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Anjelica Huston Is Officially Joining Ballerina, The Ana De Armas-Led John Wick Spin-Off Lionsgate By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 21, 2022 5:29 pm EST “John Wick” has always felt like a universe that’s too big for a single set of films. One of the coolest things about the first film is how it not only told a very thrilling story of a former top assassin getting back into the game to avenge his wife and dog, but it also introduced this vast mythology for an assassin’s league with their own structure, rules, and traditions....

Barbara Stanwyck Thought Double Indemnity Would Ruin Her Career Paramount Pictures By Andrew Housman/Aug. 11, 2022 3:38 pm EST “Double Indemnity” is a landmark of cinema, helping to introduce gray shades of morality through film noir in a Hays Code-ruled Hollywood. The film further bolstered the already successful career of the legendary Barbara Stanwyck, who was celebrated for both her dramatic and comedic chops, becoming the highest-paid actress in the country....

Blonde Director Andrew Dominik Kept Ana De Armas From Showing One Specific Emotion As Marilyn Monroe Netflix By Shae Sennett/Sept. 23, 2022 3:24 pm EST How did Ana de Armas manage to channel Hollywood’s most iconic starlet in “Blonde,” Netflix’s new movie about Ana de Armas? The actress is known for her roles in a variety of films, from the murder mystery “Knives Out,” where she plays characters with a knack for concealment, to a recent Bond girl in “No Time to Die....

Love persisting Marvel Studios As part of their 2022 Women of Power series, Variety recently profiled Elizabeth Olsen and her path from indie darling to Earth’s Mightiest Hero. The outlet interviewed Feige for the article and he discussed working with Olsen on various Marvel Studios projects. However, he also talked about the future of the Scarlet Witch in the MCU. In a typical “I know something you don’t know” fashion, he simply points out that we didn’t actually see Wanda Maximoff die with our own eyes....

Darren Aronofsky Had To Learn To Handle Rejection While Casting Requiem For A Dream Artisan Entertainment By Travis Yates/Aug. 18, 2022 5:45 pm EST Before he was one of Hollywood’s most daring, innovative filmmakers, Darren Aronofsky was just another aspiring director in film school. While in college, the ambitious Aronofsky fostered a relationship with author Hubert Selby, Jr, his literary hero. After adapting one of Selby’s short stories in college, the director made his Hollywood debut with the 1998 film “Pi....

DC League Of Super-Pets Review: A Half-Good Boy Of A Movie Warner Bros. Discovery By Josh Spiegel/July 26, 2022 12:00 pm EST We’re well past the point of oversaturation for the presence of superheroes on film. In the mid-2000s in the world of Warner Bros., there was a version of Batman played by Christian Bale and a version of Superman played by Brandon Routh, and Marvel was just beginning to pursue its own cinematic universe, a large gamble to say the least....

‘Spielbergian energy’ Pine said of the energy of the film: “There’s a — I guess I would kind of call it — it’s like a Spielbergian energy to it. It’s the films that I grew up with in the ’80s. It just feels open, light, and buoyant, and your job is to — like good improv, just kind of keep it alive — keep the energy and music of the scene alive … And I like that kind of filmmaking, and it makes for a nice energy on set, because you’re not trying to fix all of the world’s woes, the deep sadness or whatever....

The Menu hits digital and Blu-Ray in January Searchlight Pictures “The Menu” is set for a digital release on January 3, 2023, with a Blu-Ray and DVD combo pack release set to follow two weeks later. The digital version of the film will be here just in time to start the new year off with a wild first watch, but the physical release will include some promising-sounding bonus features that may be worth the wait....

How Steve Martin Came Up With One Of The Jerk’s Best Quotes Universal Pictures By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 31, 2022 3:03 pm EST Over the years, there have been countless ways through clever sayings to let someone know that they’re stupid. “If dumb was dirt, you would be an acre” is a personal favorite. The origins of these sayings usually date back to frontier humor or military jokes to keep morale up among the troops....

How Stranger Things Season 4 Went Running Up That Hill With A Mix Of VFX And Real Sets Netflix By Shae Sennett/July 6, 2022 8:56 pm EST A lot of directors rely on the robust realism of digital effects to create their universes. The downside of constructing the set in post-production is that it requires the cast to interact primarily with green screens. The “Stranger Things 4” crew chose to use a hybrid of practical and digital effects instead, giving the actors something material to work with....

How Titans Season 4 Will Change Tones From Previous Seasons HBO Max By Marcos Melendez/Oct. 21, 2022 11:34 am EST In its upcoming fourth season, the DC Comics series “Titans” looks to change the scenery from the dark and gritty nature of Gotham City. Instead of lurking in the shadows of Gotham, the Titans move their efforts to a much brighter, lively location within the DC Universe: Metropolis. There are a few story reasons for this (Lex Luthor, Cult of Blood, etc....

Karl Urban Struck A Careful Balance When It Came To Playing Star Trek’s Bones Paramount Pictures By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Aug. 21, 2022 10:00 pm EST JJ Abrams’ “Star Trek” reboots were a bold and largely successful attempt to bring the franchise back into mainstream relevancy, reimagining the classic sci-fi series as action/adventure blockbusters. Naturally, for a franchise with one of the oldest fandoms, many people were nervous at the prospect of not only putting a new spin on this universe, but reintroducing these legacy characters with different faces....

Marvel’s Kevin Feige Reached Out To Batgirl’s Directors After The Film’s Cancellation Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 5, 2022 11:21 am EST Here’s an absolutely wild hypothetical that would simply be too silly to ever come true: A major studio hires a talented and fast-rising director duo for their next superhero movie, both of whom are coming off a celebrated sequel to a hit action franchise and whose ability to break through into the highest level of the industry stands as an important win for diversity....

Mike Flanagan Says Fall Of The House Of Usher Adaptation Is Unlike Anything He’s Ever Done Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 12, 2022 5:14 pm EST There are few things more fun than watching an expert horror storyteller get down with their bad side. Think Sam Raimi subjecting poor Alison Lohman to all manner of gross, gooey torment in “Drag Me to Hell” or James Wan writing his love letter to the Giallo genre in big bloody splashes with “Malignant....

Paul Verhoeven Wishes He’d Made Showgirls More Like Basic Instinct Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Nov. 14, 2022 8:00 am EST The lifecycle of Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 film “Showgirls” is fascinating. It was to be the widest release ever given to a film rated NC-17, a rating that caused a great deal of chatter. Its star, Elizabeth Berkley, was best known at the time for playing the straightlaced Jessie on the kid-friendly sitcom “Saved by the Bell,” so her presence in an all-nude, sex-soaked Las Vegas melodrama raised a few eyebrows....

Who wants to go back to high school? 20th Television Speaking to the Toronto Star in 2008 (long before “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon’s fall from grace), Ryan Reynolds didn’t seem to have any regrets about his decision. “I love [‘Buffy’] and I loved Joss Whedon … but my biggest concern was that I didn’t want to play a guy in high school,” he revealed. “I had just come out of high school and it was f****** awful....

Star Wars Bits: Andor, Regal Robot’s Weequay, BB-8, The Mandalorian, Tales Of The Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, And More! Lucasfilm By Adam Frazier/Sept. 23, 2022 8:00 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: “Andor,” Nothin’ But “Andor”! Regal Robot’s Weequay Concept Maquette Replica An Amazing BB-8 Fan Build Trailer Reactions for “Tales of the Jedi” and “The Mandalorian” Season 3 And More! Andor! Nothin’ but Andor! The first three episodes of “Andor” are now available on Disney+....

Taika Waititi Would Direct Thor 5 On One Condition Marvel Studios By Jeff Ewing/July 11, 2022 3:43 pm EST Taita Waititi’s newest Thor entry “Thor: Love and Thunder” has finally crossed the Bifrost into our theaters. The film follows our favorite Asgardian thunder god as he navigates the return of his divine ex-love Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) alongside the threatening emergence of the deity-destroying baddie Gorr the God-Butcher (Christian Bale). The film sees Gorr kidnap Asgardian children in an effort to draw out Thor, and the latter must join with Jane Foster’s Mighty Thor, Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and Korg (Waititi himself) to thwart Gorr’s god genocide....

The 15 Best Steve Martin Movies, Ranked Hulu By Molly Turner/Nov. 5, 2022 10:15 am EST Steve Martin is one of Hollywood’s most beloved and iconic comedy stars. With over fifty years in the business, Martin has grown from a stand-up comic and “Saturday Night Live” regular to a respected comedy writer and actor. After breaking out to wider mainstream audiences with 1979’s “The Jerk,” Martin became a bonafide movie star....

The Black Panther Films Do Have A Villain — Just Not The Kind You Think Marvel/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By Lyvie Scott/Nov. 21, 2022 6:00 pm EST “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” director Ryan Coogler doesn’t see his villains as villains at all, even if characters like Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) and Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) definitely make things difficult for the good guys in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Serious conflict — and all-out war — manifests between these characters and the Black Panther, whether it be King T’Challa (the late Chadwick Boseman) in Coogler’s first film or Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright) in “Wakanda Forever....