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Some Of David O. Russell’s Best Dialogue Is Improvised On The Spot, According To Robert De Niro 20th Century Studios By Michael Boyle/Sept. 26, 2022 9:15 am EST “Amsterdam” arrives in theaters on November 4, 2022, and it’s not 100% clear what we can expect from it. It’s director David O. Russell’s first film since “Joy” seven years ago, and if its anything like his other work, we can expect some really interesting performances from his actors....

Trouble on the line Lucasfilm The first step of any fascist government is to break the will of its own people, first and foremost — oftentimes literally, predominantly spiritually, but occasionally in both ways at the same time. While Kino stood out most emphatically during the last episode, representing how even the toughest and most seasoned figures can become cowed under the weight of the Empire through the tantalizing promise of freedom while approaching the end of his prison sentence, it’s the grizzled Ulaf who receives much more of a focus during episode 9....

Superhero Bits: New Black Adam Trailer Links To The DCEU, Invincible Season 3 Is Underway & More Monster Truck Ninja By Ryan Scott/Sept. 21, 2022 5:13 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....

Sylvester Stallone Is Fighting For The Rights To The Rocky Franchise United Artists By Matt Rainis/Sept. 29, 2022 3:05 pm EST There are no “Rocky” movies without Sylvester Stallone. It seems almost stupid to say, since he’s the star of the films. He is Rocky. But Stallone also wrote the films himself, creating everything that made the movie great, and he hustled throughout Hollywood trying to get his script made in the way he wanted....

The Cast Of Coherence Was Just As Baffled As The Audience Oscilloscope Laboratories By Debopriyaa Dutta/Dec. 26, 2022 11:00 am EST James Ward Byrkit’s “Coherence” is the kind of sci-fi psychological thriller that leaves audiences with more questions than answers by the time the film ends. Shot on a shoestring budget and with actors who are close friends with Byrkit, ‘Coherence" starts with the simple premise of eight friends having dinner together on the night of a comet passing....

The Controversy That Clouded Driving Miss Daisy’s Commercial Success Warner Bros. By J. Gabriel Ware/Aug. 20, 2022 11:29 am EST I loved “Driving Miss Daisy” before I even saw the movie, actually. I remember running around as a kid teasing slow drivers — and slow-moving people in general for that matter — by calling them Driving Miss Daisy because I thought the movie was about an old lady who drove slowly and held up traffic....

‘The first take was that take’ Electronic Arts “Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3” is, to put it gently, a very silly video game. Its plot includes an alternate version of WWII, a plan to travel back in time and assassinate Albert Einstein, a version of Mount Rushmore where the faces shoot lasers from their eyes, and bears trained for anti-infantry combat. In other words, Tim Curry’s acting as the Russian Soviet Colonel Anatoly Cherdenko was right on the money with the vibe the project was going for....

From mommy to Mandalore LucasFilm The Armorer on “The Mandalorian” is a mysterious character who helps the series’ hero, Din Djarin (played by Pedro Pascal), by forging a gift for his foster child Grogu out of beskar, a special metal known for its resilience to blaster fire and lightsabers. She wears a gold helmet and cuts an imposing figure, though she has to as one of the last surviving keepers of the old ways....

Top Gun: Maverick Can Count Quentin Tarantino Among Its Biggest Fans Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 5, 2022 8:30 am EST Everyone loves “Top Gun: Maverick,” including filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. It’s only natural that people should wonder what Tarantino thinks of the billion-dollar Tom Cruise vehicle, since he famously appeared in the 1994 dramedy “Sleep with Me” to riff about how the original ’80s “Top Gun” is “about a man’s struggle with his own homosexuality....

Wendell & Wild And Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Prove There’s Still Life To Be Found In Stop-Motion Animation Netflix By Kayleigh Donaldson/Oct. 20, 2022 11:00 am EST Animation fans are truly being treated in 2022. Pixar released one of their best ever films, “Turning Red,” while DreamWorks dropped an underrated caper in the form of “The Bad Guys.” Richard Linklater turned to rotoscope for “Apollo 10 ½” and “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” became an unexpected box office hit in North America....

Is it colonialism? …Nope? Universal Pictures The very first fan guess piggybacks off Peele’s successes as a thoughtful, critical filmmaker, one whose films are well known for using genre trappings to tell thoughtful tales with a critical eye. The first fan question (about the 00:46 mark) guesses “Nope” is: gonna be more of a message about colonialism and human panic. Almost every classic alien movie is turned into ‘us versus them,’ a tale about how the fear of the unknown makes us turn into monsters […] Peele is known for the social messages and metaphors, so I have a feeling maybe the aliens are coming to help us, but the real monsters we discover are people....

‘It was the economy of filmmaking’ Netflix When it came to the matter of John and Johanna Constantine, the fan theories ran wild: Some fans accused the series of “woke casting” and pointed to other gender-swapped characters, while others assumed that there were rights issues with John Constantine since the character is currently being used in other DCEU properties. While there were some complicating factors that Gaiman was unaware of, he was more concerned with the storytelling:...

Worlds Collide As Netflix Picks Up The Next Safdie Brothers Movie Starring Adam Sandler Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 20, 2022 4:18 pm EST This is how we win. Three years after the filmmaking duo of Benny and Josh Safdie joined forces with Adam Sandler and Netflix to deliver the high-stress, heart attack-inducing chaos known as “Uncut Gems” (which /Film’s Chris Evangelista reviewed here) the dream team is officially back together to recapture that magic....

All American: Homecoming Release Date and Where You Can Watch It The CW “All American: Homecoming” is set to premiere on The CW on Monday, February 21. The show will first air live, but will later be made available to stream on the network’s website, for those who prefer that as an option. What Is All American: Homecoming? The CW This is a new spin-off series hailing from the same universe as “All American,” as the title implies....

Cyborg’s Justice League Origin Was A Nod To Zack Snyder’s Watchmen Warner Bros. By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 21, 2022 11:12 am EST “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” probably had the most turbulent production history out of any comic book film from the past decade. The alternate cut of 2017’s “Justice League” is now infamous for the campaign surrounding its release, with fervent fans demanding that director Zack Snyder get a chance to execute his creative vision....

Release date and where you can watch it Warner Bros. “Dune Part Two” is currently slated to hit theaters on November 17, 2023. Warner Bros. and Legendary are carving out a date almost exactly two years from the release of the first movie, wasting little time. Of note, it is expected that the sequel will be released exclusively in theaters, whereas the first chapter was released both theatrically and on HBO Max....

H. Jon Benjamin Hopes Archer Goes On Long After He Is Gone FX By Matt Rainis/Sept. 7, 2022 3:12 pm EST For more than 12 years, FXX’s hit spy comedy “Archer” has proven its ability to constantly reinvent itself. Since the show’s fifth season, seasons of the show have taken on distinctive themes, with Sterling Archer and the rest of the show’s irreverent secret agents having done everything from spending a season selling cocaine in a “Miami Vice”-inspired setting to spending multiple seasons in alternate timelines taking place entirely within the mind of the comatose Archer....

House of the Dragon trailer “Fire and Blood.” Those are the ominous words of House Targaryen and they’ve certainly been given an added “oomph” with this latest footage. “House of the Dragon” follows the civil war that inevitably breaks out in the aftermath of decades of peace and prosperity under the rule of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. Upon the end of his immensely successful reign, however, the potentially catastrophic debate over who will serve as his successor to the Iron Throne threatens to split the entire kingdom apart and plunge the Targaryen family into the bloody war of succession forever known to historians as the Dance of the Dragons....

So, Does Your Zombie Show Need To Have Zombies In It? AMC Series creator Frank Darabont had an overall deal with NBC, so he chose to bring the project to them first. Nixing the zombies from a zombie comic, even one in which they aren’t really the point, seems a bit ridiculous, but that was NBC’s initial take. They literally asked, “Do there have to be zombies [in it]?” Following that, the network had hopes of making “The Walking Dead” into a procedural drama in which the protagonists could solve a weekly crime involving zombies....

Jamie Lee Curtis Wanted The Father Of Laurie Strode’s Daughter To Be Someone Else In Halloween Kills Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 15, 2022 10:30 am EST The final chapter of David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” sequel trilogy is finally available, and if we could convert thoughts, opinions, and “takes” on the film swirling around online film communities into energy, we’d never have to rely on fossil fuels ever again. DGG’s “Halloween” trilogy saw the return of Jamie Lee Curtis as the ultimate final girl, Laurie Strode, four decades after her first showdown with The Shape in 1978....