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Scream Slays Spider-Man Paramount Pictures According to Box Office Mojo, “Scream,” directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (“Ready or Not”) nabbed a very solid $30.6 million debut through Sunday. But let’s not forget that we have a long weekend for MLK Day, with Monday expected to bring in a healthy chunk of change as well. Come Tuesday morning, it’s expected that the slasher flick will have earned around $36 million domestically....

The rights United Artists Initially, the American remake rights to “Seven Samurai” were owned by a screenwriter named Lou Morheim who wrote the scripts for films like “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,” and TV shows like “The Outer Limits,” “The Big Valley,” and “Rawhide.” He would also eventually serve as an executive producer on the project. It was Morheim who pitched the Western “Seven Samurai” idea to actor Anthony Quinn as a potential vehicle....

Spock And Kirk’s First Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Meeting Is Something The Writers Are Taking Very Seriously Paramount By Witney Seibold/Aug. 17, 2022 1:50 pm EST In the first season finale of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” titled “A Quality of Mercy,” Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is transported about seven years into the future thanks to exposure to some Klingon Time Crystals. He finds himself inserted into the events of the original series “Star Trek” episode “Balance of Terror,” and faces off against a mysterious Romulan captain....

Stargate’s Production Went The Extra Mile With Recreating Ancient Egypt MGM By Debopriyaa Dutta/Dec. 14, 2022 1:15 pm EST Before his bonkers space movie “Moonfall,” Roland Emmerich made a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi flick named “Stargate,” whose plot centered around extraterrestrials laying the foundation for human civilization. When “Stargate” hit theaters in 1994, critics tore Emmerich’s sci-fi adventure film to shreds, criticizing it for its consistently corny tone and underbaked storyline. On the box-office front, “Stargate” performed considerably well, and went on to become Emmerich’s breakthrough film, which eventually led to the culturally relevant, well-received “Independence Day....

The Disaster Artist A24 Tommy Wiseau is one of the most fascinating figures in film, which made Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s book “The Disaster Artist” a perfect subject for a film adaptation. The movie covers the making of Wiseau’s unintentional midnight cult film “The Room,” in which the peculiar filmmaker makes baffling directorial decisions, spends way, way too much money, and mostly just weirds out everyone he meets. Despite it all, people are weirdly entranced by his passion to get his movie made, and regardless of how odd this guy is, you can’t help but cheer for “The Room” and the success that followed....

The 12 Most Upsetting Deaths In The Walking Dead AMC Networks By Bee Delores/Dec. 22, 2022 11:09 am EST “The Walking Dead” ended its 11th and last season with a bang. While three spinoffs are coming soon, including “Dead City,” it was the final farewell to the flagship series. Throughout its run, diehard fans came to care deeply about its characters and were glued to their televisions, hooked into stories about survival and keeping humanity intact....

Episode 15: Wager Madhouse The cat-and-mouse game that makes up the bulk of “Death Note” is riddled with sudden turns. Just look at this episode, which is an excellent example of how thrilling the show can be, and how quickly the fates of its characters can change. “Wager” starts with Light planning to kill L, and ends not only with the task incomplete, but with Light in immediate danger of being discovered as Kira....

The Best Sci-Fi Movies Coming To Streaming In January Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 20, 2022 1:34 pm EST Between films about deadly dancing A.I. dolls, Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs, and the uber-rich cloning themselves, there are some pretty wild sci-fi movies on the menu in early 2023. The genre has always been well-equipped to tackle the biggest issues on everybody’s mind at any given point in history, and that will remain the case heading into the new year....

The Daily Stream: Mike Judge’s Beavis And Butt-Head Is Lewd, Crude And Just As Relevant As Ever Paramount+ By Eric Vespe/Aug. 8, 2022 9:53 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: “Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head” (2022) Where You Can Stream It: Paramount+ The Pitch: Like it or hate it, we live in an era driven by nostalgia and that means a dependable stream of older IP being remade, rebooted, and legacy-sequeled....

The Pale Blue Eye Trailer: Christian Bale Meets Edgar Allan Poe Netflix By Ryan Scott/Oct. 27, 2022 11:06 am EST Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Christian Bale’s latest, “The Pale Blue Eye,” which also represents another collaboration for him with director Scott Cooper. Bale, who is coming off of this summer’s “Thor: Love and Thunder,” previously worked with Cooper on movies like “Out of the Furnace” and “Hostiles....

The Rings Of Power Production Designer On Building Death Into The Walls Of Númenor [Exclusive Interview] Prime Video By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 12, 2022 2:00 pm EST If there’s one things that critics and viewers of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” agree on, it’s that the series’ sets and visuals are simply stunning. I had the chance to talk with the show’s production designer, Ramsey Avery, about all things Númenor, the human-populated island kingdom that we were introduced to in the latest episode....

Titans Season 4 Brings Zombies To DC With Plenty Of Nods To Dawn Of The Dead HBO Max By Marcos Melendez/Dec. 3, 2022 4:00 pm EST This post contains mild spoilers for “Titans” season 4. A new season of “Titans” is upon us, and it’s more unhinged than ever before. A blend of magic and horror, season 4 delves into the supernatural as the titular team finds itself at the center of a prophecy that could end the world for good....

Who Is Eternity In Thor: Love And Thunder? A Key Marvel Character Explained Marvel Studios By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 8, 2022 11:30 am EST Note: Major spoilers for “Thor: Love and Thunder” below. Filmmaker Taika Waititi’s highly-anticipated sequel “Thor: Love and Thunder,” which is Chris Hemsworth’s ninth film as the all-powerful Norse God, is here. While Hemsworth left fans in the dark about whether this would be his final appearance as the God of Thunder, judging from the end credits, Thor’s adventures will continue to reign in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

The in-universe backstory Prime Video The backstory behind their relationship was fleshed out in the animated series “The Boys Presents: Diabolical.” In the eleven-minute episode “One Plus One Equals Two,” we see young Homelander going on his first mission as part of the Seven. The mission’s a hostage situation in a chemical plant, and Homelander’s already on edge going into it because he knows Black Noir is overseeing him. At first, Homelander dislikes Noir because at that point Noir was far more popular than him, and he believes that Noir’s out to get him....

Without This Legendary Western Director, We Wouldn’t Have JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Viz Media By Debopriyaa Dutta/Aug. 15, 2022 12:20 pm EST In 1987, when manga-ka Hirohiko Araki penned the first chapters of “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure,” he was still exploring what would later be known as his signature artistic style. Soon, “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” became Araki’s magnum opus, and the long-running series is widely celebrated for its unique use of standard shonen tropes....

A Pre-Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Have Turned The Book Of Life Into ‘A Hip-Hop Salsa Reggaeton Musical’ 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 9, 2022 2:24 pm EST The year was 2007. Lin-Manuel Miranda had yet to conquer Broadway with “Hamilton,” much less position himself as the heir apparent to Alan Menken at Disney. Meanwhile, DreamWorks Animation was still making “Shrek” sequels and had somehow convinced itself “The Bee Movie” was a good idea (more on that later)....

What was the best sketch of the night? The season 48 premiere of “Saturday Night Live” gave a proper introduction to the four new featured players added to the cast: Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker. Though all of them were given the spotlight in the cold open, only Michael Longfellow got a standout moment on his own at the Weekend Update desk. But this week, all four of them were the stars of a sketch based solely around their arrival on “SNL....

Cocaine Bear Director Elizabeth Banks Reflects On Working With The Late, Great Ray Liotta Warner Bros. By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 30, 2022 1:30 pm EST Elizabeth Banks’ upcoming movie “Cocaine Bear” is already a total fever dream, and it hasn’t even come out yet. But the high octane thriller is highly anticipated, part of which is — aside from the fact that it’s about a bear on cocaine — is that it contains legendary actor Ray Liotta’s last on-screen performance following his passing earlier this year....

Cool Hand Luke Taught Paul Newman That Method Acting Has Its Limits Warner Bros.-Seven Arts By Anya Stanley/Aug. 28, 2022 7:30 pm EST When giving out movie recommendations for movie night with teens, one that might raise eyebrows is “Cool Hand Luke.” But Stuart Rosenberg’s 1967 prison movie makes perfect sense for the youths. Adapted from the 1965 book of the same name by ex-con Donn Pierce, the tale contains what Lee Adams calls “one of the great anti-authoritarian figures of American cinema....

The best sketch of the night If I’m being totally honest, I actually think that the best parts of this weekend’s “SNL” came from Weekend Update. Both Sarah Sherman and Marcello Hernandez were fantastic with bits at the desk, not to mention the fact that Colin Jost and Michael Che have been on a roll lately with stellar headline jokes. But if we’re talking the best actual sketch from the evening, it goes to “Potato Hole....