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Who Is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s New Character? Namor Explained Disney By Witney Seibold/July 30, 2022 9:00 am EST Although he was only glimpsed briefly in the trailer for Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” much online hay has already been made about the fact that Namor the Sub-Mariner was seen emerging from the seas and seemingly doing battle with the Black Panther’s home nation of Wakanda. Namor is played by Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta (“The Forever Purge,”), as confirmed by an official announcement that came out of the San Diego Comic Con....

Trek is ‘meaningful work’ Paramount+ During the interview, Visitor was asked if she was open to returning to the character in the future, and confirmed that she’d definitely be down to play Kira again, be it in live action or animation. “Oh, yes,” she enthused, adding, “Yes. I mean, it’s very hard to find as meaningful work, I have to say, as something that is created, not only to entertain but also to offer possible views of what we look like in the future....

Yellowstone Season 6 Is Already Being Written ⁠— But Will It Be The End Of The Show? Paramount By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 5, 2022 4:24 pm EST “Yellowstone” season 5 is just days away now, and while the new season is set to pick up where all the latest cliffhangers left off, there’s one question it won’t be answering: when will the show end? John Linson and Taylor Sheridan’s wildly popular neo-Western series could theoretically keep on trucking forever, but with several other spin-offs on his plate, you’d think the showrunner would want to put the flagship series to bed at some point....

The Venture Bros. Adult Swim “The Venture Bros.” was born in 2004, when creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick re-imagined “Jonny Quest” through a hilariously cynical lens. It centers on former boy adventurer Rusty Venture (James Urbaniak) who can’t escape the long shadow of his “super scientist” father. His bodyguard Brock Sampson (Patrick Warburton) is a mullet-headed brute with a dangerous attraction to femme fatales and a bloodlust that can only be sated by ripping henchmen in half....

All 16 Humphrey Bogart Noir Films, Ranked Warner Bros. By Anthony Crislip/Dec. 17, 2022 11:00 pm EST Humphrey Bogart is practically the face of film noir. While not quite a genre, the very flexible film movement reflected America’s malaise following the Great Depression and eventually World War II. There was a grimness and heightened sense of realism to the movies, often made on lower budgets and with a documentary intensity. Even when the movies ended happily, as many did, the feelings unearthed in the telling of the story would be left unresolved to gnaw at viewers indefinitely....

Andor’s Sound Team Came Up With A Horrifying Torture Sound, But Scrapping It Was The Most ‘Effective’ Choice [Exclusive] Lucasfilm By Ernesto Valenzuela/Nov. 9, 2022 4:30 pm EST “Andor” has continually proved itself to be not only one of the darker and more intense “Star Wars” projects to date but, also one of the more creative and inspired. The writing and production design of “Andor” go hand-in-hand to tell a compelling story, giving a deeper look at the machinations of the Empire and all their twisted ways of torture and stomping out rebellion....

A cloud of glittering human waste HBO I love this show so much! How do you up the stakes once you have a glittering poop cloud orbiting a ship? Armando Iannucci: That’s just base camp. Season 2 is all about more … a lot of stuff happened outside the ship in season 1. In season 2, it’s like we’ve moved five months on, it’s inside. It’s how are we all going to cope with each other?...

Balancing The Tone Of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Meant Cutting Some Really Funny Scenes [Exclusive] The Roku Channel By Witney Seibold/Nov. 4, 2022 8:30 am EST Director Eric Appel’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is a high-concept comedy that takes some scant facts from the real life of “Weird Al” Yankovic, but drastically alters them to fit into the often-used mold of a cliché Hollywood biopic. In real life, Yankovic was a nerdy kid who liked comedy records....

Christopher Nolan Is Going Back To His Memento Roots With Oppenheimer Universal Pictures By Cameron Roy Hall/Dec. 12, 2022 12:57 pm EST Christopher Nolan is returning to theaters in 2023 with “Oppenheimer,” a drama based on “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” a biography about the Father of the Atomic Bomb written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Nolan’s upcoming drama, which makes the fatal mistake of altering the biography’s infinitely cooler title, stars a massive pool of talent which includes Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr....

Darby And The Dead Review: A Tender, & Lively Teen Bop Makes Grieving Less Taboo Disney By Cass Clarke/Nov. 30, 2022 10:00 pm EST After my dad died, echoes of his raspy breathing haunted me for days. I knew he was gone, but my mind couldn’t accept his absence. In dreams, he’d visit me, and I’d awake convinced he was alive. I kept asking an impossible question: would it be sadder to learn that ghosts exist or to learn they didn’t?...

An icon remembered Columbia Pictures/Neue Constantin Film Born in Germany on March 14, 1941, Petersen began his directing career with plays and other stage productions in the 1960s. In 1968, he directed his first short film, “Die rote Fahne,” which centers around a group of 15 people participating in a seemingly random relay race in the streets of Berlin. He made two short films in 1969 before directing his first official feature, “Einer Von Uns Beiden” (“One or the Other of Us”) in 1974....

Directing The Comedy In True Lies Was A Learning Curve For James Cameron 20th Century Studios By Joe Roberts/Dec. 11, 2022 6:00 am EST James Cameron is a filmmaking legend, but he’s not necessarily known for his sense of humor. His straight-talking style in interviews, where he has a penchant for calling things as he sees them, will always be funny. But that doesn’t always translate to on-screen laughs. In fact, it almost never does....

Dressing Harrison Ford For Indiana Jones Wasn’t As Simple As It Might Seem Paramount Pictures By Steven Ward/Oct. 16, 2022 1:01 pm EST Nothing transforms a memorable character into a timeless icon like a truly exceptional costume. Over the years, Harrison Ford has donned more than a few: from the brown overcoat he wears as Rick Deckard in “Blade Runner” to the black vest and white henley combo of Han Solo....

Why Paramount wanted anybody but Brando Paramount Pictures According to Brando biography “Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando” by Stefan Kanfer, the actor first heard of “The Godfather” in 1970 when Mario Puzo sent him a handwritten letter. According to Puzo, Brando was, “the only actor who can play the Godfather with that quiet force and irony the part requires.” Coppola’s own notes indicate Brando was his first, if not only choice for the role....

Henry Cavill Promises That His Superman Return Will Tell An ‘Enormously Joyful’ Story Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 27, 2022 11:09 am EST Who knew a quote like this would ever actually make headlines, but here we are. Everyone under the sun is familiar with the story of Superman and his feel-good origins. As with the vast majority of modern adaptations of classic material, however, things took a turn for the morally grey when it came time for actor Henry Cavill to slip on the cape in Zack Snyder’s 2013 big-screen reboot, “Man of Steel....

The Olympic archery team Columbia Pictures In a statement that will warm everyone’s hearts, Davis declared that shooting “A League of Their Own” in Indiana in August was a miserably hot experience … that allowed the cast to bond. She says that she and many of the other cast members are still friends. “It was very, very exciting to find out that I was coordinated, even though it was at 36 that I found out,” she said....

Jonathan Glazer Considered Shooting Under The Skin Entirely With iPhone Cameras A24 By Joe Roberts/Nov. 28, 2022 4:00 pm EST These days, “shot on iPhone” isn’t just an Apple marketing line, it’s a point of pride among filmmakers who’ve used the ubiquitous piece of tech to shoot their latest movie. It makes a certain statement in its eschewing of the industry standard gear — like the director wants to justify their standing as a filmmaker by showing they can make a good movie without fancy equipment....

‘Talk about stakes, man’ Sony Pictures Releasing Majors, who has two grandfathers in the service, says of the family connection: “My paternal grandfather, the guy who, you know, ran the farm, built the farm, was in Korea. And this story is about the Korean War. About the first black naval aviator. And he fought in the Korean War. His name was Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown … unfortunately, that war is labeled ’the forgotten war....

Lose the fart scene Warner Bros. Mel Brooks has publicly listed several times some of the more ridiculous notes he has received. In a 2017 interview with the Daily Beast, Brooks sharply remembered some of the nuggets of joy handed to him by Warner Bros. while he was working on “Blazing Saddles.” Given the film’s crassness and subject matter, one might be able to predict what a tetchy pencil-pusher might be nervous about....

Monsters reflect the human condition Marvel Studios Giacchino’s words are as sincere as they get, spoken while juxtaposed against footage of him passionately involved with the practical monster-costume creation process behind-the-scenes. The way in which Giacchino views monsters as more than sources of terror is interesting: he understands that they stand for something more, and reflect the painful process of contending with one’s demons. In “Werewolf by Night,” Giacchino employs age-old horror tropes like decrepit mansions and powerful artifacts to weave an engaging, gory tale, where are the monsters are meant to function as allegories for the human condition....