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James Cameron Pushed True Lies’ Budget To The Limit By Walter Roberts/Oct. 2, 2022 10:47 am EST Sometimes the best world record to have is one that cannot be broken. As the first movie to have a nine-figure production budget ($100 million), James Cameron’s 1994 “True Lies” has earned one such record. Given the movie’s solid $365 million global box office take and the fact that Cameron’s subsequent films repeatedly overtook its title as the most expensive ever made, “True Lies” can ultimately wear its budget as a badge of honor....

Joe Keery Helped Joseph Quinn With His American Accent In Stranger Things 4 Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 20, 2022 3:33 pm EST Mild spoilers for season 4 of “Stranger Things.” Some actors cannot pull off an American accent at all. Then there are some, like Joseph Quinn in the fourth season of “Stranger Things,” that do it so well that it shocks fans who had no idea where that actor was from....

Lord Corlys And Rhaenys Are House Of The Dragon’s Ultimate Power Couple Ollie Upton/HBO By Jenna Busch/Sept. 19, 2022 3:21 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon” episode five. “House of the Dragon” has hit the season 1 halfway point and through five tumultuous episodes, we’ve watched twisted family dynamics, a kind yet ineffectual ruler (Paddy Considine) botch things up spectacularly, and a formidable couple rise. It is clear that The Queen Who Never Was, Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best), should have ruled the seven kingdoms with her husband Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) by her side....

Lucasfilm EVP Lynwen Brennan Talks Light And Magic, Challenges Facing VFX, Star Wars, And More [Interview] Welsh Government By Ethan Anderton/July 28, 2022 4:37 pm EST “Light & Magic,” a new six-part documentary series on Disney+, explores the history, innovation, and movie magic of the visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Filmmaker George Lucas founded the company when he needed a talented group of people to create immersive visual effects for “Star Wars” that no one had ever seen before, and it turned into one of the most renowned visual effects houses in the world....

Marlon Wayans Apparently Got Paid To Not Play Robin In Batman Returns Paramount Pictures By Marcos Melendez/Dec. 8, 2022 10:03 am EST The second installment in the original film series, “Batman Returns” exemplified the potential of combining Tim Burton’s unique style of directing with the Dark Knight. Centered once again on Michael Keaton as Batman, the sequel brought several classic DC characters to the big screen. From Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) to the Penguin (Danny DeVito), “Returns” was chock-full of inspired performances that took the essence of the source material and made it their own....

Marvel Studios Phase 4 Isn’t As Bad As You Think It Is Marvel Studios By Ben F. Silverio/Nov. 16, 2022 8:00 am EST A good general rule to live by, but specifically in terms of entertainment, is that you don’t have to like everything. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and there are ways to respectfully discuss them with other fans. However, when it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it feels like many people are coming down particularly hard on Phase Four....

Orphan: First Kill Review: There’s Something Wrong With Esther Again In This Twisty, Bloody Prequel Paramount Pictures By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2022 11:59 am EST Jaume Collet-Serra’s “Orphan” is one of my all-time favorite horror movies, and damn it, I am not ashamed to admit it! Collet-Serra took what was an admittedly silly premise and worked it into a stylish, amusing, creepy little slice of fun. The filmmaker, responsible for titles like “The Shallows,” “Non-Stop,” and the upcoming “Black Adam,” is adept at a style I like to call art-trash — he blends artistic flourishes with pulpy, trashy premises to great effect....

Extra extra Image Comics When some actors joined a project based on a comic, they consume as much of the source material as possible. Did you take that route when you signed on for “Paper Girls,” or were you more focused on creating your own version of the character? Nelet: A little bit of both, I think. Jones: Yeah. Strazza: We all read the comics. I know after my first audition for it, I found a sketchy website… Nelet: [Laughs] That’s how I read it!...

Robin Williams Left A Lasting Impression On The Wire Creator David Simon NBC By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 27, 2022 5:02 pm EST Heading into the mid-1990s, Robin Williams was one of the most bankable stars going, but he was far from infallible. “Awakenings,” “The Fisher King,” “Aladdin” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” were bona-fide hits, but they were interspersed with massive flops like “Toys” and “Being Human.” So while people flocked to Williams when cast in a compelling role, they didn’t turn up just because his name and face were on the poster....

Seth Green Had A Lot Of Opportunities To Make His Italian Job Character Funny Paramount Pictures By Christian Gainey/Nov. 13, 2022 3:27 pm EST Seth Green has been in showbiz since the early ’80s, but I first became aware of him in the mid ’90s in a mostly forgotten movie called “Airborne.” The main focus of the film is supposed to be Mitchell Goosen (Shane McDermott), an ocean loving California teen who’s whole life changes when he’s sent to live with relatives in Ohio — but I loved his cousin, Willey (Green)....

Taika Waititi Has A Very Refreshing Approach To LGBTQ Characters Disney By Witney Seibold/July 8, 2022 1:47 pm EST There are a precious few, fleeting moments of queerness in Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder,” out in theaters now. There is a brief moment when Valkyrie (Tess Thompson) kisses another woman’s hand, and she has a conversation later in the film about having lost a girlfriend (unnamed and never seen). The conversation is with Korg (Waititi), who mentions that he has two fathers....

Apocalypse Now United Artists Francis Ford Coppola fought his own war to complete “Apocalypse Now,” and my only complaint is that it’s a shame that the “Hearts of Darkness” documentary detailing the production isn’t always made available alongside the film. But one doesn’t need all the backstory to appreciate Martin Sheen’s descent into primal madness during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War. It just adds a little spice, which poor Chef (Frederick Forrest) would probably appreciate....

The Simpsons Was Never Supposed To Run For More Than 13 Episodes 20th Television By Witney Seibold/Aug. 15, 2022 5:51 pm EST A rather amusing headline in a 2008 issue of The Onion read “Some Old Man Still Churning Out Marmaduke.” The joke of the article was that Brad Anderson, then 83, the creator of the long-running dog-centric newspaper strip, was toiling away at his 20,000th monotonous “Marmaduke” comic in complete obscurity....

What Justified Writers Learned Early On About Raylan And Boyd’s Relationship FX By Jeremy Smith/July 6, 2022 9:54 pm EST You can’t outrun your past. This is what U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) discovers time and again throughout six splendid seasons of “Justified.” The series opens with hotshot Givens getting busted down from a glamorous Miami assignment to his home county of Harlan, Kentucky, where he immediately finds himself at odds with Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), a childhood rival and scion of the once-powerful drug trafficker Bo Crowder (M....

A Batman beyond deadlines Warner Bros. Television Animation Timm discussed the origins of “Batman Beyond” with IGN, coincidently two decades after the series debuted. During the interview, he revealed that once his initial doubts subsided, it was a race against time to get the series made: “Once I came around on it, we had to hit the ground running. We had no time to develop the show. And we were still finishing up ‘The New Batman Adventures....

Armageddon Time Trailer: James Gray And An A-List Cast Tackle The American Dream Focus Features By Ryan Scott/Sept. 6, 2022 12:01 pm EST Director James Gray (“The Lost City of Z,” “The Immigrant”) is back this year with a brand new film in the form of “Armageddon Time,” and today brings us that movie’s first trailer. We are getting to that point in the year where the leaves will soon be changing, big film festivals are happening, and that can mean only one thing: awards season is upon us....

Chris Parnell’s Favorite 30 Rock Scenes Show What Worked So Well About Dr. Spaceman NBC By Matt Rainis/Sept. 29, 2022 2:42 pm EST On “30 Rock,” jokes were blasted at the viewer at a rapid rate. There were more gags, in-jokes, and puns in every scene than could be seen by the naked eye. While the show was initially meant to more reflect creator Tina Fey’s time on “Saturday Night Live,” as it went on, the show took on a life as its own as the most joke-dense show on television....

‘The character in the books is so unflappable’ Miramax I didn’t know what to expect from the tone of this movie, but it has such an ease to it. It’s very laid back. Yeah, yeah, probably to a point that I worried about that. The character in the books is so unflappable. He’s quite chill most of the time, and unless he has to be, so knowing Jon and having worked with Jon, that’s what I wrote toward....

Could Killers Of The Flower Moon Be A Window Into The Future Of Streaming Big Movies? Apple TV+ By Ryan Scott/July 26, 2022 3:11 pm EST Let’s start with some potentially bad news: The wait for Martin Scorsese’s next film may have just gotten a lot longer. The interesting news? We may all have the chance to see “Killers of the Flower Moon” on the big screen after all, even though Apple TV+ is home to the big-budget western....

Harrison Ford Wasn’t Always A Fan Of George Lucas’ Star Wars Writing Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 19, 2022 1:30 pm EST In the past, George Lucas himself has admitted that he’s not exactly a wordsmith when it comes to movie dialogue. In 1999, just as the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy was getting underway with “The Phantom Menace,” Lucas spoke at length to Empire magazine about his utilitarian attitude toward dialogue, saying things like, “I’m aware that dialogue isn’t my strength,” and, “I’d be the first person to say I can’t write dialogue....