The Sandman Trailer: Dream A Little Dream Netflix By Shania Russell/July 23, 2022 6:31 pm EST Escaping development hell is no easy feat but if anyone was up to the task, then of course it would be Dream, the star of Neil Gaiman’s beloved comic series, “The Sandman.” Attempts to bring this dark fantasy to screens have been in the works since the ’90s, but obstacles always arose and the sprawling nature of the story didn’t make things easy....
Tim Burton Once Pitched A House Of Wax Musical Starring Michael Jackson Epic Records / Sony Music Entertainment By Andrew Housman/Oct. 24, 2022 4:08 pm EST As prolific as Tim Burton is, the filmmaker has a sizeable list of unrealized projects that sound strange yet fascinating even for his off-kilter style. His abandoned works include an adaptation of the Richard Brautigan horror Western novel “The Hawkline Monster,” the apocalyptic disaster film about giant dinosaurs aptly called “Dinosaurs Attack!...
What’s Next For Legendary Now That Their Warner Bros. Deal Has Expired? Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Aug. 30, 2022 11:16 am EST Legendary Pictures, the production company behind the “Dark Knight” franchise and the MonsterVerse, which includes movies like “Godzilla vs. Kong,” is gearing up for a big move. The company has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Warner Bros. for much of its existence, and the relationship has been undoubtedly fruitful....
A small-screen veteran Showtime Boniadi made a name for herself on the long-running soap opera “General Hospital,” but she is arguably most well-known for her work on the award-winning Showtime series “Homeland” after portraying the character Fara Sherazi for 16 episodes. Most recently, she appeared across J.K. Simmons in the Starz sci-fi series “Counterpart.” Boniadi can also be seen in a lesser capacity on “How I Met Your Mother,” “Scandal,” and “Grey’s Anatomy....
Overworked and underpaid Marvel Studios In a new and rather explosive Vulture report, reporter Chris Lee chronicled a conversation he had with an anonymous visual effects artist who has worked on several Marvel productions over the length of their career. Confirming much of what has largely been speculated, the artist detailed how much pressure their colleagues are constantly under as Marvel Studios in particular wrings as much from their VFX vendors as humanly possible — and sometimes even more than that....
‘[I] just pray to Spirit that we’re doing a really good job and honoring everyone’ Paramount+ It hasn’t been specifically stated yet, but the character of Teonna Rainwater is very likely related to the “Yellowstone” character Chief Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) from the fictional Broken Rock Indian Reservation. The school where Teonna is forced to study brings to mind last year’s discovery of mass graves at a school for indigenous children in Canada....
Talk Radio (1988) Warner Bros The Toronto-born Wincott had appeared in a number of Canadian films during the late-’70s and early-’80s, and popped as the doomed, mobbed-up owner of a literal spaghetti factory on the “Bread and Roses” episode of “Miami Vice,” but it was his unsettling turn as the deranged fan of Eric Bogosian’s shock jock Barry Champlain in “Talk Radio” that put him on the map as a character actor....
A Simple Sentence Prepared Peter O’Toole To Play Lawrence Of Arabia Columbia Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 13, 2022 1:30 pm EST No actor ever looked more at home in front of the camera — or on the stage, according to those fortunate enough to have seen him there — than Peter O’Toole. Blessed with a piercing tenor voice, that tousle of brown hair and those shocking blue eyes, he stirred our souls and, why be coy about it, libidos....
Ego much? 20th Century Studios The first voice actor Bluth had to court was Meg Ryan, who was interested in the project, but leery of the dark historical content. To persuade her, Bluth had an animation team re-create one of her famous scenes from “Sleepless in Seattle,” and she was so impressed with the gesture that she signed on to voice the precocious princess. Her singing voice would be provided by Liz Callaway, who also served as Princess Jasmine’s singing voice in the “Aladdin” sequels and as the voice of Odetta in “The Swan Princess....
Avatar: The Way Of Water Ending Explained: Everything Is Connected 20th Century Studios By Bill Bria/Dec. 15, 2022 7:00 pm EST Spoilers for Avatar: The Way of Water follow. Ever since “Avatar” was released in 2009, creator and director James Cameron has promised (or threatened, depending on one’s opinion of the film) that multiple sequels would follow. As the last 13 years rolled on, Cameron’s insistence on the sequels coming to fruition began to resemble a boast more than a promise....
Before Dracula, Universal Studios Was Famous For A Different Nightmare: War Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/Nov. 11, 2022 3:25 pm EST Although Universal had struck on big hits with “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” in 1923 and “The Phantom of the Opera” in 1925, studio honcho Carl Laemmle, Sr. was no fan of the horror genre. It was his monster-obsessed son, Carl Laemmle, Jr., that encouraged the studio to adapt the then-popular stage production of “Dracula” to film....
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Producer Teases What The MCU Has In Store For Its Characters [Exclusive Interview] Marvel Studios By Vanessa Armstrong/Nov. 21, 2022 11:00 am EST There are plenty of discussions to have about “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” but as is often the case with films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the movie sets many of its characters off on different paths by the time the final credits roll. Where exactly those characters go from here is, of course, a tightly held secret....
Brent Spiner To Return As Lore, Daniel Davis As Professor Moriarty, In Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 8, 2022 6:10 pm EST “Star Trek: Picard” appears to be pulling out all the stops for its third and final season. For months now we’ve been hearing about how the next installment of the Paramount+ series is set to reunite several more members of the crew from “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and today another familiar face has been added to the cast list....
Casting Taika Waititi In Our Flag Means Death Raised The Stakes For The Rest Of The Cast HBO Max By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 2, 2022 5:47 pm EST When Warner Brothers Discovery started eviscerating so much wonderful programming on HBO Max, there was a great deal of worry that “Our Flag Means Death” would likely be on the chopping block. But just like the Gentleman Pirate, in spite of every danger thrown its way, the series lives on to sail another day with a second season currently in development....
Alien whale brains 20th Century Studios In the new sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” Selfridge only has one very, very brief scene, and on a video screen, no less. He explains to Col. Quaritch (Stephen Lang) that all his brain functions and memories had been uploaded into a computer chip, and then downloaded into a specially cloned Na’vi body. Quaritch will now have to live out his days in the body of a nine-foot space alien....
Gangs Of London’s Narges Rashidi On Performing One Of Season 2’s Toughest Fights Herself [Exclusive Interview] AMC/SKY By Jeff Ewing/Dec. 15, 2022 2:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Gangs of London.” The electric first season of “Gangs of London” sees the London underworld thrown into disarray when Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney) is killed, setting his son, Sean Wallace (Joe Cole), on a path of disruption until the killer, the motive, and the family’s enemies are found....
House Of The Dragon Introduced Its Coolest Castle Yet With Driftmark Ollie Upton/HBO By Jenna Busch/Sept. 19, 2022 9:52 pm EST Spoilers for “House of the Dragon” episode 5. In this week’s “House of the Dragon,” we finally got to see Driftmark, the castle of Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint), and Princess Rhaenys (Eve Best). These two are the wealthiest people in Westeros, with Corlys controlling the navy and Rhaenys a dragon rider....
House Of The Dragon Is All About How The Birthing Bed Is A Battlefield HBO By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 26, 2022 8:00 am EST This article contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon” episode 6. Some fantasy stories exist as escapism, but others are more interested in using a magical world to mirror our own mundane one. George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” and “Fire & Blood” books are all set in the fictional fantasy realm of Westeros, but he draws heavily from human history and deals with topics that are extremely relevant to our modern lives....
‘There’s no double, there’s no CGI, it’s all practical.’ Dimension Pictures In an interview with RogerEbert.com, Zoë Bell explained why she felt the experience was so visceral for viewers: “Quentin [Tarantino] would love to tie in the road and the wheel moving with me being on the car and then going wide so you could see it. And that’s a perfect example of the reason people have such a visceral response to that sequence, because there is no bulls***....
Johnny Mnemonic’s Black-And-White Release Was A ‘Redemption’ For Robert Longo Tristar By Bill Bria/Nov. 6, 2022 11:30 pm EST It’s safe to say that “Johnny Mnemonic” has not enjoyed a sterling reputation over the years. Upon its release in the summer of 1995, Roger Ebert damned it with faint praise, calling it “one of the great goofy gestures of recent cinema, a movie that doesn’t deserve one nanosecond of serious analysis but has a kind of idiotic grandeur that makes you almost forgive it....
