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The Baby-Sitters Club Netflix Series Has Been Canceled After Its Second Season Netflix By Joshua Meyer/March 11, 2022 9:42 pm EST In October 2021, the day after the show’s second full season dropped, Netflix After School posted a lyric video on YouTube encouraging viewers to sing along with “Say Hello to Your Friends,” the theme song of “The Baby-Sitters Club.” If you’re a fan of the show, get ready to be discouraged and say goodbye to your friends, as Netflix has canceled “The Baby-Sitters Club” after two seasons....

What a punchline This deleted scene has been a long time coming. Rumors spread a while back that Barry Keoghan had been cast in a secret role for “The Batman,” which many thought to be Joker. Adding fuel to the fire, Warner Bros. reportedly test screened the film both with and without him in it. Then, when the final film was released and audiences got a very brief and obfuscated look at the new Mr....

The Boys Season 3 Trailer: Billy Butcher Fights Laser Eyes With Even More Laser Eyes By Jeremy Mathai/March 12, 2022 12:53 pm EST The Boys Season 3 Trailer Well, hopefully, this trailer will help make the last stretch until the season premiere that much easier to endure. “The Boys” stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, the no-nonsense leader of the eponymous Boys, along with Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell, Antony Starr as the psychopathic Homelander, Erin Moriarty as Starlight/Annie January, Laz Alonso as Mother’s Milk, Tomer Capone as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, Colby Minifie as Vought PR person Ashley Barrett, Giancarlo Esposito as the villainous Vought CEO Stan Edgar, Jessie T....

The Daily Stream: Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous Is The Lost Chapter Of Bo Burnham’s Career MTV By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 28, 2021 1:56 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 Series: “Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Bo Burnham’s single-season MTV comedy aired in 2013, but has rarely been available to stream until coming to Netflix this past week....

Where its potential lies Prime Video The animation might struggle with heftier action sequences. The elements are on the table for “Vox Machina” to play with. For example, in “Scanbo” (the weakest episode that forgoes the power of the ensemble and instead focuses on a rather hit-or-miss comedy relief), Scanlan (Sam Riegel) experiments with a roulette of potions with unpredictable powers — shrinking to dodge the blade, teleportation, and sudden fire breath....

The Who’s Who of Mafia Movies HBO One way that “The Sopranos” managed to create such incredible authenticity was by casting just about every actor who had ever been in a mafia movie. “The Sopranos” shares a whopping 27 cast members with “Goodfellas,” and six of those were regular cast: Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Vincent Pastore, Tony Sirico, Frank Vincent, and Joseph R. Gannascoli. Drea de Matteo, who played Adriana La Cerva, the girlfriend of Tony’s nephew Christopher (Imperioli), told Vanity Fair that the cast didn’t have to do much acting when it came to their accents or behavior:...

The Second Half Of 12 Monkeys Is A Sore Subject For Brad Pitt Universal By Jeremy Smith/June 16, 2022 1:49 pm EST In 1996, Brad Pitt earned his first Academy Award nomination for his showy turn as unhinged rich kid Jeffrey Goines in director Terry Gilliam’s “12 Monkeys.” Given the significance of the role in his career, you’d expect Pitt to have a special fondness for his performance in what is now considered a sci-fi classic....

The Surprising Reason Porgs Were Created For Star Wars: The Last Jedi Walt Disney Studios By Miyako Pleines/Feb. 9, 2022 1:34 pm EST Whenever a film, especially a film that’s part of a franchise, makes the decision to add cutesy characters into its story, there is always the risk that the new additions will be seen as gimmicky, or worse — annoying. Many films have done this successfully — the dreaded minions of the “Despicable Me” series truly have a particular staying power that has even gone on to garner them their own spin-off films — but other times, things don’t exactly go according to plan....

Scott found a new way to shoot a film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ridley Scott’s film production style is heavily influenced by his beginnings in commercials. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott relied on storyboards to help convey his vision to commercial clients, and he continued using storyboards in Hollywood. But when considering the sensitive material of “Thelma & Louise,” Scott needed to add a new production element to his repertoire. At this point in his career, Scott was primarily an action director, with films like “Alien” and “Blade Runner” under his belt....

True Detective Season 4 Is In The Works With Barry Jenkins And Issa Lopez HBO By BJ Colangelo/March 18, 2022 9:02 pm EST Nic Pizzolatto’s crime drama anthology series for HBO may be coming back for a fourth season, but Pizzolatto won’t be returning this time around. According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has brought Issa López (“Tigers Are Not Afraid,” “La Boda de Valentina”) on board to take over script duties for the show’s next season, tentatively titled “True Detective: Night Country....

Watch The First Episode Of The Offer Right Now For Free Paramount+ By BJ Colangelo/April 28, 2022 4:35 pm EST “The Godfather” is undoubtedly one of the greatest and most beloved films of all time. Just in time for the film’s 50th anniversary, Paramount+ has debuted a ten-episode limited series called “The Offer,” exploring the behind-the-scenes drama set from the perspective of producer Albert S. Ruddy (Miles Teller) as he adapts Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name for the silver screen....

A Certain Animated Superhero Film Made Things Awkward For The Fantastic Four Pixar By Michael Boyle/May 19, 2022 11:25 am EST Although “Fantastic Four” is one of the most popular and beloved team of superheroes in comic book history, you wouldn’t know it from the superhero movie genre alone. Both the 2005 and 2007 “Fantastic Four” films were met with mixed, mostly unenthused reactions, and I think it would be best for everyone involved in the film if we all just pretended the 2015 reboot attempt never happened....

Andy Samberg Needed A Favor From Steven Spielberg For One Of Popstar’s Most Memorable Gags Universal By Bill Bria/May 19, 2022 12:51 pm EST H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds” has been a source of terror ever since its debut in 1897. Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater On the Air’s infamous 1938 radio adaptation caused near nation-wide panic when first broadcast, and director Byron Haskin’s 1953 film version creeped out hundreds of Eisenhower-era kids with its special effects....

The birth of Cabbage Patch Kids Directed by Andrew Jenks, “Billion Dollar Babies” opens with an old tube TV and the voice of Neil Patrick Harris providing an abridged tease of the Cabbage Patch Kids craze that shook store shelves in the 1980s, sparking the first truly unhinged packs of wild shoppers who would stop at nothing to get the hottest toy of the season. It’s a small sampling of the full story to come, with only vague hints of the third-act revelation that takes the documentary from being a story of incredible success in the toy industry to being a shady tale of betrayal and opportunity....

Cyrano Star Haley Bennett Channeled Her Frustrations To Give Roxanne More Agency [Interview] MGM By Shania Russell/Feb. 25, 2022 1:00 pm EST MGM’s “Cyrano” tackles the daunting task of reinventing a classic. But instead of getting bogged down beneath various adaptations of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, the movie challenges the previous iterations. This approach was especially important for Haley Bennett, who played the role of Roxanne. Roxanne is the beautiful woman that Cyrano (Peter Dinklage) expects to spend his life pining for....

Dave Bautista Played An Alien From Space Long Before His MCU Days Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/June 14, 2022 2:31 pm EST We know Dave Bautista as a former wrestler, as the replicant Sapper Morton in “Blade Runner 2049,” Glossu Rabban in “Dune,” and of course, Drax the Destroyer, a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the MCU. He’s played Drax in four films and has two on the way with “Thor: Love and Thunder,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy 3....

Perfect Par’Mach’kai Paramount In an interview with StarTrek.com, Farrell revealed that she and Dorn would often flirt with one another in-character because they thought it might encourage the writers to give them more scenes together. The writers definitely gave them more scenes, though it took a direction neither actor completely expected: “Oh, we’d thought we were so clever flirting with each so we’d have more stuff to do together, just because we were friends....

Halo Breaks A Major Rule From The Video Games In Episode 1 Paramount+ By Jeremy Mathai/March 24, 2022 8:00 am EST Beware of spoilers for the first episode of “Halo” below! What lengths are writers and directors prepared to go in the pursuit of avoiding the fate that has befallen practically every other live-action video game adaptation in decades past? With a property as beloved as “Halo” is, that pressure doubles (if not quadruples) for the creative team in charge of developing the Paramount+ series that, after a long and terribly winding path, has finally arrived on the small screen....

Horror and mental health Dimension Films While the gory and gruesome scenes in your average horror movie often seem distressing, they actually hold the potential to provide comfort. This is especially true for people with clinical anxiety. In a 2020 study published in NeuroImage, a group of Finnish scientists found that people with anxiety disorders can find horror movies relaxing due to “the anticipation of threat from environmental cues, and the reaction to threat onset....

How Barbershop Prepared Tim Story For The Fantastic Four Marvel Studios By J. Gabriel Ware/June 13, 2022 2:06 pm EST After the disastrous unreleased 1994 “Fantastic Four” movie, it would take 11 years for fans to finally get the movie they deserve. As the head of Marvel Studios, Avi Arad, hunted for a director for 2005’s “Fantastic Four,” he saw promise in an up-and-coming director from Los Angeles: Tim Story. Even though Story had a short résumé, Arad’s confidence stemmed from the director’s most successful film at the time, “Barbershop....