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High Noon Saved Gary Cooper From A Sea Of ‘Crappy Scripts’ United Artists By Anthony Crislip/Nov. 13, 2022 10:30 pm EST So much classic Western iconography comes directly from the images of Fred Zinneman’s 1952 film “High Noon.” The ticking clocks awaiting the arrival of a dangerous train, the lone figures in a dusty town square, and Gary Cooper’s sweaty, sickly close-ups are unforgettable. His desperate, acclaimed performance in the movie effectively resurrected a floundering career....

Hotel Transylvania 2 Is Dominating The Netflix Top 10, Which Is A Reminder That Hotel Transylvania Is Really Good Sony Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Nov. 2, 2022 4:57 pm EST If your childhood consisted of late ’90s and early 2000s animation, then the name Genndy Tartakovsky should sound familiar to you. He’s the animator behind shows like “Samurai Jack,” “The Powerpuff Girls,” and “Dexter’s Laboratory.” Decades later, Tartakovsky is still going strong in the world of animation with the more adult-focused “Primal,” which /Film’s Sarah Milner called “big, bold, and bloody” in her review....

House Of The Dragon Is At Its Best When It Creates A Slow-Burning Powder Keg HBO By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 3, 2022 2:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon” episode 7. If you thought Targaryen weddings were unpleasant, just wait until you get a gander at their funerals. Where “Game of Thrones” found an excuse to put most of its main characters in one location in its first episode, it’s taken more than half a season for “House of the Dragon” to reach that point....

How Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer Got Michael Rooker His Eight Men Out Role Greycat Films By Anya Stanley/Oct. 29, 2022 4:30 pm EST Some actors inhabit their roles so thoroughly that it turns audiences off. Jack Gleeson’s turn as the abominable Joffrey Baratheon in HBO’s adapted “Game of Thrones” series immediately comes to mind. Actors inhabiting the role of an unsavory character have to hit a Goldilocks zone between a believable performance and capturing a repulsive character “a little too well,” but scratch the surface of revolted viewers and you’ll find plenty who appreciate what the actor brought....

A family affair Netflix Born in Birmingham, Steven Knight had family ties to the Peaky Blinders: the screewriter has said that his father’s uncles were members of the Sheldon gang, and one of them was the direct inspiration for Tommy Shelby. Growing up, Knight’s parents narrated stories of their illegal activities and, albeit reluctantly, shared photographs of gypsies, horses, and men dressed in “immaculate suits” in 1820s Birmingham. Knight told History Extra in 2020 that his mother worked for a bookmaker when she was just nine years old, and his dad delivered messages to gangsters and witnessed quite a sight upon one such delivery: “One of the first stories that inspired me was of my dad when he was a little kid, sent to deliver a message....

‘It’s something that we still want to happen’ 20th Century Studios For those of us cursed with the inability to effectively multitask, the following quote should feel quite cathartic. James Cameron’s involvement with “Alita: Battle Angel” goes way back to before the year 2005, where (as /Film’s Ryan Scott explains in a recent edition of his Tales From the Box Office series) the “Avatar” filmmaker explained that he essentially had to choose between committing his vast resources to either the world of Pandora or the effort of bringing Alita to life....

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol: Everything We Know So Far Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 21, 2022 4:40 pm EST Though this story is being written in July, with many countries breaking heat records, and San Diego Comic-Con in full swing, it doesn’t stop us from giving you all the information about the upcoming animated Netflix film “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol.” As you sit in front of a fan with an ice pack on your neck, you can dream of the holiday season, with snow, and ice, and a certain very cold-hearted miser who is about to get a few ghostly visitors....

September Box Office Drops To Worst Levels In A Quarter Century 20th Century Studios By Erin Brady/Sept. 28, 2022 2:04 pm EST I am going to spare you from another article lead-in using a negative variation of the title of “Don’t Worry Darling,” as I assume they have been done to death already. However, maybe you should worry a little bit about movie theaters and their attendance numbers, as The Wrap reports that the theater box office has hit its worst September levels in 25 years....

She-Hulk Easter Egg Implies A Major X-Men Character Exists In The MCU Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 25, 2022 12:24 pm EST “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” is already a quite different experience from most other titles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Where “Ms. Marvel” was a Disney Channel-style show with superheroes, and “Moon Knight” was more of a psychological thriller, this is a sitcom with very self-referential humor that finally allows the MCU to poke fun at itself....

Skyfall Was Filmed In Sequence, So Judi Dench’s Last Moment As M Was Truly Her Final Scene Sony Pictures Releasing By Miyako Pleines/Nov. 9, 2022 5:28 pm EST Only a handful of people have had the honor of taking on the role of the head of MI6. Known to fans of the James Bond franchise only as “M” the character has been played by four different actors over the course of Eon Productions’ Bond films....

Spirited Trailer: Will Ferrell And Ryan Reynolds Update A Christmas Carol Apple Original Films By Lex Briscuso/Oct. 12, 2022 11:08 am EST Remakes, reboots, reimaginings. Hollywood is obsessed with the “re-ification” — yeah, I’m copyrighting that — of the industry, and whenever there’s an opportunity to bring a franchise or original property back from the dead and spend a lot of unnecessary money on it, they do it. In that vein, Apple Original Films released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming holiday musical comedy, “Spirited,” starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, and Octavia Spencer....

The 5 Best Escape Room Horror Movies Trimark Pictures By Anya Stanley/July 19, 2022 8:31 pm EST A decade after escape rooms became popular — in which a team of players play detective and complete tasks together in a shared space in order to accomplish a specific, time-sensitive goal — the exit games, as they’re sometimes called, still have a stranglehold on popular culture, particularly in the movie theater. With recent movies like “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” getting tons of attention, it’s a good time to recommend some escape room horror movies to add to the watchlist....

A new form of late night Comedy Central The late night sphere as we know it feels like it’s dying a slow death: James Corden is leaving “The Late Late Show” in 2023, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” and “Conan” have already come to an end, and late night ratings are plummeting across the board. Though “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon and “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert aren’t going anywhere, that’s still not a vote of confidence in the lifespan of late night TV as we know it....

The Daily Stream: Peter Jackson’s King Kong Retains A Bit Of His Lord Of The Rings Magic Universal Pictures By Eric Vespe/Aug. 31, 2022 5:00 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 Movie: “King Kong” (2005) Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” doesn’t get the respect it deserves and I think it’s high time to re-evaluate his epic love letter to the movie that made him want to be a filmmaker in the first place....

Marvel Spotlight #2-4 Marvel Comics Why not start at the very beginning? It’s not always the best place to start with comics to be sure, but for Jack Russell, it’s as good a place as any. The werewolf first appeared in “Marvel Spotlight” #2, which was written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Mike Ploog, though the initial idea came from Roy Thomas, Jean Thomas, and Stan Lee, who contributed the name....

The Pain Hustlers: Everything We Know So Far About Netflix’s Crime Drama Starring Chris Evans Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 30, 2022 11:34 am EST We love watching Chris Evans in romantic comedies. In villainous roles. In action thrillers. And soon, in crime dramas. The actor has dabbled in distinct projects, more so since stepping away from his superhero responsibilities. He was recently seen playing the egocentric sociopath Lloyd Hansen alongside Ryan Gosling in Netflix’s “The Gray Man....

Tim Burton’s Batman Ending Explained: The Outsider Invited In Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Nov. 7, 2022 9:56 am EST It cannot be overstated just what a massive hit Tim Burton’s “Batman” was in 1989. It was an advertising bonanza the world hadn’t ever seen before. In terms of cultural ubiquity, “Batman” handily outstripped “Star Wars,” and nearly matched the franchise in its merchandising. In one of cinema history’s sweetest plum deals, Jack Nicholson — who played the Joker — not only received top billing but cut his own salary to a mere $6 million in exchange for a percentage of the film’s merch sales....

Wallace Shawn Felt Like He Was Living In Danny DeVito’s Shadow During The Filming Of The Princess Bride Wallace Shawn has had a long and impressive career, and yet he is best known by pretty much everyone for a single word: “Inconceivable!” Just about every character in “The Princess Bride” has at least one line so iconic that even those who’ve not seen the movie have heard the words uttered at some point....

Warner Bros. Discovery Has Axed $825 Million Worth Of Content Since The Merger Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 6, 2022 3:10 pm EST Details of Warner Bros. Discovery’s regulatory filing have been made public this weekend, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, they confirm what many suspected: the company has taken a hefty write-down in the months since the merger, meaning recent cancellations have been helping the company to even out its books....

Winter Soldier Disney+ When it comes to redemption in the MCU, James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes is at the very top of the list of people looking for exactly that. Captain America’s old friend found himself brainwashed by Arnim Zola and utilized as the top HYDRA assassin throughout the 20th century. Thanks to his pal Steve Rogers, Barnes was able to break free of the mind control and attempt to regain a semblance of a normal life while atoning for all the unspeakable acts that he committed while he was under HYDRA control....