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Kevin Costner Took A Gamble When He Turned Down The Hunt For Red October Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/April 18, 2022 9:53 am EST Directing a bonafide action movie classic is hard enough. Directing three of them in a row? I would say it’s unheard of. Except that’s exactly what John McTiernan did when he helmed “Predator,” “Die Hard,” and “The Hunt for Red October” one right after the other, releasing them from 1987 through 1990....

Legends Of Tomorrow And The Art Of Reinvention The CW By Rafael Motamayor/March 18, 2022 8:00 pm EST “Legends of Tomorrow” has always been sort of the odd duck of the Arrowverse shows. It started out as a more time-traveling spin-off that collected B-list characters from “The Flash” and “Arrow” with a terrible story, lack of humor, and bland villain. Nevertheless, the cast had great chemistry. Well, most of them (Hawkman, gone but not forgotten)....

Netflix’s Solution To Its Money Woes Is To Just Make Expensive Movies Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/June 1, 2022 12:41 pm EST If you’ve been paying attention to the recent headlines involving Netflix’s business woes, you’re probably starting to suspect the streamer’s executives might be better suited to running a tech company than a film and TV studio. After laying off numerous staff members and gutting its animation department, the company is looking for other ways to offset the plummeting value of its stock and failure to reach its subscriber goals at a time when its biggest competitors in the streaming game are breathing down its neck....

Skylar Astin Will Star Opposite Geena Davis In A Mother-Son Legal Drama Pilot For CBS The Roku Channel By Eric Vespe/March 15, 2022 9:18 am EST CBS is developing a new show that will star Geena Davis as an attorney whose life is in shambles after a messy divorce and is forced to join forces with her Private Investigator son. That show doesn’t have a title yet, but they did just cast “Pitch Perfect” and “Zooey’s Extraordinary Playlist” star Skylar Astin as Davis’s son....

Superhero Bits: Batman’s 83rd Birthday, A New Shang-Chi And The Ten Rings Comic & More Marvel Comics By Ryan Scott/March 30, 2022 5:27 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....

Spidey and His Amazing Friends renewed for season 3 Marvel Marvel fans who happen to have preschoolers in their lives can rejoice: “Spidey and His Amazing Friends” has been renewed for a third season. The Disney Junior show has been a big hit in its first season with the sophomore run of episodes slated to debut in August, which will include John Stamos as Iron Man. Disney took the chance to announce the early renewal of the show during the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and later revealed the information to the public in a press release....

Exclusive Take Back The Night Trailer The folks at Dark Sky Films have put out some landmark genre indies over the years, including Ti West’s “The House of the Devil,” Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s “Starry Eyes,” Ted Geoghegan’s “We Are Still Here,” and David Marmor’s “1BR.” Here’s hoping that “Take Back the Night” will prove to be a directorial launching pad for first-time feature helmer Gia Elliot, who has clearly come up with a potent concept combining a very real social problem with an escapist horror element....

The Best And Worst Moments In Pixar’s Lightyear Pixar By Scott Thomas/June 23, 2022 3:34 pm EST Major spoilers for “Lightyear” follow. There is a shot about two-thirds of the way through “Lightyear” that takes my breath away. Cast against a Grimace-purple sky, Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) sinks to his knees in defeat; a hostile planet’s atmosphere kicks up dust, and his head bows like that of so many beaten heroes before him....

Dune Warner Bros. Frank Herberg’s “Dune” is notoriously difficult to adapt. David Lynch tried once, and while I have a soft spot in my heart for Lynch’s weird, weird movie, it didn’t exactly resonate with a wide audience. So I wasn’t entirely sure how Denis Villeneuve’s take on the material would shake out. I like most of Villeneuve’s work, but I was skeptical. Thankfully, “Dune” is a success. Mostly. The film ends on a cliffhanger setting up a sequel, and that bugs me – give me a complete movie, damn it!...

How Hitchcock Spared Stewart’s Feelings According to TCM, “Hitchcock was able to stall Stewart long enough until the actor was forced to start work on ‘Bell, Book and Candle’ for Columbia Pictures.” That film came out in November 1958, about six months after “Vertigo” had hit theaters. It gave Hitchcock a good excuse to go forward with Grant, or at least get the ball rolling on that. Express and IMDb both indicate that Hitchcock also scheduled the production of “North by Northwest” so it would overlap with Stewart’s next film, the 1959 Otto Preminger courtroom drama, “Anatomy of a Murder....

The One Request Kevin Feige Had For The Doctor Strange Script Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/June 22, 2022 1:52 pm EST That sound you hear is me cracking my knuckles as I prepare to jump back on the soapbox in defense of one of Marvel’s most interesting and sometimes unfairly dismissed movies. Long before a goateed Benedict Cumberbatch was helping out Thor and Loki or engaging Thanos in one-on-one combat or fighting off the Scarlet Witch while the fate of the multiverse rested on his shoulders, Doctor Strange was just a doctor (named Strange!...

The Terrifying Aubrey Plaza Scene That Still Gives Us Nightmares Momentum Pictures By BJ Colangelo/June 16, 2022 9:43 pm EST Known by most for her memorable deadpan comedic delivery and sardonic attitude, comedian and actor Aubrey Plaza has a truly fascinating filmography. Her breakthrough performance as April Ludgate on “Parks and Recreation” made her a household name, leading her to roles in comedy films like “Mystery Team,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World,” “Safety Not Guaranteed,” “The To Do List,” “Life After Beth,” “​​Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,” and even providing the voice as the titular star of “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever....

Highway to the blockbuster zone Paramount “Top Gun: Maverick” likely holds strong thanks to massively positive word-of-mouth, along with critical praise across the board. The film is Certified Fresh with 97% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Meanwhile, theatergoers — including one of the film’s stars, Glen Powell — have noted that the action movie is especially excellent with a crowd. On Twitter, “Hangman” actor Powell revealed that he’d been visiting movie theaters to sneak a peek at the crowds, and discovering exhilarated audiences....

When Mr. Bean Was Originally Created, He Didn’t Have A Name Grammercy Pictures/Polygram Filmed Entertainment By Lee Adams/June 29, 2022 9:42 am EST As a father of two young kids, I’m utterly brain-numbed by the endless CG content on Netflix; it all just blurs into one big long noisy episode. My common plea is: “Why don’t we watch something with real people for a change?” And that’s how we recently ended up watching “Man vs....

5 Best Louie Anderson Roles And Where You Can Watch Them Ethan Miller/Getty Images By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 21, 2022 5:10 pm EST Once again, the world finds itself mourning the loss of a comedic legend, this time in the form of Louie Anderson (whose death was confirmed this morning). Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Anderson made his network debut as a comedian on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in 1984....

Chris Hemsworth Has A Game Plan For When He’ll Stop Playing Thor Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/June 22, 2022 12:07 pm EST Imagine falling into a coma in the year 2011, waking up over a decade later, and finding out that Thor — of all superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — is the first and only character to receive a fourth solo movie. While it might be a little tougher to wrap your mind around phenomena like TikTok, the alarmingly swift rise of political extremism here in the United States, and a bunch of celebrities publicly embarrassing themselves for selling out to the crypto folks (oh, and that whole ongoing pandemic, too), it’d still be difficult to explain the explosion in Thor’s popularity over the years....

Did You Catch That Karate Kid Homage In Cobra Kai Season 4 Episode 1? Netflix By Jenna Busch/Dec. 31, 2021 12:45 pm EST “Cobra Kai” season 4 is upon us! Not only that, but we’re getting a fifth season, which finished shooting before we even got a chance to watch season 4! The first episode gave us a look at the return of Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith), a Vietnam veteran who served with John Kreese (Martin Kove)....

Elliott’s Bike From E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Can Soon Be Yours, But Don’t You Dare Try To Fly It Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/April 27, 2022 7:46 pm EST If you were a kid in the 1980s, it’s entirely possible that you put on a red hoodie, strapped a milk crate to your bike and put you E.T. stuffie in it as you rode around the neighborhood like Elliott (Henry Thomas) did in the Steven Spielberg film “E....

Translucent/Stormfront Prime Studios Tied for least likely to save anyone are Translucent (Alex Hassell) and Stormfront (Aya Cash), because Translucent is as dead as a doornail and Stormfront appeared to die at the end of season 2. While Translucent’s death in season 1 is unarguable because no one comes back from having an explosive go off inside your butt, Stormfront’s was a bit more ambiguous. Even if she did survive Ryan’s (Cameron Crovetti) laser attack, she probably isn’t going to be in any condition to do any saving....

Fourth Sister Lucasfilm So far, this character, played on “Obi-Wan Kenobi” by Rya Kihlstedt, is a blank slate. Fourth Sister really does not do much other than stand near Fifth Brother and Third Sister and act as another adversary to chase Obi-Wan Kenobi and Princess Leia. She has less personality than the hissy and fitful Fifth Brother, and she doesn’t create any new dynamics in her interactions with Third Sister, the series’ most prominent Inquisitor....