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‘Nomadland’ Takes The Top Prize At The 2021 Producers Guild Of America Awards By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 25, 2021 8:30 am EST Nomadland’s journey to Oscar frontrunner this awards season just gained a little more momentum. Chloé Zhao’s exquisite road drama won the top prize at the 2021 Producers Guild of America Awards at a virtual ceremony on Wednesday. Meanwhile, on the TV side, Netflix’s The Crown dominated. Read more about the 2021 PGA Awards winners below....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Creator Lorne Michaels Wants Most Of The Cast To Stick Around Until Season 50 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2021 10:59 am EST This fall, Saturday Night Live will be entering its 47th season of late night sketch comedy at NBC. The series is a network TV staple that has spawned some of comedy’s biggest stars over the years. Typically, when cast members start to become household names and take on other movie and TV roles, they part ways with the show....

‘The Crime Of The Century’ Trailer: HBO Documentary Tackles The Opioid Crisis By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 9, 2021 4:30 pm EST How did opioids become the center of one of the worst public health crises in U.S. history? That’s what the new HBO documentary The Crime of the Century aims to find out. Directed by Alex Gibney — who won three Emmys in 2015 for his thorough Scientology doc Going Clear and an Oscar for his 2008 look at the U....

‘The Flight Attendant’ Star Kaley Cuoco To Play Doris Day In A New Limited Series By Ben Pearson/March 12, 2021 12:30 pm EST Kaley Cuoco will soon portray a beloved Hollywood legend. The Flight Attendant and Big Bang Theory actress has been cast in a Doris Day TV show that’s in the works at Warner Bros. Television, in which Cuoco will play the Oscar-nominated performer, who starred in films like Pillow Talk, Calamity Jane, and The Man Who Knew Too Much....

‘The Many Saints Of Newark’ Trailer Breakdown: Who’s Who In The ‘Sopranos’ Prequel Movie By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2021 9:09 am EST The Many Saints of Newark trailer is here, giving us our first good look at the upcoming Sopranos prequel movie. While Warner Bros. is stressing that the film is for everyone – not just fans of the show – those familiar with the series will no doubt get a thrill spotting new actors playing younger versions of the show’s infamous characters....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Trailer: This Mission Is More Important Than You Can Possibly Imagine By Chris Evangelista/June 22, 2021 12:03 pm EST The Suicide Squad has a brand new trailer – and it tones down the humor and ratchets up the action. While the first trailer released for the James Gunn flick made things look extra silly, this latest look at The Suicide Squad attempts to raise the stakes a bit, highlighting that despite all the wisecracking, these characters are on a mission – a deadly mission that will probably get most of them killed....

‘The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf’ Teaser: Netflix’s Anime Prequel Introduces Geralt’s Dashing Mentor By Danielle Ryan/July 21, 2021 10:33 am EST Get the suds ready, folks, because the trailer for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf is here. Netflix dropped the official teaser for the prequel anime movie to The Witcher. The series is about the adventures of young Vesemir, who goes on to become the Witcher Geralt’s mentor. They also included a scene with him in the bathtub, because they know what fans want....

32% Of Fans Want To See This Marvel Comics Hero In The MCU Marvel By Ryan Scott/Oct. 26, 2021 9:55 am EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been going strong for well over a decade now, ever since “Iron Man” kicked open the door in 2008....

Dan Trachtenberg’s New Predator Movie Has Wrapped Filming Instagram By Max Evry/Sept. 13, 2021 1:04 pm EST Reports indicate that a film crew in Canada is getting to the choppa as filming on the secretive new Predator sequel has officially wrapped production in Alberta, Calgary. Word on the hush-hush fifth film in the long-running franchise (filming under the code name “Skulls”) comes from cinematographer Jeff Cutter, who re-teams with his “10 Cloverfield Lane” director....

Derry Girls Season 3 Will End The Series Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/Sept. 24, 2021 1:00 pm EST If you read that headline and thought, “Huh, that’s so weird, it feels like I’ve been waiting for the next season of ‘Derry Girls’ for years,” you’d be right! Season 2 aired in 2019 and ever since then we’ve been waiting (somewhat) patiently to reunite with our favorite group of Northern Irish teenagers. To be fair, it’s not anyone’s fault; “Derry Girls” was one of those shows that got pushed back and re-planned due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn’t mean we don’t miss it dearly....

History Of The World Part II Is Actually Getting Made, And Mel Brooks Is Coming Back By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 18, 2021 3:43 pm EST Well, here’s a shocker for movie fans! Mel Brooks’ classic 1981 comedy, cheekily titled “History of the World, Part I,” is finally receiving a Part II decades after the fact. The original parody film was made up of episodic vignettes — many of which were comprised of catchy musical numbers — covering multiple different eras of human history, including the Stone Age, the Old Testament, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, and the French Revolution....

How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With Sam Firstenberg, Director Of ‘Ninja 3: The Domination’ By Blake Harris/June 12, 2020 9:00 am EST This week, the gang at How Did This Get Made? covered Ninja 3: The Domination (1984), the final entry in Cannon Films’ so-called “Ninja Trilogy” The director of Ninja 3, Sam Firstenberg, is an interesting guy with many stories about his unlikely journey from Jerusalem to Hollywood....

How Eternals Director Chloé Zhao Got Superman Into The MCU Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 26, 2021 12:32 pm EST Given how each and every movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe these days can’t seem to escape receiving an intense level of scrutiny, it has become readily apparent that there’s simply no such thing as a throwaway gag anymore. Filmmaker Chloé Zhao just might be discovering this the hard way, after a certain “Eternals” clip released during the film’s marketing push happened to include a seemingly innocuous Superman reference....

Marvel’s What If…? Finale And Credits Scene: What Does This Mean For Season 2? Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2021 12:59 pm EST This week brought the first season finale of Marvel’s “What If…?” animated series. After starting off as an anthology series exploring alternate timelines in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s newly unfurled multiverse, the series finally brought several different timelines together, giving us the first assembly of the superhero team known as the Guardians of the Multiverse....

Neil Gaiman Calls Out Disney For Failing To Pay Royalties To Writers And Artists lev radin/Shutterstock By Vanessa Armstrong/Oct. 4, 2021 1:17 pm EST Ever read a “Star Wars” novel, a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” graphic novel, or a “Spider-Man” comic? These different IPs have at least two things in common — they are owned by Disney, and Disney has stopped paying royalties to some of the writers and artists who created them....

Park Chan-Wook Is Directing A TV Adaptation Of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-Winning Novel ‘The Sympathizer’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 7, 2021 12:00 pm EST Park Chan-wook has found his next TV project. The filmmaker behind Oldboy and The Handmaiden ventured into TV for the first time for the John le Carré series Little Drummer Girl in 2018, and will be bringing another espionage story to to the screen with A24’s TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer....

Pen15 Season 2, Part 2 Trailer: If You’re Lucky Enough To Live, Live. Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 3, 2021 3:10 pm EST After what feels like decades of a 1980s stranglehold on nostalgia properties, millennials were given the relatable gift of revisiting middle school in the form of “Pen15.” The groundbreaking comedy created by Anna Konkle, Maya Erskine, and Sam Zvibleman features Konkle and Erskine (both actors in their mid-30s) playing middle school versions of themselves, while everyone else (with the exception of Chau Long as Anna’s crush, Steve) played by age appropriate performers....

Spoiler Discussion: WandaVision Episode 9 “The Series Finale” By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2021 10:45 am EST On the March 5, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman to have a spoiler discussion about the WandaVision finale. In The Spoiler Room: WandaVision Episode 9 “The Series Finale” Feedback What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘WandaVision’: Grief, Trauma, and Fan Theories Brief reactions Breakdown Speculation All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Trailer Takes Us Into The Heart Of An Anomaly Paramount+ By Vanessa Armstrong/Oct. 11, 2021 4:18 pm EST There is a big bad anomaly coming for the crew of “Star Trek: Discovery” and the new trailer for season 4 reveals that it will be a formidable force for Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her crew. What is this anomaly? No one knows for certain, but the Discovery crew (in new uniforms!...

Tito and the Birds Shout Factory “Tito and the Birds,” a Brazilian movie directed by Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, and Gustavo Steinberg, presents fear and anxiety as an actual virus. Thanks to constant fear-mongering and catastrophization in the news media, a fear epidemic overtakes the people of Brazil, transforming them into helpless blobs. The allegory is a little on the nose, but it’s entirely effective. The greatest selling point of “Tito and the Birds,” however, is its unique art style, which combines elegant and detailed painted backgrounds with cruder, more simplistic characters, aided by some digital animation....