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Multiple GameStop Stock Movies Are In The Works – And Now A TV Show, Too [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Feb. 1, 2021 2:05 pm EST Update: Deadline reports that a TV series about the GameStop/Wall Street chaos called To the Moon is now in the works from a new company called Pinky Promise. Writer Noam Tomaschoff has reportedly met with “long-time, active members of the r/WallStreetBets reddit” to ensure they’re getting the details of the story correct, and the show will follow “two roommates laid off from their jobs at GameStop and AMC, who turn Covid into lemonade by using their stimulus checks to dip into the world of day trading....

Netflix’s Tomb Raider Anime Casts Hayley Atwell As Lara Croft Marvel By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 13, 2021 11:22 am EST From one British heroine to the next. Hayley Atwell is no stranger to portraying gun-wielding action heroes thanks to her turn as Peggy Carter in the lovely “Captain America: The First Avenger,” her tragically short-lived ABC series “Agent Carter,” and most recently reprising her role in the world of animation with the first episode of “Marvel’s What If…?...

New ‘Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar’ Clips Show Jamie Dornan Flexing His Comedy Chops By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 5, 2021 4:30 pm EST Lionsgate has released two new Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar clips that give the spotlight to Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo’s hunky co-star Jamie Dornan. But the Fifty Shades of Grey star is out to show that he can be fifty shades of funny as well....

Sex Education Season 4 Is Coming – Let’s Break Down What Could Happen Next Netflix By Shania Russell/Sept. 27, 2021 1:53 pm EST Moordale isn’t done with us just yet. The teens of “Sex Education” still have a lot to learn about love, relationships, and the wide world around them. Many fan-favorite characters spent the third season finally coming into themselves and it would be a shame to miss out on what comes next....

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Poster Teases Disney’s Immersive New Hotel By Josh Spiegel/July 22, 2021 6:37 am EST One of the biggest gambles for the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in the 2020s is the new hotel experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios themed to Star Wars. See, it’s one thing to have an attraction themed to the stories set in a galaxy far, far away, or even a land themed to those same stories....

Superhero Bits: Listen To Batman: The Audio Adventures Now, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Could Return & More DC Comics By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2021 3:48 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The 13 Best Movie Characters Of 2014 By Angie Han/Dec. 8, 2014 8:00 am EST Creating a truly great character is no easy task. Everything has to come together, from the script to the costuming to the acting. But when they do, the result feels like more than the sum of its parts. In a matter of hours or even minutes, great characters manage to feel as real and vivid as anyone we’ve met in real life....

By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 9, 2016 8:00 am EST One of the most iconic scenes in Heat is where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino calmly sit down for a man-to-man chat in an effort to understand each other a little better, both affirming that neither is going to stop what they’re doing, and they’re not going to let each other get in their way. Bringing these two together for a confrontation for the first time was a big deal, and there were even rumors that Pacino and De Niro never shot the scene together, opting to do each part independently of each other....

Children of Men Universal Pictures “Children of Men” is not just one of the best sci-fi films of the decade, but one of the best films period. Director Alfonso Cuarón shot the hell out of this movie, delivering some of the most impressive, breath-taking single-take sequences that we’ve ever seen. They’re the kind of shots that make you stare in amazement and wonder just how they hell they pulled them off....

The Morning Watch: ‘Black Widow’ VFX Breakdown, Making The Music Of ‘Fear Street’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 4, 2021 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, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, check out a Black Widow VFX breakdown showcasing some of the work done on the Marvel Studios blockbuster starring Scarlett Johansson....

Larping and Other ‘Jet-tivities’ 20th Century Studios Spielberg’s “West Side Story” is coming 60 years after the original Academy Award-winning film adaptation, starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer. The world has changed a lot since then, and now there is a thing called LARPing (Live Action Role Playing), which you may have seen featured on “Hawkeye” recently if you’ve been keeping up with that Disney+ series. Believe it or not, Faist and his co-stars did a little LARPing while they were getting into character for “West Side Story....

‘Mayday’ Review: Mia Goth Leads A Group Of Lost Girls To War In A Dreamy, Distorted ‘Peter Pan’ Fable [Sundance 2021] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2021 3:30 pm EST “Mary, Alpha, Yankee, Delta, Alpha, Yankee…” a woman’s voice lazily repeats over radio static, as a man parachutes from a helicopter amid a freak storm. That refrain echoes throughout Karen Cinorre’s surreal drama: “Mayday, mayday” the woman calls, not appearing to need much help at all....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Director James Gunn Says He’s Spoken With Warner Bros. About More DC Projects By Shania Russell/July 28, 2021 8:21 am EST James Gunn must be a very busy man because lately, his name has been everywhere. Gunn is especially popular this summer, because of his upcoming blockbuster The Suicide Squad – but that’s not the only reason he keeps making headlines. Gunn is particularly in demand right now, already splitting his time between two major studios, Marvel and Warner Bros....

‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Season 3 Teaser: Our Favorite Vampires Are Back And They Brought VR By Danielle Ryan/July 14, 2021 3:31 pm EST Good news, vampire fans! What We Do in the Shadows has released a season 3 teaser ahead of its September 2 premiere. It’s been more than a year since we last saw our favorite gang of bloodsuckers (and Guillermo), so I’ll take whatever morsels FX can spare....

Apple Buys Sundance Darling ‘CODA’ For A Record-Setting $25 Million By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 1, 2021 3:00 pm EST CODA, which tells the story of an aspiring singer and lone hearing person in a deaf family (Locke and Key’s Emilia Jones), has become the center of the largest-ever deal at the Sundance Film Festival, with Apple forking over roughly $25 million for the rights to the family dramedy. The previous record-setter was Hulu’s Palm Springs, which sold for $22....

Cool Stuff: Mark Englert’s New ‘The Mandalorian’ Poster Focuses On Ahsoka Tano’s Pivotal Episode By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 24, 2021 12:00 pm EST We’ll be waiting awhile before we return to the story of The Mandalorian, but as we wait for the third season to arrive on Disney+, artist Mark Englert has some outstanding new artwork to keep our spirits up. Inspired by one of the pivotal episodes of the second season of The Mandalorian, this new poster features Mando meeting with Ahsoka Tano as she tests Grogu and his skills with The Force....

Daily Podcast: Knives Out Sequels, DC Movies Canceled, Laika’s Seventeen, Avatar 2 & Justice League By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2021 1:45 pm EST On the April 5, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista, to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Knives Out sequels, DC Movies canceled, Laika’s Seventeen, Avatar 2, and Justice League. Opening Banter: How was everyone’s April fools Day?...

DC Comics Docuseries Coming To HBO Max From The Pixar Story Director DC Comics By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 25, 2021 11:47 am EST HBO Max is continuing to increase its DC content with a three-part docuseries about the comic book company’s history and legacy. Leslie Iwerks — an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated director whose previous credits include “The Pixar Story” and “The Imagineering Story” docuseries at Disney+ — will be co-directing the DC Comics docuseries....

Finch Poster Shows Off Post-Apocalyptic Tom Hanks, His Robot, And His Dog Apple TV+ By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 16, 2021 10:08 am EST I know of only two constants that keep me grounded amid this chaotic and unpredictable world: Zendaya is Meechee, and Tom Hanks is Finch. That latter point is what’s relevant here, as Amblin Entertainment and Apple TV+ have revealed the first official poster for the post-apocalyptic movie that’s fittingly titled — you guessed it — “Finch....

Four Great Steven Soderbergh Audio Commentaries Tracks By Jack Giroux/Aug. 21, 2017 11:00 am EST If you want to have a great weekend, listening to a bunch of Steven Soderbergh commentaries isn’t a wrong way to go. His tracks are as varied and as entertaining as his movies. While some filmmakers try to retain some mystery about their process or films, Soderbergh goes in the opposite direction. He is an open book....