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Gears Of War Movie, Animated Series Headed To Netflix Epic Games By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 7, 2022 2:48 pm EST After years in and out of development hell, it sounds like the much-loved “Gears of War” video game franchise may actually be making the jump from your gaming console to your Netflix home page. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming giant is set to tackle not one but two adaptations of the massively popular series, which currently includes five main games plus several spin-offs....

For one thing, it’s the outfits HBO A quick scroll on social media shows that fans of “The White Lotus” season 2 found Portia’s, erm, questionable taste in fashion particularly hateable. Haley Lu Richardson was costumed head-to-toe in mismatched microtrends and looked like the past five years of Instagram dopamine-dressing ada threw up on her. According to Richardson, this was a totally intentional move, down to Portia’s very last airport look....

Here’s Why HBO Max Canceled Minx After One Season Katrina Marcinowski / HBO Max By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 13, 2022 11:11 am EST HBO Max’s “Minx” is no more. Variety reports that the 1970s-set comedy series about members of a company working to publish the first feminist porn magazine has been cancelled, despite already receiving a season 2 renewal in May 2022. In fact, according to Variety’s sources, “Minx” was nearing an end on second season production, meaning it now joins a small group of recent series — including the TBS comedy “Chad” and the excellent Netflix show “GLOW” — whose renewals have been reversed after the cast and crew has already started working on the next season....

‘Capturing a real environment’ Universal Pictures Though Howard said that they didn’t use “similar shooting techniques” in both films, he did speak about how they got the “Apollo 13” shots, and the way in which this prepared him to shoot “Thirteen Lives.” Howard explained what it was like shooting the weightless scenes in space: " … when we shot the weightlessness in Apollo 13, we were actually in an airplane, nicknamed The Vomit Comet, which flies parabolas out over the Gulf of Mexico....

Acting capsules DreamWorks Pictures As one might intuit, Crowe has a deep, abiding affection for pop music. This bears itself out on his films’ oft-amazing soundtracks. It seems that on “Almost Famous,” Crowe would relay direction to his actors in the form of his favorite songs. Fugit recalls that Crowe seemed to grow antsy whenever a scene began to feel too structured and would start interrupting to retain a certain degree of naturalness....

How Ryan Coogler Intends To Introduce Ironheart In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Target/Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 20, 2022 10:11 pm EST “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is introducing two new major characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Namor (Tenoch Huerta), who will bring mutants into the MCU, and Riri Williams a.k.a. Ironheart, played by Dominique Thorne, whose two film credits prior to this are “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Judas and the Black Messiah....

How Spiderhead’s Writers Brought A Bit Of Deadpool And Zombieland Into The Movie Netflix By Christian Gainey/July 6, 2022 2:53 pm EST Netflix’s “Spiderhead” focuses on a top secret facility where convicted felons volunteer for drug trials to escape time in a traditional prison. The film offers a roller coaster ride of emotions thanks to tactless comments, awkward dancing, and handy dandy MobiPacks provided by Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth). Abnesti is the villain of the film, a psychopath who gets off on manipulating emotions and commanding obedience, but that doesn’t mean he can’t bring a little humor to the story....

Gothika Warner Bros. / Columbia Pictures In 2002, Berry starred in Mathieu Kassovitz’s “Gothika,” a gloriously overproduced hunk of early-2000s cheese. In it, Berry plays a psychiatrist who is knocked out in a car wreck, and awakens to find herself imprisoned in the very clinic where she works. Her colleagues inform her that her husband was the victim of an axe murder, and that she is the prime suspect. She has no memory of this....

It Took An Army Of ‘Wranglers’ To Pull Off The Blob Remake’s Monster Effects TriStar Pictures By Anya Stanley/Nov. 26, 2022 7:00 pm EST Chuck Russell’s 1988 sci-fi/horror remake “The Blob” features an enormous, all-consuming rosy mass making its way to the fictional small American town of Arborville, California. Naturally, a lot of people are plunged into its gelatinous maw, and the result isn’t pretty. Like Irvin Yeaworth’s 1958 original, the adults are feckless and it’s up to the youths to save the day — except this time, no one is trying to convince us that a nearly-30 Steve McQueen is a cherubic high schooler....

Lady Chatterley’s Lover Review: A Passionate Breath Of Fresh Air Into The Lungs Of A Classic Netflix By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 30, 2022 12:00 pm EST A film about unbridled passion should be covered in just that, unbridled passion. I’m talking casting, production design, direction, score, the works. I want to feel swept up in the magic of the love being born on screen, and in order to really feel taken on a wild ride by a romantic period drama, all of those elements really need to be in play....

Marvel’s Fantastic Four Movie Finds Its Writers In Jeff Kaplan And Ian Springer Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 21, 2022 4:34 pm EST Apologies to anyone who has to find out this way, but you have not, in fact, been chosen to write the script for Marvel Studios’ “Fantastic Four.” Well, maybe you have, but only if your name happens to be either Jeff Kaplan or Ian Springer. The rest of us will have to content ourselves with simply reading about Kevin Feige’s latest choice(s) to fill out the creative team for Marvel’s first family....

Robin Williams Saw Mrs. Doubtfire As Much More Than A Cross-Dressing Comedy By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 19, 2022 6:00 am EST To those of us that love it, the 1993 dramedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” is a touchstone and a classic. It’s pure nostalgia fuel, and it certainly reminds me of a simpler time in my own childhood. In the same breath, the film’s perfect balance of comedy and drama was the perfect vehicle through which to tell a really heart-wrenching story, and made everything about the movie—from the characters to the punchlines to the incredible makeup work—that much more memorable....

Rosaline trailer Look, Rosaline has every right to be cheesed off by the whole situation. Especially when looking at Shakespeare’s text, Romeo never had the common decency to tell Rosaline what was going on! Hopefully, she doesn’t have to endure any Elizabethan-era ghosting in this movie, but considering we see her hiding behind the bushes during the famous “balcony scene,” there’s a good chance Romeo left the poor girl on read....

Severance Took Influence From The Matrix And Many Other Classic ’90s Films [Comic-Con] Apple TV+ By Joshua Meyer/July 21, 2022 9:57 pm EST There have been many movies and TV shows that showed the perspective of office workers trapped in a stultifying cubicle existence, but “Severance” managed to make it feel fresh again by adding a sci-fi twist and drawing inspiration from some of the greats. The series is coming off 14 recent Emmy nominations for its first season, and we’ve heard about some of its influences already....

Welcome Back, Dr. Loomis Universal In “Halloween Kills,” director David Gordon Green briefly takes us back to the immediate aftermath of the first “Halloween” in 1978. This enables Green to (mostly) recreate John Carpenter’s shooting style. It also means that Dr. Loomis, sworn enemy of Michael Myers, gets to briefly appear. Donald Pleasence famously portrayed Loomis in “Halloween,” and many of the sequels that followed. But Pleasence also died in 1995....

The Last Time (2006) Element Films A lesser-known film from the middle stage of Keaton’s career, “The Last Time” is a middling, peculiar film that still showcases a strong performance from Keaton, who stars as Ted Riker, a successful New York salesman who seemingly has it all. Ted’s life becomes more complex when his company hires Jamie (Brendan Fraser), a young, green Midwesterner who can’t make a sale. Ted takes Jamie under his wing, but his mentorship doesn’t prevent Jamie from falling to the worst of his own depressive instincts....

The Franchise: Everything We Know So Far About HBO’s Superhero Movie-Making Series From The Creator Of Veep HBO By Mike Shutt/Aug. 8, 2022 6:31 pm EST While the future of HBO Max has been thrown into absolute chaos over the last week or so, HBO proper continues to march forward with programming that rarely seems to misfire. Even if a show ends up being a dud, HBO has found a way to eventize television watching in a way no other platform has been able to do in the streaming era....

O Christmas Groot, how lovely are your branches Follow the Guardians and their pals learn about the true meaning of Christmas by searching for the legendary Kevin Bacon. Yes, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” holiday special is bringing everything full circle by having the Guardians try to cheer up Peter Quill (Pratt), who is gloomy after the loss of Gamora, by giving him a gift of his favorite person in the galaxy: Kevin Bacon....

The House Of The Dragon Performance That George R.R. Martin Thinks Improved Upon His Work In A Major Way HBO By Matt Rainis/Oct. 12, 2022 12:26 pm EST Whenever a popular book series gets a television or film adaptation, certain debates are bound to occur. There will be those who loved the books and believe that anything the adaptation changes from the original texts is awful blasphemy. There will be those who believe that the on-screen version thoroughly improved upon the source material....

The Midnight Club Stars One Of The Best Final Girls In Horror Movie History Eike Schroter/Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 11, 2022 12:20 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “The Midnight Club.” “The Midnight Club” hit Netflix over the weekend, and the new horror series features more than just the many familiar faces of past Mike Flanagan works. On the cast list, nestled between Flanaverse favorites like Rahul Kohli and Henry Thomas and talented up-and-comers like Ruth Codd, is one of the best scream queens of all time: actor, producer, and special makeup effects coordinator Heather Langenkamp....