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A brush with death led to a lifetime of laughter Embassy Pictures When he was just eight-years-old, Wilder’s mother suffered a severe heart attack. It was an interaction with her doctor that helped Wilder decide he was going to do his best to make people happy and provide them with laughter from there on out. The actor recalled (via Little White Lies): “The doctor took me aside and dropped his sweaty face against my cheek and he said, ‘Don’t ever get angry with your mother because you might kill her....

A hero from pre-Babylonian times New Line Cinema “Black Adam” begins in the ancient fictional Middle Eastern kingdom of Kahndaq, the only known site of a magical ore called Enternium. Slaves have been forced to dig nuggets of Eternium out of the ground to build a magic crown for the king. The actual power or function of Eternium is about as well-explained as the vague and valuable Unobtanium from James Cameron’s “Avatar....

Bruce Willis’ First Day On Die Hard Was Also The Most Dangerous By Steven Ward/Oct. 23, 2022 9:30 am EST Bruce Willis has never been one to shy away from roles that would require him to tackle some seriously madcap stunts. The series that immediately comes to mind is “Die Hard” of course, beginning with the very first installment, which premiered in 1988. It was a movie that completely rejuvenated the action film genre and kick-started Willis’ career as the new everyman face of action heroes....

Drag Me To Hell Ending Explained: This No-Twist Ending Is Chillingly Horrifying (And Perfect) Universal Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/Nov. 11, 2022 7:00 pm EST The horror genre is no stranger to divisive endings, eliciting extreme reactions from audiences who find them either fittingly devastating or pointlessly brutal. Take 2007’s “The Mist” as an example, where the conclusion is a hopelessly bleak one, underscoring the tragedy of the deaths that could have been completely avoided....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Is A Guillermo Del Toro Movie In Every Possible Way Netflix By Devin Meenan/Dec. 13, 2022 3:00 pm EST This article contains spoilers for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.” Even when adapting others’ stories, Guillermo del Toro always puts a personal thumbprint on his movies. He remixed Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” as a superhero spin on Beauty and the Beast, reframing the relationship between the eponymous hero (Ron Perlman) and Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) as a love story....

Halloween Ends Trailer: The Horrors Of Haddonfield Come To A Close Universal Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 27, 2022 11:59 am EST Here’s the thing about Michael Myers — he just doesn’t stay dead. Despite that, David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” trilogy will be coming to a close this October with “Halloween Ends,” the 13th and supposedly final film in the “Halloween” franchise. A new trailer for the film has dropped, showing off some great footage of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) protecting herself from Michael, while some other folks aren’t quite so lucky....

Here’s The Sandman Scene That Made Neil Gaiman Cry Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 26, 2022 11:35 am EST Neil Gaiman wove a rich, dark, beautifully-twisted fantasy world in the beloved comics series, “The Sandman,” which offers complex characters that are both supernatural and human in nature. Adapting “The Sandman” into live action has always been a mammoth task, with various attempts to do so failing and getting trapped in development hell....

Who’s grooming who here Disney+ As “Homer’s Phobia” makes clear, however, the only person harming Bart in this episode is Homer himself. When Homer puts pre-pubescent Bart in front of the sexually-provocative billboard ad in an attempt to turn Bart straight, this is far more inappropriate that anything John’s done throughout the episode. Its reminiscent of the attitudes of guys who freak out over the idea of kids being exposed to the existence of drag queens, who then bring their young sons to Hooters without thinking twice about it....

How School Of Rock Pushed Robert Downey Jr. To Star In A Scanner Darkly Warner Independent Pictures By Witney Seibold/July 7, 2022 5:18 pm EST As of this writing, filmmaker Richard Linklater has directed three animated features: 2001’s “Waking Life,” 2006’s “A Scanner Darkly,” and the brand new “Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood.” In all three cases, Linklater employs an animation technique called rotoscoping, which involves filming live-action actors and then animating directly onto their movements....

‘How many people give a s*** now?’ 20th Century Studios James Cameron has almost never had a major stumble at the box office. Who else can say that they had the highest-grossing film of all time and then beat that record with their next film? However, Cameron has not released a film in the streaming era yet. Sure, some films like “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” make loads of cash still, but the theatrical hits are fewer and further between....

Losing The Tony Soprano Role To James Gandolfini Worked Out Well For Michael Rispoli HBO By Anya Stanley/Oct. 12, 2022 5:10 pm EST Acclaimed HBO series “The Sopranos” was no ordinary gangster show — it introduced audiences to the inner neuroses of a complicated anti-hero and his criminal work-life balancing act. While mobster Tony Soprano would be played by the late James Gandolfini, giving one of the most acclaimed television performances of all time, the lead role had no end of early contenders....

‘You’re just laughing with your castmates and feel really lucky’ NBCUniversal Syndication Studios Sure, the wedding dress chase looked fun, but Fumero’s favorite scene was a little more quiet: the rooftop scene in season 1, when Amy and Jake (Andy Samberg) hang out while on a stake-out. But while fans may love the scene as a cute precursor to the show’s main romance, Fumero loved the scene for a personal reason:...

New Indiana Jones 5 Images Tease 1960s New York, Harrison Ford Still Looking Great Lucasfilm/Empire By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 18, 2022 12:51 pm EST The city. Why’d it have to be the city? For those of us with traumatic memories of gridlock traffic, a ridiculously high cost of living, and some of the grossest smells you’ll ever encounter on a 90 degree summer day, nothing could possibly get the adrenaline pumping more than taking one of our biggest fictional legends and plopping him in 1960s New York City....

Official Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Synopsis Offers Our First Hard Details About The Sequel’s Story Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 13, 2022 1:19 pm EST One of the most anticipated movies of 2023 has pulled back the curtain, as we now know an awful lot more about “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” This is the sequel to 2018’s much-beloved “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and it will once again center on Miles Morales as he traverses the multiverse facing various foes, as well as meeting new Spidey friends....

Pocahontas Put The Lion King’s Production At A Major Disadvantage Disney By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 21, 2022 11:30 pm EST The Disney Renaissance was a time of great experimentation for the Mouse House — one that saw its animation division tackling all sorts of challenging material, from ancient legends spanning cultures around the world to decidedly dark and mature literary classics by Victor Hugo and Edgar Rice Burroughs. But with great daring comes the risk of committing equal-sized blunders, and that’s just what the studio did when it decided to turn the tale of the real-life Indigenous American woman Pocahontas (a nickname passed down by her father) into an animated musical extravaganza....

Spoonful Of Sugar Review: A Not So Sweet Domestic Horror Story [Fantastic Fest] Fantastic Fest By Matt Donato/Oct. 1, 2022 5:06 pm EST Whatever innocence is introduced in Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s “Spoonful of Sugar” with the hummed tune of “Oh My Darling, Clementine” and glimpses of Christmas candy canes rots away like a forgotten fruit that rolls forever out of sight. Imagine “Mary Poppins” breakneck twisting into the darkness of “Orphan” or “Hard Candy....

Star Wars: Tales Of The Jedi Finds Ahsoka Tano Walking A Post-Prequel Path Like Obi-Wan Kenobi LucasFilm/Disney+ By Devin Meenan/Oct. 29, 2022 7:27 pm EST “Star Wars” can’t get enough of Ahsoka Tano. Since her debut in “The Clone Wars,” we’ve followed her from apprentice to master, from animation to live-action and back again. Thanks to the premature (and impermanent) cancellation of “The Clone Wars,” though, her story has been patchwork, with pieces filled in and out of chronological order across different installements....

Star Wars Bits: Andor, The Acolyte, Hidden Empire, The Clone Wars, And More! Lucasfilm By Adam Frazier/Dec. 2, 2022 7:42 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: “Andor” Reviews & Breakdowns Dafne Keen Talks “The Acolyte” Marvel’s Upcoming “Star Wars” Comics And More! Andor reviews & breakdowns Above, Nerdist’s Dan Casey breaks down everything you might have missed in the season 1 finale of “Andor....

Superhero Bits: James Gunn Is Now Exclusive To DC, Deadpool Joins Marvel’s Midnight Suns & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Oct. 26, 2022 5:12 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Tales From The Box Office: The Dark Knight Rises Gave DC An Ending When It Needed A Beginning Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/July 16, 2022 4:39 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) There are few movies of any kind that have managed to garner the sort of love amongst the masses that 2008’s “The Dark Knight” has....