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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Original Plan For Primal Sounds Like A Very Different Show Adult Swim By Rafael Motamayor/July 29, 2022 12:54 pm EST Genndy Tartakovsky is one of the best living animators, a director who always tries to push forward what the medium can do, whether on TV or on film. In under three decades, Tartakovsky has delivered many classic cartoons that have captivated children and adults everywhere, whether they are cartoons set in a galaxy far, far away or starring a small boy genius or an out-of-time samurai....

Jackie Chan Is Still Trying To Make Rush Hour 4 New Line Cinema By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 8, 2022 5:32 pm EST It has been 15 years since “Rush Hour 3” underwhelmed moviegoers worldwide, and underperformed at the worldwide box office to the tune of $258 million on an obscenely bloated $140 million budget, and absolutely no one is clamoring for more — save for Jackie Chan. The tireless, seemingly indestructible movie star might’ve turned 68 this year, but he’s still in superb physical shape, and game to risk life and limb (within reason) for our viewing pleasure....

Marvel Consulted With She-Hulk’s Tim Roth Before Hiring The Director Of Captain America: New World Order Marvel Studios/Disney+ By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 2, 2022 2:45 pm EST Odds are, most people know Julius Onah for directing “The Cloverfield Paradox,” the third entry in the “Cloverfield” franchise and a film that was infamously surprise-dropped on Netflix right after Super Bowl LII ended in 2018. I seem to be among the rare people who actually kind of liked the movie, though I also won’t deny it’s clearly an original sci-fi thriller that got messily re-tooled as a “Cloverfield” flick during its development....

One Rudy Moment Still Never Fails To Bring Sean Astin To Tears TriStar Pictures By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 7, 2022 4:58 pm EST The college football classic “Rudy” was released in theaters almost thirty years ago on October 13, 1993. It remains as one of the most inspirational true stories in modern moviemaking. The legacy of “Rudy” even transcends sports; in the halls and on the field of Notre Dame University, it’s the stuff of legend....

Watch the Scream VI trailer On a scale of 1-10, how much would you never read another word I wrote online if I resorted to a hacky, cringe-worthy and extremely forced way to sum up the first official footage of “Scream VI”? Brace yourselves, folks, because I’m about to do it anyway. Well, that sure looks like a scream. Less than 12 months after its predecessor first arrived in theaters, we’ve already received our first look at what I’m now referring to as “Scream: Ghostface in the City....

Succession Won’t ‘Overstay Its Welcome, Like Billions,’ According To Brian Cox HBO By Shania Russell/Sept. 14, 2022 11:13 am EST HBO is embracing a very specific niche at the moment: TV series about dysfunctional elite families on the verge of tearing themselves apart because they’re too power-hungry to truly understand the realities of their actions. While “House of the Dragon” is upholding that mantle, “Succession” is gearing up for a triumphant return, with its fourth season currently in production....

Taika Waititi Considered The X-Files Approach For The Big Romance In Our Flag Means Death HBO Max By Witney Seibold/Dec. 24, 2022 11:00 am EST The central relationship in the pirate comedy series “Our Flag Means Death” is between Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), a stuffy aristocrat who takes up piracy on a whim, and Blackbeard (Taika Waititi), a career pirate whose career is stagnating. While the characters are based on real-life pirates about whose personal lives little is known, David Jenkins, the show’s creator, posits that the two men were engaged in a deeply romantic relationship....

Terrifying Sci-Fi Movie Villains You Never Actually See A24 By Margaret David/Oct. 2, 2022 11:31 am EST There’s real terror to be found in the iconic silhouettes of characters like Darth Vader and Clive Barker’s infamous Hell Priest, Pinhead. Sometimes horror is lurking in an ordinary human face like that of Baron Harkonnen, with those dead, hungry eyes, or Mark Strong’s mad astronaut in “Sunshine.” Sometimes the beings with the most awful import are the ones that go unseen....

The Biggest Box Office Flops Of 2022 20th Century Studios By Ryan Scott/Dec. 14, 2022 11:00 am EST It’s been a slow climb out of the hole that 2020 dug for the box office, as the pandemic straight-up upended the movie business as we knew it. The good news is that 2022 brought us a great many hits, such as “Top Gun: Maverick,” “The Batman,” and “Smile,” accounting for an increase of more than 80% in ticket sales compared to this same time last year....

The Shazam Family Are Going Through ‘Growing Pains’ In Fury Of The Gods [Comic-Con] Warner Bros By Ben F. Silverio/July 23, 2022 2:53 pm EST Everyone in the world knows that growing pains are a part of life. It’s not always the fun kind featuring Canadian national treasure Alan Thicke either. But like the classic ABC sitcom shows us, they are a little easier to manage with some help from your family....

The Voice Of Andor’s B2EMO Droid Didn’t Expect To Stay In The Show Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Dec. 6, 2022 3:11 pm EST The following post contains spoilers for “Andor.” “Andor” has completed the first of two seasons in the story leading up to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” and we’ve added some great new characters to a galaxy far, far away. Since this is “Star Wars” we’re talking about, it only makes sense that one of the very best of them is a droid....

Switching between seasons versus episodes HBO Condal said of the time jumps and recasting inspiration from the Netflix series: “[‘The Crown’ is] I think an aspiration just in terms of what I think is a high watermark in the art form. ‘The Crown’ is very successful at taking well-known characters and then recasting them. They did it between seasons, we did it in the midst of the season. “I think that was the big thing is just doing it midseason with a brand new show and trusting that the audience would sink their teeth into the characters and then stay with you as you swap them out....

Venus Review: Impressive Effects Can’t Make Up For Tediously Familiar Cosmic Horror [TIFF] Sony Pictures By Erin Brady/Sept. 15, 2022 3:00 pm EST The impact that 2007’s “REC” has had on the found-footage subgenre can’t be understated. While not obviously the first of its kind, it did help popularize it in the early 2000s thanks to its clever framing device of a late-night public access show. It also didn’t hurt that the gross special effects, effective jump scares, and intriguing take on the “zombie” made it genuinely terrifying to watch at times....

Welcome To Chippendales Trailer: Kumail Nanjiani Welcomes You To A World Of Luxury Hulu By Erin Brady/Sept. 20, 2022 4:34 pm EST You might know the Chippendale erotic dance troupe, but do you know the story of how it came to be? Probably not, but you are about to thanks to Hulu’s upcoming limited series “Welcome to Chippendales” (which you might have heard about under its original title, “Immigrant”). Believe it or not, the story behind Chippendales is wild....

Why Metallica Allowed Stranger Things And Other Productions To Use Their Music Netflix By Joe Roberts/Nov. 30, 2022 1:21 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4 “Stranger Things” is huge. To call it a phenomenon is even an understatement. The show helped in large part to usher in the wave of ’80s nostalgia that blanketed the pop culture landscape prior to our current love affair with the 1990s....

2022 Was Truly The Year Of Morbius Sony By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 15, 2022 9:00 am EST Warning: This article contains frank discussion of (and occasional snark directed towards) all things Morbin’-related. Reader discretion is advised. I can pinpoint the exact moment when everything changed forever: January 13, 2020. A little before noon, the unsuspecting world at large was introduced to the first teaser showcasing Jared Leto’s Dr. Michael Morbius in all his angsty, brooding, and utterly unhygienic glory....

Bruce Willis Credits The Cub Scouts With Kicking Off His Acting Career Warner Bros. By Matt Rainis/Oct. 21, 2022 9:59 pm EST There was an era of prime Bruce Willis where he was one of the most believable everyman tough guys in Hollywood. I mean, of course, he was in “Die Hard,” the gold standard of movies about regular guys kicking ass. It makes sense that a man with his mix of likability and coolness spent his whole career running around and shooting stuff in action movies....

‘Just like James Dean’ Warner Bros. The James Dean connection is one “Badlands” itself draws early on when Holly is narrating, and Kit walks up on her house. In voiceover, she says, “He was handsomer than anybody I’d ever met. He looked just like James Dean.” Kit is a greaser, similar to Dean’s character in “Rebel Without a Cause;” as he and Holly stroll through her neighborhood, his white shirt is literally stained with grease....

Euphoria Almost Cast Someone Else In Zendaya’s Role HBO By Lex Briscuso/Aug. 9, 2022 12:25 pm EST Casting a show full of high schoolers gives casting directors the unique opportunity of finding and potentially casting fresh, new talent to help catapult to stardom — you know, if the story is any good. It also tasks them, no matter what, with the job of finding the exact right person for each role in the series — which is part of why “Euphoria” casting director Jennifer Venditti almost cast someone else in the role of Rue, now played by Zendaya....

‘I was very scared’ Netflix In an interview with Netflix ahead of the show’s release, Peters talked about what his research for the role entailed. The actor watched the serial killer’s interview footage and read material about his crimes. For the actor, it was a harrowing experience to listen to Dahmer confessing to his murders. The show had a responsibility to tell the story as authentically as possible — Dahmer’s crimes are terrifying already....