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The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Cameo You Never Saw, But Definitely Heard Marvel By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 12, 2022 3:05 pm EST Note: this article includes spoilers from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” To my admittedly un-cameo-trained eye, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” seems pretty light on traditional Marvel guest appearances. Bruce Campbell doesn’t show up and get squirted with mustard, Harry Styles doesn’t saunter into the end credits, and Brett Goldstien doesn’t appear as a demigod....

The Chronology Of Water: Everything We Know So Far About Kristen Stewart’s Directorial Debut Starring Imogen Poots Neon By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 17, 2022 4:45 pm EST Kristen Stewart is one of the best, most unpredictable performers of her generation. Her portrayal of Bella Swan in “The Twilight Saga” made her a worldwide movie star, and she used that cachet to make a series of artistically ambitious films from the non-mainstream likes of Olivier Assayas, Kelly Reichardt and Pablo Larrain (whose “Spencer” earned Stewart her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress)....

The Daily Stream: Come One, Come All, To See The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Decla-Bioscop AG By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 27, 2022 5:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” Where You Can Stream It: Shudder/AMC+ The Pitch: A man recounts the story of how a sleepwalker controlled by a mad doctor carried out murders in his village in this creepy 1920 classic....

The Handmaid’s Tale Showrunner Says TV Has Failed To Prepare Audiences For Real Life [Exclusive] Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 12, 2022 4:17 pm EST Singer-songwriter Salem Ilese went viral on TikTok in 2020 for the song “Mad at Disney,” which speaks from the perspective of a young woman who grew up watching Disney movies and realized as an adult that love, relationships, and learning about the world aren’t always a fairytale....

The Lawsuit Over Netflix’s Inventing Anna Miniseries Explained Netflix By Ryan Scott/Aug. 30, 2022 1:24 pm EST Netflix scored itself a huge streaming hit with the miniseries “Inventing Anna,” which followed the story of Anna Delvey, a con artist who worked her way up the high-end social scene in New York City. Much of the series, which hails from mega-producer Shonda Rhimes, was fictionalized but was ultimately based on a May 2018 New York Magazine article....

The Moment Bob Odenkirk Knew Mr. Show Was Over HBO By Joe Roberts/Dec. 8, 2022 12:03 pm EST There are multiple points in Bob Odenkirk’s career that can teach us all a thing or two about perseverance. At one point, the “Better Call Saul” star was on the shortlist of names to play Michael Scott on “The Office.” In fact, he came so close to taking the lead role that towards the end of casting it was down to Odenkirk and Steve Carell, before NBC ultimately decided to go with the latter....

What We Could See In The Sandman Season 2 According To Showrunner Allan Heinberg Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 9, 2022 1:41 pm EST Technically, Netflix’s “The Sandman” hasn’t been renewed for a second season yet, but that isn’t stopping showrunner Allan Heinberg from plotting out its future. The writer-producer tells Entertainment Weekly that he’s currently working on scripts for season 2, and has a writers’ room at the ready. The goal?...

Why A Hard Reboot Is Probably The Best Choice For The New DC Movie Universe Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 8, 2022 1:58 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit sent shockwaves through Hollywood and comic book movie fandom yesterday when he broke the news that Warner Bros. and DC Studios would not be moving forward with a third “Wonder Woman” movie. This came on the heels of Variety reporting that the company’s “Black Adam” stood to lose somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million to $100 million due to its tepid box office performance....

Why The Next Karate Kid Deserves A Lot More Love Than It Gets Columbia Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 9, 2022 11:00 am EST In 2016, Paul Feig reimagined the beloved “Ghostbusters” franchise for a new generation and made the daring decision to cast Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, and Leslie Jones as our proton-pack-wearing heroes. The response from “fans” was scarier than any ghost worth bustin’. People review bombed the film before it ever debuted and the official “Ghostbusters” Ultimate Gift Set omitted the film from its collection until I complained so loudly about it, Feig noticed and threw in his two cents, and then magically a digital copy was announced to be included....

12 Scary Movies That Take Place On Halloween (That Aren’t Part Of The Halloween Franchise) Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Sept. 12, 2022 1:00 pm EST There was some brief debate — many years ago — as to whether or not an action picture like “Die Hard,” set at a Christmas party, should qualify as a Christmas movie. That is: is “Die Hard” appropriately emblematic of the holiday season? These days, it’s widely accepted as such — with some websites even finding scientific evidence to prove it — but there was a time when what did and did not qualify as a Christmas move was a matter of multiple critical kerfuffles....

An Ode To Henry Cavill, A Great Superman Who Never Got A Great Superman Movie Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 15, 2022 4:00 pm EST The first two roles I knew Henry Cavill for couldn’t have been more different from one another. In Matthew Vaughn’s 2007 fantasy film “Stardust,” he plays Humphrey, an uppity romantic rival for Charlie Cox’s heroic Tristan with a marvelously unconvincing mop of blonde hair and a dweeby pencil mustache....

Barbarian Review: A Genuinely Shocking (And Fun) Descent Into Horror 20th Century Studios By Ryan Scott/Sept. 7, 2022 12:00 pm EST It has been a pretty darn good year for horror fans so far. We’ve had everything from the return of beloved franchises with “Scream” to the return of Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, the duo behind “Sinister,” with the genre hit “The Black Phone.” But oftentimes, it’s the things that nobody sees coming that can shock and delights horror fans the most....

Break Free With ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2’ Teaser And Poster It’s been only four months since the last Hunger Games movie was released, and we still have eight months to go until the next (and last) one hits theaters. But Lionsgate is wasting no time amping up the excitement. The studio has revealed the first The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 teaser trailer and poster, and you can check ’em both out after the jump....

Carrie Fisher Wrote Anastasia’s Best Scene By Caroline Madden/Nov. 10, 2022 2:41 pm EST Many might be surprised to learn that Carrie Fisher had a prolific career off-screen as well as on. She was a writer of memoirs (“Wishful Drinking,” “Shockaholic”), fictional novels (“Surrender the Pink,” The Best Awful,"), films (“Postcards from the Edge”), as well as an uncredited ghostwriter for many notable movies such as “Star Wars” and “Sister Act....

Chris Hemsworth Took A Leap Of Faith On One Of Spiderhead’s Most Intense Scenes Netflix By Ryan Leston/July 11, 2022 11:56 am EST The Netflix thriller “Spiderhead” is one hell of a trip. Starring Miles Teller and Chris Hemsworth, “Spiderhead” tells the story of a unique, state-of-the-art prison in which inmates volunteer for a variety of clinical trials for new drugs in exchange for time off their sentence. Sure, it sounds like a good trade, especially when it comes to drugs like the N-40 love drug....

Is it a sequel or a spin-off? The answer is … kinda both. Disney The Hollywood Reporter broke the story, and further stated that Britt-Gibson was elevated to co-writer after joining a writers room filled with heavy hitters (like “Station Eleven” and “The Leftovers” writer Patrick Somerville, “Obi-Wan” writer Rayna McClendon and possibly even Dave Filoni himself) to go over the future of “Star Wars.” Word is they came up with the story for this new film in that writers room and now it’s up to Lindelof and Britt-Gibson to fashion a script out of it, which looks to be a direct followup to “The Rise of Skywalker....

Argento turned the role down at first Utopia Noe ended up giving Argento a lot of room to improvise in “Vortex.” In fact, the script he initially gave Argento was only ten pages long, Vulture reports. “That’s how I convinced him to do the movie. He said he would not [memorize] lines,” Noe explained to Hey U Guys. “He really improvised all the dialogue in the film.” Argento initially had no interest at all in being in “Vortex....

Don’t Look Up Director Adam McKay Is Apparently Serious About Fighting Climate Change Netflix By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 20, 2022 11:30 am EST Clearly, “Don’t Look Up” really gave director Adam McKay something to think about. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has donated $4 million to Climate Emergency Fund, as well as joined its board of directors — marking the largest personal donation the foundation has received since its founding in 2019. “The Climate Emergency Fund is unique in their commitment to funding, civil, non-violent, disruptive activism,” McKay said in a statement, according to Deadline....

Former DC Films Boss Walter Hamada Moves To Paramount – Here’s What This Means Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Nov. 15, 2022 5:19 pm EST Here’s a big piece of news that is both expected and unexpected. Walter Hamada, the former head of DC Films that reportedly left due to conflicts with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, has signed a multi-year production pact with Paramount Pictures that begins next year. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he will oversee the studio’s mid-budget horror slate for both theaters and Paramount+....

So what exactly is Dudeism? Grammercy Pictures/Polygram Filmed Entertainment Dudeism, officially known as The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, was formed in 2005 by Oliver Benjamin, a freelance journalist who came up with the idea of forming a religion based on the film while watching it with a group of fellow travelers in a Thai cafe in 2005. The “Dudely Lama” said (via CNN): “I felt as if I’d seen a story that put all the difficulties of modern life into a manageable perspective....