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Paramount+ Should Absolutely Combine with Showtime Paramount+ During a recent press event, Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount+ Original Scripted Series said, “We’re incredibly thrilled and proud of their success because we really feel the brands complement each other, they’re not in competition.” She continued saying, “There’s already bundling around Showtime and Paramount+ and that’s going to continue to evolve so we think it’s a plus.” She concluded the thought by noting, “I think we’re looking at all of our options and seeing how it all evolves....

Daily Podcast: Weekend Box Office, The Crow & Morbius Spoiler Discussion Sony By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2022 4:56 pm EST On the April 4, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news, including the weekend box office, a “The Crow” reboot, and “Morbius” spoilers. In The News: Ryan (OG: Danielle): Morbius Sinks Its Living Vampire Fangs Into $39....

Star power Matthew Murphy/Polk & Co. Feldstein excels in connecting to the book and Fanny’s stagestruck hunger, her insecurities, and the self-love confidence that she deserves better in life and she’s gonna get it. When Fanny is subjected to “If a Girl Isn’t Pretty” (a number about required showbiz beauty standards), her competition against traditional beauty standards is clear especially when she auditions among showgirls of the slender normative ideal. And Feldstein is a funny girl with irresistible zeal....

John Cena The Wrestler Never Impressed Me – But I Love John Cena The Actor Warner Bros./DC Entertainment By Ben F. Silverio/Jan. 13, 2022 1:54 pm EST I have been a fan of professional wrestling for nearly three decades. My fandom began in the early 90s when my cousin Christopher introduced me to the World Wrestling Federation. Unfortunately, he passed away in the mid-90s, so he was unable to go on the journey with me from the Federation Years to the Attitude Era, World Wrestling Entertainment, and beyond....

John DiMaggio On Not Returning As Bender For Futurama Revival: ‘It’s About Self-Respect’ 20th Television Animation By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 16, 2022 3:35 pm EST Hulu announced last week that the beloved adult animation series “Futurama” was set to return, and fans were immediately thrown into a celebratory frenzy. That is, until we all read the fine print and realized that the voice of the iconic Bender “Bending” Rodríguez, John DiMaggio, was notably absent from the cast list....

Loki Director Kate Herron Would Like To Direct That Netflix BioShock Movie, Please 2K Games By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 17, 2022 4:28 pm EST There’s a famous tale in the annals of Major League Baseball history, concerning one Hall of Fame slugger (who you may or may not have heard of) named Babe Ruth. The most prolific home run hitter of his day once supposedly “called his shot” in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, pointing beyond the outfield to where he intended to launch a baseball into orbit and subsequently doing just that moments later....

My Brilliant Friend Season 4 Is Coming To HBO, But It Will End The Series HBO By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 22, 2022 3:18 pm EST Season 3 of the HBO Italian drama series “My Brilliant Friend” dropped during February of this year, thrilling fans who find themselves deeply invested in the intertwining lives of Lila (Gaia Girace) and Elena/Lenù (Margherita Mazzucco). While season 4 of the series is already in the works, Elena and Lila’s saga will, unfortunately, reach its conclusion, as the fourth season of “My Brilliant Friend” will also be the final one, per TVLine....

One Of Bill Murray’s Best Movie Moments Was Made Up On The Spot Marco Iacobucci Epp/Shutterstock By Travis Yates/Feb. 24, 2022 11:27 am EST When it comes to golf movies, one stands a gopher’s head and shoulders above the rest: “Caddyshack.” The 1980 slapstick comedy starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Bill Murray pits the white-collar snobs against the working class slobs charged with being at their beck and call at the ritzy Bushwood Country Club....

Paddington Bear: Savior of the People StudioCanal This confirmation from Whishaw is a huge relief because for a while there, it seemed like we weren’t going to get another installment with our fuzzy hero. The brilliance of these movies is that while they’re inarguably written with families in mind, the “Paddington” films aren’t afraid to tackle complicated issues like immigration or the need for prison reform. Too often we feel that systemic issues are “too much” for children to handle, but the “Paddington” films prove that as long as the information is presented in a manageable way, even the littlest of viewers will feel compelled to stand up for what is right....

Roar: Release Date, Cast, And More Apple TV+ By Ryan Scott/March 7, 2022 12:24 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) The streaming wars have made it so there are so many players in the game it can be nearly impossible to keep up with everything out there....

The Bizarre Saga of Durst HBO Documentary Films The story of “The Jinx” is bizarre from start to finish. The HBO docuseries came about when Durst saw a film by Andrew Jarecki, the Ryan Gosling-led mystery “All Good Things.” The film was based loosely on Durst’s life, and despite the fact that it implicated its main character in multiple murders, it apparently impressed Durst enough to call up Jarecki himself. The then-free man decided to sit with Jarecki for a series of interviews that veered back and forth between shocking honesty and coy manipulation....

Shawn Levy Brought Some Spielberg Spice To The Adam Project Doane Gregory/Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 11, 2022 2:24 pm EST Netflix has promised an impressively star-studded original film slate for 2022, and this week, the streamer is delivering on its promise. Its first major movie of the season is “The Adam Project,” a sci-fi adventure flick that has all the trappings of a theatrical blockbuster, albeit one you can watch from home....

Another multiversal tale in 2022 Sony Pictures Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, and Hailee Steinfeld are all reprising their roles as Miles Morales, Peter B. Parker, and Gwen Stacy, respectively. They’ll be joined by Oscar Issac as Spider-Man 2099 (seen above) and Issa Rae as Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman. Producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller came on stage to present the unfinished footage, and some staggeringly impressive facts. Miller says that the sequel is “way, way, way bigger than the last one,” a feat that sounds impossible but nevertheless extremely exciting....

Stranger Things Season 4 Finale Has More FX Shots Than All Of Season 3 Netflix By BJ Colangelo/June 6, 2022 5:47 pm EST This post contains minor spoilers for season 4 of “Stranger Things.” You have been warned. It would appear that the creative team behind “Stranger Things” heard the phrase “go big or go home” and took that literally. It was one thing when we learned that Netflix allegedly spent $30 million per episode on the fourth season of the series, and it was another when it was made public that several episodes of season 4 would be longer than some feature films....

The Batman Has The Most Beastly Batmobile Yet Warner Bros. Pictures By Collier Jennings/March 3, 2022 7:00 am EST This post contains minor spoilers for “The Batman.” Everybody has a dream fictional car they’d like to own. Maybe you’re a fan of the DeLorean from “Back to the Future” — so what if it can’t actually fly or pierce the space-time continuum? Or maybe you’d pick a Camaro because it reminds you of Bumblebee in “Transformers”?...

The Best New Blu-Ray Releases: Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, And More A24 By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2022 1:00 pm EST Welcome back to my sporadic Blu-ray column! The latest edition features Nicolas Cage playing himself, a great Steven Soderbergh flick that finally has the 4K treatment, not one but two of 2022’s best films, a filmed opera, and Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt teaming up to fight aliens (in 4K!...

The Book Of Boba Fett Just Explained What Happened After Jabba’s Death Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 12, 2022 11:23 am EST This article contains spoilers for the new episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” Advance apologies to all the Bib Fortuna fans out there, but how the heck did Jabba’s former majordomo — a sycophant who fell hook, line, and sinker for Luke Skywalker’s Jedi mind trick in “Return of the Jedi” — first seize and then maintain control of his recently deceased boss’ criminal empire on Tatooine?...

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Hold me back, boys United Artists Wayne never enlisted, but, according to Randy Roberts and James S. Olson’s biography “John Wayne: American,” he did make a heckuva lot of noise about wanting to do so. Though he was, at the age of 34, too old at the start of the war to be conscripted, Wayne was eventually reclassified as 1-A. Given his vital importance to the oater factory that was Republic Pictures, the company apparently kiboshed any attempt to draft their biggest star....

Prime Video By Joshua Meyer/April 22, 2022 9:29 pm EST Prime Video has a lot riding on its upcoming streaming series, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” and when we say a lot, we mean approximately $58 million per episode. This outpaces even the $30 million per episode that Netflix has reportedly sunk into season 4 of “Stranger Things.” According to Variety, the eight-episode first season of “The Rings of Power” will set Prime Video back a whopping $465 million, which “includes startup costs for launching the series that will presumably be spread out over multiple seasons....