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A Live-Action Beyblade Movie Is Coming From Mega-Producer Jerry Bruckheimer Hasbro By Ryan Scott/Feb. 24, 2022 3:36 pm EST Some very odd and unexpected news has hit the movie world today, as mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has found his next project: An adaptation of “Beyblade” as a potential live-action franchise. For the unfamiliar, these started out as toys that were essentially customizable tops that fight one another in little arenas, became quite popular for a time, and went on to inspire comics and animated shows....

Andor Showrunner Tony Gilroy Says The Series Will Mess With Star Wars Canon, Which Always Ends Well Lucasfilm By Eric Vespe/May 23, 2022 10:26 pm EST As part of their wonderful coverage of all things “Star Wars,” Vanity Fair has a new story focused solely on “Andor,” the upcoming Disney+ show that tells the backstory of Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor and how he became the true-believer Rebel fighter we first met in “Rogue One....

Fast & Furious 10 Welcomes Brie Larson To The Family Paramount / Warner Bros. By Hannah Shaw-Williams/April 10, 2022 12:25 pm EST The Family just got a little bit bigger, as “Captain Marvel” and “Kong: Skull Island” star Brie Larson has joined the cast of “Fast & Furious 10” (or whatever it ends up being called; this franchise likes to keep us on our toes with its sequel naming conventions)....

Halo Episode 4 Takes Master Chief On A Trip Down Memory Lane Paramount+ By Jeremy Mathai/April 14, 2022 3:00 am EST When “Combat Evolved” first arrived on the scene over two decades ago, very few gamers (if any) found themselves overly concerned about potentially murky backstories involving, uh, child kidnapping or state-sanctioned reprogramming in the super-soldiers creation. All we needed to know was that the Master Chief owned a kick-ass suit of armor, he was apparently the last of his kind, and had the fate of humanity resting on his shoulders....

‘He was shooting anamorphic, but I didn’t even know what that was’ Warner Bros. According to Collider, the 40th anniversary Blu-ray of “Enter the Dragon” features a Q&A with many involved with the movie, including Warner Bros. producers Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller. In the session, they reveal the unlikely story of how Lee made it to Hollywood. In the early 1970s, Weintraub looked at old Chinese films for new ideas and was enthralled by the fight sequences at the end of the movies “when the guy in white comes out and destroys five hundred guys in black all by himself....

How Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Led To Brad Pitt’s Snatch Role Sony Pictures Releasing By Lee Adams/March 17, 2022 1:00 pm EST There have been plenty of dodgy British accents by American actors down the years, from Dick van Dyke’s Cockney chimney sweep in “Mary Poppins” to Robert Downey Jr’s bizarre take on Welsh in “Dolittle.” Brad Pitt chipped in with his attempt at a Norn Iron accent in “The Devil’s Own,” which the Belfast Telegraph ranked among the worst Irish accents in film history....

How To Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 13 The Gizmoplex By Natalia Keogan/March 28, 2022 5:43 pm EST “Mystery Science Theater 3000” is back at it again, this time with a lucky 13th season for its dedicated fanbase to enjoy. First airing in 1988 on KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the show was an underground oddity for a while until Comedy Central picked it up from 1989 through 1996, after which point it was canceled to immense fan uproar....

In Westworld Season 4 Episode 2, No One Has Learned To Leave Well Enough Alone HBO By Danielle Ryan/July 3, 2022 10:00 pm EST If fans of the HBO series “Westworld” were expecting answers as they started season 4, they were definitely in for some disappointment. The series, created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, is a mystery box within a mystery box, layering complex narratives over one another without ever revealing the full scope of the story....

Ingrid Bergman’s Biggest Doubt About Gaslight Only Made It Better Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Christian Gainey/April 19, 2022 1:08 pm EST “Gaslight” is the disturbing tale of a young woman who is manipulated and psychologically tortured by her greedy husband. His abuse is so thorough that, eventually, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) questions her own reality and sanity. The abuse is hard to watch, and knowing Paula’s past traumas makes it even more difficult....

Iron Man Caused A Years-Long Feud Between Robert Downey Jr. And Terrence Howard Marvel Entertainment By Ryan Leston/April 5, 2022 12:19 pm EST Back in 2008, Marvel was a very different beast. The MCU didn’t exist, The Avengers hadn’t even Assembled yet, and we only saw a brief tease of what was yet to come. “Iron Man” is where it all began, with Robert Downey Jr. stepping into his signature armor to become Marvel’s most iconic Avenger....

Jon Bernthal Has Thoughts About Method Acting, And He’s Right Sony Pictures By Danielle Ryan/April 22, 2022 1:52 pm EST Acting is a pretty unique career, with a variety of ways to approach any given role. One tactic for getting into character is called “method acting,” developed by Russian actor and theater founder Konstantin Stanislavski around the turn of the 20th century. Stanislavski’s “method” was based in authenticity and understanding, demanding that the performer put themselves in the mindset of their character as much as possible....

Polar bears in the sun A24 During the roundtable, Garland said of “Civil War:” “I’m shooting a film right now, out in Atlanta. And it’s a war movie. And we came across by the side of the road, when we were on tech scouts, looking for locations, a bunch of abandoned Christmas decorations from somebody who’d set up a winter Wonderland to charge families, and then they’d gone bankrupt and this stuff was just scattered all over fields....

Midnight in Paris Sony Pictures Classics Owen Wilson has had a fascinating career trajectory from indie darling to comedy superstar, and he’s one of the most exciting comic actors working today because of the genuine diversity within his filmography. Wilson started off on the indie scene collaborating with Wes Anderson, and co-wrote some of his best films including “Bottle Rocket,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” and “Rushmore.” “Wedding Crashers” showed that he could successfully be a leading man, playing a character who — despite his inherent idiosyncrasies and mischievous behavior — could still develop empathetic qualities....

My Policeman release date and where you can watch it Prime Video According to Vanity Fair, the film will be released in theatres in the United States and United Kingdom on October 21, 2022. Prime Video confirmed via Twitter — alongside two first look images — that the film would arrive on their platform for streaming on November 4, 2022, just two weeks after the film arrives in theatres. It seems as though the streamer is looking toward awards season with its decision to premiere the film theatrically first, but only time will tell once the film is released and we see how it is received....

Norman Reedus Is Creating A Fantasy-Adventure Series With The Jim Henson Company AMC By Kaylee Dugan/Feb. 11, 2022 9:21 am EST Norman Reedus is finally breaking away from “The Walking Dead,” a show I google once a year just to see if it’s still running. For the last 10 years I’ve been thoroughly shocked to discover it is still on TV, but when it officially ends in 2022, his curse will be broken and he will be free to pursue literally anything else....

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s First Two Episodes Will Premiere Later Than You Thought Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/March 31, 2022 11:42 am EST Bad news, “Star Wars” fans: It seems we’ll have to wait a little longer before we can watch the premiere of “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” The new Disney+ prequel series is set 10 years after the dramatic events of “Revenge of the Sith,” where Anakin Skywalker, now going by Darth Vader, led a galaxy-wide genocide of all Jedi....

One Character Was Particularly Painful To Adapt For The Hunter X Hunter Anime Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/May 4, 2022 9:50 am EST “Hunter x Hunter” is one of the best manga around. Yoshihiro Togashi’s story encapsulates what makes shonen action manga so popular even after so many decades, a story that continues to influence and inspire other artists to this day, and has got not one, but two great adaptations — including a stone cold masterpiece....

Orphan Black Is Coming Back With New TV Series In 2023 BBC America By Jeremy Mathai/April 6, 2022 12:51 pm EST Sing it, sestras! “Orphan Black,” the clone-tastic BBC America series that was most famous for turning one Tatiana Maslany into dozens of distinct Tatiana Maslanys in one hell of an acting masterclass, is apparently coming back … in some form, at least. That’s the news of the day, coming straight from AMC (via Entertainment Weekly), as the network has announced a new “Orphan Black” spin-off series set in the near future that will continue the general story of a group of women subjected to scientific and technological experiments by shady corporations....

Roland Emmerich Wants To Destroy The World Again With Another Global Warming Movie [Exclusive] Lionsgate Films By Anya Stanley/Feb. 2, 2022 4:36 pm EST Some men just want to watch the world burn … or freeze. Since the ’90s, writer/director Roland Emmerich has made a name for himself by doing just that, imperiling the planet in increasingly epic ways for box office success. From Terminator riff “Universal Soldier” to “Stargate” to “Independence Day,” the decade was filled with action bangers courtesy of the German filmmaker who has earned his fair share of fans and haters....

Russian Doll Season 2 Review: Unstacking Generational Trauma Once More, With Feeling Netflix By Danielle Ryan/April 13, 2022 3:01 am EST The first season of “Russian Doll” was a riff on trauma therapy using a time loop, forcing its two protagonists to relive their pain in order to overcome it. Season 2 digs deeper, interrogating generational trauma through time travel. Our two heroes, Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett), accidentally discover the ability to time-travel using a New York City landmark, and it forces them to reconcile more than just their own pasts....