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Keeping Terry Crowley around longer FX For the 15th anniversary of “The Shield” in 2017, Ryan spoke to Entertainment Weekly. He revealed one of his inspirations was “Donnie Brasco,” a film where Johnny Depp plays a fictionalized version of FBI agent Joe Pistone. Pistone infiltrated the Bonanno crime family with the titular alias; his main contact and “friend” was Lefty Ruggiero (played by Al Pacino). The similarities between Pistone and Crowley are clear....

The Reason Paramount Thought Chinatown Was Going To Be A Disaster Paramount By Demetra Nikolakakis/Aug. 18, 2022 3:27 pm EST When you think of iconic ’70s soundtracks, “Chinatown” probably isn’t the first film to come to mind. The “Jaws” opening theme might pop into your head, or perhaps even the slow, sultry music in “Taxi Driver.” The theme in “Chinatown” isn’t nearly as flashy (or as catchy) — instead, it almost seems hypnotizing....

The Top 13 Anime Betrayals Of All Time, Ranked Studio 4°C By Vrai Kaiser/Nov. 20, 2022 10:15 am EST Seemingly every site on the internet has written a “Top Anime Betrayals” article. It has its own meme and everything. Obviously, we’re no better, but it makes sense that people keep coming back to the subject. “Betrayal” covers a lot of ground. Depending on the writer’s frame of reference and what hits them, personally, in the guts, there are a huge number of ways to approach the subject....

The Witcher Recasts Geralt For Season 4, With Liam Hemsworth Taking Over From Henry Cavill Netflix/Lionsgate There’s a new Witcher in town … or at least, there will be when “The Witcher” season 4 eventually gets here. Netflix has announced today that the epic fantasy series has been renewed for a fourth season, but that pales in comparison to the news that Geralt of Rivia is being recast. Henry Cavill played the silver-haired monster-slayer in the previous two seasons and the upcoming third season of “The Witcher,” but “The Hunger Games” star Liam Hemsworth will be taking over the role for “The Witcher” season 4....

Ticket To Paradise Review: Two Stars Can Only Get You Halfway There Universal Pictures By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 19, 2022 9:24 am EST Some people make the impossible look easy. Genuine charm among actors is hard enough to come by, let alone finding two actors who have actual chemistry with each other. But if you have ever seen Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Eleven” or its equally excellent sequels, you know that those three films are overburdened with genuinely charming actors who all seem to have chemistry with each other....

Why Matthew McConaughey’s Dallas Sting Was Scrapped Shortly Before Production Aviron Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 15, 2022 2:30 pm EST Film projects fall apart all the time in Hollywood, but it’s rare for a movie to get within a month or so of production and abruptly get canned. This, however, is what happened to “Dallas Sting,” which was to be an uplifting account of the first U.S. soccer team, male or female, to win an international tournament....

Andor Episode 11 Features The Most Touching Treatment Of A Droid In Star Wars Yet Lucasfilm By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 16, 2022 2:00 pm EST Spoilers for “Andor” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” follow. Droids are an essential part of the “Star Wars” universe. They help sell the idea that this is not just fantasy in space, but an epic space opera. Two of the very first characters we ever see in the franchise are droids — C-3PO and R2-D2 — and they are instrumental to the story, to the war effort, and to the victories of the Rebel Alliance....

Bee And PuppyCat Review: A Whimsical, Gorgeous Series Fans Have Been Waiting For Netflix By Barry Levitt/Sept. 6, 2022 10:04 am EST Things have been better for Bee. When we first meet her, the twenty-something is working at an adorable cat café. Unfortunately for Bee, she won’t be for much longer — a fire breaks out and she’s quickly dismissed from her job. She’s keen to find more work so she can, you know, stay alive, but what she’ll really miss from her job is all the glorious cats she fell in love with....

The death of a hero Marvel Studios Of the original six members of the MCU’s Avengers, two have since died (Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff), one is mostly retired (Clint Barton), and one might be — but probably isn’t — on the moon (Steve Rogers). That leaves Bruce Banner and Thor as the only two whose ultimate fates remain unsettled. The former most recently popped up to mentor his cousin Jennifer Walters on the Disney+ series “She-Hulk,” but if the latter were to come back again, Hemsworth feels “we’d probably have to close the book....

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’s Script Featured A Scene Even Steven Spielberg Couldn’t Pull Off Columbia Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 9, 2022 9:56 pm EST The pre-digital age of blockbuster filmmaking was a wonderland of handmade awe. Every astounding image you saw on a movie screen was tactile. Be it a mechanical shark, a model Ferris wheel rolling down the Santa Monica Pier, or a flying saucer crashing into the United States Capitol, you knew these were tangible creations placed in front of a camera....

One pinecone too far NBC Jeong’s breaking point was a scene where the deranged Chang is eating a “pinecone sandwich,” one that was cut from the aired episode. “I remember sending an email to Dan and I just said, is there a world where Chang could be more grounded, because you know, I used to be a doctor, and I’m literally eating a pinecone sandwich,” Jeong recalled. He admitted Chang may have taken things too far in season 3, but maybe the character could be brought back down to earth again....

Hellraiser Ending Explained: Be Careful What You Wish For Hulu By Erin Brady/Oct. 7, 2022 7:00 am EST Greater delights, also known as major spoilers for “Hellraiser,” await you in this article. After more than 20 years, the first “Hellraiser” movie to be given a major studio release has finally been unleashed. With most of the franchise being relegated to low-budget direct-to-video schlock, it is a breath of fresh air to see Pinhead and their gash of Cenobites return, even if we would have preferred to see them in theaters instead of on Hulu....

How Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Sets Up Namor’s Future In The MCU Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 14, 2022 4:00 pm EST Spoilers for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” follow. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is an unprecedented experiment in film, an interconnected universe with dozens of different characters and stories, woven together to make a huge tapestry. But that tapestry is not without flaws. Though the interconnectedness has mostly applied to the heroes — who go on to get sequels before meeting up with other heroes in the big Avengers events — the same cannot be same for the villains....

Johnny Mnemonic Director Robert Longo Had To Learn Filmmaking On The Fly TriStar Pictures By Witney Seibold/Oct. 28, 2022 7:06 pm EST In the 1990s, the internet was scary. A lot of new communication technology had opened up to the public, and Hollywood responded by making a slew of paranoid cyber-thrillers, each one positing a near-future world where one’s personal information was no longer private, and where wealthy, corrupt international companies paid top-dollar to get said information for their own nefarious purposes....

A beloved story gets fresh blood This series, Alfredson’s 2008 film, and Matt Reeves’ 2010 American remake are all based on the same source material, a provocative and darkly emotional Swedish novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Judging by this trailer, the new version seems to be more focused on 12-year-old vampire Eleanor’s (Baez) relationship with her father, haunted caretaker Mark (Bichir), than on her relationship with the little boy neighbor, Oskar, who is the protagonist in some other versions....

It’s not easy being the Dancing Queen Universal Pictures Most people probably wouldn’t rank Meryl Streep’s turn in “Mamma Mia!” as her best work, but it’s undeniably one of her, well, most performances. When she isn’t singing and dancing her heart out (and sometimes when she is!), she spends the film jumping on beds, doing pratfalls off roofs, hopping into oceans, and running about like she’s being chased by Wile E....

Netflix’s Resident Evil Had An ‘Unlimited Blood Budget’ Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 15, 2022 11:25 am EST The latest series adaptation of “Resident Evil” just premiered on Netflix, and according to series writer Andrew Dabb, things are going to get real bloody in the survival horror show. In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Dabb talks about the blood and gore aspect of the “Resident Evil” series, and how important it was for the showrunners to maintain a not-too-serious, fun vibe without making it look too “cartoonish”:...

PETA Wants Steven Spielberg To Cut A Scene From The Fabelmans Universal Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 30, 2022 9:19 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s film “The Fabelmans” won’t hit theaters until November, but the movie that /Film’s Chris Evangelista calls a “funny, sweet, and comfortably warm” retelling of the director’s early life has already struck a chord with audiences who caught the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall. It’s also, unfortunately, already struck the wrong chord with one group: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA....

It’s now or never 20th Century Studios In an interview with the LA Times centered around Reynolds’ path to the “Deadpool” films, the actor spoke about how “X-Men Origins” was sold to him as an introduction to Wade Wilson with a potential spin-off in the future. A spi-noff film for Deadpool wasn’t guaranteed at the time, and all Reynolds knew was that when it came to playing the character, it was now or never:...

SNL Stages A Father Of The Bride Reunion With Steve Martin, Kieran Culkin, And Martin Short NBC By Devin Meenan/Dec. 11, 2022 11:58 am EST Steve Martin and Martin Short have appeared in many projects together over the years, from “Three Amigos!” to “Only Murders In The Building.” Their latest collaboration was co-hosting this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” — they even delivered the monologue together. Among the episode’s sketches was a send-up of “Father of the Bride,” the 1991 comedy starring the pair....