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Angelina Jolie To Star As Opera Legend Maria Callas In Pablo Larraín’s Next Biopic Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Oct. 21, 2022 1:24 pm EST No, you are not dreaming, and yes, you are reading this headline correctly. Acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pablo Larraín is capping off his biopic trilogy with a movie about opera singer Maria Callas, starring none other than Angelina Jolie. According to the logline given to Variety, “Maria” will follow “the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris....

Anson Mount Sees Strange New Worlds Season 2 As Pushing The Boundaries Of What Star Trek Can Be Paramount+ By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 20, 2022 7:25 pm EST “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is already the best live-action “Star Trek” series in a very long time, but according to Anson Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike, fans haven’t seen anything yet. The first season of this bold new “Star Trek” series set records as the best-reviewed first season of a “Star Trek” series ever, and season 2 will take those successes to new heights....

Ben Kingsley Brought A Lot Of Himself To His Shutter Island Character Paramount Pictures By Anya Stanley/Sept. 21, 2022 3:12 pm EST “Dr. Cawley was thin to the point of emaciation. Not quite the swimming bones and cartilage Teddy had seen at Dachau, but definitely in need of several good meals.” Such is the introduction to Dr. Cawley in Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel “Shutter Island.” Set in 1954, the thriller concerns a pair of U....

Black Panther’s Lupita Nyong’o Enters The ‘Are Marvel Movies Art’ Debate Marvel Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 19, 2022 2:54 pm EST When you’re as good at making moola as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is, you’d best believe people are going to be questioning your artistic merits, and justly so. After all, if MCU movies and TV shows are going to dominate our daily pop culture discourse (as they have for a while now, with few signs of stopping anytime soon), then we should also be able to talk about their creative strengths and weaknesses....

Bullet Train Director David Leitch And Producer Kelly McCormick Were ‘Full-On Mining From Jackie Chan’s Playbook’ [Interview] Sony Pictures By Jack Giroux/Aug. 4, 2022 10:00 am EST David Leitch has spent years and years studying Jackie Chan’s work. “When it comes to fight scenes, there’s no one better in the history of fights than Jackie Chan,” Leitch once told us. “If you really breakdown his style of action, especially his fights, he’s very precise....

Carter Trailer: Wild South Korean Action Movie Is The Bourne Identity Meets Fast & Furious Meets … Zombies? Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/July 18, 2022 10:15 am EST It doesn’t happen nearly as much as it should these days, but every once in a while movie fans will be confronted by a premise or a trailer for a blockbuster that almost defies belief. With major studios seemingly content to churn out forgettable and unremarkable efforts that function as little more than, well, content, what are genre fans to do in order to get their fix?...

‘Sometimes we’d just sit there and crack beers’ MDFF Let me start with a technical question. What did you shoot “The Maiden” on, and how long was the shoot? We shot on 16-millimeter Kodak 500 Tungsten stock, and we shot for 33 days. Over two months, through all of August. 33 days, that’s actually pretty long. Yeah. We really wanted to favor time over resources, and the technical equipment. So we didn’t really shoot with lights at all, it was almost exclusively natural light, except for a couple smaller interiors, like the bedroom scene....

Fabien Frankel Spent An Absurd Amount Of Time Preparing For This House Of The Dragon Scene HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 19, 2022 1:16 pm EST HBO and “Game of Thrones” in particular are known for many things, but handling consensual sex scenes with tact and good taste hasn’t always been one of them. Of the many challenges that the prequel series “House of the Dragon” faced upon its premiere earlier this year, one of the most pressing concerns focused on the idea of how the new creators would handle potentially exploitative content....

Gene Wilder’s Chemistry With Richard Pryor Came As A Surprise To Both Stars United Archives/Getty Images By Miyako Pleines/Nov. 13, 2022 7:30 pm EST The first time George Caldwell meets Grover T. Muldoon in Arthur Hiller’s 1976 film “Silver Streak,” George is in the process of stealing a police car. He’s just been accused of a murder he did not commit, and now he is on the run. Panic-stricken, he drives nervously, unaware of the fact that he is not the only person in the squad car....

The era of the long movie 20th Century Studios Let’s be fair here: Just because a film is long doesn’t mean it will actually feel like it is. I’ll never forget seeing Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” for the first time in the theater in 2010, a year after the release of “Avatar.” I had no idea what I was getting myself into, and frankly, I didn’t even realize I was hooked — until I peered down at my phone for a random glance at one point in the action-packed film and realized two hours had already gone by in what felt like all of five minutes....

Highfire: Everything We Know So Far About The Series Where Nicolas Cage Plays A Vodka-Loving Dragon Lionsgate By Jenna Busch/July 12, 2022 5:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nicolas Cage has played some odd roles over the years. He’s been a comic book character with a flaming skull in “Ghost Rider,” twin brothers in “Adaptation,” a noir superhero in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and a fictional version of himself in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent....

House Of The Dragon Quickly Caught Up To The Rings Of Power’s Streaming Numbers HBO/Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Nov. 10, 2022 8:40 pm EST Two major fantasy prequel series premiered recently. HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” based on the work of George R.R. Martin, is set almost 200 years before “Game of Thrones.” Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, is set thousands of years before the Peter Jackson film trilogies “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit....

House Of The Dragon’s Most ‘Extreme’ Scene Was Intended To Be Difficult To Watch HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 22, 2022 5:58 pm EST Spoiler for the first episode of “House of the Dragon” follow. Three years ago, the final season of “Game of Thrones” ended with a handful of polarizing choices that had longtime fans feeling disappointed. Many of us were left wondering if we’d ever care about the world of Westeros again, a feeling that in my case lingered even as HBO started hyping up the show’s new Targaryen family prequel series, “House of the Dragon....

How Robert De Niro Showed Meryl Streep The Kind Of Actor She Wanted To Be Universal Pictures By Mike Shutt/Sept. 29, 2022 11:08 am EST We talk a great deal nowadays about audience identification with a movie. If a person who is on screen looks and sounds like me, then I am able to connect with that character and care about their story, because, in a way, it is my story too....

James Spader’s Casting On The Blacklist Came In Just Under The Wire NBC By Travis Yates/July 28, 2022 5:51 pm EST The television pilot season often plays out just like the serial dramas being produced for viewers. The mad rush by producers to sign leading actors from the same talent pool is quite similar to a frantic build to an episode’s climax. Next is the cliffhanger, where producers wait with bated breath to see if the network picks up their series....

Justin Roiland And Dan Harmon Had No Idea Rick And Morty’s Pickle Rick Would Be Such A Hit Adult Swim By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 2, 2022 8:48 pm EST Even if you’ve never seen a single second of the hit Adult Swim show “Rick and Morty,” chances are you are at least aware of “Pickle Rick” — if only because of pop-cultural osmosis. First introduced in the show’s third season, Pickle Rick is the alter-ego of main character Rick Sanchez, used when he wants to avoid having to talk about his problems in therapy....

Kaitlyn Robrock, The Voice Of Minnie Mouse, On Improvising, Voicing A Tusken Raider, And More [Exclusive Interview] Disney By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 13, 2022 3:00 pm EST Minnie Mouse is, dare I say it, an iconic character. She, Mickey, and all their Disney cartoon pals have been entertaining children (and let’s be honest, adults as well) for generations. For decades, Minnie was voiced by Russi Taylor. After Taylor passed in 2019, however, voice actor Kaitlyn Robrock took on the Minnie mantle and is bringing her to life on various shows as well as certain attractions in Disney’s theme parks....

Data is everything Tristar “Johnny Mnemonic” was the feature directorial debut of music video director and artist Robert Longo, though, unfortunately, it was plagued by production issues, as the studio wanted a summer blockbuster and Gibson and Longo just wanted to adapt the short story as best they could. In the end, the desire for marketability is what sinks the movie, as just enough of Gibson’s bite is taken away to render things toothless....

Laurence Olivier Left A Mark On Ian McKellen’s Acting Career New Line By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 13, 2022 6:00 am EST Sir Ian McKellen is not only one of the most celebrated actors working today, he is also one of the most beloved. Though he has thrived in the past as a villain (most notably as the intensely jealous composer Antonio Salieri in the original Broadway production of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” and as Shakespeare’s vilest of kings in his 1995 film rendition of “Richard III”), the world largely knows and adores him as the wizard Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J....

Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part Two Has Added Nick Offerman Paramount Pictures By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 1, 2022 2:56 pm EST Last week the news leaked that “Mindhunter” actor Holt McCallany had joined the cast of “Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part Two,” and while we still have no idea what these movies are about, the casting news continue to roll. Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie himself announced on Twitter that none other than Nick Offerman has accepted the mission to join the ensemble cast of the eighth “Mission Impossible” film....