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An Ode To Kit Fisto: Bad In The ‘Star Wars’ Films, But Pretty Good Everywhere Else By Evan Saathoff/Jan. 25, 2021 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Galaxy-Wide Star Wars Character Guide, where we give proper due to the smaller figures in Star Wars history.)The Star Wars prequels truly offer an impressive avalanche of ideas and top-notch design work – they just don’t have the time to do a satisfactory dive into hardly any of it....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II’ Tokka And Rahzar Action Figures Are Up For Pre-Order By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2020 10:00 am EST NECA’s line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures based on the original movie from 1990 have been extremely popular. In fact, they’ve been so popular that collectors have had an immense amount of difficulty getting their hands on them due to low stock, online scalpers and bots, and poorly handled retail exclusive releases from Walmart and Target....

Daily Podcast: ‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Episode 2 Spoiler Discussion By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2021 1:09 pm EST On the August 18, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer and weekend editor Brad Oman to have a spoiler-filled discussion about the newest episode of the new Marvel Studios Disney+ series, What If…? In The Spoiler Room: “What If…? T’Challa Became a Star-Lord” Brief Reactions Episode Review ‘What If…?...

Don’t Expect ‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ To Last More Than One Season By Ben Pearson/March 3, 2021 11:30 am EST We’re only a few weeks away from the debut of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the show that was originally intended to be Marvel Studios’ first streaming series on Disney+. But according to one of the show’s stars, the six episodes fans see in that first season might be all there is when it comes to the television adventures of Falcon and Bucky Barnes....

Expendables 4 Has Just Enough Good Taste To Cast The Raid Star Iko Uwais As The Villain XYZ Films By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 27, 2021 9:12 am EST Deadline reports that “The Raid: Redemption” and “The Night Comes for Us” star Iko Uwais will be playing the villain in the upcoming installment, which is news that action fans can truly get excited for. The Evil Against the Expendables Lionsgate Uwais plays a “former military officer-turned-arms dealer with his own private army....

Legacies Season 4: Release Date, Cast, And More The CW By Ryan Scott/Sept. 14, 2021 1:44 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.) The CW is continuing to keep “The Vampire Diaries” universe alive. “Legacies,” a show set in that very universe, has aired three seasons to date and still has more up its sleeve....

Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ Writer And Director Discuss Remixing The MCU, The Arc Of The Watcher & More [Interview] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2021 8:36 am EST Marvel’s What If…? animated series arrives on Disney+ next week. Taking a cue from the comics of the same name, each episode of the series puts a new spin on the characters and events of the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ushered in by the creation of the multiverse in Loki, the series tells a variety of stories involving the likes of Peggy Carter becoming a different version of Captain America, T’Challa getting kidnapped as a child and becoming Star-Lord instead of Black Panther, and more....

Noah Hawley And The Russo Bros. Are Making A Heist Movie With Bridgerton Star Rege-Jean Page Netflix By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 30, 2021 10:34 pm EST Noah Hawley, the creative mind behind the television series “Fargo” and “Legion,” is making a heist movie for Netflix with “Bridgerton” star Regé-Jean Page on board in a lead role. Joe and Anthony Russo, the directing duo behind many MCU films including “Avengers: Endgame” and “Captain America: Civil War” are also producing the project along with their colleague Mike Larocca via their company, AGBO....

Revisiting The Death Of Pietro Maximoff, The MCU’s First Super-Casualty By Evan Saathoff/Feb. 22, 2021 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Great Moments in MCU History, where we fondly recall great little bits that made us fall in love with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) As WandaVision ramps up to its conclusion, Avengers: Age of Ultron’s importance to the current status of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has found a surprising boost. There was a time where the film felt nearly inconsequential....

Should You Enlist For The ‘Starship Troopers’ DTV Sequels? By Rob Hunter/Jan. 20, 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 go to war… in space!) Paul Verhoeven is a filmmaker whose career has seen highs and lows, hits and misses, blockbusters and quiet indies, but the one constant is that his best film will always be Robocop (1987)....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Images Show Spidey On The Run From Doc Ock Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Oct. 23, 2021 1:12 pm EST Today brings us a brand new look at the much-anticipated “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which is set to hit theaters later this year. It will pit Tom Holland’s Peter Parker against a multiversal lineup of Spidey villains from the past, including Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock, who makes his return to the franchise for the first time since 2004’s “Spider-Man 2....

Superhero Bits: ‘Stargirl’ Season 2 Trailer Brings In Green Lantern’s Daughter, ‘The Flash’ Cameo Rumor & More By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2021 6:00 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Swan Song Trailer: Mahershala Ali Gets Cloned In Heady Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Film Apple TV+ By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 4, 2021 11:44 am EST The idea of exploring doubles, doppelgängers, or clones in film is a grand sci-fi tradition that almost always leans in the direction of tense, disturbing thrillers. Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy,” Duncan Jones’ “Moon,” and Alex Garland’s “Annihilation” are only three relatively recent examples of this trend (nobody wants to sit around and listen to me listing off every one of these movies over the years, because that’s how you get me started on the underrated nuances of 2013’s “Oblivion”), but this year’s “Swan Song” seems to be taking a vastly different approach altogether....

The Apocalypse Now Easter Egg You May Not Have Noticed In Sonic The Hedgehog Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 10, 2021 11:03 am EST People sometimes forget that the creatives behind family films aren’t also the same age as the children who will fall in love with their work, and in fact have their own collection of personal favorite films that aren’t always kid-friendly. Patrick Casey and Josh Miller are the screenwriting team behind the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie, and will be joined by John Whittington of “The Lego Batman Movie” and “The Lego Ninjago Movie” for the sequel, “Sonic the Hedgehog 2....

The Creepy True Story Behind Orphan Warner Bros. Pictures By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Dec. 15, 2021 12:14 pm EST Life as an adult can be tough, and sometimes looking at an endless parade of bills and obligations can have even the best of us momentarily wishing for a return to the carefree times of childhood. Even so, most of us would never actually try to force that return by masquerading as teenaged orphans well into our thirties....

Surprisingly Not a Fan of Fantasy Anchor Bay Entertainment Did you have a chance to hang out any of your co-stars? No, because we were fully in … Were we in Covid mode at the time? It might have been prior to that, but I was in New Zealand. And they were all over the world. So no, it just doesn’t work like that unfortunately, in the world of voiceovers. Even if you’re in the same scene, in some, like I did “Minions” coming up....

What Is Dead May Never Die: The Official Game Of Thrones Studio Tour Opens In February HBO By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 2, 2021 10:09 am EST It’s time to scale The Wall and cross the narrow sea and dive deep into the world of your favorite and least favorite fantasy series, “Game of Thrones.” Look, we each have something special and different that we hate about the last season, but if you can close your eyes and go way back to the halcyon days of 2011, you’ll find that you still have a little bit of love in your heart for the Starks and the Lannisters and all of their weird/sad friends/enemies....

‘Copshop’ Trailer: Gerard Butler Vs. Frank Grillo In The Battle Of The B-Movie Kings By Ben Pearson/Aug. 5, 2021 2:51 pm EST If he’s not careful, director Joe Carnahan (The Grey) is going to accidentally create some sort of B-movie nexus event. His latest entry into the genre pits Gerard Butler (Den of Thieves) and Frank Grillo (Wheelman) against each other in an action thriller that feels extremely indebted to the work of filmmaker John Carpenter....

‘Pacific Rim: The Black’ Trailer: The Real Monsters Aren’t The Kaiju By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2021 3:00 pm EST In Pacific Rim: The Black, our scrappy heroes will be battling all manner of monsters in a devastated dystopian world. But did you know that the real monsters….aren’t the rampaging Kaiju? Well, they’re pretty bad too. But so are humans, as the new Pacific Rim: The Black trailer likes to remind us....

By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 2019 11:00 am EST The Boys Trailer I haven’t read The Boys comic series, but I’m all-in on the show based on this trailer. Sure, there are times here where it sounds as if the characters are constantly saying “f***” to make the show extra edgy, but gosh darn it, this footage sold me. The opening moment, where a Flash-like superhero accidentally runs through a woman, causing her body to explode, instantly had my attention....