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House Of The Dragon’s Prince Aegon Is Also Doctor Who Royalty HBO By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 27, 2022 5:00 am EST “House of the Dragon” moved into the back half of its 10-episode first season this week with a time jump that ushered in a whole bunch of new faces and wigs. Some of the new actors are playing older versions of characters we’ve already met, as in the case of Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke, who have taken over for the departing Milly Alcock and Emily Carey as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Queen Alicent Hightower, respectively....

For the raccoon that has everything Marvel Studios After further examination, the arm doesn’t sport a red star on the shoulder and features gold accents. This indicates that this is one of Bucky’s newer arms rather than an old one that was just laying around in an old S.H.I.E.L.D. facility or safe house. The White Wolf was first given an arm like this in Wakanda, then he continued to use a similar model during “Falcon and the Winter Soldier....

Lost Ollie Director Peter Ramsey On Treating VFX Teams Like True Collaborators [Exclusive Interview] Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 25, 2022 4:53 pm EST “Lost Ollie” is a new animation/live-action hybrid show that tells the story of a lost patchwork bunny embarking on a fantastical adventure to try and reunite with his best friend, a human boy named Billy. Along the way, he faces wonders, horrors, betrayal, action, and more. In her review for /Film, Shania Russell wrote: “‘Lost Ollie’ doesn’t need to be a grand epic or end-of-the-world type quest....

Maya Hawke Has Mixed Feelings About Stranger Things And Shipping Netflix By Jenna Busch/Oct. 20, 2022 9:50 pm EST Shipping has become a global pastime. If you aren’t aware, it’s the term for wanting characters to end up in a romantic relationship. Relationship, get it?! Whether it’s the chemistry between actors, a wish for an adaptation to recreate a romance that exists in a different form, the desire to see queer-coded characters actually get together, or just a feeling that characters who deserve something joyful should end up in a romance, it’s a thing....

Urine luck Warner Bros. Brooks and Bancroft would, of course, marry the following year and they would stay married until her death in 2005. At the time, they were merely dating. Brooks was, at the time, a comedy luminary on TV and radio, writing and performing “The 2,000-Year-Old Man” in 1960, and working on “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour” going back to 1950. Wilder, upon seeing brooks for the first time, was dazzled by the man’s wardrobe, inviting a urine-based exchange....

Michael Jordan Loved A Christmas Story So Much, He Kept A VHS Copy In His Locker MGM/UA By Jenna Busch/Dec. 10, 2022 10:00 am EST If you are one of the people who watch “A Christmas Story” yearly as a holiday ritual, you are in good company — really good company. Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie Parker in the 1983 film, and his Wild West Picture Show Productions partner Vince Vaughn have started a new video podcast called “A Cinematic Christmas Journey....

Mike Judge Holds Three King Of The Hill Episodes In Particularly High Regard 20th Television By Anthony Crislip/Oct. 10, 2022 1:28 pm EST Despite being a classic American animated sitcom, “King of the Hill” often goes unsung, its humble ambition obscuring the depth of its wit. The show produced 13 seasons of warm, funny television with a handful of familiar formulas, but it also had the guts to forgo formulas and produce outstanding episodes....

George’s secret CBS “George” begins with the 4077th MASH unit operating on a man with significant bruises that they suspect came from some type of brawl. After he recovers, Private George Weston (Richard Ely) opens up to Hawkeye, telling him that two people in his outfit were beat up: a person of color and a homosexual. Given that George is a white man, this is his coded way of coming out....

Popular Avatar Fan Theories Debunked Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By Scott Thomas/Nov. 17, 2022 6:18 pm EST In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary named “post-truth” its word of the year. The hyphened unit of language rose in popularity due to misinformation spread in and around the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Brexit reform, but “post-truth” was already the state of many film Reddits and message boards. That’s what fan theories are — post-truth....

The Daily Stream: The Beatles: Get Back Is An Expansive Docuseries That Brings The Biggest Band In History Down To Earth Disney+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 22, 2022 4:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “The Beatles: Get Back” Where You Can Stream It: Disney+ The Pitch: On a very basic level, “Get Back” is a vivid, verite-style, three-part docuseries of recovered and revitalized archival footage that documents the making of The Beatles’ final album, “Let It Be....

When hunger leads to opportunity Paramount Pictures Glen Coco is a man of mystery. You don’t even get a good look at his face in the candy cane scene (though we do see him again a few scenes later — he’s pictured above, sitting in front of Cady). Yet despite his sparse presence, Glen Coco has become beloved by fans of the film. In a 2014 interview with Dazed, Glen Coco actor David Reale detailed how he became a part of “Mean Girls” history....

The One Major Advantage House Of The Dragon Has Over Game Of Thrones Ollie Upton/HBO By Michael Boyle/Sept. 12, 2022 8:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for episode four of “House of the Dragon.” One thing “Game of Thrones” deserves more credit (or blame) for is how much it normalized the idea of TV seasons being 10 to 13-hour movies. The show was a massive, sprawling epic with multiple storylines going on at the Wall, King’s Landing, Winterfell, Essos, and usually a bunch of other places in-between....

What Is DC Studios? Breaking Down James Gunn And Peter Safran’s New Division At Warner Bros. Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 26, 2022 1:00 pm EST The entertainment world was dealt a pretty impressive and impactful curveball recently when it was revealed that DC has a new boss (or bosses, to be more exact). James Gunn, director of “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” and mega-producer Peter Safran, who worked with Gunn on “The Suicide Squad” and “Peacemaker,” as well as helping to develop “The Conjuring” universe, are now steering the ship....

Why Billy Eichner Is Not Going To Make More Billy On The Street TruTV By Ryan Scott/July 26, 2022 11:42 am EST Billy Eichner has become one of the premier voices in modern comedy, appearing in beloved shows such as “Parks and Recreation” as well as movies like “Neighbors 2.” But for everything Eichner will ever do, it is all but guaranteed people will instantly think of him as the loud comedian running around frantically in the streets asking random people very random questions with other famous people in toe....

Why Snowpiercer Is Coming To An End In Season 4 TNT By Ryan Scott/July 6, 2022 8:48 am EST “Snowpiercer” began its life as a beloved sci-fi film from director Bong Joon-ho before he went on to helm the Academy Award for Best Picture winner “Parasite.” Although, in the current landscape, there are likely more viewers who know it as a TV show that has been airing on TNT since 2020....

Alfred Hitchcock Used A Simple Trick To Make Rear Window’s Premise Work Paramount By Mike Shutt/July 23, 2022 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When I first started taking classes on filmmaking, one of the first principles of editing you learn is the Kuleshov effect. Over 100 years ago now, Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov created a short film demonstrating the power of editing through juxtaposition....

Brendan Gleeson Joined The Joker Sequel Because He’s Just A Big Joaquin Phoenix Fan By Demetra Nikolakakis/Oct. 12, 2022 12:22 pm EST There’s nothing quite like the messiness surrounding Todd Phillips “Joker.” Is it the “Taxi Driver” of our generation, offering a nuanced look at trauma and mental illness, maybe a cautionary tale of who we praise? Is it a cheap knock-off that misses the point entirely? No matter how innocently you ask, you’re sure to get an outpour of passionate answers (to put things mildly)....

Gundam Was Weird Long Before The Witch From Mercury Bandai Entertainment By Adam Wescott/Nov. 9, 2022 10:00 am EST The newest season of the “Gundam” franchise, titled “The Witch From Mercury,” has been an odd one. Rather than a tale of interstellar conflict, it’s a high school story about teenagers who fight each other in school-sanctioned robot duels. It’s the first “Gundam” series to star a female protagonist, and it borrows heavily from the surreal anime classic “Revolutionary Girl Utena....

How Donald Glover Found The Perfect Director For Atlanta’s ‘Punk Rock’ Approach FX/Hulu By Shae Sennett/Sept. 16, 2022 9:19 am EST Hiro Murai was directing music videos for pop songs before he began collaborating with Donald Glover on their dreamy FX series “Atlanta.” Now, Murai’s directing credits include not only the majority of “Atlanta” but also several episodes of the acclaimed HBO series “Barry” and “Station Eleven.” Glover recognized Murai’s creative genius the first time he saw his work in 2013....

Jurassic World Dominion VFX Supervisor Talks Combining Digital With Practical Effects And Putting Dinosaurs Into The Real World [Interview] Universal Pictures By Bill Bria/Aug. 17, 2022 1:51 pm EST From the very beginning, the “Jurassic Park” franchise has promised audiences the alternately awe-inspiring and terrifying concept of bringing long-extinct dinosaurs into our present day. A primary task of the filmmakers behind the 1993 original film and its subsequent five sequels has been to blow past our natural sense of disbelief and strike at our combined wonder and fear toward the animal kingdom and Mother Nature herself, giving the resurrection of the dinosaurs a verisimilitude that allows the franchise to feel more grounded than the average sci-fi adventure....