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The Incredible Horror Comedy From The Director Of M3GAN You Really Need To See Semi-Professional Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 13, 2022 4:00 pm EST When Blumhouse dropped the trailer for the new killer doll movie “M3GAN,” the internet exploded. The film sees producer James Wan and writer Akela Cooper reuniting following their bonkers horror fever dream “Malignant,” bringing on New Zealand director Gerard Johnstone to tell the story of a roboticist named Gemma (Allison Williams), who gifts her recently orphaned niece Cady (Violet McGraw) a life-like A....

Tulsa King Scores Higher Premiere Ratings Than House Of The Dragon Paramount By Erin Brady/Nov. 30, 2022 4:38 pm EST The biggest series premiere of the year has been, for lack of a better term, dethroned. HBO’s “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” is no longer cable’s highest-rated premiere for a brand new series in 2022. Rather, that title has now been granted to a new king, a “Tulsa King” if you will....

Why Carnivále was great HBO If “Deadwood” (which launched on HBO less than a year after “Carnivàle” debuted in 2003) and “Twin Peaks” could have a baby, it might look and feel a bit like “Carnivàle.” For as lusciously seedy as the 1930s carnival setting from Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” is, “Carnivàle” soaks its own squalid vision of a Depression-era traveling show in dust and grime, making it all the more tangible....

What It’s Like To Work With Martin Scorsese, According To Andrew Garfield Paramount Pictures By Jenna Busch/Aug. 24, 2022 8:29 am EST Andrew Garfield has worked with some big names in his career, but in 2016, he was directed by a film legend. Garfield starred alongside Adam Driver in the Academy Award-nominated Martin Scorsese film “Silence,” about two 17th century Jesuit priests in Japan. That would likely make most actors very nervous....

Why Mia Goth’s Pearl And X Characters Look Identical, According To Ti West [Exclusive] A24 By Witney Seibold/Sept. 16, 2022 6:00 am EST Ti West’s film “X” was released back in March and, perhaps unexpectedly, ended with a trailer for a prequel film that was already complete. Now, “Pearl” has been released in theaters only five months later. And, as it turns out, West isn’t done. “MaXXXine” is coming soon, too....

Lord and Miller “I think both Chris and Phil are enormously talented and incredibly funny,” Kathleen Kennedy tells EW. But apparently, they weren’t talented or funny enough to deliver the type of Han Solo film Lucasfilm was looking for. Per the EW piece, Lord and Miller took an experimental approach to Solo: A Star Wars Story. The filmmakers were open to improvisation. Improvisation isn’t discouraged in the Star Wars franchise, yet Lord and Miller’s approach was allegedly slowing things down....

A Frasier Sequel At Paramount+ Will Deliver More Tossed Salad And Scrambled Eggs ViacomCBS By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 4, 2022 6:26 pm EST From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Dr. Frasier Crane was a staple of acclaimed television sitcoms. After holding up the bar with Sam, Norm, Cliff, and the rest of the gang at “Cheers” for nine seasons, the beloved character played by Kelsey Grammer moved back to his native Seattle for 11 more seasons on the self-titled “Frasier,” as he started a new career as the host of a psychotherapeutic radio show....

Alice In Borderland Season 2 Trailer: The Only Way Home Is To Win Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 3, 2022 4:48 pm EST If you like anime, bizarre dystopias, or game shows involving death, then I have some great news for you! “Alice in Borderland” season 2 is coming to Netflix on December 22, 2022, and the streamer just released the trailer. The Japanese series follows a bored young man named Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and a woman he teams up with named Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) as they battle their way through a series of violent games in a dystopian futuristic version of Tokyo....

Avatar Reigns Supreme At The Box Office, Puss In Boots, Babylon And Whitney Houston Fight For Scraps Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 27, 2022 11:42 am EST Christmas can be a very fertile time for the box office and, in some ways, it was this year, with James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” topping the holiday weekend with $64 million. As of this writing, the film is nearing the $900 million mark globally and will probably get there by the time I finish typing this sentence....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Casts UFC Welterweight Champ Kamaru Usman In A Small Role Sky Sports By Ben F. Silverio/July 30, 2022 7:16 pm EST After the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman, Marvel Studios made the decision to move forward with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” without the replacing the beloved actor as T’Challa. Instead, it appears that the king of the reclusive warrior nation has also passed on to the Ancestral Plane (or as they said in “Moon Knight,” the Astral Plane)....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Funko POPs And Marvel Legends Figures Revealed, Including The Buff Namor Funko / Hasbro By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2022 1:58 pm EST Last weekend, Marvel’s big panel at San Diego Comic-Con brought us the amazing first look at “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The tremendous first trailer was full of beautiful cinematography, stunning costumes, and incredible production design, not to mention an intriguing tease for the future of the African superhero....

Cillian Murphy Had His Doubts About Peaky Blinders’ Rock ‘N Roll Soundtrack BBC/Netflix By Anya Stanley/Dec. 15, 2022 6:21 pm EST The opening sequence of the post-war crime drama series “Peaky Blinders” sees its lead — who we’d come to know as crime boss Tommy Shelby but for now, he’s just a lone rider — gallop into town on a racing horse. It’s 1919 in Birmingham, England, and the crowds that scatter and whisper as Shelby enters the slums make him out to be some formidable hero — an outlaw cowboy of sorts....

Directing True Detective Was A Behind-The-Scenes ‘Struggle’ For Cary Fukunaga HBO By Ernesto Valenzuela/Sept. 7, 2022 7:43 pm EST “True Detective” season 1 is a rare accomplishment, being a television series with one writer and one director for the entirety of its first season. The singular vision of director Cary Fukunaga and writer Nic Pizzolatto created an engaging first season of television that subsequent seasons of the anthology haven’t been able to follow up....

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review: Rian Johnson Outdoes Himself With A Hilarious New Benoit Blanc Whodunit [TIFF] Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2022 12:57 am EST Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” was a wonderful breath of fresh air — an original film with a stellar cast and a funny, engrossing mystery with twists and turns. It reminded us that movies could be, ya know, fun. Seemingly the moment the movie ended, audiences wanted more....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities Got A Little Too Claustrophobic For David Hewlett Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/Oct. 27, 2022 10:29 am EST This post contains spoilers for episode 2 of “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.” After Guillermo del Toro sets up the premise for episode 2 of “Cabinet of Curiosities,” titled “Graveyard Rats,” the narrative follows a grave robber named Masson (David Hewlett) whose livelihood is endangered due to pesky rats....

Heath Ledger Always Had Ambitions Beyond Being A Rom-Com Heartthrob Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By Sarah Musnicky/Nov. 5, 2022 12:50 pm EST The late great Heath Ledger is mostly remembered for his versatility onscreen. Never daring to shy away from a challenge, he jumped from genre to genre. Whether drama, fantasy, romantic comedy, he was always up for an adventure and, as a casual observer of his work, Ledger was one of those talents that seamlessly slipped into whatever role he took on....

Respect for a real one NBC Slayton-Hughes’ family posted the following on her Facebook page on Thursday, announcing her death: To the friends and fans of our beloved Helen, Helen passed away last night. Her pain has ended but her fierce spirit lives on. Thank you for the love and support of her and her work. Rest sweet one. -With love: The Hughes family “Fierce spirit” is a great way to describe the late actor’s energy, as she made Ethel Beavers the kind of tough-as-nails but still fabulous older woman that everyone wants to grow up to be....

How Warwick Davis’ Improvisations Changed The Willow Series Disney/Lucasfilm By Joe Roberts/Nov. 16, 2022 4:30 pm EST Soon, the world will be treated to yet another Lucasfilm production in the form of the “Willow” TV series. The Disney+ show will debut on November 30, much to the delight of fantasy fans around the world who’ve waited patiently since the release of the 1988 movie to see more of Warwick Davis’ Willow Ufgood....

John Wayne Could Have Cost Harrison Ford His Chance To Work With Gene Wilder On The Frisco Kid Warner Bros. By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 13, 2022 7:35 pm EST One of the most oddly fascinating chapters of a movie star’s career is Harrison Ford’s awkward three-year run in between “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope” and “Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back.” After a rough 10 years that saw him kicked out of Columbia Pictures’ New Talent Program, and relegated to smallish roles in films like George Lucas’ “American Graffiti” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation,” Ford finally broke through as the dashing rogue Han Solo in Lucas’ blockbuster space opera....

Money and movie stars Columbia Pictures It’s possible that there’s a little bit of both at work here. “Bad Boys For Life” was the last blockbuster before Covid changed how we watched movies for almost two years, raking in over $426 million at the box office, a series high and evidence that “Bad Boys” is a legit blockbuster franchise. So, of course, studio executives want to keep pairing Will Smith and Martin Lawrence together for these big budget explosion delivery vehicles....