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Servant Season 4 Trailer: If She Wins, The City Will Fall Apple TV+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 5, 2022 11:00 am EST The final season of “Servant” is almost here, and M. Night Shyamalan and Tony Basgallop’s series looks like it’s set to give viewers a few more scares before it puts the story of Jericho to bed. The first three seasons of the series have been wild, creepy, and increasingly inscrutable, and it doesn’t look like “Servant” is too concerned with giving us tidy answers in its fourth outing....

Seth Rogen Had A Challenging Role To Play In Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans Universal Pictures By J. Gabriel Ware/Nov. 14, 2022 12:14 pm EST With “The Fabelmans,” which our review called “One of Steven Spielberg’s warmest, most autobiographical films,” the revered filmmaker now has a movie about his own origin story. Considering what the filmmaker has accomplished in the industry in more than half a century, it’s fitting. But unlike superhero origin stories, there are no villains in this one, though that role could have easily been filled by Seth Rogen’s character....

Spin Me Round Trailer: Alison Brie And Aubrey Plaza Wild Out In Italy IFC Films By Jeremy Mathai/July 12, 2022 9:49 am EST Move over, Brad Pitt/George Clooney, Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone, and dare I even say Al Pacino/Robert De Niro. Make way for the unstoppable force that is the Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza team-up. We’ve had the pleasure of watching both talented actors play off one another in 2017’s “The Little Hours,” the irreverent little comedy that put a hilariously modern twist on 14th century subject matter....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Finally Reveals The Full California Class Paramount By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 27, 2022 5:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the season finale of “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” When it comes to the world of “Star Trek,” I’ve never been one for fan service. For whatever reason, even the coolest Easter eggs and guest appearances often won’t elicit much more than a nod and a smile from me....

Steve Martin’s Show Business Career Kicked Off With A Job At Disneyland Paramount Pictures By Matt Rainis/Nov. 8, 2022 5:27 pm EST Steve Martin is one of the elder statesmen of comedy. The banjo-strumming funnyman has cracked audiences up for almost 50 years, from movies like “The Jerk” and “Little Shop of Horrors,” to his recent television stint on “Only Murders in the Building.” During his prime, he was one of the biggest draws in comedy movies — John Hughes, for example, only agreed to direct “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” because of Martin’s involvement....

Strange World Directors Don Hall And Qui Nguyen Reveal Things Are Even Stranger Than What We’ve Seen [Exclusive Interview] Disney By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 21, 2022 12:45 pm EST The upcoming Disney animated movie “Strange World” contains a lot of surprises, only some of which we’ve seen in the feature’s initial trailer. The movie follows the Clade family as they find themselves thrown into a mysterious land beneath their hometown that they knew nothing about....

Let It Snow (2019) Netflix A sweet, good-natured Netflix ensemble piece, “Let It Snow” asks very little of its audience. That’s not a knock against it. Sometimes, when we’re searching for a cozy movie to watch with the family over a glass of eggnog, that’s exactly what we’re looking for. As a snowstorm bears down on a small town in Illinois, several teenagers end up having an eventful Christmas Eve....

The Devil’s Advocate Convinced Patty Jenkins That Charlize Theron Was The Only Choice For Monster Newmarket Films By Drew Tinnin/Dec. 12, 2022 1:22 pm EST The tragic story and eventual downfall of Aileen Wuornos was told in shattering detail in “Monster,” earning Charlize Theron the Academy Award for Best Actress for her stripped down portrayal of America’s first known female serial killer. During a brutal spree of murders over the course of one year in 1989, Wournos turned the tables on her would-be attackers, killing seven men who had propositioned her for sex....

The Good Nurse Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns On The True Crime Story And Lessons From 1917 [Exclusive Interview] Netflix By Jack Giroux/Oct. 20, 2022 6:19 pm EST Jessica Chastain plays the titular character in “The Good Nurse,” which is not an ironic title for the true crime story. Based on Charles Graeber’s book, nurse Amy Loughren (Chastain) discovers her friend, Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne), is murdering patients. It’s a horrifying story that screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns initially wasn’t interesting in telling....

Art imitates life Ollie Upton / HBO As you may already know, “Game of Thrones” was based on a chapter of British history called the War of the Roses — something that Martin mentioned on this panel. He joked that he takes “elements from history,” and “turn[s] them up to eleven,” and that approach continues in “House of the Dragon.” Martin explained: “This show was based on an earlier period in world history called The Anarchy....

It’s all about optic flow Paramount Pictures Why does Matt Reeves’ “Cloverfield” make folks lose their lunch? It’s just a bit of visual side to side … for 85 minutes straight. University of Toronto professor Bob Cheung, who examines motion sickness at the institute’s department of physiology, points at mind-body confusion as the root cause of what he calls “simulated sickness.” About 15% to 20% of people have the inner-ear abnormality that can make them sensitive to the specific bit of sensory input, which can also extend to 3D movies as well....

Feel that throbbing disco beat Marvel Comics In the interview, Crowe was pitched on a Dazzler movie, and though he wasn’t familiar with the character, he seemed to take it with good humor. He asked who should play the role and was told that some fan casting included Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Dua Lipa. He said: “I’m feeling Dua Lipa for this. Tomorrow I’ll be like, ‘Yeah, I’ve been thinking about Dua for Dazzler, you know, I’ve been thinking about this for a while....

‘I needed to escape’ Disney “I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there,” Burton admitted during the Lumière Festival event. Over the next several decades he made a handful of movies with Disney, including “Alice in Wonderland,” the feature-length “Frankenweenie,” and the much-loved classic “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Apparently, though, his reimagining of the 1941 Disney classic about a big-eared circus elephant made him start to think differently about the company....

Tommy Boy’s Ties To SNL May Have Hurt The Movie More Than They Helped Paramount Pictures By Travis Yates/Oct. 28, 2022 10:48 am EST In show business, sometimes Hollywood giveth, and Hollywood taketh away. All Bible quotes aside, the idiom almost applied to the 1995 comedy “Tommy Boy.” After having them on “Saturday Night Live” together, executive producer Lorne Michaels recognized the chemistry between best friends Chris Farley and David Spade and pitched the idea for a movie featuring the two comedians....

TV, Interrupted: Dark Angel Was Canceled On A Cliffhanger Ending The television series “Dark Angel” hit screens for the first time in the year 2000, offering up a story about a genetically-engineered young woman named Max (Jessica Alba) after she escaped from the lab that created her and tried to make a life for herself in a dystopian future version of America. “Dark Angel” was created by “Titanic” and “Aliens” director James Cameron and “NYPD Blue” co-executive producer Charles H....

Why Paul Newman Decided To Walk Away From Acting Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/July 12, 2022 12:52 pm EST Paul Newman’s legacy extends well beyond his Hollywood endeavors. He was a four-time national champion driver for the non-profit Sports Car Club of America and maintained a passion for auto racing all the way through to his twilight years. Newman also co-founded Newman’s Own, a non-profit food company that has donated more than $570 million to various charities since 1982....

Xochitl Gomez On The Future Of America Chavez In The Marvel Cinematic Universe [Interview] Marvel Studios By Max Evry/July 28, 2022 4:23 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After raking in nearly a billion dollars worldwide and breaking viewership records on Disney+, Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has finally arrived on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD this week. With the MCU sequel making its physical media debut, the studio provided /Film with the chance to have an exclusive 1:1 with the movie’s young breakout star, Xochitl Gomez (“The Baby-Sitters Club”), who plays the multiverse-hopping America Chavez....

You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah: Everything We Know So Far About Adam Sandler’s Next Netflix Movie Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/July 13, 2022 5:34 pm EST For the most part, Adam Sandler’s multi-film deals with Netflix have led to him making more of his bread-and-butter broad comedies (like “The Ridiculous 6” and “Murder Mystery”). In between those releases, however, he also carved out time to go star in Noah Baumbach’s critically-acclaimed dramedy “The Meyerowitz Stories” for Netflix and work on the Safdie Brothers’ nerve-racking hit “Uncut Gems” for A24....

Gareth Evans - Wolverine PT Merantau Films It’s inevitable that mutants and the X-Men are going to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” introducing another reality’s Professor Xavier, their introduction might indeed be sooner than later. One of the most popular and recognizable mutants is the nigh-immortal rage monster Wolverine, long played by Hugh Jackman in the Fox-produced series of “X-Men” films. With regenerative abilities that would rival any other Marvel character’s and bone claws reinforced with adamantium (along with the rest of his skeleton), he’s a vicious, brutal fighter with insurmountable rage....

A New Silent Hill Movie With Director Christophe Gans Is On The Way Konami By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 19, 2022 5:59 pm EST After a 15-year wait, director Christophe Gans is returning to the world of “Silent Hill” with his new film rightfully titled “Return to Silent Hill.” Gans has been teasing the promise of a new “Silent Hill” movie for months, but the previously reported reboot was declared during Konami’s special presentation today to be “the catalyst for the revival of new ‘Silent Hill’ games....