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Viola Davis Is Nominated For A Grammy, So She’s One Trophy Away From An EGOT 20th Century Studios By Matt Rainis/Nov. 15, 2022 4:09 pm EST There are few greater accomplishments a performer can achieve than completing an EGOT. That is, winning four of the most prestigious awards in show business: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. To achieve the greatest success possible in television, music, film, and on stage is a rare feat, and the performers who’ve achieved it make up an exclusive and prestigious club....

Wendell And Wild Leans On A Key Jordan Peele Trademark [Exclusive] Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 6, 2022 11:30 am EST Jordan Peele has quickly skyrocketed into becoming one of the biggest and most exciting names in horror. This is in no small part thanks to his unique style that mixes big scares with a sense of humor, all while using the genre’s history of social commentary to deliver poignant stories that are timeless and also timely....

Don’t Look Now British Lion Films One of the best ways to deepen your understanding and enjoyment of a movie is to look at the films that inspired it. “Don’t Look Now”, the 1978 thriller by “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and “The Witches” director Nicolas Roeg, has been cited by Ari Aster as one of his major influences in crafting “Hereditary”. Adapted from Daphne Du Maurier’s short story (the same Du Maurier whose fiction was previously adapted by Alfred Hitchcock into “Rebecca” and “The Birds”) the film stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a grieving couple whose young daughter drowned on the family property....

Actors Who Regretted Missing Out On Big Sci-Fi Movies Universal Pictures By Liam Gaughan/July 7, 2022 6:56 pm EST It’s fascinating to think about what your favorite movies would have looked like if there had been different actors in the leading roles. What would the “Star Wars” franchise have looked like if Christopher Walken played Han Solo and not Harrison Ford? Would the “Batman” franchise have become a smash hit if it was Willem Dafoe playing the Dark Knight and not Michael Keaton?...

Brian De Palma Chose A Drill For Body Double’s Murder Weapon For A Very Practical Reason Columbia Pictures By Devin Meenan/Nov. 19, 2022 5:00 pm EST The 1984 slasher “Body Double” is one of director Brian De Palma’s most blatant Hitchcock homages. If “Obsession” is “Vertigo” and “Dressed to Kill” is “Psycho,” then “Body Double” is “Rear Window,” as both are murder mysteries sparked by voyeurism. Struggling actor Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is house-sitting for an acquaintance and spends his nights spying on his new neighbor Gloria (Deborah Shelton) via telescope....

Constantine’s Director Had To Convince Keanu Reeves He Was Right For The Film Warner Bros. Pictures By Marcos Melendez/Sept. 27, 2022 1:19 pm EST With a long-awaited sequel officially on the way, “Constantine” has cemented itself as one of the most underrated superhero films in the past few decades. The 2005 film is a product of its time — a very, very loosely connected adaptation of the beloved source material — but the interpretation justifies its own existence through some stylistic filmmaking and heavy-hitting on-screen talent....

The leads still have great chemistry Netflix None of that is to say season 3 is a complete wash. Once again, the show’s stars, Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, are the real draw. The two actors work so well together, playing unlikely besties with plenty of secrets. Indeed, the only thing that really kept me watching this third season (other than, ya know, my job reviewing it) was the continued chemistry between Applegate and Cardellini, and the enjoyment of their characters’ unique, strange friendship....

Dexter: New Blood Image Reveals A Meeting Between Characters That Should Not Be Happening Showtime “Dexter: New Blood” is a revival and continuation of Showtime’s “Dexter” series, which ended eight years ago with a finale that left many viewers disappointed. Michael C. Hall steps back into the role of Dexter, the one-time blood spatter analyst and serial killer who preys on other serial killers. He’s now in upstate New York instead of Florida (or Oregon, where we last saw him), and he’s surrounded by a new cast of characters....

Eddie Murphy Didn’t Mince Words About Beverly Hills Cop’s Lackluster Sequels Paramount Pictures By Matt Rainis/Oct. 5, 2022 4:38 pm EST Few comedians have ever been as absolutely electric as Eddie Murphy was in the ’80s. Murphy was setting the world on fire everywhere he went, from his television work on “Saturday Night Live” to his time in cinema with “48 Hrs.,” “Trading Places,” and “Coming to America.” It seemed like everything he touched turned into gold....

Finding The Right Comedy Ratio Was Crucial For Naruto Viz Media By Debopriyaa Dutta/Aug. 7, 2022 8:00 pm EST Naruto Uzumaki is a comfort character for many reasons. The knuckleheaded ninja went from being a young troublemaker and failing student to a brave, responsible Hokage of the Leaf Village after helping win the Fourth Shinobi World War. Masashi Kishimoto, who created the “Naruto” manga series, based the titular hero on his own experiences at school while growing up, painting a flawed, lovable character worth rooting for in the process....

George Miller Talks The Sprawling Fairytale Romance In Three Thousand Years Of Longing [Exclusive Interview] Warner Bros. Pictures By Emma Stefansky/Aug. 26, 2022 1:00 pm EST There are no half measures with George Miller. The Australian filmmaker commits everything he has to movies about pigs who wish they were sheepdogs, penguins who wish they were tap dancers, and denizens of post-apocalyptic wastelands who wish only for the next drop of water, the next scavenge-able ghost town, the next souped-up war rig full of guzzolene to ride straight to Valhalla, shiny and chrome....

Never-before-seen footage from At The Mountains Of Madness Guillermo del Toro What he released was a 25-second clip of a wholly 3D animated sequence that was made as a test to show how he’d bring Lovecraft’s creatures to life. The movie itself would have been live-action, this is just a test to show what ILM could do with the VFX on the creatures: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Guillermo Del Toro (@gdtreal)...

Here’s The Mist And The Shawshank Redemption Filmmaker Frank Darabont’s Advice For Aspiring Writers [Exclusive] Dimension Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 21, 2022 2:53 pm EST Scads of books have been written on the subject of screenwriting by people who purport to know the tricks of the trade. Some of these folks become industries unto themselves, charging close to $1,000 to attend their intensive, multi-day seminars. Readers and attendees hang on their every word, believing that total adherence to their methods will result in a finished script and a studio deal....

House Of The Dragon Goes Full Bachelorette In King Of The Narrow Sea HBO By Shania Russell/Sept. 11, 2022 10:00 pm EST No dynasty can avoid the constant threat of being destroyed by scandals. Believe it or not, House Targaryen is no exception. You might think that their reputation for burning enemies would make them exempt or maybe that their well-documented family history of incest would make them immune, but nope!...

F.W. Murnau vs. The Bram Stoker Estate Prana Film Prana Film, the German studio that made “Nosferatu,” was founded in 1921 by Enrico Dieckmann and an artist named Albin Grau, who had a taste for the occult. The idea of Prana Film was to house a long series of occult and supernatural feature films, but the studio folded quickly after making just one. According to the 1993 biography by Christiane Mückenberger, Grau claimed that he was inspired to make a vampire film after hearing a “true” vampire story from a Serbian farmer while Grau was serving as a soldier during World War I....

John Wayne Considered Working With John Huston One Of The Biggest Mistake Of His Career 20th Century Studios By Shae Sennett/Nov. 4, 2022 1:27 pm EST Signing on two Hollywood legends doesn’t always guarantee success — in fact, sometimes having two big personalities on set is exactly what destines a project to fail. Such was the case with John Huston’s 1958 film “The Barbarian and the Geisha,” starring the Duke himself, John Wayne....

Making the final film count Paramount It’s hard to know whether John Wayne was adamant that he remain in “The Shootist” because he was passionate about the movie itself, or if he was simply terrified by the career implications of bowing out of a movie due to health challenges. If his main concern was the latter, the $250,000 investment didn’t exactly pay off: “The Shootist” would become Wayne’s last film, so it would’ve been alright if future employability took a backseat to comfort....

Remembering Worf’s Lines Could Apparently Be A Struggle For Star Trek’s Michael Dorn Paramount By Witney Seibold/Sept. 2, 2022 1:38 pm EST Between seven seasons of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and four seasons of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” — not to mention five feature films, and an upcoming season of “Star Trek: Picard” — actor Michael Dorn has appeared onscreen in more “Trek”-related projects than any other actor. To date, he has made 282 TV appearances, all as the character Worf (with a footnote devoted to the Klingon defense attorney he played in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”)....

Star Wars: Tales Of The Jedi Review: A Series Full Of Stunning Animation, Pathos And Galaxy Lore (c) Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Oct. 26, 2022 3:01 am EST There will be spoilers for “Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi” “Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi” is a six episode mini-series featuring stories that take place before, during, and after the prequel era, offering a window into the Jedi Order through the lens of two pivotal characters who both lost their faith in the Jedi: Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano....

The movie: Silent Hill Sony Pictures Even though Hollywood wasn’t quite as franchise-obsessed in 2005/2006 as it is now, things were certainly headed that direction. The rights for “Silent Hill” were being hotly contested in the early 2000s (no doubt thanks to the success of the “Resident Evil” movies), but French filmmaker Christophe Gans (“Brotherhood of the Wolf”) was a genuine fan of the games and wanted to be the one to adapt them for the screen....