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‘Three Women’ Showtime Series Will Star Shailene Woodley By Shania Russell/July 22, 2021 6:50 pm EST Shailene Woodley is returning to the small screen very soon in the upcoming Showtime drama Three Women. Woodley has a starring role but, ironically, will not be one of the titular women that the show revolves around. Instead, she’ll be the person prompting the telling of their stories. The series is an adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s non-fiction bestseller of the same name and takes a multigenerational approach, focusing on women at different stages in their lives....

A New Live Read Of It’s A Wonderful Life Will Star Jason Sudeikis, Rosario Dawson, Mark Hamill & More Apple By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 3, 2021 10:50 am EST Your dad’s favorite holiday movie is getting the celebrity live read treatment, and it’s actually kind of sweet. Instead of spending two hours on the couch drinking your way through the Christmas classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” you’ve been invited to spend two hours lounging around someone’s laptop as you watch names like Jason Sudeikis, Rosario Dawson, Mark Hamill and more read out all of your favorite “It’s a Wonderful Life” scenes....

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: Fear Street, Last Night In Soho, The Empty Man, And More Netflix By Ben Pearson/Oct. 29, 2021 3:02 pm EST On the October 29, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior news editor Jacob Hall 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: Jacob did a haunted house trip for the first time in two years....

Looking Back On The Year of Lin-Manuel Miranda Warner Bros. 2021 wound up being a big year for those who can’t get enough of the work of Lin-Manuel Miranda. The “Hamilton” creator saw the delayed film adaptation of his and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ stage musical “In the Heights” hit theaters, along with the debut of “Vivo” — an animated musical he wrote the songs for and lent his voice to — after Sony sold the movie to Netflix....

Here’s When You Can Watch Last Night In Soho At Home Focus Features By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 10, 2021 1:48 pm EST Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” marked fresh new ground for the distinctive filmmaker, as he took the plunge into full-blown horror after otherwise keeping one foot firmly in the realm of comedy to this point — although his latest effort still retains quite a bit of the same DNA as his prior films....

Marvel Movies Outside Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Are Now “Marvel Legacy” Titles On Disney+ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 12, 2020 11:30 am EST In the Disney+ app, if you navigate to the page with all of the various Marvel Comics-based titles, there’s now a category called “Marvel Legacy,” which features all the Marvel movies on Disney+ that don’t take place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This feels similar to the way Disney started to differentiate between the new era of canonical Star Wars adventures and all those that came before by classifying the old books, comics, and more as non-canon Star Wars Legends....

MoviePass Intentionally Stopped Customers From Seeing Movies, You Know, Like A Liar By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2021 8:23 am EST Hey, remember MoviePass? The movie ticketing subscription service shook up the movie theater industry back in 2017 when it boldly offered customers the opportunity to see one movie in theaters every day for the low cost of $10 per month. MoviePass became extremely popular and it sparked plenty of rage from the major movie theater chains....

Paranormal Entity Movie Trailer, Asylum’s Take On Paranormal Activity By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 16, 2009 12:23 am EST I’m not exactly sure what direct-to-DVD masterminds The Asylum could add to their own version of Paranormal Activity. The film was already incredibly low-budget, so I’m thinking they’re just going to focus on doubling up on their special-sauce of s***. Now we have the trailer for Asylum’s Paranormal Entity, and it’s pretty much everything I expected: A mashup of Blair Witch meets Paranormal Activity, with little originality on the horizon....

Sacha Baron Cohen Reveals How The ‘Borat 2’ Rudy Giuliani Scene Happened In a conversation with Ben Affleck for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Baron Cohen revealed how he, director Jason Woliner, and the Borat 2 production pulled off the prank against Rudy Giuliani, even with the fear that it could easily go wrong: But Baron Cohen explained that Bakalova’s safety was his top priority, even with the disadvantage of his low-battery phone....

Sample The Soundtrack For Prisoners Of The Ghostland, The Craziest Movie Of 2021 [Exclusive] RLJE Films By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 16, 2021 8:30 am EST Milan Records is proud to announce the release of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for “Prisoners of the Ghostland” from critically acclaimed composer Joseph Trapanese (“The Raid,” “Straight Outta Compton,” “The Greatest Showman”). The album will be available everywhere on Friday, September 17, 2021, but you can preview the track “Radioactive” exclusively below, right here on /Film!...

Ten Year Old Tom: Release Date, Cast, And More HBO By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 17, 2021 9:43 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) The river of original content over at HBO Max keeps flowing and in addition to the availability of Adult Swim programming, the streaming service is quickly solidifying itself as the premiere spot for fresh and unique adult animation....

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Legendary Pictures Out the gate, “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” served as one of the most effective horror films ever made, directly influencing today’s genre giants like Alexandre Aja and Rob Zombie. Going beyond the original 1974 film’s shock value, each subsequent sequel dances from tone to tone as wildly as Leatherface twirling his saw before the setting sun — Hooper himself leaned more into the dark comedy in his own sequel “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2....

The 15 Best Odd Couples In Television History HBO By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 28, 2021 11:55 am EST Unusual duos are always a blast — there’s something exciting about two very different people who manage to have a deep friendship. It’s also the foundation for a lot of friction, which is the heart of good storytelling. Over the years there have been dozens of television odd couples. One series, “The Odd Couple,” took the trope to extremes in 1970, following the adventures of Felix and Oscar, two recently divorced men forced to live together....

The Dune Sequel: What Comes After Part One? Warner Bros. Pictures By Max Evry/Oct. 22, 2021 1:15 pm EST The coming of the cinematic messiah that is filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s new version of “Dune” is upon us. While the film naturally takes some liberties with Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, it is a far more reverent take on the material than David Lynch’s failed 1984 attempt. This new movie shows us scenes, themes, and even whole planets from the classic tome that had previously been unexplored on the silver screen....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Midnight Diner’ Offers A Safe Haven Of Slice Of Life Stories And Hearty Japanese Meals By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 9, 2020 2:00 pm 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 Series: Midnight DinerWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: A tiny, tucked-away diner in Tokyo opens only between the hours of midnight and 7 A....

The Wicked Movie Has Been Hit With Another Production Delay Playbill/Joan Marcus By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 27, 2021 12:58 pm EST Well, folks, it seems like we’re going to be looking toward the western sky for a lot longer as Universal’s film adaptation of the smash-hit Broadway musical “Wicked” has been held up by yet another production delay. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Wicked” was originally scheduled to begin filming in March of 2022 in Atlanta, but the start of production has been pushed a few months to June, and the shooting location has shifted across the pond to the U....

Weeds Session: Is Episode “Van Nuys” The Nice Calm Before Another Botwin Storm? Monday’s Episode Is Set Six Months Later By Hunter Stephenson/July 12, 2009 9:00 am EST The previous three episodes of Weeds were the breeziest of the season and decidedly welcome after the brick-cold start. However, by now viewers are conditioned to expect another hellish crescendo to fall upon the resilient Botwins. It’s like dysfunctional clockwork. And these days, even the lighthearted eps dance inside an atmosphere of widespread murder and violent threat....

A Plane Crash Landing Gets Musical Universal Pictures Variety has the news on “Where the Fore Are We?” and here’s the official synopsis: After a crash landing leaves the passengers and crew of a commercial flight stranded for three months, the film follows members of this makeshift community who begin to put together a production of a Shakespearean play to keep themselves occupied, despite their captain trying to focus them on getting rescued....

Why James Cameron Aspires To Find His “Inner Ron Howard” By Ben Pearson/June 23, 2021 1:21 pm EST James Cameron, the director of several of the biggest films in history, has cultivated a reputation as a perfectionist who isn’t above screaming and yelling at people on his sets to achieve his vision. But it sounds like Cameron is actively making an effort to try to chill out a little bit, and he is looking at a fellow Hollywood veteran as his new North Star: Ron Howard, the filmmaker behind Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, and The Da Vinci Code....

Why You Should See ‘In The Heights’ In A Theater, According To The Director And Writer By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 9, 2021 9:19 am EST It’s been roughly 15 months since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit and we were last able to see movies safely in theaters. Some moviegoers have already started braving the cinemas in recent months to get that long-missed big-screen screen experience. But others have reasonably been cautious about going to the movie theater, either because of crowds or lack of vaccinations....