The Boys Season 4 Is Now A Supernatural Reunion As Jeffrey Dean Morgan Joins The Cast The CW By Shania Russell/Aug. 25, 2022 1:01 pm EST Jeffrey Dean Morgan has spent the past few years trying to suit up for a cameo on “The Boys,” but scheduling woes kept getting in the way. Until now. Evidently, all he needed was the extra special push of jealousy to get things hashed out....
The Daily Stream: Be Cool, Scooby-Doo Is A Long-Running Franchise At Its Funniest Warner Bros. Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 19, 2022 3:00 pm EST The Series: “Be Cool, Scooby-Doo” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max, Boomerang The Pitch: As the twelfth “Scooby-Doo” show to hit the airwaves since the franchise first began in 1969, the two-season hidden gem “Be Cool, Scooby-Doo” is easy to overlook. But if you’ve ever enjoyed the mystery-solving hijinks of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo, you shouldn’t skip this iteration....
The Fast X Budget Rises To $340 Million, Making It Potentially The Fourth Most Expensive Movie Of All Time Universal Pictures By Erin Brady/Nov. 17, 2022 1:19 pm EST We hope you’re sitting down for the news we’re about to drop on you. According to an exclusive report from The Wrap, the budget for the tenth installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, “Fast X,” is approaching a whopping $340 million....
The First Five Episodes Were Make-Or-Break For The Sopranos Writers HBO By Anya Stanley/Sept. 6, 2022 5:40 pm EST With credits like “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” “The Rockford Files,” and “Northern Exposure,” decades of television work gave “The Sopranos” creator and showrunner David Chase a strong sense of what would and wouldn’t work for network TV. Tag-teaming with a strong stable of writers, the HBO drama surrounding a New Jersey-based Italian-American mob family took on the shape of an epic text that would appeal to the masses while also commanding critical respect....
Grounding the fantastic nature of it all Sony Pictures Building it out from there is no small task, as there are seven main books (and several spin-off entries) in King’s epic series centered on Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, and his quest to save the multiverse from evil. For Flanagan, the trick would be boiling down the fantastic elements and finding a way to ground them: “It would just be a question of taking the more fantastic elements that might be harder to connect to – especially where it gets pretty meta at mid-point – and grounding it, just pulling it in....
This Was Kirk Douglas’ Proudest Moment In His Storied Career Universal Pictures By Eric Vespe/Aug. 20, 2022 3:58 pm EST Kirk Douglas had many things to be proud of in his life and career. He was a hugely successful movie star, producer and had a wonderful and multi-talented family, but the accomplishment he was most proud of might surprise you. Douglas made a name for himself as a heroic tough guy on the silver screen, but it turns out he was a stand up guy in real life, too....
Why Sam Mendes Took A Minimalistic Approach To The James Bond Gadgets In Skyfall Sony Pictures By Joe Roberts/Nov. 9, 2022 2:05 pm EST “Skyfall” has occupied a strange place in the James Bond canon since its release 10 years ago. Simultaneously celebrated for reviving the franchise following the dismal “Quantum of Solace” and criticized for too often relying on hokey nostalgia plays, the film nonetheless maintains its status as one of the more significant entries in the 007 saga....
‘Orphan’ Prequel ‘Orphan: First Kill’ Is Shocking And Not What You’d Expect, According To Star Isabelle Fuhrman By Chris Evangelista/June 16, 2021 11:36 am EST Orphan, the trashy, wonderful horror movie about a murderous 30-something woman posing as a 9-year-old child, has a prequel on the way called Orphan: First Kill. That’s weird enough on its own, but it’s even weirder when you realize that star Isabelle Fuhrman is reprising her role even though she’s much older now....
People are amazing A24 Fraser elaborated on this refusal to attend. He explained that because of what he alleges Berk had done to him, he cannot in good conscience attend the ceremony, even if for a good reason such as getting a Best Actor award. It’s important to note that Berk disputes Fraser’s claims, but was not suspended from the HFPA until 2021 for racist remarks against the Black Lives Matter movement (via The Los Angeles Times)....
Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven Character Originally Called For A Lot More Prosthetics Work Warner Bros. By Matt Rainis/Nov. 16, 2022 11:40 am EST For his whole career, Clint Eastwood was the embodiment of the movie cowboy. Whether it be the literal, traditional Western cowboy like his “Man with No Name” character from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” or the modern cowboy, the anti-hero police officer Harry Callahan in the “Dirty Harry” series, Eastwood was the guy....
Critically-Panned Comedy Movies That Are Better Than Expected New Line Cinema/YouTube By Jeff Ames/Dec. 11, 2022 3:21 pm EST Hollywood comedies are a dime a dozen. Yet, many receive flak for their attempts to tickle our funny bones, while only a select few earn rave reviews or accolades from critics. Honestly, I can only think of a handful of comedic films that made their way to the tops of end-of-year lists (“As Good As It Gets,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” and anything made by Wes Anderson, for example), while also recalling hundreds more that drew the ire of bigwigs like Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel for accomplishing what they set out to do....
Daniel Kaluuya Will Not Appear In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Schedule Conflicted With Nope Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/July 13, 2022 4:06 pm EST When “Black Panther” premiered, not only did it become a cultural movement, but it introduced one of the most fleshed-out locations in the MCU in a single film. Wakanda not only felt like a fantastical place, it felt real. It had a detailed geography rooted in real cultures, traditions, and customs that packed a long history in small details....
Everything We Know About Leverage: Redemption Season 2 So Far When and Where to Watch Leverage Season 2 No release date has yet been announced for the next season, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have any news at all about what’s to come and when. Executive producer Dean Devlin recently tweeted in July of 2022 that the series is “shooting now” in New Orleans, where the first season followed our cast of characters....
How The Onion Helped Screenwriters Seth Reiss And Will Tracy Craft ‘The Menu’ [Exclusive Interview] 20th Century Studios By Jack Giroux/Nov. 18, 2022 11:51 am EST “The Menu” is a crafty, sly, and mean-spirited delight. The dark comedy has loads of fun keeping both its characters and audience on their toes. The organic twists and turns are surprising but inevitable in the hands of screenwriters Seth Reiss and Will Tracy — the duo penned a true feast of a thriller....
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood wanted Serena Williams to play Monica New Line Cinema In “Love & Basketball,” Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) pursues her childhood dream of being the first woman in the NBA. The movie is set predominately in the ’80s and early ’90s, before the WNBA even existed , which may explain Monica’s ambition to compete with the top male basketball players in the world. Monica has what the late, great Kobe Bryant would call “Mamba Mentality....
Jon Favreau Tried To Stop The Russo Brothers From Killing Off Tony Stark In Avengers: Endgame Marvel Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 29, 2022 12:09 pm EST “Avengers: Endgame” filled its marketing with the promise of closure. “Part of the journey is the end,” Tony Stark would say, in a myriad of TV spots and trailers as the film inched closer to its release date. If the title “Endgame” wasn’t enough indication, the fourth Avengers film was meant to conclude a 20-movie arc known as “The Infinity Saga....
Let’s Break Down Meghann Fahy’s Big The White Lotus Season 2 Finale Scene HBO By Lex Briscuso/Dec. 13, 2022 2:29 pm EST It’s been two days and I’m still blown away when I think about Meghann Fahy’s Daphne and her pitch perfect scene on the beach with Will Sharpe’s Ethan on the season 2 finale of “The White Lotus.” Fahy has been the MVP this season to many, myself included, for the way she has crafted this character to compartmentalize in favor of the brighter side of life....
Ordinary People (1980) Paramount Pictures “Ordinary People” was Redford’s directorial debut (although he was heavily involved in the development of “All the President’s Men”) and would go on to win best picture at the Academy Awards. It stars Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore as Calvin and Beth Jarrett, a rich Chicago couple whose eldest son dies in an accident. Their younger son, Conrad (played by Timothy Hutton in his breakthrough role), has PTSD and survivor’s guilt and attempts to take his own life....
Star Wars Comics And Novels To Look Out For In 2023 [NYCC] Lucasfilm By Caroline Cao/Oct. 12, 2022 12:00 pm EST The galaxy far, far away keeps expanding its cosmos in the world of print. The 2022 New York Comic-Con unveiled some exciting comic and novel titles for Star Wars at the “Star Wars: Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away” panel. A gathering of authors and Lucasfilm publishing’s creative director, Michael Siglain, teased some upcoming reveals that have major implications for the Star Wars galaxy....
Steven Knight Approached Peaky Blinders Like An Old-School Western Film BBC Studios By Anya Stanley/Dec. 6, 2022 3:09 pm EST A pivotal moment of the British crime series “Peaky Blinders,” late in the series’ sixth season, sees members of the show’s central street gang taking revenge against an Irish Republican Army leader for the murder of one of their own. Under the thin moonlight, gunfire competes with passing trains to see which can deafen Birmingham residents faster....
