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Get in the robot, Shinji! One last time… After years and years of wait, “Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time” was finally released last year thanks to Prime Video. Sadly, the release meant the film went straight into streaming. It is a bit of a cliché to say movies are best seen on the big screen, but in this case, it is absolutely true. After all, why watch a movie version of a TV show if you’re going to watch it on the same screen you watch the TV show?...

Here’s When The Peaky Blinders Movie Will Start Shooting BBC/Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/July 28, 2022 1:33 pm EST “In the bleak midwinter…” Unlike the finality of the phrase that Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his fellow Peaky Blinders recite when they believe that they’re about to shuffle off this mortal coil, “Peaky Blinders” itself will live on even after its “death.” The gangster series, which saw Tommy’s rickety crew raise themselves up from the mud of Birmingham horse-racing to the grand steps of Parliament itself, has been given new life, thanks to creator Steven Knight’s plans to follow up the final season with the continued adventures of our favorite criminal mastermind....

You want to open this jar of pickles for me? Hulu Okay, I don’t know about you, but I’m getting serious mixed signals here. It may just seem like semantics that I’m reading far too much into, but saying “all three seasons” makes it sound like “The Orville” is coming to an end after the third season finale and the whole story is coming to Disney+. There’s the bit about staying on Hulu, but again there’s no mention of new episodes streaming there either....

How Paddy Considine Was Transformed Into The Decaying King Viserys For House Of The Dragon HBO By Sarah Musnicky/Oct. 23, 2022 2:34 pm EST Viewers of “House of the Dragon” have watched the alarming decline of King Viserys (Paddy Considine) over the course of the first season. With the show’s time jumps, there is a striking visual progression as disease takes hold and breaks down the doomed King’s body. Innocuous scars here and there eventually turn Viserys into a walking corpse of man, with missing limbs and the complete destruction of one side of his face....

The X factor 20th Century Studios Just to recap, “Deadpool” and “Deadpool 2” were both wildly successful, with nearly identical grosses around the globe. The two films made a combined $1.56 billion at the global box office, an impressive feat for an R-rated movie, which shattered many records along the way. That was achieved without Jackamn’s Wolverine, who is perhaps the most beloved actor to have played an A-list superhero in history, right up there with Robert Downey Jr....

James Cameron’s Temper Was On Full Display During The Filming Of Avatar By Jeremy Smith/July 12, 2022 10:00 am EST James Cameron is a notoriously temperamental genius. Some call him a perfectionist. Others prefer tyrant. The older, wiser, chiller Cameron would agree with the latter assessment. The days of the overly rigorous demands that turned the making of “The Abyss” into a battleground between the director and his overwhelmed actors — e....

Kristen Bell Channeled Veronica Mars’ Cancellation Into Forgetting Sarah Marshall Hulu By Matt Rainis/Nov. 14, 2022 3:02 pm EST “Veronica Mars” is just one of the countless shows that was canceled far earlier than it deserved. The show, which aired on UPN for two years before moving to The CW for season 3, followed teen private investigator Veronica Mars as she navigates scandals and mysteries in her hometown of Neptune, California....

Locke & Key Season 3 Trailer: Pirates And Time-Travel And Demons, Oh My! Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/July 28, 2022 2:40 pm EST One of the best comics of the 2010s, “Locke & Key” is a horror coming-of-age adventure like no other. Sharply written by Joe Hill, and exquisitely illustrated by Gabriel Rodríguez, it combined horror and fantasy while delivering an endearing teenage story about forgiveness and family. Despite its massive popularity, however, the comic had a rather rocky road to the screen, with two failed pilots and a movie trilogy that never made it past development....

M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs Almost Had A Very Different Alien Design Touchstone Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 3, 2022 4:51 pm EST When movie fans think of M. Night Shyamalan’s best-ever horror movie, the first to come to mind is likely “The Sixth Sense” … and they’d be right. But for those looking for a slightly more outside-the-box entry, the director’s 2002 alien invasion thriller “Signs” has set itself apart as a worthy conversation-starter and an exhilarating experience....

One Of The Scariest Scenes In Rob Zombie’s Halloween II Brings Out The Dead Dimension Films By Chris Evangelista AND Matt Donato/Oct. 28, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato. In this edition, Chris checks into the hospital from hell with Rob Zombie’s “Halloween II.”) Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” is not very good....

Sean Bean Scaled An Actual Mountain To Get To Set For The Lord Of The Rings New Line Cinema By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 15, 2022 2:03 pm EST One does not simply walk into Mordor, and it turns out that some of the shooting locations for Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” films weren’t an easy stroll away, either. Jackson’s trilogy was shot in New Zealand, using the beautiful landscape to create the world of Middle-earth instead of just throwing it together digitally later....

She-Hulk’s Creators Almost Took The Show’s Deadpool-Esque Meta Elements One Step Further Marvel Studios By Lyvie Scott/Aug. 11, 2022 4:50 pm EST Though “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” is still creeping towards its official premiere, many of the show’s more technical aspects have already been scrutinized within an inch of their lives. The CGI tasked with transforming Tatiana Maslany from a mild-mannered (and human) lawyer into a big, green fighting machine is a topic on many Marvel fans’ minds — but so are the fourth wall breaks that will feature heavily throughout the series....

The Daily Stream: Celebrate Sixty Years Of What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Oct. 30, 2022 4:30 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: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: The 1960s were a pivotal time for horror....

Tim Burton Turned Down The Chance To Direct 1991’s The Addams Family Paramount Pictures By Drew Tinnin/Dec. 11, 2022 1:00 pm EST Looking back, it’s a small miracle that “The Addams Family” became the box office smash that it did when the pitch-black comedy debuted in theaters over Thanksgiving in 1991. According to a Variety interview for the film’s 30th anniversary, director Barry Sonnenfeld painted a pretty grim picture for the film that got caught up in a studio change when Orion Pictures was suddenly sold to Paramount halfway through filming....

Why Celebrity Stunt Casting Hurts Animated Movies — And How Hollywood Can Fix It DreamWorks By BJ Colangelo/Aug. 16, 2022 9:25 am EST In September of 2021, Nintendo and Illumination Entertainment announced that they were finally going to make a feature-length animated movie based on the world of “Super Mario Bros.” The film boasts a star-studded cast, including Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike, and Charles Martinet, who has been the sole voice of Mario for 30 years....

Why The Muppet Christmas Carol’s Long Lost Song When Love Is Gone Got Cut (And How It’s Coming To Disney+) Disney By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 14, 2022 11:42 am EST Everyone has their preferred screen rendition of “A Christmas Carol,” and while I am partial to the 1951 film version (an inky black-and-white vision that captures the cold, chilly spirit of Charles Dickens’ ghost story), my heart belongs to another re-telling. I refer, of course, to 1992’s “The Muppet Christmas Carol,” which is not only one of all-time best Muppet movies but also (no joke) one of the most historically accurate depictions of Victorian fashion put to film....

Zack Estrin, Producer Of Prison Break And Lost In Space, Has Died At 51 Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 26, 2022 1:23 am EST Zack Estrin, who served as the showrunner of Netflix’s “Lost in Space” and was also known as a producer and writer on “Prison Break” and other TV shows, has died at the age of 51. While the cause of Estrin’s death remains unconfirmed at this time, it was verified through his talent agency, and Variety reports that he is believed to have suffered cardiac arrest while jogging in Hermosa Beach, California, where he lived....

Was it all in Bateman’s head? Lionsgate What are we to make of this ending? There are commonly two interpretations here, and while I don’t think either is “wrong,” I personally think one is more accurate than the other. The first interpretation — and the one that I heard the most when the film first came out — is that almost everything that happened in the movie was in Bateman’s head....

Charlie Sheen’s Platoon Casting Depended On The Opinion Of Willem Dafoe Orion By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 29, 2022 3:29 pm EST As a twice-wounded veteran of the Vietnam War, Oliver Stone had a solemn responsibility to drive home the savagery of this tragically misguided conflict to modern audiences via “Platoon.” It had been a little over a decade since the last U.S. helicopter left Saigon, and the filmmaker wanted to make sure no one would forget the myriad of atrocities committed in America’s name....

New Demon Reveal: Daki Crunchyroll, Inc. In episode 3, titled “What Are You?” the demon that has been hiding out in Yoshiwara is finally revealed. Somewhat unsurprisingly, she has been working as an Oiran in the same house that Zenitsu was “sold” to. The demon’s name is Daki, but she has been disguising herself as a beautiful human for decades, always choosing aliases that contain the word “hime.” Her current alias is Warabihime....