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Paul Verhoeven Sunk A Film That Could Have Changed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Career Carolco Pictures By Jeremy Smith/July 29, 2022 7:53 pm EST It would’ve been massive. It would’ve been bloody. It could’ve been glorious. Instead, it remains unproduced. Paul Verhoeven’s “Crusade” is one of the most tantalizingly unmade films of the 1990s. If everything had gone according to plan, the $100 million-budgeted epic would’ve been the filmmaker’s follow-up to “Basic Instinct....

Quentin Tarantino Started Writing Reservoir Dogs And Pulp Fiction With The Same Idea In Mind Miramax By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 30, 2022 2:08 pm EST 28 years ago, it was hard to get a handle on exactly what Quentin Tarantino was up to with his first two movies. I was a freshman in college when “Reservoir Dogs” wended its way through art houses and campus theaters across the United States, and, in the mostly pre-internet era of the early ’90s, it was rare to see a movie acquire a devoted cult following so rapidly sans home video release....

JELLY! I’m gonna fix you, I’m gonna fix this! Sony Pictures Releasing “Film used to be the superior art form to television, and we humbly reached the pinnacle of what can be achieved with film in our remarkable opus, ‘Sausage Party,’ but now that film is completely dead and TV is the forever-king of entertainment, we’ve decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be-legendary televised masterpiece ‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia,’” said Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in a statement....

Familiar fuzzies Evan Zimmerman/Rockefeller Productions “Sesame Street: The Musical” certainly feels like a test run of staging anything Muppet on stage, which isn’t necessarily new for the muppet world — or productions that can be ruled as “muppet-derived.” The Sesame Street R-rated potty-mouthed counterpart “Avenue Q” musical, which cast puppeteer alumni of “Sesame Street” on its Broadway run, went with having the puppeteers visible on stage. In 2014, Variety reported that Disney Theatrical Productions experimented with putting the Muppets on stage....

Star Trek 4 Has Been Removed From Paramount’s Upcoming Release Slate Paramount Pictures By Ariel Fisher/Sept. 27, 2022 10:10 pm EST The last “Star Trek” film to be released as part of the Kelvin timeline was the woefully undervalued “Star Trek Beyond,” arguably the best of the three newest entries. Since then, “Trek” fans have been waiting (impatiently, no doubt) for a fourth entry in the new film franchise, and it seemed like there was hope when it was announced that “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman would be helming the as-yet-untitled “Star Trek 4....

The 14 Best BoJack Horseman Episodes, Ranked Netflix By Eric Langberg/Aug. 1, 2022 2:35 pm EST This article contains mentions of alcoholism, addiction, suicide, and miscarriage. Back in the ’90s, BoJack Horseman was in a very famous TV-show, but in Netflix’s critically-acclaimed “BoJack Horseman,” viewers get to know the man (er, horse) behind the sitcom characters: a self-destructive, alcoholic, depressed guy who can’t come to terms with the fact that his best days might be behind him....

Why it’s essential viewing New Line Cinema In the pantheon of all cinema, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze” isn’t gonna be anywhere near the top, but it does serve as a fascinating landmark of its time. As someone who was 10 years old in 1991, there was no cooler thing on this earth than the Ninja Turtles. The cartoon was everywhere, the toys were always sold out, and then New Line’s first live-action movie hit in 1990 and it was way better than it had any right to be, propelled by a gritty New York backdrop and top-of-the-line puppet work from Jim Henson....

The Gray Man Composer Henry Jackman On How He Created An Epic 17-Minute Suite [Interview] Netflix By Jack Giroux/July 23, 2022 3:12 pm EST Henry Jackman composed a 17-minute suite for “The Gray Man.” It’s a rollercoaster of a track that introduces audiences to the spy world, based on Mark Greaney’s series of books. The suite is every bit as big as the Russo Brothers’ almost comically mammoth popcorn movie. Jackman, however, did not want to go big for the sake of going big....

The Intense Training Jameela Jamil Had To Do For She-Hulk Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/Sept. 2, 2022 4:07 pm EST “The Good Place” star Jameela Jamil has left the afterlife of that now-ended NBC comedy and moved on to playing villain and influencer Titania on the Disney+ series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.” When we first meet Titania, it’s when she bursts through the wall of a courtroom where Tatiana Maslany’s She-Hulk is arguing a case....

The Power Of The Doctor Trailer: The Thirteenth Doctor Fights Her Final Battle BBC By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 8, 2022 9:20 am EST It’s been five years since Jodie Whittaker was cast as the first female Doctor on “Doctor Who,” and now her stint as the titular Time Lord is at an end. “The Power of the Doctor” is the last of three TV specials in 2022 to wrap up Whittaker’s tenure as the Thirteenth Doctor....

The Rings Of Power Brings Back The Lord Of The Rings’ Majestic Walking Songs Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 23, 2022 5:00 pm EST One of the biggest differences when you go from watching “The Lord of the Rings” movies to the first “The Hobbit” movie is its abundance of songs. There are sad dwarf songs, happy songs about washing dishes, and even a song by goblins. Though the next two movies all but erased this element, the Prime Video prequel series “The Rings of Power” finally brings back one of the most important elements of Tolkien’s writing: music....

The Rings Of Power Sound Team Created A ‘Death Song’ For Galadriel’s Dagger [Exclusive] Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 21, 2022 4:50 pm EST Of all the histrionics over changes made to author J.R.R. Tolkien’s source material in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” — new, original characters, a (potential) new origin for a key piece of Middle-earth lore, and other differences that inevitably come up when translating a story to another medium altogether — one particular addition largely flew under the radar....

Vin Diesel’s Riddick Wasn’t Always The Protagonist Of Pitch Black Grammercy Pictures/Interscope Communications By Lee Adams/Aug. 12, 2022 11:36 am EST It may be hard to believe now after nine “Fast & Furious” movies and guff like “The Last Witcher” and “Bloodshot,” but there was a time when Vin Diesel was an interesting actor. With that gravelly voice and a smooth aura of self-assurance, he was a natural, even when playing a small but neatly drawn character in “Saving Private Ryan,” a slick senior broker in “Boiler Room,” or voicing a big metal fella with a heart of gold in “The Iron Giant....

Will There Be A Sequel To Barbarian? Here’s What Direct Zach Cregger Says 20th Century Studios By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 19, 2022 4:52 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Barbarian.” Much like the basement at 476 Barbary Street, the more you think about “Barbarian,” the deeper it digs into your subconscious. Writer/director Zach Cregger lures you into the rhythm you would usually associate with one brand of horror movie before unleashing five others, each of which complement the other in horrifying fashion....

Will There Be An Only Murders In The Building Season 3? Hulu By Jenna Busch/July 11, 2022 2:35 pm EST “Only Murders in the Building” season 1 was a pandemic binge for many of us. The second season of the Hulu Original recently hit the streamer, and if possible, is even more charming than the first. Season 1 brought together Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez), who try to solve a murder in their building, tangling them in a web of intrigue, grouchy neighbors, love, and resentment....

12 Underrated Time Travel Movies You Need To See Karbo Vantas Entertainment By Simon Bland/Aug. 24, 2022 3:08 pm EST Forget flux capacitors and sports almanacs. Where these underrated time travel movies are going, you don’t need mainstream references. This year-hopping corner of cinema may be predominantly dominated by Marty and the Doc’s souped-up DeLorean and emotionless machines sent back in time to kill us, but take a deeper look and you’ll find a range of stories that take time travel to some pretty unexpected places....

15 Shows Like Gilmore Girls That You Really Should Watch Warner Bros. Television By Brent Furdyk/Dec. 3, 2022 3:59 pm EST When “Gilmore Girls” first made its debut on the now-defunct WB network back in 2000, it would have been easy at first glance to lump the show together with The WB’s roster of female-skewed dramas at the time, including the likes of “Dawson’s Creek” and “Felicity.” Yet those who tuned in discovered something far deeper and richer, a series that deftly blended comedy and drama in telling the story of single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) raising her studious teenage daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) in Connecticut’s quirkiest town....

Actors We Want To See In A Green Lantern Remake DC Comics By Devin Meenan/Oct. 16, 2022 3:12 pm EST In 2011, the silver screen debut of Green Lantern landed like a thud instead of soaring like a triumph. The film was dismissed both by critics and wider audiences; one of the more positive reviews was Roger Ebert’s middling praise, “[‘Green Lantern’] intends to be a sound-and-light show, assaulting the audience with sensational special effects....

Alan Tudyk’s Dream Wash Scene Never Made It Into Firefly 20th Television By Devin Meenan/Aug. 28, 2022 2:29 pm EST With only 14 episodes to its name, “Firefly” had time to realize just a fraction of its creators’ ideas. Since its cancellation, the show’s actors and writers have discussed many ideas for unmade episodes. Among them is Alan Tudyk, who played Hoban “Wash” Washburne, the eccentric but very skilled pilot of the starship Serenity....

The Avatar sequels 20th Century Studios The “Avatar” franchise has simmered down a bit since its highly discussed debut in 2009. James Cameron’s film was divisive at the time, but it broke multiple box office records and has generally been lauded as favorable over time despite some opinions to the contrary. It’s certainly not a film for everyone, but those who do deeply connect with the movie will certainly be happy to know that Cameron plans to release a third installment following “Avatar: The Way of Water....