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Drax Isn’t Shirtless In The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special, But His Nipples Are Probably Fine Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/Nov. 25, 2022 11:35 am EST Minor nipple-related spoilers ahead for “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.” Since 2017, we’ve been worried about Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista). The poor guy lost his entire family, survived many battles, and struggled to understand how to not take everything anyone says literally....

Futurama Gave Itself A Clever Excuse For Ignoring Any Continuity Errors 20th Television By Witney Seibold/July 28, 2022 4:54 pm EST As one must always recall when talking about “Futurama,” it’s a show made by genius sci-fi nerds. Those who know the show likely know that its writers’ room is full of people with advanced degrees in mathematics and computer science, a fact that plays itself out in multiple gags throughout the series; there is, for instance, an oblique math reference involved in Bender’s serial number....

Guy Ritchie’s ‘Knights Of The Roundtable: King Arthur’ Pushed Back To 2017 DFree/Shutterstock Next summer was meant to bring Guy Ritchie’s first venture into fantasy with Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur, but now Warner Bros. Pictures has decided to push the film back from its original July 22nd, 2016 release date to a release early in 2017 instead. Is the studio no longer confident in the film? Are there problems behind the scenes?...

Harrison Ford Isn’t Happy With His Decision To Turn Down Syriana Warner Bros. By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Nov. 20, 2022 6:00 pm EST It largely speaks to how different the landscape of Hollywood used to be compared to our present that even though Harrison Ford has been immortalized in two of pop culture’s biggest Blockbuster franchises, he still has had a long and fulfilling career outside of those bubbles. Maybe it’s the transition into IP-driven pictures and cinematic universes, but where most actors these days often find themselves stuck typecast, Ford thrived beyond his time as Han Solo and Indiana Jones....

HBO Releases First Footage From The White Lotus Season 2 HBO Max By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 18, 2022 5:18 pm EST HBO Max released its latest “coming soon” promo today, and wedged between clips from “Westworld” and “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” viewers can catch a glimpse of the very first footage from “The White Lotus” season 2. Mike White’s resort-set satire series had a stellar first season last summer, pulling in enthusiastic reviews and dominating social media discourse week after week....

Here’s How Spider-Man: Freshman Year Fits Into The MCU Marvel Studios By Erin Brady/July 28, 2022 5:54 pm EST “Spider-Man: Freshman Year” is perhaps one of the most interesting future Marvel projects currently in development. After all, its title and school setting seems to suggest that the animated series would take place after the massive memory wipe made by Peter (Tom Holland) at the end of “No Way Home.” However, that’s not necessarily the case....

Horror Actors Who Passed Away After Filming Movies Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenn Adams/Dec. 11, 2022 10:15 am EST Death and the horror genre go hand in hand. Not every scary movie features the death of a character, and horror is certainly not the only type of film in which characters die, but terrifying films deal with the business of death (i.e. the realms both near and beyond the grave). Once the cameras stop rolling and the director yells “cut,” most actors walk back into the sunlight and leave the terrifying scenes they’re creating behind....

How The Rings Of Power Composer Bear McCreary Emulated Howard Shore’s Lord Of The Rings Score [Exclusive] Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 15, 2022 8:48 am EST As much as the story, the battles, and the visuals of “Lord of the Rings” made it a pop culture powerhouse, a record-tying Oscar winner, a box office success, and a meme generator, Howard Shore’s music grounded it all in a place of both magic and realism....

James Cameron Put Together A Writers Room To Create A ‘Silmarillion’ For Avatar 20th Century Studios By Witney Seibold/Dec. 16, 2022 2:42 pm EST It seems that when James Cameron isn’t actively making “Avatar” movies, he’s thinking about “Avatar” movies. As the filmmaker admitted in an interview with ScreenRant, he wouldn’t allow his co-screenwriters, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, to begin work on “Avatar: The Way of Water” without first reading a massive 800-page tome explaining the mythos and backstory of his sci-fi universe....

Karl Urban Always Starts His Characters From Scratch Prime Video By Debopriyaa Dutta/Oct. 11, 2022 2:46 pm EST One might think that Karl Urban starred in his first fantasy role when he played Éomer in Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but that is not the case. Although Jackson’s trilogy was Urban’s first high-profile fantasy role, the actor kickstarted his career with the role of Cupid in the television series, “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys....

Marvel Studios Marvel officially announced the development of a new “Fantastic Four” movie in late 2020, with “Spider-Man” trilogy filmmaker Jon Watts attached to direct, but a few months later, Watts stepped away from the project. Now a new report says Shakman will step in to fill that void. Meet your Fantastic Four director After proving he can handle a myriad of tones behind the camera with credits on shows like “Happy Endings,” “Mad Men,” “The Boys,” “Fargo,” and “Succession” (just to name a few), Shakman has become one of the go-to names for directing on the small screen....

Michael Mann Almost Made A James Dean Biopic With A Young Leonardo DiCaprio Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 10, 2022 5:10 pm EST Director Michael Mann and Leonardo DiCaprio came very close to working together on “The Aviator” in the aughts, only for Mann to hand the project over to Leo’s pal Martin Scorsese instead. But as it happens, Mann and DiCaprio had a previous close call in the 1990s, back when the latter was still just a whipper-snapper coming into his own after early career roles on the sitcoms “Parenthood” and “Growing Pains....

‘I never imagined a Marvel film would provide the space to see such engagement’ Marvel Studios Jenkins called Tenoch Huerta’s portrayal of Namor, a character whose comic book origin is reframed in terms of Mayan culture, “a rewarding gambit” in “Wakanda Forever.” Alluding again to Boseman and his “Black Panther” protagonist, T’Challa, Jenkins also keyed in on how “the Mesoamerican film within the film runs hand in hand with the mourning of both man and character as the movie’s beating heart....

New Death Note Live-Action Series Coming From Stranger Things Creators, The Talisman Adaptation Confirmed Adult Swim By Ryan Scott/July 6, 2022 1:36 pm EST Netflix is staying in the Duffer Brothers business — and seemingly for the long haul. Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of “Stranger Things,” have launched a production company called Upside Down Pictures, named after the monster-filled world featured in their beloved sci-fi series, and have teamed with the streaming service for several high-profile projects....

A process of discovery AMC The sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” opens with a “Breaking Bad” flash forward, where viewers are treated to a rare look at the lavish house of Saul Goodman while federal officers seize it. As a piece of furniture is carried out of Saul’s house, a Zafiro Añejo tequila bottle stopper falls onto the street. The Hollywood Reporter asked series co-creator (and creator of the Saul Goodman character) Peter Gould if the writing team always planned for the return of this object, which was first featured in the season 2 premiere of the show, and is essentially representative of Jimmy and Kim’s relationship:...

One Film Never Failed To Bring Humphrey Bogart To Tears Warner Bros. By Leigh Giangreco/July 5, 2022 9:51 pm EST In the golden age of Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart epitomized the tough guy of the silver screen. He portrayed men who were uniquely American, yet rarely would be considered good role models for young patriots. Bogart was able to maintain the grizzled appearance of a cowboy even when smoking in an alabaster suit....

One Meeting Is All It Took To Decide Kaley Cuoco’s Harley Quinn Casting HBO Max By Ben F. Silverio/July 30, 2022 5:10 pm EST In life, sometimes you just know when something is right. Your first sip of coffee in the morning. Cuddling up by the fire with your partner on a chilly winter night. Casting “What We Do In The Shadows” star Harvey Guillén as Nightwing in the third season of “Harley Quinn” on HBO Max....

One Of Armie Hammer’s Accusers Says House Of Hammer Filmmakers Are Exploiting Her Trauma Discovery+ By Shania Russell/Sept. 3, 2022 2:00 pm EST It’s been a year and half since Armie Hammer’s stardom publicly imploded and somehow, there’s already a docuseries about it. What began with one woman sharing her story eventually led to a snowball effect as many of Hammer’s former girlfriends stepped forward to share horrifying accusations and proof of threatening text messages....

One Of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Best Villains Could Make Return In Season 2 Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 6, 2022 4:52 pm EST “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is, unlike the bulk of modern scripted television, presented in an episodic format. Like classic “Star Trek,” each episode concludes at the end of the hour, presenting — if done well — a miniature morality play of the week. “Strange New Worlds” dares to dabble in that most taboo of modern storytelling tropes: the status quo....

Prey Ending Explained: This Is As Far As You Go Hulu By Ernesto Valenzuela/Aug. 5, 2022 8:50 pm EST Dan Trachtenberg has created a bold return to form for the “Predator” franchise in “Prey,” a film that follows a young female Comanche warrior looking to track down the Predator that’s made her Nation’s forest into its hunting grounds. The streaming-exclusive movie is filled to the brim with rich social and character dynamics....