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Morena Baccarin’s Most Intense Work On Deadpool 2 Never Made It To The Screen So many aspects of a film can change on its journey from page to screen and you never know what’s going to wind up on the cutting room floor. Despite there being multiple versions of “Deadpool 2,” Morena Baccarin’s most intense scene didn’t make it into any of them. The actress portrayed Wade Wilson’s fiancée Vanessa Carlysle in both Deadpool movies, though the character was killed early on in the sequel....

Nic Pizzolatto Didn’t Know He Was Writing True Detective When He Started Season 3 HBO By Sandy Schaefer/July 14, 2022 8:52 pm EST “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto was hard-pressed to recapture lightning in a bottle after the breakout success of season 1. It didn’t help that most of the actors and creatives that made the initial season a critical darling wouldn’t be coming back for season 2, nor that HBO pushed for a relatively quick turnaround between installments....

Orson Welles Couldn’t Understand Why Alfred Hitchcock Was Popular Planfilm By Erin Brady/July 31, 2022 10:00 pm EST What words could we possibly use to describe Orson Welles? Genius, revolutionary, artist, passionate, and many more might come to mind if you only know about his creative work. That is more than fine, but if you do know about the man in front of and behind the camera, one of the words that probably came to mind was “petty....

When you can watch Paranormal Activity: The Other Side Paramount Pictures Originally, “Paranormal Activity: The Other Side” was slated for an October 2022 release. However, that has since been pushed back to October 28, 2023 — just in time for next Halloween. Obviously, that’s the best time to watch a “Paranormal Activity” movie, good or bad. It has not been confirmed for a theatrical or streaming release yet, so the release plan is up in the air, but either way, you’ll be able to catch it next spooky season....

Patton Ending Explained: That All Glory Is Fleeting By Lee Adams/Sept. 6, 2022 7:45 am EST How do you fit all the complexities of a person’s life into the space of a feature film? The short answer is you don’t, which is why I’ve always found the biopic the most unsatisfying of genres. “Patton” avoids many of the usual pitfalls by limiting its scope to the three-year period during World War II which are central to General George S....

Pixar And The Criterion Collection Are Teaming Up For A 4K Release Of WALL-E Criterion By Ryan Scott/Sept. 8, 2022 12:37 pm EST In a bit of an unexpected and pleasant surprise for fans of both animation and physical media, Pixar has teamed up with the folks at Criterion for a special 4K Ultra HD release of one of the greatest animated movies of the last 15 years (at least). “WALL-E,” the 2008 Oscar-winning triumph from director Andrew Stanton, is indeed going to get a physical release as part of the Criterion Collection....

Reese Witherspoon Impacted I Know What You Did Last Summer’s Casting Even After Turning It Down Columbia Pictures By Witney Seibold/Oct. 21, 2022 6:30 am EST Witnessing the release of Wes Craven’s “Scream” in December of 1996 and the release of Jim Gillespie’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer” in October of the following year was to witness a trend crystallize. Both films, written by Kevin Williamson, sought to breathe new life into 15-year-old slasher tropes by populating the movies with a particular type of hip-talking, self-aware ’90s teen who could recognize when they were in a slasher situation....

Shooting In Color Caused Some Problems Behind The Scenes Of Singin’ In The Rain Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Aug. 20, 2022 11:59 pm EST Stanley Donen’s 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain,” starring Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, and the obnoxiously chipper Gene Kelly, was once held up in the pages of /Film as the Platonic ideal of movie musicals. It is a certainly a dance showcase of the highest order, and an unapologetic Hollywood nostalgia piece....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Will Crossover With Star Trek: Lower Decks In Season 2 [Comic-Con] Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 23, 2022 5:34 pm EST The two most entertaining Paramount+ era “Star Trek” shows are about to collide: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” and “Star Trek: Lower Decks” are doing a crossover episode. The news came via the franchise’s panel at San Diego Comic Con today, where /Film’s team was on the ground reporting....

Tanya had the unluckiest ending HBO In the finale of “The White Lotus” Season 2, Tanya comes to the conclusion that Quentin is trying to kill her on Greg’s behalf to scheme her out of her inheritance. This is never absolutely confirmed in the show, but it is heavily implied. Tanya opens fire on the boat and kills nearly everyone on board. In a futile effort to jump onto a speedboat and escape, she hits her head and drowns....

Troy And Abed’s Friendship Wasn’t Something Community’s Writers Could Have Planned NBC By Ernesto Valenzuela/Aug. 10, 2022 11:00 am EST One of the best things the NBC sitcom “Community” has going for it is the chemistry between the actors. The study group at the center of “Community,” often referred to as the Greendale Seven, is a diverse group of characters in appearance and personality. There are a variety pairings and relationships within the group itself throughout the show’s run, but if one duo stood out more than others, it wasn’t the will they/won’t they of Jeff and Annie or the odd opposites that are Troy and Pierce....

Ivan the Terrible Toho It’s not just that Kurosawa had trouble adapting to color, it’s just that — aesthetically speaking — he preferred black and white photography. Kurosawa seems to have mastered a certain kind of shimmering, silvery photography in his modern-day films, and a textured, deep-grey natural look for his period pieces. Kurosawa is a master of visual clarity, framing, and drawing the eye to the exact correct part of the frame....

Zac Efron Turning Down Barbarian Made Director Zach Cregger Rethink The Character Of AJ 20th Century Studios By Shania Russell/Sept. 11, 2022 6:19 pm EST The people have spoken: “Barbarian” is an absolute riot. It’s the kind of hit horror film that people should be rushing to see in theaters before Twitter or annoying friends can ruin the twists and turns that the trailer so stealthily conceals. But before buying those tickets, you might want to reconsider your upcoming AirBnB booking, because “Barbarian” takes a look at the horrors that may be lurking beneath a seemingly-normal rental home — a concept that remains haunting long after you’ve left the theater....

All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms Review: Psychedelic Horror Delivers On Shock But Skimps On Storytelling Cinedigm By Erin Brady/Nov. 4, 2022 5:00 am EST Film is arguably the most challenging art form of them all. Seeing something disturbing in, say, a painting is vastly different than seeing something disturbing in motion on film. The way that movies are able to get underneath the skins of viewers is what makes the art form so special, and director Alex Phillips seems to fully understand this if his genre festival darling “All Jacked Up and Full of Worms” is any indication....

Buster Keaton Challenged Charlie Chaplin To A Silent Movie Showdown United Artists By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 3, 2022 5:30 pm EST In the silent film era, the practice of show-don’t-tell was a necessity. People packed movie houses all over the country to see moving pictures, not to read. Obviously, some text was vital, particularly if you were staging a soundless — save for the in-house musical accompaniment — adaptation of Shakespeare or a popular novel....

You only get one shot 20th Century Studios Maureen O’Hara, who played Doris Walker in “Miracle on 34th Street,” has since opened up about the experience of filming the movie, which would you believe, served as a guiding light for David Harbour’s upcoming “Violent Night.” Walker, of course, was one of the main characters in the film — a divorcée with a precocious but slightly too cynical daughter named Susan (Natalie Wood)....

Friday The 13th Taught Terrifier What Not To Do With Its Infamous Hacksaw Scene RLJE Films By Andrew Housman/Oct. 31, 2022 4:32 pm EST At this point, it’s safe to say that “Terrifier” and the brand-new, just-released “Terrifier 2” have both found a comfortable place within horror fandom as relentlessly gory odes to the very edge of the slasher genre. As much as the “Terrifier” films revere the B-movie splatterfest, however, they also take advantage of their position as a squarely modern horror movies, unbeholden to the limits on violence that plagued the slasher heyday of the ’80s....

Glass Onion’s Cast Got Into Character With Their Own Murder Mystery Game Netflix By Lyvie Scott/Nov. 29, 2022 2:48 pm EST They say don’t bring your work home with you — but when you’re a filmmaker, the line between work and play can get a bit muddled. It’s often like that with ensemble casts that become a family on- and off-screen, and it was no different for the cast of “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery....

House Of The Dragon Co-Showrunner Miguel Sapochnik Exits The Series Ahead Of Season 2 HBO By BJ Colangelo/Aug. 31, 2022 5:45 pm EST It’s said that when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die because there is no middle ground. But it appears that when you play in the “House of the Dragon,” you exit before you burn out. As we just learned from The Hollywood Reporter, co-showrunner and director Miguel Sapochnik is stepping down from his role on the hit HBO fantasy drama after only two episodes have been made available to the public....

House Of The Dragon’s Earliest Strengths Still Applied In The Finale HBO By Jenna Busch/Oct. 24, 2022 3:14 pm EST Major spoilers ahead for the “House of the Dragon” finale. We made it through 10 episodes of the “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon,” and it was a wild (dragon) ride. Some of the scenes were hard to watch, including the terrible, horrible birth in the finale. Some were literally hard to watch because they were so freaking dark that you couldn’t actually see what was going on....