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‘Where are these people from?’ Chappelle isn’t the first person to ask “where are these people from?” with regards to House Velaryon; it’s also been a point of discussion among “House of the Dragon” fans. Unlike the color-blind casting approach to “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” the ethnicities featured in the “Game of Thrones” TV universe are firmly associated with particular regions of the fantasy world. The majority of people in Westeros are white, the people of western Essos are brown or olive-skinned, and in the far east of Essos lies Yi Ti, which is loosely based on Imperial China....

How Rebecca Hall Prepared For Resurrection’s Intense Seven-Minute Monologue IFC Films By Witney Seibold/Nov. 1, 2022 4:00 pm EST Rebecca Hall’s performance in Andrew Semans’ new film “Resurrection” is, without hyperbole, one of the best of the year. Hall plays a woman named Margaret who, years ago, fled an abusive and manipulative lover named David (Tim Roth) who controlled her every action the way a cult leader might control their followers....

Leonardo DiCaprio Warned Timothée Chalamet To Avoid Superhero Movies (And Hard Drugs) Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 15, 2022 10:15 pm EST Having once graced the cover of magazines like Tiger Beat, Leonardo DiCaprio knows a thing or two about being a teenybopper, and he knows a thing or two about outliving all that and coming to be regarded as a serious dramatic actor. So it is that DiCaprio has occasionally been in a position to dispense career advice to other young actors in Hollywood, the latest being “Dune” star Timothée Chalamet....

Netflix’s The Gray Man Already Has A Sequel, Spin-Off In Development, Whether You Like It Or Not Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/July 26, 2022 1:20 pm EST Though Netflix’s TV department started out very promising, with unique and experimental shows you couldn’t find anywhere else, it all started stagnating once wave after wave of cancellation brought a reality check to the era of streaming. Something similar happened on the film side as its output has ballooned to ludicrous levels, but occasionally, the streamer will come through and help finance and produce risky auteur projects like Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” or Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde....

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Home Planet Was Named After Jon Stewart Because Of A George Lucas Joke Lucasfilm By Devin Meenan/Nov. 28, 2022 5:30 pm EST George Lucas has a vivid imagination — except when it comes to names. It takes unique mind to name the villain of your movie “Darth Vader” or bestow the lovable rogue with the surname “Solo.” The prequels were no different, introducing names like Darth Sidious (because Palpatine is insidiously destroying the Republic), Darth Maul (since he’s a blunt instrument of Sidious’ will), and General Grievous (he sure is a grievous villain, after all)....

Ouran High School Host Club Was Born From A Simple One-Sentence Pitch Funimation By Sarah Musnicky/Sept. 10, 2022 10:30 pm EST If you’re a fan of the reverse harem manga, especially ones geared towards fujoshi (female fans of fictional gay content), you’ve probably heard of “Ouran High School Host Club.” Created by Bisco Hatori, this series has been adapted into a hugely successful anime series directed by Takuya Igarashi, a Japanese live-action drama, a live-action film, and more, and continues to be popular to this day....

Rick And Morty Season 6 Trailer: The Smiths Do Die Hard Adult Swim By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 11, 2022 11:31 am EST It’s time to grab your Szechuan sauce and get schwifty, because “Rick and Morty” season 6 just got its first trailer. After “Solar Opposites” went on all types of wacky adventures, it is time for Justin Roiland’s other family of sci-fi adventurers to return for a new season. “Rick and Morty” quickly became the defining adult cartoon of the 2010s and a show with one of the biggest footprints in pop culture since the time of early “The Simpsons” or “South Park....

‘We really worked very hard to get that cinematic image’ DVV Entertainment I love the movie. I’m a big theatrical experience guy and I got to see it in a packed theater. It was the best thing I’ve done all year. And I’m not just saying that — it was truly amazing. No, no, no. This movie is meant to be watched on the big screen. It’s good that you went to the theater and saw it....

All’s well that ends well United Artists Alright, so maybe simultaneous Bond iterations would’ve gotten us weirdly close to MCU-style team-ups. But there’s an even bigger silver lining to Connery passing up a “Live and Let Die” appearance: it gave Moore room to work. Connery’s Bond was a force to be reckoned with, both on-screen and in terms of reputation. What’s more, George Lazenby, the only other actor to play Bond up until that point, mysteriously only took up the moniker for a single film — a fact that doesn’t seem too encouraging for whoever was to come next....

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: Everything We Know About Seth Rogen’s Animated Reboot Nickelodeon By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 5, 2022 11:38 am EST There’s just no stopping the green. More than 30 years after its release, director Steve Barron’s live-action 1990 film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” remains the benchmark for movies featuring anthropomorphic, pizza-loving turtles battling villains named after office equipment. Even its sequels had a hard time replicating the curiously-perfect alchemy of Barron’s superhero action-comedy, despite having larger budgets and the power of, uh, Vanilla Ice at their disposal....

Participating in the same game Disney / ABC Domestic Television Despite their characters understanding one another, the families in “Bob’s Burgers” and “The Great North” … kind of don’t understand each other. If one moves from character to character in either series, one finds each person to be sealed-off, cultivating a bizarre set of carefully curated interests and attitudes. While Linda, for instance, is quick to encourage her son Gene to wear costumes and play music, she herself would never think to become Beefsquatch herself....

Get the biggest movies of 2022 Paramount Pictures The box office may not be raking in as much cash as it was before the pandemic took its toll on movie theaters, but there were still plenty of big hits in movie theaters this year. These are all movies you undoubtedly heard about, and you probably saw a handful of them in theaters yourself. But just in case you forgot, we’ve got a handy list of some of the biggest box office hits of 2022 that are now available on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD....

The Daily Stream: President Wolfman Proves You Don’t Even Need A Camera To Make A Great Horror Comedy Wild Eye Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 3, 2022 3:27 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: “President Wolfman” Where You Can Stream It: TubiTV The Pitch: Being the President of the United States is a tough job, but for John Wolfman, his political problems are much worse than anything Watergate or even the January 6th insurrection could have brought to the table....

Watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power teaser The brand new teaser, in all its nine seconds of glory (there is a longer version available, but it is only for Prime members) doesn’t show much about the story, but it does prominently feature a huge meteor crash-landing on Middle-earth while creatures all around the land stare in awe at the sky. We see Galadriel and Elrond, we see Lenny Henry’s proto-Hobbit Sadoc Burrow, Ismael Cruz Córdova’s elf Arondir....

The Sandman Review: Still Dreaming Of A Great Neil Gaiman Adaptation — But Getting Closer Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 5, 2022 3:01 am EST Neil Gaiman’s works might just be impossible to adapt. There’s an otherworldly magic, or eeriness, or strangeness, or silliness to his books and graphic novels that fail to translate in full to the big and small screen. Perhaps one adaptation might capture the whimsy of his work, but fail to bring that Gaiman edge to it....

This isn’t the first time Adolini has been mentioned Dark Horse Comics Raphael Adolini is a familiar name in the “Predator” universe. In the Dark Horse comic story “Predator: 1718,” Adolini was introduced as a pirate captain whose ship is anchored in Guinea as he’s dealing with a potential mutiny. Tensions quickly escalate, resulting in a full-blown battle between the captain and his crew. In the distance, a Predator is found hunting for his next trophy and watches the battle....

Wizard Of Oz ‘Reimagining’ Coming From Black-Ish Creator Kenya Barris MGM By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 15, 2022 2:41 pm EST The new movie also has a slightly different title: “Wizard of Oz,” taking Sean Parker’s advice from “The Social Network” and dropping the “The.” Still, it seems the project will find a way to pay homage to the MGM version of the story, as Deadline describes it as “a modern reimagining of the iconic musical....

Black Adam Is Conquering The Worldwide Box Office, Passing $250 Million Globally Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/Oct. 30, 2022 4:08 pm EST Superhero movies continue to make money, as do films that star Dwayne Johnson (even when they aren’t good). The latest entry into the DC Universe, “Black Adam,” has now crossed $250 million at the worldwide box office. In its second weekend, the movie dropped 59% domestically from its opening with about $27 million in ticket sales, which is a fairly standard drop for a front-loaded superhero picture....

Cowboy Bebop’s Episode 5 Was A Make-Or-Break Moment For The Series Sunrise Entertainment By Devin Meenan/Sept. 25, 2022 9:00 pm EST How long will you stick with a new TV show before dropping it? According to acclaimed Japanese anime director Shinichirō Watanabe, the answer for most people is five episodes. He was sure to keep this in mind when heading the production team for “Cowboy Bebop” at animation studio Sunrise....

Every Main Character In Party Down Ranked Starz By Addison Peacock/Dec. 15, 2022 2:47 pm EST The greater Los Angeles area is filled with struggling artists working whatever jobs they can to stay afloat while they chase their creative dreams. One of those gigs, those day jobs everyone is just waiting for the chance to quit, is catering. The 2009 Starz sitcom “Party Down” follows a group of those aspiring artist-caterers struggling to keep the dream alive, even while the industry and the world at large stomp on them and spill red wine on their crisp white button-downs....