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Tom Cruise Wants To Become The First Civilian To Perform A Spacewalk For His Next Movie Warner Bros By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 12, 2022 2:08 pm EST Are you ready for a space cruise? Unfortunately, we’re not talking about the kind you can see in “Avenue 5,” “The Fifth Element,” or the memorable 2007 “Doctor Who” Christmas special starring David Tennant and Kylie Minogue (for better or for worse). While it seems like anyone can go to space now (if you have enough money), it was announced back in 2020 that Tom Cruise would be filming a movie in space....

Tom Cruise Went To Even Greater Extremes Than Real Top Gun Pilots For Top Gun: Maverick Paramount Pictures By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 31, 2022 2:45 pm EST There are a lot of actors who end up putting so much of themselves into the characters they play that they become almost indistinguishable from one another in terms of personality or expressions. Likewise, there are characters whose entire schtick is that they are meant to remind us of the actors who play them....

What You Need To Know About Dream’s Lover In The Sandman Netflix By Erin Brady/Aug. 5, 2022 4:54 pm EST Note: This article contains spoilers for “The Sandman” comic series and Netflix adaptation. With the long-gestating adaptation of “The Sandman” now streaming on Netflix, it is only a matter of time before we get confirmation of more explorations into the vast world of the acclaimed comics. After all, it’s not like there is any shortage of stories that could be adapted for the screen; while the series primarily adapts the arcs of “Preludes & Nocturnes” and “The Doll’s House,” there are 12 arcs in total that make up the main series....

Overlapping dialogue Warner Bros. When it comes to scenes with overlapping dialogue, the filmmaking solution may seem simple: Get two separate cameras and train each one on one of the actors. Film two shots simultaneously with one audio track on both, and then — in editing — cut back and forth between the two actors, assembling the scene as the editor’s rhythms dictate. This makes for organic scenes reminiscent of live theater....

Ti West is back A24 Performers superbly portray their roles as dreamers with progressive ideals — enter overwhelmed sound technician Lorraine (Jenna Ortega), nicknamed “churchmouse,” girlfriend of director RJ (Owen Campbell), who sees “The Farmer’s Daughters” as an opportunity to elevate pornography with French “avant-garde” skillsets. Lorraine’s moral hesitations instigate more perceptive conversations than average T&A slashers and lead to standouts Brittany Snow and Scott Mescudi devouring every ounce of the screen....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Was Willing To Go ‘All Out’ With His Mr. Freeze Makeup Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/July 27, 2022 5:08 pm EST When it comes to hyping a movie, no one does it better or more unabashedly than Arnold Schwarzenegger. In his movie star prime (roughly 1982 through 1996), the pumped-up Austrian never missed a high-profile stop on the global media tour. In one morning, he’d swat softball questions on “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” and dive into the juvenile muck of “The Howard Stern Show,” then jet back to L....

Avengers: Quantum Encounter Combines Ant-Man And Dinner Theater Disney By Matt Cabral/July 29, 2022 5:00 pm EST Ant-Man and the Wasp won’t return to the big screen until early next year, when they officially kick off Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” But Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne’s biggest fans can get their fix ahead of the film’s release aboard the Disney Wish....

Black Adam’s Aldis Hodge Says There’s Enough ‘Rich History’ To Make ‘A Few’ Hawkman Solo Films [Comic-Con] Warner Bros, Pictures By Sarah Musnicky AND Ryan Scott/July 24, 2022 11:51 am EST DC’s upcoming “Black Adam” introduces numerous familiar characters from the comics and aims to set up the stakes for future crossover films. Introducing the character before viewers head into the much-anticipated “Shazam! Gods for Fury” will also help tie the two together and set up the next era of the DC Extended Universe....

Black Panther 2 Star Tenoch Huerta Landed The Role Of Namor Without Knowing How To Swim Marvel By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 3, 2022 2:47 pm EST When the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” trailer debuted at San Diego Comic Con this year, it was to a worldwide outpouring of love and emotion. The trailer paid sincere homage to the late actor Chadwick Boseman, and introduced a storyline that looks like it will live up to fans’ expectations for the long-anticipated sequel to one of Marvel’s best films....

Champions Trailer: Woody Harrelson Coaches A Team Of Basketball Players With Intellectual Disabilities Focus Features By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 5, 2022 9:58 pm EST Director Bobby Farrelly is re-teaming with his old “Kingpin” star, Woody Harrelson, for “Champions,” a new comedy about a guy who becomes the court-ordered coach for a team of basketball players with intellectual disabilities. In addition to “Kingpin,” Farrelly, as one-half of the Farrelly brothers, co-wrote and/or co-directed such films as “Dumb and Dumber,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Me, Myself & Irene,” and “Shallow Hal....

‘It came up heads, so I said I’d do it’ Paramount Pictures “Beverly Hills Cop” may have cemented Eddie Murphy as a Hollywood A-lister, but the same can’t be said for its director. The career of director Martin Brest is quite peculiar. He caught Hollywood’s attention in 1977 with the artsy film “Hot Tomorrows” and received high praise for his 1979 sophomore feature, “Going in Style.” But then Brest was fired from “War Games” after two weeks of production....

Filmmakers JJ Abrams, Jon Favreau, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, And More React To ‘Star Wars’ News Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images From the moment Disney announced its intentions to create a new Star Wars trilogy, one of the big questions has been which filmmaker might get a crack at the iconic franchise. But the directors themselves are fans, too, and even as we’ve been arguing which of them should get the job, many of them are just going through the same emotions we are — surprise, concern, excitement....

Hocus Pocus 2 Review: The Extra Silly, Extra Nostalgic Sequel Loses Its Magic Disney+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 29, 2022 9:00 am EST Over the past three decades, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy have become unexpected camp (and to an extent, queer) Halloween icons — a status earned by endless Disney Channel and cable reruns of “Hocus Pocus,” Kenny Ortega’s 1993 fantasy family comedy that most will fondly look back upon as a stone-cold childhood classic....

How Cowboy Bebop Paid Tribute To Two Legends Of French Filmmaking Netflix By Shae Sennett/Sept. 26, 2022 7:30 am EST “Cowboy Bebop” may be the most classically cinematic anime out there. The gun-toting, cigarette-smoking main character resembles hard-boiled noir stars like Humphrey Bogart and Western icons like John Wayne. But those weren’t the only classic film genres that inspired the creators of “Cowboy Bebop.” The 20th episode of the series, “Pierrot le Fou,” was named after the 1965 film from French New Wave director Jean-luc Godard....

How Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities Built That Terrifying Rat Queen Ken Woroner / Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 2, 2022 8:57 pm EST Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” is full of strange, freaky, and delightful treasures. The Netflix anthology series boasts a treasure trove of horrors that range from the otherworldly and Lovecraftian to the deceptively mundane. But for fans of practical effects, one of the cabinet’s residents stands tail and shoulders above the rest: the Rat Queen....

How Shazam’s Billy And Freddy Have Changed Between Movies Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer AND Ryan Scott/July 23, 2022 8:01 pm EST The first trailer for “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” debuted at San Diego Comic-Con today, and while it featured plenty of the heart, humor, and adventure that made the original 2019 movie so great, it was conspicuously light on one thing. Between all the car-throwing, flying, and “Fast & The Furious” references, it looks like there’s barely any time for Shazam’s human half, Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and his sidekick-turned-hero foster brother, Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) to hang out....

How The Winchesters Challenges The Supernatural Canon The CW By Shania Russell/Oct. 13, 2022 7:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for the first episode of “The Winchesters.” After 15 years of airing the traumas and tribulations of Sam and Dean Winchester, The CW has finally decided to spice things up by creating a “Supernatural” spinoff that centers a monster-hunting duo with crippling daddy issues! Now, I know that sounds like the exact same show but trust me, it’s very different....

It Took Seth MacFarlane An Entire Season To Figure Out What The Orville Should Be Disney By Anthony Crislip/Sept. 7, 2022 10:42 am EST When Seth MacFarlane’s television show “The Orville” premiered in 2017, it raised immediate questions and very mixed reviews. Was it a loving parody of the ’90s “Star Trek” shows, with similar moral dilemmas but a breezy, comedic tone? Or was it just “Star Trek” with “Family Guy” gags?...

Jerry’s ‘Pathetic’ Nature Is Chris Parnell’s Favorite Part Of Rick And Morty Adult Swim By Michael Boyle/Sept. 2, 2022 4:42 pm EST Every sitcom tends to base its main characters around a familiar archetype. With Jerry Smith, voiced by “Saturday Night Live” alum Chris Parnell, it’s clear the creators went for the bumbling dad archetype. From day one, he’s a dopey, incompetent father figure. Jerry’s also meant as a foil for Rick, who’s extremely competent but also a huge jerk....

Playing from the rulebook Columbia Pictures Tim Curry himself wasn’t a stranger to the musical genre before boarding the film project, having first gotten his first full-time role in the Broadway musical “Hair” before hopping onto the stage production of “The Rocky Horror Show” as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. While he believed the role itself almost ruined his career after the film production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was released, plenty of work got thrown his way, which included the film adaptation of “Annie....