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Limiting risk ain’t sexy, but it’s better than landing in Director Jail Warner Bros It’d be nice to report that everything worked out for Norton on “Motherless Brooklyn,” but even though he was able to pull off a believable, beautifully rendered 1950s New York City on a $26 million budget, the movie fizzled out with worldwide gross of $18.5 million. Warner Bros didn’t lose a great deal of money on the movie, but if Norton decides to direct another movie at any point in the near future, it’ll need to be a decidedly more intimate work....

Marina Mazepa Sony One of the most exciting monsters in “Welcome to Raccoon City” is Lisa Trevor (Marina Mazepa). Debuting in the 2002 remake of “Resident Evil,” the video game character is one of the first test subjects to be injected with the Progenitor virus. After losing her parents — along with her grip on reality — Lisa gained superhuman strength and developed a habit of murdering and then wearing the faces of her female caregivers....

Will There Be A Sandman Season 2? Netflix By Jamie Gerber/Aug. 5, 2022 5:37 pm EST After a long wait, the highly anticipated adaptation of “The Sandman” has finally hit Netflix. Is it the TV show of your dreams? Well, you’ll just have to watch and find out. Based on the DC comic of the same name, “The Sandman” follows Morpheus (Tom Sturridge), also known as Dream of the Endless, and by countless other names....

20 Horror Movies Most People Could Actually Survive Dimension Films By Jenn Adams/Aug. 11, 2022 10:58 am EST We’ve all seen our share of horrors in the past few years. From a deadly pandemic to a highly polarized political landscape and other events too stressful to go into here, it often feels as if the world has turned upside down, and we’re left trying to pick up the pieces. It would be logical to assume that we would collectively turn away from the horror genre, opting instead for lighter, more comforting fare, but last year, Forbes reported that macabre movies have been thriving in recent years....

Anna Kendrick To Make Directorial Debut With True-Crime Thriller The Dating Game Lionsgate By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 7, 2022 3:21 pm EST Anna Kendrick is a woman of many talents — she’s a great actor, a fantastic singer, a hilarious Twitter follow, a wonderful Barbie spokesperson, and now she can finally add “director” to her growing list of multi-hyphenates. The star of films like “A Simple Favor,” “Pitch Perfect,” “Up in the Air,” and a flurry of teen films that people mock her for having starred in (I’m looking at you, “Twilight” and “Camp”) will be directing, starring in, and producing the true-crime thriller “The Dating Game,” based on the real story of 1970s would-be bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw....

Filming The First Mad Max Was A ‘Disaster’ In The Eyes Of Director George Miller Roadshow Films By Travis Yates/Oct. 8, 2022 11:00 pm EST Like the hazy fogs that often coat their landscapes, dystopian and post-apocalyptic films are heavy and dense. They ponder frightening futures while critiquing present-day social issues that might lead us there. Visually, they are often gritty and bleak, with stark images of what might be waiting for us in the years to come....

The Fabelmans is now available on VOD Universal Pictures “The Fabelmans” may still be in theaters, but it looks like the folks at Universal have decided to make it more accessible on VOD services such as YouTube, Prime Video, VUDU, Apple TV+, and beyond. With this decision comes two options. You can either rent Spielberg’s latest for $19.99, or purchase the digital copy for $24.99. Unfortunately, there’s no streaming option available just yet....

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Season 4 Just Added Cast Members From The Original Movie The Disney Channel By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 23, 2022 3:16 pm EST “We’re all in this together” isn’t just the catchiest earworm to ever come out of a Disney Channel Original Movie, it’s also a way of life. As was announced today, some of the original cast members of “High School Musical,” the 2006 Disney Channel Original movie that spawned a franchise, will be appearing on the next season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” which is an actual show and the reason pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo had a reason to write an album of heartbreak bangers....

House Of The Dragon: The Cursed History Of Harrenhal Explained HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 26, 2022 12:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of House of the Dragon." Even in a world as sprawling and lived-in as the one featured in “House of the Dragon,” we’re bound to return to a few key recurring locations that we’ve seen before (though taking place later in the chronological timeline) during “Game of Thrones....

House Of The Dragon Embraces The Best Thing About Game Of Thrones HBO By Shania Russell/Aug. 29, 2022 12:00 pm EST The months leading up to the “House of the Dragon” premiere were plagued by online debate about whether or not the show would have a chance at success. Could HBO’s take on Westeros recover from the disappointing “Game of Thrones” finale? Would the audiences of the world ever be able to trust another entry in this fantasy series?...

Changing after three hours Warner Bros. Warning: Spoilers ahead for “The Batman.” At the end of “The Batman,” after the Riddler (Paul Dano) has been apprehended, he and Batman have a conversation about forcing change onto a city that seems beyond redemption. Batman felt that he was stopping crime and being righteous, but it seems the Riddler was similarly motivated. They also both wear masks and do a great deal of violence to unarmed people, making them frighteningly similar....

‘It was always sort of baked into the DNA’ Warner Bros. Kasdan says that he was drawn to “Harry Potter” during the height of the books’ popularity, and that their structure and focus on interpersonal relationships have some impact on “Willow” itself. “I was in my 20s when the Harry Potter books happened and I got very involved in the artfulness with which [Rowling] matriculated those characters through the seven years of their lives and the relationships they had to each other,” Kasdan says....

Something wicked this way comes Momentum Pictures Scott Beck and Bryan Woods take on writing and directorial duties for “Haunt,” which tells the story of a group of college kids visiting a haunted house featuring catchpenny-masked performers — the kind that jump out from a corner with a fake chainsaw. It starts as normally as any haunt; give up your cell phones, sign this waiver so you can’t sue, etc. But the students soon find that the performers are a bit zealous, and the scares are deadly....

Jimmy Fallon And Mick Jagger’s Mirror Sketch On SNL Almost Didn’t Make It To Air NBC By Joe Roberts/Dec. 14, 2022 11:25 am EST Jimmy Fallon has always had a knack for impressions, and when he does break out his Neil Young or Bob Dylan it’s a welcome break from the unctuousness of his talk show. But before he moved down a couple of floors at 30 Rock, he spent his time in the building’s hallowed studio 8H as part of the main cast on “Saturday Night Live....

Josh Brolin Didn’t Exactly Walk Away From Deadpool 2 Unscathed By J. Gabriel Ware/July 18, 2022 12:01 pm EST ‘I got beat to s**t on that movie’ There’s no shortage of action scenes in “Deadpool 2,” and as the main antagonist in the early going of the movie, Josh Brolin’s Cable finds himself in most of the fast-paced action sequences and fight scenes with the titular superhero (Ryan Reynolds). And as the time-traveling military soldier turns from foe to ally, he works side by side with Deadpool in more action scenes....

Paul Thomas Anderson Is Gearing Up To Shoot His Next Feature This Summer United Artists By Erin Brady/Nov. 29, 2022 2:46 pm EST It’s hard to deny Paul Thomas Anderson’s status in our modern filmmaking canon. When he makes a new movie, it always is big news in the entertainment industry, and if recent rumors are true, then he’s about to let the cameras roll once more. That’s because a mysterious new project attached to his name has appeared on a casting website, despite the project’s existence never actually being confirmed....

The Daily Stream: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Made Me A Better Human Being CNN By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 13, 2022 10:34 am EST The series: “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” Where you can stream it: Discovery+, HBO Max (season 1) The pitch: Celebrity chef, writer, and travel journalist Anthony Bourdain brings his unique brand of genuine empathy and self-aware snark to every corner of the globe as he travels to the “parts unknown....

The True Story Behind Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, And What The Biopic Changes Warner Bros. By Joe Roberts/Nov. 11, 2022 5:27 pm EST Who better to direct a movie about one of the most flamboyant rock stars than the equally ostentatious Baz Luhrmann? “Elvis” was never going to be a gritty, dramatic retelling of the superstar’s ups and downs, and there’s a good case to be made for why it shouldn’t be — one made quite convincingly by the movie itself....

This Place Rules Trailer: Andrew Callaghan Walks The Path To The January 6 Capitol Riot HBO By Erin Brady/Dec. 8, 2022 7:36 pm EST Journalism, like all careers, is a rapidly evolving field due to how frequently technology and culture have changed. To truly succeed as a journalist nowadays, you need to present important or relevant stories in a way that captures the audience’s attention. Perhaps there is no better example of how to succeed in this than the work of Andrew Callaghan and his YouTube channel, Channel 5....

‘We really wanted Val to come be in the show.’ Lucasfilm Created by “Willow” co-writer and producer George Lucas, Madmartigan is, as he’s been described by /Film in the past, a “copyright safe Han Solo,” but dangit if he’s not a fun one! Once again, much of the credit for that belongs to Val Kilmer, who made the character feel fresh in a way that doesn’t readily come across on paper....