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Chris Hemsworth Had An Extremely Tough Time Nailing Down His Character In Furiosa Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 23, 2022 3:53 pm EST Most actors are no strangers to the idea of the characters they play undergoing some sort of identity crisis. Chris Hemsworth knows all about that, having portrayed the Marvel superhero Thor during his most drastic on-screen transformation yet: the “Dude”-inspired deadbeat from “Avengers: Endgame.” But, on the other hand, every performer’s worst nightmare rears its ugly head when they themselves can’t quite get a handle on the intricacies of the individual they’re meant to play....

Escape From New York Remake Could Come From The Directors Behind Scream And Ready Or Not Embassy Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 17, 2022 2:12 pm EST Snake Plissken hive rise up — the world’s coolest cyclops might actually return to the silver screen. Plans for a remake or reboot have been bouncing around Hollywood for decades, with studios, writers, and directors all rotating through without anything sticking. There were talks of “The Invisible Man” director Leigh Whannell tackling the project back in 2019, but reboot rumors have been around since 2007, when “Rush Hour” helmer Brett Ratner was potentially attached to direct....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Directors Sign Deal With Universal To Make More Probably Great Movies A24 By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 2, 2022 2:47 pm EST Everything is going to continue being everywhere all at once if Universal has anything to say about it: Talented maximalist filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have just signed an exclusive five-year deal with the studio, Variety reports. The team behind “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is having a pretty great week, as that film recently crossed the $100 million mark at the box office and Showtime just greenlit a pilot from the filmmakers yesterday....

The rise of COVID-19 Wildpixel/Getty Images Though it’s the reason least specific to “Wakanda Forever,” it will forever be impossible to discuss the production of any major media from the early 2020’s without mentioning the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the pretext to almost every recent major world event, and its impact on the global entertainment industry is so vast it literally cannot be measured without years of distance. Like every Marvel Studios project set for release in 2020 and onward, “Wakanda Forever” saw multiple delays in the wake of the pandemic....

High And Low Ending Explained: Heaven And Hell In Japan Toho By Devin Meenan/Dec. 18, 2022 3:00 pm EST Unlike many of his Japanese filmmaking peers such as Yasujirō Ozu and Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa often adapted Western literature in his films. That said, he was always sure to give them a Japanese reframing. He remade “Macbeth,” “Hamlet,” and “King Lear” as “Throne of Blood,” “The Bad Sleep Well,” and “Ran,” respectively....

House Of The Dragon’s Criston Cole Is The Stupidest Man In Westeros Since Ned Stark HBO Max By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 19, 2022 10:23 pm EST There are no nice people in Westeros. Whether it be “Game of Thrones” or “House of the Dragon,” everyone is in it for themselves, no matter how nice they appear. At the end of the day, even if there are few genuinely good characters, they eventually get swallowed up and killed by the cruel world of “A Song of Ice and Fire....

How Wednesday Addams Came To Have Such An Unusual Name Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Oct. 9, 2022 7:30 pm EST The Addams Family, when they first appeared on page nine of The New Yorker in 1938, were not named. The initial cartoon saw a gaunt Morticia-like woman and her towering beastly husband standing at the foot of a stairway in a dilapidated haunted house. A bat flies above, and there are spider webs in every corner....

From Fame to Flashdance Irene Cara’s work on “Fame” and “Flashdance” solidified her star quality and secured her future. She co-wrote and performed the latter’s theme song, “Flashdance…What a Feeling,” and its popularity won her an Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Legal troubles with RSO Records after “Flashdance” ultimately, in Cara’s words, “cost me my future as a recording artist....

James Cameron Carried A Core Theme Of The Abyss Over To Avatar: The Way Of Water By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 6, 2022 5:56 pm EST At a time when Hollywood was churning out wildly violent action films that championed vigilante justice and good ol’ fashioned American jingoism, James Cameron set himself apart by crafting wildly violent action films that criticized the country’s militaristic status quo. “The Terminator” is the first chapter of a planetary tragedy brought on by nuclear war; “Aliens” is a Marine misadventure rescued by one woman’s maternal fury; and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” is a prayer for a future where that aforementioned tragedy might be averted by nuclear disarmament and basic human decency....

A longer, more emotionally complex story Paramount Again, the brevity of “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” is one of its greatest virtues. Hughes zips snobbish advertising exec Neal Page (Steve Martin) and slobbish traveling salesman Del Griffith (John Candy) from one predicament to another. Neal, desperate to get home for his child’s Thanksgiving pageant, can’t believe his horrible luck, while Del, equally eager to see his beloved wife, is strangely grateful for the prolonged companionship....

You’re messing with the wrong guy! Paramount Neal Page isn’t exactly a “serious” role in the context of the film; much of its humor comes from observing Page squirm under a parade of adversity both common (a blizzard grounds Neal’s flight) and absurd (the duo’s nearly-melted car still runs like a fine Swiss watch). One of the movie’s funniest moments observes the man teetering on the edge of a “Falling Down”-level meltdown at a Marathon Car Rental office....

Ridley Scott Wanted Alien To Be The ‘Antithesis’ Of Star Wars By Steven Ward/Sept. 23, 2022 3:24 pm EST Seeing “Star Wars” when it premiered was a career-altering experience for Ridley Scott. Although his admiration for the film ensured his next project would be in the realm of sci-fi, he also felt despair over having to distinguish it from the instantly iconic imagery of directors who got there first. It helped that the “Alien” script Scott inevitably fell in love with lent itself heavily to horror....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3’s Big Cameo Is Also A Delightful Movie Reference Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 13, 2022 9:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” The eighth episode of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” is one of the show’s “let’s go hog wild” episodes. Called “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus,” the episode takes place entirely on the holodeck of the U.S.S. Cerritos with the show’s four main characters exploring a rather complicated pre-programmed holographic adventure....

The Bastard: Everything We Know So Far About The Historical Epic Starring Mads Mikkelsen Henrik Ohsten/Zentropa By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 22, 2022 2:40 pm EST Dark, violent historical epics have a special place in my heart, and the upcoming Mads Mikkelsen film “The Bastard” looks like it will be period-piece perfection. The film, which stars Mikkelsen as a 17th-century soldier charged with taking over a large swath of land for the king of Denmark, looks like the kind of movie that belongs alongside “The Northman” or “Valhalla Rising,” which also starred Mikkelsen....

The Daily Stream: Coraline Proves Animation Is The Best Way To Adapt Neil Gaiman Focus Features By Erin Brady/Aug. 7, 2022 2:43 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Coraline” Where You Can Stream It: Tubi The Pitch: With the first season of “The Sandman” now available to watch, it is fair to say that it is a pretty good adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic epic....

The Daily Stream: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Is A Hyper-Violent Kick In The Virtual Pants Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 25, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The series: “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” Where you can stream it: Netflix The pitch: “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” is an original anime collaboration between CD Projekt Red (“The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt”) and Studio Trigger, an anime production company that’s become known for their high-intensity action sequences....

The Reason Amandla Stenberg Walked Away From Black Panther A24 By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 22, 2022 6:00 pm EST 10 years after breaking all our hearts as the doomed tribute Rue in “The Hunger Games,” Amandla Stenberg has firmly come into her own as an actor. Stenberg has gone on to star in a variety of films as a young adult, including the critically-acclaimed drama “The Hate U Give” and, more recently, the horror-comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies....

The Special Effects-Laden Finale Of Zardoz Sent Sean Connery Into A Rage By Witney Seibold/Nov. 1, 2022 5:06 pm EST This article contains spoilers for the 1974 film “Zardoz.” John Boorman’s 1974 dystopian film “Zardoz” is one of the strangest, most bugnuts studio movies ever committed to celluloid. Taking place at some point in the distant, distant future, Sean Connery plays a harness-wearing, gun-toting beach warrior named Zed who murders and commits assault at the perceived behest of a giant floating stone head named Zardoz....

The Twin Peaks Crew Put A Lot Of Work Into Laura Palmer’s Corpse ABC By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 27, 2022 1:23 pm EST Few televised images were more indelible in the early 1990s — and even still today — than that of Sheryl Lee’s Laura Palmer wrapped in plastic. In the years since the series’ original release, the pilot episode snapshot of the near-angelic, blue-tinged face of the dead girl at the center of “Twin Peaks” has become as ubiquitous as the school photo of the troubled teen that emblazons T-shirts and posters asking, “Who killed Laura Palmer?...

Thor: Love And Thunder Ending Explained: Sweet Child O’ Mine Marvel Studios By Eric Vespe/July 7, 2022 8:00 pm EST Alright, you’ve seen “Thor: Love and Thunder” (or you haven’t and just looooooove spoilers). Either way, it’s time to take a deeper look at the ending of the movie. This is all third act discussion, so reader beware. It should be noted that I absolutely loved the film. I get why some folks might be thrown off by the radical tonal shifts between moments that are super serious and slapstick silly, but for me that’s kind of Marvel’s secret sauce and one of the reasons the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been so successful....