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There Has Never Been A Bad Spock Actor Paramount By Lyvie Scott/May 12, 2022 8:29 pm EST In a world driven almost exclusively by a cycle of regenerating IP, you’re bound to see your favorite franchise reboot itself at least once in your lifetime. Such is the case with “Star Trek,” which has effectively resurrected its “Original Series” characters twice: in J.J. Abrams’ alternate reality-set “Trek” films, and in the shows “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds....

Why Top Gun: Maverick Didn’t Use Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone Remake Paramount By Mike Shutt/June 1, 2022 12:28 pm EST Back in the 1980s, songs that were written specifically for movies often became gigantic hit singles. Movie soundtracks were a truly viable enterprise at the time, and songs like “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” from “Dirty Dancing” and “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from “Flashdance” could top the Billboard Hot 100....

Year Of The Vampire: In Horror Of Dracula, Christopher Lee Gave The Genre Its First Real Teeth Hammer Films By Joshua Meyer/May 17, 2022 11:00 am EST When cinephiles think Dracula, there are any number of actors whose faces might come to mind, from Bela Lugosi to Gary Oldman or even the more recent Claes Bang, who ushered in the 2020s with a three-episode miniseries on Netflix and BBC One. Bang certainly wasn’t the first gent to star in a British adaptation of Bram Stoker’s foundational vampire novel....

5 Actors We’d Love To See Play Aloy In Netflix’s Horizon Series Sony Interactive Entertainment By BJ Colangelo/May 28, 2022 9:29 am EST Netflix recently announced that they were in production on a series adaptation of “Horizon Zero Dawn,” the popular open world role-playing action game for PlayStation and Microsoft. The game plot centers on Aloy, a young huntress fighting to survive a world overrun by machines as she attempts to unlock the secrets of her past....

Blumhouse Reveals First Look At Kevin Bacon Conversion Therapy Horror Movie They/Them For Peacock Blumhouse Productions By Joshua Meyer/May 13, 2022 6:52 am EST John Logan, the creator of “Penny Dreadful” and three-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “Gladiator,” “The Aviator,” and “Hugo,” along with the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” is making his directorial debut with the new Peacock original horror movie, “They/Them” (pronounced “They-slash-Them.") The press release for “They/Them,” which stars Kevin Bacon, Anna Chlumsky (“Veep”), and Carrie Preston (“The Good Wife”), bills it as “a queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp....

Daily Podcast: James Bond-Adjacent TV, Plus An Interview With Directors Of Everything Everywhere All At Once MGM By Ben Pearson/March 25, 2022 4:08 pm EST On the March 25, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to discuss the new James Bond TV show. Then, we present Hoai-Tran Bui’s interview with Daniels, the filmmakers behind “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Opening Banter: In The News:...

‘Bright and bold and brilliant’ Netflix Also accompanying the news of Gatwa’s casting as the Fourteenth Doctor was a statement from Russell T Davies, who was effusive in his praise of the young actor: The future is here and it’s Ncuti! Sometimes talent walks through the door and it’s so bright and bold and brilliant, I just stand back in awe and thank my lucky stars. Ncuti dazzled us, seized hold of the Doctor and owned those TARDIS keys in seconds....

Downton Abbey: A New Era Director Simon Curtis Just Wants Thomas To Be Happy [Interview] Focus Features By Matthew Bilodeau/July 4, 2022 12:00 pm EST Where “Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture” felt like a welcome reunion among old friends in relatively the same roles that we last saw them, “Downton Abbey: A New Era” feels like a sense of progression for the aristocratic Crawley family and their downstairs workers, as the times, they are once again a-changing....

Arishem’s Plan Disney The Eternals serve an impossibly ancient and incredibly vast space creature called Arishem, who has a millennia-long-term plan for the them, only known by the team’s leader Ajak (Salma Hayek). About halfway through “Eternals,” when Ajak has died and Sersi (Gemma Chan) has to take over as leader, do we get to learn what that plan is. Arishem reveals that it belongs to a species of ineffable space deities called Celestials who are responsible for creating the planets in the universe by hand....

Everything We Know About One Piece Film: Red So Far FUNimation Entertainment By Adam Wescott/March 7, 2022 11:25 am EST “One Piece” is a juggernaut. It’s the best-selling manga series in history, an adventure story spanning over 100 volumes that has continuously broken records and won popular acclaim since its publication in 1997. There are “One Piece” video games, “One Piece” podcasts, and an upcoming live-action series on Netflix that has the fandom on tenterhooks....

Forest Whitaker To Be Awarded Honorary Palme D’Or At Cannes Kiran Ridley / Getty Images By Witney Seibold/May 5, 2022 5:59 pm EST This month, the Cannes Film Festival will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. The fest’s current highest honor, the Palme D’Or, was first awarded in 1955 to Delbert Mann’s working-class romance “Marty,” and has gone to, in recent years, “Titane,” “Parasite,” “Shoplifters,” and “The Square.” Honorary Palme D’Ors are not awarded every year, and are typically given to actors and filmmakers with an impressive body of work, but who have never been honored at Cannes otherwise....

FX Renews Dave For Season 3 FX By Ryan Scott/Feb. 17, 2022 1:39 pm EST Fans of funny TV with something to say, rejoice! FX has renewed the Lil Dicky series “Dave” for a third season. The news comes as the network has been bringing lots of news today regarding its future, including the renewal of shows like “Fargo” while confirming that “Atlanta” is going to end with its fourth season later this year....

Hellraiser’s Director Went To Hilarious Lengths To Keep Creative Control New World Pictures By Bill Bria/April 1, 2022 8:48 am EST Horror films were a double-edged sword for movie executives during the 1980s. On the one hand, they were a reliable earner at the box office. Their relatively low budgets meant the profits could be large enough that, as with the “Nightmare on Elm Street” films, they could support an entire independent studio....

How The Batman Used Virtual Reality Behind The Scenes Copyright 2022 DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. By Rafael Motamayor/April 19, 2022 4:31 pm EST A lot has been said about the revolutionizing technology that is the “Volume” (also known as “Stagecraft”), which first entered the public consciousness with “The Mandalorian.” The technology has allowed big productions to essentially do real-time green screen effects in a vastly more realistic and tactile way, with giant LED screens allowing production to visualize what a digital location looks like on set and in-camera, including the ability to adjust things like lighting and geography on the spot....

Jake Gyllenhaal Will Rob Yachts In Upcoming Heist Film Cut And Run Sony Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 26, 2022 12:25 pm EST Your boy/mortal enemy Jack Gyllenhaal (depending on where you fall on the “I had a crush on him in ‘The Day Before Tomorrow’” or “I am a Taylor Swift fan” continuum) is keeping pretty busy these days. From stepping into the MCU as the villain Mysterio to his most recent dark thriller “The Guilty,” Gyllenhaal is keeping us on our toes, so we’re not surprised to hear that he’s already lining up new, interesting projects up for the future....

John Carpenter’s The Thing Is Coming Back To Theaters For Its 40th Anniversary Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/May 20, 2022 5:56 pm EST 1982 was an incredible year for genre films with “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Poltergeist,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “Beastmaster,” and “Creepshow” all terrorizing the theaters. The same year, John Carpenter finally got his chance to remake “The Thing from Another World,” and delivered the science-fiction horror masterpiece, “The Thing....

Everything you want is on the other side of fear Leitch and McCormick have produced some great action-heavy films, with Leitch directing a number of them. Their team worked on the “John Wick” franchise, “Atomic Blonde” (which is getting a sequel), “Deadpool 2,” “Fast & Furious: Hobbes & Shaw,” “Nobody,” “Bullet Train,” and the upcoming “Violent Night,” which we got a quick advance glimpse of. It wasn’t much footage, but it did involve David Harbour in a Santa suit, which really should be enough for anyone....

Making Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon Took A Huge Toll On The Cast And Crew Warner Bros. By Anthony Crislip/April 25, 2022 3:51 pm EST Stanley Kubrick’s films encompass whole worlds, translating emotions and rituals into a unique and innovative visual language. Whether it’s the Overlook Hotel of “The Shining” or the sterile space stations and star gates of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” there’s a disciplined quality to the movies’ design and cinematography....

New ‘Final Destination’ Movie Isn’t Really A Reboot, Will Potentially Follow First Responders By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2020 5:30 pm EST Let’s all distract ourselves from coronavirus news with info about a film franchise that focuses on people dying horrible deaths, shall we? Final Destination, the series that features young folks being dispatched via Rube Goldberg-like death traps, is gearing up for another misadventure, with Saw writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan previously announced as handling the script....

What does it all mean? Hulu Fans will probably deduce that since Charles, Oliver, and Mabel — our leads Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez respectively — live in Apts. 14C, 10D, and 12E, it rules out the idea that the 2, 6, and 8 correspond to their individual floors. Another note for the sleuths out there: most New York City apartment buildings do not have a 13th floor — and yes, that is solely out of superstition — so the absence of a 13th floor button isn’t a hidden clue in and of itself....