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The Daily Stream: DimLand Is The Perfect Exploration Of Why Growing Up Sucks For Melancholy Millennials Gravitas Ventures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 16, 2022 11:00 am 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: “DimLand” Where You Can Stream It: Tubi, Paramount+ The Pitch: After years of directing short films and music videos for artists like Noname, Saba, and Chance the Rapper, Peter Collins Campbell made his feature directorial debut with the unsettling and deeply moving independent film “DimLand....

People ain’t cargo, mate Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Unsurprisingly, executives at Disney weren’t initially fans of Depp’s portrayal of Sparrow as a sort of constantly drunken rogue. It makes sense that Sparrow ended up the film’s breakout character, because film executives have awful instincts. But even being proven wrong, it would make sense that a scene like this deleted scene was added to try to assuage the company’s fears of having a bad role model lead their movie....

The Poster For Chucky Season 2 Is Loaded With Easter Eggs SyFy By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 14, 2022 10:21 pm EST You just can’t keep a Good Guy down. Though momentarily interrupted by molten plastic, shotgun blasts, and an OSHA-violating carnival fan, Chucky has managed to survive seven feature films, a surprisingly awesome remake, and a television series entering its second season. The USA and SyFy co-production from “Chucky” creator Don Mancini has been pulling double duty as it follows a new set of characters, while also building upon the momentous events from “Cult of Chucky....

Tim And Eric Had A Hilarious Method For Convincing Bob Odenkirk To Work With Them Adult Swim By Joe Roberts/Nov. 22, 2022 6:44 pm EST Believe it or not, before Bob Odenkirk became mega-famous as Saul Goodman on “Better Call Saul” or an older, gruffer version of John Wick in “Nobody,” he had quite a career in comedy. In fact, the actor, who is gearing up for his new series “Straight Man,” won a couple of Emmys for his writing on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Ben Stiller Show....

Why Doug Jones Thought He Was Going To Ruin Pan’s Labyrinth Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/Dec. 8, 2022 4:56 pm EST From the moment the Faun appears in Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 fairy tale “Pan’s Labyrinth,” it’s hard to buy that there’s a human underneath the latex. Set in the early Francoist days of 1944 Spain, the story blends the real and the mythic for its young protagonist Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), and the Faun, played by veteran actor Doug Jones, may or may not be her ally....

Why Kevin Smith’s Fletch Movie Starring Ben Affleck Fell Apart Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/Aug. 30, 2022 4:19 pm EST The first of author Gregory McDonald’s “Fletch” novels was published in 1974. The title character of the McDonald’s nine books was Irwin Maurice Fletcher, an ex-Marine investigative journalist with a penchant for disguises. Fletch is a bit of a slovenly cad, and he is constantly outrunning attorneys who seek alimony payments from various ex-wives....

Working With Bette Davis Was A Nerve-Wracking Ordeal For Director Ron Howard NBC By Jeremy Smith/Oct. 31, 2022 7:02 pm EST Steven Spielberg famously got his start as a director via the trial by fire of guiding Joan Crawford through the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery.” The screen diva put him through his paces but good, but the filmmaker hung in there, likening the experience to “pitching to Hank Aaron your first time in the game....

Andor Episode 8 Hints At An Intriguing Detail About Vel Sartha’s Past Disney+ By Marcos Melendez/Oct. 26, 2022 4:08 pm EST Spoilers follow for the eigth episode of “Andor.” Since its titular character was thrust into the rebellion at the start of the season, “Andor” has explored the resistance movement in a very personal fashion, unlike any other “Star Wars” project. In much of the film series, the concept of a rebel seemed more like an overarching label than a full roster of multifaceted characters with their own past and motivations....

Casting Amy’s Futurama Voice Actor Caused Some Major Changes To The Character By Devin Meenan/July 31, 2022 1:43 pm EST An actor’s performance can change how a character is written — even when that performance is coming from inside a recording booth. Lauren Tom, the voice of Amy Wong on “Futurama,” is one such performance. No space travel show is complete without an engineer character, and it seems that early in development, Amy was supposed to be that character on “Futurama....

Christopher Nolan’s Biggest Challenge On Oppenheimer Was Creating A Nuclear Detonation With No CGI Universal By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 12, 2022 1:15 pm EST Not to start everybody’s Monday off on the worst possible note, but I have prepared a theoretical math equation for the class. The unstoppable force of Hollywood’s most practical effects-obsessed filmmaker meets the immovable object of history’s most infamous, horrific, and certainly not very film-friendly subject matter. Who wins?...

‘She was like a mannequin’ NBC At Vulture Fest 2019, Harmon and the cast of “Community” reunited to discuss the legacy of the series — as well as its most divisive characters. When asked about the elements of “Community” that changed the most between the pilot and the series, Harmon noted that Britta was definitely the most changed character: “Because Britta’s character in particular, it was such a — and all props to my colleagues — but it was such a straight dude, like, kind of version of a girl as a carrot, you know, for the male protagonist....

Diamonds Are Forever’s Las Vegas Setting Called For A Different Kind Of James Bond Script United Artists By Demetra Nikolakakis/Oct. 29, 2022 4:00 pm EST Even from the first few minutes of “Diamonds Are Forever,” it’s pretty clear that the writing is a little different than past James Bond films. The introduction races along at a breakneck pace with a new one-two-punch dynamism. Sure, it’s no “this never happened to the other fellow,” a top-tier opening gag from George Lazenby’s stint as Bond, but the beginning of “Diamonds Are Forever” is full of promise....

Stream Thor: Love and Thunder on Disney+ Day Marvel Studios Disney+ Day 2022 is taking place on Thursday, September 8, 2022, meaning that is the day that you can officially stream “Thor: Love and Thunder.” It will be included with a standard subscription to the service, meaning that you won’t have to pay any extra to watch it at that time. Previously, Disney had released some movies like “Black Widow” through something known as Disney+ Premier Access, which required an additional fee in the $30 range to watch these movies when they were first made available....

How Danny Boyle Immersed The Cast Of Sunshine Into Its World By Lee Adams/Dec. 1, 2022 11:41 am EST If Danny Boyle stopped making movies after “Trainspotting,” he would have already earned his spot as one of the most influential British directors of all time. Since then, he has developed a reputation as something of a national treasure, winning an Oscar for “Slumdog Millionaire” and overseeing the quirky opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London....

John Hughes Couldn’t Secure A Key Component For His Miracle On 34th Street Remake 20th Century Studios By Matthew Bilodeau/Dec. 1, 2022 11:48 am EST The spirit of Santa Claus has been uplifted through actors like Ed Asner (“Elf”), Kurt Russell (“The Christmas Chronicles”), and Tim Allen (“The Santa Clause”), but few come as close to capturing the inherent kindness of Edmund Gwenn in “Miracle on 34th Street.” When talks of a “Miracle on 34th Street” remake were coming through the pipelines, I imagine it must have been near impossible to think of anyone who could recapture the same magic as Gwenn, especially since it landed the actor an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor....

Sean Connery Took The Long Road To The World Of Acting United Artists By Joe Roberts/Nov. 26, 2022 11:58 pm EST It’s a tale as old as time — or at least as old as Hollywood. An actor gets cast in a role that comes to define, even haunt, them as they traverse the perilous landscape of the movie business. They scavenge for roles that due to their unfortunate type-casting continue to elude them until they just give up and become like a vet or get a Masters in Business Admin or something....

Taika Waititi And Tessa Thompson Point Out A Strange Mistake In Thor: Love & Thunder Marvel Studios By Mike Shutt/July 11, 2022 4:40 pm EST The old adage about moviemaking is that you write the movie three times: in the script, during the shoot, and in the edit. Making the movie that you exactly set out to make when you signed up for a project rarely occurs. Sure, there are similarities, but filmmaking requires constant evolution based on casting, locations, lighting, time, light, and a host of other factors....

The 10 Coolest Moments From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Marvel Studios By Margaret David/Nov. 14, 2022 3:45 pm EST We go to see most Marvel movies because we know they’ll deliver a good time, but “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has to travel a more difficult road. It has to deliver a blockbuster spectacle while helping us mourn the loss of Chadwick Boseman, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s beloved Black Panther, who died in 2020....

Tina’s final nightmare (A Nightmare on Elm Street) New Line Cinema/YouTube There are few terrors that still hold up decades later like Tina’s (Amanda Wyss) death in Wes Craven’s original 1984 “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” The dream and emotional deterioration surrounding the tilting bedroom scene make it even more terrifying. As the first victim, we only get a glimpse into her backstory and character, but we do know she had a potentially rough home life, leading her to run into Rod’s arms....

The Daily Stream: King Of The Hill Is A Sweetly Funny Slice Of Animated Americana (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: “King of the Hill” Where you can stream it: Hulu The Pitch: There are quite a few working class animated TV families, the descendants of “The Simpsons” and live-action sitcoms like “All in the Family....