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The right approach all around IFC Films For those who haven’t seen it, “Werewolves Within” is, essentially, a werewolf horror/comedy. It centers on a small town whose residents gather together inside the local inn during a snowstorm. The new forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep everyone calm as a mysterious creature adds some terror into the mix. It’s a simple premise that started life as a video game, but one that could be adapted into a feature with a modest budget....

How Hollywood Sexism Killed Sigourney Weaver’s Hopes Of Directing Lots of actors can find themselves taking a shot at directing during their careers. It’s a natural transition from working on movies trying to realize a director’s vision to wanting to put your own vision on screen. It’s a career transition that’s certainly made easier by acting experience, but not one that’s always smooth by any measure. Many have been extremely successful in their transition, like Clint Eastwood, Ben Affleck, and Charlie Chaplin....

Hulu’s Kindred: Release Date, Cast, And More About The Octavia Butler Adaptation Hulu By Shania Russell/Nov. 8, 2022 1:18 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Believe it or not, an onscreen adaptation is a first for trailblazing author, Octavia Butler. The Black literary icon spent nearly three decades as one of the most prominent authors in sci-fi, publishing her first stories in the ’70s and writing all the way into the early ’00s, until her 2006 death....

So what happens in Léon again? Gaumont Buena Vista International Léon (Jean Reno) is a solitary “cleaner,” or contract killer, living a spartan existence in New York. Ruthless yet childlike, he whiles away his downtime watching old Technicolor musicals and caring for his plant, waiting for new assignments from a shady mob boss called Old Tony (Danny Aiello). He keeps to himself, but his whole life changes when corrupt DEA agents, led by the pill-popping Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman), gun down the family next door because the father is stealing from their stash....

The Details Lionsgate Creators in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Philippines will be able to submit their work through the Dorian app starting on October 15, 2021. Submissions will close on October 31, 2021, and the grand prize winner will be awarded with a virtual meeting with a Lionsgate senior executive to discuss their project and potential future opportunities. The winner’s story will be featured and promoted in the Dorian app — and the creator will have the chance to make revenue off of the fan fiction playable game they’ve created....

Michael Caine Never Knew He Could Sing Until The Muppet Christmas Carol Buena Vista Pictures Distribution By Lee Adams/Dec. 10, 2022 3:00 pm EST “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens was embraced by the British public from the moment it first dropped in 1843; it was an instant bestseller and the work has never been out of print since (via ThoughtCo). Almost 60 years later, the festive tale took a leap to the new-fangled medium of cinema with “Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost” in 1901....

The scene’s legacy Columbia Pictures In the DVD commentary (via Yahoo!), Reiner explains his decision to alter the scary hobbling scene: “We wanted Paul Sheldon at the end of this movie to emerge victorious over Annie Wilkes, and if he wound up without a foot … then he maybe paid too high a price for that. Most of the people who have seen this movie say it was pretty darn painful to look at, so I don’t think we compromised it too much....

Naming Ships Is A ‘Stressful’ Job For The Showrunner Of Star Trek: Lower Decks Paramount By Witney Seibold/Nov. 10, 2022 6:33 pm EST Mike McMahan, the creator of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” has been coy about the actual size of his show’s central vessel, the U.S.S. Cerritos. Given the ship’s status as a secondary utility vehicle, viewers might come to believe that the ship is tiny, perhaps even one of the smallest in the fleet....

Robin Williams Was Uniquely Qualified For His One Hour Photo Role 20th Century Films By Matthew Bilodeau/Aug. 2, 2022 4:02 pm EST The late Robin Williams always knew how to plant a smile on your face. His manic comedy hardly allowed you a chance to breathe before he was already on another joke — the “Jumanji” actor was truly one of the greatest to ever do it. It’s really easy to see him simply as a comedic actor with commercial hits like “Aladdin” and “Mrs....

The Cuphead Show! Season 2 Trailer: Let The Chaos Continue Netflix By Jenna Busch/Aug. 5, 2022 9:11 pm EST If the actual news isn’t weird enough for you, or you want to feel like you’re on an acid trip, Netflix has a new trailer for the second season of “The Cuphead Show!” Let’s just say that the exclamation point at the end of the title is very much justified. If you’ve yet to see it, the series is based on the classic Fleischer rubber hose-style animation, and was adapted from the critically acclaimed video game “Cuphead....

The Departed Could Have Been A Reunion For Martin Scorsese And Robert De Niro Warner Bros By Lee Adams/Oct. 2, 2022 7:30 pm EST Jack Nicholson as a mob boss? I was all for it going into “The Departed,” and he didn’t disappoint. Not at first, anyway. The movie starts with a classic Martin Scorsese needle drop as the Stones belt out “Gimme Shelter” and Frank Costello (Nicholson) dispenses his philosophy on life and power on the streets of Boston....

So what happens in Death in Venice again? Warner Bros Adapted from Thomas Mann’s celebrated novella, “Death in Venice” picks up with ailing composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) as he heads to the sinking city to recuperate after a period of ill health. He checks into a luxurious hotel overlooking the beach on the Lido, where he first spots Tadzio (Andrésen), a striking young Polish boy on holiday with his family....

Giving time meaning in a zombie-filled wasteland AMC Admittedly, when watching a show with as many characters and plotlines as “The Walking Dead” had, it’s doubtful that many people would be looking at the time on a watch whenever it showed up on screen. More to the point, there is little chance they would make the connection in regards to the specific episode number. But this little gag does kind of get at a larger point about a post-apocalyptic universe such as this, in general....

There Are Two Movies Brian De Palma Considers The ‘Pinnacle’ Of His Career Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 19, 2022 10:00 am EST Brian De Palma’s career has had its ups and downs, but he’s often cited as one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood era, that period from roughly 1967 to 1982 when a new breed of iconoclastic young filmmakers, “the movie brats,” began to exercise more creative control within the studio system....

The intrigue amongst the fantasy HBO Fantasy is probably my least favorite genre. A world of magic, creatures, prophecies, and all that jazz rarely activates my particular pleasure centers when it comes to narrative fiction. The further away from a tangible reality we get, the more I lose interest. When I first fired up “Game of Thrones” all those years ago, I fully expected to not click with it and put it alongside things like “Lord of the Rings,” stuff that people love that wasn’t my thing....

Vincent Pastore Is Responsible For One Of The Sopranos’ Only Improvised Scenes HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 24, 2022 10:02 pm EST “The Sopranos” is known for being one of the best drama series of all time, and it is. But in addition to its darker moments, it’s also a show with a surprising thread of humor throughout its six seasons. David Chase’s series is as much about the human condition and the dissatisfaction with modern life as it is about mob violence, and in Chase’s eyes, modern life can be funny as hell sometimes....

All Quiet On The Western Front: Everything We Know So Far Netflix By Witney Seibold/July 21, 2022 1:34 pm EST Later in 2022 — as announced in Variety — Netflix will be releasing a new adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a work that you probably read in the ninth grade. The new film, a German production shot outside of Prague and presented in English, was produced by international celebrity Daniel Brühl (“Inglourious Basterds,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”), who will play the real-life German politician Matthias Erzberger in the film....

Eliot Loudermilk Paramount Pictures In a 2018 career retrospective for Yahoo!, Bobcat Goldthwait recalls working on the film, and what it was like co-starring with Bill Murray. Goldthwait had been a rising star in the stand-up comedy world throughout the 1980s, and became a recognizable comedy star thanks to the popularity of the “Police Academy” movies, as well as “One Crazy Summer” and “Burglar.” Murray, meanwhile, had achieved enough success with 1984’s “Ghostbusters” that he could afford to take four years off, only appearing briefly in the 1986 film “Little Shop of Horrors....

Clips Round-Up: Kevin Dillon In The Wire Room & Darren Lynn Bousman In The Horror Crowd [Exclusive] Lionsgate By Max Evry/Aug. 30, 2022 1:09 pm EST (Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray, and theatrical releases you won’t see anywhere else!) In this edition: Wire Room The Horror Crowd Wire Room Our first clip is from Lionsgate’s new hard-hitting action flick “Wire Room,” and features Kevin Dillon of “The Blob” and “The Doors” fame as a Homeland Security agent squaring off (virtually) with an arms dealer played by Oliver Trevena....

David Duchovny Knew Just What Kind Of Character His Zoolander Cameo Needed To Be Paramount Pictures By Matt Rainis/Sept. 16, 2022 10:33 am EST Ben Stiller’s 2001 comedy “Zoolander” was an ode to hot people everywhere. The movie, which centers on Stiller as a dim-witted supermodel named Derek Zoolander who is brainwashed and trained to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malaysia in order to ensure that stricter child labor laws are not passed in the country, is one of the strongest comedies of its era, and perhaps Ben Stiller’s best work....