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Classic Hollywood Star Anna May Wong Will Make History As The First Asian American Woman On US Currency General Photographic Agency/Getty Images By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 19, 2022 5:01 pm EST As part of the American Women Quarters Program from the United States Mint, classic Hollywood star Anna May Wong is making history as the first Asian American woman ever featured on U.S. currency. The program launched earlier this year and will continue through 2025, releasing up to five new designs on the back of quarters....

Leading lady success Netflix Since “Ben and Kate,” Dakota Johnson has continued to carve her path as a leading lady. Arguably, her most famous role to date is still Anastasia Steele, but the need to explore and try something new has been the driving force behind a few of Johnson’s parts since “Fifty Shades of Grey.” In Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Johnson plays Nina, a young mother struggling to deal with her controlling husband and raising her daughter....

Emma D’Arcy ‘Takes Issue’ With Criticisms Of House Of Dragon’s Child Birth Scenes HBO By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 9, 2022 10:02 pm EST Now that the debut season of “House of the Dragon” is in the rearview, fans and creatives involved with the show have plenty of time to discuss, reassess, and debate the stories and themes presented in the popular “Game of Thrones” prequel series. The show tells the story of the Targaryen family war of succession between Aegon II and his half-sister Rhaenyra regarding their father Viserys I’s throne....

Every Season Of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Ranked Worst To Best Paramount Domestic Television By Luke Y. Thompson/Sept. 26, 2022 2:46 pm EST Characters on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” frequently like to speak in code or drop hints rather than get directly to the point, so let’s be clear here. When it comes to “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” worst is a highly relative term. In many, many ways, “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” is the best “Star Trek....

Henry Cavill Got Some Lighthearted Revenge On Millie Bobby Brown Behind The Scenes Of Enola Holmes 2 Netflix By Witney Seibold/Nov. 9, 2022 3:29 pm EST Based on the book series by Nancy Springer, the “Enola Holmes” movies follow the adventures of the less-discussed but equally brilliant teenage sister of Sherlock Holmes. While her more famous brother comfortably makes a living solving mysteries for hire, Enola — lovably brash and forthright — is still gaining traction in the world of private investigations....

The menace of Ted Turner’s ‘crayons’ Warner Bros. The 1980s saw a major sea change in cinema from all sorts of angles. In particular, the rise of the home video market coincided with the prevalence of cable television, meaning that films both classic and recent were able to be viewed uninterrupted in their entirety from the comfort of one’s own home for the very first time. Due to this new situation, audiences became subject to corporations and rights holders playing fast and loose with the ways these films were presented....

Nolan’s journey of subversion Warner Bros. Christopher Nolan is one of today’s most revered filmmakers, and he got there by taking chances. The British filmmaker wrote, directed, and edited his first film in 1998, called “Following.” If Alfred Hitchcock and the French New Wave had a baby, it would look a little something like “Following.” But it was Nolan’s second film that put him on the map in 2000. “Memento” was based on a short story written by his brother Jonathan....

How The Fabelmans Demystifies The Filmmaking Process, And Steven Spielberg Himself Universal Pictures By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Dec. 13, 2022 4:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg is not just one of our greatest working directors, he’s also a symbol of American culture. As part of the film school generation of filmmakers who reshaped Hollywood in the 1960s including Brian DePalma, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola, his success story from ambitious teenager to the inventor of the modern Hollywood blockbuster is evocative of the American Dream — an optimistic idea that talent and hard work alone will get one farther in life....

Of Uruk-hai and menus New Line Thrillist’s Esther Zuckerman got to the bottom of this scene. She spoke to actors Nathaniel Lees (Ugluk, the Uruk-hai decapitator), Stephen Ure (Grishnakh, the orc who broaches the subject of feasting on hobbits), and Jed Brophy (Snaga, the orc who presses the issue to the detriment of his noggin being connected to his shoulders), and emerged with an explanation that’s about as random as you might expect....

Jack Nicholson Always Had A Third Chinatown Movie In Mind Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 19, 2022 9:47 pm EST There isn’t a chance “Chinatown,” written by Robert Towne and directed by Roman Polanski, would get made as a feature film today. Its detail-dense narrative about water rights in Southern California, intertwined with the vile dealings of incestuous industrialist Noah Cross (John Huston), would likely be expanded into a series or not made at all....

Jonathan Majors’ Creed III Antagonist Is A ‘Pivotal’ Person From Adonis’ Past Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 18, 2022 12:00 pm EST The “Rocky” franchise is the closest we’ve ever gotten to a good live-action anime franchise. Really, when you think about it, it has every element of a good anime: an underdog protagonist you love to root for, a group of friends that support him and help him win through the power of friendship, training arcs, power-ups, special moves, and plenty of tournament arcs....

Who’s in it? Disney+ Fan hopes for a stealth Nicolas Cage return have been stymied thus far, but the new teaser and behind-the-scenes featurette hardly lack for swagger. Star Lisette Olivera (“We Need to Do Something”) strides into the eighteen-second teaser as Jess, who, per the press release, is “a brilliant and resourceful DREAMer who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about her family’s mysterious past and save a lost Pan-American treasure....

Percy Jackson And The Olympians Teaser: Being A Demigod Is Dangerous Disney By Sarah Musnicky/Sept. 11, 2022 11:36 am EST Book adaptations are tricky business. There’s so much expectation and weight behind that more often than not it’s advised to try not to get your hopes up. That hasn’t stopped any of us from giving into the hype, though, and after seeing the teaser trailer for the upcoming Disney+ series, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” it’s difficult not to feel that hope bubbling up beneath the surface....

Ryan Condal Pitched A Very Different George R.R. Martin Adaptation Before House Of The Dragon HBO By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Oct. 12, 2022 8:35 am EST “House of the Dragon” has taken the world by storm. It has proven to be more than just a successor to “Game of Thrones,” HBO’s flagship series based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. The prequel is based on the Dance of the Dragons civil war, which divided House Targaryen forever....

Sinister’s Bughuul Originally Looked Just Like The Babadook – Until The Internet Provided A Different Solution Entertainment One By Devin Meenan/Oct. 12, 2022 8:36 pm EST What’s a ghost story worth without a scary ghost? In “Sinister,” there are six of them. Five are the specters of long-dead children, each of whom murdered their families before being spirited away. The scariest one of all is their master, Bughuul. “Mr. Boogie,” as his servants call him, is an ancient deity who sustains himself by corrupting and devouring the souls of children....

TÁR Trailer: A Grand Introduction To Cate Blanchett’s Best Work Yet Focus Features By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 28, 2022 12:12 pm EST Meet Lydia Tár, the next role likely to get Cate Blanchett nominated for an Oscar. “Tár,” the upcoming character epic from writer-director Todd Field, is a powerhouse showcase for the acclaimed performer, and now we have a full trailer for the film that shows off her skills. In the trailer, we meet Tár, a classical composer and conductor with as many top-notch accomplishments as one could possibly ever want, including being one of 15 creatives who have achieved EGOT status, according to a voiceover introduction in the clip....

Tales From The Box Office: I Know What You Did Last Summer Cashed In On The New ’90s Slasher Craze Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Oct. 15, 2022 9:00 am 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 hard to imagine a time in popular cinema without slasher films, yet that’s exactly what happened in the early ’90s once franchises like “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween” had fallen from grace....

The Best Comedy Movies Of 2022, Ranked Searchlight / Roku / Disney By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2022 6:00 pm EST In recent years, the major Hollywood studios have been taking fewer chances on straight-up comedies, which is a bit of a bummer. The days of movies like “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Superbad,” “Bridesmaids,” and “The Hangover” making bank at the box office are behind us, and many comedies have been relegated to streaming services unless they happen to offer cross-genre laughs mixed with sci-fi, action, or horror....

The Sandman Fans Will Want To Watch These 12 Shows Next Netflix By David Court/Aug. 5, 2022 4:53 pm EST With the concept of a “The Sandman” movie or television series languishing in the crowded confines of development hell for the best part of three decades, it was probably beyond even the imagination of Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams himself, to dare to imagine it would ever see fruition. Luckily, the nature of television has changed dramatically in the years since 1991....

Tolkien imitation HBO Martin has spoken at length about his simultaneous reverence for and critique of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the Middle-earth Legendarium. Interviewed at the TIFF Bell Lightbox theater in 2012 (when “Game of Thrones” was on the upswing of cultural power), Martin said, “My admiration for Tolkien and his work is second to none.” However, he feels archetypes that Tolkien created, such as “Dark Lord” with an army of monstrous minions, were wielded poorly by later writers....