Top Gun: Maverick Is On Track To Give Tom Cruise The Biggest Opening Weekend Of His Career Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/May 25, 2022 12:52 pm EST Tom Cruise is making his return to the big screen this weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.” This is not just any movie from one of the biggest stars in the world, mind you, as this is a sequel to one of the biggest hits of his illustrious career....
Warner Bros. Discovery’s New Film Strategy Will Build Around Three Distinct Brands Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/June 2, 2022 8:32 am EST When Toby Emmerich was named President and Chief Content Officer of the WB Pictures Group in 2017, he assumed control of a beloved studio struggling to make sense of a rapidly shifting landscape. When he was elevated to chairman of this unit the following year, it was solely on him to make sense of this landscape as fast as possible....
Why Richard Dreyfuss And Robert Shaw Had A Contentious Relationship While Filming Jaws Universal Pictures By Lee Adams/Feb. 17, 2022 2:21 pm EST Richard Dreyfuss didn’t really want a part in “Jaws” at first. He was convinced that his latest picture, “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” would be a big success, and turned Spielberg down for the role of Matt Hooper. Twice. Then he actually saw his performance in the film and felt it was so bad that it could potentially end his career....
Why The Black Phone Author Joe Hill Will Be Forever Grateful To Daniel Radcliffe Dimension Films/RADiUS-TWC By Sandy Schaefer/June 22, 2022 3:36 pm EST If you asked your average non-Daniel Radcliffe super-fan what they thought of his movie “Horns,” they would probably give you a blank or confused look. Director Alexandre Aja’s horror-comedy bombed at the box office in 2013, grossing a meager $3.9 million. Critics were also tepid on the film as a whole, although it certainly has its admirers....
Zoe Bell Will Direct An Action Comedy Based On Her Viral Boss B**** Fight Challenge Sabay MVP By Shania Russell/April 14, 2022 11:22 am EST Even the worst circumstances can inspire great art — or so Hollywood has spent the past year trying to prove with various filmed-in or inspired-by the pandemic. For better or worse, we’ll be enduring stories about people trapped in isolation for many years to come, but on the brighter side, we also get to spend more time with the creativity that was born during quarantine....
My super sweet fifteen Universal Pictures According to Variety, this new take on the seminal teen movie starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall will be titled “15 Candles.” The single-camera comedy will follow four young Latinas in high school as they navigate “feelings of invisibility while exploring what it means to leave childhood behind as quinceañera season approaches.” In the original, Ringwald’s Sam tries to make the most of her 16th birthday while her family is more concerned about her older sister’s wedding, which falls on the same day....
A Key Spider-Man: No Way Home Scene Had To Be Changed Due To The Pandemic Sony Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 1, 2022 1:17 pm EST Is it safe to openly talk about “Spider-Man: No Way Home” spoilers yet? Has enough time passed that everyone who wanted to see the movie has either done so by now (and likely more than once, judging by those box office reports) or had all the biggest surprises spoiled for them already while innocently scrolling through Instagram?...
A Brand New Life Around the Bend Milano continued, “We’re just in developing, trying to figure out what the show looks like, or would look like. You know, what stage in our lives we’d pick up from.” When asked if Sam would be the boss now, she answered, “I think Sam was always the boss, no?” There isn’t any more information than that, but the original idea was going to take place 30 years after the ABC series....
Game Of Thrones Creators Aren’t Involved In The Spin-Offs, D.B. Weiss Confirms HBO By Eric Vespe/March 7, 2022 10:04 pm EST HBO has had a “Game of Thrones” sized hole in its programming (and fans have had a “Game of Thrones” sized hole in our hearts) since the epic series concluded in May of 2019. There has been a ton of great TV since then, but nothing quite as watercooler conversation special as “Game of Thrones....
Orkin Man Columbia Pictures In the interview, Gross asks Ramis about some of the changes he made to the script. He said that at the beginning of Aykroyd’s script, the Ghostbusters were already a business. He compared them to the Orkin man, referencing the pest exterminators who are all over New York City. In this script, the Ghostbusters were supernatural pest removers, which to be fair, they sort of are. “So there were a lot of Ghostbusters,” he said....
Hustle Teaser: Adam Sandler Gets Serious In Netflix Basketball Drama Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 18, 2022 11:13 am EST Adam Sandler and professional basketball players made for a volatile combination in the Safdie Brothers’ “Uncut Gems,” a film that has provided the world with so many useful memes and quotes. (Kevin Garnett exasperatedly yelling, “Why the f*** would you show me something if I can’t have it?” being a personal favorite of mine....
Lindsay Lohan Is Teaming Up With Netflix For Two More Movies Netflix By BJ Colangelo/March 2, 2022 9:47 am EST Lindsay Lohan is back, baby! Just before the 2021 holiday season, we were given our first look at the upcoming Lohan starring rom-com, “Falling for Christmas,” due out later this winter. Fans were thrilled! People cried in the streets! I finally got to put away the candle-lit Lindsay Lohan shrine in my closet I prayed to every night for a career resurgence!...
Living A Double Life As Bubbles Wasn’t Easy For The Wire’s Andre Royo HBO By Anya Stanley/May 24, 2022 11:17 am EST HBO’s “The Wire” spearheaded a new kind of drama television upon its 2002 debut, earning heaps of praise for its patient, cumulative writing and talented cast of lesser-known (at the time) actors. When series creator David Simon pitched the show to HBO’s miniseries division, he envisioned a television version of The Great American Novel, writ large over a sprawling season depicting the dissolution of an American city — in this case, Baltimore, where Simon spent a year deposited with the city’s homicide unit for a year leading to his Edgar Award-winning novel, “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets....
Netflix Buys Emily Blunt-Led Pharmaceutical Conspiracy Thriller Pain Hustlers Universal Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 21, 2022 8:45 pm EST News has broken about the biggest deal out of Cannes 2022 so far — and surprise, surprise, it’s a Netflix acquisition. Variety is reporting that the streamer has nabbed global rights for a movie called “Pain Hustlers” in a deal that may have cost as much as $50 million. “Pain Hustlers” will star “Jungle Cruise” actress Emily Blunt as an undereducated new mom named Liza Drake....
Nia DaCosta To Direct Feature Adaptation Of Ta-Nehisi Coates Novel The Water Dancer Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/April 18, 2022 3:46 pm EST Any day that includes the news that Nia DaCosta is staying booked and busy is a damn good one. The brilliant mind behind 2019’s “Candyman” and the self-proclaimed “Marvel Trash” director behind the upcoming “Captain Marvel” sequel, “The Marvels,” DaCosta has been tapped to direct a feature adaptation of the Ta-Nehisi Coates novel “The Water Dancer....
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster Warner Bros Speaking with GQ in 2010, Pileggi said: “Voiceover, I think, is the key to that movie. Marty said, ‘When he slams the car trunk down, and he’s looking out, I’m going to freeze-frame, and then: ‘As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a gangster…’ It’s very unusual to have a voiceover on a dead screen, except for the guy’s face....
The Coen Brothers’ Pitch For Burn After Reading Left George Clooney A Little Worried Focus Features By Sandy Schaefer/April 15, 2022 1:19 pm EST For an actor who came to fame tackling roles that call upon him to exude worldliness and charm, George Clooney sure is good at playing the clown for the Coen brothers. There’s just something gratifying about watching the “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Michael Clayton” star make an ass of himself in the duo’s “Numbskull Trilogy” — whether he’s fretting about his hair gel in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
The Voice of a Disney Favorite Disney In 2001, just a year before “The Ring,” Daveigh Chase nabbed the role of a lifetime when she was selected to voice Chihiro Ogino in the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away.” The film was the first, and to date only, hand-drawn and non-English-language animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and its popularity introduced the average American moviegoer to the world of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli....
‘You must choose between kindness for your kin and hate for your enemies.’ Found in Book III and Book IV of Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum, “The History of the Danes,” “Amleth” predates “Hamlet” by around 500 years, and the similarities are notable. A prince learns that his father’s death happened at the hands of his power-hungry uncle, who then marries the widowed queen. The prince, knowing his life is in danger, feigns madness (“put on an antic disposition,” as Prince Hamlet would put it) until the opportunity comes to enact vengeance, and things get bloodier from there....
The Real-Life Murders That Inspired Rear Window Paramount By Anya Stanley/Jan. 10, 2022 1:47 pm EST “Rear Window” is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films, a staple of Film 101 courses, and a regular contender in the conversation about the greatest movies of all time. The 1954 mystery-thriller focuses on one L. B. “Jeff” Jefferies (Jimmy Stewart), a professional photographer confined to his apartment while he recovers from a leg injury sustained on the job....
