West Side Story Star Mike Faist On Playing Riff & The ‘Jet-Tivities’ Weekend [Interview] Disney By Jenna Busch/Dec. 10, 2021 11:29 am EST Mike Faist is no stranger to musicals. He originated the role of Connor Murphy in the Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical. He also originated the role of Morris Delancey in Disney’s “Newsies....
Mondo Big Poster by DKNG Mondo Along with the prominently featured Zoltar machine, the border features several references to “Big.” You’ll notice the upper right-hand corner shows the silhouettes of Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins hopping on the trampoline in Josh’s apartment. On each side of the border, around the middle of the poster, you’ll see the robot that transforms into a building. We still don’t get it. The bottom of Zoltar’s bust has been changed into a piano, paying tribute to the famous scene where Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia hop around on the giant keys in FAO Schwarz....
‘Andor’ Casts ‘Chernobyl’ And ‘His Dark Materials’ Actor Robert Emms By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2021 11:29 am EST Andor has added another cast member to its rogueish ensemble. Chernobyl and His Dark Materials actor Robert Emms has joined the Andor cast, boarding the Disney+ spin-off series of Rogue One that is currently in production in the U.K. Deadline reports that Emms has been cast in a supporting role in Andor, though there were no further details available about his character....
‘Big Shot’ Trailer: John Stamos Plays An Inspirational Basketball Coach In New Disney+ Series By Ben Pearson/March 24, 2021 4:00 pm EST Sports movies used to be a big part of the filmgoing landscape, but as Hollywood has evolved into its current form, they’ve become few and far between. Occasionally we’ll get something like The Way Back, the Ben Affleck drunk coach movie, but since the movie industry has largely edged out mid-budget films, those types of stories are shifting to television and streaming....
‘Death Parade’ Is Like A Bloodier Anime Version Of ‘The Good Place’ By Rafael Motamayor/Feb. 19, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)In my last post, I wrote that the sports anime genre is home to many great, and at times bizarre shows featuring games big, small, and just plain weird. While Haikyu! represents that genre at its purest, this week we’ll look at one of the stranger, yet equally as beautiful shows about playing games....
‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Review Round-Up: Not So Much A Movie As A Two-Hour Ad For WB’s Content Library By Ben Pearson/July 14, 2021 1:44 pm EST The first reviews for Space Jam: A New Legacy have arrived (we’ll be publishing our own later this week), and unsurprisingly, they are not kind. The first movie worked like gangbusters for children in 1996, and that generation developed a nostalgic fondness for the original while adults rolled their eyes at its soulless, cash-grab nature....
‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Spoiler Review: There’s A Perfectly Decent Movie Buried In Here, Somewhere By Danielle Ryan/July 19, 2021 10:42 am EST Here’s the thing: I tried with all of my might to give Space Jam: A New Legacy a fair shake. I was a nine-year-old obsessed with both Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes when the first Space Jam came out, and I loved it. I wanted to give the new sequel, starring LeBron James and directed by Malcom D....
‘Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge’ Part 2 Teaser Promises More Thrilling VR Action In A Galaxy Far, Far Away By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2021 6:05 am EST Last fall, Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment studio ILMxLAB and Oculus Quest sent fans into a galaxy far, far away with the immersive, entertaining VR adventure Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge. But that was just the first part of the exciting adventure....
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Featurette Goes Behind The Magic Of The VFX By Chris Evangelista/March 18, 2021 5:30 pm EST Remember The Mandalorian season 2? I’m sure you do, but it almost feels like that season came and went a full year ago, when in reality it wrapped-up in December. Since then, Disney+ viewers have moved on to obsess over WandaVision, and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is dropping tomorrow....
‘The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ Trailer: Emilio Estevez Is Back To Coach A New Team Of Misfits By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 2021 10:00 am EST During Disney’s big investor presentation last year, there was a little tease for the upcoming legacy sequel series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Unfortunately, it was never officially released outside of the presentation. But today brings the first proper teaser trailer, which finds The Mighty Ducks becoming the opposite of everything they used to stand for....
Daily Podcast: Shang-Chi Trailer, How I Met Your Father, Interview With Sasquatch Director, And More By Ben Pearson/April 22, 2021 1:45 pm EST On the April 22, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and TV news, including a new Disney/Sony deal, How I Met Your Father, a new Haunted Mansion movie, and Netflix’s spending in 2021....
Daily Podcast: The Suicide Squad, Free Guy, The Last Letter From Your Lover, The Jinx, Boyz N The Hood, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 3, 2021 1:50 pm EST On the August 3, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by news editor Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Hoai-Tran went to the Met, recently recorded an episode of Trekking Through Time and Space with Paul Scheer, has been doing other stuff too, probably....
FX’s ‘Pose’ Ending With Season 3: “We Got To Tell The Exact Story We Wanted”, Says Ryan Murphy By Ben Pearson/March 5, 2021 5:00 pm EST FX is striking Pose from its line-up. This morning, the co-creators of the groundbreaking, history-making drama series announced that the show is ending with its upcoming third season, which will premiere this May. Read their comments and see some reactions from the cast below....
Guillermo Del Toro Reveals His Scrapped Original Story For Pacific Rim 2 Warner Bros. By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 14, 2021 9:29 pm EST Guillermo del Toro might be on a media blitz for his new noir movie “Nightmare Alley,” but he doesn’t seem to have any problems dishing about his older projects, specifically the sci-fi monster mash that was “Pacific Rim.” The director talked openly about his idea for a sequel to the 2013 film and it sounds pretty wild....
Is Harvey Weinstein Asking Tarantino To Cut 40 Minutes From Inglourious Basterds? By Russ Fischer/June 9, 2009 9:20 am EST Forcing a filmmaker to submit to editorial oversight can be a good thing, but when the Big Brother hanging over your Avid is Harvey Weinstein? Things can get ugly. We knew that Quentin Tarantino was making some cuts and changes to Inglourious Basterds in the wake of the film’s Cannes Premiere, tightening that 2 hour 27 minute cut and even adding a scene or two....
Michael Bay To Blow More Stuff Up In Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2008 6:00 am EST The neighbors of the Transformers 2 Bethlehem Steel movie set have gotten a letter from the location manager warning them of, among other things, “large scale pyrotechnics”. Yes that’s right folks… As expected, Michael Bay will be blowing more s*** up in the Transformers sequel, beginning next week (Not that anyone was expecting anything less…)....
Midnight Mass Composers The Newton Brothers Rediscovered The Beauty Of Hymns [Interview] Netflix By Jack Giroux/Oct. 9, 2021 12:44 pm EST The Newton Brothers go way back with director Mike Flanagan. Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart have been composing the horror maestro’s movies and shows since “Oculus.” They brought emotion, not just horror, to “Hush,” “Doctor Sleep,” and “The Haunting of Hill House,” to name a few. It’s the drama, not always the horror, that the composers are responding to first and foremost....
Netflix’s The Starling Is A Long-Awaited Dream Come True For Screenwriter Matt Harris [Interview] Netflix By Ryan Scott/Sept. 21, 2021 7:53 pm EST Making movies is hard. That’s no secret. But sometimes getting a specific movie made is exceptionally difficult, and it takes years to make it happen. Such is the case with “The Starling,” an upcoming Netflix drama starring Melissa McCarthy that has been more than 15 years in the making....
Ridley Scott To Direct A Napoleon Film Starring Joaquin Phoenix By Ben Pearson/Oct. 14, 2020 12:30 pm EST Sir Ridley Scott seems poised to do what Stanley Kubrick famously could not: make a movie about Napoleon. A new report says Scott is set to direct an epic Napoleon film called Kitbag which will reunite him with his Gladiator cast member Joaquin Phoenix, who recently won a Best Actor trophy at the Oscars for his work on last year’s Joker....
Sam Richardson Is The Latest Addition To The Hocus Pocus Sequel IFC Films By Ryan Scott/Oct. 21, 2021 4:52 pm EST “Hocus Pocus 2” is continuing to come together behind the scenes at Disney, and another key piece of the puzzle has been put into place. The long-awaited sequel has enlisted the talents of Sam Richardson (“Veep”), who will become a new cast member mixing it up with the Sanderson sisters this time around....
