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Juilliard Drove Val Kilmer Into His Early ‘Absurdist’ Comedy Roles Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 30, 2022 3:37 pm EST Years before he flaunted his versatility in “The Doors,” “Tombstone” and “Heat,” it appeared as though Val Kilmer was going to be one of Hollywood’s go-to comedy stars. Though David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker’s “Top Secret!” flopped at the box office in 1984, those who were wise enough to rush out and catch it walked away impressed with the actor’s ability to deadpan one moment and switch on his rockstar swagger the next....

Julian Fellowes Isn’t Sure If Downton Abbey: A New Era Is The End Of The Series Focus Features By Matthew Bilodeau/July 6, 2022 9:40 pm EST When your movie features a subtitle like “A New Era,” I think it’s safe to say that it opens the possibility of more “Downton Abbey” on the horizon. The second theatrical feature film from series creator Julian Fellowes (“The Gilded Age”) and director Simon Curtis (“My Week With Marilyn”) sees the aristocratic Crawleys scrambling after learning that the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) has inherited a villa in the south of France....

Elsass and Bohen took flight in real life The CW As it turns out, flying (especially while fighting) is a lot less fun than it looks. To make the scene look as realistic as possible, relatively little CGI was used — though the process was much rougher on the actors. To film one particularly strenuous attack, Elsass told CBR that he and Bohen were strapped into harnesses, spun around, then would let go and punch each other....

Losing A Tooth Mid-Scene Didn’t Slow Viggo Mortensen Down During The Lord Of The Rings New Line Cinema By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 31, 2022 1:59 pm EST [Runs in breathlessly while you’re watching “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” at home] Did you know Viggo Mortensen broke his toes in the scene where Aragorn kicks a helmet across the ground?!! Okay, yes, this is likely a piece of trivia that anyone who’s even remotely into Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” films has absorbed by now....

MCU Franchise Moments That Still Make Us Angry Marvel Studios By Margaret David/Aug. 15, 2022 6:21 pm EST The bigger that the Marvel Cinematic Universe becomes, the more stumbling points we seem to find. The early phases still get the brunt of our criticisms, which makes sense, because that was when the franchise was still finding its way. Just look at the evolution of Thor Odinson. The most “out there” of the initial Avengers, Thor’s MCU incarnation started out as a cool alien, with Asgard’s gilded technology passing for magic....

Nicolas Cage Will Star In Ari Aster-Produced Comedy Dream Scenario Lionsgate By Erin Brady/Aug. 30, 2022 8:28 pm EST Here’s a collaboration that’s a match made in heaven. A24 recently announced that they are financing and distributing a new comedy starring Nicolas Cage entitled “Dream Scenario.” While plot details other than its genre are being kept a secret, we know that it will be produced by “Hereditary” filmmaker Ari Aster, as well as written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli....

Studio 666 Release Date and Where to Watch It Open Road Films “Studio 666” was produced in secret, but now that the word is out there, we know the movie will be released exclusively in theaters by Open Road Films on February 25, 2021. We’re not sure how long the movie will be in theaters before arriving on VOD, but it likely depends on how the box office turns out for the upcoming project....

The movie: Dredd Lionsgate In the same year that “The Avengers” proved that the sky was the limit for superhero movies, the idea was hatched to take another crack at the “2000 AD” comics that inspired Sylvester Stallone’s 1995 flop “Judge Dredd.” But things were different this time around. For one, this iteration, simply titled “Dredd,” was being produced for a reasonable $45 million, as opposed to the reported $90 million that was spent on Stallone’s version....

The 12 Most Terrifying Moments In Barbarian, Ranked 20th Century Studios By Scott Thomas/Sept. 12, 2022 8:00 pm EST The following article contains major spoilers for the movie “Barbarian.” It is impossible to discuss “Barbarian” without spoiling “Barbarian.” That seems obvious, but the reveals of Zach Cregger’s horror phantasmagoria are partly what makes it art. At its core, the story of a woman named Tess (Georgina Campbell) who rents an Airbnb is about narratives — the ones that catalyze growth and the ones that leave others stymied....

You Only Live Twice United Artists Someone’s committing hijackings in space, but they’re doing more than just stealing some astro-hubcaps and catalytic converters. An entire NASA spacecraft has been stolen, and the U.S. is pointing its finger at the Russians. However, British intelligence thinks that Japan’s behind the crime, so they assign their best playboy, er, spy, James Bond, to fake his death in Hong Kong and make his way to the Land of the Rising Sun to find who to bed next and who’s messing with American rockets....

The Daily Stream: In The Mouth Of Madness Is An Overlooked Cosmic Gem New Line Cinema By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 6, 2022 4:00 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: “In the Mouth of Madness” Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video The Pitch: John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness” is an overlooked cosmic horror gem....

The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Finds A Way To Expand The MCU’s Most Heart-Shattering Relationship Marvel By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 26, 2022 2:09 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.” Michael Rooker has been James Gunn’s secret weapon throughout the course of his filmmaking career. Rooker has appeared in just about every film Gunn has ever made, so fans were shocked when his character, Yondu, died at the end of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

One production to rule them all Prime Video Executive producer Lindsey Weber backed up McKay’s awe of the expansive (and expensive) sets with vocal appreciation for the crew that made it happen: “We built as much as any group of humans could. So a huge amount of it was in-camera. It was a labor of love for thousands and thousands of people and crew members. We worked with incredible artists; we have an amazing costume designer, Kate Hawley, our brilliant production designer, Ramsey Avery, who’s here in the audience somewhere, a saint among men, and the legendary John Howe....

The Penguin HBO Max Series Finds A Director In Mare Of Easttown’s Craig Zobel Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 7, 2022 2:48 pm EST The writer-director and EP of “Mare of Easttown” is headed back to HBO (although, the Max version this time), for a project that seems like it’ll be a far cry from the emotional Kate Winslet-led detective series that earned him Emmy nominations last year. This time, filmmaker Craig Zobel will be helming “The Penguin,” the offshoot series based on the version of the Gotham villain Colin Farrell played in “The Batman” earlier this year....

There’s An Alternate Timeline In Which David Lynch Directed Fast Times At Ridgemont High Universal Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Aug. 10, 2022 5:17 pm EST It’s hard to believe “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” has continued to stand as one of the great teen comedies for over 40 years now, boasting a smorgasbord of career-launching performances such as Jennifer Jason Leigh (“The Hateful Eight”), Forest Whitaker (“The Last King of Scotland”), Judge Reinhold (“Beverly Hills Cop”), Phoebe Cates (“Gremlins”), and Sean Penn (“Mystic River”)....

Why Ellen Burstyn Finally Returned For An Exorcist Sequel Warner Bros. By Eric Vespe/Aug. 26, 2022 8:10 pm EST One of the biggest coups in recent memory is David Gordon Green getting Ellen Burstyn back for his new trilogy of “Exorcist” films. Burstyn was central to the first movie, playing the distraught mother of young Regan (Linda Blair), a poor girl with a little bit of a demon problem. There have been, by my count, four sequels and/or prequels and one surprisingly good TV show that have spun off from that first hugely successful film, but exactly zero of them got Burstyn to return....

Irvin Shapiro Rosebud Releasing Corporation Irvin Shapiro is a name that may not be well-known to the average filmgoer, but will be familiar to those who know a little bit about the history of international film distribution. Shapiro, one of the founders of the Cannes Film Festival, was responsible for scouring up interesting or important European films and finding theatrical and home video rights in the United States. Without Shapiro, American audiences would not have seen Sergei Eistenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin,” Robert Weine’s “The Cabinet of Dr....

They want things to feel premium 20th Century Studios The “10 Cloverfield Lane” director told Uproxx that “Prey” going straight to streaming was a decision made to prove that streaming has blockbuster potential. While the profitability might differ between the two methods of distribution, Trachtenberg says that Disney wanted to use his film as proof of how cinematic experiences can still deliver on the small screen. “Hulu hasn’t really had … a 20th franchise baby that has come out yet,” he explained, “so they’re hoping to really ignite the platform to say, ‘We’re not just putting out the smaller, lower-budget fare....

A Sauron origin story Prime Video He also explained that it was important that Sauron come across as a real person, as opposed to some faceless, looming evil. “We felt Sauron should be a character in his own right,” he explained. “We wanted to study the currents running within him in a way that hopefully would reward audiences as they follow him moving forward as he becomes the Dark Lord.” McKay goes on to say that the writers wanted viewers to know him as more than a name, and that season 1 in some way serves as “an origin story for Sauron....

Why The Start Production Of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Set A Bad Tone For George Lucas Lucasfilm By Michael Boyle/Dec. 7, 2022 3:02 pm EST Most “Star Wars” fans today would probably agree that “The Empire Strikes Back” is one of the best movies in the franchise, if not the best. It took all the main characters from the first movie and gave them individual storylines that were fresh and exciting, while also feeling like natural continuations of where they left off at the end of the original....