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Harrison Ford Had Some Presidential Help Preparing For Air Force One Sony Pictures By Anya Stanley/May 18, 2022 3:25 pm EST Ah, “Air Force One.” That fine bit of ’90s pulp escapism, complete with across-the-board actioner performances (Glenn Close! Paul Guilfoyle! Dean Stockwell! William H. Macy!) punctuated by Gary Oldman’s neo-Soviet baddie Egor Korshunov — chronologically performed back-to-back with his sci-fi agent of chaos Zorg in Luc Besson’s “The Fifth Element” — and the greatest movie president of all time, Harrison Ford’s stiff-upper-lipped James “Get off my plane” Marshall....

How To Watch X At Home A24 By BJ Colangelo/April 11, 2022 4:31 pm EST The pandemic has truly changed everyone and everyone in irreparable ways, but if you’re like me (an immunocompromised weirdo), the inability to head to the theater and check out a new release has been absolutely agonizing. There are obviously much bigger and more severe ways in which the world has changed, but on the smaller end of first-world problems, it’s getting harder and harder to watch the rest of the world happily pose with ticket stubs while many of us are relegated to whatever is accessible on VOD....

Hunger Games Prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Casts Rachel Zegler 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/May 31, 2022 11:36 am EST Well, this is certainly one way to quickly get audiences interested in yet another installment of “The Hunger Games” franchise, though we’re now years removed from the heights of the series’ immensely popular heyday. Casting for the prequel film titled “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is starting to round into shape with the announcement of its lead actor — none other than the rapidly rising “West Side Story” star, Rachel Zegler....

Jean-Luc Battles A Mind Clown In Episode 7 Of Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Paramount By Witney Seibold/April 14, 2022 3:00 am EST The 23rd episode of season two of “Star Trek: Voyager” was called “The Thaw.” In it, our heroes found a series of cryogenic stasis pods whose residents, while frozen, were wired into a computerized consciousness-sharing network that would allow them to converse and interact — “Matrix”-style — while they slept....

Josh Hartnett Joins The Cast Of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer United Artists Releasing By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 4, 2022 2:52 pm EST You didn’t think Christopher Nolan was finished casting recognizable, talented actors whose additions to his “Oppenheimer” film would unite everyone in unanimous praise, did you? Good, because this latest update involves a recognizable, talented actor whose addition to “Oppenheimer” is sure to unite everyone in unanimous praise. Josh Hartnett has enjoyed a very busy schedule in recent years, starring in Guy Ritchie’s “Wrath of Man,” “Ida Red,” and the docuseries “Exterminate All the Brutes” in 2021 alone....

Mad Max AIP & Warner Bros George Miller went from medical school to “Mad Max,” crafting his apocalyptic sci-fi road warrior for about $200,000. His star was a then-unknown Mel Gibson, who took home a $15,000 paycheck for his role as Max Rockatansky. The worldwide return was $99,750,000. Decades later, we’re still in love with Miller’s vision of a ruined world where our humanity still matters. As we’ll find with most films on this list, that slim budget is almost entirely present on the screen....

Moon Knight Was Pitched As Raiders Of The Lost Ark In The MCU Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 14, 2022 12:48 pm EST No, much like Moon Knight himself, you’re not dreaming. We really are living in a world where the upcoming series about the sleep-deprived and lesser-known hero with split personalities has become one of the most highly anticipated Marvel entries in the entire franchise. I’m not sure how many longtime comics fans could honestly claim that they believed they’d ever see the day when “Moon Knight” would have such talented actors involved as Oscar Isaac and Ethan freaking Hawke, let alone receive a primetime Super Bowl trailer in front of an international audience who may or may not be seeing this character for the very first time....

Nearly 21% Of Star Trek Fans Said This Was Their Favorite Movie In The Franchise Paramount Pictures By Mike Shutt/Feb. 1, 2022 1:15 pm EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) It has been six years since a new “Star Trek” film has been released. You could fire up Paramount+ right now and consume plenty of recent television series to transport you to the final frontier, but in terms of big screen motion picture stories of Starfleet, we have nothing definitive on the horizon....

“It’s Just Going to Hopefully Blow People’s Minds” Lucasfilm When fan expectations are already sky-high, it’s never too early to raise them even higher. As a supporting player in two different “Star Wars” productions in two different roles, actor Rory Ross has a unique perspective on the franchise, the types of stories that excite fans, and a front-row seat to all the action. In response to how excited fans should be for “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” Ross didn’t hold back on his enthusiasm:...

What is Peaky Blinders? Caryn Mandabach Productions Aside from serving as a PSA about how bad smoking is for your health (as gorgeous as it may look with the lighting on the show), “Peaky Blinders” charts the steady rise and occasional fall of the Shelby family of Birmingham in the early 1900s. Starting off as humble racetrack gamblers/fixers, the family of hard-edged Irish immigrants have spent several seasons rising through the ranks to become one of the most feared and powerful gangs in all the UK....

11 Beautiful Years of Ryan Dunn Paramount Pictures Any “Jackass” die-hard will agree: to watch the late Ryan Dunn was to love him. A Pennsylvania transplant from Ohio, he met Bam Margera on their first day of high school, and the rest is beautiful, messy, and wild history. Dunn was in 21 of the 25 episodes of the initial MTV run of “Jackass,” and went on to be part of every single film thereafter (except “Bad Grandpa,” of course), as well as his part on the spin-off show “Viva La Bam” and its successors....

Stephen King Has A Complex Relationship With Pet Sematary Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 12, 2022 8:51 am EST Stephen King first published “Pet Sematary” in 1983, a time when he — by his own description — was battling addiction. In his 2000 book “On Writing,” King speaks frankly about his drinking and substance abuse throughout the ’80s, and even claimed to not remember writing his 1982 novel “Cujo.” His friends eventually staged an intervention, and King eventually became sober sometime in the late 1980s and has remained so to this day....

Tales Of The Walking Dead Adds Terry Crews, Parker Posey, And Many More To The Cast AMC By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 2, 2022 4:59 pm EST Despite the flagship show coming to an end after the 11th wraps up, “The Walking Dead” will continue to walk among us. This world created by Robert Kirkman and his many collaborators will live on thanks to a number of spin-offs. “Fear The Walking Dead,” the first spin-off of the popular AMC zombie franchise, has been renewed for an eighth season....

The Empire Strikes Back Could Have Ended George Lucas’ Career By Travis Yates/June 24, 2022 12:04 pm EST Lucas expected Star Wars to fail “It was going to go from Darth Vader coming in the door killing everybody, to Luke Skywalker realizing that Darth Vader was his father, to them, in essence, being redeemed. That was the movie. The only problem was, it was 250 pages. And at that point, I had $3 million to make it with, so it was like, ‘Yeah, right, that’s not going to happen....

Somebody get this girl off this mountain In the clip, we see outdoorsman Jack (O’Reilly) run across a rocky terrain before laying down with a rifle in a shooting position, as if scoping out an enemy below. “Please, let me save her. Please,” he says in a half-whisper. Elsewhere, we see Aira (Sconce) hiding behind a rock, only she’s looking in the wrong direction. Two men unfold in the background behind her and begin to head her way....

The Invitation: Release Date, Cast, And More Warner Bros.-Seven Arts By Sandy Schaefer/June 24, 2022 1:10 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) As you may have heard (and, no, we’re not done reminding you), /Film is going all out to celebrate the grandaddy of blood-sucker movies, “Nosferatu,” turning 100 by declaring 2022 the “Year of the Vampire....

The Party Down Revival Sends Invites To Jennifer Garner, James Marsden, And More Starz By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 1, 2022 12:23 pm EST After a few false starts over the years, Starz is finally back in the catering business thanks to a revival of “Party Down.” The short-lived but beloved series created by Rob Thomas, John Enbom, Dan Etheridge, and Paul Rudd received a six-episode order back in November 2021. And in addition to all the original series creators returning, nearly the entire cast including Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Jane Lynch, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen, and Megan Mullally are set to reprise their roles....

The Scariest Scene In The Lost World: Jurassic Park Warns You To Stay Out Of The Long Grass Universal Pictures By Matt Donato AND Ariel Fisher/April 8, 2022 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition, Matt charts a course to Isla Sorna in “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” because second time’s the charm, and Ariel reminisces about “Jaws....

The Star Wars Radio Drama You’ve Never Heard — That George Lucas Sold For $1 Disney/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/May 4, 2022 12:34 pm EST When I was very young, my siblings and I used to listen to a lot of stories via the millennia-old tech known as audio cassette tapes. I have clear memories of taking in many “Berenstain Bears” and “Sesame Street” books this way, along with the tie-in children’s books for several of Disney’s animated movies from the 1980s and ’90s....

The Woman King footage description Sony Pictures Releasing The footage opens around a campfire, as a tribe of warriors is attacked by another tribe in the dark. Ships are then seen arriving on the shores with white passengers. John Boyega’s character seems to be a king of some sort. Nanisca asks him to go to war and says, “Some things are worth fighting for.” The King’s Guard, “the most elite warriors the world has ever known,” are then shown training in a way that recalls the Dora Milaje from “Black Panther....