Gen V: Everything We Know So Far About The Boys Spin-Off Series Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/July 15, 2022 12:31 pm EST Season 3 of “The Boys” may have just come to an unforgettably disturbing end, but that doesn’t mean fans of the uber-violent and typically irreverent superhero series will be kept out in the cold to twiddle their thumbs until the main series returns for a fourth go-around sometime in late 2023....
George Clooney Helped Alfonso Cuarón Craft One Of Gravity’s Most Pivotal Scenes Warner Bros. By Travis Yates/July 31, 2022 8:00 pm EST Prolific French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once said of the filmmaking process, “The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page.” It is a belief in cinema known as the auteur theory, an assumption that the director of a film is essentially its author and the sole person responsible for the overall look and style of a film....
Girls5eva Is Moving From Peacock To Netflix For Its Third Season Peacock By Erin Brady/Oct. 27, 2022 2:27 pm EST Here’s a piece of news many likely weren’t expecting. “Girls5eva,” the musical comedy produced by Tina Fey, is switching labels from Peacock to Netflix for its upcoming third season. The first two seasons of the show, which centers around an aging girl group and their attempts to regain an audience, will also be available to stream on Netflix....
Halloween Ends Ending Explained: Evil Changes Shape Universal By Bill Bria/Oct. 14, 2022 9:00 am EST Partway through John Carpenter’s original “Halloween,” Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) is looking for Judith Myers’ grave when a Graveyard Keeper (Arthur Malet) relays to the doctor the story of one Charlie Bowles, a man who used to live in a nearby town with a wife and two children until one day when old Charlie “went out to the garage and got himself a hacksaw” before going back into his house and greeting his family....
999 happy haunts on the big screen Disney Director Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair,” “Queer for Fear”) really showed off his Disney cred at this year’s D23, when he dazzled audiences with his old Disneyland cast member ID in front of the entire audience. Simien told the crowd that when he wasn’t working, he always found himself drawn to two rides: Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion....
How A League Of Their Own Helped Put Tom Hanks Back On The Map Columbia Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/July 5, 2022 3:50 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. “There’s no crying in baseball!” So exclaims the Rockford Peaches’ disgruntled manager, Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), in Penny Marshall’s “A League of Their Own,” having berated one of his players to tears after a mid-game misstep. The line would soon embed itself in the public consciousness, much like Marshall’s 1992 sports dramedy....
How TV Breathed New Life Into Buster Keaton’s Career United Artists By Christian Gainey/Aug. 7, 2022 5:30 pm EST Silent film star Buster Keaton was bred for the spotlight. He was the son of traveling vaudeville performers, who were the stars and co-owners of the Keaton Houdini Medicine Show Company with legendary magician Harry Houdini. Keaton joined his parents’ act at the tender age of three, and was frequently tossed around the stage by his father for comedic effect....
Joe Pesci Un-Retires Again, Joins Pete Davidson’s Biographical Comedy Series Bupkis Netflix By Jenna Busch/Aug. 25, 2022 4:06 pm EST Remember when Joe Pesci (“Goodfellas,” “My Cousin Vinny”) retired from acting in 1999? Thankfully, that didn’t last forever. He came back for a cameo in 2006’s “The Good Shepherd,” 2010’s “Love Ranch,” a Snickers ad in 2011, voiced Koman in “A Warrior’s Tail,” and appeared to rave reviews and landed an Oscar nomination for “The Irishman” in 2017....
John Wayne Wasn’t A Fan Of The Image Howard Hawks Had In Mind For Him United Artists By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 2, 2022 2:12 pm EST There’s a popular misconception that John Wayne was a stiff-limbed movie star with limited range, but, in reality, he was capable of making subtle adjustments in his comportment and line delivery that could completely transform our perception of his character. It’s all on display in Howard Hawks’ “Red River,” where Wayne, playing a hard-nosed rancher driving cattle along the perilous Chisholm Trail, comes off at different moments as confident, world-weary, and scared....
Marlon Brando Once Mooned 500 Extras On The Set Of The Godfather Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 12, 2022 4:25 pm EST The making of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” was a notoriously fraught affair. Books have been written about it. Paramount+ recently released a miniseries about it. Jobs and entire careers were on the line. Coppola had yet to hit the bullseye on a studio film, Marlon Brando was a mercurial handful known for derailing productions and the rest of the young cast was largely unproven....
Jon and Don: the many parallels AMC Throughout “Mad Men,” viewers learned about Don’s past through bits and pieces. He not only grew up poor, but his mother died in childbirth and he watched his father’s death at a young age. Don was then raised by an abusive stepmother before running away and starting a new life the moment the opportunity arrived. It’s a backstory that explains, if not necessarily excuses, a lot of Don’s questionable behavior on the show....
National Treasure: Edge Of History Review: Maybe Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved Disney By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 12, 2022 12:00 pm EST For the last 15 years, a vocal group of fans has clamored for the schlocky, B-movie thrills of “National Treasure” to be brought to a satisfying, trilogy-ending conclusion with a third big-screen blockbuster. Released in the early aughts and unabashedly of its time (for better and worse), the Nicolas Cage-starring duology released during a very specific and now-nostalgic moment in the industry: when an A-list actor’s gloriously unhinged energy, a dash of adventure pulp, and an easily-marketable sales pitch — we’re going to steal the Declaration of Independence!...
Rian Johnson Gave Edward Norton A Warning Before Showing Him Glass Onion’s Script Netflix By Mike Shutt/Dec. 21, 2022 12:41 pm EST Edward Norton is an actor who enjoys going big. Sometimes that can perfectly befit a project, like when he plays a self-important theater actor in “Birdman,” or it can be borderline offensive, like when he plays a detective with Tourette syndrome in “Motherless Brooklyn.” In a lot of ways, you can tell whether or not the movie you are watching has a clearly-defined tone based solely on how effective a performance Norton is giving....
Symbiosis Paramount “Symbiosis” (April 18, 1988) involved the planet Ornara and its neighboring world Brekka. For many years, the two worlds had formed their mutual economy around the production and delivery of a rare medicine that relieves the symptoms of an unusual plague. This plague only affects Ornarans, and the Brekkians are the only species capable of providing the medicine. A symbiosis. The late Merritt Buttrick from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” plays one of the Ornarans....
Marvel reveals the next generation of elite artists, aka the 2023 Stormbreakers Meet the next generation of elite artists working on #MarvelComics. ⚡️ Introducing the #MarvelStormbreakers Class of 2023: https://t.co/OO0rIUl6Mu pic.twitter.com/dLSuW21fwJ— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) September 6, 2022 Beginning in 2020, Marvel Comics started the Stormbreakers program to highlight up-and-coming artists who were seen as the next big thing. These artists would then go on to contribute to some of the biggest titles in the publisher’s library....
Tales From The Box Office: Deadpool 2 Is, Against All Odds, Brad Pitt’s Biggest Movie 20th Century Studios By Ryan Scott/Aug. 6, 2022 1:40 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) Brad Pitt may well be the first image that comes to mind for a great many people of a certain age when they hear the words “movie” and “star” in conjunction....
The Best Horror Movies Coming To Streaming In December 2022 A24 By Miyako Pleines/Nov. 28, 2022 3:00 pm EST If it’s one thing all horror fans understand, it’s that every month is a good month for watching scary movies. Sure, we often like to ramp up the on-screen scares come October, but the frights still continue throughout the rest of the year. And while the holiday season brings with it a lot to celebrate and be thankful for, there’s also quite a lot that still goes bump in the night (I mean, Santa Claus, anyone?...
The Budget Forced Wes Craven’s New Nightmare To Scrap A ‘Brilliant’ Robert Englund Scene New Line Cinema By Anya Stanley/Aug. 2, 2022 8:59 pm EST Seven entries deep into its franchise, “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare” not only brought Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) back for more slicing and dicing, but the dream demon had more agency than previously allowed. A more menacing antagonist than he was in Craven’s 1984 original “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” this Freddy reaches his bladed glove beyond Elm Street and the screen itself to wink at jaded audiences who, by 1994, are genre experts....
The Classic Film That Inspired Michael Caine To Be An Actor MGM-EMI Distributors By Lee Adams/July 31, 2022 10:30 pm EST Just about everyone in Britain can do a Michael Caine impression. With that voice, why wouldn’t you throw a random “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” or “Don’t throw those bloody spears at me!” into conversation from time to time? Those lines have become so famous, they’ve almost become separate entities from the films they appeared in (“The Italian Job” and...
Living up to a tragic legacy Miramax While the original “Crow” has been reevaluated in recent years as a hallmark of modern goth media, it has carried that mantle with a very heavy burden. During filming in 1993, star Brandon Lee was killed after the prop gun actor Michael Massee held discharged a faulty dummy round. Given how little the actor had left to film, producers decided to complete and release “The Crow,” dedicating it to Lee, who was seemingly on the precipice of stardom....
