When Will California Movie Theaters Reopen? California has been hard-hit by the coronavirus, so there’s been a lot of questions about when the state might be able to reopen its movie theaters. Now, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced strict guidelines for indoor movie theaters in California to reopen in the upcoming months. In other words, don’t expect an easy solution here where all theaters across the state miraculously reopen at once....

Who Is “He Who Remains?” Breaking Down The Bombshell Appearance In The ‘Loki’ Season Finale Alright, Marvelites. Whose brain is melted afterwatching the season finaleofLoki? The episode peels back the curtain on the show’s big bad, and already it feels like we’re dancing aroundmajor spoilers. So if you haven’t seen the finale yet, by all means, go watch it onDisney+and then come back here and let’s talk about who this character is and what their appearance might mean for Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Writer’s Room: Our 25 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2020 On the July 03, 2025 episode of /Film Daily,/Film editor-in-chiefPeter Scirettais joined by /Film managing editorJacob Hall, senior writerBen Pearson, weekend editorBrad Omanand writersHoai-Tran BuiandChris Evangelistato narrow down their 25 most anticipated movies of 2020. Opening Banter: Let’s close the book on 2019 and look ahead to the rest of 2020!In this Edition of The Writer’s Room: Here is the initial list of films we began with:Universal Support – 6 votesA Quiet Place Part II – JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BPWonder Woman 1984 – JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BPIn the Heights – JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BPTenet – JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BPLast Night in Soho – JH, CE, HB, B, PS, BPWest Side Story – JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BPDune – JH, CE, HB, B, PS, BPThe French Dispatch – JH, CE, HB, B, PS, BPStrong Support – 5 votesSoul – JH, CE, B, HB, PSMank – JH, CE, HB, B, BPGood Support – 4 votesEternals – JH, B, HB, PSNo Time to Die – JH, CE, B, BPDeath on the Nile – JH, CE, HB, BPRebecca – JH, CE, HB, BPSome Support – 3 votesBlack Widow – JH, B, HBThe Invisible Man – JH, CE, BBill and Ted Face the Music – JH, B, HBHalloween Kills – JH, CE, BRaya and the Last Dragon – JH, B, PSAntlers – JH, CE, HBBirds of Prey – CE, HB, BPAntebellum – CE, HB, BPSmall Support – 2 votesCandyman – JH, CEMalignant – JH, CEJungle Cruise – JH, PSOn the Rocks – CE, BGhostbusters: Afterlife – B, PSThe Personal History of David Copperfield – HB, BThe Turning – CE, HBI’m Thinking of Ending Things – CE, BPTop Gun: Maverick – B, BPComing 2 America – B, PSFast and Furious 9 PS, BPOutliers – 1 voteSaint Maud – JHEscape Room 2 – JHGretel and Hansel – CEThe Many Saints of Newark – CEThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It – CEFree Guy – BThe Trial of the Chicago 7 – BTaylor Swift: Miss Americana – BEmma – HBMulan – HBPromising Young Woman – HBMinari – HBChaos Walking – PSGodzilla vs Kong – PSThe Way Back – PSBoss Level – PSThe Witches – PSBIOS – BPAll the other stuff you need to know:

‘A Quiet Place’ Trailer: Monsters Hunt Emily Blunt And John Krasinski It’s become a steadily growing problem in the digital age: How do you sell a horror movie without revealing too much about the movie? Horror films are built on shocks and scares, and today’s spoiler-happy culture threatens that very foundation. But if you have an intriguing enough premise, you can get audiences in theaters, right? A Quiet Placecertainly has that intriguing premise down pat:Emily BluntandJohn Krasinskiplay the parents of a family who are forced to live in utter silence for fear of being hunted by mysterious creatures drawn to noise....

‘Bird Box’ Early Buzz: Sandra Bullock Is A Bright Spot In Netflix Post-Apocalyptic Horror Film With No Vision Netflix recently made the unprecedented decision to release three of its Oscar contender films in theaters before they hit streaming. Two of which were expected — Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar frontrunnerRoma, the Coen Brothers' anthology WesternThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs— but the third was something of a question mark:Bird BoxstarringSandra Bullockand directed by Danish filmmakerSusanne Bier(The Night Manager)....

‘Crashing’ Trailer: Pete Holmes Hasn’t Seen ‘The Wire’ February will bring a new HBO comedy series to air from comedianPete Holmes, fresh off his recent stand-up comedy special on the cable network. Inspired by his own trials and tribulations in life as an up-and-coming comic who married young only to end up divorced,Crashingfollows a comedian not unlike Holmes himself as couch surfs around New York City, staying with friends and trying to figure out just what the hell to do with his life....

‘Cryptozoo’ Trailer: A Hand-Drawn Animated Movie About Monsters And The People Who Capture Them Comic book illustrator, writer, and filmmakerDash Shawrecently created a visually stunning film about cryptids calledCryptozoo. The animated feature from Magnolia Pictures innovates the creature feature subgenre while exploring artistic methods that creatively capture an array of mythological beasts. There are hundreds of cryptids, or mythological animals, that span centuries of folklore across the world. However, none of them have been the center of a story quite like this....

‘Den Of Thieves’ Set Visit: Making The Impossible Kind Of Possible With Curtis Jackson And Gerard Butler Heading into theDen of Thievesset visit, I was mostly thinking aboutCurtis “50 Cent” Jackson. While leaving theDen of Thievesset visit, I was still mostly thinking about Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The artist, entrepreneur, Vitaminwater moneymaker, and actor was a lot more entertaining and honest than (understandably) some actors tend to be speaking with bloggers on sets....

‘Heroes Reborn’: Masi Oka To Return As Hiro Nakamura Heroes Rebornwill welcome back another familiar face. NBC has announced thatMasi Okais set to reprise his role as time-traveler / teleporterHiro Nakamuraon the upcoming limited series. Oka is the second original cast member confirmed to return, afterJack Colemanas Noah Bennet a.k.a. Horn-Rimmed Glasses. More details on theHeroes RebornMasi Oka casting after the jump. While Coleman will be a regular onHeroes Reborn, Oka will have a guest-starring arc....

‘Justice League’: J.K. Simmons Will Show Off Commissioner Gordon’s “Badass” Side Last month, we got a bit of workout inspiration from a surprising source:J.K. Simmons,looking impressively rippedjust asJustice Leaguewas shooting. The actor had recently been cast as Commissioner Jim Gordon, Batman’s ally, in the new DC movie, and the assumption was that he was getting in shape for the role. And yet when Peter visited the set ofJustice Leaguenot long after that, he reported that Simmons looked like a pretty traditional take on the character....

‘Long Gone Summer’ Trailer: Sammy Sosa And Mark McGwire Swing For Home Run Supremacy Following the massive success of the Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls documentary seriesThe Last Dance, ESPN is trying to keep the hype alive byreleasing new30 for 30sports documentarieson Sundays. One of them will beLong Gone Summer, which chronicles the famous home run battle in the summer of 1998 between St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire and Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa....

‘Minority Report’ Featurette Teases Fox’s Slightly Revamped New Series A few months ago we saw the firstMinority Reportpromo, showing off Fox’s new series that picks up the story of Steven Spielberg’s feature film. Now there’s a new one, which has more details on the sci-fi crime series. Ten years after the events of the film, cops still use high-tech tools to fight crime and solve cases, but the predictive precog program is gone....

‘Night Court’ Sequel Series Casts ‘Big Bang Theory’ Star Melissa Rauch As Harry’s Daughter The court has made its decision:Night Courtexecutive producerMelissa Rauch, best known for her role in the hit sitcomThe Big Bang Theory, will be starring in the sitcom sequel series as Harry’s daughter. Deadline reports that Rauch has stepped up to star in theNight Courtsequel series in the lead role opposite original series co-starJohn Larroquette. Rauch will star as “the unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone, daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in her father’s footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (Larroquette)....