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Check out the Inner Child clip below “Steven Spielberg has a gift for getting inside the child in all of us,” esteemed film critic Leonard Maltin says in the clip, “because he has that quality himself.” You can’t really argue with that, especially not after watching this featurette. After all, who else would film a scene involving dozens of loose frogs hopping around a wild classroom? “E.T.” is a deeply empathetic film, and perhaps that is the reason why it has remained such an important cultural milestone....

A Secret Mission: Impossible – Fallout Character Will Return In Dead Reckoning Paramount By Mike Shutt/Aug. 4, 2022 3:16 pm EST For a long time, Ving Rhames was the only actor to traverse the “Mission: Impossible” franchise alongside Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. Gradually, the series has accrued a collection of characters that now you cannot imagine the movies without, chief among them Simon Pegg’s Benji Dunn and Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust....

Adam Wingard Thought Of Godzilla Vs. Kong’s Hollow Earth As His ‘Star Wars Audition’ Warner Bros. Pictures By Sarah Musnicky/Oct. 9, 2022 5:00 pm EST There were quite a few jaw-dropping moments last year during “Godzilla Vs. Kong.” Directed by Adam Wingard, the film featured ambitious fight sequences between the titular Godzilla and Kong on open water, highlighting the futility of humanity to intervene while these two behemoths went at it....

After Star Trek Ended, Nichelle Nichols Went To Work For NASA Paramount By Matthew Bilodeau/Aug. 2, 2022 10:34 am EST “Star Trek” has endured for decades as a beacon of hope as we try to strive toward a future where humanity has allowed bigotry and prejudice to become relics of an antiquated past. Gene Roddenbery’s sci-fi adventure series presented a world that has embraced the thrilling concept of new discoveries just waiting to be found in the cosmos....

Alexander Skarsgård Will Make Directorial Debut With The Pack Starring Florence Pugh HBO By Erin Brady/Oct. 28, 2022 4:56 pm EST Actors taking their talents behind the camera as directors is always exciting to hear about, and this news from Deadline is certainly no exception. Alexander Skarsgård has been tapped to direct “The Pack,” a psychological thriller that will also serve as his directorial debut. If that wasn’t enough to get you interested, wait until you hear that Florence Pugh has signed on as the film’s lead....

Andor Will Showcase A New Side Of Mon Mothma Lucasfilm By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 24, 2022 9:00 am EST Mon Mothma has been an integral figure in the “Star Wars” saga since her first film appearance in “Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi.” Having opposed Chancellor Palpatine’s power grab during the Clone Wars, she became the leader of the Rebel Alliance, and lived to see the defeat of Empire....

What a lousy wedding gift Disney+ According to Deadline, while everyone took to social media to freak out and share their shock over the news, the co-directors of “Batgirl,” Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah, were in Morocco for El Arbi’s wedding. They were expected to return to edit the film after the festivities, but instead, El Arbi received a rather lousy wedding gift from Warner Bros. Discovery. “We are saddened and shocked by the news....

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Brings The Long-Awaited Final Arc To Disney+ And Hulu Hulu By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 4, 2022 10:47 am EST Get ready for the next stage of the anime streaming wars, because Disney+ has now entered the race. While Crunchyroll continues to dominate via a monopoly, Netflix releases banger after banger, HIDIVE keeps releasing niche and weird shows, and Prime Video all but exits the fight, Disney has decided to compete in the big leagues by releasing the highly anticipated return of “Bleach....

Boardwalk Empire’s Creator Saw It As The ‘Flip Side’ Of The Sopranos Warner Bros. Entertainment By Anya Stanley/Aug. 20, 2022 8:30 pm EST Upon the end of HBO drama “The Sopranos,” with the falsetto notes of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” still hanging in the air, executive producer and writer Terence Winter was searching for his next project. The massively popular mafia-centric show had concluded at the top of the TV heap, even called “the greatest pop-culture masterpiece of its day” by Peter Biskind....

Everything We Know About The Boys Season 4’s New Supes Prime Video By Michael Boyle/Oct. 11, 2022 2:27 pm EST Perhaps the biggest development in season 3 of “The Boys” is that Vought’s beloved group of superheroes, The Seven, lost a couple members. Supersonic is dead, as is Black Noir. Starlight (Erin Moriarty) has left the group forever, and Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) is no longer even a supe. That leaves only three members left: Homelander (Antony Starr), the Deep (Chase Crawford), and A-Train (Jessie T....

HBO Max And Discovery+ Will Officially Merge Into One Streaming Service In 2023 HBO Max By Ryan Scott/Aug. 4, 2022 5:33 pm EST It’s officially official: HBO Max and discovery+ are going to merge into one, big streaming service. The news was confirmed during Warner Bros. Discovery’s recent quarterly earnings call, in which the media conglomerate laid out much of what we can expect from them in the future. This was key as the merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery had only just gotten underway during the previous quarterly call....

Bond hits Prime Video this October Eon Productions According to Variety, all 25 of the Eon Productions made James Bond films will drop on Prime Video on October 5, 2022. This reaches all the way back to 1962’s “Dr. No” up to Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 with “No Time to Die.” Keep in mind, these are the “canonical” Eon Bond films. If you were hoping this would include the 1967 “Casino Royale,” 1983’s “Never Say Never Again,” or the 1954 TV adaptation of “Casino Royale” with the American James Bond played by Barry Nelson, you are out of luck there....

Craven does Cocteau New Line Cinema Wes Craven was inspired by his relatively-late-in-life deep dive into cinema history when he began to make films of his own, taking inspiration from Ingmar Bergman for “The Last House on the Left” and F.W. Murnau for “The Hills Have Eyes.” When he was creating “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” Craven sought to recapture the spooky surrealism on display in Jean Cocteau’s 1946 adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast....

How Viserys Targaryen Just Proved Himself A Better King Than Robert Baratheon HBO By Michael Boyle/Oct. 3, 2022 10:00 am EST Most people can agree that Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine) isn’t all that great at his job. Yes, he’s managed to avoid any major wars, but he’s been remarkably complacent about the growing rivalries inside his own family. After over a decade, you’d think he’d have done a little more to force Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) to put aside their differences....

Matt Shakman No Longer Directing Star Trek 4 Paramount Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2022 7:54 pm EST Hot on the heels of taking the reins of the new “Fantastic Four” movie in the works at Marvel Studios, “WandaVision” series director Matt Shakman is leaving behind another major franchise project. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Shakman will no longer be at the helm of “Star Trek 4,” the next installment of the sci-fi franchise that was rebooted by J....

Rob Zombie Could’ve Directed A Sequel To Thomas Jane’s The Punisher, But Marvel Said No Lionsgate By Ryan Scott/Aug. 12, 2022 1:03 pm EST One could easily argue that we have never had an outright good “Punisher” movie. While several attempts have been made, nothing has truly managed to capture that character on screen in a way that seems possible. Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle from “Daredevil” season 2 seems the closest, even if his solo show missed the mark a bit....

Too much action, not enough romance 20th Century Studios “Entrapment” starts with a striking stunt that sees someone — presumably Connery’s character — descend a skyscraper in the Manhattan night to pinch a Rembrandt painting. The action doesn’t let up throughout, culminating in a heist gone wrong atop an international bank in Malaysia, whereby Connery and Zeta-Jones are suspended above Kuala Lumpur between two towers — at the time, the tallest buildings in the world....

Simply Hiring Diego Luna To Play Cassian Andor Brought An Important Perspective To Star Wars Lucasfilm By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 11, 2022 5:22 pm EST With every episode, “Andor” proves to be both unlike anything “Star Wars” has ever done, and one of the best things in the “Star Wars” universe. The show’s cinematography is distinct and more immersive than the blue screen and Stagecraft-heavy Disney+ shows we’ve seen so far. The writing is smart, tense, and surprising, even in spite of it being a prequel series leading to an outcome we already know about....

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Trailer: A Whole Ship Of Familiar Faces Are Back Paramount+ By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 8, 2022 6:01 pm EST Oh my Q … they did it. They actually did it. The evil geniuses over at Paramount+ are finally going to get me to watch “Star Trek: Picard.” Paramount just released the trailer for the third and final season of the series, and it’s chock full of faces “Star Trek: The Next Generation” fans know and love....

Strange Things That Happened On MCU Sets Disney Platform Distribution By Liam Gaughan/Sept. 19, 2022 10:49 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is easily one of the most successful film franchises of the 21st century. While there have been many great films inspired by comic books, the MCU was the first interconnected saga that brought multiple heroes together for a crossover event. Ever since the success of 2008’s “Iron Man,” the MCU has pulled off the rare challenge of pleasing both hardcore comic book lovers and more casual movie fans....