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Chris Evans May Play Gene Kelly In John Logan-Penned Movie Lionsgate By Jenna Busch/Jan. 4, 2022 5:16 pm EST Chris Evans and his palpable charm may soon be playing a dancing icon. According to Deadline, Evans is up for the role of Gene Kelly in an upcoming film. There is no title yet, but we do know a bit about the plot. The story is reportedly about a 12-year-old boy working at MGM on the studio’s lot in 1952, and he imagines a friendship with the legendary dancer/actor/director Gene Kelly, who is working on his next film at the time....

Death On The Nile Trailer: Hey, This Movie Is Finally Coming Out 20th Century Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 11, 2022 2:44 pm EST When it comes to adaptations of her work, Agatha Christie deserves the best of the best. The master of mystery wrote not one or two but dozens of the best whodunnits of all time. Despite her reputation, the only major American adaptation of her work in recent years is 2017’s “Murder on The Orient Express....

Giancarlo Esposito gets behind the wheel of ‘The Driver’ AMC As brilliant as he is in “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” Giancarlo Esposito has always displayed a far greater range than just his villain roles. As Theo Travers mentions in his statement, a much younger Esposito is fantastic in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and has even added voice roles to his vast career with Disney’s “The Jungle Book” remake in 2016, “DuckTales,” and HBO Max’s animated “Harley Quinn” series....

HBO Max Exceeded New Subscriber Predictions In 2021 Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 6, 2022 8:39 am EST While Netflix still remains on top in the streaming wars, HBO Max, which launched in May of 2020, is becoming a contender in the never-ending battle for streamer supremacy. WarnerMedia and its parent company AT&T revealed today that HBO and HBO Max ended 2021 with a whopping 73.8 million global subscribers. This is just a pinch more than the projected 70-73 million target, and an impressive showing for the still very young service....

How Pikachu And Sonic Conquered The Video Game Movie Curse Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/April 21, 2022 10:00 am EST Hollywood has been trying for a very long time in earnest to make video game movies work. This really dates back to the “Super Mario Bros.” movie in 1993, which did not go particularly well, with “Mortal Kombat” following a couple of years later in 1995. Remarkably, it took literal decades for studios to even begin to crack the code on how to bring video games to life on the big screen in an effective, well-rounded manner....

Let’s All Remember, And Try To Forget, The Terrifying Doll From Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The 6th Day Sony Pictures Releasing By Witney Seibold/June 3, 2022 3:30 pm EST Now streaming on Hulu is Roger Spottiswoode’s 2000 sci-fi action flick “The 6th Day” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, meaning it’s high time everyone who missed it in theaters 22 years ago (and that was a lot of people; “The 6th Day” was something of a bomb) can discover its cool future setting, somewhat clever story, and truly weird scene wherein Schwarzenegger gets to act opposite his own clone....

Meryl Streep Went Full Method For One Of The Devil Wears Prada’s Most Intense Scenes If someone were to describe “The Devil Wears Prada” to you before the book was written or the movie was released, do you think you could see it as an ongoing cultural touchstone? The movie basically boils down to cute fashion montages, a mean boss, and a whatever boyfriend, but it’s a combination of fantasy and relatability cut with a health splash of acid straight from Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly that makes the movie work so well....

Moon Knight’s Depiction Of Mental Illness And Healing Is Spot-On (Except When It’s Not) Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/April 27, 2022 4:08 pm EST Explaining what it feels like to be institutionalized to someone who has never been there feels like trying to describe what it’s like living in another universe. Perhaps that’s why the fifth episode of “Moon Knight,” titled “Asylum” was so easily incorporated into the vastly expansive world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Moon Knight Stripped Away The ‘Wealth And Weaponry’ To Escape Batman Comparisons Disney+ By Debopriyaa Dutta/Feb. 14, 2022 12:24 pm EST Hardcore “Moon Knight” fans might have felt disoriented when presented with Oscar Isaac’s Steven Grant, who appears to be a mild-mannered everyman as opposed to the millionaire playboy alter-ego seen in the comics. And that was intentional: the Bruce Wayne-like aspects of the character were deliberately stripped away to escape the masked vigilante’s (often tiring and unfair) comparisons to Batman....

New Mutants Co-Creator Bob McLeod Wasn’t A Huge Fan Of The Movie’s Horror Approach [Exclusive] 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/May 31, 2022 11:44 am EST For years, director Josh Boone’s “The New Mutants” was the Schrödinger’s cat of comic book movies. It finished shooting in September 2017 and was originally going to come out in April 2018. Then it got delayed to undergo heavy reshoots. Then Disney acquired 20th Century Fox’s media assets, and the reshoots were canceled....

New Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Spot Ramps Up The Drama Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/May 23, 2022 4:54 pm EST The floodgates on “Obi-Wan Kenobi” are well on their way to opening in full, at least as far as Lucasfilm’s usually tight hold on “Star Wars” spoilers is concerned. When J.J. Abrams’ “The Force Awakens” was first set to release in 2015, it took months (if not years) to learn basic facts like the mere names of all the main characters involved in the story....

Pop Culture Imports: 25 AAPI Movies And TV To Stream Now A24 By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 19, 2022 12:00 pm EST Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! For this month’s super-sized Pop Culture Imports, we’re doing something a little different. Rather than focus on foreign-language films as we usually do, this month we’re highlighting AAPI movies in honor of AAPI Heritage Month. Whether that be a thriller that stars John Cho (of which there are more than you think), insanely cool shows based on the ideas of Bruce Lee, or frothy romantic comedies that opened the gateway for mainstream Asian-led Hollywood movies, there’s something for everyone to watch as we appreciate and celebrate the AAPI community, especially in the midst of still-tense times for Asians in America....

Quentin Tarantino Only Wanted The Best Blood For Kill Bill’s Special Effects Miramax By Mike Shutt/March 24, 2022 5:21 pm EST The rise of digital effects has dramatically shifted how movies of all budget sizes get made. While a lot of the work effects artists have done is absolutely phenomenal, there are two areas where their limitations are most prevalent. The first is obviously in digitally recreating human faces. Whether it is the de-aging we see so much of now or just entirely creating someone’s face from scratch, there is always something off about the end result....

Securing Funding For The Original King Kong Was Almost As Impressive As The Film Itself RKO Radio Pictures By Lee Adams/May 10, 2022 1:19 pm EST I loved old monster movies when I was a little kid. I couldn’t get enough of bug-eyed mutants, lovestruck fish-men, and giant ants in the drains of Los Angeles. I especially got a thrill from enraged creatures rampaging through a city, so Ray Harryhausen’s “20 Million Miles to Earth,” “It Came From Beneath the Sea,” and “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” were particular favorites....

General Hux Lucasfilm/Disney One of the First Order’s commanding officers, General Hux is one of the sequel trilogy’s most memorable new characters. Originally introduced in “The Force Awakens,” Hux epitomizes the First Order bureaucracy and serves as a showcase of Star Wars’ ability to inject dry humor with unexpected characters. While Hux is a staple of the new films, he isn’t a Jedi or Sith and has limited power within the structure of the First Order due to consistently being undercut by Kylo Ren....

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ending Explained: Lots Of Gore And A Needless Sequel Setup Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 18, 2022 5:38 pm EST Major “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” spoilers follow. Between “Halloween Kills,” the fifth “Scream” installment, and the recent Netflix sequel “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” legacy horror films are having a big moment. The latter debuted today as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic, completely ignoring the film’s many sequels, reboots, and remakes, but fans are already chainsaw buzz-buzz-buzzing with questions as to where the franchise is heading from here....

The Daily Stream: Firestarter Is A Movie In Need Of A Reboot Universal Pictures By Anya Stanley/Feb. 12, 2022 7:33 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: “Firestarter” (1984) Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Mark L. Lester’s “Firestarter” arrived amid a tempest of King-to-screen adaptations....

The Lost City And RRR Prove There Is Room For More Than Superheroes At The Box Office Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/March 28, 2022 2:07 pm EST To the average moviegoer, it may have just been another week at the movies, with a big superhero movie and a rom-com filled with big stars to choose from at the box office, among other things. However, to someone who regularly obsesses over this stuff as much as I do, I can assure you it was a downright fascinating and encouraging weekend for those who value the theatrical experience such as myself....

The Movie Role That Sidney Poitier Turned Down Early In His Career Columbia Pictures By Lyvie Scott/Feb. 3, 2022 11:18 am EST It’s hard to even discuss the late Sidney Poitier without mentioning his considerable legacy. The Bahamian-American actor, director and activist spent nearly 50 years paving the way for people of color in Hollywood — though he never forgot his humble beginnings. Poitier first left the Bahamas for America when he was just 15....

The Sci-Fi Cult Classic That Inspired The Umbrella Academy’s Number 5 Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 9, 2022 1:04 pm EST “The Umbrella Academy” has its fair share of unusual characters, but Number Five (Aidan Gallagher), a 58-year-old man trapped in the body of a 13-year-old, is especially strange. In an interview with ScreenRant, the co-creator of the source material comic, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, shared the inspiration behind the youngest and oldest Hargreeves sibling....