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Bruce Timm Hated The Network’s Original Pitch For Batman Beyond Warner Bros. By William Bibbiani/Nov. 23, 2022 8:04 pm EST If there’s one thing we know for certain about Batman, it’s that the superhero has only one interpretation that works, and that any deviation from that interpretation will cause all the fans to reject the character outright. There’s just no room in this world for funny versions of Batman, or grimdark versions of Batman, or futuristic versions of Batman, or young versions of Batman....

Watch the Enola Holmes 2 teaser “Enola Holmes 2” features most of the same crew as the first movie, including “Fleabag” director Harry Bradbeer and “His Dark Materials” head writer Jack Thorne. The pair brought a fair amount from their earlier work to the table in the original “Enola Homes,” between Enola’s constant fourth-wall breaks and the movie’s focus on social issues related to class and gender. At the same time, the film is far less thematically dense and a whole lot lighter in tone than their previous output, but in a way that feels appropriate for a young, optimistic lead like Enola....

Frank Capra Didn’t Set Out To Make It’s A Wonderful Life A Holiday Classic Paramount Home Entertainment By Shae Sennett/Dec. 4, 2022 4:00 pm EST “It’s A Wonderful Life” has played in many an American home for many Decembers. It has become an integral part of the holiday season, but it didn’t start out that way. In fact, the film had a rather cold reception at first. The producer, director, and co-writer Frank Capra never expected it to go very far, but it has since become a staple of Hollywood cinema....

How A Legal Loophole Helped Evil Dead 2 Dodge An X-Rating Rosebud Releasing Corporation By Witney Seibold/Aug. 25, 2022 4:03 pm EST In the early 1980s in England, a hand-wringing media watchdog group called the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association became distressed by the number of gory and erotic films that had just begun to infiltrate the country’s home video marketplace. Because of a censorship loophole, films distributed on VHS didn’t need to submit to the British Board of Film Classification, and as a result, all kinds of glorious horror films were making their way to the public with gallons of blood and acres of naked flesh....

How Heath Ledger Used His Own Self Doubt To Fuel His Acting Warner Bros. By Shae Sennett/July 15, 2022 3:35 pm EST Heath Ledger is remembered as one of the greatest actors of his generation, but Ledger wasn’t as sure of himself as his reputation might suggest. Some of Ledger’s more memorable performances include his role as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight,” his romantic leading role opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in “Brokeback Mountain,” and his cynical character in a teen movie take on a Shakespearean classic, “10 Things I Hate About You....

The overpowered shonen protagonist Crunchyroll Yuta is introduced in “Jujutsu Kaisen 0” as a troubled youth unaware of his true potential as a Jujutsu Sorcerer. Accidentally manifesting his dead childhood friend Rika as a massively powerful cursed spirit, Yuta discovers how to channel his bond with her into something he can use for good. The “Jujutsu Kaisen 0” film was all about developing Yuta as a character more than capable of handling himself....

How The Marvel Cinematic Universe Repeated The Original Sin Of Marvel Comics Disney+ By Adam Wescott/Aug. 26, 2022 2:00 pm EST In a recent interview, Variety asked Jessica Gao how much influence she had over the special effects animating the lead character of her new television series, “She-Hulk.” Gao’s answer was fascinating. “Marvel is this kind of machine,” she said. “You can try to insert yourself as much as you can, but at a certain point, you’re forced to get out of the way....

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny Trailer Breakdown: Where There’s A Whip, There’s A Way Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 1, 2022 6:19 pm EST Dust off that old fedora and break out that trusty whip, because Indiana Jones is finally back for one last ride. After years of rumors, false starts, and rampant speculation, we’ve actually set our eyes upon brand new footage of Harrison Ford as the world-famous archaeologist extraordinaire, who makes a specialty out of punching Nazis and chewing bubble gum … and he’s all out of gum....

Honorary stuntman Lucasfilm Looking back on “The Empire Strikes Back” on its 40th anniversary in 2020, Hamill told StarWars.com he was eager to do his own stunts for the film, so much so that he earned official status as a member of the British Stunt Register. “I’ll tell you something,” he said, “in those days — it’s changed as I’ve gotten older — but in those days I wanted to do every possible stunt I could....

Not Much Of Michael Chrichton’s Script Made It Into Jurassic Park Universal Pictures By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 8, 2022 12:14 pm EST Almost 30 years ago, Spielberg had one of the most impressive filmmaking years any director has had, releasing the Academy Award-winning films “Schindler’s List” and the “Jurassic Park” in the span of just six months. While “Schindler’s List” was a passionate and personal project for the filmmaker, his adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel “Jurassic Park” was a groundbreaking blockbuster sci-fi thriller that changed the VFX industry forever....

One Very Strategic Decision Set The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Up For Success New Line Cinema By Lee Adams/Oct. 16, 2022 7:30 pm EST Over 30 years on, it’s hard to overstate just how big “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and the resulting Turtlemania were back in the day. One minute, everyone in the school playground was doing swapsies with Garbage Pail Kids and Panini football stickers, the next, it was all “Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles....

Pinocchio Trailer: Robert Zemeckis Remakes The Disney Classic In Live-Action Disney By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 24, 2022 12:48 pm EST At some point in everybody’s life, there comes a time when one has to choose sides. In moments as uncertain as these, it’s never been more trendy to draw imaginary battle lines in the sand and die on ultimately meaningless hills. So, on that note, I ask you: Where do you find yourself landing in the ongoing debate over Disney’s live-action remakes of their own beloved animated classics?...

Scream: Release Date, Cast And More By Shania Russell/July 13, 2021 8:41 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Someone has taken their love of scary movies decades too far… that’s right, Ghostface is returning to Woodsboro and we’re all going with him! Next year, the Scream franchise makes a comeback with its highly-anticipated fifth movie....

Star Wars: Tales Of The Jedi Reveals Ahsoka Tano Attended A Devastating Prequel Event Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Oct. 26, 2022 12:00 pm EST There will be spoilers for “Tales of the Jedi” For the longest time, Ahsoka Tano’s fate was always up in the air. As fans watched her fate unfold in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” everyone assumed her death prior to the end of the series was a foregone conclusion....

John Boyega on Finn’s Force sensitivity Lucasfilm John Boyega recently appeared on Happy Sad Confused, where he discussed his “Star Wars” experience with host Josh Horowitz, including what was originally planned for Finn. “It was a discussion from VII that was kind of brewing, because you didn’t know which way it was gonna go, right? And then VIII went in another direction. So I think with VIII going in another direction, when you’re bringing someone to the third, they have to kind of like appreciate what’s happened in VIII and then still try and make a narrative of it....

Strange World’s Ethan Clade Will Make History For Disney Animation Studios As Their First Openly Gay Protagonist Disney By Jenna Busch/Nov. 18, 2022 9:06 pm EST This Thanksgiving, Disney’s “Strange World” will hit theaters. The animated film is set in a fictional land surrounded by mountains that are uncrossable. Well, that’s what everyone but a few enterprising people think. It is life’s mission for Jaeger Clade (voice of Dennis Quaid) to find out what’s on the other side....

The Best Sci-Fi Movies Coming To Streaming In November Paramount By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 28, 2022 8:42 am EST If October is a month that many movie fans dedicate to horror films, and December is all about holiday films, what are film lovers supposed to do in November? There is, of course, Noirvember, the great celebration of noir film created by writer Marya E. Gates back in 2010. But for those who don’t partake in the black-and-white watchathon, November is a month with a wide-open watchlist....

The Daily Stream: The Leftovers Is A Profound, Phenomenal Exploration Of Life’s Mysteries HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 6, 2022 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Film: “The Leftovers” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s metaphysical drama begins with a hell of a premise: One day, suddenly, 2% of the world’s population disappears....

Boyd’s racist roots FX The “Justified” version of Boyd begins in a similarly heinous place: in the pilot episode, we learn that he’s fallen in with neo-Nazis while in prison, and he even blows up a Black church. As despicable as this is, it’s a plot point that didn’t stick, thanks in part to Goggins’ more nuanced approach to the character. “I never believed that Boyd Crowder was a white supremacist, to be quite honest with you,” the actor told NPR in 2010....

The Sopranos Crew Thought The Show Might Be ‘Too Good’ To Succeed HBO By Shae Sennett/Nov. 15, 2022 11:03 am EST I think we can all agree that “The Sopranos” is one of the best television series of all time — cast and crew included. Everyone that worked on the show loved it from the very beginning. It had a much more cinematic edge than other shows on television at the time, giving it a unique and undeniable flair....