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Origins Warner Bros. It’s hard to imagine any “Rocky” movie past the original opening with the tone of “Creed.” A youth detention center in ’90s Los Angeles, filled with kids who’ve ended up on the wrong side of the law. Those opening shots tell a story of their own. When one of the kids turns out to be Adonis “Donnie” Johnson, son of Apollo Creed, it’s hard not to think about how easily he could have fallen through the cracks....

The Legacy of Law & Order: SVU NBC Premiering in 1999, “Law & Order: SVU” is currently the fourth longest-running primetime scripted series in history, surpassing the number of episodes of the flagship show, “Law & Order.” Over the course of the series run, the show has received 91 award nominations, and star Mariska Hargitay was the first regular cast member on any “Law & Order” series to win an Emmy Award, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2006....

It was Kang all along Before we get to which of the Kang variants this might be, let’s explain why we thought this was Superior Iron Man. First, the Ultron bots in what everyone thinks is the Illuminati council chamber are clearly Stark’s invention. Supes (not to be confused with the other Supes) was also a member of the Illuminati. He wears Endo-Sym armor which glows orange-red when he’s angry, and this person in the trailer sure seems angry....

Dream Scenario: Everything We Know So Far About Nicolas Cage’s A24 Comedy Neon By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 26, 2022 12:44 pm EST Nicolas Cage is back! Okay, it’s not like he went anywhere, as the running joke goes in his recent meta-action-comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.” Still, there’s no denying we’re in the middle of a Cage-aissance following his direct-to-video era, starting with films like “Mandy” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” in 2018, and continuing on to “Massive Talent” and, in particular, his haunting, ruminative drama “Pig” (pictured above)....

Guillermo Del Toro Sounds Like He’s Completely Over Trying To Make Justice League Dark Warner Bros. Animation By Erin Brady/Dec. 9, 2022 4:51 pm EST Guillermo del Toro is one of those directors who’s almost as well-known for the projects he’s made as the ones he hasn’t. For as many movies as he’s directed, there are also plenty of others that never made it past the conceptualization stage for one reason or another....

New Line Cinema By Jeremy Mathai/July 27, 2022 11:00 am EST In case you haven’t noticed, we happen to find ourselves smack dab in the middle of a burgeoning arm’s race for prestige fantasy shows. With original hits such as Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and HBO’s “Game of Thrones” over and done with, the next stage of competition has begun with their newest incarnations: Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” series and the spin-off/prequel series “House of the Dragon....

Tell us how you really feel HBO Although it bears noting that both shows have completely different aims and ambitions, “House of the Dragon” nonetheless contains a few significant advantages over “Game of Thrones.” One of them has to do with the specific kinds of characters included in this story versus the previous narrative. While the main cast of “Game of Thrones” featured silent, brooding hero types (looking at you, Jon Snow!...

When is Don’t Worry Darling streaming? Warner Bros. New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures will follow in the footsteps of many other WB films by streaming first on HBO Max. The film will be available to HBO Max subscribers starting on November 7, 2022. Don’t forget, before that, the film will be available for early Premium Digital Ownership at home for $24.99, and for 48-hour rental via PVOD for $19....

Life’s such a treat Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer So, what exactly does this mean? “Bones & All” takes place during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Those who recall his time as the U.S. President will likely remember a period of economic and societal division, particularly triggered by the White House’s blasé and even hateful treatment of the AIDS crisis. Shaffer wrote in his review of “Bones & All” that there are significant themes of queer isolation and separatism in the film, saying that the openly-gay Guadagnino’s film carries “consistent [subversions] of gendered expectation, presentation, and attraction....

Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen Is ‘There To Cause Chaos’ In House Of The Dragon HBO Max By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 1, 2022 2:20 pm EST If “Game of Thrones” had an abundance of anything, it was characters. There were enough names and titles (especially titles) to fill an entire library — and make audiences confused about who is who. The show had its fair share of good and innocent characters, evil bastards, criminals, jerks, opportunists, and more....

Michael Imperioli Thought His First Sopranos Scene With James Gandolfini Was Going To Be His Last HBO By Shae Sennett/Oct. 21, 2022 4:01 pm EST Michael Imperioli was one of the most memorable main characters in “The Sopranos,” but he almost didn’t make it past the first episode. He was incredibly eager to land the role of Christopher, so much so that he lied to get the part. His lie put James Gandolfini and himself in a lot of danger and almost cost him the job on his very first day....

Michelle Yeoh, Stanley Tucci Join The Russo Brothers’ Next Star-Studded Netflix Movie, The Electric State A24 By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 11, 2022 12:53 pm EST The Russo brothers are two of the most successful filmmakers to ever live, if we go by box office results. The filmmaking duo wowed audiences everywhere with blockbusters like “Captain America: Civil War,” “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame.” Even before that, the brothers worked on some of the best sitcoms of the past two decades between “Arrested Development” and “Community....

One Of Doom Patrol’s Best Characters Was Supposed To Be A One-Off Joke HBO Max By Marcos Melendez/Sept. 13, 2022 11:45 am EST With a fourth season on the way, “Doom Patrol” has earned its place among the best live-action superhero shows currently on the air. Its zany, outrageous personality sets the HBO Max series apart from others in the genre, and the bevy of unique characters in the three seasons available is nothing short of mind-blowing, hilarious, and more often than not, heartwarming....

Quentin Tarantino Had A Pretty Good Reason For Not Casting Michelle Yeoh In Kill Bill A24 By Anya Stanley/Nov. 8, 2022 1:53 pm EST Did Michelle Yeoh ever tell you about the time she broke her back and some upstart director gave her encouragement to get back on the cinematic saddle? If you know martial arts action movies, you know Yeoh. In her earliest works, she went as Michelle Khan, but as she racked up credits in Hong Kong action movies during the ’90s and starred as James Bond ally Wai Lin in the ‘97 spy flick “Tomorrow Never Dies” she would be credited with her proper surname....

Reavers Revealed Universal Pictures “Serenity” upended the mythology, and mystery, surrounding the Reavers by delving into their origins. It turns out the “humans who went insane on the edge of colonized space” tale was partially correct, but there was more to it than that. The Alliance, the governing body of humanity in the “Firefly” future, used the planet Miranda for an experiment. They dosed the population with a drug called Pax, designed to pacify the populace and create a conflict-free Utopia....

Watch the trailer for Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical” recently premiered at the BFI London Film Festival, where I saw it and wrote up the review for /Film. Bottom line: it’s worth catching in theaters rather than waiting for the Netflix release, because those big musical sequences looked and sounded great on a big screen. While I was underwhelmed by Thompson’s Miss Trunchbull (partly due to Pam Ferris setting the bar so high, and partly because Thompson is kind of buried under her body suit and all the facial prosthetics), it’s otherwise a great musical and a faithful adaptation of Dahl’s book....

Spirited Trailer: Will Ferrell And Ryan Reynolds Get Into The Christmas (Carol) Spirit Apple TV+ By Jenna Busch/Nov. 2, 2022 8:46 am EST Oh hey, Merry Christmas! I feel comfortable saying that since every store has had decorations up since the beginning of October. Today we have a new trailer for the upcoming Apple Original Film “Spirited” starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, and Octavia Spencer. The latest look at the remake (sort of) of the Christmas classic “A Christmas Carol” was teased on Twitter yesterday by Reynolds, Ferrell and a very special guest, and it’s pretty great....

Stanley Kubrick Came ‘Out Of The Blue’ To Cast 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Star Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Sept. 7, 2022 3:43 pm EST Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey” — arguably one of the best films of all time — is so expansive and far-reaching in its story and tone that a casual viewer might miss that astronaut Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) is the protagonist. Indeed, Dave doesn’t even appear until about halfway through the film, and that’s after an early extended sequence set during prehistoric times among a group of proto-human hominids, and then a very long sci-fi sequence wherein characters other than Dave discover a mysterious monolith buried on the surface of the moon....

Steven Spielberg Had Specific Advice For Indiana Jones 5 Director James Mangold Lucasfilm By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Dec. 7, 2022 2:01 pm EST When the trailer for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” dropped, fans were elated to see Harrison Ford step into the role of the Nazi-punching professor/archeologist once again. Fist-fights, running around in trains and ancient caverns — aesthetically, the trailer certainly nailed the look and feel of a proper “Indiana Jones” flick, but look closer, and you might see some stylistic flourishes that are shiny and new....

Attack on Titan – Raid on Liberio MAPPA This is the moment where things changed forever, and “Attack on Titan” made it clear this is not the same show it was eight years ago. After spending three seasons watching humanity be completely defenseless against the man-eating machines that are the Titans, and seeing dozens of characters die horrible deaths devoid of hope, it came as a true shock to see roles reversed this season....