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Pierce Brosnan’s Driving Did Some Damage Behind The Scenes Of GoldenEye MGM By Bill Bria/Aug. 3, 2022 10:27 am EST If there’s one thing the James Bond franchise is known for, it’s action. For the first couple decades of the film series — in other words, before the advent of CGI — the Bond movies were a leader and pioneer in the world of film stunts, each successive entry showcasing dazzling new feats of human prowess where stunt people dared to flirt with danger and disaster....

Embodying the Dark Lord Warner Bros. Pictures And so, Ralph Fiennes became Voldemort, and it’s no surprise that an actor of his skill level was able to make the part his own. From the terrifying, high-pitched voice he used, to the little glimpses of humanity he was able to show between his bouts of sheer villainy, Fiennes did an excellent job bringing Voldemort to life. If there was any reason he’d regret taking the role, it was the prosthetics and makeup he had to put on as the character, a process he did not enjoy one bit....

Smallville’s Director Had To Beg Tom Welling To Even Accept An Audition Warner Bros. By Jamie Gerber/July 11, 2022 3:59 pm EST “Somebody save me!” Come on, you know the “Smallville” theme song got stuck in your head the moment you read this headline. The beloved Superman prequel series spanned a whopping 217 episodes across its 10 seasons, beginning in 2001 on The WB, and wrapping up its epic run on The CW in 2011....

The 15 Best Wilderness Horror Movies, Ranked IFC Midnight By SlashFilm Staff/Aug. 19, 2022 7:00 pm EST Nature is healing. Or at least it can be; a quiet escape from busy city life, a means of disconnecting from the chaos of daily routines, the promise of peaceful stillness and relaxation. But the great outdoors can also kill you in an instant if you’re not careful or disrespect your surroundings. Things can switch from serene to scary at the drop of a hat if you’re not careful, and sometimes even if you are....

The Maltese Falcon Was Just The ‘Miracle’ Humphrey Bogart’s Career Needed Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 4, 2022 12:49 pm EST Far from a screen novice, Humphrey Bogart had already acted in some 40-odd movies prior to his role in John Huston’s 1941 noir classic, “The Maltese Falcon.” He spent most of the 1930s being typecast as villains in assembly-line gangster films or similar B-movies — a matter in which he had no real say thanks to his contract with Warner Bros....

The Rings Of Power Scene That Proved [REDACTED] Is The Perfect Sauron Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 14, 2022 12:00 pm EST “The Rings of Power” may not have been the “Lord of the Rings” TV show we were expecting, but by the end of its first season, the show proved to be the “Lord of the Rings” TV show we needed. Like the Peter Jackson movies, it drastically changes the source material, moves events and characters around, and otherwise alters the lore to tell its own version of the story....

Tron: Uprising Writer Bill Wolkoff On Abandoned Season 2 Plans, Notes About Comedic Sidekicks, & More [Interview] Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/July 22, 2022 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to My Most Ridiculous Note, a series of interviews in which animators talk about the weirdest and funniest notes they received from studio executives.) Last month, “Gravity Falls” creator Alex Hirsch took to Twitter to share some of the very real and very ridiculous notes he received from Disney when working on the award-winning cartoon....

A Four Weddings And A Funeral Scene Was Actually Repurposed For Love Actually StudioCanal/Working Title Films/DNA Films By Jeff Kelly/Dec. 11, 2022 4:00 pm EST Richard Curtis is a man with many ideas. If you’ve ever watched any of the films he’s scripted, like “Four Weddings and a Funeral” or “Love Actually,” you know exactly what we’re talking about. His movies tend to have multiple storylines which often intersect, even if onlybriefly....

A League Of Their Own Season 1 Ending Explained: Wins And Losses Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 13, 2022 5:01 pm EST Prime Video’s new “A League of Their Own” series is, as the saying goes, a whole different ball game — at least when you compare it with the film it’s based on. The series takes place in the 1940s and follows the newly assembled members of the groundbreaking Rockford Peaches women’s baseball team, but other than that, it bears little resemblance to the 1992 movie by Penny Marshall....

Childhood Acting Left Its Mark On How Natalie Portman Makes Movies Columbia Pictures By Joshua Meyer/July 11, 2022 9:22 am EST Natalie Portman broke into the movie business at the tender young age of 12. She made her feature film debut in 1994 as the child protégée of the titular hitman in “Léon: The Professional,” and followed that up in 1995 with a role in Michael Mann’s “Heat,” where she played the troubled stepdaughter of Al Pacino’s character....

Making some Dolly Parton TV magic Hulu Tom Costantino, co-producer on “The Orville” took to Twitter to give a behind the scenes look at just how Dolly’s appearance came to be. Given the Covid shooting restrictions, the production had limited access to the Queen of Country and had to find a way to be a little bit more creative. The team shot on both the standard set of “The Orville” as well as a rebuilt set in Nashville using Dolly’s studio team....

Every Kathryn Bigelow Film Ranked Worst To Best First Light Production By Molly Turner/Dec. 7, 2022 7:00 pm EST Writer, director, and producer Kathryn Bigelow may be best known for her Oscar-winning action drama “The Hurt Locker,” but her career is longer and more varied than many fans realize. Over the last 40 years, Bigelow has only released 10 feature films, but she has also worked in television and made a number of short films, resulting in a diverse and fascinating filmography....

Infinity Pool Trailer: Brandon Cronenberg Is Back With A New Nightmare Neon By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Dec. 8, 2022 11:33 am EST 2022 has truly been the year of rich people having a bad time on an island. From “Glass Onion” to “The Menu” to “Triangle of Sadness,” the lesson that the wealthy should take away from this year is to stick to the mainland for their luxury getaways. (Alternatively, they could give away all their money and live a life of humble asceticism....

‘Who knows where he’s ended up’ Marvel Studios Here’s the thing about superhero characters: dead doesn’t ever really mean dead … especially when the whole deal with those aforementioned superhero characters involves regeneration. “Iron Man 3” borrowed heavily from the Marvel Comics’ “Extremis” storyline, folding Aldrich Killian, the plight of wounded soldiers fighting unjust wars, and the traditional Iron Man archenemy of the Mandarin into an overarching plot about a spurned man nursing a decades-long grudge against Tony Stark....

Jennifer Lawrence Will No Longer Play Elizabeth Holmes Because Amanda Seyfried Already Did It Hulu By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 2, 2022 2:48 pm EST If you’ve been waiting to see Jennifer Lawrence don Elizabeth Holmes’ black turtleneck, it sounds like you’re out of luck. The actress is no longer set to play the Theranos fraudster in Adam McKay’s “Bad Blood,” according to The New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan. The writer revealed as much in a tweet today after sharing his NYT profile about the “Don’t Look Up” actress....

No Way Home beats Top Gun: Maverick in a box office pillow fight Sony Pictures Heading into the weekend, nobody was sure whether or not it would be the “More Fun Stuff Version” of “No Way Home” that includes an additional 11 minutes of footage, or “Top Gun: Maverick” in its (checks notes) 15th week of release that would top the charts over the Labor Day holiday. Tom Cruise had to settle for the silver medal as the sequel to the ’80s classic made $5....

Oppenheimer trailer No stranger to WWII films, Christopher Nolan previously earned critical raves for directing 2017’s “Dunkirk,” an impressionist thriller about the evacuation of Allied forces from the beaches of Dunkirk, France. Some might see “Oppenheimer” as his attempt to retreat to safer ground after the mixed response to his 2020 sci-fi tentpole “Tenet,” but as someone who’s come to appreciate that movie as an idiosyncratic “James Bond” throwback by way of “Inception,” I see it more as Nolan sticking with his interests as an artist....

When and where to watch Poker Face Peacock Disney+ is the exclusive home of all things “Star Wars,” Netflix swooped in to snatch the sequel rights to “Knives Out” with a mind-meltingly lucrative deal, and AMC+ is streaming every episode of “Breaking Bad” (and “Better Call Saul,” too!). So what streaming service decided to partner up with Rian Johnson for “Poker Face”? Well, if that big image right above this didn’t give it away already, it’s Peacock....

Reading The Community Movie Script Made Joel McHale Cry Like A Baby NBC By Matt Rainis/Oct. 27, 2022 11:49 am EST For years, the rallying cry of “Community” fans was “six seasons and a movie!” The saying, reflective of creator Dan Harmon’s idea of the ideal runtime of a television series, was more aspirational than realistic, as for most of its existence “Community” struggled just to survive. It went through losing its creator, getting him back, and being canceled by NBC and forced to find refuge on the short-lived streaming service Yahoo!...

She-Hulk Just Set Up A Hulk Solo Movie (Maybe) Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 25, 2022 10:27 am EST Spoilers for episode 2 of “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law” incoming! Throughout the first two episodes of “She-Hulk,” there’s been a certain Hulk-sized elephant in the room that needed to be addressed. As much as the new Disney+ series is meant to introduce Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (along with a few other familiar faces), it’s proven somewhat difficult to escape the large shadow cast by Mark Ruffalo’s definitive take on the big guy since his first appearance in 2012’s “The Avengers....