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Griffin Newman Won His Role In Disenchanted Thanks To A Zoom Table-Read [Exclusive Interview] Disney By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 17, 2022 10:00 am EST The new Disney+ film “Disenchanted” is a long time coming, following up the 2007 comedy that served as Amy Adams’ breakout role. In “Disenchanted,” Giselle, an animated princess who winds up in New York City, inadvertently brings fairytale characters, like her old friend Pip the chipmunk, to our world....

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Will Feature A ‘Newborn’ Adam Warlock, Says Will Poulter Disney By Witney Seibold/July 26, 2022 2:38 pm EST In the original “Infinity Gauntlet” story — the Marvel Comics crossover event that was first published in July of 1991 — the character of Adam Warlock played a key role. In the comics version of the story, Thanos, already in possession of the Infinity Gems (not Stones in the comics), snapped half of the universe out of existence right at the beginning of the story, and the remaining heroes had to find way to undo his damage....

How Bronson Became A Challenging Four-Year Process For Tom Hardy Vertigo Films. By Witney Seibold/Sept. 4, 2022 10:30 pm EST Born Michael Peterson, the British criminal best known as Charles Bronson — and now going by Charles Salvador — was once called the most violent prisoner in Britain by the Guardian. Salvador has notoriously spent most of his life in prison, having been convicted for, in the words of the BBC, armed robbery, wounding, wounding with intent, criminal damage, grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment, blackmail, and threatening to kill....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Treasure Planet Character Was An Animated Tribute To James Dean Walt Disney Animation By Lyvie Scott/Dec. 5, 2022 2:22 pm EST When I think on the fictional crushes of my early adolescence, there’s one in particular that comes to mind above the rest. It’s not uncommon to see an animated character at the top of someone’s list — and Jim Hawkins of “Treasure Planet” is undoubtedly on mine. He was my first exposure to the bad boys of the early aughts....

Mortal Kombat Director Simon McQuoid Will Return For The Sequel Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/July 20, 2022 3:40 pm EST Remember “Mortal Kombat?” Not the game, but the blockbuster movie starring a very hot Lewis Tan? The James Wan-produced film, co-written by the co-writer of the upcoming “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” managed to remove the bad taste from the 1995 “Mortal Kombat” out of many viewers’ mouths with a blend of over-the-top violence and comedy....

A new horrifying scenario Adult Swim In “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” the same game has malfunctioned as a result of a terrorist attack that happened while Morty was playing, and now Morty’s consciousness has been splintered across the billions of fake people living inside it. Rick enters the game as Roy to spread this information to everyone within the world: their lives aren’t real, and in order for them to return as one being in the real world, they all basically need to kill themselves....

Sex And The City Star John Corbett To Return For …And Just Like That Season 2 HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 19, 2022 2:23 pm EST Now that Big has kicked the bucket, “And Just Like That…” is finally free to do what “Sex and the City” should’ve done years ago: bring back Aidan! Deadline reports that “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star John Corbett is set to return for several episodes of the popular HBO series’ second season....

Star Trek: Prodigy’s Ella Purnell And Brett Gray On The Futures Of Their Characters [Exclusive Interview] Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 10, 2022 2:47 pm EST “Star Trek: Prodigy,” released under the Nickelodeon umbrella, is about a group of teenage aliens who live very, very far away from the auspices of recognizable Trek iconography. They have never heard of Starfleet or the Federation. But when fleeing a cruel slave master, the teens happen upon an abandoned Starfleet vessel called the U....

Joey is Seabiscuit Disney “Seabiscuit,” also produced by Kennedy, was a 2003 film directed by Gary Ross (“The Hunger Games,” “Free State of Jones”) that was one of many films nominated for Academy Awards that year to be locked out by the clean sweep of “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” Out of seven nominations, “Seabiscuit” won zero. Because of the overwhelming amount of horse action in that film, however, the animal wrangling department was among the film’s biggest....

Tales From The Box Office: Is The Adventures Of Pluto Nash The Biggest Bomb Of All Time? Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Aug. 13, 2022 10:54 am EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) The term box office bomb is thrown around quite a bit. At times, it is very well warranted....

Why it’s essential viewing Drafthouse Films E.L. Katz got his start as a writer and producer, helping bring to life the early films of genre darling Adam Wingard, and the final U.S.-produced film of horror icon Tobe Hooper. Thanks to a ridiculously tight script from Trent Haaga (“Girl on the Third Floor,” “68 Kill,” “Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV”) and David Chirchirillo (“ABCs of Death 2,” “Bad Match,” “Eli”), Katz accomplishes more with a low-budget than most filmmakers could dream of pulling off with millions....

The Most Memorable D.B. Cooper References In Movies And TV Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/July 15, 2022 5:00 pm EST Few things can ignite an audience more than a cold case. What happened to Amelia Earhart? Where are the remains of Jimmy Hoffa? There’s a reason true crime has become its own billion-dollar industry, with studios snatching up the rights to as many ripped-from-the-headlines tales as possible. It’s a lot harder to take creative liberties with a story based on real events or real people who can publicly comment on the project, but if a story is tackling an unsolved mystery, who’s to say that their interpretation is not the correct one?...

The Movie Rights To The Addams Family Have A Shady History Paramount By Demetra Nikolakakis/Oct. 12, 2022 12:09 pm EST If December is the season for cheesy Christmas rom-coms, October is Addams Family time. It’s hard to strike a balance between dark and wholesome, but to my mind, no one does it better than the devoted gothic family. Dreamt up by cartoonist Charles Addams, the on-screen Addams clan wasn’t afraid of what others might think — their only care in the world was each other....

The Wild Stunt That Failed To Save Steve McQueen’s Final Film Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 12, 2022 7:45 am EST “The Hunter” was not Steve McQueen’s finest hour, but it was his final hour-and-a-half on screen, so it’s not as forgettable as it might’ve been. Written by Ted Leighton and Peter Hyams (who was fired from the project prior to principal photography), the lunk-headed action film is based on the real-life exploits of skip tracer Ralph “Papa” Thorson....

Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Aug. 5, 2022 7:29 pm EST “They asked me if I wanted to be involved — Fran and I — and I said, ‘That’s an impossible question to answer without seeing a script,’” he told Scott Feinberg. “So they said, ‘As soon as we get the first couple scripts, we’ll send them to you.’ And the scripts never showed up.” “In pursuing the rights for our show, we were obligated to keep the series distinct and separate from the films,” said the statement sent to The Hollywood Reporter....

Why The Mist TV Series Failed To Get Out Of Its First Season Spike TV By Erin Brady/Dec. 24, 2022 1:00 pm EST On November 21, 2007, the controversial yet definitive adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Mist” was released. While taking a couple of liberties from the source material, this adaptation managed to develop a great balance between the story’s Lovecraftian monsters and psychological torment, culminating in arguably one of the most controversial movie endings of all time....

12 Underrated Episodes Of Batman: The Animated Series Warner Bros. Animation By Liam Gaughan/Oct. 17, 2022 5:03 pm EST “Batman: The Animated Series” isn’t just one of the greatest animated television shows of all time, but one of the most perfect comic book adaptations in history. While the saga of the Dark Knight has been told many times on the page and screen, “Batman: The Animated Series” explored the depths of Bruce Wayne’s psyche....

14 Best Marvel Comics That Love & Thunder Fans Will Want To Read Disney By Cass Clarke/July 8, 2022 12:53 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe has made a fortune — roughly $25 billion globally — on loosely adapting Marvel Comics series. As a publisher with over 80 years of comic titles, each MCU film has the unenviable task of cherrypicking which iteration of Marvel’s characters, timelines, and stories it’ll use....

Charlie Chaplin Saw Himself In Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky United Artists By Christian Gainey/Sept. 20, 2022 5:04 pm EST When Sylvester Stallone wrote “Rocky,” he was a poor, struggling actor living in a crappy apartment with a baby on the way. After he completed the script, Stallone refused to sell it until the studio agreed to cast him in the lead role. It was a huge gamble for a no-name actor and first-time screenwriter, but it paid off in the end....

Emma D’Arcy Threw Together A Slapdash Audition For House Of The Dragon Ollie Upton/HBO By Jenna Busch/Sept. 2, 2022 9:11 pm EST Spoilers for the first two episodes of “House of the Dragon.” The premiere episode of “House of the Dragon” broke viewing records with the biggest premiere in HBO history, and viewership for the second episode only increased. It appears that even fans who were angry about the final season of “Game of Thrones” were willing to come back to see what the prequel series has in store....