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Tales From The Box Office: The Last Jedi Changed Star Wars Forever (For Better Or Worse) Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Dec. 17, 2022 1:00 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.) It is unlikely any movie ever made will recapture the straight-up fever that engulfed so many of us in the lead up to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

Why it’s essential viewing Netflix While this middle chapter in the “Fear Street” trilogy most certainly maintains its connections and importance to the other two movies, it does largely get to exist on its own terms as a throwback slasher film that, ever so conveniently, takes place at a summer camp near a lake. Sound familiar? The bulk of this story takes place, as the title implies, in 1978 at Camp Nightwing....

The Daily Stream: Zack And Miri Make A Porno Is A Pitch-Perfect Romantic Comedy The Weinstein Company By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 14, 2022 7:05 pm EST The movie: “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” Where you can stream it: Prime Video The Pitch: Writer and director Kevin Smith brings his brand of crass but heartfelt comedy to a romantic story about two best friends, Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) who decide to make a porn film as a last-ditch effort to pay their rent and utility bills....

The Scrapped Stephen King And DC Movies Mike Flanagan Almost Made Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Sept. 19, 2022 2:17 pm EST Recently, acclaimed horror director Mike Flanagan confirmed once and for all that a project of his never ended up getting the green light. While this is unfortunately common for all creatives in Hollywood, this one might be particularly sad for anyone who loved the director’s 2019 film “Doctor Sleep,” the official sequel to both the Stephen King novel and the Stanley Kubrick film “The Shining....

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Size Somehow Stopped Him From Playing The Incredible Hulk NBCUniversal By Devin Meenan/Oct. 7, 2022 1:40 pm EST Before Mark Ruffalo was playing the Incredible Hulk on the silver screen, the Jolly Green Giant was the star of his own TV show, which originally aired from 1977 to 1982. Unlike in subsequent Hulk movies, Dr. Banner (renamed David from Bruce) and his alter ego were played by two separate actors: Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno....

A certain type of posh English boy Paramount Pictures In a recent video for GQ where he broke down his many film roles over the years, Radcliffe said it was actually one of Curry’s only quasi-evil characters that inspired his performance in “The Lost City.” Specifically, he drew from the “It” and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” star’s wonderfully silly turn in the 1995 Michael Crichton film adaptation “Congo” as Herkermer Homolka, a self-described Romanian philanthropist whose altruism is actually a front for his lifelong quest to locate a mythical lost city housing precious diamonds....

Avatar uses 3D technology to its fullest 20th Century Studios In all those debates about whether or not the “Avatar” franchise has enough cultural staying power to exceed its sequels’ box office goals, one argument that is often overlooked is just how much “Avatar,” more than any other film in Cameron’s filmography, lived and died by its theatrical experience. The September 2022 re-release of the original film, upscaled to 4K and re-mastered for IMAX 3D was a helpful reminder to some why it was at one point the most profitable movie of all time....

H4Z4RD Review: Dimitri Vegas Has A Very Bad Day Behind The Wheel [Fantastic Fest] Fantastic Fest By Matt Donato/Sept. 29, 2022 5:30 pm EST Jonas Govaerts unleashes his second directorial feature, “H4Z4RD,” almost a decade after 2014’s obscenely undervalued “Cub.” He’s been busy as a prolific music video director — roughy 20 or so credits between releases — which speaks to the breakneck style of auto-thriller “H4Z4RD.” Conceptually, it mimics “Wheelman,” as the camera stays within our protagonist’s pimped-out whip, with the 2000s action-destruction zaniness of “Crank” with some of “Titane” and “Cujo” thrown in for good measure....

Having Her First Job Be Peaky Blinders Set The Bar High For Sophie Rundle Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Nov. 16, 2022 7:35 am EST English actress Sophie Rundle was fresh out of drama school when she was cast as Ada Shelby in BBC’s “Peaky Blinders.” Initially, she didn’t know what to expect: the series told the story of a real-life Birmingham-based street gang that would wear caps implanted with razors in them....

HBO Ain’t Killing Peacemaker Right Now According To James Gunn HBO Max By Eric Vespe/Aug. 3, 2022 10:42 pm EST James Gunn once again took to social media to directly answer fan questions, this time making a statement about the status of “Peacemaker” in the wake of all the HBO Max/Discovery+ discussion going around today. We’ll know more tomorrow when the new overlords at WB make their first public statements about the big changes coming in the wake of the massive corporate merger, but right now all that’s going around the web is some level of “the sky is falling....

House Of The Dragon Didn’t ‘Click’ For Emily Carey Until She Put On Her Costume HBO By Shania Russell/Sept. 12, 2022 6:30 am EST At the heart of “House of the Dragon,” there’s much more going on than scheming, warfare, and oversized egos — though there’s plenty of that to go around. But before the inevitable storm, we got a taste of the peace: when princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) and her best friend Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey) could peacefully lay in the Godswood, talking about cake and their favorite warrior princesses....

Shadowing Hoytema Universal Pictures Hoytema spoke to Variety about his experience on “Nope.” During the interview, he revealed that Wincott shadowing him was director Jordan Peele’s idea. Apparently, Wincott took to the assignment with aplomb. Wincott doesn’t have a particular reputation for being a method actor, but according to Hoytema, he behaved like one during their time together. “We hung around Panavision, the rental house,” Hoytema recalled. “He was all over the cameras and inside the cameras with his hand....

Security is an illusion Lucasfilm This is exactly what Colonel Wullf Yularen (Malcolm Sinclair) tells the ISB officers during a meeting. He describes to those in attendance that their job is not to provide security, but to point out sickness in their colonized terrain. It’s really gross stuff, but that’s how the ISB, and the Imperial Army as a whole, view the lands and people that they conquer. To witness Yularen explain this in such a cold and matter-of-fact way is nuts when you think about it....

Prey Feels Like A ’90s Predator Comic – And That’s A Good Thing Those collecting comic books in the late ’80s and early ’90s likely recall the ascendency of Dark Horse Comics. Founded in Milwaukie, OR in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse ran its own miniature staple of notable original characters like The Mask, Concrete, Barb Wire, Usagi Yojimo, and Hellboy. They were also the original publishers of Frank Miller’s zeitgeist-rattling books “Sin City” and “300....

Rick And Morty Nemesis Mr. Nimbus Was A Tribute To Marvel’s Namor (And David Bowie) Adult Swim By Devin Meenan/Aug. 21, 2022 4:59 pm EST “Rick and Morty” is a series that thrives on introducing memorable one-off characters every episode. The season 5 premiere, “Mort Dinner Rick Andre,” featured one of the most memorable yet: Mr. Nimbus, ruler of Atlantis and Rick’s nemesis. Even though Rick treats their rivalry with embarrassment, Nimbus is the first character he’s genuinely afraid of....

She-Hulk Saw Its Nastiest Critics Coming Disney+ By Sarah Milner/Oct. 13, 2022 5:30 pm EST Warning: spoilers ahead for “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” episode 9. The “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” finale unmasked Todd Phelps (Jon Bass) as the villainous Hulk King, the creator of Intelligencia — the online community of disenfranchised men dedicated to hating Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), aka She-Hulk. What, you ask, is the root cause for this all-encompassing, fiery hatred?...

Superhero Bits: James Gunn May Be Teasing A New DC Project, The Marvel Comics Debut Of Darcy Lewis & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/Nov. 15, 2022 4:59 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....

The diamond dogs are back in town Apple With no season 3 trailer yet and not much news from Apple about what the upcoming season of “Ted Lasso” will look like, it’s nice to know at the very least that season 3 will bring a sense of closure to the story fans have been following since August 14, 2020. Even if that means possibly saying goodbye to a few of your favorite characters as their storylines come to a close (and not in the “Game of Thrones” way)....

The 15 Best Ingrid Bergman Movies, Ranked Hulton Archive/Getty Images By Gino Orlandini/Aug. 8, 2022 1:26 pm EST When Ingrid Bergman came to Hollywood in 1939, the Swedish native couldn’t speak English. She was discovered by legendary producer David O. Selznick who was struck by her effortless beauty. Yet, the studio system still tried to pluck her thick brows and cover her face in gobs of stage makeup. Bergman flat-out refused and Selznick backed down, eventually declaring she would be the first “natural” actress....

Blue title font Universal Pictures David Gordon Green had no qualms about identifying how divergent “Halloween Ends” was going to be from the two entries that preceded it. While it does seem more like preemptive damage control than anything else, “Halloween Ends” is both tonally and narratively distinct from the classic slasher formula of the first two entries. Michael is relegated to supporting player, and for the first hour or so, “Halloween Ends” seems more akin to something like “Twin Peaks” with a dash of Lifetime drama than a bonafide slasher movie bearing the “Halloween” moniker....