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The Original Elvis Opening Scene Involved Tom Hanks Floating In Space [Exclusive] Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/June 30, 2022 5:30 pm EST “Elvis” is in theaters right now, and one might think this Baz Luhrmann biopic of the King of Rock and Roll was told from the perspective of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler). However, it’s really coming from the mouth of Elvis’ nefarious manager, Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks....

‘We’ve survived because we stick together’ Full disclosure: I will admit that hearing Firth do an American accent is jarring. This is my issue to overcome. Here is the logline for “The Staircase.” Based on a true story, THE STAIRCASE explores the life of Michael Peterson (Firth), his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson (Collette). Between the ominous music playing over the footage and the line about some things coming to light that shouldn’t, I would assume that Michael Peterson is either a murderer or an accessory to murder, but I honestly liked this trailer so much that I don’t want to look up what really happened....

The Surprisingly Practical Way The Mist Pulled Off Its Signature Effect Dimension Films By Miyako Pleines/April 11, 2022 5:14 pm EST Berndnaut Smilde is a maker of clouds. A Dutch artist, Smilde creates temporary clouds inside picturesque places and quickly photographs them before they disappear. The images often feel impossible as they depict clouds hovering in the middle of vacant galleries and seemingly abandoned spaces, places a cloud should not logically ever be....

Apple Lands Joseph Kosinski’s Untitled Brad Pitt-Starring Formula One Movie, Somehow Not The Pitt Crew Columbia Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/June 7, 2022 9:03 pm EST This is an evergreen reminder that no one in Hollywood should be allowed to name their own movies and everyone at /Film should be naming them instead! We’re all too smart, funny, and hot. But you know who else is having a smart, funny, and hot moment?...

Beavis And Butt-Head’s Remastered Episodes On Paramount Plus Will Include All Their Music Videos Paramount By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 6, 2022 9:17 am EST Nothing disrupts a rewatch like the mysterious disappearance of a perfect needle drop. Watching the show “Supernatural” on Netflix, for example, is deeply frustrating for fans who know that “Don’t Fear The Reaper” was meant to be playing in a scene when a woman was literally chased by a reaper....

Christian Bale Never Tried To Make His American Psycho Character Cool Lionsgate By Bill Bria/June 15, 2022 10:59 am EST For a guy who played Batman in some of the biggest superhero movies of all time, it’s telling that Christian Bale’s most identifiable role is still Patrick Bateman, the wealthy Wall Street serial killer of director Mary Harron’s “American Psycho,” a man perpetually trapped in the vanity-obsessed 1980s as well as in his own diseased mind....

Doctor Strange Didn’t Need To Do Pizza Poppa Like That New Line Cinema By Jenna Busch/May 8, 2022 12:00 pm EST There are spoilers for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ahead, so beware! Listen, I love a good wizard. I find Gandalf and his pipe very comforting. Merlin from “Excalibur” is delightfully weird with his shiny skullcap. Despite my feelings about the person who created him, I still have love for a certain boy wizard....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Gives The MCU An Immediate Course-Correction After Moon Knight Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/May 7, 2022 12:00 pm EST It’s no coincidence, perhaps, that Marvel Studios released “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” in the days immediately following the season finale (maybe series finale) of its Disney+ series, “Moon Knight.” During Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we’ve seen some previous overlap between movies and streaming shows; however, in the case of “Black Widow” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” they hit theaters between episode 5 and 6 of “Loki” and “Hawkeye,” respectively....

Every Downton Abbey Season Ranked Worst To Best PBS / YouTube By Gino Orlandini/Jan. 6, 2022 6:23 pm EST It was surprising when “Downton Abbey” debuted in 2010 and wasn’t a scathing sociological critique of the last gasps of the English caste system. As it turns out, creator Julianne Fellowes and ITV-watching Brits didn’t need another reminder that keeping the working class living in the basements of the landed elite wasn’t the fairest system ever devised....

Halloween Ends Footage Reaction: Laurie Strode’s Last Stand Will ‘F*** You Up’ [CinemaCon 2022] Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo AND Eric Vespe/April 27, 2022 8:36 pm EST After the success and neverending discourse surrounding “Halloween Kills,” horror fans have been anxiously waiting to see what happens at the end of David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s “Halloween” trilogy with Blumhouse. The first installment arrived in 2018, disregarding all other entries that came after John Carpenter’s original, with the trilogy centering heavily on the way the events of Michael Myers’ 1978 attack impacted survivor Laurie Strode and the trauma inherited by her family and their community....

Heat Sequel Novel From Michael Mann Finally Arriving In August Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2022 1:24 pm EST Michael Mann has been teasing some sort of prequel and/or sequel to “Heat” in book form for several years now. In 2016, word of a prequel novel first surfaced. Then, talk of a potential sequel novel followed. And now, both concepts have been combined into one book – and that book finally has a release date....

Here’s How You Can See Sonic The Hedgehog 2 A Few Days Early Paramount Pictures By Danielle Ryan/March 14, 2022 4:58 pm EST If you want to check out “Sonic The Hedgehog 2” before everyone else, great news — you don’t have to collect any rings, coins, or chaos emeralds. All you have to do is visit a special page on the movie’s official website, input your location, and voila, any showings on the special early screening night near you will appear....

‘We’re watching something like Children of Men’ Marvel Studios The last Disney+ series from Marvel Studios, “Hawkeye,” featured a car chase that was clearly indebted to director Alfonso Cuarón and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s camerawork in “Children of Men.” Benson also cited that film and its single-shot action sequences as a model for how “Moon Knight” will keep itself anchored to the perspective of Isaac’s character. He continued: “So we’re watching something like ‘Children of Men,’ which has very, very few cuts in it, and relating that to how we feel about the master shots that Spielberg puts together....

How These Child Stars Feel About The Horror Movies That Put Them On The Map Buena Vista Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 7, 2022 5:36 pm EST Horror movies have been one of the most profitable and prolific genres since the invention of cinema, and part of that success is because there’s something for everyone. Ghosts, monsters, masked slashers, and creatures from another world have not only helped keep audiences up at night for over a century as well as the very people who made the movies possible....

Jon Batiste To Make Acting Debut In The Color Purple Movie Musical CBS By Ben F. Silverio/April 17, 2022 10:40 am EST A big screen adaptation of the musical version of “The Color Purple” has been in the works for a number of years now. In 2018, two key names from the 1985 feature film joined forces with the creative minds behind the 2005 Broadway musical when Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders, and Quincy Jones announced that they would be producing a new musical film based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the struggles of a Black woman from the American South in the early 20th century....

Jurassic World Dominion Funko Pops Don’t Want To Eat, They Want To Hunt Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/April 18, 2022 4:26 pm EST “Jurassic World Dominion” is less than two months away, and we’re getting a whole pile of new Funko toys to celebrate, according to Bloody Disgusting. There are a bunch of new Pop! figures, keychains, and Funko’s Mystery Minis, one of which is the classic Jeff Goldblum on his side with his shirt open....

Only Murders In The Building Creator John Hoffman Teases 1970s Serial Killer Vibes In Season 2 Hulu By Shania Russell/May 24, 2022 10:47 am EST After winning laughs and hearts alike with a charming first season, “Only Murders In The Building” proved to be one of the most addicting new shows of last year. And with its cozy coats and sweet friendships, it also earned its place as a Fall comfort watch....

Only Murders In The Building Season 2 Review: A Bigger, Funnier, More Ambitious Sophomore Season Hulu By Chris Evangelista/June 20, 2022 12:00 pm EST Sophomore seasons are tricky things. If a show (be it in TV or podcast form) was lucky and good enough to hook you with its first season, there’s always the risk of diminishing returns to consider. What was fresh can seem stale. It’s a fact of life that applies to things beyond entertainment....

I have no phallic symbol to lose United Artists When production wrapped, Billy Wilder began slamming Monroe in the press (via Express), citing how difficult she was to work with, cruelly mocking her struggles to the point of questioning her humanity: “The question is whether Marilyn is a person at all or one of the greatest DuPont products ever invented.” Wilder’s wit is undercut by his unkindness. “She has breasts like granite; she defies gravity; and has a brain like Swiss cheese: full of holes....

‘We wanted to bring color and playfulness and whimsy’ HBO Max In the first episode of “Station Eleven,” we see this fictional flu pandemic rapidly unfolding in the present. And there are these quick match cuts or flashes forward, but it’s not until the second episode, really, that you set us down in this post-apocalyptic world. Can you talk about how you sought to build that world and the characters in it visually?...