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“That’s Why They Have to Kill You” Disney+ In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hawke discussed how he’s learned to embrace the villain role, but admitted he wasn’t immediately on board. “I was always a little apprehensive; there’s a certain kind of actor that really excels in that universe, and I’m still not sure I’m one of them,” he says. Hawke looked to psychiatrist Carl Jung and Branch Davidians cult leader David Koresh as inspiration for his “Moon Knight” role, looking to find the ways the mortal man can become a monster....

Ethan Peck Explains The ‘Burden’ Of Becoming Star Trek’s Spock Paramount+ By Jeremy Mathai/June 23, 2022 12:59 pm EST “Star Wars” tends to hog the spotlight during discussions of legacy characters and the weight that new actors feel when taking over the roles first embodied by such big-name actors. The recently-wrapped “Obi-Wan Kenobi” uses several recast (some fresh, some recast 20-odd years ago) characters to tell its story, for instance: Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan, Hayden Christensen’s Anakin, Vivien Lyra Blair as young Leia, and Grant Feely as young Luke....

Everything We Learned From The New DC Superhero Movie Preview Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 11, 2022 2:56 pm EST Warner Bros. has just dropped a teaser for its 2022 DC superhero movie slate, and it packs a massive amount of brand new footage into just 60 seconds. The promo, titled “The World Needs Heroes,” gives us our first look at The Justice Society of America, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” footage, and a Flash redesign....

Stunt work favors the prepared Miramax Chan has always set a precedent for performing his own stunts, which obviously comes with a certain amount of risk. That’s why he and his team often plan stunts far in advance — but no amount of foresight can really prepare anyone for some of the actor’s most dangerous moves. Ironically, Chan himself often found himself scared to perform certain tricks from time to time....

Justin Lin To Direct Live-Action Adaptation Of One Punch Man For Sony Crunchyroll By BJ Colangelo/June 13, 2022 5:55 pm EST In case anyone was worried that Justin Lin was going to need to fill up his free time after leaving “Fast X,” we’ve gotten word that he’s found a replacement project that blows our wildest fantasy booking dreams out of the water. As was announced today, Justin Lin has taken on the directorial duties for “One Punch Man” at Sony Pictures....

Midnight Pulp Streamer Offers The Only Viable Alternative To Watching The Super Bowl: A Monster Movie Film Festival King Brothers Productions By Kaylee Dugan/Feb. 10, 2022 10:54 am EST I never know what to think about the companies/brands/entertainment subsidies that market themselves in direct opposition to the Super Bowl. I mean, I think the NFL is trash and deserves every critique it gets, but also sports are fun and it’s okay if someone likes something you don’t like....

Moonfall Director Roland Emmerich On Smuggling Science Fiction Into A Disaster Movie [Interview] Lionsgate By Jacob Hall/Feb. 2, 2022 4:30 pm EST “Moonfall” isn’t quite the movie you think it is. Okay, yes — it’s a movie where the Moon is falling to Earth, causing all kinds of chaos and destruction as an ensemble of puny humans tries to save their very existence. This is a film from director Roland Emmerich, after all....

No Time To Die Director Addresses Daniel Craig’s Final Moments As James Bond Eon Productions By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 21, 2021 11:51 am EST It’s no secret that “No Time to Die” is Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond, but if you’ve been living under a rock, the particulars of his exit may indeed be a secret still. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga is out now discussing those particulars in a new interview with Empire, which is obviously laden with major spoilers....

Raging Bull Ending Explained: Jake LaMotta Loses It All United Artists By Caroline Madden/Feb. 3, 2022 4:24 pm EST Directed by Martin Scorsese, “Raging Bull” is a ferocious portrait of award-winning boxer Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro), a self-loathing tyrant who succumbs to animalistic rage and jealousy that leads to his downfall. It is a dark tale of “self-destructiveness and forsaken potential where the champion is left stripping his belt for jewels and literally beating his own head against the wall of a dark cell by the end,” Joshua Meyer writes in his piece on Best Picture nominees that should have won....

The one and only Zombo! Rob Zombie Fans may not have immediately put someone like Zombo high atop their list of original characters that they’d love to see Rob Zombie bring back for this “Munsters” reboot, but that’s exactly what they’re going to get. Honestly, this is exactly the kind of deep pull we’d expect from a super-fan like Rob Zombie. The director breathlessly announced the news on his Instagram account, alongside the caption of:...

Sideshow’s Cable Premium Format Figure Brings Out The Big Guns [Exclusive] Max Evry By Max Evry/Dec. 22, 2021 3:43 pm EST The folks at Sideshow sent along a copy of their super bulky, hyper-manly Cable Premium Format Figure depicting the battle-hardened X-Force leader. Coming in at a mighty 24.5-inches tall, this piece has future warrior Nathan Summers packing some serious heat with perhaps the biggest guns this side of a Naval destroyer....

Sigourney Weaver Went All-In For Her Showdown With The Alien Queen By Lee Adams/March 21, 2022 1:10 pm EST Ripley vs the Xenomorph Queen in “Aliens:” it’s one of cinema’s greatest climactic showdowns in one of the best sequels of all time, an epic sci-fi confrontation to rank alongside Luke finding out who his dad is in “The Empire Strikes Back.” When James Cameron got the chance to follow up his surprise smash “The Terminator” with a sequel to Ridley Scott’s highly esteemed “Alien,” he certainly didn’t hold back....

Star Trek: Voyager Finally Found A Cameo Worthy Of Jason Alexander Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 21, 2022 12:43 pm EST “Star Trek: Voyager” season 5, episode 20, “Think Tank” (first aired March 31, 1999) saw a dangerous cadre of bounty hunters attack the ship and capture the crew, and in the midst of battle, U.S.S. Voyager is visited by a mysterious and soft-spoken alien named Kurros (Jason Alexander). Kurros explains that he belongs to a think tank of ultra-intelligent beings — cleverly hidden in subspace — who have linked themselves to a telepathy machine....

Stephen King’s It Is Terrorizing The Netflix Top 10, And For Good Reason Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/June 28, 2022 6:05 pm EST When Warner Bros. first announced they were making a film adaptation of Stephen King’s “It,” many were convinced the project was unnecessary. Tim Curry’s portrayal of Pennywise the Clown in the 1990 miniseries terrified audiences for nearly three decades and trying to recapture that horror felt like an impossible task....

The Adam Project Trailer: A Time-Traveling Ryan Reynolds Crash-Lands With The Rest Of Us Into 2022 Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 10, 2022 9:08 am EST In Netflix’s “The Adam Project,” Ryan Reynolds plays time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed, who accidentally crash-lands in 2022 and “teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future,” per the official logline. Reynolds isn’t alone on this time-traveling adventure. For starters, he’s got Zoe Saldana with him, and she’s ready to point a gun in your face because that’s just how her character rolls....

The Afterparty Season 2 Reveals New And Returning Cast Members Apple TV+ By Shania Russell/April 27, 2022 3:13 pm EST After a season of genre-bending delights, “The Afterparty” is poised to make its grand return with both newcomers and a crop of familiar faces. Hopefully, you got a chance to watch the mystery unravel when the show arrived on Apple TV+ earlier this year, because the series perfectly hits the comedy and murder-mystery sweet spot we’ve all been craving since Benoit Blanc first monologued about donut holes....

The Best Characters In Peacemaker, Ranked HBO Max By Scott Thomas/March 3, 2022 7:25 pm EST As the “Peacemaker” first season finale drew to a close, my first thought was, “It was always about that intro.” For six weeks, the neon-lit dance that opened James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” follow-up dominated social media. But, in the end, it was more than just a meme-able credits sequence. More than anything else, the finale revealed that it was a declaration of artistic intent....

The Daily Stream: The Departed Is A Rare Remake That Matches The Original With Fresh Themes Warner Bros. Pictures By Joshua Meyer/June 26, 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: “The Departed” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix, HBO Max The Pitch: A cop and criminal each risk blowing their cover while acting as informants for the other side of the law in Martin Scorsese’s Boston-set “Infernal Affairs” remake....

The Flight Attendant Season 2 Teaser: Cheers To Making Better Choices, Baby! HBO Max By Jeremy Mathai/March 17, 2022 1:24 pm EST Is it about time that we all agreed that Kaley Cuoco is enjoying the best post-“The Big Bang Theory” career out of anyone in the main cast, or is that fact already agreed-upon? Between her voice performance as the title character in DC’s animated “Harley Quinn” series and her sneakily nuanced role as the walking disaster Cassie Bowden in the first season of “The Flight Attendant,” these two shows were more than enough to reestablish the actor as one of our most entertaining performers around....

The Omen’s Spooky Real-Life Curse That Haunted The Set 20th Century Studios By Miyako Pleines/Jan. 25, 2022 2:53 pm EST Listen, cursed film sets are nothing new. Movies have seemingly been plagued by misfortune since the very first time a director yelled, “Action!” Some of the most famous cursed films are “Poltergeist” where people in the cast died horrible deaths spanning anything from unfortunate medical misdiagnoses to gruesome murder; “The Crow” where the star of the film, Brandon Lee, was accidentally shot dead during a scene involving a prop gun; and “Rosemary’s Baby,” which experienced multiple freak deaths in addition to the brutal murder of director Roman Polanski’s then-girlfriend, Sharon Tate....