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Syril can’t take a hint Disney+ Kyle Soller and Denise Gough deserve a lot of praise for handling such a difficult scene with intensity and maturity. It’s been a month since Syril was brought in for Dedra’s questioning, and since then he’s been promoted to a new position at the Bureau — seemingly under the impression that Dedra had something to do with it. He waits for Dedra outside her ISB workplace to go up to her and thank her for helping him get his life together, but it’s clear from Dedra’s frustration and dismissiveness that this exchange is quite one-sided....

Did Arnold Schwarzenegger Really Replace OJ Simpson As The Star Of The Terminator? Orion Pictures By Lyvie Scott/Oct. 3, 2022 4:45 pm EST The casting for James Cameron’s “The Terminator” has been a persistent Hollywood rumor for years, partly due to statements made by the Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. As the story goes, Schwarzenegger was not the first choice to play the titular T-800, but rather O.J. Simpson, the former football star whose controversial murder trial has since overshadowed his brief career as an actor....

Donald Glover To Star In Movie About Disco-Powered Spider-Man Villain Hypno-Hustler NBC By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 16, 2022 4:55 pm EST Multi-hyphenate writer-actor-producer-rapper-musician Donald Glover is no stranger to the world of “Spider-Man” — he helped inspire Brian Michael Bendis to create Miles Morales, after all — but I don’t think anyone could have predicted this news. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Glover is attached to produce and star in a “Spider-Man” spin-off for Sony Pictures focused on the obscure and somewhat bizarre comics villain, the Hypno-Hustler....

Dwayne Johnson Wants Black Adam To ‘Usher In A New Era For The DC Universe’ [Comic-Con] Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/July 23, 2022 3:59 pm EST Warner Bros. and DC Films showcased their upcoming movies at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and /Film has a team planted firmly in Hall H to bring you every bit of news from the event. Following a fresh look at “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “Black Adam” took to the stage, with star Dwayne Johnson and director Jaume Collet-Serra giving fans the lowdown on what audiences are going to see with the Justice Society forming....

Full Metal Jacket’s Production Was Almost More Than A Nearly 60-Year-Old Stanley Kubrick Could Take Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Dec. 22, 2022 6:17 pm EST One might find that there are very few films that venerate and celebrate the Vietnam War (1955 – 1975). Filmmakers looked at the quagmire in Southeast Asia, and discovered no small amount of horrendous violence, idiotic governmental bluster, and soul-hollowing atrocities. Oliver Stone’s “Platoon” won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1986, and that film seemed like Hollywood’s final exposé on the topic....

Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Is Becoming A Netflix TV Series, Theo James To Star STXfilms By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 3, 2022 3:28 pm EST Netflix is officially entering the Guy Ritchie business. Over two years after the “Snatch,” “Sherlock Holmes,” and “Aladdin” filmmaker first released his long-overdue foray back to caper flicks with “The Gentlemen” (/Film’s Hoai-Tran Bui reviewed the film here, calling it “a film about Ritchie flexing his muscles and standing on his lawn to yell at the new kids for daring to tread on it”), the divisive director is taking the gangster dramedy and turning it into a streaming series for the biggest platform of them all....

A real life river set Hulu In the film, Naru dreams of being a hunter for her tribe, and gets to prove herself worthy when she discovers that an extraterrestrial being has begun prowling the woods near her home. A mud pit is just one nature-made weapon the resilient warrior turns against the beast. In an interview with ComicBook.com, Midthunder spoke more about what it was like to film on location within the elements....

How Disney Sank The Follow-Up Project From Coraline Director Henry Selick Focus Features By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 4, 2022 1:09 pm EST Being a Henry Selick fan from the time I was in second grade (and I have my battered copy of the official “The Nightmare Before Christmas” novelization to prove it), you can imagine how frustrating it was for me to watch his career go in circles for much of the past decade....

It’s time for some change 20th Century Studios While the Yautja have universal characteristics, there’s plenty of room for individuality to help differentiate them from the crowd. In the case of our Predator in “Prey,” bringing back special effects legends Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. to handle the latest iteration’s design proved helpful. Intimately familiar with the design of the Yautja, the two had specific ideas for how they wanted to approach making the creature we see in “Prey” different from the rest....

Matthew Modine Knows Where He Wants Eleven’s Stranger Things Story To Go Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 18, 2022 7:32 pm EST Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) is dead for real. At least, the mad scientist who just keeps coming back seems to be really, fully dead by the end of “Stranger Things” season 4, when Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) escapes his clutches yet again. The often-villainous “Papa” might be gone, but that doesn’t mean the actor who plays him isn’t still invested in the future of Netflix’s biggest series....

Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Introduced The Best Television Character Of The Year HBO By Erin Brady/July 26, 2022 6:00 pm EST Think about any of the truly great characters introduced on television over the past few years. Walter White, Don Draper, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, Che Diaz. These characters and many more like them have graced our television screens with compelling stories as the medium progressed throughout its second Golden Age....

Noomi Rapace’s Best Prometheus Memory Was A Piece Of Advice From Ridley Scott 20th Century Studios By Drew Tinnin/Dec. 8, 2022 3:12 pm EST Actor Noomi Rapace burst onto the international film scene as the punk rock hacker Lisbeth Salander in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” based on the posthumously published bestseller from author Stieg Larsson. Her performance put her on the shortlist to star as devout archaeologist Dr. Shaw in Ridley Scott’s long-gestating “Alien” prequel, “Prometheus....

A Four-Season Plan “Servant” is one of Apple TV+’s first original series, and has been delivering sickening thrills since 2019. Shyamalan took to Twitter to announce the renewal and the series’ inevitable conclusion, thanking fans along with the show’s cast and crew. He explained that the series has always been structured for four seasons, saying, “I set the goal to tell 1 story in 40 episodes knowing there was no guarantee we would achieve it....

Shooting Dressed To Kill On Location Was A Lesson For Nancy Allen MGM By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 15, 2022 4:09 pm EST New York City during the 1970s was the hottest of messes. The metropolis was plagued by rising crime rates as white flight drove a chunk of the population to the suburbs. Unemployment soared. The two-day blackout of 1977 engulfed the city in darkness during a sweltering summer when David Burkowitz (aka the Son of Sam) was gunning down citizens at random....

SNL Had To Shelve A ‘Hitler Through The Ages’ Car Commercial Because Volkswagen Disapproved [Exclusive] SNL By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 8, 2022 8:01 pm EST Across its 48-season runtime, “Saturday Night Live” has had at least as many bad sketches as it has great ones. For every “More Cowboy” or “Debbie Downer,” there’s something equally forgettable or mediocre. Sometimes, sketches that are done in bad taste reach their own level of infamy, like the pedophile joke-riddled “Canteen Boy” or the wildly racist one-off “The History of Vaudeville....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Re-Release Will Have A New Post-Credits Scene Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 1, 2022 3:40 pm EST Guess what, spider-heads! “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is coming back to theaters, presumably because cinemas are so desperate for something to show that isn’t “Top Gun: Maverick” that they’d resort to just screening movies from last year again with slightly new content and call it a day — and just wait until they re-release a 13-year-old movie and you have to act surprised when James Cameron once again dominates theaters....

The Daily Stream: Reboot Is A Witty And Humane Lampoon Of The TV Industry Hulu By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 12, 2022 3:00 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 Series: “Reboot” (2022) Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Hannah Korman (Rachel Bloom), a writer who’s hot off penning her breakout indie movie and will explain the film’s hilariously NSFW title to anyone who will listen, approaches Hulu with her pitch for reviving the hit 2000s sitcom “Step Right Up....

The Daily Stream: So Vam Paints A Bloody Picture Of The Future Of Queer And Trans Horror Shudder/Mutiny Pictures By Erin Brady/Aug. 23, 2022 6:00 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: So Vam Where You Can Stream It: Shudder The Pitch: In this micro-budget ode to LGBTQ+ identity, Kurt (Xai) is a young man in a small Australian town that feels trapped in its conservative politics, instead wanting to move to the city to follow his passion of becoming a drag queen....

The Pez Outlaw Trailer: Learn About The International Smuggling Of Plastic Candy Dispensers Gravitas Ventures By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 23, 2022 8:29 am EST “Wecome to the wonderful world of Pez collecting. You’re hooked now…” or about to be, anyway, after you watch the trailer for “The Pez Outlaw.” Forget your new-fangled NFTs; rare and hard-to-find Pez candy dispensers are where it’s at. They once prompted a man, machinist, and Michigander named Steve Glew to fly to Europe so he could stock up on factory prototypes from Pez International (a separate entity from Pez USA) and then smuggle them back through U....

Banjo the Woodpile Cat “Banjo the Woodpile Cat” is a 26-minute short about an irascible talking kitten named Banjo (Sparky Marcus) who causes mischief to the point of damage. When he nearly kills one of his sisters, Banjo’s father (Ken Sansom) sends Banjo out to fetch a beating switch intended for Banjo’s corporal punishment. Rather than be beaten, Banjo takes to the road and treks into the big city (actually Salt Lake City where Bluth lived) where he runs afoul of the human traffic....