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The Crown’s Creator Is Careful About When He Chooses To Bend The Truth Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Oct. 5, 2022 10:52 am EST Historical fiction is a tricky genre — there are limits to how it can tell the truth, bend the truth, and still stay within the genre of fiction. Netflix has been churning out more fictitious tales based on real-life personas now more than ever before, picking stories from culturally recognizable times, blending fact into fiction, and depicting real-life events while reimagining them to fill in the blanks....

The Key To Understanding Halloween Ends Lies In Its Opening Credits Universal Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Oct. 14, 2022 7:00 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Halloween Ends.” Over four decades since John Carpenter’s seminal horror masterpiece, the “Halloween” series has finally been laid to rest with “Halloween Ends.” In the world of slasher movies, labeling something as the “final chapter” is a nice gesture, but these franchises rarely ever stay dead....

Their origins MAPPA The first Titan to ever walk the earth was Ymir Fritz. Two thousand years prior to the events of “Attack on Titan,” Ymir was sold into slavery when the nation of Eldia attacked her village and killed her parents. When Ymir was being hunted by Eldian soldiers after she accidentally let some pigs loose from the stables, she encountered a massive tree and upon entering it, fell into a sinkhole where a spiny creature entered her body and transformed her into a Titan....

The Original Ending Of Blade Runner Involved A Cryogenically Frozen Tyrell Warner Bros. Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/Oct. 27, 2022 5:10 pm EST Besides maybe “Apocalypse Now,” there are very few films with such a well-known and documented history of alternate versions as “Blade Runner.” Directed by Ridley Scott, the theatrical version released in 1982 was nothing like the director had wanted, complete with a “happy ending” that didn’t flow with the rest of the film....

This Terrifier 2 Scene Was Too Brutal To Film Cinedigm / Bloody Disgusting By Matthew Bilodeau/Nov. 21, 2022 4:53 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Terrifier 2.” In a horror movie season dominated by Michael Myers (“Halloween Ends”), killer grimaces (“Smile”), and hellish Airbnbs (“Barbarian”), Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) has earned a spot among the greats with “Terrifier 2.” Earlier in the fall, the sequel to director Damien Leone’s 2016 splatter flick received not only positive reviews but great word-of-mouth buzz that took Art from a genre curiosity to a full-blown pantomime slasher superstar....

Why Anastasia’s Dimitri Is The Best Animated Love Interest By Caroline Madden/Nov. 21, 2022 8:00 am EST There is no animated love interest, from Disney or any other studio, as attractive and compelling as Dimitri from Don Bluth’s “Anastasia.” The 1997 musical directed by Bluth and Gary Goldman is about the last survivor of the Romanov family who escapes but gets amnesia and only knows herself as Anya the orphan. She meets Dimitri, a con man auditioning women to trick the dowager empress into believing that they are the missing Anastasia....

Barbarian Director Zach Cregger Wants To Make A ‘Batman-Adjacent’ DC Movie, And He’s Already Written It 20th Century Studios By Shae Sennett/Sept. 13, 2022 11:54 am EST “Barbarian” is one of the hottest horror movies of 2022. The film is cheeky, terrifying, and refreshingly contemporary. It also marks the directorial debut of Zach Cregger, known for creating the hilarious sketch comedy series “The Whitest Kids U’Know.” With all the buzz surrounding “Barbarian,” a lot of people are wondering what the filmmaker plans to do next....

Beauty And The Beast Is Getting A Live Musical Special For Its 30th Anniversary Disney By Rafael Motamayor/July 6, 2022 8:31 am EST Tale as old as time, song as old as three decades, “Beauty and the Beast” is coming back! Kind of. The 1991 film changed Disney forever, a film where the story was as driven by music as it was by dialogue, with Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s songs changing cementing the Disney Renaissance and deliver banger after banger in the tradition of Sondheim musicals....

Could We Ever See The Black Phone 2? Universal Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 14, 2022 2:31 pm EST Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill’s “The Black Phone” had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in 2021, with a delayed wide release in 2022 that took the horror film to box office success. Derrickson’s return to horror following his short-lived MCU tenure has been lauded for its storytelling, performances, and creative payoffs....

Darren Aronofsky Is Making A Black Swan Musical – Here’s Why That’s A Brilliant Idea Darren Aronofsky succeeded in capturing an artist’s dark, dizzying descent into madness in his brilliant, dynamic “Black Swan,” which can be considered among the director’s finest works. Intensely atmospheric, moody, and anchored by a bravura performance by Natalie Portman, “Black Swan” shines best when it unravels its narrative complexity via unnerving visuals. Have you ever wondered how the film’s subject matter would translate into an intense, charged Broadway performance?...

Every Main Character In The Boys Season 3 Ranked Worst To Best By Jenn Adams/July 25, 2022 4:33 pm EST “The Boys” has always had a deep bench of incredible characters, and Season 3 upped the ante with a few new additions, animated friends, and a very seductive octopus. This season also sees Kripke reunite with “Supernatural” star Jensen Ackles in a pitch-perfect send-up of Marvel’s Captain America. Homelander’s hold on the culture seems to be slipping and there’s no doubt he’s got steep competition for America’s favorite superhero....

Art the Clown (Terrifier series) Bloody Disgusting “Terrifier 2,” the latest entry in Damien Leone’s Art the Clown saga — including the original “Terrifier” and the anthology segment in “All Hallows’ Eve” among other shorts — has been a remarkable success — grossing nearly $11 million in a limited theatrical release. A niche horror outing, it’s laudable for its extreme gore — some of which was almost too brutal to film....

Fly You Fools: The Lord Of The Rings’ Balrog Explained Prime Video By Debopriyaa Dutta/Oct. 7, 2022 1:33 pm EST This post contains spoilers for episode 7 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” In Peter Jackson’s “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the titular fellowship faces an ancient demonic threat in the mines of Moria. When surrounded by countless orcs inside the mines, a huge, demon-like fiery creature pursues the group to the bridge of Khazad-dûm, where Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) fights the creature....

His Dark Materials: Dafne Keen And Amir Wilson On Growing Up With Lyra And Will [Exclusive Interview] HBO By Jamie Gerber/Dec. 5, 2022 11:20 am EST It’s been two years since Will (Amir Wilson) and Lyra (Dafne Keen) were separated at the end of “His Dark Materials” season 2. The show, which is based on Philip Pullman’s novels, returns today with a third season that promises to be more intense than anything we’ve seen thus far....

One decade later, everything still sucks HBO Let’s not bury the lede: this isn’t just any other episode, this is the halfway point of the season and the one with the honor of introducing our new lead cast members, Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke. Alicent (D’Arcy) and Rhaenyra (Cooke) are all grown up and in case you were hoping that a decade would be enough time to soothe their relationship tensions, then you should probably lower your expectations....

How Accurate Is Drug Trafficking In TV Shows Like Breaking Bad? AMC By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Aug. 28, 2022 9:00 pm EST In Hollywood, everything is not what it seems. The camera is only a reflection of the reality filmmakers put in front of it, therefore, specific experiences portrayed beyond the cast and crew’s reach can sometimes be quite flawed. While the addictive thrill of a “Criminal Minds” episode starring enigmatic TV character actors may come off as smart, real law enforcement professionals might have other opinions....

James Gunn Used Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’s Budget To Boost The Holiday Special’s Production Value Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 18, 2022 9:26 pm EST After five years, James Gunn is finally about to bring back the Guardians of the Galaxy in their own “Holiday Special”, followed by a third movie in 2023. The Guardians have never been entirely absent from the big screen, as they did play a part in two “Avengers” films, but their subsequent team-up with Thor in “Love and Thunder” lasted approximately ten minutes....

John Wayne Was Far From Confident Going Into True Grit Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 14, 2022 1:51 pm EST John Wayne was in perhaps the biggest creative rut of his career in 1969. He’d just made the worst film of his career outside of “The Conqueror” in “The Green Berets,” and with the advent of the New Hollywood revolution, was growing culturally irrelevant. His best collaborators, John Ford and Howard Hawks, were either fully retired or on their way out....

John Woo Is Making A Historical Drama Film About Chinese-American Luminary Dean Lung Golden Princess Film Production By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 18, 2022 2:52 pm EST Legendary filmmaker John Woo’s latest film hasn’t even hit theaters yet, but he apparently already has another project in the works. Woo told Variety that before he retires from filmmaking, he wants to make a movie about Dean Lung, the Chinese-American valet who ended up funding Columbia’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the early 1900s....

Mondo Is Bringing The Shining Vinyl, Godzilla Posters & Collectibles, And More To DesignerCon [Exclusive] Mondo By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 16, 2022 12:00 pm EST It’s almost time for DesignerCon! The annual art and design convention is hitting the Anaheim Convention Center in California from November 18 through November 20 with over 300,000 square feet packed with over 700 vendors, art and custom collectible shows, live demonstrations, and tons more. Of course, that’s the perfect place for our friends at Mondo to release a bunch of cool new exclusives that fans will want to get their hands on....