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Netflix’s ‘Maid’ Trailer Shows Margaret Qualley Longing For Luxury By Marisa Mirabal/Aug. 23, 2021 6:18 pm EST This fall, creator Molly Smith Metzler brings a dramatic 10 episode series to Netlfix which details a woman’s journey of longing and struggle as she quietly works among the wealthy. Margaret Qualley stars in Maid, a seemingly emotional story about fighting through poverty and daydreaming about a better life. Deadline announced a new trailer for Metzler’s upcoming series, which is inspired by Stephanie Land’s best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive....

New Disney Wish Cruise Liner Will Feature Star Wars-Themed Bar, Marvel Cinematic Dining, And Disney’s First-Ever Attraction At Sea By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2021 10:52 am EST Disney is adding a fifth cruise ship to the Disney Cruise fleet with the addition of the Disney Wish. Today, we attended a virtual press event where new details about the ambitious cruise liner were unveiled. Are you ready to experience the worlds of Star Wars and Marvel at sea?...

Riverdale Season 6: Release Date, Cast, And More The CW By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 1, 2021 3:41 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 wait for “Riverdale” season 6 will be very short, and we can all be thankful for that. The trailer for the season 5 finale teases a ton of romantic moments between all of our faves and … Cheryl Blossom being burned at the stake a la Joan of Arc?...

The Daily Stream: ‘Starstruck’ Is ‘Notting Hill’ For The ‘Broad City’ Crowd – And It’s Wonderful By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2021 12:32 pm 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: StarstruckWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Jessie (writer and series creator Rose Matafeo) is your typical millennial who lives in East London: she’s flat broke and living in an overpriced apartment with her best friend, while juggling two jobs she doesn’t much care for....

The Daily Stream: Blood Red Sky Has The Best Loose Cannon Baddie Of 2021 Netflix By Anya Stanley/Dec. 12, 2021 4:45 pm 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 Movie: “Blood Red Sky” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: You like Bram Stoker’s “Dracula?” This is the Demeter’s final voyage, on a plane, with terrorists....

The Daily Stream: Memories Of Murder Continues To Haunt Long After The Real-Life Killer Was Found CJ Entertainment By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 9, 2021 4:29 pm 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 Movie: “Memories of Murder” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Loosely based on the string of murders in the ’80s committed by Korea’s first confirmed serial killer, “Memories of Murder” was the crime thriller that put Bong Joon-ho on the map....

War Crime Expert Discovers Timothée Chalamet’s Secret Xbox Controller YouTube Channel Warner Bros By Eric Vespe/Oct. 28, 2021 9:40 am EST Timothée Chalamet may be a rising movie star, leading the biggest event film of the moment and followed by legions of extremely thirsty fans, but there was a time when he tried to launch his own business via a random YouTube channel and made a grand total of $30. Fans began sniffing out Chalamet’s childhood YouTube page a few years ago when a fanpage called ChalametUniverse noticed the actor favorited a very old, random video from a YouTube channel called ModdedController360 in which a faceless tween showed off the custom paint job he did for an Xbox 360 controller and offered his services for the very reasonable price of $10 plus shipping and handling....

Watch Kathryn Bigelow Direct A Scene With The New iPhone Apple By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 15, 2021 9:13 am EST The release of the latest iPhone has been accompanied by the usual fanfare; Apple always does a dramatic rollout for its new product, and the iPhone 13 is no exception. This time, the company has enlisted a couple of filmmakers, who are no stranger to doing dramatizations, to help model the moviemaking possibilities of the iPhone 13....

‘Batman Unburied’ Podcast Casts ‘Black Panther’ Star Winston Duke As Bruce Wayne By Shania Russell/July 27, 2021 9:22 am EST Black Panther star Winston Duke is one of many actors to cross the comic book aisle from Marvel to DC. But his newest venture will not bring him directly into the DCEU. In fact, it won’t even be something we can see for ourselves. But no worries, you always have the option of listening in — because Duke has been cast in the upcoming podcast series Batman Unburied as the caped crusader himself....

‘Chapelwaite’ Star Emily Hampshire Shares Her Close Call With A Vampire [Interview] By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 18, 2021 10:00 am EST The premiere for the new EPIX series Chapelwaite, based on the Stephen King short story “Jerusalem’s Lot,” is just around the corner on August 22, 2021. The series tells the story of Captain Charles Boone, who relocates his family to his ancestral home in Maine after the death of his wife at sea....

‘Coming 2 America’ Trailer: Eddie Murphy Is Back As King Akeem By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 3, 2021 6:15 am EST Eddie Murphy returns to one of his most memorable roles with Coming 2 America, the long-awaited sequel to his 1988 hit. The sequel finds Murphy’s King Akeem once again setting out on a journey to America, and brings back familiar faces from the first film like Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Louie Anderson, and more....

‘Cruella’ Trailer: Emma Stone Shows Off Her Killer Instincts As The Infamous Disney Villain By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 7, 2021 7:00 am EST Revenge is a dish best served hot…but not burned to a crisp, as Emma Stone’s Cruella De Vil should’ve been when she sets her haute couture cloak on fire in the trailer for her new film. But presenting a dog-killing fashionista like the 101 Dalmatians villain as a protagonist is also unlikely, yet here we are....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Review: A Sometimes Frustrating Trip ‘Beyond The Wall’ By Jacob Hall/Aug. 21, 2017 11:30 am EST (In our coverage of Game of Thrones season 7, we’ll be examining each episode with one simple question in mind – which character is winning the game of thrones this week?) “Beyond the Wall” may be the most frustrating episode of Game of Thrones ever produced. It’s a technical marvel, filled with characters we love placed into situations dire and impossible and heartbreaking....

‘Hamilton’ Is Rated PG-13 On Disney+, And Lin-Manuel Miranda Explains The F-Bomb Count By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2020 2:15 pm EST When Disney acquired the filmed version of the 11-time-Tony Award-, Grammy Award-, Olivier Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning stage musical Hamilton that was recorded with the original Broadway cast, we wondered whether the end result would be censored by the family-friendly studio. Creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda has addressed this topic before, but now he’s back with more specifics about the Hamilton rating of PG-13, explaining how what the movie version will do when it gets to a use of the word “f***....

‘Possessor’ Trailer: Brandon Cronenberg Gets Inside Your Head With One Of The Year’s Best Movies By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 1, 2020 9:30 am EST Possessor, an ultra-violent mind-f*** of a film, is almost ready to unleash its jarring horrors upon the world. Brandon Cronenberg’s visceral nightmare is kind of like Inception meets Videodrome, and if that doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what else to tell you. Andrea Riseborough plays a corporate assassin who has the ability to upload her consciousness into other people, and then use those people as pawns to pull off her murders....

‘The Exorcist’ Demon Wasn’t The Devil Himself, Despite What You May Believe By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2021 8:59 am EST If you ask most people who (or what) was possessing poor Linda Blair in The Exorcist, the answer would probably be, “The Devil.” Folks can be forgiven for thinking this. After all, in the film, Blair’s character Regan MacNeil flat-out says she’s possessed by Satan himself. But as it turns out, that was a lie (wow, if you can’t trust demons who jump into the bodies of children, who can you trust?...

‘The Walking Dead: World Beyond’ Season 2 First Look: The Story Comes To An End By Vanessa Armstrong/July 26, 2021 8:45 am EST This weekend’s virtual San Diego Comic-Con (AKA Comic-Con@Home) was full of teasers for The Walking Dead franchise. For the most recent spinoff show — the limited series, The Walking Dead: World Beyond — we got a whole scene from the upcoming second and final season. Check out the first look from the upcoming season of The Walking Dead: World Beyond below....

Bill Hader And Judd Apatow Turning Next To The Horror Genre? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 21, 2009 10:14 am EST We are in a golden age of comedy and Judd Apatow deserves a wealth of plaudits for his part in it. Not only are the films he has directed himself definitely at the peak, he’s also behind – to some extent – much of the second and third tiers too. I might not agree with every director (Seth Gordon Green) or star (Rob Schneider) to be given bunk on one of these films, but the overall effect is very agreeable....

C’mon C’mon Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is A Natural In Mike Mills’ Gentle Family Drama A24 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 19, 2021 11:00 am EST “What makes you happy?” That’s one of the questions that Joaquin Phoenix’s Johnny, an emotionally closed-off radio journalist, blithely asks children in cities across the country at the beginning of Mike Mills’ lovingly naturalistic black and white film, “C’mon, C’mon.” He’s working on a piece about the next generation, how they see themselves and how they see the world, in all its bright, sunny streets and its sad, shadowy corners....

Daily Podcast: Celebrating 1,000 Episodes Of /Film Daily Sam Hume By Ben Pearson/Oct. 13, 2021 2:34 pm EST On the October 13, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editorial Director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior news editor Jacob Hall, news editor Hoai-Tran Bui, senior writer and chief film critic Chris Evangelista, and senior writers Brad Oman and Ben Pearson to reminisce about their time working at /Film in celebration of the 1,000th episode of /Film Daily....