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Spielberg has been fascinated by aliens since childhood Columbia Pictures To understand the film’s peaceful ending, you first have to understand Spielberg’s obsession with extraterrestrial phenomena and the people who believe in it. The inspiration for “Close Encounters” came from a childhood experience with Spielberg’s father, who took his young son to watch a meteor shower one night. Apparently, Spielberg was so moved by this celestial event that it enticed his imagination about space and the beyond, and it stuck with him for years to come....

Cool Stuff: The Smile Soundtrack Is Getting A Vinyl Release From Mondo Paramount Pictures By Erin Brady/Oct. 5, 2022 3:55 pm EST Oh, won’t you smile a while for me, reader? We ask this for one very special reason, and that’s because the people over at Mondo are releasing the soundtrack for recent horror hit “Smile” on vinyl. Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s eerie score is currently available to stream, but why do that when you can have it on vinyl, complete with exclusive artwork?...

The new shepherd of DC films and television Warner Bros. Lin’s history in Hollywood goes all the way back to his teenage years. While attending Harvard Business School, Lin took a summer internship with big time producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who was then an executive at Warner Bros. Straight out of college, Lin was given a junior position at the studio, and he rode that wave all the way to being senior vice president of production....

Daniel Craig Had To Run While Injured During One Of Skyfall’s Best Scenes Columbia Pictures By Demetra Nikolakakis/Nov. 10, 2022 10:57 am EST As ridiculous as it might sound, James Bond sets seem to be cursed. Roger Moore found himself in the hospital on day one of filming “Live and Let Die,” Pierce Brosnan was injured in a “GoldenEye” fight, and Sean Connery was almost killed by a careless helicopter pilot on the set of “From Russia With Love....

Disney’s Ahsoka Series Has Found Its Live-Action Ezra Bridger Disney/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 9, 2022 3:08 pm EST We’ve still no idea where fan-favorite Jedi-in-training Ezra Bridger went after getting pulled into hyperspace with the villainous Grand Admiral Thrawn at the end of “Star Wars Rebels.” Thankfully, though, we now know who will be playing the live-action version of the character when he appears in the upcoming “Ahsoka” series. Cinelinx is reporting Ezra will be portrayed by Eman Esfandi on “Ahsoka,” with major outlets like The Hollywood Reporter backing its claim....

The Czech style Disney+ Pinkava was born in Prague in 1963. While he applied to Pixar as a director of commercials, what he really wanted to do was to direct short films. He got his wish in 1997, when his short “Geri’s Game” was released. “Geri’s Game” was the first Pixar animation to focus solely on humans, with no talking objects or animals to be seen. Pinkava knew that to create a realistic human character within the technological limits of the time would be foolish....

Staying subversive and current Lionsgate Rian Johnson, as is anyone writing a private detective character, is fully indebted to Agatha Christie. She is the beacon, the ideal, and Johnson fully admits to it. At the press conference for “Glass Onion” at the BFI London Film Festival, attended by our own Hannah Shaw-Williams, he said of Christie: “This whole thing stems from a love of Agatha Christie … she was innovating with every new book that she wrote, she was finding new ways to approach the genre, she was putting twists on it that if you did them today, people would say, ‘That’s very subversive, that’s subverting the genre....

Have We Already Seen Gandalf In The Rings Of Power? Here’s What We Think Warner Bros. Pictures Spoilers follow for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” The first two episodes of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” have debuted on Prime Video and we’re already seeing close ties to the source material and Peter Jackson’s original trilogy. Not only has the visual language been carried over to the big-budget streaming series, but beloved characters from J....

How Atomic Blonde’s Amazing Stairwell Fight Came Together Focus Features By Steven Ward/Aug. 13, 2022 8:43 pm EST Whether as an actor, stuntman, or director, David Leitch has been the architect behind some of the most captivating recent fight scenes in film. His catalog of work spans some of the biggest action movies of the last twenty years, including the last two films in “The Matrix Trilogy,” “300,” and “Deadpool 2....

How The Bee Scene In Candyman Earned Tony Todd A Large Payout TriStar Pictures By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Oct. 18, 2022 3:44 pm EST Bernard Rose’s “Candyman” released 30 years ago, is a new-age horror legend — a specter of Black trauma haunting the Cabrini-Green neighborhood in Chicago. Tony Todd approached this role with elegance and with a large amount of responsibility, avoiding caricature in playing a mythological villain with a tragic past rooted in the horrors of American slavery....

How The Duffer Brothers Keep All Of Stranger Things’ Storylines Straight Netflix By Eric Vespe/July 11, 2022 9:51 pm EST If you thought “Stranger Things” season 4 felt a little stronger than the typical season … well, there might be a reason for that. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer have always employed a strong cadre of smart writers who care about the characters and understand the overall Amblin-Meets-John Carpenter-And-Stephen King tone they’re going for....

In Another World, Robert De Niro Played The Role Of Tony Soprano Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 28, 2022 5:57 pm EST Once upon a time, “The Sopranos” creator David Chase envisioned telling the story of a mobster battling his inner demons on the silver screen instead of the small one. In an interview with The New York Times, the creator and showrunner said that he initially planned on writing the story as a film, but his agency talked him out of it....

In The Inspection, Gabrielle Union Steps Out Of Her Comfort Zone [Exclusive Interview] A24 By Michael Boyle/Nov. 22, 2022 3:39 pm EST “The Inspection” is an intense, thoughtful film about a young gay Black man named Ellis French (Jeremy Pope) who decides to join the military in the early 2000s. He’s doing it partly to escape his current life of homelessness, but also in an attempt to win back the love of his mother, played by Gabrielle Union....

John Carpenter Was On A Tight Deadline To Create Halloween’s Signature Score Compass International Pictures By Miyako Pleines/Oct. 15, 2022 9:00 pm EST As far as horror movie scores are concerned, few are as iconic as John Carpenter’s synth-driven masterpiece for “Halloween.” The movie’s main theme — that ominous tinkling of the piano — is so powerful that not only does it bring to mind scenes of a menacing Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), but it has also solidified itself as essential October listening whether you’re a fan of the “Halloween” franchise or not....

Astounding sci-fi bites Netflix One of the things that makes “Love, Death + Robots” so intriguing is the sheer diversity of the stories on display. The nine episodes of Volume 3 ran the gamut, including a return to the smart-alecky “Three Robots” who visit a human world after its apocalypse to comment on how the humans might have stopped it, the heart-pounding and dialogue-free tragic romance of “Jibaro,” and a ballet of alien creatures in zero G in “Swarm....

When and where to watch Next Goal Wins Searchlight Pictures “Next Goal Wins” actually began shooting in late 2019 and wrapped not long after, only to land itself on the back-burner due to both the pandemic and a certain ex-cast member whose name rhymes with “Smarmy Blammer” (one whose role in the film has since been re-cast, as we’ll get into a little later). The movie was only further delayed by Taika Waititi’s commitment to “Thor: Love and Thunder,” which prevented him from being able to carry out reshoots until he was done filming the God of Thunder’s latest big screen outing....

A war story kids can understand Nickelodeon The pair, along with series creator Craig Bartlett, managed to get their episode outline approved, but once it was already in production, Nickelodeon rejected it. At that point, half of the episode was animated, concluding with the gutting flashback that shows Mr. Hyunh handing his baby daughter Mai to an American helicopter pilot who had room for just one refugee. The pilot yells the name of the city he’d take Mai to, and Mr....

Power Naps Were Mel Brooks’ Key To Problem Solving On Spaceballs Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Drew Tinnin/Dec. 26, 2022 2:00 pm EST The “Star Wars” galaxy encompasses a vast array of planets and diverse creatures that continue to be explored in even greater detail in the saga films, every live-action, animated Disney+ series, and extensive reference volumes, comics, and tie-in novels. The cultural ripple effect spread worldwide, inspiring countless parodies and bizarre knock-offs that looked to capitalize off the colossal record success of the original trilogy....

Ready Player One Ending Explained: The Power Of Friendship And Why It’s Crucial To Touch Grass Warner Bros. Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/Nov. 26, 2022 10:00 am EST When Steven Spielberg decided to adapt Ernest Cline’s sci-fi fantasy novel, “Ready Player One,” the book underwent critical reappraisal and the reception to the adaptation was mixed. There were good reasons for this to happen: Cline’s novel, which was hailed as a heartfelt trip down nostalgia lane when it was first released, was now re-evaluated through the lens of toxic nerd culture that catered predominantly to straight, white males....

Sympathy For The Devil: Everything We Know So Far About The Nicolas Cage Psychological Thriller Lionsgate By Jenna Busch/Sept. 6, 2022 4:57 pm EST Academy Award-winner Nicolas Cage (“Pig,” “Leaving Las Vegas”) and Joel Kinnaman (“RoboCop,” “The Suicide Squad”) are set to team up in “Sympathy for the Devil,” a new film from director Yuval Adler (“The Operative,” “The Secrets We Keep”). The project is currently filming on location in Las Vegas....