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‘A lot of the thrill is gone’ MPI Media Group This announcement isn’t entirely out of the blue. In an interview with Alec Baldwin livestreamed on Instagram earlier this year, Allen indicated that his retirement from filmmaking was imminent, pointing to the decline of the theatrical experience as the reason: “I’ll probably make at least one more movie. A lot of the thrill is gone. When I used to do a film it’d go into a movie house all across the country....

Anthony Mackie Had A Terrifying First Day Of Filming In The MCU Disney+ By Matt Rainis/Nov. 19, 2022 7:00 am EST The ubiquitous Marvel Cinematic Universe has reached a critical mass where it is almost unavoidable. Like a supermassive black hole, it’s going to keep absorbing every actor of repute until everybody has a part to play in the world of the Avengers. Because of this, nearly every actor worth their salt has been in a Marvel movie at some point or another by now....

Could The Illuminati Be Introduced To The Main MCU? Marvel Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 12, 2022 5:14 pm EST “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has made its way to Disney+ and, with it, an “Assembled” documentary detailing the making of the movie. Directed by Sam Raimi, “Multiverse of Madness” is a horror-tinged romp through a handful of alternate realities as Strange attempts to protect America Chavez from a crazed Scarlet Witch....

David Bruckner Tried To Get A Doug Bradley Cameo In Hulu’s Hellraiser New World Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 22, 2022 5:28 pm EST If the event you’ve ever played with a Rubix’s Cube and thought you’d prefer more of a challenge, then Jamie Clayton has quite the contraption to share with you. After a string of movies based on Clive Barker’s 1986 novella “The Hellbound Heart,” most of which aren’t that stellar, a reimagining of “Hellraiser” from director David Bruckner (“The Night House”) will be streaming exclusively on Hulu within the coming weeks....

Director Ron Underwood Thinks He Knows Why Tremors Has Had Such Staying Power Universal By Jeff Kelly/Nov. 17, 2022 10:31 am EST At its core, “Tremors” is a simple movie: a tiny town in the middle of the desert is terrorized by some prehistoric, man-eating worms that attack from under the ground. It’s a bit of a throwback to the classic 1950s monster movies like “Them!” and “Tarantula!” Our plucky townsfolk endure with surprisingly few casualties, and in the end, the hero gets the girl....

The Incredible Rampage Universal Pictures When we first meet Blonsky in “The Incredible Hulk,” he’s a Royal Marine in the British Armed Forces that Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (William Hurt) recruits to track down Bruce Banner (Edward Norton). After seeing the extent of Banner’s strength as the Hulk, Blonsky finds himself very interested in the brute force of his target. Where Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteered for the Super Soldier Program to do some good, Blonsky ultimately becomes one of Ross’ guinea pigs for his eternal mission against Banner....

Watch the Junji Ito Maniac Teaser What’s truly interesting about this series is what it will actually contain. According to the streaming platform, the show will be “a selection of 20 macabre masterpieces brimming with his original worldview and fascinating characters drawn in his stunning style, including popular titles such as ‘Hanging Balloon’ and fan-favorite characters Tomie and Souichi.” Based on this, we can make an educated guess that we will be seeing aspects from “Tomie,” one of Ito’s most popular series....

Let’s get some bigger guns Sony Pictures Releasing Mintz-Plasse had no experience handling guns, and was going to be required to fire blanks on camera. The scene in question sees Hader handing his pistol to Mintz-Plasse who takes it and confidently fires a few rounds into a flaming car. The training ended up being a larger experience than Mintz-Plasse expected, and he ended up firing off more than just hand guns....

Mick Jagger Had No Problem Playing A Villain For Freejack Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Dec. 25, 2022 8:00 pm EST Geoff Murphy’s 1992 sci-fi thriller “Freejack” has a fun premise. In the distant dystopian future of 2009, the ultra-wealthy can afford to hire special time-traveling agents called bonejackers to reach back in time and kidnap people the second before they are about to die. The wealthy then use futuristic technology to shunt their consciousnesses into the bodies of those they kidnapped....

National Treasure: Edge Of History Trailer: Meet A New Generation Of Treasure Hunters Disney+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 11, 2022 1:52 pm EST Harvey Keitel and Justin Bartha are back to help a new generation of adventurers in “National Treasure: Edge of History.” The Disney+ series is set to debut in December, and the first trailer was unveiled at D23 Expo this weekend. While it doesn’t look too much like the two movies that came before it, it’s still a lot going for it — like Catherine Zeta-Jones in a severe white-blonde wig talking about “the Daughters of the Plume Serpent....

Pitch Perfect: Bumper In Berlin Review: A Sweet Continuation Of The Pitch Perfect Universe Peacock By Barry Levitt/Nov. 23, 2022 2:30 pm EST Warm up those vocal cords and get your cups ready, because everyone’s favorite acapella franchise is back! “Pitch Perfect” captured the hearts and ears of a generation, following the Barden Bellas, a university acapella group with dreams of taking over the world through song. The film trilogy was a glorious story of female friendship in equal parts heartfelt emotion and gross-out humor....

Reese Witherspoon To Return For Election Sequel Tracy Flick Can’t Win At Paramount+ Paramount Pictures By Erin Brady/Dec. 8, 2022 1:24 pm EST “Election” is one of those classic movies that, unfortunately, get misinterpreted far too often. The number of times I’ve seen people try to argue that schoolteacher Jim (Matthew Broderick) isn’t portrayed as an obsessive creep, or that the film’s complex framing of high schooler Tracy (Reese Witherspoon) isn’t intentional is far too many to count....

Rob Zombie Did Not Have A Good Time Making His ‘Halloween’ Movies By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 18, 2019 4:30 pm EST Rob Zombie’s Halloween movies have their defenders, but I’m not one of them. And it sounds like Zombie disliked making the movies just as much as I disliked watching them. The filmmaker and Dragula enthusiast recently opened-up about the “miserable experience” of making his two Halloween movies. Zombie also revealed that he made a behind-the-scenes documentary highlighting the problems involved with Halloween, but it’s unlikely to ever see the light of day....

Two cynical characters witness something great Eli Adé/Marvel Studios In an interview with /Film’s Vanessa Armstrong, director and co-writer Ryan Coogler spoke about the moment that Okoye (Danai Gurira) sees the massive creatures for the first time, reacting in shock and attempting to relay the experience to a skeptical group that includes cocky warrior M’Baku (Winston Duke). Later, M’Baku himself is stunned by the sight of the whales, too. “The whole movie, Okoye is very cynical — our most cynical characters are probably her and M’Baku,” Coogler explained, “and it was always an inside joke for us to have those two be the ones that encounter the whales and just how crazy that is....

Sci-Fi Actors Who Did All Their Own Stunts Lucasfilm By Liam Gaughan/Aug. 29, 2022 1:26 pm EST Stunt coordinators and performers are an essential part of the film industry. Someone has to block, stage, and perform the larger-than-life stunts that make the “movie magic” happen! Computer-generated imagery can’t match the authenticity of the real thing. Even if special effects augment a sequence, it helps a scene’s believability if it’s (at least) partially shot with real stunts....

That Twister Sequel Has Found A Director In Minari’s Lee Isaac Chung Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 15, 2022 2:02 pm EST The upcoming sequel to 1996’s “Twister” may have found its director according to Deadline, and the filmmaker in talks is none other than Lee Isaac Chung, who helmed “Minari.” According to the outlet, the search for a director to head up the Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment-made film “Twisters” has been extensive, with the Academy Awards-nominated filmmaker currently in talks to take on the role....

The Daily Stream: Hey Arnold! Is A Surprisingly Mature Show About Living In The Big City Nickelodeon By Rafael Motamayor/July 30, 2022 12:00 pm 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 Series: “Hey Arnold!” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu, Paramount+ The Pitch: This Nickelodeon cartoon follows the adventures of Arnold, a fourth-grader living with his grandparents in an inner-city boarding house....

The True Stories That Inspired The League Of Their Own Series By Anya Stanley/Aug. 16, 2022 12:18 pm EST “Batter up, hear that call!” If you finished the lyric and launched right into the “Victory Song,” you might be a Rockford Peaches fan. The song and the team were featured in Penny Marshall’s 1992 hit sports movie “A League of Their Own,” which followed a pair of sisters into the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in 1943....

Threatening To Slap Larry David Got J.B. Smoove Cast In Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 3, 2022 5:00 pm EST J.B. Smoove was a rather late addition to the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” cast. He joined the show in its sixth season in 2007, by which time it was already a well-established hit with copious Emmy nominations. When he went in for his audition, Smoove had to make an impression, and he did it in a way that is probably not advisable outside a controlled improv setting....

Year Of The Vampire: 9 TV Miniseries And Standalone Episodes That Don’t Require An Eternal Bloody Commitment Warner Bros. Television By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 8, 2022 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) Unlike vampires themselves, the best stories arguably don’t go on indefinitely. Think about it: would you really want to keep watching the same vampire show (or any show), with no end in sight, for all eternity?...