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‘Heathers’ TV Show Will Have A ‘Kill Bill’-Style Fight With Croquet Mallets, F-Bombs And More [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 15, 2018 3:00 pm EST /Film had a one-on-one interview with Jason Micallef, developer and showrunner of the Heathers TV adaptation, after his Television Critics Association panel. We’ll bring you that full interview when the show premieres in March, but during out conversation, Micallef revealed that episode four would have a Kill Bill style fight scene with croquet mallets....

‘Race To Crashpoint Tower’ Is A ‘Star Wars’ Story As A Side Quest, But That’s Perfectly Okay By Bryan Young/June 29, 2021 8:55 am EST This contains minor spoilers.Playing throughout the events of Cavan Scott’s new novel The Rising Storm, Daniel Jose Older’s Race to Crashpoint Tower (with illustrations by Petur Antonsson) tells the tale of Jedi padawans Ram Jomaram and Lula Talisola. Ram has a cameo in The Rising Storm and Lula Talisola features prominently in Older’s IDW High Republic Adventures comic book series....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Makes A Senseless “Sacrifice” In The Latest Episode By Caroline Cao/Aug. 7, 2019 3:30 pm EST “Sacrifice”, the twelfth episode of The Handmaid’s Tale season 3, steadies the viewer into absorbing a shock that contrives character conflict for June (Elisabeth Moss) while devaluing another character under the guise of something nebulously “thematic.“The previous episode of the Handmaid’s Tale threw two gamechangers: the arrest of the Waterfords (Joseph Fiennes and Yvonne Strahovski) across the Canadian border and the death of High Commander Winslow....

2021 Sundance Film Festival Awards Go To ‘Coda,’ ‘Summer Of Soul,’ And More By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 3, 2021 8:30 am EST The biggest winner was Coda, (read our review here), a film that won three awards, which isn’t typical for Sundance. I missed it during the fest, but by all accounts, it’s a film that’s bound to play well with audiences. “Coda is a sweet and unassuming melody of a film, playing into all the expectations of the coming-of-genre, before it swells into a great heave of emotion,” wrote /Film’s Hoai-Tran Bui....

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 8 Release Date and Where You Can Watch It NBC The ten-episode final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine premieres on NBC on Thursday, August 12, 2021. If you don’t have access to a television with a basic connection, you can watch the show on NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock (although you’ll probably have to shell out some money for Peacock Premium if you want to watch the new season as it airs)....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ In Disguise Action Figures Up For Pre-Order Today By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2021 6:00 am EST NECA has an ongoing deal that makes Target the exclusive retailer for action figures inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. That has made many of the TMNT action figures rather tough for collectors to snag. Thankfully, NECA has been able to offer pre-orders of some of the hard-to-find animated figures through their own online shop, and the pre-order treatment is finally being given to one of the coveted sets featuring all four of the heroes in a half-shell: Turtles in Disguise....

Daily Podcast: Farewell To ArcLight, Indy 5, New Star Trek Movie, Gundam, And The Future Of Disney Parks By Ben Pearson/April 13, 2021 1:30 pm EST On the April 13, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta, managing editor Jacob Hall, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and TV news, including the closing of the ArcLight Cinemas, the cast of Indiana Jones 5, the future of Disney Parks, a live-action Gundam movie, and some big release date changes....

David Lowery And Dev Patel On Making History, And Humanizing The Fantasy, In ‘The Green Knight’ [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 27, 2021 6:17 am EST “I was just really taken with the idea of seeing Dev on a horse in armor with a sword, with that axe, an image that just instantly just like it felt right to me,” Lowery told /Film in a Zoom interview with him and Patel for the upcoming A24 fantasy epic The Green Knight....

31 Saban Films Rob Zombies “31” is not good. A tapestry of uber violence and juvenile antics, it’s Zombie’s worst impulses manifesting in increasingly repulsive ways. As with most of his filmic output, his real life wife Sheri Moon Zombie stars. She plays Charly, otherwise known as #5. She leads a group of carnies in 1976, kidnapped by a gang of homicidal clowns known as The Heads. The Heads force the carnies to engage in a 12-hour game of survival whereby they must endure a series of mazes, all while being hunted by the clowns....

Hawkeye Clip: Hawkeye’s Got A Branding Problem Marvel Studios By Ben Pearson/Nov. 16, 2021 2:19 pm EST We’re less than ten days from the release of “Hawkeye,” the latest Disney+ streaming series from Marvel Studios that’s set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show has already garnered some strong word of mouth from critics who have gotten an early look at a couple of the episodes, and as “Hawkeye” ticks off the remaining days until its debut, Marvel wants to make sure you know that the show is almost here....

HBO’s ‘The Last Of Us’ Series Taps Merle Dandridge To Reprise Role As Marlene From Original Game By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2021 1:30 pm EST At least one character in HBO’s TV adaptation of the acclaimed video game The Last of Us will sound exactly the same. That would be Marlene, whose actress from the original video game Merle Dandridge has been cast to reprise the role for the high-profile TV series....

Here’s Where You Can Stream Or Rent Every Rocky And Creed Movie MGM By Ben Pearson/Sept. 1, 2021 3:04 pm EST (Welcome to Where to Watch, which provides a clear and simple answer to the question, “Hey, where can I watch this thing?” In this edition: the Rocky/Creed franchise.) “Creed III” is officially in the works with Michael B. Jordan starring and making his directorial debut. That sequel does not arrive until November 2022, but if you want to be all caught up on the whole franchise by the time it comes out, here is where you can stream or rent all of the previous “Rocky” and “Creed” movies so far....

How The Captain America Musical In The Hawkeye Series Came Together Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2021 12:19 pm EST Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series “Hawkeye” will allow us to spend a little more time with everyone’s favorite bow and arrow specialist around the holidays. Unfortunately for Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), that means he won’t be heading home for the holidays with his family as soon as he’d like. The superhero finds himself keeping an aspiring archer (and Hawkeye fangirl) named Kate Bishop out of harm’s way when she inadvertently puts herself square in the sights of some dangerous people after coming into the possession of Hawkeye’s Ronin outfit....

Movies To Watch If You Loved Fast & Furious 9 Universal Pictures By Chris Compendio/Oct. 19, 2021 2:09 pm EST As “F9” roared into theaters, viewers both casual and devoted feverishly caught up on the Fast & Furious franchise’s oddly complex lore and timeline. But once you’re finished with NOS, Coronas, and the overbearing themes of family, you may want to find other movies that maintain the adrenaline rush that the Fast & Furious movies provide....

Needle In A Timestack Trailer: Orlando Bloom And Leslie Odom Jr. Star In A Sci-Fi Brain Bender Lionsgate By Ben Pearson/Sept. 16, 2021 5:51 pm EST Oscar winning screenwriter John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave”) has been relatively quiet for the past few years, but he’s getting back in the mix with a twisty new science fiction film. The movie has a solid cast – Leslie Odom Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Orlando Bloom, Frieda Pinto, and Jadyn Wong – but a truly terrible title: “Needle in a Timestack....

When and Where to Watch Ragnarok Season 3 Netflix I won’t attempt to beat around the bush. Season 3 of “Ragnarok” has yet to receive an official renewal, let alone a premiere date. Granted, the second season only just released in May of 2021. Someone’s going to have to stop me from going off on a “Back in my day…” rant (meaning that far-gone era known as the 1990s) in which I explain how we didn’t have the luxury of considering a few months time between a series finale and news of the next season as “overdue” or anything silly like that....

Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release [Updated] By Danielle Ryan/July 29, 2021 12:16 pm EST Update: Disney has responded to the lawsuit, saying it has “no merit whatsoever” and saying it is “sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The statement continued: “Disney has fully complied with Ms. Johansson’s contract and furthermore, the release of Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access has significantly enhanced her ability to earn additional compensation on top of the $20M she has received to date....

Superhero Bits: ‘Batman: The Long Halloween’ Trailer, Wyatt Russell’s Favorite John Walker Meme & More By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2021 6:00 pm EST Want to see the first trailer for DC Comics’ animated Batman: The Long Halloween movie? How many views did the new Black Widow trailer get in 24 hours? What is Wyatt Russell’s favorite meme about John Walker? What Fantastic Four comic has gone up in value thanks to Loki?...

WandaVision Credits Scene Update First of all, let’s just talk about how it’s rather strange (no pun intended) that Marvel Studios can simply update their shows in this fashion without alert or explanation. Granted, Marvel probably didn’t think anyone would notice this update, because if someone held a gun to my head and asked me whether this scene had been altered from its original debut, I’d have a new hole in my face....

The 10 Best Western Movies Of The Past Decade Ranked Paramount Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Sept. 16, 2021 4:03 pm EST Steven Spielberg famously commented that the rise of superhero movies reminded him of the popularity of westerns, which has declined precipitously since the genre’s heyday. And yet, ironically, westerns haven’t taken a backseat in the past decade. If the mix of subversive and traditional western films over the past 10 years indicates anything, it’s that the genre is always changing....