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Why 2017’s The Dark Tower Movie Adaptation Bombed At The Box Office Sony Pictures By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Dec. 8, 2022 3:59 pm EST There’s good news for fans of author Stephen King, as a new adaptation of his book series “The Dark Tower” is on the way from “The Haunting of Hill House” creator Mike Flanagan and his producing partner, Trevor Macy. Though the story has frequently been described as “unfilmable,” this will actually be the second adaptation in the space of a few years....

Why Julie Adams Was Afraid To Turn Down Creature From The Black Lagoon Universal Pictures By Sarah Musnicky/Nov. 27, 2022 12:00 pm EST A young woman clad in a white bathing suit swims blissfully in a lagoon. She glides through the water, and, for a moment, she is suspended in time. It’s just her and the water … until it’s not. Something is watching her. A creature, a mixture of fish and man, is watching her from the depths, and after moments of observation, it pursues her....

A Psychic On The Larry Sanders Show Set Told Judd Apatow He Was Going To Direct Universal By Jeff Kelly/Dec. 8, 2022 11:36 am EST It’s pretty common knowledge among film and comedy fans that Judd Apatow got his start as a stand-up comic alongside his good friend — and one-time roommate — Adam Sandler. In fact, Apatow has recently gotten back to the stand-up grind, with … mixed results. But these days, he’s mostly known for his writing, directing ,and producing, to the point where his style of comedy essentially became its own genre for about a decade....

Director Damien Leone Regrets How Terrifier Treated One Of Its Central Characters RLJE Films By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 28, 2022 6:00 am EST With “Terrifier 2” tearing up the box office as of late, many horror fans may want to go back and check out the outlandish makeup effects featured in Damien Leone’s original “Terrifier” film. Before Art the Clown had become a popular Halloween tattoo and a neo-slasher icon, he was just a lowly hitchhiker on the side of a New Jersey highway waiting to pick out his first victims....

The Details on the New Elvira Figure NECA According to NECA’s official description of the figure, “the devilishly delightful Cassandra Peterson has played the part of Elvira for 40 years with grace, humor and more than a little camp. NECA is proud to present this fiendishly fantastic figure.” The new figure will include two heads (regular and winking) as well as a handful of accessories including a dagger, goblet, and skull candle....

How Avatar: The Way Of Water Is Pushing Blockbusters To The Next Level 20th Century Studios By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 2, 2022 8:27 am EST It’s that time of year — when studios release their big hitters, awards bait, and prestige dramas, and when every outlet releases their top 10 movies of the year lists too early. That’s because both studios and top 10 lists tend to underestimate that last major blockbuster that gets released towards the very tail end of the year, the movie that’s being sold as just entertainment, but ends up delivering rather complex and resonant stories....

How Susan Sarandon Helped Ridley Scott Shape The Story Of Thelma & Louise Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By J. Gabriel Ware/Oct. 8, 2022 8:00 pm EST 1991’s comedy-drama “Thelma & Louise’” centers on housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend, waitress Louise (Susan Sarandon), whose weekend road trip turns into an interstate womanhunt: Louise guns down a man who tries to rape Thelma during a pitstop at a tavern, and believing the cops wouldn’t believe their story, they try to flee to Mexico in Louise’s 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible....

In A24’s Aftersun, Director Charlotte Wells Shows Us That The Journey For Closure Is Equal Parts Painful And Necessary A24 By Erin Brady/Oct. 21, 2022 12:00 pm EST This piece contains spoilers for “Aftersun,” as well as discussions of trauma. Grief is a feeling that can’t be easily described or explained. A lot of questions come with it, and many of them never get answered. As for those that do, those answers aren’t usually cut and dry....

It Takes A Scary Amount Of Work To Make A Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror 20th Television Animation By Witney Seibold/Aug. 25, 2022 9:31 pm EST The first “Simpsons” Halloween special, first aired on October 25, 1990, was a banner event for the rising tide of “Simpsons” fans. Many a youth rushed to their VCRs that evening, eager to capture on tape an event unprecedented in the show. While “The Simpsons” typically had fewer structural rules than its live-action sitcom counterparts, it was still set in a relatively recognizable world....

Leon Vitali, Actor And Stanley Kubrick Collaborator, Dies At 74 Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock By Mike Shutt/Aug. 21, 2022 2:33 pm EST We all think of Stanley Kubrick as the ultimate mastermind director, someone in complete control of every minute detail of a picture, where every frame sprung entirely from his brain and onto the screen. In reality, he had a whole host of collaborators around him to aid in bringing that vision to life....

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Sets The Stage For War In ‘Circling Thoughts’ Crunchyroll By Adam Wescott/Dec. 12, 2022 1:10 pm EST “Delling is going to die.” So begins the end of the first half of “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury.” Every piece placed on the board in earlier episodes is making its move. Guel’s dad Vim Jeturk wants Delling dead. Sarius Zenelli of Grassley Defense Systems hedges his bets....

Raymond Lee On Making Right The New Things That Have Gone Wrong In The Quantum Leap Revival [Exclusive Interview] NBCUniversal By Jeff Ewing/Sept. 19, 2022 11:19 am EST “Quantum Leap,” the beloved cult sci-fi series that starred Scott Bakula the time-and-body jumping Dr. Sam Beckett, is finally leaping forward in time in a new reboot headed to NBC. The original series followed Dr. Beckett as he tried to make his way back home, all while trying to make right what once went wrong along the way....

Rick And Morty Writers Are ‘About To Start Breaking Stories For Season 9’ [Exclusive] Adult Swim By Ryan Scott/Nov. 15, 2022 11:24 am EST We’ve been living in a world with Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith for just shy of a decade, with “Rick and Morty” having debuted somewhat quietly in December 2013. But the show eventually became one of the most popular animated series on all of cable and, for a moment, was a downright cultural phenomenon....

Ridley Scott Drove His Casting Team ‘Crazy’ Finding The Right Actors For Alien Ridley Scott’s sci-fi slasher-in-space “Alien” recently celebrated its 40th birthday in 2019. The 1979 classic is not only hailed as one of the scariest films of all time, but boasts one of the most impressive casts in a horror movie. A mishmash of personalities and temperaments were necessary to sell the story of an interstellar freight crew that answers a mysterious signal from a nearby moon....

Sean Connery Helped Kevin Costner ‘Survive’ Acting Opposite Robert De Niro Paramount By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 2, 2022 11:45 am EST Before “The Untouchables” made Kevin Costner a bankable star, the only points of reference directors and casting agents had to gauge his acting potential were two early films, the coming-of-age road trip movie “Fandango” and Lawrence Kasdan’s bombastic Western “Silverado.” Brian De Palma saw something in Costner’s cocksure portrayal of Jake in “Silverado” and thought he might be able to add a spark and an edge to federal agent Elliot Ness....

Whatever the Case May Be (Season 1, Episode 12) Buena Vista Television Most “Lost” fans would agree that the show’s first season is its best. While later seasons got overly complicated, Season 1 found the perfect combination of character-building and action. The brilliant nonlinear structure that Damon Lindelof designed allowed the show to analyze each of the protagonists by revealing critical moments from their pasts. While episodes like “Walkabout” and “Deus Ex Machina” are often cited as standouts, “Whatever The Case May Be” does a great job at exploring Kate Austen’s (Evangeline Lily) guilt and inventiveness....

The Biggest Lesson More Comedies Need To Take From South Park Comedy Central By BJ Colangelo/Aug. 4, 2022 1:00 pm EST Depending on who you ask, “South Park” is the edgiest or most problematic show on television. The show’s legacy is heavily debated, with many finding it to be one of the last vestiges of envelope-pushing content available for mass audiences, and others believing it to be responsible for the boom of alt-right terrorists....

The Drop Trailer: What If The Nightmare Of Dropping A Friend’s Baby Came True? Hulu By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 12, 2022 9:02 pm EST “The Drop” is a title that could lend itself to any number of things. We’ve already seen one Tom Hardy movie, for instance, where “The Drop” referred to a money drop by the Chechen mafia at a Brooklyn bar. That movie was a crime drama, whereas Sarah Adina Smith’s new Hulu cringe comedy, “The Drop,” features a much more “unthinkable, unspeakable” premise....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Season 1 Ending Explained: In The Darkness Bind Them Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 17, 2022 3:32 pm EST The Second Age is arguably the most eventful, sparse, and complicated age in Middle-earth. Where the First Age is full of rich history, myth, and stories that Tolkien started working on even before “The Lord of the Rings,” which already chronicled most of the Third Age, the Second Age is full of contradictions and unfinished ideas....

The Meaning Of The Matrix Was Much More Direct In Early Drafts Warner Bros. By Michael Boyle/July 15, 2022 3:24 pm EST It’s been abundantly clear over the past few decades that it usually doesn’t matter what the writers’ intentions were — people will still badly misinterpret a movie or show regardless of how unsubtle it is. It’s why after three seasons of “The Boys,” you still have some extremely right-wing viewers who don’t understand that Homelander (Antony Starr) is supposed to be the villain....