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Clint Eastwood Sees A Stark Difference Between Dirty Harry And The Man With No Name United Artists By Witney Seibold/Dec. 20, 2022 2:04 pm EST Despite a long and prolific acting career that spans over 60 films, Clint Eastwood rarely worked with directors more than once. Only Sergio Leone, Don Siegel, and Ted Post worked with the actor on multiple occasions, with Post earning extra credit for directing “Magnum Force,” a sequel to Siegel’s “Dirty Harry....

Chris Sarandon Disney In a nod to the original, the 2011 “Fright Night” featured a notable cameo from Chris Sarandon. In the film, Jerry manages to stop Charley in the middle of a dark highway. While Jerry threatens him with fang and claw, another motorist approaches. The motorist exits his car, annoyed that traffic is blocked. Hey look! It’s Chris Sarandon! Jerry stalks up to Sarandon and dives for his throat....

David Zucker Explains Why There Was No Improvising In The Naked Gun Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 1, 2022 3:50 pm EST When the now disbanded ZAZ trio of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker were on their spoof game, they belonged to a very exclusive club that, to this day, includes only Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Monty Python. Their parody run of “Kentucky Fried Movie,” “Airplane!,” “Top Secret!” and “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!...

Domhnall Gleeson Felt The Pressure Of Nailing The Patient’s Dark Comedy FX By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 1, 2022 5:30 pm EST FX’s “The Patient” has a great hook. Psychotherapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) wakes up in an unfamiliar location where his leg has been shackled to the bed. It turns out that one of his more distant patients, Sam (Domhnall Gleeson), has kidnapped him in order to help him soothe his serial killer urges before he kills again....

Elizabeth Banks Says Her Cocaine Bear Will Kick The Revenant Bear’s Butt Universal Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 16, 2022 6:19 pm EST There are a surprising number of terrifying bears in cinema history, but Elizabeth Banks thinks that the bear in her upcoming film “Cocaine Bear” could defeat them all. The bear featured in “Cocaine Bear,” affectionately called “Cokey,” is a masterwork of CGI animation technology and a motion-rigged performance from Allan Henry, but if he were a real bear, Banks thinks he could even take on the bear in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2015 survival thriller “The Revenant....

Elvis Gave Steven Spielberg Hope For Theatrical Releases Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Dec. 5, 2022 1:55 pm EST Steven Spielberg is immensely concerned about the future of cinema. The “Fabelmans” director went on record with A.O. Scott of the New York Times to talk about his new movie, but also to express extreme trepidation about where movies stand in the wake of Covid lockdowns. Movies, he feels, aren’t drawing crowds to theaters the same way they did in the past, and — perhaps controversially — he felt that people streaming movies at home wasn’t a suitable substitute....

From Here To Eternity Ending Explained: Was It Worth It? Columbia Pictures By Walter Roberts/Oct. 15, 2022 4:21 pm EST If “From Here to Eternity” has one defining legacy, it would be the tapestry of characters and storylines it presents. Following three separate threads, which are all given a time in the spotlight, every actor in the core ensemble gets a complete arc. In fact, the broad attention to its characters would reflect in the career opportunities that opened for each of those actors following the movie’s critical and box office success....

So, what happens now? Warner Bros. Now it seems it’s up to Gunn and Safran to decide how they wish to proceed, along with the rest of the brass at Warner Bros. Discovery. Though Cavill has certainly stirred things up getting a great many fans excited about his return, speaking about a more optimistic and inspiring Superman. What happens if it is revealed that Cavill is not actually coming back and the role is recast for the future of the on-screen DC Universe?...

Here’s Why Multiple Major Cast Members Aren’t Coming Back For Sex Education Season 4 Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 20, 2022 9:02 am EST Netflix’s “Sex Education” is going through a creative reset. It’s been three seasons, and the gang has been in high school throughout, dealing with typical high-schooler problems for a while now. But in the upcoming fourth season, it looks like things will change quite a bit. The series has had an ensemble cast so far, as it trailed the sexual misadventures and the conflicts experienced by students of the conservative Moordale High School....

How Causeway Helped Brian Tyree Henry Let Go Of Paper Boi’s Tragedies In Atlanta [Exclusive] Apple TV+ By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 30, 2022 3:32 pm EST The art of acting requires performers to get in the headspace of their characters, and that can be draining when a person frequently plays characters going through trauma. Brian Tyree Henry has played his fair share of guys going through it, from Alfred (a.k.a. Paper Boi) on the FX series “Atlanta” to the empathetic superhuman Phastos in “The Eternals,” but he hadn’t quite figured out how to let go of those experiences....

Necessity breeds innovation Marvel Studios In an interview with ComicBook.com, James Cameron was asked if the technology developed for movies like those from Marvel Studios had inspired the director and his production team to step their game up for “Avatar: The Way of Water.” Necessity breeds innovation, and the director believes that’s what has created opportunities for artists to hone their craft continually: “Obviously, the big comic book films have been driving the sheer volume of the industry … the rising tide of technique raises everybody together....

Jared Padalecki Knew Not Every Supernatural Script Had To Be A ‘Home Run’ The CW By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 19, 2022 11:44 am EST “Supernatural” is dark, mysterious, and suspenseful, but it’s also a hell of a lot of fun. The dynamic between on-screen brothers Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles respectively) can reduce any viewer to tears, at least every once in a while, and it can also get pretty absurd sometimes....

The Lewton house style The Criterion Collection Val Lewton produced nine films at RKO Pictures between 1942 and 1946, all loosely categorized by the studio as horror. These films lack the iconography of Universal classics such as “Frankenstein” and “Dracula.” They were low-budget pictures made in a short time frame and released as the bottom half of a double feature. But horror fans know that Lewton was the real deal. He came through the industry working under directors like Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock....

Noah Hawley Wants His Alien Series To Return To The Franchise’s Roots By Marcos Melendez/Oct. 6, 2022 5:00 pm EST Noah Hawley’s upcoming “Alien” series will be borrowing more than just the title from the original film. Hailing from FX, the small-screen debut of the seminal franchise has been in development for quite some time. Instead of following suit with the (many) “Alien” sequels, the Hawley-created show will tell a story set in the same universe years removed from the events of the 1979 movie....

Park Chan-Wook’s Decision To Leave Is The Funniest Sad Movie You’ll See This Year [Fantastic Fest] CJ Entertainment By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 26, 2022 2:37 pm EST After an extremely painfully awkward (and long) lead-in by Tim League, legendary director Park Chan-wook took the stage at Fantastic Fest 2022 to introduce his new film, “Decision to Leave.” Director Park told us that one thing we should know about his latest is that it might be his funniest film yet....

Robin Williams Had To Fight For Mrs. Doubtfire’s Melancholy Ending By Christian Gainey/Oct. 5, 2022 11:58 am EST One thing is certain about Robin Williams, he knew how to get a laugh, and he spent decades doing just that. After years in stand-up comedy, Williams burst onto the acting scene playing Mork, a loveable alien from the planet Ork, before becoming one of the most successful movie actors in Hollywood. For years, Williams was the entertainment industry’s go-to guy for laugh-out-loud comedies, but he was far from a one-trick pony....

Could this actually happen somehow? Netflix Aside from trying to figure out what kind of wild story would need to be cooked up to make this work, the bigger question is, could it actually happen? Is it even worth putting all of the brain power into figuring something out if the powers that be would just say no? Odds are, Disney, who ultimately owns the rights to “Deadpool,” is not going to let the character appear in Netflix’s biggest show as they are direct competitors in the streaming game....

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods Trailer Features A Low-Key Shout-Out To A Beloved Horror Filmmaker Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/July 23, 2022 2:09 pm EST San Diego Comic-Con’s wildest day is in full swing, and the Warner Bros./DC panel is spitting out news fast and furious! Don’t worry about missing anything, because /Film has a team on the ground, furiously taking notes and bringing you all the best stuff. Today we have the new trailer for the upcoming film “Shazam!...

Strange World Trailer: A Whole New (Pulp) World With A Fantastic Point Of View Disney By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 21, 2022 10:24 am EST It’s time that, in our animated kids films, we go somewhere different, somewhere we’ve never been before. New worlds, or perhaps, stranger ones… Enter Disney’s next animated film “Strange World,” a new adventure where a group of scrappy humans explore uncharted and dangerous lands filled with mysterious and dangerous creatures....

Tales From The Box Office: How Avatar Became The Biggest Movie Of All Time (Twice) 20th Century Studios By Ryan Scott/Dec. 10, 2022 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) There are lots and lots of movies that have made lots and lots of money over the years of cinema’s history....