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Who Killed The World? How The Apocalypse Happened In The Mad Max Universe Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/June 29, 2022 11:10 am EST The “Mad Max” franchise is one of the wildest movie franchises we have. It started as a small indie Ozploitation film made by a medical doctor-turned-filmmaker inspired by the many car accidents he witnessed growing up, and culminated into the Oscar-winning best film of the 2010s. One of the best aspects of the franchise is its visual storytelling....

Weeeeeelll, About That… Columbia Pictures MTV’s contest, called the First Time Screenwriters Contest, is explicitly for non-WGA members. They say it’s because the whole point of the thing is to “find new voices,” which means non-union. On the surface that makes sense, because in order to be part of the WGA you have to have sold a screenplay or at the very least been hired for a certain amount of professional work....

10 Terrifying Star Trek Episodes To Watch After This Week’s Strange New Worlds Paramount By Witney Seibold/June 30, 2022 9:00 am EST This week’s episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is, essentially, the show’s take on “Alien.” A crew of officers, trapped in a downed starship, must face a species of vicious, poison-spitting lizards that incubate their young inside host bodies. It’s a straight-up monster movie in miniature. It’s tragic — several characters die — and it’s scary....

Comedian Louie Anderson Has Died At 68 HBO Max By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 21, 2022 12:03 pm EST In deeply saddening news, actor and acclaimed comedy legend Louie Anderson has died at the age of 68. Initial reports of Anderson’s hospitalization due to treatment of diffuse large B cell lymphoma, which is a particularly aggressive and the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer, came from fellow comedian, actor, and filmmaker Pauly Shore....

Disney Didn’t Originally Intend For Toy Story 2 To Hit Theaters Pixar By Miyako Pleines/March 24, 2022 2:16 pm EST When I was a kid, “Toy Story” was it. Nothing compared to the fantastic adventures of Woody and his friends, and as an only child, I often spent a lot of time playing by myself, so the idea that my toys could perhaps come to life when I wasn’t there was thrilling to me....

Doctor Strange 2 Character America Chavez Was Originally Set To Appear In Spider-Man: No Way Home Marvel Comics By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 15, 2022 9:56 am EST This post contains spoilers for “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The newest Marvel movie hero, America Chavez, played by Xochitl Gomez, can punch through reality in the shape of a star. She also wears one on her back, and she’s using another one to open a portal for herself into “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness,” the upcoming 28th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Doctor Strange’s character arc, part 2 Disney That “There’s only one path forward” statement from “Infinity War” sounds a little bit like hooey to me. Was there no way to convince Thanos that genocide was a bad idea? Personally, I was always uncomfortable with Iron Man’s actions at the end of “Endgame,” as it showed a man who had previously been committed to ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction — an ostensibly smart and creative character — in possession of an instrument capable of granting him any wish, using said instrument AS a weapon of mass destruction....

Getting Into Character For Hook Took Its Toll On Robin Williams TriStar Pictures By Witney Seibold/April 14, 2022 2:37 pm EST The film career of Robin Williams took a few years to take off, if you’ll forgive the Peter Pan pun right away. Having established a name for himself on the stand-up comedy circuit, and with a high-profile role in 1978’s “Mork & Mindy,” Williams made his starring debut in Robert Altman’s unappealingly odd 1980 film adaptation of “Popeye....

Godzilla Once Took A Swing At These World-Famous Critics TriStar Pictures By Witney Seibold/March 12, 2022 5:43 pm EST Released in the summer of 1998, Roland Emmerich’s “Godzilla” came at a time when the Japanese series was in hibernation. Godzilla’s Heisei era, launched in 1984 with “The Return of Godzilla” (a.k.a. “Godzilla 1985” in the U.S.) came to a close in 1995 with the release of “Godzilla vs. Destoroyah,” a film where Godzilla’s internal radiation had become so strong, he glowed from the inside....

Hereditary Left Alex Wolff Scarred In More Ways Than One A24 By Miyako Pleines/March 23, 2022 2:54 pm EST Ari Aster’s “Hereditary,” a movie about grief, trauma, and the worshipping of ancient demon spirits, can be a hard film to watch. Whether you’re recoiling at Annie Graham’s (Toni Collette) magnificent breakdown at her family dinner table or the unfortunate meeting between her daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) and a telephone pole, there is really quite a lot going on in this film to make you think maybe you should have just stuck with the latest episode of “Love is Blind” instead....

Costar John Cho’s influence New Line Cinema Although the book deals with the conflict between Gogol embracing his Indian heritage alongside American values, it was Korean American costar John Cho who introduced the novel to Penn on the set of “Harold & Kumar.” Clearly, Cho’s recommendation was revelatory, as the pair immediately set out to secure the rights for the novel in a bid to make the film themselves. In a 2007 interview with NPR ahead of the film’s release, Penn detailed the fateful circumstances that led to Mira Nair beating them to the punch:...

To boldly vibrato Paramount Such a musically-inclined mission is a perfect task for Celia Rose Gooding, who is both descended from Broadway royalty and a champion of the stage herself. Gooding’s mother, LaChanze, originated the role of Ti Moune in “Once on This Island,” and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for “The Color Purple” in 2006. Gooding herself is also Tony-nominated for her work in the Diablo Cody-penned musical “Jagged Little Pill....

‘He was physically there’ Netflix Although the confrontation in “Sanctified” involves Javi kicking Marty and pistol-whipping him, Alfonso Herrara revealed that Jason Bateman insisted on being physically present in the scene and not using a stunt double. He continued: “What I really admired from Jason was, he was there, and he was physically there. And sometimes there was a double, and he said, ‘No, no, no, no; I’m going to do it myself....

John Wick Director Chad Stahelski To Direct Kaiju TV Show Project Nemesis Breakneck Media By Danielle Ryan/May 7, 2022 9:18 pm EST Heads up, kaiju fans — Jeremy Robinson’s “The Nemesis Saga” novels are being adapted for television. The first book in the series, “Project Nemesis,” is going to be a television series from Sony TV and Original Film, and here’s the really exciting part: “John Wick” co-director Chad Stahelski is at the helm, taking on both directorial and executive producer roles....

Jurassic World Dominion LEGO Sets Are Packed With Dino Action And Maybe Chicken Legs LEGO By Jenna Busch/Feb. 18, 2022 9:00 am EST “Jurassic World Dominion” is set to hit theaters on June 10, 2022. Despite my fear that some rogue scientist will actually try this, and despite the lessons we learned from the films, as long as we stay in the fictional world I’m all about that dino life. In the new film, we’re four years in since Isla Nublar was destroyed, and dinosaurs are living among us....

Netflix Doubles Down, Will Film Two Red Notice Sequels Back-To-Back Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 12, 2022 2:03 pm EST Sometimes, risk leads to reward … and other times, actions simply lead to consequences. I’ll, uh, let you decide which category this following news falls into. It’ll probably come as less of a shock and more of a fait accompli for those who’ve been paying attention, but viewers can now take it on good authority that there will be much, much more of “Red Notice” in their future....

It does make sense Lucasfilm There is no question we’ve had a lot of Vader over the years, but Chow’s logic does make sense here. While many plot details for the show are being kept tightly under wraps, we do know that it will take place 10 years after the events of “Revenge of the Sith.” The last time these two characters saw one another, it was after a harrowing duel that saw Obi-Wan leave his former padawan for dead on the shores of Mustafar....

Only One Scene From The Original ‘Script’ Made It Into Labyrinth Tri-Star Pictures By Lee Adams/June 30, 2022 1:14 pm EST Once upon a time in a distant land, before the all-consuming creature known as CGI was even a thing, there was a wise and gentle puppeteer named Jim Henson. He spent many years crafting his gang of colorful creatures, known as the Muppets. Soon, though, the Muppets decided it was time to leave their cozy home on the TV and make the perilous crossing to the big screen....

Shawn Levy Went Off-Book For His Favorite Bits Of The Adam Project Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 29, 2022 1:07 pm EST The partnership between Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy is a gift that keeps on giving. They’re responsible for giving us “Free Guy” — one of the most fun movies of 2021 — and their recent Netflix film “The Adam Project” is a sci-fi, Amblin-inspired adventure that has been a massive hit for the streaming giant....

Shows Like Outlander You Definitely Need To See Starz By Audrey Fox/Jan. 4, 2022 4:48 pm EST Often when we think of time travel stories, they feel like a fun little jaunt, a brief adventure from which one can easily return. What would it really be like to make a life for yourself in a time that is not your own? “Outlander,” based on a series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, explores such a prospect....