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Natalie Portman Had No Room For Error In V For Vendetta’s Head Shaving Scene Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/June 14, 2022 3:03 pm EST Making a drastic hair change is a big thing in real life. Imagine doing something like that in front of a camera. There is no room for error when you’re not using a wig. Of course, if you’re a consummate professional like Natalie Portman, you take it all in stride and use what you’re feeling for the shot....

Picard Season 2 Trailer: It’s Time To Engage And Make It So, Again Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/Jan. 21, 2022 1:52 pm EST We’re getting close to the premiere of “Star Trek: Picard” season 2, and today the new trailer, which debuted during the “Star Trek: Picard” panel at Star Trek Day 2021, is out for the rest of us. The new season will hit Paramount+ on March 3, 2022, and from what we’re seeing, it’s going to be a big one!...

Robert Eggers’ The Northman Will Be Fighting A Major Uphill Battle At The Box Office Focus Features By Ryan Scott/March 31, 2022 1:23 pm EST April isn’t quite summertime for Hollywood, but in some ways, it’s almost like an extension of the summer moviegoing season. Many big movies get released in April, as there are only so many weeks on the calendar in the actual summer. To that end, April of 2022 will see several big popcorn flicks hitting theaters in the form of “Morbius,” “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” Michael Bay’s “Ambulance,” and “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald....

Terry Gilliam Bet His Career On Keeping 12 Monkeys Under Budget Universal By Jeremy Smith/June 28, 2022 9:27 am EST The notion that Terry Gilliam was, in his prime, a visionary filmmaker who dreamed too big for Hollywood and paid the price for it is, to put it mildly, ahistorical. It’s certainly true that Universal Pictures’ Sid Sheinberg sought to undermine the U.S. release of the “Brazil” by cutting 38 minutes out of Gilliam’s cut and tacking on a happy ending....

Song to Song Broad Green Pictures For the last ranking of this list, we have 2017’s “Song to Song.” The films of Terrence Malick are certainly not for everyone, as his melodramatic stories of love and loss are often shot without completed scripts and focus on the existential musings of his characters. Compared to his more established classics like “The Tree of Life,” “Days of Heaven,” “Badlands,” and “The New World,” “Song to Song” did not reach the same level of acclaim....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Netflix In March 2022 Marvel Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 23, 2022 9:00 am EST Ah, the last week of the month. It’s the time to start worrying about next month’s bills and budgets, but if you’re a movie-lover, there’s another deadline each new month brings: it’s also the time when the clock starts ticking on the streaming service calendars. Every month, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and more play a round of content musical chairs, with deals expiring and properties moving around, even as new shows and films are added....

The Ledge Trailer As you can see, “The Ledge” looks to be precisely the kind of straightforward suspenser that fans of the genre crave, with a minimal cast and a natural escalation of the inciting situation. There also appear to be gorgeous wildlife settings, and whatever scenes were filmed on an artificial cliff against bluescreen appear as seamless as can be. Coming in at a tight 86-minutes, this is precisely the kind of old school flick we’re looking forward to in 2022....

The Long-Awaited Studio Ghibli Theme Park Will Open In November Studio Ghibli By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 29, 2022 12:06 pm EST Studio Ghibli has finally announced the opening date for its theme park in Japan later this year. We had a general idea that it would be opening in fall 2022, but now the studio has confirmed that the doors will open on November 1 alongside an image of Totoro, its mascot and the title character in Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” (who is technically also a Pixar character, since he popped up in “Toy Story 3....

The Man Who Fell To Earth Trailer: Chiwetel Ejiofor Plays A Very Special Visitor Showtime By Jenna Busch/Feb. 22, 2022 2:49 pm EST Showtime has released the official trailer for “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” and it looks like it’s going to be riveting. Not that I wouldn’t say that for most things that Chiwetel Ejiofor is in. The man has a powerful ability to make me forget anything going on around me and just focus on his performance....

The Most Shocking Twists In Sci-Fi TV History CBS Television Distribution By David Court/June 27, 2022 7:15 pm EST Audiences yearn to be shocked by a well-written or unexpected twist that can revitalize a stagnant plot or get people talking about a show again. After all, where would series like “Game of Thrones” be without a regular delivery of shocks, twists, and upsets? In science fiction — a genre based on the extraordinary — the audience is used to being presented with concepts to broaden the mind, but it’s not above a little shock content if it shakes up and serves the narrative....

The Northman Director Robert Eggers Isn’t Counting Out Science Fiction Completely Focus Features By Rafael Motamayor/May 3, 2022 11:04 am EST Robert Eggers has made a career out of exploring the violence and horror of the past. In just three feature films, the director has captured the superstition, the isolation, the paranoia, and also the fart jokes of history, whether it’s a 17th century New England Puritan family farm, a remote 19th-century lighthouse, or a Viking farm in Iceland....

The Predator Copyright Dispute Has Been Resolved And No Skulls Were Collected 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 14, 2022 10:29 am EST Disney and 20th Century Studios have avoided a potential bloodbath over the original “Predator” movie — something that would no doubt disappoint the titular alien hunter. The studios have agreed to a confidential settlement with John and James Thomas, who penned the spec script “Hunter” that eventually gave rise to the 1987 sci-fi action/horror classic, after the brothers filed a lawsuit last year, alleging that 20th Century Studios had wrongly denied their bid to reclaim the rights to their screenplay....

The Steven Spielberg Blackhawk Movie Is Still In The Works, Will Cost $200 Million DC Comics By Joshua Meyer/March 28, 2022 8:39 am EST A Steven Spielberg superhero movie: it could still happen. Back in 2018, we heard that Spielberg was developing an adaptation of the DC Comics property, “Blackhawk.” The story centers on a team of ace World War II pilots known as the Blackhawk Squadron. Spielberg was said to be producing the “Blackhawk” film adaptation with Kristie Macosko Krieger, his “West Side Story” co-producer....

The Wildest Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen Deserves A Remake Scotia-Barber Distributors By Anya Stanley/June 14, 2022 10:00 am EST Out of the dewy curls of a mist stand some large stones. Among them, the Living Dead ride the earth, swirling their motorcycles in and out of the haze in slow-motion. The teenage dirtbags who ride them wear helmets jazzed up with a cartoonish skull and crossbones design, and personalized leather jackets....

No, Marcel, They’re Probably Not in the Grocery Aisle Travel Channel Von Tingen says in the video: “I come from 25 generations of vampire hunters. Hearing the stories from my grandfather and from my father, vampires are so dangerous because they’re hiding in plain sight. They look like us. They talk like us. They could be in the grocery aisle, in the post office. They could be your doctor. They could be your next door neighbor....

Underrated Action Stars Who Don’t Get Enough Praise MGM/EON By Liam Gaughan/March 31, 2022 12:20 pm EST When you think about the greatest action movie stars of all time, names like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, or Sylvester Stallone may pop into your head. These men embodied some of our most characters, and starred in hit films over the course of several decades. Making an action film look effective takes dedication....

The Case of Star Wars v Battlestar Galactica ABC In J.W. Rinzler’s book “The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” the author claims Universal gave a copy of the “Galactica” pilot script to Lucas in 1977 to inform him of their then-upcoming project. One of the things Lucas disapproved of was the show’s original title, “Galactica: Saga of a Star World,” which already made it sound very similar to his own work....

Hello It’s Me HBO The first episode starts innocuously enough with brunch, but it’s not the same type of gab and nosh they used to have. It’s not the Manhattan of the late ’90s or early ’00s, and while the writers clearly didn’t want to linger on Covid (they brush right past it like a footnote), something else feels … off. The banter sounds the same as it always has, only now, Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) got a bit less patience than usual, and not in a cute, loving way....

A Demon-Possessed Jimmy McGill? AMC AMC also has new episodes of the “Better Call Saul Employee Training Video” series on tap, as well as another short-form digital series called “Cooper’s Bar,” starring Rhea Seehorn. Beyond Seehorn’s presence, “Cooper’s Bar” does not sound like it will be connected to “Better Call Saul,” as she is playing a different character — an “awful Hollywood executive” who frequents a neighborhood bar — and not fan-favorite Kim Wexler in that series....

Batgirl Movie Adds Rebecca Front, Corey Johnson, And Ethan Kai To The Cast DC Comics By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 13, 2022 11:39 am EST It’s the Bat-Family’s world, and we’re just living in it. This year alone will see Robert Pattinson suit up for the first time as the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves’ Elseworlds-style DC film, “The Batman,” before Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton reprise their respective versions of the Dark Knight in the fall’s multiversal DCEU adventure, “The Flash....