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Peter Dinklage Still Has Some Frustrations With The Game Of Thrones Fandom HBO By Matthew Bilodeau/July 29, 2022 9:08 pm EST It speaks to the prestige of “Game of Thrones” that the HBO-exclusive series became one of the biggest shows on television of all time. From 2011 to 2019, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing about the Red Wedding or the Battle of the Bastards, whether you had the context of what was going on or not....

Richard Pryor And A Slapdash Script Made Harlem Nights Miserable For Eddie Murphy Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 1, 2022 2:48 pm EST The cliche holds that when a movie star attains a certain degree of success, they get bored or convinced of their own brilliance and say, “What I’d really like to do is direct.” Name a big-screen megastar from the last 75 years of filmmaking, and it’s likely they followed through on this impulse....

Rick And Morty Season 6 Reminds Us How Far Beth And Jerry Have Come Adult Swim By Michael Boyle/Sept. 20, 2022 2:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the most recent episode of “Rick and Morty” season 6. When it comes to weird, sex-related humor, “Rick and Morty” has never been shy. Its latest episode, “Bethic Twinstinct,” takes things to another level by having Beth (Sarah Chalke) start hooking up with Space Beth....

Designing the titles New Line Cinema Savides worked with Fincher again on “Zodiac,” where he once again served as director of photography. In that film’s production notes, he described shooting the “Seven” title sequence and revealed the two-day process started as, “goofin’ around.” Savides remembered: “There was a sequence where we started doing these close-ups of a string tied around a guy’s finger really tight, trying to make it scary and intense....

13th Netflix Ava DuVernay is largely known for her fiction features, having helmed the powerful biopic “Selma” and the adventurous “A Wrinkle in Time.” However, DuVernay’s first foray into documentary filmmaking is also hugely impactful, as she investigates the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution, which abolished slavery — except as a punishment for a crime. The film explores how the amendment actually paved the way for a new kind of slavery to emerge through the industrial prison complex, providing a vital education on a major issue plaguing America....

The Reason Grace Kelly Walked Away From Hollywood Paramount By Witney Seibold/July 29, 2022 4:58 pm EST One of the more notable real-life Hollywood fairy tales is that of Grace Kelly. Kelly, sold as one of showbiz’s most glamorous performers, broke into feature films at age 22 with Henry Hathaway’s 1951 film “Fourteen Hours,” and she only acted in 10 additional scripted films over the next five years. She also had a prolific TV career, back when the medium was still chock full of theatrical “mini-movie” anthology programs with names like “Kraft Television Theater” and “Prudential Family Playhouse....

Easy Street, where the rich folks play Columbia Pictures The budget, as it turns out, didn’t need to be quite so high. As detailed in a 2020 retrospective in Forbes, if the filmmakers found a way to film the “Easy Street” number correctly the first time, they could have saved a million dollars. The plot of the movie involves Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett), the wicked headmistress of Annie’s orphanage, attempting to swindle reward money out of Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney)....

Tobe Hooper Wanted To Push Horror Beyond The Limits Of Old-School Hammer Films Vortex/Bryanston Distributing Company By Lee Adams/Oct. 18, 2022 12:28 pm EST Almost 50 years on, there are few films that immerse the viewer so viscerally in terror as effectively as “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” It’s not so much what Tobe Hooper shows, because the film is nowhere near as gory as its title or reputation suggests. It is more the sweltering atmosphere of all-encompassing insanity that frays the nerves....

‘It’s such a perfect combination’ Universal Congrats on the movie. I had a ball with it. I’m glad to see people are now starting to have fun with it, too, especially because it has this killer ensemble cast. 87North have gained a reputation as a well-oiled machine over the last few years, but I was wondering how you were able to wrangle those actors with the stunt team’s schedules and all the below the line people....

Which Episodes You Need To Rewatch Before Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 23, 2022 11:00 am EST In its first two seasons, “Star Trek: Lower Decks” has already become one of the most mythology-rich entries in the “Star Trek” canon, as the crew of Starfleet geeks on the U.S.S. Cerritos often pull from the lore of all the beloved crews that came before then. But the animated Paramount+ series has also built up some impressive lore of its own by this point, fleshing out the world of “Star Trek” circa 2380 by introducing some hilariously on-brand new cultures and traditions....

Why Disney Kids Of All Ages Should See Strange World With Their Parents Walt Disney Pictures By Ben F. Silverio/Nov. 23, 2022 5:36 pm EST With the holiday season quickly approaching, one of the best things to do with the family around this time of the year is to watch movies together. While there are certainly staples featuring the likes of Charlie Brown, the Miser Brothers, Buddy the Elf, or Jack McClane, it can sometimes be difficult to find a movie that truly appeals to the whole family....

Why Ke Huy Quan’s American Born Chinese Character Had To Be Changed From The Book [NYCC] A24 By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 10, 2022 9:27 am EST In 2021, Disney announced that “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” director Destin Daniel Cretton would be adapting Gene Luen Yang’s seminal Asian American graphic novel “American Born Chinese” along with showrunner Kelvin Yu for Disney+. Shortly after the announcement was made, they started to assemble the cast by adding talent such as Ben Wang (“Sex Appeal”) and Daniel Wu (“Into the Badlands”)....

Why Quentin Tarantino Sees Robert De Niro As An Actor In A League Of His Own Miramax By Demetra Nikolakakis/Nov. 24, 2022 11:10 am EST Quentin Tarantino’s thoughts on actors have made a lot of headlines lately. The director is the latest Hollywood celebrity to comment on the fact that big movie stars just aren’t as much of a thing anymore (a phenomenon that /Film’s own Witney Seibold reported on just a few weeks ago), sparking lots of debates online....

Why The Pixar/Criterion Team-Up Is Great News For Disney Fans Disney By Mike Shutt/Sept. 8, 2022 6:33 pm EST To say that the news Andrew Stanton’s “WALL-E” would be joining the Criterion Collection was surprising would be a gigantic understatement. Do not misinterpret that as a denigration of any kind towards the picture. To my mind, “WALL-E” is not just one of the greatest animated movies of all time but one of the greatest movies in general as well, and depending on the day, I would call it my favorite film produced by Pixar....

When and where to watch Yellowstone season 5 Paramount “Yellowstone” season 5 already has a premiere date set: November 13, 2022. Like previous seasons of the show, new episodes will drop on Sundays, with an 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT) airtime. Unlike past seasons, though, the show is reportedly set to split its 14-episode arc into two parts, as shows like “Better Call Saul” or “The Walking Dead” have done before....

‘The Get Down’ Creator Baz Luhrmann Talks Modern Musical Influences And Tensions On-Set [TCA 2016] Netflix By Fred Topel/July 29, 2016 2:00 pm EST Baz Luhrmann was on a panel before the Television Critics Association for his Netflix series The Get Down. The show tells a fictional story about the birth of hip-hop in New York in the 1970s. After the panel, he spoke with reporters more. Grandmaster Flash, who is an associate producer on the series, is portrayed onscreen as a character and there are disco and early hip-hop hits....

Ana De Armas Sees Blonde As An Opportunity To Pave The Way For Other Actors Netflix By Lyvie Scott/July 27, 2022 10:49 am EST While Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic has been mired with both delays and controversy for what seems like forever, there’s at least one thing that everyone can agree on: Ana de Armas is absolutely owning her portrayal of the icon. Fans have only been granted glimpses of de Armas as Monroe, but her brief work in the very first teaser for “Blonde” is nothing short of jaw-dropping....

Big Mouth Season 6 Trailer: New Babies, New Loves, Same Embarrassing Middle Schoolers Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 3, 2022 8:49 pm EST “Big Mouth” is one of the only shows on TV that understands how truly weird it is to come of age. Over the past five seasons, the series has seen the teens of Bridgeton Middle School grow from shame-faced seventh graders to slightly more confident — if just as cringe-inducing — eighth graders....

Cate Blanchett Was Terrified To Conduct The Orchestra In Tar Focus Features By Witney Seibold/Oct. 27, 2022 5:14 pm EST In Todd Field’s new film “Tár,” Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a powerful, steely, threateningly talented orchestra conductor who is always eager to discuss the philosophies and fineries of orchestral music. Lydia is not only the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic but is, as audiences see in an opening lecture, an active professor at Julliard and an EGOT....

Chainsaw Man Episode 4 Is An Action-Packed And Heartfelt ‘Rescue’ Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 1, 2022 6:00 pm EST Now THIS is “Chainsaw Man!” The first three episodes were great, but they felt more like appetizers meant to give us a taste of the different elements that make up the show. This week we get our first actual meal, mixing stunning action, great moments of juvenile humor, exquisite animation, and a lot of heart....