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Clint Eastwood Found A Subtle Way To Set The Tone For The Bridges Of Madison County Warner Bros. By Andrew Korpan/Sept. 14, 2022 12:21 pm EST They just don’t make directors like they used to. Clint Eastwood has had an amazing career that has lasted nearly 70 years. Eastwood has acted in just about every genre you can think of while making a name for himself as the “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” of Spaghetti Westerns and Harry Callahan in the “Dirty Harry” series....

Full Metal Jacket’s Vietnam Set Was Literally Toxic, According To Matthew Modine Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 15, 2022 1:36 pm EST Making a movie with Stanley Kubrick could be an exhausting experience. The perfectionist filmmaker was notorious for subjecting actors to take after take until he’d drained the acting out of the scene. He still holds the Guinness World Record for racking up 148 takes with Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd for the “shine” sequence on the set of “The Shining....

Genndy Tartakovsky Is Planning To Turn Primal Into An Anthology (Possibly With Aliens) Adult Swim By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 22, 2022 2:11 pm EST Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated adventure series, “Primal” released its second season recently, and the gifted animator revealed to IndieWire that he is planning the series into an anthology. “Primal” is visually stunning and vast in scope in terms of its worldbuilding and action sequences, and Tartakovsky intends to maintain this effective, 2D style animation in his anthology approach, which will possibly include aliens, along with essential markers in human history....

Harvey Keitel Can Trace His Acting Approach Back To A Piece Of Marine Wisdom Warner Bros. By Matt Rainis/Sept. 9, 2022 4:11 pm EST Harvey Keitel is known as one of Hollywood’s best “tough guy” actors. A favorite accomplice of directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, movies like “Mean Streets,” “Reservoir Dogs,” and “The Irishman” have cemented Keitel as an acting legend. His rough and streetwise demeanor suits his often criminal characters perfectly....

Ingrid Bergman Didn’t Love How American TV Treated Her Films RKO By Lyvie Scott/July 28, 2022 4:17 pm EST American television is nothing without the commercial break. The industry seems to live and die on the back of advertisements — or, at least, it did before the age of streaming. In the Before Times, there were few ways to watch a film or show without commercial interruption. It ingrained itself so fully into the daily practice of watching anything....

Jim Carrey Owes Part Of His Ace Ventura Success To Fellow Canadian Rick Moranis Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Oct. 30, 2022 5:30 pm EST Tom Shadyac’s 1994 hit film “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” starring Jim Carrey has, in 2022, been the subject of a deep re-litigation. Upon its release, audiences reacted with the utmost enthusiasm to Carrey’s over-the-top-and-then-some shenanigans, laughing heartily at the actor’s boundless energy and aggressive strangeness. Even the premise was odd: Ace Ventura was a private investigator who only took cases involving pets and animals....

Kevin Can F*** Himself Creator Valerie Armstrong Reflects On The Series Finale, Frasier, & More [Exclusive Interview] AMC By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 11, 2022 11:00 am EST (Note: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of “Kevin Can F*** Himself.” Please proceed with caution.) There are many lenses that you can look through to view your life. You might look at things as either half empty or half full. It’s possible that you could only see things blissfully through rose-colored glasses....

Kevin Spacey Ordered To Pay $31 Million In House Of Cards Lawsuit Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 5, 2022 1:58 pm EST Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, whose career imploded after sexual harassment scandals, will finally be forced to pay the piper. In November 2021, Spacey was ordered to pay $31 million to Media Rights Capital (MRC), the production company behind his hit series “House of Cards,” due to claims of Spacey violating the sexual harassment portion of his contract....

Like Game Of Thrones, House Of The Dragon Wants To Make You Uncomfortable HBO By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 13, 2022 7:00 am EST This article contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon” season 4 and discusses adult themes like incest, sexual assault, and abuse. Westeros is a brutal place, and the stories from it are often filled with content many might find unsavory. Both “Game of Thrones” and “House of the Dragon” are based on books by George R....

Nicholas Hoult Enjoyed Eating Brains In Warm Bodies, Except For One Hairy Mistake Summit Entertainment By Anya Stanley/Aug. 25, 2022 1:01 pm EST Ever since 1985, brains have been on the menu in zombie movies. It wasn’t enough that the living dead could tear you apart and feast on your flesh, now they’ll use your skull as a serving dish. But what if eating brains connected you with the person you ate, and what if all that’s needed to be human (again) is a connection?...

Rian Johnson Cast [Redacted] As Benoit Blanc’s [Redacted] In Glass Onion Because It Brought Him ‘The Most Joy’ Netflix By Erin Brady/Nov. 28, 2022 11:00 am EST Warning: this post contains major spoilers for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” The landscape of mainstream queer representation is a weird one. On one hand, we’ve gotten a mid-budget gay romcom in “Bros,” but on the other, we’re still scraping the bottom of the barrel for representation in major Hollywood franchises....

‘We’ll record Domestic Beth and Space Beth completely separately’ Adult Swim What’s your favorite episode of the season so far? Chalke: That is a hard question. I loved the season opener because of how they managed to answer so many questions from the end of [season] 5 … I thought it was so beautifully animated. I loved recording “Bethic Twinstinct” because it was so much fun, and getting to play out that love story between Home Beth and Space Beth was a fun adventure....

Rogue Squadron still in active development Following the recent news about Patty Jenkins’ departure from “Wonder Woman 3,” the director posted an update on social media to set the record straight: “I originally left ‘Rogue Squadron’ after a long and productive development process when it became clear it couldn’t happen soon enough and I did not want to delay ‘Wonder Woman 3’ any further. When I did, Lucasfilm asked me to consider coming back to ‘Rogue Squadron’ after ‘Wonder Woman 3,’ which I was honored to do, so I agreed....

Leave it to the experts? Warner Bros. The “It” screenwriter, it turns out, is a Constant Reader. When King’s sold the film rights to his debut novel “Carrie” to United Artists, Cohen was tapped to write the screenplay for the Brian De Palma masterpiece. Even after “It,” Cohen would go on to pen the adapted 1993 screenplay for King’s “The Tommyknockers,” and a segment for the 2006 anthology series “Nightmares & Dreamscapes....

The Amazing Kevin Smith-Directed Superhero Show We’ll Never See Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Aug. 9, 2022 2:52 pm EST Filmmaker Kevin Smith (“Clerks,” “Mallrats”) was a fan of superheroes long before the worlds of Marvel and DC Comics became the biggest things in all of pop culture. Though Smith has never made a big superhero film or TV show, he’s come very close at times, perhaps most notably with his script for “Superman Lives,” which would have been directed by Tim Burton, with none other than Nicolas Cage on board as the Man of Steel....

Troll Netflix Norwegian filmmaker Roar Uthaug emerged as a talent to watch with his 2015 movie “The Wave,” a formulaic yet confident disaster thriller that forgoes the silliness of Roland Emmerich for something with more dramatic heft. Uthaug made the transition to Hollywood after that with 2018’s “Tomb Raider,” a grounded reboot that certainly has its moments but is pretty rocky as a whole. Luckily, he appears to be getting back to his humanist genre roots with his newest film, “Troll....

The Fabelmans And Nope Are Completely Different Movies That Somehow Have A Lot In Common Universal Pictures By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 23, 2022 9:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for “The Fabelmans” and “Nope.” A family is dealing with a raucous member of the household, trying to settle things down so they can have a relatively normal dinner. It doesn’t help matters that the well-meaning father enters the house and is baffled, slightly dumbstruck at what’s causing all the ruckus: a chittering monkey who’s just as likely to cause a violent melee as to playfully nip at him or his family members....

Plenty of treats get sent to The Strodes As you can see, there are some strange perks that come from owning the Strode family house from 1978’s “Halloween.” Resident Bianca Richards reveals a scrapbook full of letters, some addressed directly to the Strodes, as well as Halloween greeting cards and notes from fans thanking them for making their house available for a photo opportunity. Richards really appreciates the handwritten notes and letters on random bits of paper or napkins, especially in the digital age....

‘I think that Tim might be open to a short’ Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Nearly 30 years after becoming a critical and financial hit, “The Nightmare Before Christmas” has evolved into a cultural phenomenon, with live concerts, 3D theatrical re-releases, and much, much more held in its honor over the decades. A sequel film, on the other hand, has been on and off-rumored but never come to pass. Speaking to Collider while promoting his new stop-motion movie, “Wendell & Wild,” at the Toronto International Film Festival, Selick explained the cause of the holdup, stating, “[Disney] always said, ‘But [the sequel] will have to be CG....

An Oscar-winning smoke session Warner Bros. Television 1995 saw the release of “The American President,” which reunited Aaron Sorkin with his “A Few Good Men” director Rob Reiner. It was clear at this point that Sorkin was going to be a household name. No one was writing dialogue like him, and in the 1990s, the ability to write smart, quippy dialogue was coveted. One of the people who approached him about his next project was John Wells, the executive producer of “ER....