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Audrey Hepburn Had To Fight For One Of Breakfast At Tiffany’s Most Memorable Scenes Paramount Pictures By Jamie Gerber/April 19, 2022 11:36 am EST There are so many classic moments that come to mind when thinking about “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” The 1961 film, which was very loosely based on Truman Capote’s novella of the same name, stars Audrey Hepburn as the unforgettable Holly Golightly, but Capote actually wanted the role to go to Marilyn Monroe and was very unhappy when Hepburn won the part....

Christian Bale’s Inspiration For His Thor: Love And Thunder Villain Comes From A Surprising Place Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/June 22, 2022 8:32 am EST “Thor: Love and Thunder” is hitting theaters on July 8, 2022, and we’re about to see Christian Bale suck all the color out of the universe. At least that’s what it looks like from the trailers. Bale is playing Gorr the God Butcher, and — at least in the comics — Gorr’s family dies, and his gods don’t save them....

Daily Podcast: Fast & Furious 10, Will Smith, Breaking Bad, Doctor Strange, Ahsoka & Weekend Box Office Lucasfilm On the April 11, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to discuss the latest film and TV news including weekend box office, “Fast & Furious 10,” Will Smith, “Breaking Bad,” “Doctor Strange,” and “Ahsoka.” In The News: Ryan: Sonic 2 Wins The Box Office, But Ambulance And Morbius Are The Real Stories...

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: RRR, Chip ‘N Dale, Better Luck Tomorrow, And More DVV Entertainment On the May 24, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by editor Hoai-Tran Bui to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Ben took a quick beach trip to Destin. It’s wedding season for HT!...

Daily Podcast: Moon Knight Episode 4 Spoiler Discussion - The Tomb Marvel By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2022 5:48 pm EST On the April 20, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to have a spoiler-filled discussion about Moon Knight episode 4 “The Tomb” Opening Banter: In The Spoiler Room: Moon Knight episode 4 “The Tomb” Feedback Brief reactions Moon Knight Episode 4 Gets Real Trippy, Man...

Darth Vader’s Original Voice Was More Hilarious Than Terrifying By Steven Ward/May 2, 2022 9:43 am EST What goes into making a great movie villain? A compelling character arc and menacingly cool appearance are obvious starts. Take for instance one of sci-fi’s reigning big bads for over four decades: Darth Vader. But when George Lucas first started filming the character in “Star Wars: A New Hope,” many of the familiar plot points we now associate with Vader were still up in the air — including his status as father to both Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa....

Elizabeth Olsen Has Never Actually Met John Krasinski Marvel By Danielle Ryan/May 14, 2022 1:57 pm EST Warning: spoilers ahead for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Making movies is a challenge, and doubly so in the Covid era, when strict safety protocols can make gathering people in the same room nearly impossible. So it’s really no surprise that some of the cast members in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” were never on set together, and they only appeared that way because of some movie magic....

First Look At Sylvester Stallone As A Middle America Mob Boss In Paramount+ Series Tulsa King Lionsgate By Joshua Meyer/April 30, 2022 4:21 pm EST Paramount+ has released a first-look image of Sylvester Stallone in character as the titular mob boss in his first TV series, the upcoming “Tulsa King.” The series is the latest from Taylor Sheridan, who continues to juggle a million Paramount projects at once, to the point where they should probably just rename it “Sheridan+” and “The Sheridan Network” in place of Paramount+ and The Paramount Network....

Haley Joel Osment Was Almost A Major Character In The Harry Potter Franchise Buena Vista Pictures Distribution By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Feb. 2, 2022 5:27 pm EST Chris Columbus wasn’t always set to direct “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t always going to play the boy who lived. The film franchise, adapted from J.K. Rowling’s fantasy novels of the same name, once pegged legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg to direct the first movie in the series....

Halo TV Show Team On Making ‘Intelligent Sci-Fi,’ Battling Expectations, And More [Interview] Paramount+ By Ryan Scott/March 22, 2022 3:17 pm EST There are very few video games of any kind that have managed to establish a global audience and pop culture awareness in the way that “Halo” has since its inception in 2001. The original “Halo: Combat Evolved” helped to turn Microsoft’s Xbox into a huge hit, and almost single-handedly ensured the company’s place in the 21st century console wars....

Matt Berry Thought Toast Of London Would Be The End Of His Voice Acting Career Objective Media Group/All3Media By Lee Adams/April 22, 2022 10:23 am EST When it comes to comedy, we Brits have a special place in our hearts for utter bastards. We love our pompous jobsworths, self-deluded nincompoops, misanthropic braggarts, our incompetent blowhards. We can’t get enough of self-important little men like Captain Mainwaring in “Dad’s Army,” or the impotent tyranny of Basil Fawlty in “Fawlty Towers,” or bootlicking careerists like Arnold Rimmer in “Red Dwarf....

New Alien Movie Coming From Don’t Breathe Director Fede Alvarez, Will Go Straight To Hulu 20th Century Studios By BJ Colangelo/March 4, 2022 5:48 pm EST GAME AIN’T OVER, MAN! In news that will surely shake genre fans to their core, we’re getting a new “Alien” film! “Evil Dead” and “Don’t Breathe” director Fede Alvarez will be directing the latest installment in the greatest horror franchise of all time, with “Alien” director and legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott producing....

Practical magic Warner Bros. Dating back to the earliest days of bringing the world of “Harry Potter” to life on the big screen, computer-generated visual effects were a big part of the equation — which obviously makes sense. This is about wizards and, in the cast of the “Fantastic Beasts” series, magical creatures, as well. So naturally, the latest entry in the franchise leans on that, too, making it feel visually in line with what has come before....

Patrick Stewart Was Very Picky About His Star Trek: First Contact Role Paramount By Collier Jennings/March 25, 2022 7:35 pm EST Of all the feature films based on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Star Trek: First Contact” is my favorite (it even takes the top spot as my favorite “Trek” film). “First Contact” focuses on the trauma Captain Jean-Luc Picard suffered when he was assimilated into the Borg, and how the Enterprise’s quest to stop the Borg from rewriting history unveils a deep-seated rage within the normally calm Picard....

Sing 2, Matrix Resurrections Are No Match For Spider-Man At The Box Office Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 27, 2021 1:09 pm EST Movie theaters enjoyed a long, five-day Christmas weekend with many new releases for moviegoers to choose from, which resulted in a flood of moviegoers making their way to the box office over the holiday frame. Once again, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” crushed the competition, as was expected. But there were some silver linings this weekend, as opposed to last week when everything else drowned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s wake....

Re-Animator Empire International Even H.P Lovecraft could lean into the campiness of horror as a viable method of making a buck. His “Herbert West – Reanimator” novella series was written to order, and it shows. Each entry gets wilder than the last, ending on cliffhangers so weak that legendary Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi is the first to admit Dr. West’s tales kind of suck. It’s that awfulness, however, that allows the 1985 cult horror “Re-Animator” to go off the rails and launch an orbital strike of transgressive gore and taboo situations....

Brown Sugar Searchlight Pictures A quintessential feel-good Black film usually boasts at least one of the following: a killer soundtrack, effortless story, or (hopefully) Queen Latifah. Lucky for us, Rick Famuyiwa’s hidden gem “Brown Sugar” was blessed with all three. Black films are often plagued by comparisons to films of a less-diverse persuasion. But Famuyiwa, known as much for his genre-bending coming-of-age flick “Dope” as his work on “The Mandalorian,” injects this 2000s rom-com with enough personality to beat the “When Harry Met Sally” allegations....

The Best Penguin Comics Of All Time DC Comics By Jamie Gerber/March 2, 2022 5:58 pm EST Batman has a better rogues’ gallery than most any other DC hero. One of the most easily recognizable of these classic villains is Oswald Cobblepot, AKA the Penguin. Like Batman himself, the Penguin was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. He debuted in “Detective Comics” #58 in 1941. This criminal mastermind is known for both his love of birds and his trick umbrellas, which do far more than protect him from the rain....

The Bizarre Deal That Landed Marilyn Monroe Her Role In Asphalt Jungle Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Michael Boyle/March 15, 2022 2:48 pm EST As hard as it may be to believe in light of her later fame, there was a time when Marilyn Monroe struggled to land even a small role in a major film. Her early acting career was spent as an uncredited extra in mostly-forgotten films like “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim” and “You Were Meant for Me....

The Embarrassing Raiders Of The Lost Ark Audition That Led To An E.T. Role Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 22, 2021 10:24 am EST Most people (okay, those who care about film trivia) are likely aware by now that Tom Selleck and his mustache came precariously close to playing Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” before Harrison Ford locked down the role. What they might not know, however, is that Peter Coyote nearly donned Indy’s famous fedora himself before working on another vintage 1980s Steven Spielberg-directed blockbuster....