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The Mist Was Supposed To Contain More Practical Effects, But Time Wasn’t On The Movie’s Side [Exclusive] MGM By Mike Shutt/Nov. 21, 2022 12:33 pm EST Frank Darabont may have made his name on adaptations of Stephen King’s more sentimental works “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile,” but for my money, his greatest triumph with King’s oeuvre came with the down-and-dirty, depressing monster movie “The Mist” in 2007. The one-location potboiler harkens back to the frenzied allegorical creature features of decades past for a taught, tense time at the movies....

‘Branch Closing’ gives everyone a temporary window NBCUniversal The discussion of how the talking head scenes were framed came up again on a later episode of the “Office Ladies” podcast devoted to “Branch Closing.” Fisher reiterated that scenes filmed with the office in the background meant characters “didn’t really have a future. They were kind of stuck in the world of Dunder Mifflin.” Jim, on the other hand, with his persistent window backdrop, “had a future outside of this company” and “was going places....

There’s A Very Hitchcock Explanation For Alfred Hitchcock’s Handcuff Obsession The Criterion Channel By Shae Sennett/Oct. 13, 2022 10:19 am EST If you’re a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, you may have noticed a certain item heavily featured in his work: handcuffs. The filmmaker uses them for their symbolic poignancy and as a means of visual storytelling. They are an excellent device for the aesthetically refined delivery of important narrative information. They contribute to a scene’s suspense and feelings of entrapment and sometimes have the added bonus of sexual suggestion....

Monster Challenge and Ephraim and Dot Michael Giacchino With “Werewolf by Night,” Giacchino has now served as a director three times. His first effort was a 13-minute comedy short called “Monster Challenge” starring Patton Oswalt as himself. In the short, Oswalt has taken a job far away from his family on a Japanese game show. Amy Brenneman plays his wife and Olivia Allchin plays his daughter. The game show is a busy and confusing experience for Oswalt, who is asked to wear a kaiju costume....

Why Cary Grant Had To Wear His Own Suits In Movies Columbia Pictures By Lyvie Scott/Aug. 26, 2022 11:59 am EST The days of the debonair hunk are slowly drifting away — but even if that archetype disappears entirely, I’ve got a feeling that Cary Grant will remain a paragon of style. It was his classic, immaculately-tailored style that first coined the term “debonair” in the first place, and ever since, Grant has influenced swaths of fashion-forward film lovers....

Why Sidney Lumet Championed The Shift Away From Shooting Movies On Film THINKFilm By Witney Seibold/Aug. 31, 2022 8:37 pm EST At the end of 2011, the number of digital projectors in movie theaters officially surpassed the number of analog film projectors. This was the final step in a years-long technological revolution that had been raging for the better part of a decade. In the early 2000s, digital film — while looking grainy and amateurish at the time — was touted as the Next Big Thing, and many companies began to slowly make the shift....

‘The Forever Purge’ Ending Explained: Let’s Break Down The Grand “Finale” By Shania Russell/July 6, 2021 9:10 am EST This weekend, The Forever Purge blazed a bloody path to a theater near you. Just like the films that came before it, this installment of the Purge franchise is pure bloody chaos that ends with America up in flames. Except this time, the Purge sirens are no saving grace — crime continues to run rampant, with the country still ablaze....

10 Books To Read If You Love The Matrix Warner Bros. By Margaret David/Dec. 22, 2022 2:25 pm EST “The Matrix,” like all great stories, was built on some great inspirations. Its basal foundations can be daunting, involving some deep dives into Buddhist theology, philosophy, and the development of AI. The Wachowski sisters drew from three non-fiction grimoires, if you’ll pardon the term, to build their world of machine and man....

Black Sails Starz What are early 20th-century criminal organizations if not heirs to the proud and noble tradition of piracy? In that sense, you could say that “Black Sails” is sort of a prequel to “Peaky Blinders” (it also happens to be a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” but that’s neither here nor there). Set in the early 18th century, about two decades before the events of “Treasure Island,” “Black Sails” focuses on famed pirate Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his crew as they wage war on the many merchant ships of the economically prosperous West Indies while simultaneously trying to protect the pirate stronghold of New Providence Island....

Cardboard Cinema: LOTR, American Psycho, The World Series Of Board Games, And Zine Quest Free League Publishing By Matthew Monagle/Aug. 10, 2022 1:00 pm EST If you are a tabletop diehard with a little disposable income, then the months of July and August are something of a budgetary gauntlet. From Comic-Con in San Diego to Gen Con — the, uh, Comic-Con of tabletop games — in Indianapolis, these past two weeks have provided countless opportunities for you to spend money on travel and conference goodies....

Cheech & Chong Have A Cameo Role In The Muppets Mayhem [NYCC] Paramount Pictures By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 10, 2022 9:07 am EST Thanks to Disney+, the Muppets are returning with an all-new show called “The Muppets Mayhem.” This time, we’re following the Muppets’ resident rock stars Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem as they embark on an adventure to record their very first album. But just like any other Muppets production, this series from Adam F....

David Bruckner Doesn’t Want Fans Worrying About Canon While Watching Hulu’s Hellraiser 20th Century Studios By Witney Seibold/Sept. 21, 2022 5:59 pm EST Playing canonically fair with the “Hellraiser” film series is a tricky proposition. Although the first eight “Hellraiser” movies feature Doug Bradley as Pinhead, the franchise’s central monster, few of them seem to interconnect in any kind of meaningful way. Clive Barker’s original “Hellraiser” (1987) and Tony Randel’s “Hellbound: Hellraiser II” (1988) feature many members of the same cast and follow the same continuity, but after that, the series becomes a little hazy....

David Leitch Had A Tightrope To Walk While Directing Deadpool 2 20th Century Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 30, 2022 8:00 pm EST The “Deadpool” films were a production that came from a place of passion. The first “Deadpool” film fought tooth and nail to come to fruition. A few leaked demo reels later, director Tim Miller with star Ryan Reynolds brought a true-to-form R-rated “Deadpool” to audiences in 2016, quickly becoming one of the most successful R-rated films of all time....

Deadwood Showed Boardwalk Empire’s Creator What He Didn’t Want To Do HBO By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 17, 2022 2:03 pm EST Moviegoers and television viewers have proven time and time again that they will devour films and series based on real-life events. When done well, biopics and historical dramas can immerse people in radically different eras or fascinating workplaces, conveying in a tactile sense what it was like to be there or to be that person....

Where to see the Disney Animation: Immersive Experience Disney Animation Immersive Experience After the debut at Lighthouse ArtSpace Toronto in December, “Disney Animation: Immersive Experience” will tour to Cleveland, Nashville, Detroit, Denver, Boston, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and Columbus until the end of April 2023. The experience is currently in the process of scheduling additional cities, but have already announced that the tour will eventually make its way to Tokyo....

Doom Patrol Season 4 Teaser: The Killer Butts Are Back, And Now They Sing ‘Shipoopi’ HBO Max By Mike Shutt/Oct. 9, 2022 5:34 pm EST Things may be completely up in the air when it comes to Warner Bros., HBO Max, and DC, but one thing is for certain: “Doom Patrol” is coming back. Yes, the irreverent superhero show returns for a fourth season on December 8, 2022 on HBO Max, and a new teaser trailer has been released for all of the fans to get excited about....

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: The Ultimate Visual History Takes Us Through The History Of Spielberg’s Masterpiece [Exclusive] Universal Pictures By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 25, 2022 2:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” is the stuff of movie magic. Channeling his own childhood, Spielberg created one of his greatest films — the story of a lonely kid who befriends an alien. With his emotional, stirring, funny adventure, Spielberg conjured up nostalgia and created something often imitated but never duplicated....

Glass Onion Composer Nathan Johnson On Making The Knives Out Sequel’s Score ‘A Lot Bigger’ [Exclusive Interview] Netflix By Ernesto Valenzuela/Dec. 23, 2022 9:00 am EST With the exception of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” every Rian Johnson film released thus far has been scored by composer Nathan Johnson. As cousins, the two have collaborated on movies since they were children, giving Rian’s films an extra personal touch. From the found instrument-fueled sounds on their first feature-length collaboration, “Brick,” to the futuristic noir score for “Looper,” Nathan Johnson has helped to make the director’s films even more distinct than they already are....

A mirror image Warner Bros. In a 2017 interview with LA Weekly, Mann was asked directly about whether he would compare the dynamic between detectives and criminals to that between directors and their characters, touching on his philosophical view around the genre. He answered: “I’ve got a theory, which probably holds no water whatsoever, about why there’s so much genre content in media — meaning police stories, crime stories, so much of that....

‘I didn’t know whether I would have the opportunity to play it again’ Warner Bros. Pictures Cavill recently teased that his return to the role will tell an “enormously joyful” story, which just sounds delightful after some darker DC offerings. Cavil says in the video series: “It was something which I had to very gently hold onto in my heart, because I didn’t know whether I would have the opportunity to play it again … [But] the opportunity was very important to get again, and I’m very, very lucky and feel very privileged to have that opportunity now....