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Strange World Footage Reaction: A Pulpy Sci-Fi Adventure Throwback [Annecy] Disney By Rafael Motamayor/June 17, 2022 1:04 pm EST Just when you think the Disney formula has hit a wall, along comes a film that reminds you that, yes, this is the studio that broke the mold and revolutionized animation so many times in the past. While it remains to be seen if the studio’s latest, “Strange World,” reaches the heights of their more classic films, there is a lot of reasons to be excited about this new adventure....

Temuera Morrison Also Wants To Bring The Old, ‘Badass’ Boba Fett Back Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/June 9, 2022 12:03 pm EST Boba Fett is a fascinating character even beyond the “Star Wars” fandom, as someone with so little screen time (up until very recently anyway) managed to become so damn popular. Even people who are only very casually familiar with “Star Wars” probably know that name. Now, we live in a world where the bounty hunter has his own TV show, “The Book of Boba Fett,” presumably with more appearances to come on Disney+ in the future....

The 15 Best Screwball Comedies Of All Time United Artists By Barry Levitt/April 21, 2022 2:34 pm EST The screwball comedy has a unique place in Hollywood history: When times were tough, audiences sought escapism. What was less interesting to audiences during the Great Depression was celebrations of wealth and extravagance, as the purse strings were tighter than ever before. Enter the screwball, comedies that regularly delighted audiences by transporting them with ridiculous and often nonsensical scenarios featuring the brightest stars of the day....

The Boys: Diabolical Trailer: Heroes Get A Bad Name In This Animated Spinoff Series By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 16, 2022 12:30 pm EST “The Boys” has proven so successful, in fact, that the satirical series has gone on to expand its ever-growing universe with multiple spin-offs in the works. Another live-action series is currently in-development, dealing with “America’s only college exclusively for young-adult superheroes.” But fans of the main series are about to be introduced to an even wackier and boundary-pushing spin-off with “The Boys: Diabolical,” an animated anthology series that we first heard about late last year....

The Controversial Spaghetti Western That Inspired Tarantino’s Django Unchained Euro International Films By Lee Adams/May 8, 2022 8:21 pm EST “Django Unchained” opens with a pitiful sight: our hero Django (Jamie Foxx), with haunted eyes and his feet in shackles, is marched across a barren landscape by a pair of brutal slave traders. The desperation and cruelty of his plight is laid out in bloody lash marks across his bare back....

The Daily Stream: Get Him To The Greek Is A Raucously Silly, Yet Sweet, Apatow-Era Gem Universal Pictures By Lex Briscuso/April 20, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Get Him to the Greek” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: When record label intern Aaron Green’s life seems to be at its worst — including problems with his sweet yet overbearing girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss) who works her ass off as a nurse and a crazy record exec (Diddy) under whom he has to work — the cosmos hand him an idea to jumpstart a phenomenon at the dwindling label: enlist aging rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand reprising his “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” role) to play a comeback show that would, theoretically, spark a burst of album sales....

To You, In 2000 Years (1003 B1 to 990 B1) Funimation The story of the Titans begins over 1800 years before the aforementioned premiere is set. The first Titan, a young girl named Ymir, once lived a provincial life in a small village. Everything changed when a warrior tribe called the Eldians attacked. The villagers were either killed or enslaved; Ymir was one of the “lucky” latter ones. In the year 1003 BI (1848 years before “To You, In 2000 Years” begins in 845), Ymir let her masters’ pigs escape....

The Expanse Showrunner Talks First Two Episodes, Including The Azure Dragon And A Certain Sex Scene Prime Video By Vanessa Armstrong/Dec. 20, 2021 10:01 am EST The first two episodes of “The Expanse” are now available on Prime Video (check out our spoiler reviews here and here), and season 6 is shaping up to be full of major action and major developments for the characters. /Film had the chance to interview showrunner Naren Shankar about what went down in the season’s first two episodes, “Strange Dogs,” and “The Azure Dragon....

The Lonely Island Think They Know Why Popstar Bombed At The Box Office Universal Pictures By Mike Shutt/May 19, 2022 5:06 pm EST “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” is one of the most underrated comedies of the last 20 years. I am not the first person to say this, and I will not be the last. Almost every person I know who has seen the film absolutely adores it. The music mockumentary created by The Lonely Island (Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg, and Akiva Schaffer) is a packed 87 minutes of wall-to-wall hilarious absurdity....

Top Gun: Maverick Is Certified Fresh With A Near Perfect Score On Rotten Tomatoes Paramount Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 14, 2022 2:52 pm EST If you need to make a bona fide blockbuster in 2022, apparently Tom Cruise is still the man to call. First feedback to “Top Gun: Maverick” is finally here, and so far critics think the film has all the makings of a massive crowd-pleaser. The long-delayed “Top Gun” sequel is officially Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with a near-perfect score of 97% as of the time of writing....

Which Suicide Squad Member Should James Gunn Spin Off Next, And Why Is It Ratcatcher? Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 27, 2022 4:29 pm EST According to HBO Max, “Peacemaker” is currently the #1 show in the world, which means that series creator James Gunn is bound to be given more projects in the DCEU. On an episode of Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast, Gunn said that he’s potentially working on another “The Suicide Squad” spin-off, and hinted at the possibility of a “Peacemaker” season 2....

The Sand Beastie Lucasfilm Despite coming in dead last on this list, this six-legged creature gets one of the coolest introductions of the episode. When Boba Fett and the Rodian prisoner (Dawn Dininger) are digging for water, the prisoner sweeps their hand over what seems to be a fossil. But no, actually, that fossil is moving, and it becomes a large, scaly hand that begins to choke the prisoner out....

Why Adam West Didn’t Take Michael Keaton’s Batman Casting Very Well Warner Bros. Home Entertainment By Witney Seibold/Jan. 24, 2022 12:05 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The final episode of “Batman,” the sublime TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward, aired in March of 1968, bringing to a close one of the best TV shows ever made. It would be 21 years until Tim Burton would make the world’s biggest smash with his “Batman” feature film in 1989....

Why Filming What About Bob Was Such A Nightmare For Richard Dreyfuss Buena Vista Pictures Distribution By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 9, 2022 10:04 am EST A psychotherapist leaves for an extended vacation with his family at their summer house, only for his new patient to follow him. This patient then proceeds to ingratiate himself with his therapist’s loved ones while making the therapist increasingly uncomfortable, to the degree that the latter’s own mental health begins to deteriorate....

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Enthusiasm Shaped Last Action Hero, For Better Or For Worse Columbia Pictures By Witney Seibold/May 19, 2022 12:13 pm EST When it was released in theaters on June 18, 1993, John McTiernan’s “Last Action Hero” was one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year. The film’s star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was coming off the success of “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” and the film’s credited co-screenwriter Shane Black (writing with David Arnott from a story by Zak Penn and Adam Leff) was one of the most sought-out authors in Hollywood, having been paid $1 million to re-write it....

Benedict Cumberbatch Turned Down The First MCU Role He Was Offered Marvel Studios By Sandy Schaefer/May 11, 2022 10:46 am EST Somewhere out there in the multiverse, there’s an alternate reality where Tom Cruise played Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the same timeline where Zooey Deschanel was cast as the Wasp, Emily Blunt signed on as Black Widow, Asa Butterfield portrays Spider-Man, and Joaquin Phoenix became Doctor Strange instead of losing his mind in “Joker....

Just when you thought it was safe to visit deep-sea trenches again… Warner Bros. After directing “The Meg” to box office success, director Jon Turteltaub has stepped aside in favor of the unexpected choice (to put it mildly) of Ben Wheatley for the sequel, because I guess it only makes sense for the director of low-budget movies like “High-Rise,” “Free Fire,” and “Rebecca” to take on a blockbuster like “The Meg 2: The Trench” next?...

Comics To Read If You Love The Umbrella Academy Image Comics By Leah Marilla Thomas/March 25, 2022 6:03 pm EST You’ve binged every season of “The Umbrella Academy” and made your way through the graphic novels — written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá — that they were based on. So, what’s next? Here are some comics to check out if you like “The Umbrella Academy” and want to read something with a similar vibe and/or subject matter....

Sibling Rivalry Crunchyroll, Inc. The contrast between the two sets of siblings entangled in the chaos continues to become more stark. Daki gave a classic villain monologue back in episode 8, during which she explained that she and Gyutaro feel that innocent people should pay the price for their misfortunes with blood. She dismisses the objectification of women and girls as just the way of the world, and states that the only way to get “justice” is to inflict the same pain you’ve endured onto others....

Doctor Strange 2 Runtime Makes It The Shortest MCU Movie In Three Years Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/April 5, 2022 1:29 pm EST There’s no magic trick here, folks: the “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” runtime has finally been made public. If you’ve felt like movies — particularly superhero movies — have been getting longer and longer with each passing year, the evidence certainly seems to be bearing that out....