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Here’s How The James Bond Franchise Will Incorporate The Passing Of Queen Elizabeth II Olympics By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 22, 2022 10:34 pm EST The death of Queen Elizabeth II has dominated global news this month, and it’s something that has even filtered down to movie discussions, especially where the James Bond franchise is concerned. For 60 years — ever since Sean Connery first played Bond in “Dr. No” in 1962 — agent 007 fought for “Queen and country” on the movie screen....

House Of The Dragon Continues One Of The Great Game Of Thrones Traditions Ollie Upton / HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 17, 2022 6:00 pm EST Ned Stark’s beheading. The Battle of the Blackwater. The Red Wedding. The Battle of the Bastards. It’s a longstanding tradition in the world of “Game of Thrones” that if something huge is about to go down in Westeros, it won’t happen in the season’s premiere or finale, but in its penultimate episode....

How The Creator Of Oz Convinced David Chase That A Sopranos Movie Could Work Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/Nov. 29, 2022 1:51 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “The Sopranos.” “I didn’t want to do a ‘Sopranos’ movie at all, especially when it ended the way it did, and it ended really well,” said “The Sopranos” creator and showrunner David Chase. Chase has always been precious about his crime drama series....

Viola Davis is Amanda Waller Warner Bros. Amanda Waller is responsible for the creation of the Suicide Squad, under the code name of Task Force X. Waller thought she could manipulate some bad guys into doing some good. The team’s first foray didn’t exactly go very well, and in an act of desperation, she sought the protection of Bruce Wayne, seemingly knowing that he as Batman. Her protection came at the price of some information on a couple of certain super-powered individuals: Barry Allen and Arthur Curry, aka The Flash and Aquaman....

Jeremy Renner Played Jeffrey Dahmer Despite Not Knowing Who He Was Peninsula Films By Matt Rainis/Oct. 8, 2022 7:00 pm EST Jeremy Renner is a man of many talents. Whether it be music, home renovation, or the short-lived Jeremy Renner App, the “Avengers” star always has something going on. This goes back to the early days of his acting career, like in 2002 when he had his first big, successful role in David Jacobson’s “Dahmer....

‘Another artform to play with’ Prime Video During the “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Owain Arthur spoke about just how intense it was to transform into Durian IV. According to Arthur, his makeup took a whopping three hours to apply each day, and roughly 45 minutes at the end of each shoot to remove. “But you know what?” he said at the panel, “I was so excited to know that I was playing a dwarf and that I got to put the gear on my face....

Park Chan-Wook’s Thirst Is One Of The Best Vampire Movies Of The 2000s Focus // CJ Entertainment By Kayleigh Donaldson/Oct. 12, 2022 9:00 am EST October sees the release of “Decision to Leave,” the first feature film in six years from South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook. Having premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where Park won the Best Director award, the noir-drama, centered on a detective who investigates a woman with whom he becomes increasingly enamored, has already racked up plenty of “Best of the Year” credits....

The shower scene TriStar Pictures In “Starship Troopers,” Casper Van Dien played Johnny Rico, a square-jawed, bright-eyed high school student who had been taught from a young age to fear and hate a distant species of Arachnids from the planet Klendathu. Every teen is whole-heartedly encouraged to join the military by adults who are missing limbs, lost in the ongoing, generations-long war effort. The Arachnids are never given a voice, and none of the characters seem to know their particular grievance....

Sci-Fi Heroes We Want To See Amber Midthunder Play Next Hulu By Witney Seibold/Aug. 6, 2022 10:00 am EST Dan Trachtenberg’s “Prey,” the seventh film in the “Predator” film series, stars Amber Midthunder as Naru, a 1719 Comanche woman who finds herself facing off against a towering space alien that aims to hunt human beings for sport. Ever since 1987, the aliens seen in the “Predator” franchise have become pop culture staples, cropping up sporadically all across the pop culture map, appearing in movies, video games, and comic books....

Scream 6 Wraps Filming, Seemingly Confirms New York City Setting Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 1, 2022 2:51 pm EST Back in 1989, horror fans were given the promise of Jason Voorhees stepping outside of Camp Crystal Lake and terrorizing the citizens of New York City with “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.” What we received was a film that should have been titled “Jason Takes a Boat Ride and Then Chases Teens on a Subway....

Shawn Levy Could Direct A Star Wars Movie After Finishing Deadpool 3 Netflix By Ryan Scott/Nov. 8, 2022 1:02 pm EST Shawn Levy is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand, A-list directors in the business. Not only is he the producer behind Netflix’s biggest show in “Stranger Things” in addition to directing hits like “The Adam Project” and “Free Guy,” but he’s set to helm the much-anticipated “Deadpool 3” for Disney and Marvel Studios in the not-too-distant future....

The Child Stars Of Thor: Love & Thunder Created The Shadow Monsters Marvel Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 13, 2022 5:35 pm EST Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” film is filled with improvisation, odd editing choices, and just a general vibe of figuring things out as they went along. Waititi is famous for his improvisation, and in the case of “Love and Thunder,” it isn’t just in the performances and the story....

Goodbye, New Zealand Prime Video One of the things that “The Rings of Power” is doing very well is setting up a bunch of mysteries within a world we already feel like we know. Who is that mystery man who fell out of the sky? Ask one person and they’re sure it’s Gandalf. Ask another and they’re positive it’s really Sauron. While all these nerdy questions are floated, we’re allowed to sink back into Middle Earth in a whole new era that, as the marketing I disliked promised, is both familiar and different....

The Naughty Comedy Of Christmas With The Campbells Often Went Too Far On Set [Exclusive] RLJE Films By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2022 1:47 pm EST On the surface, the newly released “Christmas with the Campbells” may look like your average holiday romantic comedy, the likes of which you’d see on the Hallmark channel. But that’s exactly what producers Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley wanted you to think. Though the film retains the cheesy romance and holiday heart of those made-for-TV movies, it’s also packed with hilariously raunchy one-liners and the kind of dialogue that you’ll be absolutely shocked to hear in a holiday movie like this....

A helpful hand NBC Tom Hanks has a reputation as one of the nicest fellows in all of movie stardom. It’s not a bad reputation to have, but it is one he’s careful with. In a 2019 interview on “Conan,” Hanks says he doesn’t like it when people take his good nature for granted. Chris Farley certainly didn’t, on that fateful day when Hanks covered for his massive blunder, despite a bit of uncharacteristically mean name-calling from Hanks....

‘I was flabbergasted’ Paramount Pictures In the book, Kilmer discusses “Top Gun” at length, including one of Iceman’s defining features. “I must also take partial credit for the weird crew cut I sported. The style was Tony’s idea, but I went out of my way to make it weirder,” wrote Kilmer, referring to Iceman’s extremely obnoxious coiffed hairdo. As you can see, it carries with it such an air of scumbaggery that you may instinctively punch your computer screen....

Violent Night Cements David Harbour As A Santa Claus For The Ages Universal Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Dec. 8, 2022 5:00 pm EST The following post contains major spoilers for “Violent Night.” The Christmas movies we hold to our chest are passed on from year to year, as they often remind you of how magical the spirit of the holiday season can be. The town of Bedford Falls coming to George Bailey’s aid in “It’s a Wonderful Life” always pushes me towards a much needed emotional catharsis....

‘I don’t think you know what method acting is if you’re calling it B.S.’ Paramount Pictures Garfield used a bevy of colorful language to express his frustrations, understandable when you consider how universally reviled “method” has become in recent years. “I’m kind of bothered by the misconception, I’m kind of bothered by this idea that ‘method acting is f****** bulls***,’” Garfield exclaimed. “No, I don’t think you know what method acting is if you’re calling it bulls***, or you just worked with someone who claims to be a method actor who isn’t actually acting the method at all,” he continued....

Why The Black Phone’s Box Office Success Is Incredible News For Horror Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/July 14, 2022 3:00 pm EST Heading into 2021, many in the movie industry didn’t know what to expect. Would moviegoers return to theaters once the pandemic eased up? Would vaccines reinstill consumer confidence? Had people truly become too accustomed to watching stuff at home? Fortunately, the box office has recovered an awful lot over the last year and a half, with 2021 being good-if-not-great all around, and 2022 proving encouraging on a larger scale....

A Chance Run-In With Ray Bradbury Helped Bring Blade Runner To The Big Screen Warner Bros. By Joe Roberts/Nov. 30, 2022 5:33 pm EST Before “Blade Runner” was a film, there was Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” The basis for what would become Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi masterpiece was only loosely related to the movie. Once “Blade Runner” co-writer Hampton Fancher got his hands on the book, he set about using what he saw as the most exciting (and bankable) elements to create the big-screen version....