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Daniel Craig Has No ‘Game Plan’ For His Post-James Bond Career Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Matthew Bilodeau/Nov. 17, 2022 1:15 pm EST “No Time to Die” couldn’t have made it more clear that Daniel Craig has hung his Walther PPK up for good. The mantle of James Bond, which Craig had held since 2006 with “Casino Royale,” is open to go to someone else, but that only gives the “Layer Cake” actor more of an opportunity to branch out even further....

Daniel Radcliffe Wants To Make A Key Part Of His Weird Al Performance Permanent The Roku Channel By Witney Seibold/Sept. 9, 2022 6:08 pm EST “Weird Al” Yankovic once gave a very strong opinion when it comes to accordions. On the “Ask Al” section of his website in March of 2000, Yankovic was asked if a 96-bass accordion was adequate. “Sure,” Yankovic replied, “a 96-bass accordion is enough … if you’re a WIMP!...

Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver’s Incest — The Ultimates 3 Marvel Comics An Ultron robot has wreaked havoc in the Ultimates’ lives to distract them in order to kill Wanda Lehnsherr/Scarlet Witch as part of a larger scheme. Wolverine meets with the Ultimates to tell them about his history with the Lehnsherr family: Some years earlier, Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto had recruited Wolverine to join his growing Brotherhood, and even tasked him with killing his son Pietro Lehnsherr/Quicksilver, who he thought was weak....

Even John Carpenter Thought Hostel Took Its Horror Too Far Lionsgate By Andrew Housman/Oct. 6, 2022 1:32 pm EST John Carpenter is a legend of the horror genre, blessing the world of cinema with the absolute classics like “Halloween” and “The Thing” and peppering in cult favorites like “The Fog” and “Prince of Darkness.” Somewhat surprisingly, the however, man who practically created the slasher movie and embraced groundbreaking gore effects is reportedly not a fan of “Hostel,” Eli Roth’s ultra violent horror film that became one of the cornerstones of the “torture porn” wave upon its premiere in 2005....

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) Warner Bros. Before we get to the main “Harry Potter” saga, we need to get the “Fantastic Beasts” movies out of the way. It’s dumbfounding that one of these came out in 2022 because the moment it was over, it was as if it had been obliviated. There’s nothing about it that leaves any kind of lasting impression. The wasted potential of what could have been a fun spin-off has been squandered by this trilogy (let’s hope there aren’t any more)....

F.A.R.M. System Shines A Light On The World Of Superhero Recruitment [Exclusive Preview] Top Shelf Productions By Ryan Scott/Nov. 8, 2022 8:00 am EST The world of superheroes is so often reduced to saving the world (or universe) from various threats. Small scale or big scale, it almost always comes down to the hero fighting the bad guy, with shades of gray in the middle. But what does the world look like if superheroes are real?...

George Miller Took A Page From The Buster Keaton Playbook For Mad Max: Fury Road Warner Bros. By Andrew Housman/Oct. 8, 2022 11:30 pm EST An age in which the use of CGI reigns supreme in Hollywood blockbusters means that audiences tend to be less impressed about the scale of imaginary worlds and the scope of action-packed battles, but “Mad Max: Fury Road” stands out as a milestone achievement in practical effects and visual storytelling....

Getting Back Into Picard’s Head Wasn’t A Problem For Patrick Stewart Paramount By Witney Seibold/July 23, 2022 11:30 pm EST Following the release of “Star Trek: Nemesis” in 2002, it appeared that “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was effectively at an end, and “Star Trek” in general was on a cultural wane. “Nemesis” notoriously didn’t gross well, opening to a paltry $18 million, on a $60 million budget, eventually only earning about $67 million worldwide....

‘We had to be extra careful from every conceivable safety point’ Galaxy International Releasing In the film, Jamie and her teenage foster sister, Rachel (Ellie Cornell), take shelter at the fortified home of the sheriff. Of courses, Michael Myers shows up and dispatches the armed guards, leaving him alone with the sisters. He stalks them up the stairs, through a top window, and onto the slopped roof. Rachel slips and slides as she crawls to the top carrying Jamie on her back....

Is ’the crawl’ a reference to the growing line? Netflix The “Stranger Things” kids have a history of adding cute little nicknames to the weird stuff they discover, usually inspired by terms used in their favorite game, “Dungeons & Dragons.” The Demogorgon, Vecna, the Mind Flayer, and the kids’ class distinctions are all names pulled from “Dungeons & Dragons,” even if the monsters they encounter in the Upside Down don’t look like they do in their D&D handbook....

New Planet Of The Apes Installment Finds Andy Serkis’ Successor In The Stand’s Owen Teague By Eric Vespe/Aug. 23, 2022 12:15 am EST If you’ve been wondering what has been up with that Wes Ball “Planet of the Apes” movie that’s been whispered about for over three years now, it looks like we have some movement on that front. The Fox/Disney merger is a likely suspect in the delay of a new run of “Apes” movies, but Deadline has the scoop that Ball and the studio have found their new lead ape in a young actor named Owen Teague....

Stranger Things Season 4 Was Almost The End For Max Netflix By Jeff Ewing/July 11, 2022 2:49 pm EST Warning: Spoilers ahead. In “Stranger Things” season 4, we learned that antagonist Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), Dr. Brenner’s first patient at Hawkins National Laboratory who suffered an extreme Upside Down makeover, has turned his misanthropic psychic eye on Hawkins with a nefarious plan. We discovered that Vecna was behind many of the Upside Down’s incursions into our realm, and his most recent plan is the most dangerous yet....

Susan Sarandon Endured Trailer Fires And Pneumonia For The Rocky Horror Picture Show By Jamie Gerber/Oct. 2, 2022 11:30 pm EST I was about 13 when I discovered the magic of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Honestly, I can’t really remember how exactly I was introduced to the film, but I do recall how quickly I became obsessed with it. Not long after I went to a late night showing featuring live actors and from then on, I was hooked....

Hereditary A24 Ari Aster’s “Hereditary” is undoubtedly one of the scariest movies of the century, if not of all time. While Aster is at maestro-level in his feature debut, it’s truly Toni Collette’s gut-wrenching, bereaved, terrifyingly unhinged performance that elevates “Hereditary” above its haunted house ilk. Collette is so good here — truthfully, unequivocally — that she doesn’t just deserve mention among the greats of horror, but the cinematic greats period....

The Instigators: Everything We Know So Far About Doug Liman And Matt Damon’s Apple TV+ Movie 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 9, 2022 11:19 am EST The pair responsible for one of the most influential action films of the 2000s is about to be born again … or, perhaps I should say, bourne again? Director Doug Liman and actor Matt Damon ushered in a new era for the action genre when they teamed up for 2002’s “The Bourne Identity....

Han Shoots Greedo ⁠— Star Wars (1977) Lucasfilm In the original version of “Star Wars” released theatrically in 1977, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) shoots the bounty hunter Greedo (Paul Blake) in the Mos Eisley Cantina. When he was reworking the film many years later, director George Lucas felt like the scene turned Solo into a cold-blooded murderer. He didn’t want audiences to have the wrong impression about the character, so he re-edited the scene for the 1997 “Special Edition” that was released in theaters....

The Secrets Behind Ian McDiarmid’s Transformation Into Emperor Palpatine Lucasfilm, Ltd. By Witney Seibold/Aug. 3, 2022 5:18 pm EST The character of Emperor Palpatine first appeared in Irvin Kershner’s 1980 sci-fi film “The Empire Strikes Back.” In that film, it was revealed that Darth Vader (embodied by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones) was no mere officer of the Empire, but right hand to its ruler. In a memorable scene, Darth Vader kneeled to an outsize hologram of the Emperor, who informed him that there was a great disturbance in the Force....

What’s Going On With King Viserys’ Arm In House Of The Dragon? HBO By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 19, 2022 9:19 am EST “House of the Dragon” is centered on the fight for the Iron Throne — which is currently presided over by King Viserys (Paddy Considine). The ailing King has a lot to worry about: He lost his wife and newborn son/heir in a day, his daughter and brother are the constant cause of his headaches, and his most trusted advisor has malicious intentions of his own....

Why For All Mankind Went Out Of Its Way To License Pirates Of The Caribbean’s Theme Apple TV+ By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 20, 2022 10:00 am EST Given that Disney+ is one of its chief competitors, Apple TV+ certainly isn’t the first streaming platform where you’d expect to hear music from a Disney theme park ride. But for viewers of “For All Mankind” season 3, that’s exactly what they got when they tuned in to the fourth episode, “Happy Valley....

Albuquerque To Get Statues Of Local Heroes Walter White And Jesse Pinkman AMC By Jeremy Mathai/July 12, 2022 11:32 am EST At a time when our country — and, in fact, the world — seems to be more bitterly divided than ever, perhaps one piece of pop culture-related news will manage to bring us all together in shared celebration. The only sticking point is that it has to do with statues of fictional meth kingpins (naturally)....