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Listen To Another Hot Track From John Carpenter’s Firestarter Score Universal Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 3, 2022 1:18 pm EST Here’s yet another “Firestarter” track by John Carpenter, whose fiery “Firestarter End Titles” was recently released as a glimpse into the film’s overarching score. Although Carpenter was officially supposed to direct the 1984 version of the film before being replaced, he is connected to the Blumhouse adaptation in a musical capacity....

Mad Max: Fury Road’s Car Chases Look So Good Because They Were So Dangerous To Shoot Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/March 23, 2022 12:03 pm EST When “Mad Max: Fury Road” came along in 2015, it was a revelation. The fourth “Mad Max” film landed in theaters thirty years after “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” the third entry in the series. In a year where the box office was dominated by blockbusters like “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Jurassic World,” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” no one had any reason to suspect that this other old franchise would come roaring back to life with such great gusto, rather like a souped-up car engine in a post-apocalyptic desert “war party....

Old material Matthew Murphy/Polk&Co. Beginning with an old washed-up Buddy performing stand-up at retirement homes, the show is set in a 1994 New York City and has flashbacks from the late 1940s to early 1950s. In the adapted book of Crystal’s screenplay with his original co-screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, new and old materials settle in. The funniest new material is the hilarity of an Emmy “In Memoriam” montage that erroneously honors Buddy as among the dead....

The troublesome Mr. Brando Warner Bros Brando was an infamously difficult actor throughout his career, from his star-making turn in “A Streetcar Named Desire” to his bizarre on-set behavior in his final screen roles. His “Streetcar” co-star Jessica Tandy labeled him an “impossible, psychopathic b*stard” (via Slate) while he reportedly shot some scenes in his underpants while filming his last role in “The Score” (via Independent). Stories about Brando’s antics almost outnumber his list of great performances....

Raging Bull, Okja, And Drive My Car Are Coming To The Criterion Collection C&I Entertainment By Jeremy Mathai/April 19, 2022 4:33 pm EST Christmas tends to come around only once a year, but movie fanatics and physical media junkies usually find themselves in for a treat just a little more often than that. The Criterion Collection periodically announces a batch of both new and classic films entering the prestigious halls of the home-video distribution company, having most recently revealed that the acclaimed romantic dramedy “The Worst Person in the World” would be ushered into the Criterion Closet in June of this year....

Richard Linklater And Glen Powell Reunite For Action Comedy Based On A True Story, Hitman Paramount Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/May 12, 2022 9:40 am EST You heard it right, Richard Linklater is directing a 12-year epic chronicling the coming of age story of a hitman. Or, was it about a hitman who spends one intellectually and sexually stimulating night falling in love with his victim in Vienna? I mean, it’s neither of those things but it would be really funny if it was....

Robert Eggers ‘Can’t Stand’ His Breakout Film The Witch Now A24 By Sandy Schaefer/April 11, 2022 11:19 am EST “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman” filmmaker Robert Eggers broke out with “The Witch,” a movie most directors would love to have on their resume, especially as their feature-length debut. It’s also a film that Eggers admits he really doesn’t like to watch now, in the same way that creative folk in any field tend to be extra hard on their earlier work....

Scream 6 Adds Dermot Mulroney As Potential Victim/Killer Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 3, 2022 5:55 pm EST Ghostface’s pool of victims just got bigger: Dermot Mulroney is joining the cast of “Scream 6,” per The Hollywood Reporter. The “My Best Friends Wedding” actor will play a police officer in the new installment, though further details about the character aren’t immediately available. We do know the next installment of “Scream” will take the survivors of Woodsboro’s latest slaying out of the town itself, just as Sidney (Neve Campbell) left her bloodstained hometown after the events of Wes Craven’s 1996 film....

Also, Lethal Weapon Warner Bros. Black, at this point in his career, was in the middle of bursting onto the scene. He had just sold the script for the hit cop comedy film “Lethal Weapon,” earning him a paycheck of $250,000, an enormous sum for a screenwriter. While Black was working on rewrites on “Weapon” for director Richard Donner, (every film undergoes multiple rewrites during the production process), he approached the film’s executive producer, Joel Silver, about the possibility of acting in “Predator,” another film Silver was producing....

Stranger Things Sends Kate Bush To Her Rightful Place At The Top Of The iTunes Chart Netflix By BJ Colangelo/May 30, 2022 8:01 pm EST “Stranger Things” catches a lot of heat from time to time due to its insistence on wearing its nostalgic influences not just on its sleeve, but tattooed across the middle of its face. The Duffer Brothers don’t just load their episodes up with Easter eggs and blatant references, but revel in it, and genuinely make an impact on culture in the process....

The Daily Stream: In Heat, Michael Mann Explored The Spaces Between The Typical Crime Film Shootouts Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/April 10, 2022 6:00 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: “Heat” Where You Can Stream It: Pluto TV The Pitch: An armored car robbery gone wrong puts a police lieutenant and a career thief on a collision course in Michael Mann’s sprawling Los Angeles crime saga....

The Daily Stream: Spencer Isn’t A Horror Movie, But It Acts Like One Neon (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: “Spencer” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Those bemoaning the fact that horror movies rarely get to sit at the Academy’s table may want to take a look at “Spencer,” Pablo Larraín’s feature-length study of a lost woman finding herself over a brutal weekend with the in-laws....

Slippin’ Jimmy full episode We’ve seen him at the height of his debauchery as the soulless Saul Goodman in “Breaking Bad,” we’ve gotten to know and love him as the well-intentioned but tragically fallible Jimmy McGill in “Better Call Saul,” and now we’re getting a brand-new look at the character back when he was only known as “Slippin’ Jimmy.” The first episode of the animated series, titled “After Bedtime,” follows Jimmy and his troublemaking friend Marco sneaking out from under their parents’ noses and trying to implement their scheme to acquire a Lady Labyrinth comic book from their local shop....

The Lie That Led To George Takei’s Favorite Star Trek Scene ViacomCBS By Witney Seibold/Jan. 7, 2022 10:49 am EST “The Naked Time” was either the fourth or the seventh episode of “Star Trek,” depending on whether you adhere to broadcast order or production order. For the record, true Trekkies go by production order, while total losers go by broadcast order. In the episode, Kirk, Spock, and Lt. Disposable beam down to the planet of Psi 2000, only to find the planet’s small research team mysteriously frozen to death....

The Mandalorian Director Rick Famuyiwa Has Been Upgraded To Executive Producer For Season 3 Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/May 30, 2022 8:25 am EST Director Rick Famuyiwa has been with “The Mandalorian” since the very beginning, and now he’ll be taking on the role of an executive producer in the show’s upcoming third season. When “The Mandalorian” premiered with the launch of the Disney+ streaming service in November 2019, Famuyiwa was on the frontlines with creator Jon Favreau and executive producer Dave Filoni, who respectively wrote and directed the show’s first episode....

The Munsters Made Finding Work A Struggle For Fred Gwynne NBC By BJ Colangelo/May 2, 2022 11:22 am EST Part of the allure and excitement of becoming an actor is the ability to take on roles that give them a chance to live in a different existence than their own. In some instances, actors transform themselves so well that their identity becomes synonymous with the character. For some people, Daniel Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter, Mark Hamill will consistently be known as Luke Skywalker, Jamie Lee Curtis is our forever Final Girl Laurie Strode, and Fred Gwynne is the golden-hearted ghoul, Herman Munster....

Wednesday Addams Series To Reunite Director Tim Burton With Composer Danny Elfman Disney By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 17, 2021 9:31 am EST Danny Elfman is officially on board the upcoming Addams Family project “Wednesday,” Netflix has announced. The composer has lent his wide-ranging musical talents to several Tim Burton projects in the past, and will now provide an all-new theme and score for “Wednesday.” Burton is directing episodes of the series and also serves as executive producer....

Why Was There An Online Controversy Over Harley Quinn’s Shorts In Suicide Squad? Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 28, 2022 12:01 pm EST Much has already been said about the edits that were made with David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad,” as Warner Bros. went into reshoots attempting to add levity and humor to the script after “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” was criticized for its dark and somber tone. Ayer has been quite vocal about his unhappiness with the edits that were made, and since Warner Bros....

Dirty Dancing Sequel Is Still Happening, According To Jennifer Grey Vestron Pictures By Lex Briscuso/April 19, 2022 12:15 pm EST Baby’s not in the corner anymore — but we’re still waiting for her grand return. However, “Dirty Dancing” star Jennifer Grey recently gave an update about the long-awaited sequel film that was first announced in 2020. She told People during an interview published on April 18: “We’re working on this sequel, I’m working on it with Lionsgate and working on the script....

Easter Sunday Footage Reaction: Jo Koy Brings His Family’s Holiday Chaos To Life [CinemaCon 2022] Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer AND Kaylee Dugan/April 27, 2022 8:54 pm EST Plenty of new footage is arriving from CinemaCon today, including a first look at Universal and DreamWorks’ “Easter Sunday.” The comedy by “Super Troopers” director Jay Chandrasekhar will star comedian Jo Koy (seen above in “Mr. Iglesias”) in a story that’s inspired in part by Koy’s own life....