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The Simple Idea At The Heart Of James Wan’s Horror FilmDistrict By Sandy Schaefer/April 6, 2022 2:40 pm EST For all the success he’s enjoyed helming big-budget action and superhero movies, the Malaysia-born, Australia-raised filmmaker James Wan remains a horror aficionado at heart. “You can take the boy out of horror, but you can never take the horror out the boy,” as he once put it, explaining why his “Aquaman” sequel, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” is “very heavily inspired” by Italian director Mario Bava’s 1965 sci-fi horror film “Planet of the Vampires....

Where The Crawdads Sing Footage Reaction: Nicholas Sparks Meets Big Little Lies [CinemaCon 2022] Sony Pictures Releasing By Jenna Busch AND Sarah Milner/April 25, 2022 10:58 pm EST Today at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Sony Pictures showed footage from the upcoming film “Where the Crawdads Sing,” based on the bestselling 2018 novel by Delia Owens. Produced by Reese Witherspoon, it’s the story of a young woman named Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) who was abandoned as a child in North Carolina....

Why Tom Hanks Thinks Philadelphia Would Be Fundamentally Different If Made Today Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/June 16, 2022 12:21 pm EST 1993’s “Philadelphia” was a key turning point in the career of Tom Hanks. Now considered to be one of America’s finest and most cherished actors, Hanks won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer diagnosed with HIV who was fired after his condition was exposed at his law firm....

Will Smith’s Men In Black Casting Wasn’t The Director’s Idea Sony Pictures By J. Gabriel Ware/July 3, 2022 7:23 pm EST For a long stretch that began in the ’90s and carried over into the 2000s, Will Smith was the king of the summer blockbuster: “Independence Day,” “I, Robot,” “Hancock,” just to name a few. According to Will Smith himself, this was no coincidence. “I am a serious summer movie fan, and I know the type of movie that needs to be in July,” Smith said in 2004....

Year Of The Vampire: Ganja & Hess Is About So Much More Than Bloodlust Kino Classics By Lyvie Scott/Feb. 26, 2022 1:57 pm EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) One of the best vampire films I have ever seen actually never uses the term “vampire” at all....

Alice Is Missing Is Becoming A Movie – Here Are The Lessons It Should Take From The Original Game Julianne Griepp / Hunters Entertainment By Matthew Monagle/June 30, 2022 3:00 pm EST If twice is a coincidence and three times is a pattern, then we’re dangerously close to a new era of tabletop adaptations. One can ignore a planned big-screen adaptation of “Dungeons & Dragons” — it’s certainly been done before — but when a studio licenses an indie TTRPG like “Alice Is Missing,” it feels like the beginning of something special....

Charlie Cox Likes Ben Affleck’s Matt Murdock, Thinks His Daredevil Suit Sucks 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/March 9, 2022 12:58 pm EST Twelve years before Charlie Cox first suited up as the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen in season 1 of Marvel’s “Daredevil” TV series, Ben Affleck portrayed The Man Without Fear in the 2003 “Daredevil” movie. The film was written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson, who was a bit of an outside pick for the job, having previously written the “Grumpy Old Men” movies and helmed the not-so-beloved 1998 tearjerker “Simon Burch....

Douglas Trumbull’s Last Movie Is A Fitting Capstone To His Career Eagle Films/RLJE Films By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 8, 2022 4:19 pm EST Douglas Trumbull might not be a household name like so many of the filmmakers he collaborated with, but he contributed to the visual effects for some of the most technically ground-breaking sci-fi movies of all time, including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and “Blade Runner....

Ghost In The Shell: SAC_2045 Season 2 Trailer: Head Back Into The Stand Alone Complex On Netflix Netflix By Joshua Meyer/March 28, 2022 8:49 am EST Season 2 of Netflix’s “Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045” is headed your way this May, and now there’s a trailer here to prove it. Based on the manga “The Ghost in the Shell” by Shirow Masamune, “Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045” follows the continuing adventures of Motoko Kusanagi, voiced by Atsuko Tanaka in Japanese and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in the English dub....

Great Horror Movies Where The Dog Doesn’t Die Magnet Releasing By Erin Brady/June 17, 2022 8:44 pm EST Dogs! They’re man’s best friends for a reason. They’re friendly, loving, playful, and usually have good instincts on whether or not someone can be trusted. Unfortunately, dogs are also often targeted in horror movies as either victims or killers. As both a horror fan and a dog owner, it actually makes me quite sad when dogs end up dying in films....

How Spider-Man: No Way Home Sets Up Doctor Strange 2 Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 17, 2021 1:17 pm EST The time has finally arrived, as “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” arguably the biggest movie event the world has seen in literally years (thanks, pandemic), has made its way to theaters. As with any Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, a whole lot happened, but this particular movie brought a truly monumental amount to the table....

What does a Joker musical look like? Warner Bros What’s throwing me for a loop here is the musical angle to this sequel. What set “Joker” apart was its grounded, realistic portrayal of this flashy comic book character. That gritty, Martin Scorsese-inspired reality is the whole identity of this odd spin-off from the rest of the DC films. Are they keeping with the Scorsese theme and going for a “New York, New York” style musical?...

Lionsgate Has Struck A Streaming Deal With Roku – Here’s What That Means Lionsgate By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 26, 2022 5:42 pm EST As the streaming landscape continues to evolve, Lionsgate is giving one lesser celebrated options a leg up on the competition. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie studio has inked a deal with The Roku Channel that will send new Lionsgate films to the streamer. The company will still show movies theatrically first, then give its films first streaming priority to the Starz cable channel (a Lionsgate subsidiary) before they land on The Roku Channel....

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On trailer Distributed by A24 in their first family-friendly venture, “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” feels right at home with their collection of peculiar yet wholly wonderful filmography. With Dean’s help, Marcel has begun a mission to track down the rest of his family who were all separated when the house’s previous owners split up during a move. Marcel may have his ill grandmother with him, but he knows the rest of his family is out there somewhere, and no amount of dipping his shoes in honey to help him walk to high places is going to make this an easy task....

Moon Knight Episode 4’s Big Twist Is A Classic TV Trope Marvel Studios By Devin Meenan/April 20, 2022 11:00 am EST Warning: Major spoilers for the most recent episode of “Moon Knight.” The latest episode of “Moon Knight,” “The Tomb,” threw us for a loop. Could it be that Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) is simply a delusional mental patient who’s too obsessed with the B-movie adventures of archaeologist Steven Grant? That he’s cast his fellow patients as supporting characters in his fantasy and his doctor as the villainous Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke)?...

Morbius Director Says Venom’s Universe Has A Spider-Man (And We’ll Meet Him ‘Soon’) Sony Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 25, 2022 6:54 pm EST Do you ever wonder how many Spider-Men is too many Spider-Men? If not, you’re probably about to. In a Q&A with “Morbius” director Daniel Espinosa that was posted on Twitter today, CinemaBlend revealed that the limit on Spider-Men apparently does not exist. The exchange has not been shared on CinemaBlend’s website yet, but the series of Twitter posts from the website’s official page is as follows:...

Starry Eyes MPI Media Group Some people will do anything to achieve their dreams, including giving up their souls to the forces of evil. That’s the premise behind “Starry Eyes,” which stars Alexandra Essoe as Sarah, an aspiring actress working a dead-end job at a Hooters-style restaurant called Big Taters. Sarah suffers through demeaning auditions, is treated poorly by her alleged friends, and is feeling pretty awful about everything. So, when a deal with the devil comes knocking, Sarah must decide how much she’s willing to lose in order to win....

It’s time … for something spooky Netflix In addition to the livestream, there’s also this mysterious Twitter post. 🕰 (34.0151800, -118.4955348) 🕰https://t.co/qmyzoQ1lYi pic.twitter.com/0AtfvYDsDz — Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) April 11, 2022 “Stranger Things” series creators, the Duffer brothers, previously talked about the darker, “horror movie” vibe of season 4, explaining the shift from films such as “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “E.T.” to something along the lines of a proper, hardcore horror offering....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Poster Shows Off, Well, A Strange New World Paramount+ By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 1, 2022 3:52 pm EST The next phase of “Star Trek” is almost upon us … and it’s a somewhat familiar one. Almost every era in the history of the “Trek” franchise is accounted for at this point throughout the various shows and movies, even accounting for the divergent timeline created by the J....

Superhero Bits: Disney Tackles That Ant-Man/Thanos Theory, DC’s Battle Of The Super Sons Trailer & More Disney+ By Ryan Scott/June 30, 2022 5:39 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....