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The Daily Stream: ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Teaches Us All To Be Better Through Song By Danielle Ryan/July 19, 2021 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Series: Crazy Ex-GirlfriendWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), an Ivy League grad and hotshot lawyer in New York City, runs into her old summer camp flame, Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III), and decides to leave her life in New York behind....

The Daily Stream: ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Shakes Up Shakespeare By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 12, 2021 12:29 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: Romeo + JulietWhere You Can Stream It: Paramount+The Pitch: Remember the play you read in high school about the two families who hated each other, but their teenage kids ended up falling in love?...

The Morning Watch: Marvel Disney+ Day Breakdown, Obi-Wan Kenobi Featurette Details & More Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 15, 2021 7:59 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, take a closer look at the snippets of footage that Marvel Studios released from their upcoming TV shows during Disney+ Day last week and see some details you might have missed....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Surf’s Up’ Is A Radical Wave Of Animated Mockumentary Comedy By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 2021 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Surf’s UpWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Cody, a Rockhopper penguin, journeys from his home in Shiverpool, Antarctica, to take part in the Big Z Memorial Surf-Off on beautiful Pen Gu Island....

Theme Park Bits: The Jungle Cruise Returns, Disneyland To Open To Out-Of-State Travelers, And More By Josh Spiegel/June 2, 2021 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: The Jungle Cruise returns to the Disney theme parks this July. California will welcome out-of-state travelers starting in mid-June. Universal bets on the Tokyo Olympics. And more! As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes…well, let’s say at least more reasonable in the United States, restrictions on a state-by-state level continue to be removed....

Timur Bekmambetov Wants To Make A ‘Night Watch’ Sequel Using The Screenlife Format By Jack Giroux/May 11, 2021 1:00 pm EST It can’t be understated what a big deal Night Watch was in Russia. It was the highest-grossing Russian film ever produced and changed the game there when it was released in 2004. With a small budget by Hollywood standards, director Timur Bekmambetov created an ambitious and morally ambiguous horror-fantasy film for adults....

What Happened To James Cameron’s Spider-Man Movie By David Chen/Dec. 24, 2009 11:43 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Up next: Whatever happened to James Cameron’s version of Spider-Man? Hit the break for a brief excerpt from Keegan’s book explaining the aborted endeavor. Note that the details of this entire process have already been well-documented, but Cameron’s quotes and reactions are new. Hardcore James Cameron fans will probably recall that Cameron was once attached to write/direct a film adaptation of Spider-Man....

Will Ferrell and Winning Time’s Series Ambitions New Line Cinema Hearing McKay emphasize how much Reilly looks like Buss serves as a reminder that his casting of this role was the final nail in the coffin of his collaboration and friendship with Will Ferrell, who made “Anchorman” and numerous other films with him. We recently learned that Ferrell was vying for the Buss role and that McKay had cast his best friend and frequent co-star, Reilly, without telling him....

‘Everything, Everything’ Trailer: This Summer’s Potential YA Tearjerker By Jack Giroux/Feb. 15, 2017 7:30 am EST Director Stella Meghie’s (Jean of the Joneses) adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s novel, Everything, Everything, looks like a movie that’ll get some moviegoers reaching for a kleenex box. The romance stars Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) and Nick Robinson (Jurassic World) in a love story about a teenage girl who can’t ever leave the house....

‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Trailer: An Animated ‘Trek’ For The Next Generation Of Fans By Danielle Ryan/July 23, 2021 11:51 am EST Set phasers to stun, because this one’s for the kiddos. Paramount+ debuted the official teaser trailer for Star Trek: Prodigy, the first Trek series for younger audiences. The series will follow a crew of teenage alien misfits who discover a Starfleet ship and commandeer it for their own use. They have no idea what Starfleet is, but over the course of their adventures, they will learn just as much as any Academy grad....

‘The Matrix 4’ Star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Teases Cutting Edge Camera Rigs, Ambitious Tech By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 11, 2021 6:54 pm EST Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has made the cover of The Hollywood Reporter, and in the midst of profiling his rise to stardom, the magazine has extracted some details from him about his involvement in The Matrix 4. In case you forgot, there’s a new Matrix movie headed for theaters and HBO Max later this year....

‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’ Comes To Netflix In April By Chris Evangelista/March 23, 2021 1:30 pm EST The Mitchells vs. The Machines, a film once titled Connected, finally has a Netflix release date: April 30. Once upon a time, the animated comedy was headed to theaters – but then the pandemic came, and Sony struck up a deal with Netflix to premiere the film instead. Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written and directed by Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe, The Mitchells vs....

A Brief History Of The ‘Star Wars’ Universe That Once Was By Rosie Knight/Jan. 26, 2018 12:30 pm EST A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away there was a very special place where countless books, comics, and video games all lived under the same canon. Spanning millennia, these tales allowed your favorite space opera to live on and grow outside of the films you know and love. It was a world where your most beloved heroes had children and most hated villains had entire art galleries dedicated to poor souls trapped in carbonite....

If Preacher’s Too Much For You, Prepare For The Boys Collateral damage and civilian deaths are one thing, but the comic version of The Boys goes there and beyond. Some superheroes even sexually harass women, or worse. Kripke didn’t want to shy away from the worst of the abuse of superpower: “The comic book is incendiary in its material. There’s a ton of really shocking s***. It’s a really irreverent, really edgy show....

Benedict Cumberbatch Improvised Calling Tony Stark A ‘Douchebag’ In Avengers: Infinity War Marvel By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 8, 2021 12:29 pm EST Don’t ask me why, but nothing lights up certain circles of film fans quite like (usually unsubstantiated) claims that a certain scene or line of dialogue was improvised in a major movie or show. If true, it usually tends to be overblown or a simple case where everyone talked over alternate lines or ways to play specific moments that might not necessarily have been present in the script itself....

Daily Podcast: Scorsese’s Grateful Dead Film, An Under Siege Reboot, And A Point Break TV Show CNN Films On the November 18, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior writer and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Martin Scorsese’s new movie, an Under Siege remake, and a possible Point Break TV series. Opening Banter: In The News:...

Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Days Later’ Delivered One Of The Most Stressful Scenes In Modern Horror By Meagan Navarro/April 23, 2021 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror. In this edition: 28 Days Later relies on stakes and staging to draw out tension in its most intense scene.) The early aughts marked a substantial shift in the zombie subgenre. The back-to-back releases of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake introduced faster, meaner swarms of zombies that couldn’t be outmaneuvered quite as easily as their predecessors....

Director Jay Baruchel On The Long Road To ‘Goon: Last Of The Enforcers’ [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Sept. 1, 2017 7:00 am EST Doug Glatt (Sean William Scott) finally found his calling in Goon. In the sequel, his days are numbered on the ice, so the lovable goon with a massive fist finds himself lost again. Baruchel doesn’t forget the laughs, of course, but as he pointed out in our interview, hockey is changing for the enforcers, with fights dropping in the NHL....

Uprising The first film in Steve McQueen’s documentary film series is “Uprising,” directed by Steve McQueen and James Rogan. “Uprising” will actually be comprised of three hour-long episodes instead of being a single feature film. Here’s the official synopsis: Uprising is a vivid and visceral three-part documentary series (comprised of three hour-long episodes) examining three events from 1981 in the UK: The New Cross Fire that killed 13 Black youths, the Black People’s Day of Action, which saw more than 20,000 people join the first organized mass protest by Black British people, and the Brixton riots....

Everything Steven Soderbergh Watched And Read In 2015 By Jack Giroux/Jan. 7, 2016 3:45 pm EST For the past couple of years, director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) has been keeping track of everything he watches and reads in a year. Considering he was recently working on season two of Cinemax’s The Knick, it’s kind of astonishing how much entertainment he consumed this year. Find out what Steven Soderbergh watched and read in 2015 after the jump....