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Paul Burchill - Pirates of the Caribbean WWE When Paul Burchill first arrived to WWE, he was paired up with living wrestling legend William Regal, and billed as a snobbish heel with unbelievable technical skills. Burchill was primed for years of success in the company, but all of that changed after “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” became a huge financial success. Burchill was separated from William Regal and repackaged as a long lost relative of the great pirate Blackbeard, while looking like a Party City knockoff version of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow....

Why George R.R. Martin Couldn’t Cameo As A Severed Head On Game Of Thrones [Comic-Con] HBO By Mike Shutt/July 23, 2022 6:55 pm EST “Game of Thrones” had its fair share of cameos over the course of its eight season run that ranged from the extremely cool to the utterly bizarre. You had a one-episode stint for the great Ian McShane in season 6, Sigur Rós presiding over Joffrey Baratheon’s death at the Purple Wedding, and Ed Sheeran playing a fireside tune with a group of bannermen....

Why It Took Ron Howard So Long To Get On Board The Willow TV Series Disney+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 16, 2022 4:00 pm EST The team behind the Disney+ series “Willow” knows a thing or two about arduous journeys. I’m not talking about Willow’s (Warwick Davis) epic adventure across the realm in the 1988 movie, but about everything that came afterward: the decades-long journey to the small screen. /Film’s Jeff Ewing attended an advanced screening and Q&A with executive producers Jonathan Kasdan and Michelle Rejwan, and Kasdan opened up about the roundabout path the story took to its final destination....

Why Pokémon Can Survive Without Ash Ketchum The Pokémon Company By Adam Wescott/Dec. 21, 2022 5:00 pm EST After 25 years as the headliner of the Pokémon series, Ash Ketchum is on his way out. The Pokémon Company has announced that Ash’s story will end in a special mini-series starting in January 2023 with an all-new cast taking over the series that spring. Whether Ash will truly disappear for good or be demoted to mentor or side-character status is currently unclear....

Why Smile’s Monster Is Obsessed With Smiling Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 3, 2022 4:12 pm EST Warning: This article contains spoilers for the film “Smile.” Parker Finn’s new horror film “Smile” is, like many horror films of recent vintage, a tale of trauma. Sosie Bacon plays Dr. Rose Cotter, an overworked psychiatrist in a mental hospital who, during a busy day, must consult a disturbed young patient with a particular affliction....

You May Recognize The Actor Behind Tadashi From Big Hero 6 Disney By Cameron Roy Hall/Nov. 16, 2022 4:13 pm EST We’re not totally solid on the metrics, but there are at least two moments in modern Disney history that are guaranteed to crumble any emotionally mature human being. The first of these two traumatizing snippets, obviously, comes from Disney and Pixar’s “Up,” which features a devastatingly beautiful prologue. The second instance of distilled anguish comes from the otherwise lighthearted film, “Big Hero 6....

10 Non-Christmas Movies That Everyone Watches Around The Holidays StudioCanal By Simon Bland/Nov. 29, 2022 3:29 pm EST The holidays are a special time of year. If you’re not opening presents or stuffing your face with leftovers, you’re glued to the TV, soaking up some cozy seasonal viewing. As Christmas fast approaches, sites like ours are usually flooded with listicles highlighting the best ways to spend your Christmas downtime and wring out every last drop of precious festivity....

Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Nov. 2, 2022 12:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Andor” episode 9. It’s a credit to the creatives on “Andor” that the “Rogue One” prequel-spinoff series has found a way to expose the true depravity of the Galactic Empire while barely shedding even a single drop of blood. That extended to last week’s bummer of an episode, which ended with Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) being captured by the Imperials on Ferrix....

Asher Angel Wants These DC Characters To Appear In Future Shazam! Films [Comic-Con] Warner Bros. By Sarah Milner AND Ryan Scott/July 24, 2022 2:14 pm EST So far, “Shazam!” is a pretty self-contained DC Extended Universe — but if Asher Angel gets his way, that could change. Angel, who plays Billy Batson, appeared at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to promote his upcoming film “Shazam! Fury of the Gods.” This, along with other upcoming projects like “Black Adam” and “The Flash” (assuming it still releases as planned), are all part of the DC Extended Universe: The 2019 hit “Shazam!...

Chainsaw Man Episode 9 Finally Unleashes Makima’s Power Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 7, 2022 7:19 am EST It is often theorized that the “Chainsaw Man” manga feels so unlike anything on Weekly Shonen Jump because it was the magazine’s way of compensating for rejecting “Attack on Titan” back in the day. If it wasn’t already clear by now how violent and subversive “Chainsaw Man” is, then this episode doubles down on the shock and gore aspect of the show in delightful ways, all of which revolve around Makima....

One more round MGM Save for arguably only one misstep in 1990’s “Rocky V,” which killed the franchise for 16 years, the boxing series has been a reliable hit-maker for MGM and has resulted in a ton of money at the box office to go along with Oscar glory as well. To date, the films have collectively earned $1.51 billion globally, with the recent “Creed” spin-offs performing particularly well. Starring Michael B....

Damon Lindelof’s Star Wars Movie Finds A Director In Ms. Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 24, 2022 8:16 am EST You’ve heard of “Secret Wars;” now, prepare to have your mind blown by a Secret Star War, waged by none other than Damon Lindelof. Back in March, reports circulated that Lindelof, the co-creator and/or showrunner of “Lost,” “The Leftovers,” and HBO’s “Watchmen,” was working on a hush-hush “Star Wars” movie....

The polar opposite of a Kubrick-ian film Dimension Films Laurie Holden, who plays school teacher Amanda Dunfrey, told Fangoria about the “renegade” nature of filming “The Mist,” which was markedly different from her experience of working on the deliberate, Kubrick-esque “The Majestic.” She said: “That [The Majestic] was very elegant and Kubrick-esque, and this [The Mist] was renegade, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, never-knew-where-the-cameras-were [filmmaking]. You had to be on all the time. It kind of felt like live theater in many ways....

‘A little too Saturday-morning’ Warner Bros. Many things set “Batman: The Animated Series” apart from other cartoons at the time, and that was by design. Timm has spoken about wanting to make the show appeal to adults as well as kids, distinguishing it from popular shows at the time such as “Transformers” or “G.I. Joe.” While he and Radomski had a clear vision for the series, it would take another “Tiny Toons” veteran to evolve that vision into what “The Animated Series” became....

How Pirates Of The Caribbean’s Crew Brought Bill Nighy’s Davy Jones To Life Disney By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 4, 2022 3:58 pm EST More than 15 years after he first graced the big screen, Bill Nighy’s Davy Jones remains one of the all-time greatest CGI characters brought to life in a live-action movie. I would call this a “hot take,” except I feel like most people would absolutely agree with me (so maybe it’s more of a “room temperature take”)....

It’s Hard To Argue With Peter Jackson’s Pick For The Best Scene In The Lord Of The Rings Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 23, 2022 5:31 pm EST Two decades after its release, “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy remains a monumental achievement. Like “Star Wars,” or “Jurassic Park” before it, Peter Jackson’s trilogy adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary book was a blend of old-school cinematic techniques and new technological wizardry....

Jim Carrey Knew Audiences Would Either Love Or Hate Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Morgan Creek Productions/Warner Bros By Lee Adams/Oct. 30, 2022 3:30 pm EST It’s fair to say that certain aspects of the “Ace Ventura” movies don’t play well at all nowadays; even at the time, the original film was called out for its rampant homophobia and transphobia. Putting the really problematic aspects (which we’ll touch upon later) aside for a moment, let’s not forget what an utterly unique force of nature Jim Carrey was when he burst onto our screens as Ace for the first time....

Jonathan Majors Added Dashes Of Previous MCU Big Bads To His ‘Kang Soup’ Marvel Studios By Lyvie Scott/Dec. 8, 2022 5:26 pm EST As Kang the Conqueror, Jonathan Majors arguably has major (excuse the pun) shoes to fill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He’s not just following the last memorable Big Bad, Thanos (Josh Brolin), but every villain — memorable or not — that’s graced the MCU in its eleven-plus year history....

Jordan Peele Wanted To Pitch Wendell And Wild Quickly, In Case Get Out Was A Bomb [Set Visit] Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 30, 2022 9:15 am EST In the five years since his directing debut on “Get Out” in 2017, Jordan Peele has gone from one half of a beloved comedic duo to someone whose mere involvement with a project is immediately one of its biggest selling points. So it is with “Wendell and Wild,” a stop-motion animated feature that marks the return of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” helmer Henry Selick in his first directorial effort since 2009’s “Coraline,” with Peele serving as both a co-writer and producer on top of lending his voice to the film....

When and where to watch Knock at the Cabin Universal Pictures One of the things we can definitely confirm about “Knock at the Cabin” is its release date. Shyamalan has been very quiet about everything else, but he’s been shouting from the proverbial rooftops that the movie will be released on February 3rd, 2023. Or, in the parlance of Shyamalan, 2.3.23. pic.twitter.com/rAn6MNIQL9 — M. Night Shyamalan ⌛ (@MNightShyamalan) October 14, 2021...