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Elizabeth Taylor Pushed Through Personal Tragedy To Finish Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Christian Gainey/July 21, 2022 5:01 pm EST Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most popular leading ladies in classic-era Hollywood. With dark hair, violet eyes, and porcelain skin, Taylor’s beauty was often a large part of the roles she portrayed. She played the iconic Queen Cleopatra, a lovelorn call-girl in “BUtterfield 8,” and a glamorous socialite in “A Place in the Sun....

Lasting influence Warner Bros. The massive success of “Little Shop of Horrors” wasn’t always a given, however. The movie wields its own weirdness like a powerful ax, happily chopping away at audience expectations and musical conventions just like Seymour chopped away at Orin the evil dentist in the film. The story was so weird, however, that even Oz had trouble understanding the pitch for it at first, which he says he initially turned down because he “couldn’t get [his] hands around it....

Harrison Ford’s Career Could Have Kicked Off With A Risqué Film From Jacques Demy Universal Pictures By Mike Shutt/Nov. 3, 2022 4:28 pm EST When we discuss French New Wave, I feel our idea of what that means tends to be fairly narrow. We think of the young renegade filmmakers, like the recently departed Jean-Luc Godard, who broke the formal rules of what narrative cinema had been up until the late 1950s and told stories of young people navigating politics, life, and sex....

How Dan Harmon Handled His Return To Community NBC By Ernesto Valenzuela/Aug. 24, 2022 10:45 am EST “Community” had a lot of turbulent behind-the-scenes drama, with the constant arguments with Network Executives eventually leading to Dan Harmon, the creator of the show, parting ways before its fourth season. “Community” season 4 was the first and only season not to have Dan Harmon involved in any capacity, which led to viewers and fans of the show considering the season to be the weakest in the whole series....

Jenna Ortega Wanted Scream 6 To Give Her Character A Real Personality Paramount By Anya Stanley/Dec. 16, 2022 1:18 pm EST Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”) would have been forgiven had she not returned to the “Scream” franchise. As one of the many new faces of the franchise created by horror master Wes Craven, Ortega’s character Tara Carpenter was put through the wringer in 2022’s sequel. In “Scream” (that’s “Scream 5,” not to be mixed up with the exact same title of Craven’s 1996 original), Ortega is the first person attacked by the masked killer known as Ghostface....

Justin Long Was Too Scared To Finish Barbarian’s Script On His First Read 20th Century Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 12, 2022 6:15 am EST Every once in a while, a wild, surprising horror movie makes the round that prompts fans to give each other the same advice upon watching it: go in cold. Don’t read synopses, and don’t even watch the trailer, but instead get your butt to theaters (if you can) and check it out for yourself while the element of surprise is still on the filmmakers’ side....

Greatness likes company Warner Bros. Even before being rejected by Nicholson, Scorsese worried about how much success “The Departed” could achieve. With Nicholson out of the picture, Scorsese’s vision was in a bit of jeopardy. So the director called on DiCaprio to help him convince the veteran performer to join the film. According to Nicholson in a 2007 interview with Variety, it was the “Titanic” star’s involvement that got him to agree to join the film....

Thaddeus Ross has been recast with Harrison Ford Marvel Studios There are major franchise castings, and then there are major franchise castings. Harrison Ford joining the MCU certainly qualifies as the latter, putting a nice feather in the cap of Kevin Feige as the “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” and “Blade Runner” star can now add superheroes to his legendary résumé. Obviously, a man of Ford’s age won’t be expected to do much in the way of genuine action (although, then again, he has completed filming on the next “Indiana Jones” sequel), but the source material has featured Thaddeus Ross playing a similar kind of role for the Thunderbolts antihero team as DC’s Amanda Waller for the Suicide Squad....

Making a statement with the pilot Warner Bros. In a “Batman Beyond” retrospective piece at IGN, series creator Bruce Timm recalled the distaste fans had with the premise of the show: “From the minute we announced the show was going to happen, a lot of our fans … already wrote it off. They were just like, ‘Oh my God, this sounds horrible. This is going to be terrible. A teenage Batman?...

One Of Mary Poppins’ Most Notable Props Was Almost Lost To History Disney By Ben F. Silverio/Aug. 30, 2022 4:36 pm EST August 2022 marks the 58th anniversary of Walt Disney’s “Mary Poppins.” Featuring Julie Andrews as the titular nanny from the beloved P.L. Travers book series, the critically acclaimed live-action/animated hybrid became the highest-grossing movie of 1964 and was the only Walt Disney Studios film to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards during the founder’s lifetime....

Paddy Considine’s House Of The Dragon Performance Is The Ultimate Balancing Act HBO By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 7, 2022 3:00 pm EST When “Game of Thrones” first premiered over a decade ago, it was widely praised for its morally ambiguous characters, and a world without clear distinction between right and wrong, just a choice between lesser of two evils. Yet for the most part, “what you see is what you get” still applied to most characters....

Whodunits have always been meta Lionsgate The success of 2019’s “Knives Out” has ushered in a wave of whodunit projects featuring characters who are keenly aware of the genre’s rules and trends, from films like “See How They Run” to the series “Only Murders in the Building.” But in a way, that’s nothing unusual for the genre, at least in a historical sense. In fact, as Rian Johnson notes in a video where he breaks down his films for GQ, the legendary Agatha Christie was writing novels about people who know they’re in a whodunit story long before Johnson came onto the scene:...

Rian Johnson Sees Joseph Gordon-Levitt As A Modern Day Laurence Olivier Warner Brothers Pictures By Cameron Roy Hall/Dec. 21, 2022 2:47 pm EST Artists draw inspiration and information from wherever it can be found. For example, the narrative of James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” was influenced by his desire to be a more present father, but that’s behind-the-camera work. What about in front of it? What gets an actor into the right frame of mind to be a vigilante detective or a serial killer?...

Robert Mitchum Wasn’t A Fan Of Working With Most Hollywood Directors MGM By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 5, 2022 6:56 pm EST Robert Mitchum had opinions, and he shared them freely, without fear of repercussions, because he was Robert Mitchum. Mitchum didn’t care much for authority or societal norms. He was one of the first major Hollywood celebrities busted for marijuana possession. He also campaigned for arch-conservative U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964....

RoboCop: Rogue City Trailer Reveals The Video Game Return Of Original Star Peter Weller Teyon By BJ Colangelo/July 8, 2022 10:34 am EST Dead or alive, you’re coming with me … to cop “RoboCop: Rogue City” on the first day it’s available. Paul Verhoeven’s “RoboCop” is one of the most beloved dystopian action films of all time, and has already been given the video game treatment eight separate times. In the series’ ninth game, everyone’s favorite cyborg crime stopper is back, and we mean that as literally as possible....

Saint Clare: Everything We Know So Far About The New Thriller Starring Bella Thorne And Ryan Phillippe Vertical Entertainment By Jenna Busch/Aug. 9, 2022 3:15 pm EST Never trust what you see on the surface, particularly with teenagers. They could be slaying vampires after cheerleading tryouts like Buffy Summers, or a detective in their spare time like Veronica Mars. They could also be killers. A new indie film is on the way from Screen Media called “Saint Clare,” based on Don Roff’s popular novel “Clare at Sixteen” (via Deadline)....

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Will Feature Six Distinct Art Styles Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Nov. 22, 2022 12:35 pm EST There is much to look forward to in 2023 when it comes to blockbuster movies, but one of the most anticipated of them all is undoubtedly “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” The sequel to 2018’s “Into the Spider-Verse” will once again center on Miles Morales, but this time, it’s the first of an epic two-parter that will open up Spidey’s multiverse even further....

A legend in this world and beyond Paramount Pictures After playing Uhura on “Star Trek,” Nichols worked with NASA to promote diversity after watching the Apollo 11 launch. In 1977, Nichols was appointed to the Board of Directors for the National Space Institute. She even became a recruiter for NASA, helping to bring new and diverse voices and skills to the organization. As noted in the documentary about her life, “Woman in Motion,” Nichols “went into this to become an actress....

Super Mario Bros. Trailer: Chris Pratt Is Mario In Illumination’s Animated Take On The Video Game Character Universal Pictures By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Oct. 6, 2022 4:15 pm EST Today we have a new trailer for the animated film “Super Mario Bros.,” featuring Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario and Charlie Day as his similarly-mustachioed brother, Luigi. The Mario brothers were first brought to the big screen in a 1993 live-action movie, also titled “Super Mario Bros....

Taylor Swift Will Write And Direct A Feature Film For Searchlight Pictures YouTube By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 9, 2022 9:57 am EST This was probably only a matter of time, wasn’t it? After becoming the first (and only) solo artist to receive a pair of Best Directing awards at the recent VMAs, and even getting an invite to the heralded Directors on Directors series hosted by Variety, Taylor Swift is getting ready to take her pop star talents over to the medium of movies....