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The Morning Watch: A Musical ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy Recap, Learn Italian With Pixar’s ‘Luca’ & More By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 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.) In this edition, if you need to catch up with the first two installments of the Fear Street trilogy in a flash, there’s a musical recap that should help....

The Williams Sisters Only Agreed To Executive Produce King Richard After Seeing The Film Warner Bros. Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 11, 2021 12:39 pm EST It doesn’t matter how famous you are, there are always equally (or more!) famous people that can throw you into an anxiety loop. I personally love hearing about the situations that make incredibly successful people feel nervous, because it makes me feel better about my own nerves....

Tony Todd Still Thinks Candyman Is ‘The Whole Damn Hive’ And He’s Right [Interview] TriStar Pictures By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 22, 2021 10:25 am EST Candyman made Tony Todd a legend, but it works both ways. The incredible actor — who originated the role in the 1992 film and has reprised his part in three subsequent films, including Nia DaCosta’s 2021 reboot — did just as much to catapult his character into the horror zeitgeist as the character did in putting him on the map as an actor....

Water Cooler: Raya And The Last Dragon, Muppets Most Wanted, Angels And Demons, The Silent Partner, And More By Ben Pearson/March 3, 2021 1:15 pm EST On the March 3, 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 talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: Peter and Brad aren’t here today....

WTF: ‘The Mandalorian’ Version Of The Game Bop It! Makes You Hit The Child By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2020 6:00 am EST There have been plenty of perplexing pieces of Star Wars merchandise in the long history of the sci-fi saga, ranging from a sucker molded like the tongue of Jar Jar Binks to Darth Vader riding an Imperial chopper motorcycle. But a new version of the handheld game Bop It!...

Zazie Beetz Took A Crash Course In Westerns While Making The Harder They Fall [Interview] Netflix By Shania Russell/Oct. 25, 2021 3:17 pm EST Zazie Beetz boarded “The Harder They Fall” as the brazen, unflinching Stagecoach Mary. The shot-gun wielding saloon owner volunteers herself for danger when she rejoins Nat Love’s (Jonathan Majors) gang to hunt down the man who murdered his parents. Beetz was jazzed at the prospect of the character, a deadly force to be reckoned with and a crucial member of the gang....

‘F9’ Director Justin Lin On The Stunt That Was Too Crazy (And Too Expensive) To Make It Into The Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 14, 2021 9:23 am EST For the Fast and Furious franchise, the sky is the limit. Quite literally in F9, a spectacle-filled action sequel in which just one of the many wild action scenes involves sending a car up to space. But director and co-writer Justin Lin — returning to the franchise after eight years away — found that even the sky has limits....

‘Firestarter’ Reboot Begins Production, Releases Burning Hot Behind-The-Scenes Footage By Chris Evangelista/May 25, 2021 11:30 am EST Firestarter, Stephen King’s tale of a pyrokinetic young girl being pursued by a shadowy government agency, is getting a reboot from the folks at Blumhouse, Universal Pictures, and Weed Road Productions. Keith Tomas (The Vigil) is helming the latest take on the material, and the announced cast so far features Zac Efron and Michael Greyeyes....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel ‘House Of The Dragon’ Adds Fabien Frankel As A Member Of The Kingsguard By Ben Pearson/April 15, 2021 1:30 pm EST Westeros has just cast another resident. In the latest piece of House of the Dragon casting for HBO’s first Game of Thrones prequel, up-and-coming actor Fabien Frankel has been enlisted to play Ser Criston Cole, a member of the Kingsguard for the Targaryen family. He previously appeared in Last Christmas with former Thrones star Emilia Clarke, but he won’t be encountering Daenerys in this new show, since it is set hundreds of years before the events of Game of Thrones....

‘Hysterical’ Trailer: The Future Of Comedy Is Female In FX Documentary By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 3, 2021 3:00 pm EST FX has released a trailer for Hysterical, a new documentary feature film that peels back the curtain on women in stand-up comedy. Watch the Hysterical trailer below. Hysterical Trailer Andrea Nevins (The Other F Word) directs Hysterical, a documentary that chronicles the accomplishments, as well as the hurdles, of female stand-up comedians....

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Begins Filming Next Week In The U.K. By Chris Evangelista/June 2, 2021 9:00 am EST Dr. Henry Jones better dust off his fedora, because filming on Indiana Jones 5 starts next week in the United Kingdom. The fifth installment in the adventure franchise brings back Harrison Ford one last time to play the whip-cracking archeologist, and a new report reveals that production on the James Mangold-directed film is set to start up as soon as next week....

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Is Thinking Lance Reddick Is Back By Jeremy Mathai/July 7, 2021 7:53 am EST I love it when a plan comes together. As we speak, John Wick 4 is currently filming and casting news keeps trickling in day by day. The latest announcement features Lance Reddick’s return as Charon. According to Deadline, Reddick is confirmed to return as Charon in John Wick: Chapter 4. After starting out as the mysterious hotel clerk for the Continental, the New York-based front for Wick’s assassins guild, Reddick finally got to step out from behind the desk and be a part of the action in the third film as he helped fend off an elite squadron of High Table operatives....

‘Loki’ Honest Trailer: Journey Across Time And Space With A Comic-Con’s Worth Of Lokis By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2021 5:30 am EST Just when you thought Marvel’s new shows streaming on Disney+ weren’t going to have much of an impact on the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki comes along and completely messes everything up by introducing the multiverse. Not only does it get you ready for the next Marvel movie, but it also prepares you for the entire next phase of the MCU, and the next season of Loki, and for the inevitability of our own death....

‘Red Sonja’ Movie Finds New Writer In ‘Tomb Raider’ Showrunner Tasha Huo By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 28, 2021 12:00 pm EST THR broke the news that Tasha Huo is now co-writing the Red Sonja script. Huo is showrunner on Netflix’s upcoming Tomb Raider anime, and is also a writer on the Witcher prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin. The Red Sonja movie has gone through several hands over the years. In 2008, Douglas Aarniokoski was hired to direct a Red Sonja movie, with Robert Rodriguez producing and Rose McGowan starring as the title character....

‘Titans’ Review Round-Up: The Darkness And Violence Might Be A Bit Much, But There’s Potential Here By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2018 7:30 am EST Read our Titans reviews round-up below to find out more. Vinnie Mancuso at Collider wasn’t impressed with the series at all: IGN’s review, which doesn’t seem to be attributed to anyone, thinks the show has potential to grow: Titans is the absolute zenith of the post-Nolan, post-Dark Knight era of “mature” comic book storytelling, a show with both the grittiness and enjoyability factor of sandpaper....

Working Through Trauma Universal In the trailer for “Candyman”, you can see hints of Cronenberg-ian body horror, so it’s interesting to hear Abdul-Matteen II name-check “The Fly.” The “Rosemary’s Baby” comparison also seems understandable in light of what DaCosta had to say about Brianna, the character played by Teyonah Parris (who appeared in “WandaVision” this year and is reteaming with DaCosta on “The Marvels”). “I’ll talk specifically about Brianna,” DaCosta said: “So Brianna, I think something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up basically, and how a lot of the trauma that happens, Black women don’t get to really process and work through their trauma....

Dune: Why Did That One Doomed Character Appear In Paul’s Visions? Denis Villeneuve Explains Warner Bros. Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 17, 2021 11:10 am EST Queue up your favorite Fleetwood Mac song, because we’re talking about dreams, baby! Our boy Denis Villeneuve has been doing a ton of interviews about his process and the storytelling behind his latest film, “Dune,” and while we intellectually know it’s because of marketing and PR reasons, he does genuinely sound both very proud of the movie he’s made and really in love with the source material, which gives every interview a little bit of spice....

Everything You Need To Know About Those Eternals Cameos Marvel Studios By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 5, 2021 12:25 pm EST There’s a lot of exciting Easter eggs and surprises scattered throughout Marvel’s “Eternals,” but it’s during the post-credits scenes where things really ramp up. Fans have been eager to learn what lies in store for them during these scenes (there’s not one, but two!) almost as much as they have been waiting to just get in there and see the movie as a whole....

How To Watch Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ On A Game Boy Advance, As God Intended By Ben Pearson/March 13, 2021 11:00 am EST Last year, Christopher Nolan’s time-bending action film Tenet became – fairly or not – the film that would theoretically save theatrical moviegoing in America. After enduring multiple release date delays which served to build hype to practically unprecedented levels, the film was finally released last July…and – surprise, surprise – it was not able to live up to the impossible expectations with which it was saddled....

Joe Lo Truglio Is The Latest Comedy Actor To Try His Hand At Directing Horror By Jeremy Mathai/July 9, 2021 8:22 am EST They say that horror and comedy share far more storytelling DNA than one might assume, as both seemingly different genres are heavily predicated on set-ups and pay-offs that (ideally) mess with your expectations in ways that are either hilarious or frightening — or both! Not to brag or anything, but actor Joe Lo Truglio apparently agrees with me (and everyone else who has ever made that exact same observation)....