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Star Trek And Star Wars Showed Matt Groening What He Didn’t Want Futurama To Do 20th Television By Witney Seibold/Sept. 28, 2022 12:25 pm EST “Star Wars” is set in the distant past and tells stories of war, heroism, cryptic mystics, evil wizards, and the triumph of heroes. To creator George Lucas, the future is bleak, but the past is ideal. There is something to look back on. “Star Trek” is set in the distant future and tells stories of peace, benevolent technologies, anti-colonialism, and the power of diplomacy....

Strange World Directors Don Hall And Qui Nguyen On Its ‘Lucious, Epic Score’ And That Big Reveal [Exclusive Interview] Disney By Vanessa Armstrong/Nov. 28, 2022 9:00 am EST Disney Animation’s “Strange World” is now in theaters, and the movie about three generations of the Clade family finding themselves in a land unlike anything they’ve ever seen makes for a delightful film to see with your own family over the Thanksgiving holiday....

Tekken: Bloodline: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 19, 2022 9:41 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.) The “Tekken” video game franchise has been adapted into anime before, its first anime adaptation being a 1998 two-part OVA named “Tekken: The Motion Picture,” which revolved around the storyline of the first “Tekken” game....

The Gray Man Ending Explained: Just Another Thursday Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/July 25, 2022 5:11 pm EST Directors Anthony and Joe Russo’s “The Gray Man” is a film that, at long last, answers the question: What if Jason Bourne liked to quip more? Known for blending comedy with tragedy in their Marvel Cinematic Universe films and episodes of TV shows like “Community,” it’s no surprise the Russo Brothers would balance thrills with humor in “The Gray Man....

The Office Season 3 Almost Had A Completely Different Ending For Jim, Pam, And Karen NBC By Miyako Pleines/Sept. 24, 2022 11:00 pm EST Television history is full of iconic couples. Luke and Lorelai, Cory and Topanga, Kurt and Blaine, Seth and Summer, David and Patrick, Pacey and Joey. People have a habit of tuning in each week eager to see if their favorite dynamic duo will finally get together. It’s part of what makes watching TV so much fun....

Val Kilmer Had To Pump The Brakes On A Particularly Gruesome MacGruber Stunt Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 26, 2022 6:00 am EST Director Jorma Taccone’s “MacGruber” was always destined to become a cult hit. The 2010 action-comedy movie is based on a recurring “Saturday Night Live” sketch in which Will Forte plays special ops agent MacGruber, the son of expert problem-solver Angus MacGyver from the popular 1980s TV show “MacGyver....

‘This is like the great American hero’ The Roku Channel This interview was lightly edited for brevity and clarity. It contains spoilers for the movie. I understand that the mandate for a film like this is that it’s a parody, and the parody is only going to work if everything is really straight-faced. And it’s going to be most straight-faced in the music. It has to be really, really earnest. So I know you’re not taking a lot of comedy music cues....

What’s The Deal With The Partisans And Everything Saw Gerrera Mentions In Andor Episode 8? Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Oct. 26, 2022 2:10 pm EST There will be spoilers for “Andor” Episode VIII – “Narkina 5.” With Saw Gerrera on the poster and in the final trailers for “Andor,” it was no surprise that he would show up at some point. Where and when remained a mystery until today. On the distant planet of Segra Milo, a planet no one has heard of before today....

Why Adele Warned Jennifer Lawrence To Not Make Passengers Columbia Pictures By Shania Russell/Nov. 19, 2022 6:56 pm EST It’s been six years since “Passengers” made its theatrical debut and the world has yet to recover. When word of Morten Tyldum’s sci-fi spectacle first arrived, the anticipation was immediate. A romantic space adventure with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt? It was almost too good to be true. These are two performers who built their careers on charisma, so tossing them together guaranteed a good time … right?...

Years Before Rogue One, Saw Gerrera’s Rebel Extremism Still Runs Deep In Andor Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 26, 2022 1:03 pm EST Among the many things “Andor” does differently than other “Star Wars” shows or movies, it truly does show how evil the Empire is. Sure, we’ve heard all about the evils of the Empire, but never before had we seen the true and horrific effect the Empire had on the galaxy, from its cold and mundane bureaucracy, to its treatment of other cultures, to its torturous prison system....

Chad Stahleski Wants To Make The Ghost Of Tsushima Movie In Japanese, With A Japanese Cast Sucker Punch Productions By Eric Vespe/Aug. 12, 2022 7:49 pm EST Hollywood has a long history of taking stories about other cultures, and, well, white-washing them. In the olden days, they’d straight up just put a white actor in an Asian role, like Mickey Rooney in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Peter Lorre as the title character in the Mr....

Daniel Radcliffe’s Eclectic Roles Aren’t A ‘Comment’ On Harry Potter Roku By Michael Boyle/Oct. 28, 2022 9:20 am EST Of all the main kids from those “Harry Potter” movies, Daniel Radcliffe has probably gone on to have the most exciting career. Since “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” came out, Radcliffe has starred in movies like “The Woman in Black,” “Kill Your Darlings,” “Swiss Army Man,” and most recently, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story....

David Prior Borrowed From An Exorcist Scene For Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 28, 2022 5:41 pm EST Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” is a collection of many wonders. The new spooky anthology presented by the famed filmmaker has a little bit of everything, from eldritch terrors to giant rats to malevolent moisturizers. It also has a clear standout story in David Prior’s “The Autopsy,” which is by far the most viscerally scary entry in the show’s eight-episode first season....

Disney’s Society Of Explorers And Adventurers Recruits Qui Nguyen And Ryan Reynolds Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images By Erin Brady/Oct. 13, 2022 5:09 pm EST You might not be familiar with the Society of Explorers and Adventurers just yet, but you will be soon. That’s because the organization, which has been referenced in several Disney theme park attractions all over the world, is getting its own film courtesy of “Strange World” writer and co-director Qui Nguyen and Ryan Reynolds....

‘It was the first strike by women for women’ Netflix There’s this strong message here that I love about being independent, but also being willing to ask for help and being stronger together. I’d love to hear your thoughts on why that was important to portray. Well, the first film was about [Enola] on her own, and it felt like a way to take her on, to make her grow up as Millie herself was growing up....

How AR Video Walls Have Completely Changed Filming A Star Trek Show [Comic-Con] Paramount+ By BJ Colangelo/July 23, 2022 7:06 pm EST Throughout the entirety of “Star Trek,” the space-set series has always been known for its groundbreaking ways of incorporating advancements in technology to help give the show its iconic “futuristic” look. As the canon of “Star Trek” has expanded, so too has the timelines of its stories. “Star Trek: Discovery” jumped thousands of years between seasons, which meant the production and design teams had to create the look of a new landscape shaped by hundreds of years of future tech....

The Ghost of Harrenhal HBO The official HBO map of Westeros and Essos for “House of the Dragon” currently highlights three spots: Harrenhal, King’s Landing, and Valyria. The show opens with voiceover narration from Emma D’Arcy, who will play the adult version of Milly Alcock’s Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen when “House of the Dragon” time-jumps forward in the back half of its first season. As we see a great council gathered in a spacious, lantern-lit throne room, Rhaenyra explains that “over a thousand lords made the journey to Harrenhal” to be there as the old Targaryen king chose an heir....

A new kind of hero in town ABC When “Batman” first aired on ABC in 1966, it was unlike any other attempt at bringing the world of superhero comics to television. The show was campy and fun, but it also preached important-to-the-time-period lessons to its viewers like, “Drink your milk!” because this was the ’60s and the narrative was that if you didn’t drink milk on the regular back then, you’d apparently never grow, or something....

Kristen Bell Discovered Her Comedic Chops During Veronica Mars Warner Bros. Television By Jenna Busch/Dec. 8, 2022 4:43 pm EST Back in 2004, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” had ended, and fans were ready for another female character who was clever, capable of dealing with difficult circumstances, and prone to quipping snarkily at villains. Viewers soon found her in Veronica Mars. Played by Kristen Bell, Veronica had been through hell after being assaulted and the death of her best friend, Lilly Kane (Amanda Seyfried)....

Three out of four Gramercy Films The story of McConaughey even being cast for “Dazed and Confused” lines up amusingly with his quaint and laid-back public persona. The story, as originally told in an oral history of the film by Texas Monthly, tells of McConaughey meeting one of the film’s producers by chance in a bar. The two men drank and bonded, and the night ended with a slightly drunken offer to have McConaughey read for the part of Wooderson....