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A cast with some hard-earned experience United Artists The team on “The Great Escape” included veterans from multiple countries and both sides of the war, which probably made for some pretty interesting on-set conversations. British actor Pleasance served in the Royal Air Force and had his plane shot down over occupied France, where he was taken into custody and placed in Stalag Luft 1, a German POW camp. On the other end, Messemer, who played the anti-Nazi German officer Colonel Von Luger, was a former German soldier who had been taken captive in Russia and was a POW in a Russian camp before escaping and walking hundreds of miles across frozen tundra to get back to his home nation....

The real Ip Man vs the movies Well Go USA Ip Man was born in 1893 and grew up in Foshan, in Guangdong province, China. After learning Wing Chun, he went on to become a member of the Kuomintang political party, which opposed the Chinese Communist party. When the CCP won the Chinese Civil War and descended on Foshan in 1949, Ip Man escaped to Hong Kong, then under British control, where he became one of the first public practitioners of Wing Chun....

The Problem With Jon Stewart Season 2 Trailer: More America, More Problems Apple TV+ By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 4, 2022 9:57 pm EST When Jon Stewart left “The Daily Show” in 2015, many feared that we had lost one of the strongest political voices in entertainment, just as we were heading into one of the most tumultuous presidential administrations in history. Trevor Noah stepped up to the position and proved to be a more than worthy successor for the following seven years, but recently announced his own departure from the Comedy Central series....

We didn’t expect this The Roku Channel While Radcliffe is definitely most well known for his time as Harry Potter, he’s also done some quality work in comedies and is a student of the game, with his performance in 2022’s “The Lost City” being inspired in part by legendary comedic actor Tim Curry. Radcliffe has proven his humor chops in the past, so it makes sense why Appel and Yankovic gravitated toward him....

Why Animal Man Is The Next DC Superhero Who Deserves A Movie DC Comics By Jamie Gerber/Nov. 12, 2022 2:30 pm EST The DC Universe has gone through some major upheaval of late. Some issues can be credited to the merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery, while other problems have existed for a while. Between shelving the nearly-completed “Batgirl” and the continually-troubled production of “The Flash,” not to mention the spotty quality of DC movies overall — read our review of “Black Adam” here — Warner Bros....

It had been tried before ABC The promise of 3D television has always been purely a gimmick, and it didn’t take long after its arrival for producers to give 3D a shot. In 1953, ABC aired the first 3D broadcast when a 3D version of the sci-fi series “Space Patrol” aired live on the Los Angeles affiliate KECA-TV in conjunction with the annual National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters meeting....

We’ve been trying to reach you about your planet’s exposed Celestial Marvel Studios Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that right under the Wolverine tease is an article headline that reads, “Why is there a giant statue of a man sticking out of the ocean,” addressing the events of “Eternals.” In case you’ve forgotten, that film’s climax sees the super team preventing the ancient Celestial Tiamut from obliterating the planet. The only issue is that it’s just sitting there above the surface of the ocean with no plan in place on what to do about it....

Andor trailer Well, how was that? I’ll leave it to other hard-working Ugnaughts to provide a breakdown of this trailer, and instead just mention that showrunner Tony Gilroy — who was famously brought in to touch up the script of “Rogue One,” act as second-unit director for reshoots, and help salvage the ending in the editing room — has described “Andor” as a project with “a huge, orchestral, Dickensian ensemble cast....

Bill Murray Always Had A Problem With The Way Scrooged Was Filmed Paramount Pictures By J. Gabriel Ware/Nov. 27, 2022 3:00 pm EST The 1988 Christmas fantasy film “Scrooged” takes us on a wild and dark ride with Frank Cross, a mean-spirited, anti-Christmas TV executive who oversees a live production of — guess what? — “A Christmas Carol,” the classic Charles Dickens novella that the movie itself is based on. “Scrooged” itself is, in some ways, one of those overlooked holiday movies....

Cate Blanchett Actually Conducted An Orchestra In Preparation For Tar Focus Features By Mike Shutt/Oct. 4, 2022 8:57 pm EST When you are an actor, you end up learning how to do a bunch of different things you never thought you would ever learn. Well, if you’re a committed actor, that is. Actors learn how to ride horses, play instruments, make clothes, build furniture, etc. Whatever the role calls for, they put in the time and effort to research and train to be able to passably simulate them on screen....

Chris Evans Wanted To Go The ‘Full Nine Yards’ With His Role In The Gray Man Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 14, 2022 12:12 pm EST Joe and Anthony Russo’s “The Gray Man” is just around the corner, featuring two characters going head to head in a life-or-death situation: former CIA agent and mercenary Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling) and his formidable ex-colleague turned villain, Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans). The plot of the film is supposed to follow the structure of a classic revenge tale, with Gentry embarking on a globe-spanning mission....

Oscar Bluth 20th Century Television Despite looking just like his identical twin brother, George (Jeffrey Tambor), Oscar Bluth (also Jeffrey Tambor) lives his life very differently, and it’s easy to tell the pair apart thanks to Oscar’s long flowing locks. Oscar is a laid-back marijuana smoker, who according to Michael, has lived his life off of handouts. Like his brother, he’s also in love with Lucille (Jessica Walter), and the two had a secret relationship during Lucille and George’s marriage....

Every Main Character In Nope Ranked Worst To Best Universal Pictures By Bee Delores/July 25, 2022 2:04 pm EST Original horror is on a hot streak. On the heels of Scott Derrickson’s “The Black Phone” which vaulted over the $100 million mark in global box office receipts, Jordan Peele’s third feature film, “Nope,” snatched $44 million in its opening weekend, making it the highest-grossing debut for an original horror film since his own “Us” in 2019....

First Images From Hulu’s Hellraiser Reboot Reveal Jamie Clayton As The New Pinhead Entertainment Film Distributors By Erin Brady/Sept. 1, 2022 1:02 pm EST We have such sights to show you. The first proper details about director David Bruckner’s upcoming “Hellraiser” reboot have arrived, and they all look very interesting. The reboot, which will arrive on Hulu on October 7, is the first major entry in the franchise since 1996’s “Hellraiser: Bloodline,” as the various sequels that followed that film were relegated to direct-to-video releases....

Did Netflix fail to market First Kill? Netflix During her chat with Variety, Felicia D. Henderson confirmed that the small completion rates were a major factor in the series cancelation. “When I got the call to tell me they weren’t renewing the show because the completion rate wasn’t high enough, of course, I was very disappointed,” Henderson said. “What showrunner wouldn’t be? I’d been told a couple of weeks ago that they were hoping completion would get higher....

James Stewart’s Job In Rear Window And Vertigo Was To ‘Do Nothing Well’ Paramount Pictures By Joe Roberts/Dec. 26, 2022 4:00 pm EST After James Cameron cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in “Titanic,” the young actor approached Cameron and wanted to make some changes to the script. Specifically, he thought his character should have “some affliction,” which would allow him to really get stuck into the role. Cameron’s response was characteristically curt: “You gotta learn how to hold the center and not have all that stuff, this isn’t ‘Richard III....

The Dark Deco style of Batman: The Animated Series Warner Bros. During development for “Batman: The Animated Series,” Bruce Timm coined the term “Dark Deco.” It was a neat way to describe the decidedly grim yet elegant tone that both he and Radomski were intent on maintaining for their vision of the Dark Knight — combining, as it does, the show’s Art Deco influence with a shadow-heavy style borrowed from German expressionism and film noir....

There’s no place like home, there’s no place but home A24 Even though “Pearl” isn’t paying homage to vintage ’70s and ’80s slashers like “X” had done, it still features a similarly single-minded structure and economy of location. Set in 1918 on the same small-town Texas farm as in “X,” “Pearl” sees the titular young girl trapped in a near-squalid existence by her overbearing German immigrant mother, Ruth (Tandi Wright) and her invalid father (Matthew Sunderland)....

Predator’s Cast Wasn’t Faking Their Military Bona Fides In 1987’s action-horror flick “Predator,” Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a team of military commandos on a rescue mission in a Central America jungle, where they become the prey of a technologically advanced alien. The trained combatants don’t run into hiding — they wouldn’t have gotten very far anyway — but instead, they organize their own hunting expedition in pursuit of the creature....

Rick And Morty Season 6 Features Some Brilliant References To Horror Filmmaker John Carpenter Adult Swim By Bill Bria/Sept. 30, 2022 10:00 am EST “Rick and Morty” is a series that’s suffused with references to numerous films, TV shows, books, and other forms of pop culture. After all, the show itself began life as co-creator Justin Roiland’s skewed riff on “Back to the Future,” and co-creator Dan Harmon’s previous series as showrunner, “Community,” was continually pushing the envelope when it came to parodying and homaging films....