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 10, 2019 11:30 am EST In the twilight of Judy Garland’s career, she would perform a five-week sold-out show in London, right before her last concert appearance in Copenhagen in 1969 and right before her tragic death mere months later. The upcoming biopic Judy centers on that week-long show, while touching on her bright career and a life marked by ecstatic highs and depressing lows....
‘Star Wars: Rise Of The Resistance’ Ride Rumored To Be 28 Minute Experience; New Details Emerge By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2019 7:30 am EST As we approach the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland this June, we are starting to get a better picture of what awaits us in the Star Wars-themed land. While most everyone is talking about Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run, the interactive motion simulator attraction that will put guests in the cockpit of the fastest hunk-of-junk in the galaxy, details are beginning to emerge about the epic immersive dark ride attraction Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance....
‘The Hunt’ Reveals Plot Details, Info On Al Pacino And Logan Lerman’s Nazi-Hunting Characters [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Feb. 14, 2019 9:30 am EST Pacino, Lerman and Hinton are joined by a supporting cast that includes Lena Olin, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Tiffany Boone, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Greg Austin and Dylan Baker. The press release also described their characters: It’s easy to compare this to Inglourious Basterds as it is also historical fantasy about killing Nazis, but there is plenty of room for more takes....
‘The River At Night’ Will Team Eli Roth With ‘Scream’ Writer Kevin Williamson By Chris Evangelista/March 7, 2019 3:30 pm EST Eli Roth and Kevin Williamson, two people who have made a name for themselves in the horror genre, will team for the first time for The River at Night. An adaptation of the novel by Erica Ferencik, the story follows four friends struggling to survive in the Maine wilderness following a white water rafting accident....
‘Watchmen’ Casts ‘Sun Records’ Alum Dustin Ingram In Recurring Role By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 24, 2019 4:00 pm EST The mystery surrounding Damon Lindelof’s upcoming Watchmen series is not getting any clearer, even with the casting of a “key” supporting character. Dustin Ingram, star of the CMT series Sun Records, is joining the Watchmen cast in a recurring role that remains undisclosed. The HBO series inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel has released some footage and shared a vague synopsis, but we still have little clue what Watchmen is about....
Chris Evangelista’s Top 10 Movies Of 2019 So Far By Chris Evangelista/July 2, 2019 7:00 am EST Believe it or not, the surreal nightmare that is 2019 is half over. As we head into the latter half of the year, it’s time to look back at the 10 best movies of 2019 so far. This year was off to a slow start, and some of the films on my list aren’t even out yet – I was lucky enough to catch them at the Sundance Film Festival....
DTV Action Star Scott Adkins Was Considered For Batman, Watch His Audition Video By Ben Pearson/Feb. 7, 2019 1:30 pm EST Before Ben Affleck scored the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. was looking at several actors to take over for Christian Bale as the newest iteration of The Dark Knight. One of the men they considered was Scott Adkins, the martial artist and star of down and dirty direct-to-video action films like Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning....
FOX’s X-Men Series ‘The Gifted’ Canceled After Two Seasons By Ethan Anderton/April 18, 2019 3:00 pm EST News of The Gifted being canceled comes from Deadline. The report points out there’s a chance the series could still be saved by Disney by being moved to Freeform or Hulu, where the Marvel’s shows Cloak and Dagger and Runaways respectively have a home. But at the same time, there have been no real discussions about saving the show anywhere, so don’t count on it....
George R.R. Martin Comments On The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale And Teases A Different Ending For The Books — But Not Really By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2019 1:00 pm EST The fires are out and the ashes have fallen, and Game of Thrones is over. But the story continues, in the form of HBO prequels, and of course, the book series that started it all: George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire....
It’s Time For The Droids Of ‘Star Wars’ To Get Their Own Spin-Off By Donna Dickens/Feb. 6, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to A Different Point of View, a column where we explore the supporting characters of the Star Wars universe and discuss why they deserve more time in the spotlight.)Out of all of the characters in the Star Wars galaxy, no species gets a shorter shaft than the droids. Created to fill gaps in everything from manual labor to cultural translation, there are probably more droids than organic beings in George Lucas’ universe....
Netflix Debuts Images From First Japanese Netflix Original Anime, ‘Eden’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 17, 2019 1:30 pm EST Netflix is starting to become a mecca for anime, with the U.S. version of the streaming service pumping out a new anime series every couple months. But curiously, the Japanese version of Netflix has yet to release its own original anime series. That will soon change with the upcoming series Eden, the first Japanese Netflix Original anime set in a far future where robots roam the Earth and humans are thought to have gone extinct....
