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Paul Verhoeven Has Mixed Feelings About His Casting For Starship Troopers TriStar Pictures By Drew Tinnin/Dec. 3, 2022 2:00 pm EST Today, Paul Verhoeven’s “Starship Troopers” is mostly remembered and still revered for the groundbreaking Oscar-nominated visual effects from Phil Tippett’s Tippett Studio and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI). Losing the Oscar to James Cameron’s “Titanic,” the incredibly self-aware space epic has stayed in the public consciousness mostly due to the biting satire and enduring soap opera appeal that Verhoeven and the chiseled actors injected into the film....

The depressing reality of the show’s resonance Netflix In a profile with The Guardian, Jung-jae talks about how much the success of “Squid Game” means to him, especially in how folks are now seeking out more Korean projects. “I’m happy about it, of course,” he said, “[…] but it’s bittersweet.” Within everyone relating to the series comes a dark realization from Jung-jae about the sad and fragile state of our world:...

Superhero Bits: Glen Powell On Cyclops Rumors, Gotham Knights Reveals Its Villains & More Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Aug. 24, 2022 3:47 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) Warner Bros The source material for “The Killing Joke,” a comic written by Alan Moore, with Brian Bolland on art duties, is arguably as important as “The Dark Knight Returns” when it comes to establishing the mythos of the gritty Dark Knight we have today, so the animated version of the story has a lot to live up to. It mostly succeeds, too, telling a fairly conventional yarn about Batman facing down a freshly-escaped Joker, albeit with an origin tale for the Clown Prince of Crime thrown in; given that we’re dealing with a narrator as unreliable as the Joker, however, how definitive that story is remains to be seen....

The Daily Stream: Junior Baking Show Is The Great British Baking Show With Adorable Children Netflix By Jenna Busch/Sept. 10, 2022 12:00 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 Series: “Junior Baking Show” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Do you love “The Great British Baking Show,” or “The Great British Bake Off” as it’s called in the UK?...

The LAIKA: Life In Stop Motion Exhibit At The Museum Of The Moving Image Showcases The Legacy Of The Animation Studio [Exclusive] Caroline Cao By Caroline Cao/Sept. 2, 2022 3:00 pm EST “They’re not models!” the curator immediately corrected me when I erred in describing the miniatures puppets on display. In an age of computer-generated 3D overtaking pop culture consciousness, the Oregon-based stop-motion studio Laika (also stylized as LAIKA) shoots for the stars, creating an alive “it’s actually there” tangibility....

The Legendary Stuntman Who Inspired Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth Has Passed Away Sony By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 10, 2022 5:26 pm EST Gene LeBell, a pioneering mixed martial artist and hugely respected Hollywood stuntman, has died at the age of 89. LeBell was a behind-the-scenes giant in films, professional wrestling, and combat sports. He introduced Bruce Lee to the art of grappling, and counted among his students the eclectic likes of Elvis Presley, Chuck Norris, Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, Roddy Piper, and Ronda Rousey....

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The Rehearsal Review: Nathan Fielder Continues To Reinvent The Reality TV Wheel With Beautifully Cringe Results HBO Max By Lex Briscuso/July 11, 2022 12:45 pm EST Reality television has been done to death. We have every kind of series you could possibly want: dating, competition, slice of life, endurance and survival tests, finding a wedding dress, Real Housewives, Jersey Shore. The list goes on and on. Yet we are lucky enough to be watching television at the same time that Nathan Fielder — an incredibly awkward comedian responsible for the hilarious service show “Nathan For You” — is making it, as he continues to reinvent the reality wheel....

The Witcher Series Creator Says Henry Cavill Will Get A Heroic Send-Off Netflix By Eric Vespe/Dec. 21, 2022 7:12 pm EST The truth behind Henry Cavill leaving “The Witcher” series is murky right now. Some rumors say it was because he was sure he was strapping on the cape again for a grand return to the DCU (which … uh … turned out not to be the case), while some say it was because of creative differences....

Warner Bros. Discovery Combined Streaming Service Has Been Moved Up, Will Now Launch In Spring 2023 HBO By Erin Brady/Nov. 3, 2022 5:39 pm EST It turns out we won’t have to wait much longer for Warner Bros. Discovery’s combined streaming service to arrive. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO David Zaslav announced that the still-unnamed service will arrive in the United States in the spring of 2023....

The pioneering women of animation Christel Strobel/Primrose Productions The gender disparities in film are especially painful because women were at the forefront of the artform’s development, helping to establish its artistic possibilities as much as their male counterparts. This is true for animation as well. The very first feature-length animated film was directed by Lotte Reiniger. 1926’s “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” was entirely animated by hand by Reiniger, who manipulated intricate paper cut-outs to tell a lush story inspired by “The 1001 Arabian Nights....

A Stanley Kubrick Lawsuit Sunk Sidney Lumet’s Dr. Strangelove Rival Columbia Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Aug. 23, 2022 1:48 pm EST Every year, it’s almost inevitable that two movies with a similar premise will go head to head, whether it be a siege on the white house, an asteroid heading towards Earth, or a story about animated bugs fighting fascism. It’s bound to keep on happening since it’s been going on for so long — with 1964 as the year in which two competing movies told us how close we were to nuclear annihilation....

All Quiet On The Western Front Was Made Because Of A Teenager’s Reaction To The Book [Exclusive] Reiner Bajo By Demetra Nikolakakis/Oct. 20, 2022 1:15 pm EST There’s nothing quite like a high school English class. You’re sitting with 30 other teenagers, all of whom are struggling to get through the same 200 page novel (and checking Sparknotes for the extra-short version) — and I say this as someone who went on to major in English....

Fascism closes its fist Lucasfilm Admiral Wulff Yularen (Malcolm Sinclair) has spoken to the Emperor himself and the consequences for the galaxy in the face of the Aldhani robbery will be fierce. This bureaucracy racing to outdo itself in closing its fist around the populace is a perfect example of the banality of evil. All of these people jockey for position on how best to choke the life from the people of the galaxy as viscerally and literally as that KX-series droid choking Cassian against the wall at the end of the episode....

Bad Santa Courted James Gandolfini, Bill Murray, And Jack Nicholson Before Landing Billy Bob Thornton Miramax Films By Lee Adams/Nov. 23, 2022 2:00 pm EST With the holiday season fast approaching, it’s that time of year when movie journalists and film critics start wheeling out their lists of alternative and anti-Christmas classics. If ever there was a film tailor-made for such picks, it is “Bad Santa.” In the true spirit of seasonal generosity, screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa created a script gleefully intended to offer offense to all comers, and everyone involved looks like they’re having plenty of fun working their way onto Santa’s naughty list....

‘Danny Elfman had given me his blessing’ Warner Bros. Pictures The last time Elfman got to play in the DC cinematic sandbox, he was hired at the last minute to whip up the music for the theatrical cut of “Justice League” in 2017. He did about as well as you could reasonably expect anyone to under the circumstances, delivering a perfunctory score that recycled the musical themes from Burton’s “Batman” and Richard Donner’s “Superman” in a calculated effort to appeal to the audience’s nostalgia....

Cardboard Cinema: 2023 Promises Big Adaptations Of The Walking Dead, The Last Of Us AMC / Free League Publishing By Matthew Monagle/Dec. 1, 2022 12:00 pm EST Here’s an important question: can you Kickstart a tabletop campaign as a holiday gift? With so many board games getting the crowdfunding treatment these days, there’s something bittersweet about pledging a game to someone and having them wait 12-18 months for delivery. Sure, they may get a fancy title, but who knows if they’ll even live nearby when the gift hits fulfillment?...

Cool Stuff: The Mandalorian’s Razor Crest Ship May Be Gone, But Now It’s An Ultimate Collector Series LEGO Set Lego/Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 27, 2022 9:30 am EST In “The Mandalorian,” the real tragedy of “Chapter 14: The Tragedy” was the destruction of Mando’s ship, the Razor Crest. When last we saw it, the Razor Crest was chilling by the mountainside, just minding its own business, not a care in the world … when suddenly a turbolaser blast from the sky blew it into over 6,000 pieces!...

Fincher vs Russell 20th Century Studios The directors’ differences of opinion might come down to the type of films and characters they’re drawn to. Russell’s filmmaking resumé is full of second coming-of-age stories, where people in their late twenties to thirties experience a cataclysmic event or sudden change that forces them into a new phase of life. To enjoy these films, it’s critical for the audience to connect with the characters, and feel the crush of their failures and pride in their accomplishments along with them....