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How James Caan’s Prep For Thief Changed His Life For Better And Worse United Artists By BJ Colangelo/July 8, 2022 3:44 pm EST In the wake of the passing of Hollywood legend James Caan, journalists and archivists have been pulling out all the stops to help educate and remind the world of what a treasured personality Caan was on and off-screen. Caan was a rough and tumble kind of guy who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, even if what he said could be misconstrued as being harsh or extreme....

John Wayne’s Politics Nearly Cost Him His Part In The Cowboys Warner Bros. By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 23, 2022 8:42 pm EST Hollywood in the early 1970s was unkind to many of the industry’s surviving golden-age legends. The smartest of the bunch had either retired, moved to television, or segued to supporting roles in disaster films. Unlike our current era, there wasn’t much nostalgia for the good old days. The ’50s and ’60s were a time of social upheaval during which Black Americans struggled mightily to fight and win basic civil rights....

John Wick Chapter 4 Trailer: Our Favorite Assassin Is Back And Headed To Europe Lionsgate By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 10, 2022 11:05 am EST It is time. The first trailer for “John Wick: Chapter 4” is here, and it finally gives us a return to the underworld our favorite ruthless vigilante knows well. Say your prayers, Keanu Reeves is coming for us all once again. In the sneak peek released on November 10, we see the assassin kicking a ton of ass, as to be expected....

Judy Reyes Didn’t Always Love Playing The Serious One On Scrubs NBC By Michael Boyle/Aug. 14, 2022 10:30 pm EST Pretty much ever scene in a comedy movie or at TV show requires the straight man, the normal person who reacts to all the wild stuff going on around them. It’s not a role that tends to get the actor a lot of praise thrown their way, but it is an important one....

Wasted potential Paramount After its tenuous start, “Margaux” at least temporarily rights the ship when it introduces our core cast of victims-in-waiting. The once-tightknit group of college seniors, highlighted by geeky coder Hannah (played by Madison Pettis, skillfully spinning even the direst dialogue into gold), blandly handsome ringleader Drew (Jedidiah Goodacre), and social media influencer and uninvited outsider, Lexi (Vanessa Morgan, injecting her best “Riverdale” energy into the proceedings to little avail), attempt to relive the glory days of freshman year with their smart house getaway....

Nothing About The Crown’s Scripts Is Ever Set In Stone Netflix By Lyvie Scott/Sept. 14, 2022 12:02 pm EST It may seem like Hollywood is churning out more fictitious accounts of real-life figures than they ever have before, but the trend isn’t exactly new. Films like “Spencer,” “One Night in Miami” and of course, “Blonde,” have cast a major light on this interesting subgenre, but prestige series like Netflix’s “The Crown” have been in the business since 2016....

People Laughed At Christian Bale When He Said He Wanted To Take Batman Seriously Warner Bros. Pictures By Lyvie Scott/July 8, 2022 5:07 pm EST It’s hard to remember a time when Batman wasn’t the overly serious vigilante of Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder, or Matt Reeves’ respective films. But back through the ’90s, Batman was pretty much a champion of camp: He sported nipples on his suit, he cracked bad jokes, and he brawled with madcap villains with pink hair and bad catchphrases....

Pitching Once Upon A Time In The West To Clint Eastwood Didn’t Go Well For Sergio Leone Euro International Films/Paramount Pictures By Lee Adams/Oct. 16, 2022 8:00 pm EST “Once Upon a Time in the West” has one of the greatest opening sequences I’ve ever seen. Three sinister outlaws descend on a train station in the middle of nowhere, lock up the station master, then wait a wordless eternity for the next train to arrive....

Robin Was Originally Set To Appear In Tim Burton’s Batman And Batman Returns Warner Bros. By Joe Roberts/Dec. 5, 2022 2:20 pm EST There’s a whole alternate history to Tim Burton’s Batman run that would have profoundly changed the course of the Dark Knight’s cinematic legacy. In another universe, the director would have gone on to direct a third movie in the franchise following 1992’s “Batman Returns”. In place of Joel Schumacher’s “Batman Forever,” we could have had Burton’s “Batman Continues” (yes, that’s really what it was going to be called), which would have tied up a lot of the threads left over from the first two movies....

A high-stakes political thriller? Marvel Studios Fury and his Skrull partner, Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), are then seen investigating something shown just off-screen. It might be something the villains don’t want them looking into, however, as giant explosions ensue. At a later point in the footage, a car chase ends with another big explosion. Much like “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” it appears that the series will have key scenes in federal buildings and tunnels, which are also shown prominently in the trailer....

Superhero Bits: Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Hype, Infinity War Coming To NYC, Marvel Playback & More How did Marvel Comics influence the life of The Black Keys’ musician Pat Carney? What high praise does James Gunn have for the Thor: Ragnarok trailer? Want to see a trailer for The Avengers cut in the style of the most recent Justice League trailer? Would Jessica Chastain be interested in playing Poison Ivy? Who did that cover of “Come Together” for the Justice League trailer?...

The Batman Director Matt Reeves Took Inspiration From Mindhunter For The Riddler Netflix/Warner Bros. Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” hasn’t even been released yet, but it almost feels like a cliché to point out that the creative team behind the film has very clearly taken inspiration from David Fincher films like “Se7en” and, in a fascinating overlap between fact and fiction, the real-life Zodiac killer who terrorized California in the late 1960s and early 1970s....

The Rings Of Power’s Markella Kavenagh On Harfoot Feet, Tom Bombadil, And Visiting Númenor [Exclusive Interview] Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Nov. 18, 2022 4:19 pm EST “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has completed its first season, and production on season 2 is currently underway. In the Prime Video series, we meet the Harfoots, the precursors to the Hobbits from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Harfoots are the heart and soul of the show and of Middle-earth....

Life in Hell Disney It’s worth remembering where “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening was prior to the series. Since 1977, Groening had been authoring a darkly bitter comic strip called “Life in Hell,” published in counterculture papers all over the United States. “Life in Hell” was a regular analysis of the more stifling, embarrassing, and … well, hellish aspects of life. Love was hell. Work was hell. School was hell. Childhood was hell....

Why Band Of Brothers Was A ‘Vital’ Production For The British Film Industry HBO By Walter Roberts/Nov. 20, 2022 5:49 pm EST In the U.S., many of us who subscribe to five or more streaming services have grown tired of internet packages that bundle cable TV services we don’t want or need. As streaming becomes more prevalent, UK households face their own kind of inconvenience, though it’s not exactly new for them....

Why Bryce Dallas Howard Made So Much Less Money Than Chris Pratt On The Jurassic World Movies Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 15, 2022 1:11 pm EST Ever since the first “Jurassic World” movie premiered in 2015, both Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard have been fittingly billed as co-leads, accurately reflecting the amount of screen time they share, the importance of their characters to the narrative, and the main draw (on the human side of things, at least) behind the success of this trilogy....

Why Making Glass Onion Scared Rian Johnson More Than The Last Jedi Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 16, 2022 11:21 am EST Five movies into his career as a director, it’s clear Rian Johnson thrives on taking risks. His debut film, 2005’s “Brick,” is a quirky high school murder-mystery where the teenagers all talk like characters out of a hard-boiled noir detective story in the vein of “The Maltese Falcon.” In his next two movies after that, “The Brothers Bloom” and “Looper,” Johnson took on a pair of well-tested genre films (the con artist caper and time-travel thriller, respectively) and did his very best to flip them on their heads....

Believe: Ted Lasso And The AFC Richmond Players Are Coming To FIFA 23 Electronic Arts By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 21, 2022 12:40 pm EST “Ted Lasso” was one of the biggest hits of the early pandemic, a show that helped us all during a very dark time with its relentless optimism and focus on kindness. It became a hit for Apple TV+ and helped make the platform a strong contender in the streaming wars with its tale of a fictional association football team (yes, I’m calling it football, not soccer)....

Bobby Moynihan Is Back As Drunk Uncle On Saturday Night Live, And Here’s Why He Hates Halloween NBC By Sarah Musnicky/Oct. 30, 2022 2:39 pm EST With Halloween happening on Monday, it’s no surprise that “Saturday Night Live” embraced all things spooky-ooky. During last night’s episode, we saw the return of pumpkin-patterned suit-wearing David S. Pumpkins, with Tom Hanks popping in to take on the dubiously frightening role again. The sketch also featured the return of “SNL” alum Bobby Moynihan, who stopped by for the Weekend Update later in the episode as Drunk Uncle....

Bros Cut A Sex Scene With A $30K Butt Rig Because Of White Lotus Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 5, 2022 5:31 pm EST We regret to inform you that “Clerks II” lied. Not only is it totally acceptable to go ass to mouth, but it feels awesome, and it’s an extremely popular sex practice. Whether you call it tossing a salad, rimming, performing analingus, or eating the booty like groceries, it’s not uncommon or even taboo anymore to admit to sampling the forbidden door....