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Here’s Michaela Coel’s Must-Watch Emmys Acceptance Speech For I May Destroy You HBO By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2021 10:53 am EST The Emmy Awards were last night, and even if you didn’t bother to watch the show – like me! – you more than likely heard about the great acceptance speech given by Michaela Coel. Coel took home the Emmy for Best Writing in a Television Limited Series or Movie for her acclaimed HBO series “I May Destroy You,” and her speech was powerful enough to make more than a few people sit up and take notice....

How ‘Servant’ Fits Into M. Night Shyamalan’s Filmography By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 20, 2020 12:00 pm EST One of the most high-profile filmmakers associated with the streaming service Apple TV+ since its launch last November has been M. Night Shyamalan. Promotional images for Servant, which released its tense season finale on Friday, prominently featured the words, “From M. Night Shyamalan” over the title. Shyamalan directed the show’s pilot and serves as one of its executive producers, much like he did with Fox’s Wayward Pines....

Licorice Pizza Early Buzz Hypes A ‘Perfect’ Paul Thomas Anderson Movie MGM Studios By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Nov. 7, 2021 2:05 pm EST Director Paul Thomas Anderson (“Phantom Thread,” “There Will Be Blood”) is returning this month with his brand new coming-of-age dramedy “Licorice Pizza,” which had its very first screening for Hollywood guild members this weekend. Though reviews won’t be out until closer to the movie’s November 26 release date, early buzz from industry members — including J....

Mini-Water Cooler: ‘Shang-Chi’, ‘Hard Boiled’, ‘The Green Knight’, ‘The Virgin Suicides’, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 23, 2021 1:50 pm EST On the August 23, 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 saw Chris (!) and blew out her voice doing karaoke....

I’m Your Huckleberry: Val Kilmer Gives His Own Account Buena Vista Pictures Russell’s interview reveals other fascinating bits of behind-the-scenes lore, like the fact that Kevin Costner was going to star in “Tombstone” before he backed out and decided to do “Wyatt Earp” with Lawrence Kasdan instead. Russell said that Costner was playing industry hardball and “had shut down all avenues of release” for “Tombstone” except for distributor Buena Vista Pictures....

Why It’s Essential Viewing Paramount “mother!” is a lot of things. Horror movie; dark comedy; a satire about the creative process; biblical allegory; a meditation on toxic masculinity; a fever dream. It’s all this, and more. And, perhaps most of all, it’s misunderstood. Indeed, “mother!” seemed destined to be misunderstood from the jump. The marketing was deliberately vague, which lead to people jumping to conclusions. One common complaint I saw in the weeks leading up to the film was that it featured Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence as a married couple even though Bardem is more than 20 years old than Lawrence....

The Resident Season 5: Release Date, Cast, And More By Ryan Scott/Sept. 16, 2021 3:43 pm EST Here is everything you need to know about “The Resident” season 5. The Resident Season 5 Release Date and Where You Can Watch It “The Resident” season 5 premieres Tuesday, September 21, 2021, on Fox. For those who prefer streaming as an option, the show has a home on Hulu. So new episodes can be streamed there the day after they air....

The Legacy of Edward Gorey Harcourt Brace Publishing Gorey was a writer, artist, and Tony Award-winning costume designer known for his trademark pen-and-ink stylings that frequently depicted unsettling or violent scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings. As a small child, one of the first books I ever received was “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” an ABC book that trades standard “A is for apple” fare with descriptions of their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets like “A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears....

The Ugly Truth Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2008 7:07 pm EST From Robert Luketic, the director of 21, Monster-in-Law, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and Legally Blonde, comes a new romantic comedy called The Ugly Truth. Katherine Heigl plays Abby Richter, a romantically challenged morning show producer whose search for Mr. Perfect has left her hopelessly single. She’s in for a rude awakening when her bosses team her with Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a hardcore TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick....

Trivia: Michael K. Williams Was Mostly Cut Out Of ‘The Incredible Hulk’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 23, 2014 9:00 am EST When The Wire first aired, basically everyone on it was a fresh face. Fast forward a decade and watching it is like watching an All Star Game. Several actors from the classic David Simon TV show broke out to become house hold names: Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba, Lance Reddick and more....

VOTD: New ‘Rugrats’ Short Remakes A Classic Scene From The Original Series By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2021 6:00 am EST The new computer animated reboot of Rugrats is coming to Paramount+ on May 27. Dubbed as a reimagining of the classic ’90s hit from Nickelodeon that helped define the unique style of Nicktoons, the series brings back Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Susie and Angelica as they explore the world from their pint-sized and wildly imaginative point-of-view....

‘Black Adam’ Will Introduce The DC Supervillain Group Intergang By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2021 9:13 am EST Black Adam is bringing Dwayne Johnson into the big-screen world of DC Comics as the titular anti-hero who was granted powers by the wizard Shazam thousands of years ago. Joining him will be the superhero team known as Justice Society, but they won’t be the only DC Comics team making an appearance in the movie....

‘Fear Street’ Director Wants To Create A Horror Cinematic Universe To Rival The MCU By Jeremy Mathai/July 19, 2021 9:33 am EST Have you heard? Shared universes are all the rage these days and no amount of extremely public failures by studios not named Marvel are going to deter anyone from achieving that fabled and very trendy golden goose. That said, we can suspend our skepticism a bit when it comes to Netflix’s gory and tremendously fun Fear Street trilogy that recently came to a satisfying close....

‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 2 Trailer Arrives, Season 3 Already Ordered At Netflix By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 2021 11:30 am EST After debuting in the spring of 2019, the animated anthology series Love Death + Robots is coming back for a second round of unique sci-fi stories. Filmmakers Tim Miller (Deadpool) and David Fincher (The Social Network) teamed up to executive produce the series that featured a variety of animation styles and narratives....

‘Penguin Town’ Trailer: Patton Oswalt Narrates The Exploits Of South Africa’s Adorable Penguins By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 24, 2021 4:30 pm EST Penguins are arguably the kings of the nature documentary. Monkeys may have a shot at the title, and sharks have a whole week to themselves, but penguins and their little waddling bodies have been a source of fascination — especially in megahits like 2005’s March of the Penguins. Now with Netflix’s latest docuseries, Penguin Town, a gang of penguins is coming to rule over all of Cape Town....

‘Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings’ Poster And Images Tease Marvel’s Martial Arts Epic By Ben Pearson/April 19, 2021 7:30 am EST Marvel Studios’ first Asian protagonist is almost here. Just before the surprise release of the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer this morning, star Simu Liu shared the first teaser poster for the new film, which is one of three Marvel-related movies set for release this year....

‘Wounds’ Review: Armie Hammer Really Shouldn’t Have Picked Up That Haunted Cell Phone [Sundance] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 28, 2019 12:30 pm EST A sweat-drenched, hypnotizing descent into horror, Babak Anvari’s Wounds is full of contradictions. It’s the type of movie that regularly swings from tense to laughable, from serious to ludicrous, from spine-tingling to eye-rolling. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t thoroughly entertained as I watched Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson go off the deep end after discovering a cursed cell phone....

All Of Arachnophobia Is Terrifying, But This Scene Is One Of The Scariest Ever Amblin By Ariel Fisher AND Matt Donato/Sept. 24, 2021 1:55 pm EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: Ariel discusses a truly traumatic scene in Frank Marshall’s “Arachnophobia” that gave her arachnophobia, and Matt gets to weigh in after his first viewing....

What We Know So Far Mat Hayward / Getty Images The DA further clarified that the weapon used in the incident isn’t really a “prop gun,” but a functional, “antique-era appropriate gun.” Details about the make or model of the firearm are still unclear. One warrant details that “Rust” assistant director Dave Halls grabbed one of three “prop guns,” (as termed in the warrant which came out prior to the DA’s terminology clarification), laid out by Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer....

Daily Podcast: Vin Diesel Joins ‘Avatar’ Sequels? And Interview With ‘F9’ Director Justin Lin By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2021 12:33 pm EST On the June 15, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Vin Diesel possibly joining the Avatar sequels and in Our Feature Presentation, /Film writer Hoai-Tran Bui interviews F9 director Justin Lin....