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2022 is a great year for horror Paramount The impressive opening weekend of “Orphan: First Kill” is the latest sign that 2022 is the year of horror. The Blumhouse flick “The Black Phone” had a killer theatrical run at the start of the summer, and Jordan Peele’s UFO flick “Nope” nabbed the highest box office opening for an original movie since Peele’s sophomore feature, “Us.” Horror is and has always been one of the most prolific and profitable genres in all of cinema, even if awards bodies continue to ignore the films that keep the industry alive between superhero releases....

Planning Doesn’t Play A Large Part In Quentin Tarantino’s Scriptwriting Process The Weinstein Company By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 16, 2022 7:43 am EST Some writers start with elaborate outlines for their stories, planning out the beats of what will happen or starting with the ending and reverse-engineering everything from there. Quentin Tarantino doesn’t roll like that. Though his filmography has inspired legions of fans and numerous imitators, Tarantino has said in the past that he considers himself more a writer than a director, and his two Academy Awards to date are both for screenwriting (though he’s also been nominated for directing, and is now a budding novelist as well)....

Solange Knowles Was Supposed To Join Beyoncé In Austin Powers In Goldmember New Line Cinema By Ethan Anderton/July 18, 2022 5:32 pm EST “Austin Powers in Goldmember” is packed with star-studded cameos, starting with the film’s blockbuster opening sequence. The first couple of minutes of the spy spoof features an impressive display of action, so much that it feels a little out of sorts for Austin Powers and falls more in line with a “Mission: Impossible....

Steve Martin Insisted On Doing An Elvis Impression In Little Shop Of Horrors Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/Oct. 26, 2022 9:00 am EST Whoever takes on the role of Dr. Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. in a production of “Little Shop of Horrors” has an incredibly difficult task laid out in front of them. You simultaneously have to play this big, goofy caricature of a tough guy, greaser type but without playing it too off-the-handle that the abuse he inflicts on his girlfriend Audrey isn’t flippant or downplayed....

A new trailer Walt Disney Animation Studios The first footage shown at D23 was a new trailer that feels like a mixture of “Lost in Space” with a Jules Verne twist. We see a family working on a farm, when a ship shows up, manned by a pilot, President Callisto Mal (voiced by Lucy Liu) who tells them that the world is in grave danger. She invites them to join her expedition, and our intrepid protagonist Searcher Clade (voiced by Jake Gyllenhaal), who yearns to find his famous explorer father who went missing when he was a kid, agrees....

The 15 Best Gregory Peck Movies, Ranked Hulton Archive/Getty Images By Audrey Fox/Oct. 6, 2022 4:59 pm EST Less sexualized than Gary Cooper and less filled with warm-hearted optimism than James Stewart, Gregory Peck nonetheless found a place for himself in classical Hollywood with a stoic (if occasionally muted), comfortingly authoritative presence. His career began in the early 1940s, when he found quick success as a leading man, and developed throughout the 1950s and 1960s when he took on the role that most people identify him with to this day: Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird....

The 15 Funniest Moments In The Office, Ranked NBC By Barry Levitt/Oct. 7, 2022 7:32 pm EST “The Office” has only grown in popularity over time. After its ninth and final season wrapped in 2013, the show has found a new life on streaming, and captured millions of new fans. Seven years after it finished, it was the single most streamed show of 2020, which is pretty staggering when you think about it....

The Dark Knight Returns Warner Bros Regardless of what you might think of writer and artist Frank Miller’s politics — or his obvious disdain for Superman — there is no denying the cultural significance of “The Dark Knight Returns.” The seminal comic series responsible for launching a million newspaper articles with headlines like “Biff! Pow! The Comic Grows Up,” “The Dark Knight Returns” both reinvented and reinvigorated the Caped Crusader....

A look inside The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Lionsgate On Thursday, Zegler hosted a TikTok tour of the “Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” set, giving us our first glimpse at what the prequel film holds for fans of the franchise. Highlights include Peter Dinklage donning all-black as the Hunger Games creator Casca Highbottom and Tom Blyth going full-on method actor as the future tyrant, Cornelius Snow. (Throwing coffee cups at costars is the first step on one’s path to dictatorship....

The Delightful And Endearing Thing Sam Raimi Does On Set When He Loves A Take Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images By BJ Colangelo/July 28, 2022 5:43 pm EST We here at /Film love ourselves some Sam Raimi. The auteur filmmaker has been dazzling audiences for over 40 years, with genre-bending films like “The Evil Dead,” “Crimewave,” “The Quick and the Dead,” “Darkman,” “Drag Me to Hell,” and the original “Spider-Man” films, not to mention lending his hand to TV shows like “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “M....

The Midnight Club: Everything We Know So Far About Mike Flanagan’s New Netflix Series Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 1, 2022 12:33 pm EST Nobody’s telling horror stories quite like Mike Flanagan right now. His films and TV shows are equal parts heartbreaking and terrifying. His characters are often holding onto deep-seated emotional wounds, many of which are brought painfully to the surface in the face of some monstrous threat or supernatural danger....

The Original E.T. Model From The Movie Is Going Up For Auction, And You’ll Just Need A Couple Million Bucks Universal Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 1, 2022 12:56 pm EST Someone is going to have one seriously out-of-this-universe Christmas this year. Turner Classic Movies and Julien’s Auctions are auctioning off the original mechatronic model created to play E.T. in “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.” The mechanized puppet that served as the E.T. Hero “No ....

The Painted Table Is House Of The Dragon’s Coolest Prop Yet HBO Max By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 24, 2022 1:08 pm EST Fantasy shows and movies, regardless of how good their plot is, how stunning their special effects work, or how big and expansive their world feels, depend heavily on the verisimilitude provided by their production design. If you’re selling a big fantasy world that is not our own, you need to sell the feeling of your fantasy world being real, that there are people who live there, stories we’re not seeing, a history that impacts current events, cultures and traditions that inform the characters....

The Rings Of Power Is A Show Full Of Sexual Tension And No Kissing (Until Now) Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Oct. 1, 2022 8:00 am EST Spoilers for episode 6 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Love comes to Middle-earth! In episode 6 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” all that tension between Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova) and Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) has finally resulted in a smooch....

The Rings Of Power Just Set The Stage For Some Major Lord Of The Rings Characters Prime Video By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 10, 2022 12:30 pm EST “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” isn’t the first time trolls have tried to break up a fellowship, and it isn’t the first time we’ve heard the name Isildur, either. With its sprawling cast, it could be easy to lose track of names and faces in the series, including who is new and who we’ve already seen in the Peter Jackson live-action adaptations: The “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” movie trilogies, adapted from the works of J....

The What We Do In The Shadows Season 4 Finale Hit The Reset Button In The Most Amusing Way Possible FX By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 8, 2022 3:00 pm EST This post contains major spoilers for the season 4 finale of “What We Do In The Shadows.” Bojack Horseman once said that, in a sitcom, nothing can ever really change and you could not get a happy ending. That’s because, “if everyone’s happy, the show would be over, and above all else, the show has to keep going....

Conflicting stories Miramax Films While Madsen says he turned the role down due to his prior commitments, Travolta had a different story of how he ended up playing Vincent Vega, that he told at the Supanova Comic Con & Gaming event in 2019, where he spoke of Tarantino offering him two roles after they spent a pretty odd night together. “One was ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ then he offered me ‘Pulp Fiction....

A ‘sword-swinging pain in the ass’ Disney/Lucasfilm Providing much of the same energy as Kilmer’s Madmartigan, the role of Boorman comes with a special kind of pressure. /Film’s Bryan Young spoke with Amar Chadha-Patel about the experience of being part of the show in that capacity and whether he was aware of the character’s legacy and its importance to the world of “Willow:” “Oh, I’m thinking about it all the time....

You Can Blame South Park For Beavis And Butt-Head Not Getting A Musical Episode Paramount+ By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 4, 2022 1:52 pm EST Today is a beautiful day: the “Beavis and Butt-Head” revival is now streaming on Paramount+. The animated series about the misadventures of two of the world’s stupidest high-schoolers comes after the streaming service released “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe,” a feature-length film that explained how the boys made it to 2022 without aging a bit....

A Community Movie Is Merely A Matter Of When, According To Dan Harmon NBC By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 22, 2022 6:46 pm EST It’s been eight long years since Dan Harmon’s beloved TV show, “Community,” concluded its sixth season, which, per the sage words of Danny Pudi’s universe-hopping character Abed, means the show should’ve given us a series-capping motion picture by now. Fans believed in the six-seasons-and-a-movie dream, but aside from some vague comments here and there, Harmon has yet to confirm that this bold promise will actually be fulfilled....