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A Pivotal Clockwork Orange Scene Called For Stanley Kubrick Tossing A Camera Off The Roof Warner Bros. By Matt Rainis/Oct. 1, 2022 8:30 pm EST Stanley Kubrick was famously a tough director to work with. This was mostly because of his poor treatment of his actors, which I believe was an aspect of his almost pathological perfectionism. Kubrick had to get every detail in every film he made exactly as he envisioned it in his mind, and he didn’t care if he had to mentally scar someone like Shelley Duvall for life in order to achieve that....

Alien³ Changed David Fincher’s Entire Approach To Filmmaking By Witney Seibold/July 6, 2022 5:22 pm EST David Fincher learned early on to shed his idealism. Starting in the mid 1980s, Fincher cut his directorial teeth on music videos, working for high-profile artists like Rick Springfield, Loverboy, Billy Idol, Aerosmith, Paula Abdul, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, and Madonna. It was Fincher behind the videos for “Vogue,” “Express Yourself,” and “Oh Father....

Bodies Bodies Bodies Trailer: A Party Game Goes Horribly Wrong A24 By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 12, 2022 9:12 am EST Classic horror movie tropes involve a group of friends traveling together to an isolated place with the intention of having a gala time, but things go awry soon, leaving bodies in the wake. While Halina Reijn’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies” follows this basic plot structure, the film’s trailer hints that it is not your run-of-the-mill horror movie....

Chloe Bennet Credits Independence From The MCU For Agents Of SHIELD’s Success ABC By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 20, 2022 3:04 pm EST When you look at the history of how the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to be, the casting of Robert Downey Jr. was viewed as a very risky decision. And now we can’t imagine anyone else but him as “Iron Man.” It is undoubtedly one of Marvel Studios’ greatest successes, and in the years to come, the growing interest in the MCU would help turn more niche comic book titles into megablockbuster hits (“Guardians of the Galaxy”)....

Clifford the Big Red Dog Trailer The kid-friendly animated cartoon that had everyone swept away by the charm of a giant red canine has now been translated into a pretty garish-looking blend of live-action and CGI, featuring plenty of giant-sized antics and an amusingly horrified undertone that would inevitably result from people actually seeing a kaiju-sized dog on the loose in New York City. But hey, that’s why I’m not the target demographic here....

It still holds up Universal Pictures And sure enough, even as we approach the real 2027 and the main premise of the movie hasn’t happened yet, almost everything else in the movie feels prescient. “Children of Men” features a world in major political turmoil with a refugee crisis, a Britain in serious decline, and a population that has generally lost hope in any possibility of a brighter future. It’s all still a little too familiar to modern audiences....

Filming Inglourious Basterds’ Fiery Climax Was A Scary Experience For Quentin Tarantino Universal Pictures By Michael Boyle/Dec. 11, 2022 2:41 pm EST As far as exciting climaxes go, you can’t get much better than the ending to Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.” Although the movie wasn’t aiming for accuracy and realism, not many audience members expected him to fully break from the history books in the final act. As the movie barreled forward, both Shosanna’s (Mélanie Laurent) and the titular Basterds’ converging plots to assassinate Hitler faced more and more obstacles, and it seemed like everything was falling apart....

‘We’re out here healing the people within this room’ A24 What was your favorite, most memorable scene for you, filming this movie? It was a hard scene to shoot, and I think I can say it’s my favorite now — or more leaning into the most memorable scene. Me and Gabrielle Union, towards the end of the film where we’re in the hallway. And I think why it’s a memorable moment is because when I took this job, it was all about protecting Elegance [Bratton]....

Goodfellas Writer Nicholas Pileggi Teaming Up With Robert De Niro For Gangster Film Wise Guys Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 16, 2022 4:56 pm EST It’s a whole new era for Warner Bros. Discovery, and after being dogged by controversy after controversy for the last several weeks, the studio’s focus can finally go back to, you know, the business of funding, making and releasing movies. The first original production under the newly-merged studio, however, can’t help but bring back memories of Warner Bros....

Heathers: The Musical Trailer: The Broadway Sensation Comes To Roku The Roku Channel By Shania Russell/Sept. 7, 2022 12:52 pm EST The list of musical adaptations is getting dangerously long and after a few painful disappointments, even theater kids are starting to question reality. Alas, the past few years have made it very clear that at some point, we’ll have to accept that the movie-to-musical pipeline (not to be confused with the movie-to-musical-to-movie pipeline) is here to stay....

How Thor: Love And Thunder Fails Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster Marvel Studios By Mike Shutt/July 12, 2022 9:01 am EST “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” Now, Michael Corleone may have been speaking about something far more serious than superhero films, but the sentiment certainly applies to the return of Natalie Portman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Academy Award winner has been absent from the blockbuster behemoth since 2013’s much disliked “Thor: The Dark World,” and it looked like she was out for good....

Interview With The Vampire Trailer: Anne Rice’s Immortal Tale Heads To TV [Comic-Con] Alfonso Bresciani / AMC By Jenna Busch/July 23, 2022 5:47 pm EST San Diego Comic-Con 2022 is taking a bite out of the geek world, and /Film has a team on the ground to bring you all the news and details from the event. Today we have a brand new trailer for the AMC’s upcoming “Interview with the Vampire” series to chomp on....

Racing onto the screen in style Sony Pictures Releasing The full-length trailer for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is filled with all sorts of visual goodies. There’s a lot to unpack in its short run time, and part of the fun of the whole thing is picking out all the different Spider-People set to make an appearance in this new film. But one particular wall-crawler really stands out, and that is none other than the marvelous Spider-Woman (real name Jessica Drew)....

Jack Black’s Bowser Voice In The Super Mario Bros. Trailer Is Not What We Expected Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/Oct. 6, 2022 5:55 pm EST The animation studio Illumination has made a feature film based on the 1985 Nintendo game “Super Mario Bros.” and every decision they have made has been baffling. Making the film at all seemed like a dodgy proposition from the start, as the last attempt to make a Mario movie — a strange dinosaur-themed dystopian movie with Dennis Hopper, Bob Hoskins, and John Leguizamo — resulted in critical panning and box office losses....

Lucy Liu’s Strange World Character Was Originally Much Different Than The Final Iteration [Exclusive] Disney Animation By Jenna Busch/Nov. 27, 2022 6:00 pm EST In Walt Disney Animation’s “Strange World,” viewers will visit a land set in the center of a seemingly impassable mountain rage. But Jaeger Clade (voice of Dennis Quaid) is a grizzled old explorer whose life’s mission is to see the other side of those mountains, and nothing will stop him from accomplishing that goal....

Mammals Trailer: James Corden’s New Series Promises The Gift Of Sally Hawkins Prime Video By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 18, 2022 8:38 am EST James Corden may be leaving “The Late Late Show” in 2023, but he’s certainly keeping himself busy. In his next venture, “Mammals,” Corden stars in a new comedy-drama series for Prime Video, which is shockingly not also a secret musical. Those most familiar with him for his “Carpool Karaoke” stunts may be shocked to see Corden in an entirely different form, as a grieving chef willing to throw hands and take a headbutt if the situation calls for it....

Mark Wahlberg’s Pitch For The Departed Sequel With Robert De Niro And Brad Pitt Fell Flat On Its Face Warner Bros. Pictures By Shae Sennett/Sept. 30, 2022 11:22 am EST Spoilers for “The Departed” follow, so beware. Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” features a star-studded cast and an action-packed story, so it’s no surprise that there was some talk of a sequel. Mark Wahlberg gave an Oscar-nominated performance as Sergeant Dignam, a significant supporting role....

Nanny Star Anna Diop On Taking Up Space And Perfecting Her Accent [Exclusive Interview] Prime Video By Lyvie Scott/Nov. 15, 2022 10:00 am EST When it comes to Internet sweethearts, very few are doing it like Anna Diop. The Senegalese-American actress is a relative newcomer, but since breaking out in the DC Universe series “Titans,” Diop has proven that she’s absolutely one to watch — and one to root for. As Starfire, Diop has faced her fair share of backlash....

Joking with Tim Burton Warner Bros. It’s impossible to understate the scope and hype surrounding “Batman” in 1989. It was a marketing bonanza the likes of which the world hadn’t previously seen. Jack Nicholson, who played the Joker, famously negotiated top billing and a cut of the film’s merchandise, making him a very, very, very rich man. Those who were alert enough to be paying attention in ‘89 also likely recall the controversial casting of Michael Keaton as the title hero....

13th Netflix Ava DuVernay’s brilliant essay-on-film draws a direct line from the days of slavery and the 13th amendment to the modern prison-industrial complex, which is essentially slavery under another name. With contributions from Angela Davis, Van Jones, Cory Booker, and even Newt Gingrich, this is a wide-ranging discussion of how the history of the United States has directly led to the over-incarceration of Black men, who can be used as for-profit labor by the corporations that run private prisons....