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The Starfleet Recruiting Booth Is One Of The Greatest Star Trek: Lower Decks Jokes Yet Paramount By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 22, 2022 5:00 am EST This article contains spoilers for “Star Trek: Lower Decks” season 3, episode 5. There are few greater indignities in this world than manning a booth during a job fair, which makes it the perfect job for a lower decker. In this week’s episode of “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” Ensigns Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (Jack Quaid) are put on job fair duty, chilling behind the blue booth and trying to convince random folks to sign up with Starfleet....

Why Avatar Director James Cameron Believes 3D Is ‘Not Over’ 20th Century Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/Sept. 13, 2022 5:10 pm EST For the past several years, James Cameron’s 2009 film “Avatar” has been a heated point of discussion in terms of cultural relevance. After its release (and subsequent re-releases), the film became the highest-grossing movie of all time (adjusted for inflation), praised for its visuals and world-building. “Avatar” provided advances in filmmaking technology that became norms in the blockbuster landscape....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Didn’t Think The Terminator Had A Whole Lot Of Potential Orion Pictures By Demetra Nikolakakis/Aug. 6, 2022 8:00 pm EST It’s hard to explain why James Cameron’s “The Terminator” has found such a tender spot in pop culture history. Let’s be honest: a sci-fi flick about a time-traveling robot killing machine isn’t exactly a sure-fire recipe for widespread commercial success. Yet somehow, the metallic assassin found his niche: “The Terminator” was a box office smash back in 1984, earning over $78 million worldwide and numerous fans in the process (via The Numbers)....

Billy Eichner Expected The Studio To Tell Him Bros Had ‘Gone Too Far’ Universal Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 2, 2022 4:57 pm EST It goes to show how much Hollywood has procrastinated telling Queer stories for a wide audience that the arrival of the upcoming comedy “Bros” feels like a breath of fresh air. The Nicholas Stoller-directed rom-com stars “Billy on the Street” host Billy Eichner as Bobby, a 40-something gay man who operates his own at-home podcast, while trying to fulfill his duties for the upcoming national LGBTQ+ museum....

Cowboy Bebop’s Creator Took Some Liberties With Their Limited Budget Sunrise, Inc. By Shae Sennett/Oct. 1, 2022 6:27 pm EST No one expected “Cowboy Bebop” to be a major success — especially not the people that were bankrolling the production. The series creators actually stretched their budget so thin that they angered executives and shareholders. The studio was concerned that “Bebop” wouldn’t resonate with enough viewers, and even the show’s animator and director Shin’ichirô Watanabe didn’t expect it to take off....

Don’t Ask Pierce Brosnan Who Should Be The Next James Bond MGM By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 22, 2022 10:02 pm EST Pierce Brosnan was James Bond before he was James Bond. As Remington Steele, the fictional creation of private investigator Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) for five seasons during the 1980s on NBC, Brosnan nailed the part of a debonair rake who could handle himself in a scrape and look downright spiffy doing it....

Why is this happening? A24 To be clear: I have no problem with standing ovations. Fraser’s performance in “The Whale” is genuinely fantastic, and the fact that it signals his long-awaited return to stardom is worth celebrating. But the fact that the trades feel compelled to turn these events into news stories is absolutely perplexing. It also seems part of the gamification of movies — something that drives me utterly insane....

Hasbro Is Looking To Sell eOne, Studio Behind The Woman King And Yellowjackets Showtime By Ryan Scott/Nov. 17, 2022 1:08 pm EST Well, well, well, if it isn’t another pending sale of a big production company with a big media library. Hasbro, the toy company known for “Monopoly” and “My Little Pony,” among many other things, got into the media game in a big way in late 2019 with a flashy $4 billion acquisition of eOne, to give the company in-house ability to turn its properties into movies and TV shows....

How Jordan Peele Changed The Characters Of Henry Selick’s Wendell And Wild [Exclusive] Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 6, 2022 12:00 pm EST Stop-motion filmmaking auteur Henry Selick is back in action with his first feature since “Coraline” — the Netflix film “Wendell and Wild,” based on the unpublished book he co-wrote with Clay McLeod Chapman. The man who gave us “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “James and the Giant Peach,” and “Monkeybone” joined forces with maverick filmmaker Jordan Peele on the project, just before Peele became an Oscar-winner and changed the horror game forever with “Get Out....

How The Rings Of Power’s Story Connects To The Hobbit’s Thorin Oakenshield Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/July 25, 2022 1:32 pm EST We’re soon heading back to Middle-earth, with Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” expanding on what audiences know of Tolkien’s legendarium. The show is set millennia before the events of the live-action films and will tell a vastly different story than any of the two Peter Jackson trilogies....

It’s A Wonderful Life Ending Explained: No Man Is A Failure Who Has Friends RKO Radio Pictures By Anya Stanley/Dec. 22, 2022 7:04 pm EST Hee-haw! Frank Capra’s classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a holiday viewing staple for many Christmas-celebrating households. Nothing promotes Yuletide cheer like the sound of Jimmy Stewart screaming, “Merry Christmas, you old Building & Loan!” throughout the streets of Bedford Falls. After all, it’s a story in the spirit of the season....

James Gunn Says The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Is The Epilogue To Phase 4 Of The MCU Marvel Studios By Eric Vespe/Aug. 1, 2022 8:27 pm EST Leave it to James Gunn to cut through the fan speculation and just flat out lay his cards on the table. Since Kevin Feige revealed the timeline for the next two phases of the MCU, the super-obsessed fans have been pouring over it trying to read between the lines and anticipate surprises over the next couple of years....

Jim Carrey And Cameron Diaz Caused Some Major Rewrites For The Mask New Line Cinema By Joe Roberts/Dec. 2, 2022 11:02 am EST “The Mask” remains a fan-favorite Jim Carrey comedy — but it could have been a very different movie. The project started life as an adaptation of an ultra-violent Dark Horse comic book in which the central character unleashes wave after wave of brutality on his enemies. Obviously New Line, the studio behind “The Mask,” knew that approach wasn’t going to work for their attempt to cross over into mainstream movies with the biggest budget project they’d yet produced....

Taking it to The Duke United Artists According to Ronald L. Davis’ “Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne,” Ford “berated and bullied” the actor throughout the first three weeks of shooting: “Stop slurring your dialogue and show some expression,” the director yelled. He called Wayne “a big oaf” and “a dumb bastard” in front of the actors and crew. “I really should get Gary Cooper for this part,” Ford muttered in disgust....

Kevin Conroy’s Batman Comic Redefined The Dark Knight In The Most Powerful Way Possible DC Comics By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 11, 2022 1:22 pm EST They say you never forget your first Batman and for a specific subset of millennials, the dearly departed Kevin Conroy is that Batman. The legendary voice actor brought Bruce Wayne/Batman to life in the 1990s on “Batman: The Animated Series,” and was such a phenomenal presence that it led to a decades-long career of being “the voice” of Batman across a multitude of media....

Peacock To Become The Next-Day Streaming Home For NBC Shows Starting September 19 NBC By Eric Vespe/Aug. 24, 2022 9:49 pm EST The current state of streaming is a bit of a chaotic mess. You’ve got Netflix’s stock plummeting in one sector and whatever the hell is happening with HBO Max in the wake of the Discovery merger as they purge beloved shows left and right in another. Streaming on the whole seems to be in a transitional period as audiences can’t possibly keep up with all the different streamers available, and we face a new era of paying cable prices for the shows and movies we want to watch....

She-Hulk Episode 6 Introduces The Leader Of The Great Lakes Avengers Disney+ By Ben F. Silverio/Sept. 22, 2022 5:17 pm EST Over the course of “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law,” True Believers have been introduced to a number of interesting, obscure, and unforgettable characters. We have yet to meet Frog Man at this point in the show, but appearances from the Wrecking Crew, Titania, and Madisynn King (with Wongers) have certainly held us over until that day finally arrives....

Star Wars Bits: Andor, Han Solo & Chewbacca, Cobb Vanth, The Mandalorian, The Star Wars Podcast Round-Up, And More! By Adam Frazier/Sept. 30, 2022 10:34 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: “Andor” Breakdowns & Reviews Marvel’s Upcoming “Star Wars” Comics The “Star Wars” Podcast Round-Up Hot Toys Cobb Vanth Sixth Scale Figure And More! Andor breakdowns & reviews...

Superhero Bits: The Ant-Man And The Wasp Quantumania Poster, Joker 2 Films Soon & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Oct. 24, 2022 3:56 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Terry Gilliam Hoped Steven Spielberg Would Change The Studio’s Mind About Brazil Universal By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 15, 2022 10:42 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” was made under relatively harmonious conditions. Arnon Milchan’s Embassy International Pictures gave the filmmaker what was then a generous $15 million budget for what was, on the page, a bleak comedy about bureaucratic tyranny and the looming threat of an unchecked surveillance state....