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Margot Robbie Supports Lady Gaga As Harley Quinn, Just Wants Great Actors To Make Great Art Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 8, 2022 11:26 am EST While Margot Robbie and her costars in David Ayers’ 2016 “Suicide Squad” film got off to a rough start with their DC Comics characters, Robbie has since come into her own more as the Joker’s ex-girlfriend, Harley Quinn, in Cathy Yan’s “Birds of Prey” and James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad....

Say ‘Nanu nanu’ to your favorite martian CBS Television Distribution Garry Marshall, whose feature directorial legacy over five decades includes comedies “Overboard,” “Beaches,” and “Pretty Woman,” among others, remembered his shock at having an agent so eager to get eyes on Williams, writing, “It is not often you get an agent begging.” Williams’ talent became impossible to ignore when Ronny Hallin saw the comedian’s act and thought he was something special....

Outlander Season 7 Teaser: Do Jamie Frasers Dream Of Electric Light? Starz By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Dec. 23, 2022 8:59 pm EST The horniest time-traveling couple in all of Scotland (and later, all of France, and then all of colonial America) are set to return in summer 2023, and Starz is already getting fans warmed up with the first teaser trailer for “Outlander” season 7. Based on the books by Diana Gabaldon, the historical romance (tinged with either sci-fi or fantasy, depending on your interpretation of how the standing stones work) has taken Claire and Jamie Fraser a long journey so far, but there are many miles still to go....

Remo Williams Will Finally Continue His Adventures In A TV Series Orion Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 9, 2022 7:03 am EST In 1985, the late Fred Ward starred in a pulpy action movie called “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,” about a Brooklyn cop and Vietnam vet, who has his death faked and his face surgically altered to become a martial artist and government assassin. Based on the long-running “Destroyer” series of books by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, the film was meant to jumpstart a new franchise, with its title suggesting that Remo, like Batman, was just beginning his screen adventures and would enjoy many more of them....

Robbie Coltrane Gave The James Bond Franchise One Of Its Best Frenemies MGM / UA By Witney Seibold/Oct. 14, 2022 4:00 pm EST Martin Campbell’s 1995 film “GoldenEye,” the first James Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan, was about 007’s place in a post-Cold War world, a world where international espionage suddenly took on a very different shape. The plot of the movie involved leftover Soviet war satellites and leftover resentments....

She Said Bombed At The Box Office In Historic Fashion While The Menu Served Up A Nice Surprise Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/Nov. 21, 2022 2:26 pm EST It would be hard to argue against the box office recovery that has been taking place in 2022 thus far. Domestically, ticket sales overall sit at $6.51 billion compared to $4.48 billion in 2021 and an abysmal $2.1 billion in 2020. That said, we are still seeing the limitations of what audiences will and won’t turn up for in the post-pandemic theatrical landscape, and non-franchise, adult-friendly fare that isn’t some kind of horror or thriller movie is suffering badly....

Sinking Spring: Everything We Know So Far About Ridley Scott’s Drug Ring Drama Series Sony Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 11, 2022 4:04 pm EST Sir Ridley Scott is 84 years young and is still going strong as one of the most consistent, professional, and reliable filmmakers currently working. Never mind the fact that his recent creative output rivals those more than half his age or that his cast and crew always praise his ability to know exactly what he wants and how to achieve it, but to do so at such high quality for so many decades speaks to just the kind of unique talent the acclaimed director really is....

The worst Warner Bros. Stephen King has made no secret of how he’s not a fan of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” Despite its cult classic status, King told Rolling Stone that the film paled in comparison to his novel in every way: “The book is hot, and the movie is cold; the book ends in fire, and the movie in ice. In the book, there’s an actual arc where you see this guy, Jack Torrance, trying to be good, and little by little he moves over to this place where he’s crazy....

Steven Van Zandt Created The Character Of Silvio Long Before He Was Cast In The Sopranos Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/Nov. 3, 2022 2:15 pm EST Before starring on HBO’s hit prestige drama “The Sopranos,” Steven Van Zandt’s claim to fame was as a solo artist, hit songwriter, activist, and member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. He scored the memorable role of the wingtip-wearing consigliere Silvio Dante on “The Sopranos” despite no acting experience....

Superhero Bits: The She-Hulk Season Finale Runtime, An Invincible Video Game & More Epic Games By Ryan Scott/Oct. 12, 2022 4:37 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Ender’s Game (2013) Lionsgate Orson Scott Card’s 1985 novel “Ender’s Game” was an incredibly influential work of science fiction. Although the premise seems like the same type of young adult sci-fi saga that was popular in the wake of “The Hunger Games,” it’s actually a more serious, somewhat adult-oriented examination of the military-industrial complex. The story examines the trauma that young soldiers go through when they’re forced to head into combat before they’ve finished growing, while the dystopian world that it takes place in serves as a chilling parallel to the Ronald Reagan administration....

Chainsaw Man (October 11) Crunchyroll Was there any other choice? “Chainsaw Man” is the hottest anime premiere in years. The anticipation for this show rivals that of new “Attack on Titan” episodes, and it hasn’t even released a single episode. “Chainsaw Man” tells the story of Denji, a young man who gains a superpower when he fuses with a demon, and then becomes part of an elite force that battles demons....

The Song Of Ferrix In The Andor Season 1 Finale Was Composed Before Shooting Even Began [Exclusive] Lucasfilm By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 23, 2022 1:12 pm EST Beware of spoilers for the season finale of “Andor” below. Over the past two months, “Andor” has reaffirmed time and time again the promise of George Lucas’ galaxy far, far away. Whatever you may think of the individual films, shows, games or books that have been released over the years, you can’t deny that Lucas created an expansive world full of possibilities where all kinds of stories could be told....

Razor blade piano (Songs of Metal and Flesh) Epic Comics “Hellraiser” veteran Peter Atkins contributed the story “Songs of Metal and Flesh” to Epic Comics’ “Hellraiser #3.” It centers around Jason Marlowe, who lost his sight as a child but experienced a heightening of his other senses as a result. He also developed an impressive talent for music, and the ability to pick out “hidden melodies, those mysterious harmonies that I knew circled somewhere between our world and the next....

Early November belongs to Dune now Warner Bros. Part one of “Dune” was both a commercial and critical success, making over $400 million at the box office, winning six Academy Awards, and landing near the top of the /Film staff’s list of the best films of 2021. Villeneuve didn’t reveal ahead of time that the film would only cover half of Herbert’s expansive novel, meaning many viewers were surprised to discover that the film seemed to end just as it was getting started....

‘You are in the emotion of the movie’ Paramount The importance of editing can’t be understated. It’s the final rewrite where the filmmakers truly understand their images and pacing. /Film’s Jack Giroux spoke with “Top Gun: Maverick” editor Eddie Hamilton about one of its trickiest story elements: Maverick and Penny’s relationship. Their scenes were shuffled around quite a bit, and there’s a small remnant of the shift in costuming, and visual effects needed to be implemented....

But First, a Recap… StudioCanal/Working Title Films/DNA Films Set in Richard Curtis’s smug white middle-class wonderland in a fairytale London, “Love Actually” tells the interconnected stories of several relationships in the run-up to Christmas. To name a few, there is Hugh Grant’s stammering Prime Minister, who falls for his Cockney assistant (Martina McCutcheon as the film’s token working-class person); Kiera Knightley’s newlywed, who is stalked by her husband’s best friend, and apparently likes it; Alan Rickman’s curmudgeonly managing director, who risks his marriage to Emma Thompson when his head is turned by an attractive young co-worker; and Colin Firth’s cuckolded writer, who retreats to a French cottage and becomes smitten with his Portuguese housekeeper....

Will There Be A Second Season Of The First Lady? Ramona Rosales / Showtime By Shania Russell/Aug. 6, 2022 3:50 pm EST Not every American president gets to serve a second term (thank God), and not every series about American politics gets a second season renewal. With the anthology series “The First Lady,” Showtime set out to reveal hard truths about American history by delving behind the scenes on three of the country’s most significant marriages....

‘It Follows’ Disorients With Atmosphere – So It Can Set Up A Perfect Scare By Meagan Navarro/Jan. 27, 2021 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror. In this edition: It Follows uses wide angles and a disorienting setting to unsettle before delivering a one-two punch scare for the ages.)Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell knows how to build a chilling atmosphere. With a minimalist approach to storytelling, the success of It Follows as a compelling horror film owes much to Mitchell’s use of wide shots and distinct visual style and production design....

Billy Wilder Didn’t Believe In Rehearsing Scenes As A Director United Artists By Jeremy Smith/July 30, 2022 6:30 pm EST Unlike live theater, where actors must commit to months of rehearsal in order to learn their lines and nail down the director’s blocking, movies are made in a piecemeal fashion that allows for actors to fly in for a week or even one day to shoot their scenes. Such circumstances radically alter the notion of rehearsal....