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The Career Frustrations That Pushed Paul Newman Into The Director’s Chair Universal Pictures By Travis Yates/Aug. 4, 2022 8:50 pm EST You often hear that there are no new ideas in Hollywood. You could point to the recent boom period of sequels, prequels, reboots, side-boots, and multiverses as proof. Last year, The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson outlined that the steady growth of Hollywood blockbusters since 2000 really are primarily sequels, adaptations, and reboots, rather than original works....

The Coen Brothers Struggled With One Key Aspect Of Tommy Lee Jones’ No Country For Old Men Role Paramount Vantage By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 24, 2022 7:00 pm EST Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-winning film adaptation of “No Country for Old Men” is faithful in many respects to the Cormac McCarthy novel on which it’s based. Yet by its very nature as a movie, there were some things that “No Country for Old Men” had to approach differently than the book....

Eroding morality Dimension Films /Film now celebrates the 15th anniversary of “The Mist” with an oral history of the film by Eric Vespe, where we were able to hear from Frank Darabont himself about the fruitless nature of the film’s protagonist’s efforts. According to him, it was a choice he made to be provocative and run against the nature of a normal movie: “When I was writing the script, I thought, this guy is making every right decision for every right reason, and every decision he makes turns into a disastrous choice and I thought, this is really interesting....

Damion Poitier as Thanos Albert L. Ortega/Getty, Marvel Studios Before Josh Brolin took on the role of Thanos — giving him a world-weary face and a performance that actually made some viewers sympathize — the Mad Titan was just a scary alien in the middle of the first “Avengers” movie’s credits. Aside from his basic body shape, this first Thanos was not recognizably human, but a purple-faced alien unlike any of the more familiar actors who’d played primary villains in Marvel movies up until that point....

Why Ashton Kutcher Is Returning For That ’90s Show Carsey-Werner Distribution By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 31, 2022 11:00 pm EST Sitcom revivals are a dime a dozen these days, but until news broke about Netflix’s “That ’90s Show,” a “That ’70s Show” redux has never seemed likely. For one thing, the show already tried as much way back in 2002, with a poorly received spin-off called “That ’80s Show” (starring Glenn Howerton, no less)....

Why Better Call Saul Marks The End Of The Breaking Bad Universe For Vince Gilligan AMC By Ernesto Valenzuela/Aug. 10, 2022 12:33 pm EST Vince Gilligan has been deeply embedded in the shady underworld of Albuquerque since the original “Breaking Bad” pilot aired in 2008. Since then, the writer/director has gone on to make a prequel/sequel series in “Better Call Saul” and the sequel film titled “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie....

Something witchy this way comes The CW If there’s one thing you can count on with “Riverdale,” it’s the show’s ability to top its previous absurdity with each new season. That will no doubt remain the case with the story for its final batch of episodes, with possibilities ranging from an “Afterlife with Archie”-inspired arc that brings the zombie apocalypse to Riverdale to an adaptation of one or more of the other comic book tales from the Archie Horror label (like when Veronica turns into a vampire)....

Yellowjackets Season 2 Will Be Even More Shocking According To Star Christina Ricci Showtime By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 18, 2022 1:37 pm EST Great news, “Yellowjackets” hive: the survival thriller that got us all hooked last year is apparently deep into production, and star Christina Ricci says there’s a lot to look forward to in the saga’s sophomore season. “I can’t really get too much into detail, but I will say the first couple scripts had the entire cast gasping,” she told Entertainment Tonight, “So it’s even wilder....

American Gigolo release date and where you can watch it If you are waiting anxiously to see Bernthal as you’ve never seen him before, you won’t have to wait much longer. The first episode of “American Gigolo” will premiere on Showtime’s streaming platform on September 9, 2022. The show is expected to run for eight episodes, meaning the finale will likely air at the end of October. This is all very clear, but what isn’t clear is whether the show will also air on the original Showtime channel....

Avatar: The Last Airbender Head Writer And A Standards & Practices Veteran Explain Why You’re Wrong About Studio Notes [Exclusive Interview] Nickelodeon By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 21, 2022 12:05 pm EST (Welcome to My Most Ridiculous Note, a series of interviews in which animators talk about the weirdest and funniest notes they received from studio executives.) Well folks, this is a special occasion. For a while now, we’ve been publishing interviews with animators who worked on some of the most beloved cartoons of the ’90s and ’00s, exploring what went into making those stories stand apart from their contemporaries, from the Christmas episode of “Hey Arnold” to the classic “Nosferatu” joke in “SpongeBob SquarePants....

Better Call Saul Finally Settled A Longstanding Breaking Bad Debate AMC By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 9, 2022 5:00 pm EST As of this latest episode of “Better Call Saul,” the show’s penultimate hour, we’re now right on the brink of witnessing how the stories of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) ultimately wrap up, for better or worse. Given some of those devastatingly sad moments and downright anxiety-inducing confrontations — as much interpersonal as they are an ongoing battle between the best and worst natures within our protagonists — all signs point towards a tragic (or at least deeply melancholic) conclusion....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever early reactions Marvel Studios Critics lavished their praises on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” with many calling it “Marvel’s most powerful and poignant work to date,” intimate, heartfelt, yet jaw-droppingly “epic” in scope. The “stunning” visuals were praised, as were the performances and the brutal fight scenes. The film clearly deals sensitively with the passing of Chadwick Boseman, as many critics praised the themes of loss, grief, and catharsis....

A different time Universal Pictures It’s not surprising that a man who grew up to be as eccentric as Walken lacked some traditional tenets of childhood. It clearly worked out pretty well for him, given that he’s a mega-successful Oscar-winning actor. Walken seems to look back on his time as a child actor very fondly in the Vanity Fair piece, where he waxes some nostalgia over the very different time he came up in....

Dungeons and Dragons Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Wizards of the Coast “Dungeons & Dragons” is set to be released in theaters on March 31, 2023. That may seem like a long time from now, considering the movie completed filming in August 2021. However, we think a few things are happening with this choice. First, it could give “Dungeons & Dragons” a large window of time to work on post-production special effects....

Elizabeth Debicki Dug Through A ‘Tsunami’ Of Research Before Playing Diana In The Crown Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 7, 2022 10:03 pm EST “The Crown” returns this week with a season that’s sure to be one of its most talked about to date. While much of the Netflix series has centered on the rise and reign of Queen Elizabeth, who’s been played by Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, and Imelda Staunton in turn, the series’ fourth season introduced one of the most beloved figures in British royal history: Princess Diana....

Diving deeper into the weeds of broadcast journalism Warner Bros. The show will air on AMC, which was also home to Clooney’s adaptation of Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22.” The network describes Glatzer’s take thusly: “The series follows Sy Steingartner, a young cameraman for Murrow’s ‘See It Now,’ who is forced to juggle his admiration for Murrow with his own ambition. With the CBS brass pushing an anti-Communist Loyalty Oath on Murrow and his staff, Sy has an opportunity to rise straight to the top, but only by betraying his mentor in the process....

House Party Trailer: No Kid But All Play At LeBron James’ House In This Reboot Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 14, 2022 2:51 pm EST Remakes and reboots are nothing new in Hollywood, but Warner Bros. new take on the 1990 cult comedy “House Party” looks tailor-made for a new generation. Rather than focus on high school characters portrayed by the hip hop duo Kid ’n Play, the new “House Party” sees two 20-something down-on-their-luck music promoters named Damon (Tosin Cole) and Kevin (Jacob Latimore), who find themselves with access to LeBron James’ mansion after picking up a day job as house cleaners....

How Idris Elba Made George Miller Rethink How To Shoot Three Thousand Years Of Longing [Exclusive] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists By Witney Seibold/Aug. 26, 2022 4:12 pm EST Based on the 1994 A.S. Byatt short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” George Miller’s new film “Three Thousand Years of Longing” — in theaters on August 26 in the United States — stars Idris Elba as Byatt’s titular djinn who appears to a human scholar named Alithea (Tilda Swinton) to grant her wishes in exchange for his freedom....

Just be a meerkat Prime Video /Film’s own Jeremy Mathai talked to the cast of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” about bringing Middle-earth back to our screens, and how harfoots stand apart from the hobbits we know and love. For Megan Richards, who plays Poppy Proudfellow, that meant focusing on movement. “We had an incredible movement coach, Lara, and she gave us a couple of references at the very beginning....

How The Menu Pays Tribute To Food Service Workers Searchlight Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Nov. 18, 2022 10:00 am EST This article contains major spoilers for “The Menu.” You may not know what’s about to happen, but once the diners board the boat to Hawthorne, something feels inherently off. Is it because this collection of wealthy foodies is about to indulge in a needlessly convoluted meal, or because something much more sinister lies in store for them?...