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The Comic Series That Made Joe And Anthony Russo Fall In Love With Marvel Marvel Comics By Ryan Scott/July 14, 2022 11:16 am EST If Joe and Anthony Russo live to be 150 years old, they will probably always be remembered as the directors of “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” not to mention “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Captain America: Civil War.” Their love for Marvel was able to translate on the big screen beautifully, resulting in some of the biggest movies ever made....

The Incredible Resident Evil Movie George A. Romero Almost Made Capcom By Ryan Scott/July 15, 2022 2:00 pm EST George A. Romero is, without question or compare, the godfather of zombie cinema. The man behind classics such as “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead” had a long, impressive career but will always best remembered for his invention of the zombie as we know it in genre filmmaking....

The Jack Ryan Role Sparked A (Maybe One-Sided) Feud Between Alec Baldwin And Harrison Ford Paramount Pictures By Matt Rainis/Nov. 2, 2022 5:28 pm EST Shockingly enough, many of the biggest actors in Hollywood actually possess pretty huge egos. A lot of them, it seems, believe they are once-in-a-lifetime talents who deserve better treatment than everybody else. Sometimes, when two of these inflated actor egos collide, you end up with a horrific double-Hindenburg situation....

Doing it 15 times better Searchlight Pictures It was a mere stroke of alchemy that Fiennes agreed to act in “The Menu.” As long ago as 2019, Fiennes became attached the to the project, back when he was to star opposite Emma Stone, and the film was to be directed by Alexander Payne. That version of the “The Menu” fell through, and it would re-manifest over the following years as the version currently on screens....

The New Mystery Science Theater 3000 Gizmoplex Gets The Show Back To Its Homemade Roots Vivendi Entertainment By Witney Seibold/Dec. 7, 2022 5:00 pm EST The longevity of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” has been fascinating to behold. Beginning on Minnesota public access television in 1988, Joel Hodgson’s watch-bad-movies-with-sarcastic-buddies cult TV series has deeply entrenched itself into the collected Jungian lore of every Gen-Xer worth their weight in flannel. For much of its life, “MST3K” lived either on KTMA in Minneapolis or, when it became more successful, running at midnight on Comedy Central....

The Rings Of Power’s Sauron Actor Didn’t Know His Identity Until Later, But Was ‘Suspicious’ New Line Cinema By Lyvie Scott/Oct. 14, 2022 1:02 pm EST Warning: major spoilers below for the season finale of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” With the first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” in the bag, fans have finally learned which character was Sauron in disguise all this time....

What Made James Cameron Want To Return For An Avatar Sequel 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 7, 2022 12:00 pm EST Once “Avatar: The Way of Water” finally makes its way (of water) to theaters in just a few short weeks, director James Cameron will have spent a minimum of nearly two whole decades planning and developing the first two movies in this epic saga — and counting. With another couple of sequels already far along in various stages of production and tentative plans for the series to stretch to six or even seven total movies, it’s clear that the visionary talent has no intention of stopping anytime soon....

Why James Cameron Insisted On Aliens’ Down-To-Earth Dialogue By Anya Stanley/July 18, 2022 10:07 pm EST James Cameron’s horror sequel “Aliens” has some of the most quoted lines of any blockbuster movie. To this day, fans tell each other to “stay frosty,” and “Game over, man!” has become a pop-culture fixture repeated around the world. Starting with survivor Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Cameron expands the players of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film “Alien” to include gun-toting Colonial Marines who look forward to engaging with the same sort of alien xenomorphs that decimated the Nostromo crew....

Why Superman And Batman: The Animated Series Seem To Be Set In Different Eras Warner Bros. Animation By Devin Meenan/Dec. 24, 2022 7:00 am EST “Batman: The Animated Series” didn’t look like any other Saturday morning cartoon of its time. Instead of building on the light Hanna-Barbera stylings of “Super Friends”, the show’s creative team aped aesthetic styles from the early 20th century. “BTAS” mixed the shadows of film noir and the architecture of art deco; producer Alan Burnett called this combination “Dark Deco” while writer Paul Dini said Gotham City was meant to look like, “What if the 1939 World’s Fair had gone on another 60 years or so?...

Will Apple TV’s Loot With Maya Rudolph Get A Season 2? Apple TV+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 12, 2022 7:14 pm EST Everything’s always a little bit brighter when Maya Rudolph is on our TV screens: the “Saturday Night Live” comedian and actress is winning and funny in every single project she chooses. That now includes the Apple TV+ comedy series “Loot,” which is currently airing its first season. The show follows Molly (Rudolph), an inordinately wealthy billionaire who must figure out what to do with her time and money after she splits with her tech inventor husband (Adam Scott)....

You Can (Kind Of) Thank Jackie Chan For Dragon Ball’s Creation Toei Animation By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 22, 2022 1:21 pm EST All it took for Akira Toriyama to create his iconic series “Dragon Ball” was a little push from his editor and his love for Jackie Chan films. Initially published in 1984, “Dragon Ball” was Toriyama’s follow-up to his successful comedy series “Dr. Slump.” Although the mangaka had his roots in comedy when starting his career, the author was looking to try another genre....

We could’ve had eight hours of Romero’s It Warner Bros. While it would have been fantastic to get an eight-to-ten-hour miniseries — Andy Muschietti’s two-part feature adaptation amounted to just over five hours, all told — ABC’s jumpiness prevented the sprawling, comprehensive retelling that storytellers like Romero wanted to take on. In some respects, it’s for the best; depicting the novel’s Ritual of Chüd is an uphill battle for any filmmaker....

Akira Kurosawa’s Early Career Was A Constant Struggle With The Censors Toho Co., Ltd. By Shae Sennett/July 30, 2022 10:30 pm EST The globally acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa had a long a fruitful career, but like many artists, it got off to a rocky start. The Japanese government was aligned with the Axis powers in the 1940s and was strongly opposed to Western influences in media. They put extreme censors in place and directors had to gain their approval at each stage of the filmmaking process....

Arnold Vosloo’s The Mummy Costume Wasn’t Quite What He Expected Universal Pictures By Matt Rainis/Oct. 5, 2022 4:53 pm EST In any fun action-adventure movie, a quality villain is paramount. The villain pushes the plot along and creates obstacles for our heroes. They often need to carry entire scenes on their own, basking in their villainy far away from the protagonists. This was the case in 1999’s “The Mummy,” the jaunty and beloved Brendan Frasier vehicle about an adventurer who travels with a pair of siblings to the City of the Dead in Egypt, where they accidentally revive the titular mummy....

Black Adam’s Noah Centineo Says Atom Smasher Is Still Learning How To Be A Superhero [Comic-Con] Warner Bros. By Sarah Milner AND Ryan Scott/July 24, 2022 12:48 pm EST To everyone’s delight, the Warner Bros. presentation at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con had lots of DC Extended Universe content, including a new trailer for the upcoming DC film “Black Adam.” The movie is highly anticipated for a number of reasons: for one, it’s clearly a passion project for star Dwayne Johnson, who is an endlessly likeable human being; two, the trailers looks awesome; and three, the movie will be bringing the Justice Society of America to the big screen — including newcomer Atom Smasher, played by Noah Centineo....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Ending Explained: All Things Must Pass Marvel Studios By Bill Bria/Nov. 10, 2022 10:00 pm EST Life is a contradiction, a series of meetings and partings (as Dickens once put it) that both find conclusions and simultaneously never ends. For that reason, one of the functions of storytelling is to serve as a salve for humanity’s endless struggle with time; unlike existence, stories can find resolution, allowing for understanding and acceptance to be more easily reached....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Soundtrack Puts The Rest Of The MCU To Shame Annette Brown / Marvel Studio By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 12, 2022 9:00 am EST “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” may not turn out to be the best Marvel movie of all time, but it certainly features one of the best soundtracks the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever put together. The movie that got Rihanna out of retirement has a stellar soundtrack that also features an array of talented musicians, including several Nigerian and Mexican artists who bring the sounds of the cultures that inspired the movie to life....

Christian Bale Somehow Got His Hands On The Prestige’s Script Without Christopher Nolan Knowing Warner Bros. By Devin Meenan/Dec. 18, 2022 2:05 pm EST “Batman Begins” proved that Christopher Nolan could helm a blockbuster and Christian Bale could be the star. Between their first two trips to Gotham City, they took a detour and worked together on a more modest film, “The Prestige,” about two dueling magicians in Victorian London. Bale played magician Alfred Borden, opposite Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier....

Dwayne Johnson Worked Out For Two Years In A Row To Play Black Adam Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo AND Ryan Scott/July 24, 2022 1:28 pm EST Dwayne Johnson has always been what we call in the wrestling business “a body guy” — meaning, he’s always been known for being a massive slab of muscular glory. His workout regime is as well documented as his cheat day meals, and his transformation for the upcoming DC superhero movie “Black Adam” was so intense, they had to cut out the muscle padding in his costume because he was simply too jacked....

Here’s How Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Is Different From Other Adaptations Netflix By Ernesto Valenzuela/Oct. 10, 2022 10:30 am EST Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of “Pinocchio” looks to be a departure from other iterations of the classic story. The stop-motion animated film seems to be everything you would expect from a del Toro film, with trailers and promotional material teasing the movie as a fairy tale with darker inclinations. The film has been in development for a long time, becoming a passion project for the director....