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Contest: Win ‘Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar’ On Blu-Ray By Chris Evangelista/March 30, 2021 11:00 am EST Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, one of the year’s most pleasant surprises, is headed to home media in April – and we’re offering you a chance to win a free Blu-ray copy. The surreal, absurd comedy follows two lifelong friends (Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo) who decide to take a vacation to sunny Florida, only to end up in the middle of a deadly plot involving killer bees, talking crabs, Andy Garcia cameos, a singing, dancing Jamie Dornan, and of course, culottes....

Cool Stuff: Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ Funko POPs Send Us Into The Multiverse By Ethan Anderton/July 9, 2021 6:00 am EST Hot on the heels of yesterday’s new trailer for Marvel’s What If…? animated series coming to Disney+ next month, the first wave of Funko POPs inspired by the multiverse versions of your favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe characters has been revealed. From Peggy Carter as Captain Britain to T’Challa as Star-Lord, get a look at Marvel’s What If Funko POPs below....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Winnie The Pooh’ LEGO Set Opens Up The Hundred Acre Wood By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 2021 6:00 am EST Thanks to the imagination of Christopher Robin, the picturesque Hundred Acre Wood was always bustling with the activity of the silly old bear named Winnie the Pooh and all of his animal friends. Now you can let your imagination bring them to life in your home thanks to a new LEGO set....

Daily Podcast: What If Episode 9 Spoiler Discussion Marvel On the October 6, 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 What If Episode 9 “What If… The Watcher Broke His Oath.” In The Spoiler Room: What If Episode 9 “What If… The Watcher Broke His Oath.” Feedback Brief reactions Breakdown Speculation...

DC’s Metal Men Animated Movie Coming From Two Disney Legends DC By Ryan Scott/Dec. 3, 2021 5:08 pm EST Warner Bros. is finally giving us the DC movie we’ve all been waiting for — “The Metal Men!” Okay, it’s safe to say not everyone has been waiting for this movie, and odds are most casual comic book fans only have a passing familiarity with the group. In any event, the property is getting the feature film treatment in animated form, with a pair of Disney legends heading up the project....

Disney’s First Latina Princess Movie May Be In The Works With Lin-Manuel Miranda By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 22, 2019 11:30 am EST Disney has made bold strides in the past decade, introducing its first African-American princess with The Princess and the Frog and its first Polynesian princess with Moana. Now, could we be on our way to getting our first Latina Disney Princess? Reports suggest that Mary Poppins Returns’ Lin-Manuel Miranda, who had a hand in creating the music behind Moana, is working on Disney’s first Latina princess film....

Disneyland’s Loki Meet-And-Greets Are Changing Each Week To Reflect The Show By Josh Spiegel/June 17, 2021 7:21 am EST If you’re a Disney theme-park fan and you’re headed out to the Disneyland Resort in the next few weeks, you’re hopefully also keeping tabs on the new Marvel show Loki on Disney+. That’s because if this week is any indication, the meet-and-greet with the God of Mischief himself, that dirty trickster Loki, will be updating to reflect his new costumes on the show....

Doug Jones Is Returning For Hocus Pocus 2, More Cast Members Added Disney By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Oct. 31, 2021 3:22 pm EST “Star Trek: Discovery” actor and make-up chair veteran Doug Jones is returning for another All Hallow’s Eve in “Hocus Pocus 2.” Jones is the fourth original “Hocus Pocus” cast member confirmed to be coming back for the sequel, with Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker also set to reprise their roles as the sinister Sanderson sisters....

Filmmaker Mode Is The Easiest And Fastest Way To Watch Movies As Their Creators Intended By Jason Gorber/Feb. 26, 2021 10:00 am EST Is there another high-tech device other than televisions that habitually have terrible performance when you just plug them in? The reasons for TV’s default settings travesty are manifold, but the simple answer for why “dynamic” or “vivid” are often the default are so that those panels look to outshine their competitors when viewed at a big box store under garish lighting or plopped into a sunlit living room....

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Composer Rob Simonsen On Emulating And Evolving The Original Ghostbusters Score [Interview] Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2021 1:35 pm EST Even though “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” has some sizable missteps in its slavish references to the original “Ghostbusters,” one of the more praiseworthy elements of reverence and nostalgia comes in the form of Rob Simonsen’s score for the sequel. Not only does the soundtrack perfectly utilize the familiar themes from composer Elmer Bernstein’s original 1984 score, but it emulates and evolves the music to create a blockbuster score that calls back to the glory days of adventure movies of the 1980s....

HDTGM: The Sketchiest Movie Ever (Kinda) Made: A Tale Of Mobsters, Money-Laundering & Movie-Making By Blake Harris/March 1, 2017 1:00 pm EST And from there, Dan Gordon proceeded to tell me an epic, unforgettable truth-really-is- stranger-than-fiction story about the sketchiest movie ever (kinda) made… Phil said, “I’m giving you the opportunity of a lifetime and you’re giving me bulls***…you wanna be a director? Come get the ticket and come to New York....

How ‘Paranormal Activity’ Delivers A Pitch-Perfect Scary Moment With Utter Simplicity By Matt Donato/July 22, 2021 7:28 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: one of the scariest scenes in Paranormal Activity is like…a caprese salad.) Say what you will about the horror’s found footage boom, but do not deny Paranormal Activity its rightful accolades as one of the most influential genre releases post-millennium....

James Gunn Wrote The Biggest Action Scene Of His Career For Margot Robbie In ‘The Suicide Squad’ By Ben Pearson/May 19, 2021 1:00 pm EST James Gunn’s filmmaking career is full of memorable action scenes, whether they’re in movies he wrote or in projects he directed as well. The modified truck escape through a zombie horde in 2004’s Dawn of the Dead, the climactic battle in the skies of Xandar in the first Guardians of the Galaxy, the epic alien battle in Guardians Vol....

Kevin Feige Teases The Future Of The Avengers In The MCU By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 20, 2021 10:04 am EST Few individuals working in the business right now are more talented than Kevin Feige when it comes to speaking a lot of words without ever really saying anything. This has been the case for a while now, but all the interviews made possible by the imminent release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings are making this fact even truer....

Meet Pizza Dog, The Breakout Star Of Hawkeye And The Goodest Boy Disney+ By Shania Russell/Dec. 2, 2021 11:41 am EST Ever since he first entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) has been waiting for his moment to shine. So often he’s crammed in alongside heroes who double as literal gods, or genius billionaires, or symbolic super-soldiers, or … you get the point. But at long last, the arrow-wielding Avenger gets the screen all to himself in the latest Marvel Disney+ series, “Hawkeye....

Moonfall: Release Date, Cast, And More Lionsgate By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 28, 2021 3:24 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.) After delivering several world-ending blockbusters in the form of “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012,” director Roland Emmerich is back at it again with a new epic disaster movie called “Moonfall....

New ‘Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten’ Rings Footage Shows Tony Leung In Action, New Trailer Coming Tonight By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 24, 2021 9:13 am EST Marvel is building the hype for its first Asian-led superhero movie. Marvel Studios has released a teaser for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, ahead of a brand-new trailer for the film starring Simu Liu as Marvel’s first Asian superhero on the silver screen....

Patton Oswalt Says People Complaining About The Watchmen Adaptation Should STFU By David Chen/March 11, 2009 6:21 am EST Patton Oswalt has always been one of my favorite comedians. Career-wise, his appearances on Reno 9/11 have shown he’s not afraid to make fun of himself, while his starring role in Pixar’s Ratatouille made him the envy of film nerds everywhere. In his stand-up, I love the way he is able to combine nerd/geek topics with a withering righteous indignation....

The 10 Apple TV+ Movies That Justify A Subscription Apple TV+ By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 14, 2021 1:35 pm EST Now that we’ve accepted that we’re all going to drown in an endless sea of streaming options, apps, and a whole lot of plus signs, it’s time to enjoy our fate and just keep swimming. Apple TV+ has made a name for itself with popular shows like “Ted Lasso” and “Central Park,” but the streaming service’s original movie selection is nothing to scoff at....

The 15 Best Pixar Scenes Ranked Pixar By Audrey Fox/Aug. 30, 2021 4:10 pm EST Over just a few short decades, Pixar has perfected the art of ripping your heart out and showing it to you. For the celebrated animation studio, it’s not enough to just make entertaining films for young children. Pixar’s filmmakers consistently challenge themselves to produce complex and thoughtful movies that work for both kids and adults. Throughout the studio’s tenure, its very best scenes have one of two of these qualities, if not both: immense visual creativity and powerful emotional resonance....