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Michael Che Will Be Staying At SNL For Now NBC By Jenna Busch/May 26, 2022 5:48 pm EST There was a big exodus from NBC’s late-night staple “Saturday Night Live,” with Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney leaving the sketch comedy series. That, of course, leads everyone to ask if the rumors about Weekend Update anchor Michael Che leaving the series are true. Fear not, “SNL” fans. Che is staying behind the news desk with his co-anchor Colin Jost, according to an appearance on the Bill Simmons podcast (via Deadline)....

Morbius Adds Just 85,000 Morbucks To Its Total Gross In First Day Of Re-Release Sony Pictures By Erin Brady/June 4, 2022 2:49 pm EST Well, this sucks. After it was announced that Sony would rerelease “Morbius” for one weekend, the internet’s latest meme obsession starring Jared Leto only grossed an additional $85,000 at the box office on Friday (via The Numbers). While that might sound bad, it gets even worse when taking into consideration that it was released in over a thousand theaters, only averaging around $82 per theater....

Nightmare Alley Ending Explained: Of Monsters And Men Searchlight Pictures By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 27, 2021 8:31 am EST There are dark delights and darker revelations to be found in “Nightmare Alley” — both figuratively and literally. Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham is a grim cautionary tale of the monsters that men make, and the monstrous natures that men hide....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Finally Gives A Famous Star Wars Locale Time In The Spotlight Lucasfilm By Jeremy Smith/May 27, 2022 7:54 pm EST Aside from a brief drop-in at the end of “Star Wars: Episode III – The Revenge of the Sith,” fans of George Lucas’ franchise haven’t seen much of Princess Leia’s adopted planet of Alderaan. If your fandom goes no further than the movies and the Disney+ television shows, it’s nothing more than, per Leia, a “peaceful” planet devoid of weaponry....

Superhero Bits: The Batman Is Very Popular On HBO Max, Disney+ Lost A Bunch Of Marvel TV Episodes & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/April 20, 2022 3:30 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....

The 15 Best Natalie Portman Movies Ranked Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/Feb. 3, 2022 12:08 pm EST Natalie Portman is one of the finest Oscar-winning actresses working today, that rare case of a famous celebrity who continues to choose experimental film projects in addition to mainstream Hollywood fare. In between major franchises like “Star Wars” and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Portman has helped spotlight many arthouse, independent, and genre projects that might not have gained as much attention if it wasn’t for her involvement....

The Best And Worst Moments Of The 2022 Oscars The Academy By Mike Shutt/March 28, 2022 12:33 am EST Well, y’all, we did it. We finally made it through another awards season. It may have felt like 84 years, but it actually has not even been a full 365 days since the last Oscars telecast. Did something happen in the world to delay that? Anyway, we can finally close the book on a year in film that actually closed itself three months ago....

The Best Elvis Actors, Ranked Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/June 23, 2022 10:00 am EST Baz Luhrmann is the filmmaking equivalent of “go big or go home,” which makes a film like “Elvis” a perfect project for the emperor of cinematic excess. Many people were concerned when Austin Butler was cast in the role, having been known mostly for his work on shows like “Hannah Montana” and “Zoey 101,” but Butler has more than proven his worth as the King of Rock and Roll, even earning the praises of Elvis’ ex-wife Priscilla Presley, his daughter Lisa Marie Presley, and granddaughter Riley Keough....

The Boys Season 3 Trailer: The Boys Are Back In Town Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 16, 2022 12:04 pm EST America’s most messed-up superheroes will be back for another round this June, now with added Jenson Ackles. Ahead of its third season premiere, Prime Video’s uber-violent series “The Boys” has unleashed a new trailer that promises the Seven are just as twisted as ever. It also finally gives us a good look at Ackles’ character, Soldier Boy, who seems to be the show’s demented answer to Captain America....

The Daily Stream: Garden State Captures The Heartache Of Growing Up By Danielle Ryan/April 30, 2022 5:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Movie: “Garden State” Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video The Pitch: Zach Braff, the guy everyone got to know as J.D. in “Scrubs,” wrote and directed a movie in 2004 about a young man named Andrew (Braff), a struggling wannabe actor who gets a phone call one morning that his mother has died....

Why It’s Essential Viewing Toho There is nothing that can make you care for a person more than actually understanding their lives and their feelings. When you try to understand someone else’s family, home life, beliefs, and you know that the person in your body is trying to do things to make your life better in a way that doesn’t benefit them at all, you have a recipe for the most romantic thing you’ve ever seen....

The Morning Show Has Been Renewed For Season 3, With A New Showrunner Apple By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 11, 2022 8:35 am EST You’d think we’d have reached the eleventh hour of morning news, when the D-tier guests start to file in and the segments get fluffier, but “The Morning Show” looks like it’s just getting started. Following its surprising second season, the Apple TV+ series was recently renewed for round three, and with a brand new showrunner to boot (per The Hollywood Reporter)....

Moonfall Opening Scene in LEGO First up, to help hype up the release of “Moonfall” this weekend, Lionsgate had content creator OnBeatMan remake the opening scene of the wild sci-fi disaster movie using stop-motion animation and LEGO pieces. It’s not even two minutes of the movie, but the level of detail in the space shuttle and its interiors, not to mention the cinematic lighting, really brings it to life, especially when disaster comes knocking in space....

Part Two (of Three?) Warner Bros. Although the 94th Academy Awards were overshadowed by controversy, and some categories were relegated to pre-taping before the live ceremony, “Dune” actually won the most Oscars this year, taking home Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Cinematography. Somehow, director Denis Villeneuve did not land a nomination (a snub decried by Josh Brolin and others), but he is returning to helm the sequel....

The Studio Wanted To Cut One Of Fight Club’s Defining Features 20th Century Studios By Michael Boyle/March 25, 2022 12:51 pm EST 1999 was a weirdly great year for movies, with “The Matrix,” “The Sixth Sense,” “American Beauty,” “The Green Mile,” and a couple dozen other soon-to-be classics hitting the theaters around the same time. Joining their ranks was David Fincher’s “Fight Club,” the fast-paced, hyper-stylized psychological thriller about two guys who start an underground fight club that quickly escalates into a terrorist organization....

Why Ms. Marvel’s Powers Couldn’t Translate Exactly To The Screen Disney+ By Ryan Scott/May 11, 2022 2:28 pm EST While Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, and other classic heroes that were created decades ago remain atop the A-list in Marvel’s pantheon of characters, the great thing about mainstream comics is the opportunity for new characters to emerge as fan favorites. Such was the case when Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American teen who became Ms....

Why The Alien 3 Production Was Such A Nightmare By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 10, 2022 1:19 pm EST The troubled production of “Alien 3” is the stuff of Hollywood legend. The sequel to “Alien” and “Aliens” marked the feature film directorial debut of David Fincher. While the filmmaker would go on to establish himself as a modern master, at that time, he was still just a young, untested filmmaker known mostly for his work in music videos....

Vampyros Lesbos Hammer Pairing with U.S. B-movie kings American International Pictures, who had made a mint with their own string of Roger Corman productions based on Edgar Allan Poe stories, Hammer set about securing two key talents to bring about this new era of horror. The first was director Roy Ward Baker, who up until then had been known for traditional dramas like the Titanic movie “A Night to Remember.” Having previously made the extraterrestrial thriller “Quatermass and the Pit,” black comedy “The Anniversary,” and cheeky sci-fi flick “Moon Zero Two” for Hammer, Baker would lend an assured hand to what was anything but a sure thing for the studio known for its horror fare....

You Can Thank Steven Spielberg For One Of Animation’s Most Heartbreaking Moments Universal By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 24, 2022 11:43 am EST Amidst Disney Animation’s creative and financial struggles in the years leading up to the Disney Renaissance in the 1980s, former Disney animator Don Bluth emerged as an exciting voice in the world of American animated storytelling. His directorial efforts in that decade were not just pleasing to the eye; they were willing to be scary and heartbreaking in a way that the Mouse House had shied away from since Walt Disney’s death in 1966....

Christopher Nolan Looked To Blade Runner For A Key Part Of Batman Begins Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/April 8, 2022 9:13 am EST Each of the films in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy carved out its own distinct look in terms of Gotham City. The cityscape in Batman’s turf evolved in such a way that it was as if Gotham became every city. Nolan and his crew shot “The Dark Knight” mostly in Chicago, using recognizable landmarks such as the Chicago Board of Trade Building as the location for Wayne Enterprises....