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Columbia Pictures By Anya Stanley/Aug. 24, 2022 11:55 am EST Nature took its course Armed with this knowledge, watching the boys roughhouse in chest-deep water takes on extra-foul dimensions. And it didn’t end with Gordie passing out. In the same oral history, Wheaton describes going to a nearby mall with Phoenix, O’Connell, and Feldman after shooting the scene, and being turned away from the water slides “because they thought we had open lesions on our skin....

George R.R. Martin Personally Recommended House Of The Dragon’s Showrunner To HBO HBO By Mike Shutt/Aug. 1, 2022 3:27 pm EST To the relief of many people, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have no involvement in the forthcoming series “House of the Dragon.” The two shepherded “Game of Thrones” for its eight seasons, and the response to the show’s final season showed there was little love remaining from the fans. While I’m not as hard on the final season as a lot of people, I can’t deny there was a drop in quality as the show reached its conclusion....

How Richard Donner Salvaged Superman’s Disastrous First Script Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/July 26, 2022 7:01 pm EST Richard Donner’s 1978 film “Superman” remains, even at this late date, one of the best superhero films ever made (if not the best). Donner, with his glittering special effects, careful and deliberate storytelling style, and attention to Superman’s do-gooder disposition, effectively captured the importance and enormity of a character who had, by 1978, leaked into the realm of Jungian archetypes....

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Let Sean Connery Flex His Improv Chops Paramount Pictures By Matt Rainis/Sept. 14, 2022 10:53 am EST The “Indiana Jones” series of movies is a trio of classic action-adventure films that have stood the test of time. (The less we say about the disappointing fourth entry, the better off we’ll all be.) The third film in the franchise, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” stands out as the funniest and most light-hearted of the trilogy, with the series seemingly accepting its status as a bit campy and running with it....

They call me Mr. Bombastic Marvel Comics Making his first appearance in 1984’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #258 by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, the Bombastic Bag-Man was born out of necessity. Shortly after Spider-Man adopted the black symbiote suit four issues earlier and during the “Secret Wars” crossover event, Peter visited the Fantastic Four at the Baxter Building to learn more about his new attire. That’s when he discovered that his suit was actually an alien life form attempting to permanently bond with him....

Michelle Pfeiffer Was Vacuum-Sealed Into Her Catwoman Suit Before Filming Every Batman Returns Scene Warner Bros. By Jenna Busch/Dec. 2, 2022 9:42 pm EST The wild 1992 film “Batman Returns” introduced a pretty memorable Catwoman with Michelle Pfeiffer. Shooting the Tim Burton-directed flick wasn’t exactly a comfortable experience for Pfeiffer, though. Remember that costume she wore? Of course you do. How could you not? Pfeiffer not only gave a great performance as a woman who has had enough of being treated like crap by men, but the suit she wears is famous and has been replicated at Halloween every year since....

Audition tip: Leave the knife at home Buena Vista Pictures “Con Air” came along at the glorious bombastic peak of ’90s action movies, which gave us big, loud, testosterone-fueled blockbusters like “True Lies,” “Bad Boys,” and “Armageddon,” and two films that saw Nicolas Cage transition from the serious Oscar-winning actor of “Leaving Las Vegas” to action hero. The first was “The Rock,” where he had such great chemistry with Sean Connery, before he really buffed up to play Cameron Poe in “Con Air....

Players Season 1 Spoiler Review: League Of Legends Makes For An Entertaining And Compelling Sports Doc Paramount+ By Rafael Motamayor/July 28, 2022 9:00 am EST Heavy spoilers ahead for the first season of “Players.” “Players” is another winning mockumentary from the team behind “American Vandal,” this time taking the very serious genre of sports documentary and aiming it at the very self-serious but quite absurd professional “League of Legends” scene....

Popular Stranger Things Fan Theories Debunked Netflix By Cass Clarke/July 6, 2022 4:39 pm EST Spoiler warning: This article contains major spoilers for “Stranger Things” Season 4, Volume 2, now streaming on Netflix. When “Stranger Things” Season 4 dropped its final two episodes on Netflix, the streaming platform crashed due to an overwhelming amount of fans tuning in to see if the Hawkins kids would conquer the seemingly unstoppable Vecna. Over this past weekend, “Stranger Things” gained over one billion hours viewed, being the second-ever Netflix series to hit that benchmark within its first 28 days on the platform, as reported by IndieWire....

Researching Birdsong Was ‘Dumbfoundingly Humbling’ For Eddie Redmayne BBC One By Sarah Musnicky/Nov. 14, 2022 2:05 pm EST When Eddie Redmayne takes on a role, he’s been known to go on a research deep dive to get into the proper headspace needed to fully embody the characters he portrays. Sometimes, this research has a significant impact on Redmayne that challenges and — ultimately — shapes his worldview. Redmayne recently broke down his career in a new video for Vanity Fair, revealing just how long research has been integral to his creative process....

So what happens in Rocky III again? United Aritsts Three years after Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) shocked the world by claiming the heavyweight title in “Rocky II,” the Italian Stallion is on a high. He has easily defended his title against ten challengers and he’s raking in plenty of extra cash from side gigs and making guest appearances on “The Muppet Show.” It’s good old Rocky, though, so he also does a lot for charity too, like taking on Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan), the world wrestling champion, in a fundraising event that gets out of control....

Scrubs Didn’t Expect To Be As Weird As It Eventually Became Disney-ABC Television By Anthony Crislip/Sept. 3, 2022 7:00 pm EST For most of its nine years on television (eight regular seasons and one semi-spinoff season), “Scrubs” was off-the-wall and surreal. The show, about the journeys of medical interns to full-fledged doctors, could be as nakedly emotional and touching as the best hospital dramas. It could also be incredibly silly. Much like “Ted Lasso,” another show from creator Bill Lawrence, “Scrubs” is very sincere and warm-hearted, but it embraced the bizarre with relish, especially as the seasons went on....

The Batgirl Directors Would Work With Warner Bros. Again, But Under One Condition Warner Bros. By Matthew Bilodeau/Dec. 5, 2022 2:04 pm EST It’s common for some projects to run into obstacles, but “Batgirl” was subject to an undignified death. Back in August, the $90 million superhero flick from directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (“Bad Boys For Life”) was not only taken off of the Warner Bros. Discovery release slate, but shelved indefinitely....

The Idol Trailer: Lily-Rose Depp & The Weeknd Star In ‘Sick And Twisted’ Hollywood Love Story HBO By Ben F. Silverio/July 17, 2022 3:52 pm EST Borrowing a page from Daniel Craig’s playbook, HBO really said, “Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd” and dropped a new teaser for the Grammy-winning artist’s upcoming series “The Idol” on a Sunday morning. According to the fast-paced sneak peek at the collaboration between Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson, and Reza Fahim, the series will tell “the sleaziest love story in all of Hollywood....

The Marvels Footage Description: Captain Marvel Gets Her Own Marvelous Superhero Team [D23] Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch AND Devin Meenan/Sept. 10, 2022 4:11 pm EST Disney’s D23 Expo is in full swing in Anaheim, California, and Marvel Studios is on stage with the latest footage from its upcoming projects, including “The Marvels.” /Film’s own Ethan Anderton is on the ground, bringing us all the information we need to know. “The Marvels” will feature the long-awaited team-up of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Kamala Khan/Ms....

A Blending of Dimension Monsters Compass International Pictures Back in the 1990s, filmmaker Dave Parker (“The Hills Run Red,” “Tales of Halloween”) had pitched an idea for “Freddy vs. Jason” at Sean Cunningham’s company, but the pitch was unsuccessful. However, it got him thinking about other possible crossovers, and he realized that Dimension at the time owned the rights to both “Halloween” and “Hellraiser,” and the seasoned editor put together a trailer using footage from the films called “Helloween....

Stewart almost got Grant to crack As mean as “The Philadelphia Story” and its male leads are to Tracy Lord, it’s just as apparent that Hepburn, Grant, and Stewart got on quite well filming their shenanigans. Hepburn and Grant had already worked together on a handful of movies by the time “The Philadelphia Story” went into production, including Howard Hawks’ now-classic screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby.” Indeed, the duo’s fondness for one another shines through onscreen, even when their characters’ interactions are anything but pleasant....

The Story Of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Wasn’t An Easy Fit For A Film By Devin Meenan/Oct. 23, 2022 10:00 pm EST In silver screen Westerns, fantasy paints over reality. Real-life figures of that era, from lawmen like Wyatt Earp to outlaws like Jesse James, are as much heroes of cinema as fictional ones like the Man with No Name. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is one of the most famous cases of the former....

Team Thor returns Disney+ In the film, New Asgard has become the talk of the town, going from essentially a refugee camp to a huge tourist destination complete with Mjolnir’s debris on display, a magical Asgardian Viking ship ride, an “Infinity War” themed ice cream parlor, branded collaborations with Old Spice, and more. No longer the drunk former Valkyrie, Val is now a proper king of the Asgardians, involved in diplomatic relationships with other nations, and getting quite bored of it....

What brought Venom to the MCU? Sony Pictures The post-credits scene of “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is only about 90 seconds long, but it yields the moment that Tom Hardy’s cryptic Instagram posts and the “Mobius” trailer hinted at: Venom is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here’s what happens: While watching TV, Venom and Eddie are moved to a slightly different version of the beachside bungalow where they’re laying low....