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Bright: Samurai Soul Trailer: Yes, Netflix Made A Bright Anime Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 14, 2021 9:50 am EST 2017’s “Bright” created plenty of buzz when it released on Netflix amid a huge marketing push and the implied promise that the straight-to-streaming release marked the moment where Netflix became a true competitor to established, conventional studios. That … didn’t work out quite as planned, given that “Bright” only made waves for being one of the most notoriously, ah, misguided films to release that year....

Colin In Black And White Trailer: Ava DuVernay And Netflix Tell The Story Of Colin Kaepernick Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 12, 2021 8:51 pm EST Colin Kaepernick took a stand by kneeling, and now he wants to tell you his story in “Colin in Black and White,” a new limited series coming to Netflix later this month. In 2016, Kaepernick — then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers — famously took a knee during the national anthem as a show of protest against police brutality and racial injustice....

Cool Stuff: If You Have A Problem, Playmobil Is Releasing ‘The A-Team’ Van Playset By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 2021 6:00 am EST If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them…. maybe you can hire The A-Team. But if you can’t track down these soldiers of fortune, maybe you can do the next best thing and grab Playmobil’s new A-Team van playset featuring Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, Lieutenant Templeton Arthur “Faceman” Peck, Sergeant B....

Could Taskmaster Return To The MCU? That Mysterious Actor Weighs In By Joshua Meyer/July 13, 2021 5:39 pm EST Black Widow is now in theaters and streaming on Disney+ Premier Access, and one of the standout characters is Taskmaster, the relentless Red Room assassin with a photographic memory of fighting styles who pursues Natasha Romanov (Scarlett Johansson) and her surrogate sister, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh). Through most of the film, Taskmaster’s face is hidden behind a skull mask, but now the actor behind that mask is speaking up about the possibility of the character returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the future....

Cult Classic BMX Movie ‘RAD’ Finally Getting An Official Home Video Release On 4K Ultra HD And Blu-Ray By Ethan Anderton/April 3, 2020 6:00 am EST The 1980s were host to some of the most memorable sports movies of all-time, including Hoosiers, Bull Durham, Caddyshack, The Natural, The Karate Kid, Field of Dreams, and more. But the 1980s also saw the rise of popularity in extreme sports like skateboarding and BMX bike riding, and those sports were represented on the big screen too....

Danny DeVito Will Write A New Penguin Comic For DC By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 13, 2021 4:33 pm EST Penguin commandos, you’ve got your marching orders. Or is it waddling orders? Never mind. Your orders involve reading a Penguin comic book story written by none other than Danny DeVito. DC Comics (via ScreenRant) has announced that Danny DeVito will pen a Penguin-centered tale in the upcoming Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant #1 anthology....

Early ‘The Simpsons’ Style Guide Reveals Certain Rules For Animating Characters By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2020 1:00 pm EST The Simpsons has a distinct animation style, and that’s thanks to the talented animators who have been working on the series for years. Because that style is so integral to the overall vibe of The Simpsons, there’s a massive style guide for animators to follow so the characters are never feel off from their original design....

Embattled Jeopardy! Producer Mike Richards Has Officially Left The Show Sony Pictures Television By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 31, 2021 1:13 pm EST If Mike Richards’ job was in (ahem) jeopardy before, it’s well beyond that now. In the latest update on the unbelievably self-inflicted saga that has caught social media by storm, the producer and one-time new hire for the main hosting gig of “Jeopardy!” has finally departed the beloved game show entirely, effective immediately....

Eternals Star Lia McHugh Teases Deleted Scene With Sprite And Dane Disney By Jenna Busch/Dec. 6, 2021 4:17 pm EST Lia McHugh played Sprite in Marvel’s “Eternals,” and she’s got a treat for us. On Instagram, McHugh teased a possible deleted scene between Sprite and Dane Whitman (Kit Harington, aka the guy who appeared for about five minutes, was surprisingly cool about meeting his girlfriend’s ex of thousands of years, and was really there just to set up the after-credits scene)....

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Wins In More Ways Than One Sony Pictures According to Box Office Mojo, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” took in $44 million in its opening weekend domestically, on its way to a $60 million global debut. The especially good thing here is that it still has many international markets to open in. The bad news is that the pandemic is far from done with us earthlings, as Europe is facing another wave and some countries are even entering lockdown....

Here’s Where You Can Stream Or Rent The Best Richard Donner Movies By Ethan Anderton/July 6, 2021 8:04 am 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 best movies directed by filmmaker Richard Donner.) Over the weekend, legendary director Richard Donner sadly passed away at age 91. Donner helped pioneer the modern blockbuster with Superman: The Movie, took us on the ultimate treasure hunt in The Goonies, defined the buddy cop action genre with the Lethal Weapon franchise, and gave us the endlessly rewatchable holiday classic Scrooged....

Kyle Chandler Joins Showtime’s ‘Super Pumped’ Anthology Series About The Story Of Uber By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 2021 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Earlier this week, we learned Showtime was working on a new anthology series called Super Pumped. Each season will explore a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture, and they’re starting with The Battle for Uber....

Clone Movies and Clone Titles Apple TV+ While some filmmakers (namely, Edgar Wright) do check IMDb before settling on a title for their films, the phrase “swan song” is generic enough that it’s understandable why the same title might be cloned across two movies that are coming so close together on the 2021 release calendar. Somehow, this one slipped through the cracks, and I’m sure there might be viewers out there who get confused when they are googling about “Swan Song” and seeing images of Udo Kier pop up in place of Mahershala Ali....

More Where That Came From Dalibor Talajić No second season has been announced for “Hit-Monkey,” and it wasn’t promised when the show was originally greenlit. As such, the showrunners aimed for a more comprehensive, standalone season in case that was all she wrote. But Speck hangs onto some optimism and made sure to leave things interesting enough to have fans clamoring for the story to continue: What we ended up doing was, we ended up being able to model the whole first season, really more on a feature model....

Meet Rob Zombie’s Munsters In First Look At The New Cast Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 18, 2021 2:50 pm EST When it was first announced that Rob Zombie was remaking “The Munsters,” many were fearful that the characters would get a gritty re-design the same way his characters in his “Halloween” remakes suddenly all had matted hair and bathrooms that looked like the inside of a punk dive bar. Skeptics fear no more, as Rob Zombie took to Instagram today to give the first look at Herman, Lily, and Grandpa Munster in front of 1313 Mockingbird Lane … aka, on-set in Hungary....

Silent Night: Release Date, Cast, And More RLJE Films By Shania Russell/Oct. 18, 2021 6:00 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.) Family movies are an essential part of the holiday season – their warm glow works wonders for lifting spirits. But do they ever feel a little… too optimistic?...

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron: Release Date, Cast, And More Disney By Ryan Scott/Nov. 4, 2021 11:15 am 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.) We are currently in the midst of our longest break between “Star Wars” movies since Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm brought us “The Force Awakens” in 2015....

Superhero Bits: Scrapped ‘LEGO Batman 2’ Details, ‘WandaVision’ Mailman Rap & More By Ethan Anderton/June 10, 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.) In this edition, of Superhero Bits: Find out what the abandoned LEGO Batman 2 movie would have been about Editor Kevin Hickman talks David Ayer’s cut of Suicide Squad Dennis the Mailman from WandaVision has his own rap music video Check out some spy photos of Rachel Zegler in Shazam!...

The Royal Tenenbaums Touchstone Pictures While “Bottle Rocket” and “Rushmore” predate this one, “The Royal Tenenbaums” is the movie that really put Wes Anderson on the map. The Tenenbaum family of Royal, Etheline, Chas, Margot, and Richie all experience a coming-of-age of sorts when the estranged family of geniuses unexpectedly reunite and are forced to deal with their generational and dysfunctional family turmoil. Gene Hackman delivers the performance of his life as patriarch Royal Tenenbaum, and the endlessly quotable film is also a perfect example of what would become Anderson’s auteur style....

By Ethan Anderton/June 17, 2021 10:03 am EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Series: LEGO MastersWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Based on the hit British reality-competition series of the same name, LEGO Masters brings in teams of two brick builders in a friendly competition where imagination, design, and creativity are king....