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‘It belongs in a museum’ New Line Cinema One of the more recent films of the bunch is Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man.” Not only did it relaunch the career of Robert Downey Jr. and establish Marvel Studios as the powerhouse production company it is today, this movie following Tony Stark and the amazing things he does in a cave with a box of scraps was the very first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which endures nearly 20 years later....

‘I just wanted to be involved in any way’ Sony Pictures Television While most people probably know her from her many years on “Criminal Minds,” Paget Brewster has long been a fixture of the comedy scene, willing to take part in anything that sounds like a good time. Most notably, she was a regular of the “Thrilling Adventure Hour” stage show and podcast, an homage to live radio serials, where she and Paul F....

Fanboy moments Miramax Films While the anecdote is certainly bizarre, it’s far from surprising if you know about Tarantino. It’s not shocking at all that Tarantino not only owns all these (likely awful) movie cash-in board games, but that he has dreamed of playing them with the stars of the movies for years. But according to Travolta in the 2019 interview, that wasn’t all Tarantino asked of him. “He said, ‘If you could possibly become one of those characters out of nowhere, just say a line from ‘Grease,’ ‘Saturday Night Fever’ or ‘Kotter,’ that would make him happy,’ so I would do that....

John Wayne Didn’t Think His Name Would Be Enough To Save The Shootist Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 22, 2022 5:32 pm EST The year was 1976, and John Wayne was cheesed but good at King Kong. The gargantuan ape with a fatal penchant for blonde starlets was all the rage at Paramount, and for good reason. The studio had sunk $24 million (equivalent to $124 million in 2022) into the John Guillermin-directed remake, and desperately needed it to hit the box-office jackpot when it opened in December....

The Mastery of John Woo Paramount Pictures At 75 years old, John Woo is an undeniable master of his craft. Many consider him to be the godfather of the modern action movie, going so far as to develop tropes that are now mandatory additions to action films — like firing multiple guns at the same time, Mexican stand-offs, and slow-motion fight scenes. Woo is known for his breathtaking set pieces in films like “A Better Tomorrow,” and is responsible for the frequent (and often parodied) use of doves in action sequences....

Nightmare On Elm Street Star Heather Langenkamp Wants To Star In One Last Sequel New Line Cinema By Witney Seibold/Oct. 11, 2022 5:13 pm EST It doesn’t matter how many times a slasher villain dies, they will return. Even if a long-running film series has been stretched past the point of credulity, the villain will somehow be back. “Friday the 13th” has traversed Jason Voorhees’ constant returns with little explanation, eventually clarifying that he is possessed by a demon (if one prefers “Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday”) or that he is afflicted with a rare medical condition that allows his cells to spontaneously regenerate (if one prefers “Jason X”)....

One Key Aspect The Sandman TV Series Shares With The Comics Netflix By Michael Boyle/Aug. 1, 2022 3:28 pm EST The 10-episode first season of “The Sandman” arrives this Friday, August 5, adapting the first two volumes of the beloved comic series of the same name. In a recent press day attended by fellow /Film writer Danielle Ryan, Kirby Howell-Baptiste spoke about the similarities in how the show and the comics are structured....

One Quick Meeting With Steve Levitan Sold Keegan Michael Key On Hulu’s Reboot Hulu By Shania Russell/Nov. 20, 2022 11:00 pm EST Being the award-winning comedian that he is, Keegan Michael Key has a pretty high bar when it comes to comedy projects. And with a resume like his, it’s not hard to understand why. After closing out his sketch comedy run on “Key and Peele,” the actor went on to star in titles like “Friends From College,” “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” and “Schmigadoon!...

Disney/Lucasfilm By Marcos Melendez/Dec. 5, 2022 1:43 pm EST “Solo: A Star Wars Story” may be the least successful entry in the franchise in the Disney era, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. A movie centered on a young Han Solo played by Alden Ehrenreich was always going to be an uphill battle, yet the actor was able to put his own stamp on the character. From start to finish, the universe-trotting adventure includes some genuinely thrilling sequences directed by Ron Howard, but “Solo” just couldn’t hit the high notes it wanted it to....

Tales From The Box Office: Wild Wild West Was The Biggest Misstep Of Will Smith’s Career Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Dec. 3, 2022 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) There are few stars who will ever (and I mean ever) know the level of success that Will Smith has in his career....

6 Underground (2019) Netflix It’s hard to watch any of Michael Bay’s early films and think that he had any restrictions. However, Netflix allowed the controversial filmmaker to create one of the most gloriously ridiculous action movies in recent memory. Every element of “6 Underground” is dialed up to the extreme, including the performances. Reynolds met the challenge of getting on Bay’s wavelength, which isn’t easy to do! Reynolds understands that the film is all spectacle, and he doesn’t treat it as anything else....

The Ending Of Better Call Saul Invokes A Literary Classic AMC By Devin Meenan/Sept. 8, 2022 8:48 pm EST Spoilers for “Better Call Saul” follow. “I want to believe there’s a heaven. But I can’t not believe there’s a hell.” “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan has used this quote, cribbed from his partner Holly Rice, to explain his moral outlook. It may seem cynical on the surface, but buried within is a belief in justice....

The Rings Of Power Has The Nielsen Ratings To Rule Them All (On Streaming) By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 30, 2022 8:47 am EST The data is in for the first head-to-head match-up in the streaming ratings between “House of the Dragon” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” The two fantasy juggernauts have been airing concurrently since “The Rings of Power” premiered on September 1, 2022, with “House of the Dragon” debuting about a week and a half earlier on August 21....

The Shining’s Famous July 4th Photo Wasn’t Exactly Simple To Shoot Warner Bros. By Lex Briscuso/Aug. 15, 2022 12:58 pm EST Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is a head trip and a half. As its main character, Jack Torrance, goes madder and madder over the course of a winter stay as a hotel caretaker, the film ratchets up its surrealism and horror, turning the hotel itself into an almost Lovecraftian, unknowable terror....

Where’s my money? HBO Portia has breakfast with Tanya at Quentin’s estate, where the businesswoman tells her assistant that she needs to think more about her relationship with Jack after hearing they dined and dashed during their night out. We all know Tanya saw Jack and Quentin having sex at the end of the previous episode, but obviously, Portia isn’t aware. Tanya expresses concern that Jack might not actually be related to Quentin, calling it a “strong hunch” — which is, of course, hilarious — but her assistant isn’t buying it....

Weruche Opia And Chris O’Dowd Are The Very Definition Of Cool In Slumberland [Exclusive Interview] Netflix By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Nov. 20, 2022 9:00 am EST In Francis Lawrence’s new Netflix fantasy adventure “Slumberland,” young Nemo (Marlow Barkley) is enjoying a whimsical childhood as the daughter of lighthouse keeper Peter (Kyle Chandler) when circumstance forces her out of their little world and into a new life in the big city. Her new guardian is an uncle she’s never met before (Chris O’Dowd) who rarely leaves his apartment building, fawns over his doorknob collection, and doesn’t have the first clue how to go about raising a child....

‘American Psycho II’ Is The Kind Of Sloppy Mess That Patrick Bateman Would Despise By Rob Hunter/July 9, 2018 8:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. In this edition, we find out what happens after Patrick Bateman realized he would never be caught or made to pay for his crimes.) The poster for 2002’s American Psycho II: All American Girl promises a killer who’s angrier, deadlier, and sexier, but not only does it fail to deliver on all three it also fails to understand that none of those adjectives speak to the appeal of its predecessor....

All stories have their roots in folk tradition Netflix Jaskier shows up in “The Witcher: Blood Origin” to learn the story of the Lark and her six companions from a mysterious source, because it will be his job to carry the story on for his own time and world. Batey explained the role that Lark and Jaskier’s real-life counterparts played in our own history: “It goes back to what ostensibly was folk tradition and oral history....

A Thousand Blows: Everything We Know About Peaky Blinders Creator Steven Knight’s Next Project Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 24, 2022 1:13 pm EST There’s value in finding one’s wheelhouse, and Steven Knight certainly seems to have settled into his. Since he created “Peaky Blinders” back in 2013, the “Locke” and “Serenity” writer/director has come to specialize in penning similarly subversive period pieces for the small screen. That includes “Taboo,” a crime drama series in which Tom Hardy dons a top hat to navigate the corrupt, muck-ridden world of 19th-century London; and “A Christmas Carol,” the 2019 mini-series adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel that adds an extra helping of horror to the author’s treasured ghost story....

Aliens’ Queen Had One Advantage Over The Original Xenomorph By Anya Stanley/July 6, 2022 9:37 pm EST James Cameron’s “Aliens” does everything that a sequel is supposed to do; every component of the sci-fi classic is bigger and badder, from the firepower to the foes. Picking up from Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror “Alien” required more than just showing more extraterrestrials. The setting expanded from the lonely space vessel the Nostromo to the exomoon LV-426, its human colony wiped out by an unknown organism....