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Tom Cruise Didn’t Want Audiences To Watch Top Gun: Maverick – He Wanted Them To Feel It [Exclusive] Paramount Pictures By Michael Boyle/Nov. 10, 2022 2:20 pm EST “Top Gun: Maverick” was a massive success, quickly becoming the highest-grossing movie of Tom Cruise’s already very successful career. It’s easy to see why: It’s a visually stunning and deeply earnest film about Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he connects with the son of his old best friend, Goose, who died in the first movie....

Tusk Ending Explained: I Am The Walrus A24 By Witney Seibold/Nov. 12, 2022 10:30 pm EST Kevin Smith’s 2014 film “Tusk” has a rather strange origin story. On a 2013 episode of his long-running podcast “SModcast” — the episode titled “The Walrus and the Carpenter” — Smith and his co-host Scott Mosier came across a real-life British want ad from a man seeking a roommate. The want ad described a strange scenario wherein the lodger would be allowed to stay with the man rent-free, provided the lodger dress and behave like a walrus....

Val Kilmer’s Batman Forever Batsuit Woes Were Solved With A Little ‘Soap Opera’ Acting Warner Bros. By J. Gabriel Ware/Sept. 12, 2022 9:51 am EST Val Kilmer grew up a Batman fan. He recalled to The Hollywood Reporter how he got to sit in the Batmobile as a second grader when his father took him to the set of the TV series in the ’60s. So, when director Joel Schumacher tapped him to replace Michael Keaton as the titular superhero for 1995’s “Batman Forever,” it was a childhood dream come true....

Who Are The Rings Of Power’s White-Hooded Figures? The Lord Of The Rings’ The Cult Of Melkor Explained Prime Video By Debopriyaa Dutta/Sept. 23, 2022 12:41 pm EST This post contains spoilers for episode 5 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” The slow-burn nature of “Partings,” episode 5 of “The Rings of Power,” allows the series to ramp up tensions across Middle-earth, as loyalties are tested on the eve of a dark time....

Why Rick And Morty Got Cut Off From The Multiverse In Season 6 Adult Swim By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 21, 2022 2:28 pm EST There is an unspoken rule to sitcoms that nothing can change, at least not permanently. As Bojack Horseman once said, “there’s always more show.” “The Simpsons” can never age its characters, and Bob’s restaurant in “Bob’s Burgers” can never truly be successful, because the show would simply have to end....

10 Movies To Watch If You Loved Netflix’s Blonde Netflix By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 28, 2022 12:10 pm EST If you strapped in for the 166-minute runtime of Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” a fictional interpretation of Marilyn Monroe based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, odds are you don’t want to stop thinking about it. Netflix’s ambitious swing of a project, their first to earn an NC-17 rating, is meant to inspire passionate responses and generate vigorous debate....

1917 Ending Explained: Come Back To Us Universal Pictures/Entertainment One By Lee Adams/Dec. 17, 2022 10:00 pm EST One-shot movies have become pretty popular over the past ten years or so. It’s a bold choice for any director and, at their best, shooting in real-time can create a sense of immersion or intimacy with the characters onscreen. At their worst, it feels a lot like showing off, and I personally find them a total chore to sit through....

A New Trailer For The Flash Will Debut During The Super Bowl Warner Bros. Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 23, 2022 9:25 am EST The Flash might be the Fastest Man Alive, but whatever momentum his upcoming movie had behind it has been somewhat stalled by release delays, the overall change in creative direction at DC Studios, and the many real-life controversies involving the film’s star, Ezra Miller. Despite all that, “The Flash” is hoping to get back in the game — almost literally — with a new Super Bowl promo that will bring Warner Bros....

A Third Princess Diaries Movie Is In The Works At Disney Buena Vista Pictures By Erin Brady/Nov. 15, 2022 5:56 pm EST Pack your bags because we’re returning to Genovia! The Hollywood Reporter exclusively revealed that a third movie in the “Princess Diaries” film series is currently in the works. While the story and cast have not been confirmed, the script is currently being written by Aadrita Mukerji, who has written for television shows such as “Supergirl” and “Reacher....

Casting Bits, Famous Younger Brothers Edition: Dave Franco In ‘Now You See Me’, Liam Hemsworth In ‘Timeless’ Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Dave Franco has become the latest addition to Summit’s magician heist film Now You See Me, boarding a very promising cast that already includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Melanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Isla Fisher, and Woody Harrelson. Franco is probably still best known for being the younger brother of Oscar nominee/host James Franco, but he’s become a rising star in his own right, with his recent turn in Fright Night and his upcoming appearances in 21 Jump Street and the zombie romance Warm Bodies....

Corsage Review: An Intimate Portrait Of Empress Elizabeth [TIFF] TIFF By Sarah Milner/Sept. 16, 2022 10:41 am EST The aristocracy is a fascinating subject for film to explore; the world of royal families and monarchies seems so distant, so foreign, from our everyday, mundane existences, that it’s only natural to be curious. Perhaps this is why there’s such a long tradition of biopics focusing on royalty — films that pull back the curtain to offer a tantalizing look at the inner lives of these endlessly fascinating public figures....

More monsters from the folks who gave us Grogu Paramount Some of the creatures that will appear in “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” are shown in the trailer that just dropped at SDCC, and they look pretty darn good. The owlbear is nice and fluffy, the ooze is, well, oozy, and the mimic is properly terrifying. During their panel at SDCC, the creators of the film revealed that they’ve hired two digital effects giants, ILM and MPC, to do the digital special effects, but that they’ve hired Legacy Effects, the team behind Grogu on “The Mandalorian,” to help them create their animatronic creatures....

Felicity Jones’ Rogue One Character Stuck With Her Long After Filming Had Wrapped Lucasfilm By Lyvie Scott/Oct. 6, 2022 4:16 pm EST New “Star Wars” series “Andor” may have brought “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” to renewed relevance, but for some of us, the events and characters introduced in that particular prequel have been living in our minds rent-free for quite some time. The subject of a possible alternate ending — which may not have killed off its entire main cast — as well as the film’s extensive overhaul with help from “Andor” showrunner Tony Gilroy are hard things for detail-oriented “Star Wars” fans to forget....

Here’s What The Ms. Marvel Directors Would Put In A Ms. Marvel Movie Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/July 14, 2022 6:24 pm EST “Ms. Marvel” recently wrapped up its first season on Disney+, and it seems to have stuck the landing. Though we’re not sure if the superhero will return to the small screen for a second season just, yet, we do know that she is going to be joining in on the big screen action next summer in “The Marvels” alongside Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel....

David Harbour’s pretty excited about it Netflix Former Hawkins Chief of Police Jim Hopper is put through a great ordeal in “Stranger Things” season 4 — he is held hostage at a Russian prison, tortured, and is put through hell to escape, with the help of Joyce, Murray his friend Enzo, and an unwilling Russian smuggler Yuri. Hopper’s journey culminates in an epic battle when he picks up a sword against one of the Upside Down’s most menacing, bloodthirsty creatures, the demogorgon....

Hugh Jackman Actually Approached Ryan Reynolds About Returning As Wolverine In Deadpool 3 20th Century Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/Oct. 26, 2022 2:53 pm EST On an uneventful Tuesday afternoon, Ryan Reynolds shocked Marvel fans all over the world when he tweeted a video announcing Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine in the upcoming “Deadpool 3.” After hanging up the claws following the release of James Mangold’s critically acclaimed “Logan,” it seemed unlikely that Jackman would ever portray the mutant again....

In Dan Trachtenberg’s Ideal World, Fans Wouldn’t Have Immediately Known Prey Was A Predator Film 20th Century Studios By Devin Meenan/Sept. 11, 2022 5:30 pm EST “Prey” boasts the sort of inventive high-concept that movie franchises could use more of. In a nutshell, it’s “Predator” but set in the Great Plains of the 1700s. The hero is not a musclebound mercenary like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch, but a Comanche girl named Naru (Amber Midthunder) who aspires to be a hunter....

The writing was on the wall Warner Bros. Companies are finally realizing that spending loads of money on projects meant exclusively for a single, subscription-based streaming service is completely unsustainable. We’ve seen the tanking of the stock prices and subscriber count of Netflix over the last few months. Alongside that, we have seen a boom in the box office as people have seemingly just accepted that they will inevitably get COVID-19 at some point....

Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trailer: Netflix And Chill With A Steamy D.H. Lawrence Adaptation Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 4, 2022 6:53 am EST The trailer for Netflix’s upcoming film adaptation of the literary classic, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” is here, and like the controversial D.H. Lawrence novel from which it’s adapted, things get a little hot and heavy in it. There’s more than one pair of bared buttocks, and you may or may not glimpse an “unhappily married aristocrat” straddle the “gamekeeper on her husband’s country estate,” as Netflix describes the couple....

Long Before Cowboy Bebop, Shinichirō Watanabe Had Already Created Spike Studio Sunrise By Debopriyaa Dutta/Sept. 3, 2022 9:30 pm EST “I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over.” These words, spoken by Spike Spiegel in Shinichirō Watanabe’s genre-hybrid anime series, “Cowboy Bebop,” form the crux of his character. Apart from being one of the primary protagonists of the series, Spike is the heart of “Cowboy Bebop,” as his troubled nonchalance reinforces several themes in Watanabe’s classic....