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‘Uncut Gems’ Coming To The Criterion Collection In October By Chris Evangelista/July 15, 2021 10:20 am EST This is how you win. Uncut Gems, the anxiety-inducing Adam Sandler flick from the Safdie Brothers, is headed to the Criterion Collection. And before you start shouting about how an Adam Sandler movie is now part of the esteemed Criterion Collection, I must remind you that’s nothing new. Sandler’s Paul Thomas Anderson movie Punch-Drunk Love is also part of the collection....

5 Musicals To Watch After ‘In The Heights’ By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2021 2:09 pm EST Director Jon M. Chu’s vibrant, joyful film adaptation of the musical In the Heights hit theaters and HBO Max one week ago. If you’ve seen that movie but want to continue to immerse yourselves in the singing, dancing, and wonderfully choreographed world of musicals, here is a list of five musicals to watch after In the Heights....

All 58 Walt Disney Animation Studios Films Ranked From Worst To Best [Part Two] By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 12, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to Walt Disney Animation Ranked, a three-part series where we’re ranking all 58 feature-length animated films released by the Walt Disney Company. This is part two of three.) What must it have been like to live in a time when feature-length animated films were perceived as folly? Growing up in the era of the Disney Renaissance means that feature animation was always just part of the family-movie landscape....

CBS Resurrecting Sunday Night Movies To Fill In For Shortened TV Seasons By Chris Evangelista/April 7, 2020 5:00 pm EST Back in the old days, long before streaming, and even before home video as we know it today, networks aired movies. NBC had NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies, and both ABC and CBS had the Sunday Night Movie. Well, as the saying goes, everything old is new again, and as CBS finds itself facing a drop-off in programming due to coronavirus delays, they’re bringing back the Sunday Night Movie....

Chucky Season 2 Is Coming To Torment More Hapless Victims USA and SyFy By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 29, 2021 5:31 pm EST Hide your knives and pray your kid doesn’t ask for a Good Guy doll this holiday season because “Chucky” isn’t going away anytime soon. Everyone’s favorite serial killer-possessed ginger doll has been killing it on screen and in the ratings for USA and SyFy, and we’ve learned today that the television series extension of the “Child’s Play” cinematic universe from Don Mancini has been renewed for a second season just before the season 1 finale....

Daily Podcast: Gina Carano, The Last Of Us, House Of The Dragon, True Detective, And More By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2021 12:45 pm EST On the February 11, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and TV news, including Lucasfilm parting ways with Gina Carano, The Last of Us TV show finding its cast, the House of the Dragon cast, True Detective season 4, a new show from the Game of Thrones showrunners, and the continued oddball casting of the Borderlands movie....

Death To 2021 Is On The Way To Recap Another Crummy Year Netflix By Shania Russell/Dec. 2, 2021 1:46 pm EST Some people will tell you to focus on the positive, but those people are silly. Obviously, what we need to do is focus exclusively on negative and mine them for all the comedic value they have to offer! It’s certainly not the healthier option, but it’s probably the funnier one … right?...

Dickinson Season 3: Release Date, Cast, And More Apple By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 14, 2021 12:13 pm 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.) Apple TV+’s upcoming coming-of-age series “Dickinson” first burst onto the scene in November of 2019, taking a thoroughly (and fittingly) modern approach to retelling the story of the world-famous literary figure Emily Dickinson … a woman, an artist, and a symbol who was ahead of her time in so many ways....

Javier Botet The most exciting tidbit from this casting news is that Javier Botet will be playing Dracula. You may not know Botet’s name, but if you watch horror movies, you’ve no doubt seen his work. Botet is a tall, skinny actor who often gets drafted to play tall, skinny monsters. He’s appeared in REC, Mama, Crimson Peak, The Conjuring 2, It, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and more....

Dune, Antlers, Last Night In Soho Had A Scary Bad Halloween At The Box Office Focus Features By Ryan Scott/Nov. 1, 2021 5:47 pm EST Halloween happened over the weekend, and given that the holiday all but didn’t happen in 2020, there was much pent-up desire to enjoy the spooky season properly this year. While that was surely rewarding in its own way for those who observe the holiday, it wasn’t great for the box office as the weekend’s new offerings, namely “Antlers” and “Last Night In Soho,” suffered (at least in part) as a result....

How Christopher Reeve Saved Superman’s Flight Scenes Warner Bros./Columbia By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 1, 2021 2:15 pm EST Christopher Reeve is often referred to as the best on-screen Superman, and for good reason. The actor effortlessly conveyed the greatness within Kal-El, and maintained a perfect balance between the socially awkward Clark Kent and Superman, who radiated confidence and courage. Reeve played the Man of Steel in four films – “Superman,” “Superman II,” “Superman III,” and “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” — defining the character for a generation....

Kraven The Hunter: Everything We Know So Far Marvel Entertainment By Ben Pearson/Oct. 19, 2021 2:30 pm EST Sony’s Spider-Man Universe of movies continues to grow and perform well at the box office, with movies like “Venom” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” licking up impressive amounts of cash. That burgeoning universe will soon get its first big test with “Morbius,” a Jared Leto-starring vampire movie that not a single human on planet Earth is excited about, but after that, Sony is dipping into more interesting territory with a “Kraven the Hunter” movie....

The Goop It’s not just that I’m going to watch this show, it’s that I’m going to let the show live rent-free in my mind. If I could just breeze through a couple of episodes and then slowly forget it all as I move onto the next season of “The Sopranos,” I would feel slightly less bad about my decisions … but I would still feel pretty bad. I know that Goop has peddled questionable medical advice and influenced folks to spend their well earned money on sex toys, beauty treatments, and medical treatments that can legitimately harm you....

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 2: Release Date, Cast, And More Sony Pictures By Shania Russell/Nov. 3, 2021 1:45 pm 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.) How many Spider-Mans is too many Spider-Mans? Just kidding, of course — the more spider-powered people, the merrier! The “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” sequel is very much on the way and we couldn’t be happier about it....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Sasquatch’ Heads Into The Woods To Find The Truth Behind A Triple Homicide By Ben Pearson/May 3, 2021 12:00 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: SasquatchWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: While working on a weed farm in Northern California in the early 1990s, David Holthouse witnessed a fellow employee tell an unbelievable story: according to the guy, multiple people on the farm where they worked had been ripped limb from limb, and Bigfoot was to blame....

Top Gun: Maverick Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Paramount Pictures You’ll be able to get back in the danger zone when Top Gun: Maverick flies into theaters on November 19, 2021. The Tom Cruise sequel has gone through several release date changes. Once upon a time, it was initially scheduled to open on July 12, 2019. But of course, things changed. As for where you can see it, the answer is: on the big screen....

Upcoming Chris Hemsworth Movies To Keep On Your Radar By Shania Russell/July 28, 2021 7:37 am EST (Welcome to On Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited…or not.)Chris Hemsworth has filled many roles — Starfleet captain, cult leader, secret agent, and, most famously, the literal God of Thunder. And every time he appears on screen, we can’t help but want more of him....

Water Cooler: The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, Universal Studios Hollywood, Bad Trip, School Of Rock, Happy Feet, Muppets Most Wanted, Bad Boys By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2021 12:45 pm EST On the April 21, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

‘American Gods’ Drops Two Of Its Recurring Actors Of Color; Orlando Jones Claims He Was Fired By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 16, 2019 7:30 am EST American Gods is having trouble in paradise…again. The constantly embattled Starz series which, after an acclaimed first season under showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, has seen a slew of replacement showrunners and an alarming number of cast turnovers. But the dropping of two actors of color who were upgraded to main roles in the second season has earned American Gods the wrong kind of attention again, especially after Orlando Jones’ claimed that he was fired from the series for racial reasons....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Features 76 Characters – Here Are The 44 We Know About By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2018 8:30 am EST Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of 18 movies over the course of 10 years — a whole cinematic universe reaching its zenith in a battle for the fate of humanity and beyond. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have a lot on their plate juggling the multiple storylines that have led to this film, not to mention the plethora of characters that will populate the story....