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Have you heard of this Josh Brolin guy? Barbra Streisand’s stepson? He’s in a lot of movies this year! Perhaps  too many! And here’s another one:  The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter . The latest entry in the Summer of Brolin™ is headed to Netflix in July. Watch  The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter trailer below. The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter Trailer Here’s a fun game: take a shot every time someone says “whitetail deer” in this trailer. You’ll be blotto in no time! In  The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter , Josh Brolin plays Buck Ferguson, the host of a hunting show who “plans a special episode of his hunting show around a bonding weekend with his estranged son, Jaden ( Montana Jordan ). With trusted – but hapless – cameraman and friend Don ( Danny McBride ) in tow, Buck sets out for what soon becomes an unexpectedly epic adventure of father-son reconnection in the great outdoors.” Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter  is a reunion for t...

The summer of Ethan Hawke continues with  Juliet, Naked . Just three months after he played a morose preacher in First Reformed,  Hawke is remind us of how much range he has by stepping back into his romantic-comedy leading man shoes. Hawke stars as an aging rock star who romances Rose Byrne , a woman who finds herself at a crossroads after spontaneously publishing a scathing music review. Juliet, Naked Trailer Based on  Nick Hornby ‘s book of the same name,  Juliet, Naked looks like an absolutely delightful rom-com filled with talented, underrated actors. Rose Byrne plays Annie, a woman whose long-term relationship with Duncan ( Chris O’Dowd ), a man obsessed with obscure rocker Tucker Crowe, has reached a stalemate. But soon her life is sent into upheaval when Crowe reaches out to her after she publishes a scathing review of his album. Yeah, Juliet, Naked  seems by the numbers, and yeah hating on rom-coms is cool but  Jesse Peretz ‘s movie l...

Breaking Bad and its spin-off prequel  Better Call Saul are both headed to San Diego in July. San Diego Comic-Con will host both a  Breaking Bad reunion featuring the original cast, as well as the Better Call Saul season 4 premiere episode. The cast of  Breaking Bad recently had a big reunion for Entertainment Weekly , but if you were hoping to see everyone together again live, and in person, here’s your chance. Deadline reports SDCC will host a big  Breaking Bad reunion featuring  Bryan Cranston , Aaron Pau l, Dean Norris , Anna Gunn , Bob Odenkirk , Giancarlo Esposito , Betsy Brandt , Jonathan Banks , RJ Mitte and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan . The gang will gather for a panel in Hall H on July 19, 2018 at 4:30 PM. And that’s not all. An hour before that, the audience in Hall H will be treated to the premiere episode of  Better Call Saul season 4. Odenkirk, Banks, Esposito, Rhea Seehorn, Michael Mando, Patrick Fabian, Gilligan a...

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we visit an Asian film festival, revisit Monster Squad , visit three brothers from another mother, look deep inside ourselves in a small town, and get our freak on. Wolfman’s Got Nards Just when you thought you had heard everything there is to hear about Monster Squad , a seminal film for many budding cineastes, director Andre Gower is here to give you a little more. Even though Gower was in front of the camera for the original, what you can see in this trailer is someone who has reverence and love for a movie that just will not die. For those of us who revere this box-office bomb, which was written by Shane Black for ...

When is Young Justice: Outsiders coming to the DC Universe streaming service? How does Josh Brolin want to improve his performance as Cable in X-Force ? What are the latest additions to the panel line-up at San Diego Comic-Con ? What does Evangeline Lilly think about her male co-stars complaining about their super suits? Want to see a new clip from Ant-Man and the Wasp ? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits . Go behind the scenes of the new Ant-Man and the Wasp comic book by Mark Waid and Javier Garron . Deadpool 2 is now the third highest grossing R-rated film of all time, and it’s now over $708 million globally . Marvel Comics created a size chart showing how some of their superheroes literally measure up to each other. Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly said Paul Rudd improved his own lines in Ant-Man and the Wasp . SyFy got an exclusive look at the upcoming animated movie DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis . The release of Young Justice: ...

On the June 29, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest tv and film news, including Cobra Kai, Doctor Strange 2, Kevin Feige, Greta Gerwig, Michael Moore, Rian Johnson, Star Wars, Indiana Jones 5 , and DisneyToon Studios . You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes , Google Play , Overcast , Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). Opening Banter: Jacob, Brad, Peter and Chris are going to Comic Con. In The News : Expect to See a More Vulnerable, Human Side of John Kreese in ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 2 ‘Doctor Strange’ Sequel Confirmed By Kevin Feige Marvel Studios Head Kevin Feige Isn’t Taking Over Lucasfilm Greta Gerwig Eyes ‘Little Women’ as Her Next Project; Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Stone, Timothée Chalamet All in Talks to Star Michael Moore’s Donald Trump Documentary ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ is Coming in Sept...

Netflix just ordered a sci-fi martial arts crime series called  Wu Assassins starring  The Raid ‘s Iko Uwais , and if that string of words isn’t enough to get you excited, you might want to check your pulse. One of the best action films of the last decade is  The Raid , starring Iko Uwais as a man who kicks and punches the hell out of a lot of people in a high-rise building. Uwais will next be seen in  Wu Assassins , a new action series from streaming behemoth Netflix. The show comes from writer John Wirth ( Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ; Falling Skies ), with  Stephen Fung helming the first two episodes. Here’s how Netflix describes the series: WU ASSASSINS is an action-packed crime drama set In San Francisco’s Chinatown. The series stars Iko Uwais as Kai Jin, an aspiring chef who becomes the latest and last Wu Assassin, chosen to round up the powers of an ancient triad and restore balance once again. The mix of sci-fi, action, drama...

In 2016, FXX renewed the comedy  It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for a 13th and 14th season, which will tie it with The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running live-action comedy series in American television history. So we knew the show was coming back, but last year’s season 12 finale left things in a dramatically different place for Dennis ( Glenn Howerton ), Mac ( Rob McElhenney ), Dee ( Kaitlin Olson ), Charlie ( Charlie Day ), and Frank ( Danny DeVito ). Keep reading to learn the newly-announced It’s Always Sunny premiere date, as well as what to expect in this new era of the show. The season 12 finale was the first time a season of It’s Always Sunny ended on a genuine cliffhanger : Dennis unexpectedly learned that he was a father and decided to leave Philadelphia to be with his child. Now a new press release (via IndieWire ) says Dennis “takes on the new role of father in North Dakota” for season 13, which premieres on FXX on Wednesday, September 5, 2...

Having learned nothing from  Westworld , Disney Imagineering went ahead and built stunt robots that can flip through the air, and probably eventually rebel against their cruel human masters. It’s likely these high-flying bots will be used in Disney’s  Star Wars land, or possible upcoming Marvel attractions. Disney Stunt Robots  In the video above, you can see the cool and potentially terrifying new robot stunt doubles built by the folks at Disney Imagineering. Imagineering develops technology and rides for Disney’s theme parks, which means these articulate stunt bots are bound to debut in a Disney park in the foreseeable future. Here’s what  Tony Dohi , Principal R&D Imagineer and Morgan Pope , Associate Research Scientist at Disney, told Tech Crunch about the stunt bot project: “So what this is about is the realization we came to after seeing where our characters are going on screen…whether they be Star Wars characters, or Pixar characters, or Marvel ...