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The late night plague continues TBS According to Variety, Noah indicated that he was planning on producing different programs across a variety of different venues, which he’s been working on quite a bit under his broader contract with Comedy Central’s parent company, Paramount Global. “Trevor is an incredible talent who has left an indelible mark on ‘The Daily Show’ and we’re grateful for his creative partnership over the past seven years,” said Chris McCarthy, president & CEO of Paramount Media Networks and MTV Entertainment Studios, in a statement....

William Hurt’s Stunt Double Saved Charlie Cox From Drowning On The Set Of Moby Dick Encore By Witney Seibold/Dec. 12, 2022 2:32 pm EST In Herman Melville’s original 1851 novel “Moby-Dick,” not much was known about the vengeful Capt. Ahab beyond his obsession with finding the story’s titular whale. In Mike Barker’s 2011 miniseries, Ahab (William Hurt) interacts with his on-screen wife Elizabeth (Gillian Anderson). Ethan Hawke plays Starbuck, Raoul Trujillo plays Queequeg, and Charlie Cox plays the stalwart narrator Ishmael....

A Sing-Along Version Of Apple’s Holiday Musical Spirited Is Hitting Theaters This Weekend Apple TV+ By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 14, 2022 9:51 pm EST For fans of “Spirited,” the Christmas movie musical starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, Santa is delivering an early gift this year. As was announced via Deadline, Apple Original Films will be showing a special theatrical release of “Spirited,” complete with a sing-along track for optimal audience participation....

A Power to Great for Us to Understand Toho In the end of the film, when Tetsuo comes into the presence of Akira’s true power, he transforms into a horrific amorphous giant of flesh, cells, and organs, marking that his human form is being usurped by the galactic force of Akira. He yells “My body isn’t doing what I tell it to, it’s acting on its own!” The three ESPer children are awed by the presence of Akira and begin praying to him, understanding that the birthing of a new world is inevitable and that Tetsuo will ultimately be released from his mortal form....

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Army Experience Came In Handy During Commando 20th Century Studios By J. Gabriel Ware/Sept. 25, 2022 6:30 pm EST As required for any men over the age of 18 in his native Austria, action film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger served in the country’s military in 1965. He, along with several other actors, were cast in the 1987 science fiction action film “Predator” due to having military experience. Two years prior, the eventual California governor starred in “Commando,” in which he plays John Matrix, a retired U....

Cooper really really wanted to be in a Paul Thomas Anderson film United Artists In a conversation with his “The Place Beyond The Pines” colleague Mahershala Ali for Variety, Bradley Cooper revealed that he was ready to focus on a behind-the-camera career before he was asked to do “Licorice Pizza:” “The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson. When he called me to maybe be in his movie … I think I’d open up a door in his movie....

Can athletes act? Warner Bros. The 1997 film version of “Steel” was written and directed by TV luminary Kenneth Johnson, who worked on notable genre shows like “The Bionic Woman,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “V,” and “Alien Nation.” He was no slouch when it came to creating beloved mainstream genre entertainments. He knew how to write a character like Steel, but immediately felt trepidation when O’Neal was cast in the role. While O’Neal was physically imposing — he stands at a towering 7'1" — he was clearly no actor, having already appeared in the 1996 kid-friendly hip-hop genie film “Kazaam,” a truly terrible picture....

David Warner’s Scene In The Omen Scarred Us For Life By Lee Adams/July 26, 2022 9:23 am EST Richard Donner’s gloomy blockbuster is high-gloss pulp, wrapping its schlockier elements in po-faced portentousness and Jerry Goldsmith’s black mass whisperings and wailings. It follows Robert Thorn, an American diplomat who gradually comes to believe his adopted son is the Antichrist, playing fast and loose with the Book of Revelation to create an atmosphere of ancient evil and impending doom, complemented by some breathtakingly brutal freak death sequences that suggest everything is foretold....

Denise Gough Was Skeptical Of Star Wars Before Reading Andor’s Script Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Oct. 28, 2022 4:56 pm EST The Disney+ series “Andor” has the distinction of being called the least Star Wars-y series in the galaxy. (That might be paraphrasing the social media sentiment a bit, but you get the idea.) With a few small changes, this show could stand alone as an espionage drama. For fans who are feeling a little overwhelmed with the amount of content from the long-running franchise, the show is a big relief....

Eddie Redmayne’s Introduction To Harry Potter’s Wizarding World Wasn’t Very Pleasant Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Sept. 17, 2022 3:08 pm EST David Yates’ 2016 film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” was, true to its title, an odd duck. Set in the same universe as the “Harry Potter” movies, but taking place decades before the title character was born, “Fantastic Beasts” attempted to expand what audiences knew about wizards and witches through the eyes of a humble cryptozoologist....

When and Where to Watch Atomic Blonde 2 Focus Features “Atomic Blonde” enjoyed a perfectly normal theatrical release back in 2017, long before we had to worry about the idea of a pandemic altering the industry (maybe permanently?). Fast forward four years, however, and the potential strategy for a sequel appears to be quite different. Back in August of 2019, Leitch dropped the update that a streaming service was interested in distributing “Atomic Blonde 2....

Frank Darabont Saw The Majestic As His Chance To Make A Frank Capra Film Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Dec. 18, 2022 11:00 am EST At the beginning of Frank Darabont’s 2001 film “The Majestic” is one of cinema’s most tragic scenes about screenwriting this side of “Sunset Boulevard.” A hardworking contract screenwriter — “a creative,” in modern parlance — sits in the middle of a Hollywood office in 1951, the camera resting on his face....

Full Metal Jacket’s Original Author Wasn’t Happy With What He Saw On Stanley Kubrick’s Set Warner Bros. By Joe Roberts/Dec. 26, 2022 4:57 pm EST For all his originality, Stanley Kubrick sure loved using other people’s work. Almost all his films are based on pre-existing stories, which, rather than undermining his talent as a director, simply formed a part of his specific filmmaking method. Kubrick sought out inspiration like it was his life-source — which, in a way, it was....

Corey Universal Pictures On Halloween night in 2019, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) accidentally caused the death of a child he was babysitting, and now he’s the town pariah. The boy’s mother blames him and claims the killing was intentional, and the boy’s father noted that Corey had something dark in his eyes, perhaps the Devil’s eyes. Laurie sees it too; it’s a source of tension between her and her now-orphaned granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), who falls for Corey within minutes of meeting the repressed boy....

Not the same at all HBO According to Cooke in the Variety piece, these comparisons are inevitable due to the nature of the internet. “They’ll always be compared. In online discourse, it tends to be more black and white of who’s the hero and the villain. I do think they’re really different, though, and I limited the amount of wine that I drank in scenes because I didn’t want the comparison to be too transparent....

From Doc and Mharti To Rick and Morty Justin Roiland If Rick’s lab coat, hair, and knack for creating awe-inspiring inventions didn’t give it away, Roiland’s inspiration for the character comes straight from the original cinematic offbeat scientist: Doc Brown. Which makes Morty by association Marty — or Mharti, the name Roiland gives the red puffer vest wearing sidekick in his short “The Read Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti.” The not-so-subtle “Back to the Future” reference wasn’t the first time Roiland used parody as a jumping off point for his shock-value animations, as the year before he’d developed a cult hit in “House of Cosbys,” which also starred Harmon and a rotating cast of guest stars....

John Cleese Remembers Monty Python As A ‘Democracy Run Riot’ BBC By Witney Seibold/Dec. 2, 2022 2:22 pm EST The writing of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” was largely handled in teams. John Cleese and Graham Chapman would write sketches together, and their output tended to be more linguistic and cerebral; Cleese and Chapman were responsible for the Cheese Shop sketch, for instance, or the Argument Clinic. Michael Palin and Terry Jones were a team, and their sketches tilted toward whimsical absurdity; the pair wrote the Spam sketch and the Dead Parrot sketch....

Lucasfilm Is Trying To Expand The Star Wars Galaxy, And It Must Evolve Or Die Lucasfilm By Witney Seibold/July 28, 2022 3:58 pm EST The first “Star Wars” was released in 1977. The most recent spinoff, the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” TV series, aired in 2022. An additional season of “The Bad Batch,” as well as the new shows “Andor” and “Tales of the Jedi,” are coming later this year. That’s almost 45 years of solid “Star Wars....

T’Challa and the Blip Marvel Studios As the mid-credits scene in “Wakanda Forever” revealed, T’Challa had actually had a son with Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia. Unfortunately, the Blip took T’Challa away for five years, leaving him unwittingly estranged from his son. That relationship, following his return and in the aftermath of “Endgame,” was going to be at the center of the original film. As Coogler explained: “T’Challa was a dad who’d had this forced five-year absence from his son’s life....

Selling The Sopranos To HBO Just Took A Little Bit Of Murder HBO By Anya Stanley/Aug. 26, 2022 4:46 pm EST “The Sopranos” isn’t the first gangster show on television and it won’t be the last, but it certainly made the biggest splash. Over six sprawling seasons from 1999 to 2007, David Chase’s HBO series told the story of his own warped family dynamic, infused into a mobster’s mid-life crisis. A decade and a half after its finale, the show has become one of the most celebrated of all time....