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The Two Conditions That Got Violent Night Made Universal Pictures By Shania Russell/Dec. 7, 2022 11:53 am EST Does the concept of cheerful Christmas carnage sound absurd to you? Is it difficult to imagine a holly, jolly Santa Claus kicking ass and taking down a team of mercenaries by murdering them in increasingly horrific ways? Well, you’re not alone. The screenwriters behind the R-rated holiday action flick “Violent Night” knew that the idea was wild before they even started putting pen to paper....

Carrey or Freeman would’ve played the devil Universal Pictures That different way, as the writers tell it, would’ve involved Carrey’s character turning to the devil for guidance instead of God. Only, in a twist that O’Keefe says would’ve made the film “the most cost-effective sequel imaginable,” the plan was for either Carrey or Freeman to play Satan himself as well. Though “Bruce Almighty” was a hit at the box office and did garner a sequel (the Steve Carell-led “Evan Almighty”), I can see how the idea for “Brucifer” may have seemed like less of a safe bet than its predecessor....

A major win for Paramount Paramount Although “Top Gun: Maverick” is a sequel, its success still feels like a win for original storytelling, especially given that all five titles that still stand above it on the all-time domestic box office chart are owned by Disney. In a time of diminished marketplace variety, the enduring thrills and crowd-pleasing action and drama of “Top: Gun Maverick” feel unique. They also signal a win for both Tom Cruise, who proves himself a massive box office draw decades into his career, and filmmaker Joseph Kosinski, whose biggest work before this was “Tron: Legacy....

Wednesday release date and where to watch it Netflix For a while, “Wednesday” seemed like a shoo-in to debut as part of Netflix’s 2022 spooky season lineup, given its creepy comedy vibes. Instead, the streamer has elected to debut the show on November 23, 2022, dropping the entirety of season 1 (which is eight episodes long) in a single go per its customary practice. It’s possible with Paul Feig’s film “The School for Good and Evil” dropping in October, Netflix decided it had already filled the niche for YA projects involving fantastical schools for teens that month (more on that shortly)....

Why Ben Affleck Bent The Truth With His Argo Adaptation Warner Bros. By Anthony Crislip/July 28, 2022 7:55 pm EST With his 2012 film “Argo,” Ben Affleck was able to break out of Boston, particularly the crime thrillers on which he’d made his name. As good as “Gone Baby Gone” and “The Town” were, “Argo” was a film of greater scope and ambition, telling a (somewhat) true story set at the height of the 1970s Iranian Revolution....

Why Finishing Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Was ‘Bittersweet’ For Zoe Saldaña Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 30, 2022 12:35 pm EST Thanks to their brief appearance early on in “Thor: Love and Thunder” and most recently in James Gunn’s “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special,” it hasn’t been very long at all since we last saw Marvel’s most irreverent and cosmic found family. But one key member of the team was noticeably absent in both instances — Zoe Saldaña’s Gamora....

Will We See Hunters Season 3? Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 15, 2022 5:30 pm EST The Prime Video Nazi-hunting drama series “Hunters” ended on a rather explosive cliffhanger in its first season, with the wild revelation that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (Lena Olin) were still apparently alive and well in the 1970s. The first season cut to black on that shocking and potentially shark-jumping note over two years ago, and we haven’t heard from the team of hunters since....

Not every movie is a Spielberg movie Warner Bros. Pictures “Empire of the Sun” had a reported budget of $35 million, a sum that went a long way in 1987 and could still go a significant distance today. Of course, Bale wasn’t thinking about that at all when he made the movie. He talked about this in a video interview with GQ earlier this month, explaining: “I had no idea just how unique that experience was at the time because I didn’t realize that every film didn’t build a bloody runway the planes could land on in the middle of a marshland in Spain, or build a pagoda, or build, you know, huge hospitals, to build literally half a full-size stadium out there....

10 DC Characters We’d Love To See Get The James Gunn Touch DC Comics By Joe Garza/Nov. 14, 2022 5:13 pm EST James Gunn is one of the most wonderfully zany filmmakers currently working. He has written, directed, and produced movies across multiple genres, but his signature irreverent — and often twisted — sense of humor is always on display in everything he’s worked on. Gunn first cut his teeth as a filmmaker working for the low-budget film studio Troma where he wrote “Tromeo and Juliet,” a delightfully trashy version of the beloved Shakespeare play....

12 Underrated Episodes Of The Twilight Zone CBS By Eric Langberg/Sept. 28, 2022 5:08 pm EST A lot of episodes of “The Twilight Zone” have become stone-cold classics in the 60+ years since the show was on the air. There are some episodes that are pop-cultural touchstones, twist-ending stories that everyone remembers: the monster on the wing of the plane, the one where she’s beautiful and everyone else is ugly, the one where it’s a cookbook, etc....

Blue Beetle, Black Canary, & Green Lantern Series Reportedly Still On Track At Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 10, 2022 10:59 am EST After failing to produce a cohesive cinematic universe on par with Marvel, DC Films president Walter Hamada changed gears and instead chose to trade interconnectivity for creativity. The DC movies became only loosely connected, but they told stories that were vastly different from the uniform MCU formula, whether it was “The Suicide Squad” and “Birds of Prey,” or “Joker” and “The Batman....

Christopher Reeve And Margot Kidder’s Superman Contracts Were Hiding Some Unpleasant Surprises Warner Bros. Pictures By Walter Roberts/Oct. 22, 2022 4:34 pm EST Until Marvel Studios began phasing out huge multi-movie contracts for its actors, these commitments were a standard industry practice. When Marvel was first assembling the Avengers cast, the studio was asking actors to commit to as many as nine pictures — a demand that Samuel L. Jackson agreed to and which almost cost us Chris Evans as Captain America....

Enchanted Director Releases Commentary Featuring Never-Before-Seen Storyboards [Exclusive Interview] Disney By Ben Pearson/Nov. 16, 2022 3:20 pm EST This year marks the 15th anniversary of Disney’s “Enchanted,” and between that and the Adam Shankman-directed sequel debuting on Disney+ later this week, original “Enchanted” director Kevin Lima thought it was the right time to do a proper deep dive into the original film. “I’ve been thinking about this for 10 years, doing something like this,” he told me in a recent interview....

Entergalactic Executive Producers Talk Working With Creative Geniuses And An Army Of Animators [Exclusive Interview] Netflix By Jeff Ewing/Oct. 3, 2022 11:32 am EST “Entergalactic” is a new Netflix adult animated feature from the minds of Kid Cudi and executive producer Kenya Barris. In the film, boasting an independent story that’s inspired by and features tracks from Kid Cudi’s new album of the same name, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi stars as rising New York artist Jabari....

Harvey Guillén On The Dark Optimism Of Puss In Boots: The Last Wish [Exclusive Interview] DreamWorks Animation By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 27, 2022 4:00 pm EST “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” is surprisingly one of the best animated movies of the year. It’s a DreamWorks movie with an edgier-than-usual story about death and embracing life. It’s inspired by spaghetti westerns, with action scenes resembling anime and visuals that play with 2D and 3D to resemble a storybook in its stylization....

Indy Will Continue Fighting Nazis And Fascism In Indiana Jones 5 Lucasfilm By Shania Russell/Nov. 19, 2022 11:16 am EST Iconic fedora? Check. Dusty old jacket? Check. Trusty whip? Of course. The upcoming “Indiana Jones” movie even has a dangerous new locale for our beloved hero to traverse (New York City), so all that’s missing is a formidable opponent with a meltable face. It’s a good thing that director James Mangold (“Ford v Ferrari,” “Logan”) called up Mads Mikkelsen, because nobody wears villainy quite as well as him....

What were you thinking? AMC There was no chance for Jimmy McGill, aka Gene, aka Saul Goodman, to make a getaway at this point. He was recognized and reported last week, and this week, he’s arrested and hauled off to jail. As you might guess, this has “Gene” in shambles — he spent so long in hiding (not to mention a ton of money to get here), and now it’s all over....

James Caan Almost Came To Blows With Sam Peckinpah During The Killer Elite United Artists By Shae Sennett/Oct. 14, 2022 7:38 pm EST Sam Peckinpah and James Caan were two of the biggest bad boys in Hollywood. The director and actor worked together only once, on the 1975 thriller “The Killer Elite.” Caan had just starred in the first two films of “The Godfather” trilogy, while Peckinpah spent the late ’60s and early ’70s directing a string of polarizing and action-packed films like “The Wild Bunch....

Krampus Features A Brilliant Voice Cameo You May Have Missed Universal Pictures By Andrew Housman/Dec. 6, 2022 6:21 pm EST Out of all the holiday-themed horror movies that have piled up under the proverbial tree over the decades, there’s a strong case to be made that Michael Dougherty’s “Krampus” stands as the truest to the Christmas spirit. Released in 2015, the film has dug a cozy little niche for itself as an annual tradition for those looking for something a bit more twisted in their yuletide cheer....

Burgers and space antiques StarWars.com You’ll notice that one of the drawings shows the Falcon with wings like a TIE Fighter. We don’t have any official confirmation that these designs influenced that of Luthen’s ship, but given the overall similarities with the cockpit, hull, and wings, it’s not a stretch to think that they did. We saw in episode four that Luthen’s antique shop on Coruscant is packed with Easter eggs and that it pulls from many different alien cultures....