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Everything We Know So Far About Emma Stone’s Next Movie With The Favourite Director Yorgos Lanthimos Acclaimed filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, known for his work in Greek cinema and the Academy Award-winning period dark comedy “The Favourite,” is getting ready for his next big project. The filmmaker, who has multiple credits under his belt, including the Academy Award-nominated “The Lobster,” award-winning “Dogtooth” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” is reuniting with production company Element Pictures, with some of Hollywood’s biggest names roped in to star....

How do you live? Find out next year! Studio Ghibli Studio Ghibli took to Twitter to officially announce that “How Do You Live?” is Hayao Miyazaki’s next (and, again, maybe this time for real, last?) feature film and will arrive in theaters in Japan on July 14, 2023. The studio also included a one-sheet that features some type of fantastical bird-like creature from the movie. The new feature film from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has been announced!...

Original Sesame Street Star Bob McGrath Has Died At 90 Robin Marchant/Getty Images By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 5, 2022 10:30 am EST One of the earliest and most integral members of the original “Sesame Street” cast has sadly passed away. Bob McGrath, a childhood staple for multiple generations of children, was reported to have died at the age of 90 surrounded by his family in his New Jersey home on Sunday, December 4, 2022....

The eyes of the possessed Netflix/Omega Micott In “Stranger Things” season 4, the eyes of Vecna’s victims — specifically their pupils and irises — go white, while the rest of their eye becomes bloodshot. The possessed have had whited-out eyes in many pop culture franchises, including “The Evil Dead” and “The Exorcist,” but the exact appearance of Vecna’s victims looks closer to the eyes of the possessed in the 2000 film “Uzumaki,” based on the manga of the same name by Junji Ito....

Superhero Bits: The Making Of Doctor Strange 2 On Disney+, Stargirl Season 3 Trailer & More Disney+ By Ryan Scott/July 11, 2022 5:11 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....

Why it’s essential viewing Netflix Narrated by Jack Black as the grown-up Stanley, “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” is the latest idiosyncratic movie from “School of Rock,” the “Before” trilogy, and “Boyhood” director Richard Linklater. Yes, for those who missed it in this era of Too Much Streaming Content™, a new Linklater film (which he also wrote) only just casually dropped on Netflix. I’ll be honest: “Apollo 10 1/2” isn’t Linklater’s best work....

The Daily Stream: Lady Bird Goes Beyond Gender Or Age As A Coming-Of-Identity Story A24 By Joshua Meyer/July 16, 2022 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Lady Bird” Where You Can Stream It: Showtime, DirectTV The Pitch: In my senior year of high school, I took an AP English class where we read “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce....

The Road Warrior Ending Explained: The Legend Of Max Rockatansky Warner Bros. Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/Sept. 19, 2022 5:33 pm EST If you were to try and sell audiences on “Mad Max 2” in the 1980s, they would immediately dismiss the film mainly because North American audiences had no idea that there was even an original “Mad Max” film in the first place. Since so few had seen the original “Mad Max”’ during its North American debut, the idea came to repackage “Mad Max 2” into a much more intriguing title....

An uphill battle from the start Walt Disney Studios Before we start talking about “Strange World,” let’s take a look at another major animated release that came out this year — “Minions: The Rise of Gru.” Box Office Mojo reports that the “Despicable Me” spin-off grossed over $369 million domestically and $937.8 million worldwide. Not only was this a big box office haul, but it also proved to be profitable for Illumination because of its $80 million budget....

Feige’s not spilling the plan Marvel According to director Taika Waititi (as reported by Uproxx), the inclusion of Hercules came at the request of Marvel president Kevin Feige. “Kevin really wanted him to do it,” Waititi tells the outlet, calling Goldstein “amazing.” The filmmaker was apparently unaware of the large “Ted Lasso” fanbase, which was out in full force at the “Thor: Love and Thunder” premiere. “It was such a cool moment in the cinema where it played, that people went nuts,” Waititi recalled....

Threshold Clip The sophomore feature from the duo was shot ingeniously on two iPhones over a 12-day road trip with a crew of only three. It tells the story of Leo (Joey Millin) who comes back into contact with his estranged, drug addict sister Virginia (Madison West). After getting clean thanks to the help of a mysterious cult, Virginia is now bound to a man she’s never met, and with a curse hanging over her head, she and her brother go on a cross-country trek to track down the mysterious stranger....

Universal Becomes First Studio To Gross $3 Billion In A Calendar Year Since 2019 Universal Pictures By Lex Briscuso/Aug. 15, 2022 10:09 am EST Are movie theaters finally back? Depends on who you ask, but one thing is for sure: Universal Pictures movies are certainly proving that audiences want to return to their local multiplex. The company announced on Sunday that it has grossed over $3 billion worldwide in a calendar year, making it the first studio since the pandemic began in 2020 to achieve this milestone....

Virginia Patton Moss, Actress Who Played Ruth In It’s A Wonderful Life, Has Died At 97 United Archives/Getty Images By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 21, 2022 6:13 pm EST The last surviving adult cast member from the Frank Capra Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” has died. According to Variety, Virginia Patton Moss, the actress-turned-businesswoman who starred in a handful of films and was a favorite of Capra’s, died on August 18, 2022 in Albany, Georgia....

Why Studio Ghibli Went CGI For Earwig And The Witch Toho By Witney Seibold/July 6, 2022 10:23 am EST Goro Miyazaki’s film “Earwig and the Witch” is a notable oddity in the Studio Ghibli catalogue, mainly for its medium. Ghibli became famous for its hand-drawn style, and it remained a traditional cel animation studio up until 2020. “Earwig” was the first Ghibli film to be made entirely using CGI, offering a drastic visual departure from their usual fare, offering sphere-headed characters, wiry 3D hair, and detailed and textured backgrounds....

​Ms. Marvel Just Gave Us One Of The Best Romances Of The MCU Disney+ By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 7, 2022 5:00 pm EST You know the MCU has a romance problem when one of its most endearing relationships since it began over a decade ago is between a hot-headed witch and … an android. A few months later, we had a much more grounded love story in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” between Wenwu (Tony Leung) and Ying Li (Fala Chen)....

Adam Sandler And Robert Smigel Are Making An Animated Musical About Heading Into Middle School Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 6, 2022 5:45 pm EST The Sandman is certainly keeping himself busy these days, and he doesn’t show any signs of slowing down anytime soon. Adam Sandler starred in the basketball drama “Hustle” for Netflix earlier this summer, which came only a few months after announcing he was reuniting with The Safdie Brothers, the team behind his Oscar-snubbed performance in “Uncut Gems....

Alex Garland Called In A Favor From NASA For The Science In Sunshine By Witney Seibold/Oct. 7, 2022 8:20 pm EST In 2057, the sun will begin to fade out and die. Life on Earth is under threat of extinction. Humankind’s solution is to gather what scant fissile materials that are remaining on the planet, construct a powerful nuclear bomb, and launch it into the sun in the hope of “restarting” it....

All Quiet On The Western Front Trailer: War Is Hell In This Netflix Adaptation Of The Classic Novel Reiner Bajo By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 20, 2022 10:30 am EST Netflix has dropped the “All Quiet on the Western Front” trailer — and it serves as a reminder that not all epic war films are made equally. In this dad movie genre to conquer all dad movie genres, some manage to find meaning and poignancy amid all the senseless destruction — recent movies like Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” or Sam Mendes’ “1917” immediately come to mind, with the latter in particular feeling so refreshing for being about preventing a large-scale battle as opposed to reveling in one....

Clips Round-Up: Terry Gilliam Tilts At Windmills In He Dreams Of Giants & More [Exclusive] Bohemia Media By Max Evry/Aug. 9, 2022 2:35 pm EST (Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray, and theatrical releases you won’t see anywhere else!) In this edition: He Dreams of Giants Gossamer Folds YellowBrickRoad He Dreams of Giants First up, we have an exclusive opening clip from “He Dreams of Giants,” Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s two-decades-later follow-up to their 2002 documentary “Lost in La Mancha....

War for the Planet of the Apes 20th Century Fox/YouTube Andy Serkis’ modern version of Caesar becomes both Moses and Rambo in the final installment of the modern “Planet of the Apes” trilogy. With his forces caught up in a war against a rogue military unit that also includes traitor apes, Caesar seeks revenge on the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), a human who’s responsible for the deaths of his wife and son....