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Squid Game Star Jung Ho-Yeon Failed One Of The ‘Games’ In Real Life Netflix By Shania Russell/Oct. 7, 2021 10:04 pm EST Spoilers through episode 3 of “Squid Game.” It might sound odd, but part of what makes Netflix’s new global sensation, “Squid Game,” so utterly horrific is all the nostalgia. The “Battle Royale”-esque storyline sees hundreds of contestants competing in various games for an enormous sum of money. Except, rather than fight to the death, they’re playing a bunch of drastically scaled-up children’s games....

Streaming Service Subscriptions Surpass One Billion Across The World By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 19, 2021 12:30 pm EST Here’s the least surprising bit of streaming news: for the first time ever, streaming service subscriptions surpassed the one billion mark worldwide. In a year where roughly half a dozen new streaming platforms launched (and maybe even more, because there’s just too many), streaming platforms skyrocketed in popularity, per a new study. A new study conducted by the Motion Picture Association (via Variety) — from its annual theme report conducted to analyze the yearly performance of film, TV, and streaming — found that subscriptions to streaming services reached 1....

The Morning Watch: How The Suicide Squad Should Have Ended, Ted Lasso Is The Batman & More How It Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 22, 2021 8:01 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....

The Morning Watch: Mel Stuart Looks Back At ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’, ‘The Birdcage’ Comparison & More By Ethan Anderton/July 1, 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....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To Back To The Future, Making Of Marvel’s Hit-Monkey & More Universal Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 30, 2021 9:35 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....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Father Of The Bride Part III (Ish)’ Is A Charming But Contrived Beacon Of Light In A Weary World By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 26, 2020 10:00 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: Father of the Bride Part III (ish)Where You Can Stream It: Netflix’s YouTubeThe Pitch: This week, Netflix surprised everybody with the debut of a mini-sequel to the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride and the baby blossoming sequel that followed four years later....

The Witcher Season 1 Ending Explained: A Date With Destiny Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 14, 2021 2:33 pm EST There are two kinds of “The Witcher” fans. Those who know it from the books (or the video games), and those who know it from the Netflix adaptation. If you fall in the first category, the chances are that you were never lost or felt like you needed an explanation at any point during the events of the show....

Tiger King 2 Coming To Netflix This Year With ‘More Madness And Mayhem’ Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 23, 2021 10:26 am EST I’ll freely admit that I got swept up in the “Tiger King” craze. The Netflix docuseries was well-made in the sense that it did a good job dropping strange, explosive twists to keep us hooked from episode to episode. That said, the minute the original docuseries ended, I was content to move on....

Titane Director Julia Ducournau On Crafting Her Disturbing, Violent Love Story [Interview] NEON By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 1, 2021 12:32 pm EST How do you talk about a movie like “Titane”? Julia Ducournau’s gruesome body-horror follow-up to her 2016 breakout film “Raw,” has been the center of shocked pearl-clutching and critical raves alike, winning the prestigious Palme d’Or out of the Cannes Film Festival. But despite its reptation for gory shocks, “Titane” is a hard film to put in a box....

Water Cooler: Bad Trip, Pray Obey Kill, Godzilla Vs. Kong, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil, And More By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2021 1:30 pm EST On the April 14, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film 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....

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Movie Cast Adds Michelle Rodriguez And Justice Smith Alongside Chris Pine By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 8, 2021 10:30 am EST The Dungeons & Dragons movie has added two new cast members to appear alongside the previously-announced Chris Pine. Michelle Rodriguez and Justice Smith are now both on board to star in the fantasy-adventure film from directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, based on the long-popular fantasy tabletop role-playing game....

‘Fright Night 2: New Blood’ Is A Direct-To-Video Sequel To A Remake, So You Can Guess The Quality By Rob Hunter/May 25, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. This week, we head to Romania with the Countess of Bathory.) Vampires are a common threat in horror movies, some would say far too common (and yes that someone is me)....

‘House Of The Dragon’ Bringing ‘Game Of Thrones’ Composer Ramin Djawadi Back To Westeros For Prequel Series By Ben Pearson/Feb. 2, 2021 2:00 pm EST Ramin Djawadi, the Emmy-winning composer of HBO’s mega-hit fantasy series Game of Thrones, has booked a return trip to Westeros. Djawadi has signed on to compose the score for House of the Dragon, the premium cable channel’s upcoming prequel series that follows members of the Targaryen dynasty and is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones....

‘Pen15’ Trailer Shows Off The Upcoming Animated Special By Ben Pearson/Aug. 19, 2021 10:42 am EST Last month, word came out that the terrific Hulu comedy series Pen15 would be producing an animated episode, which is a major stylistic departure for the show. Now, thanks to a new trailer, we have a better look at what that episode will look like – and the “mystical” event that changes the lead characters’ appearances for a portion of the story....

‘Rampage’s Original Ending Almost Caused Dwayne Johnson To Quit By Ben Pearson/April 17, 2018 3:30 pm EST Dwayne Johnson is serious about making sure audiences have a good time in his movies. He’s so serious about it, in fact, that he came very close to walking away from Rampage, his new film based on the classic video game that’s currently in theaters. Read about the Rampage original ending and why Johnson was so adamant about changing it below....

‘Ride The Eagle’ Trailer: Jake Johnson Reconnects With His Dead Mother Through VHS Tapes By Joshua Meyer/July 11, 2021 7:50 am EST Jake Johnson is perhaps best known for his role opposite Zooey Deschanel in the sitcom New Girl, which ran for seven seasons on Fox. However, in recent years, he has also branched out and begun lending his talents to blockbusters such as Jurassic World and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse....

‘Song Of Solomon’ Limited Series In The Works From ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Director By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 2021 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Published in 1977, the book tells the story of Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead III, a Black man living in Michigan as the son of the richest Black family in town. But that’s hardly the most interesting detail about this character and his family....

By Ben Pearson/Feb. 9, 2021 9:30 am EST There are still plenty of questions about Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but thanks to an unlikely source, one specific aspect of the show has just been brought into focus. In the latest instance of merchandising giving away plot information for a soon-to-be-released project, a T-shirt from Hot Topic has confirmed what happened to S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) between when we last saw her in Captain America: Civil War and when we’ll see her again in the upcoming series....

A Major Marvel Actor Has Confirmed Their Return For ‘Shang-Chi’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2021 9:35 am EST There’s a new Marvel movie hitting theaters very soon – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The film, which stars Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh, and very handsome man Tony Leung, is the first Marvel Studios film with an Asian director and a predominantly Asian cast, and that’s a big deal....

Angelina Jolie’s Eternals Character Has A Tragic Superhero Weakness Walt Disney Pictures / Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/Oct. 12, 2021 1:31 pm EST Marvel’s “Eternals” is weeks away from arriving in theaters, which means we’re finally getting some details about Earth’s first superheroes. Though this group of immortal protectors have apparently walked the Earth for over 7,000 years, their introduction comes four phases into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as the planet faces the kind of threat that they cannot ignore....