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The Suicide Squad Star Daniela Melchior Will Reunite With James Gunn For Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/June 1, 2022 12:24 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most endearing group of cosmic, found-family ne’er-do-wells is about to receive an exciting addition. With director James Gunn having completed (for now, at least) his DC projects with last year’s “The Suicide Squad” and the hit HBO Max spin-off series “Peacemaker,” the filmmaker has turned his energies back towards the other side of the aisle with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

The White Lotus Season 2 Displays Good Taste, Casts Aubrey Plaza Neon By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 10, 2022 5:36 pm EST HBO, Mike White, and all of the rest involved with “The White Lotus” season 2 are clearly working overtime to ensure everyone comes back for more rich, entitled problems. After rumoring the return of icon Jennifer Coolidge for the second season, the show’s creators announced the inspired casting of Michael Imperioli as one of the season’s starring players....

Upcoming Survival Horror Game The Quarry Boasts A Cast List Any Hollywood Director Would Envy Supermassive Games By Joshua Meyer/March 19, 2022 2:25 pm EST Gamers, you’ve got a new quarry. Should you choose to pursue it, you may find yourself stranded in a summer camp from hell, where you’ll hear some familiar voices and see some familiar likenesses as you struggle to survive a human hunting scenario. “The Quarry” from Supermassive Games has enlisted quite a few recognizable actors for what IGN describes as “a spiritual successor to ‘Until Dawn,’” the interactive horror survival game set in a place called Blackwood Mountain....

Year Of The Vampire: Underworld Is A Deceptively Simple, Stylish Classic Sony Pictures By Danielle Ryan/June 11, 2022 3:43 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.) When it comes to weird movie obsessions, early 2000s vampire flicks tend to be my particular vice. There’s something about the Hot Topic-inspired, BDSM-lite aesthetics mixed with healthy doses of camp and gore that make vampire movies from this era so spectacularly fun, even if they’re not for everyone....

Animated Box Office Bombs That Deserve A Second Chance Cartoon Saloon By Caroline Cao/Jan. 7, 2022 5:43 pm EST Whether you were first enthralled by them in the theater or on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming services, animated films are a cornerstone of film-based nostalgia. To be labeled a box office bomb is not pleasant, but how many dollars an animated film rakes in at the box office does not directly correlate with its quality or the reputation that it earns after its theatrical debut....

Halo Episode 7 Puts The Master Chief On The Backburner For A Detour Into The Desert Paramount+ By Jeremy Mathai/May 5, 2022 3:00 am EST I’ll admit, I had a bad feeling about this episode right when the first-look images dropped, featuring a glaring absence of the Master Chief, Dr. Halsey, or anyone else that the overarching storyline of “Halo” has focused on up to this point. Those concerns only increased as early as the “Previously on ‘Halo’” segment, which took us all the way back to the opening minutes of the premiere to remind us of the situation taking place on the planet of Madrigal in the aftermath of the Covenant invasion....

The eyes have it Legacy Effects In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gillan revealed that the sclera contact lenses she wore to play Nebula in the first “Guardians of the Galaxy” were so uncomfortable that she requested a digital eye color change for her role in the 2022 science fiction film, “Dual.” When asked about her character’s blue eyes in “Dual,” Gillan said: “I had to wear such huge contacts in the first “Guardians” that I cannot wear contacts anymore....

HBO Max By Sandy Schaefer/March 24, 2022 5:40 pm EST Even in the era of CGI and StageCraft sets, everyone’s favorite grouchy old man director, Ridley Scott, prefers to design alien worlds by shooting in real-world locations as much as possible. He filmed in Iceland and New Zealand to create the non-Earthly settings for his “Alien” movie prequels “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” and similarly used Jordan’s Wadi Rum (aka the Valley of the Moon) to realize the landscapes of Mars in “The Martian....

Incredible Hulk Director Louis Leterrier Tapped To Direct Fast X Instagram By Jeremy Mathai/May 2, 2022 1:32 pm EST Few other franchises know these words of wisdom better than “The Fast & the Furious” does: the show must go on, no matter what obstacles are thrown in its path. The real-life soap opera taking place alongside one of the biggest and most consistently popular (and also increasingly ludicrous) properties on Earth received another wrinkle in its illustrious history recently, when “Fast X” director Justin Lin abruptly parted ways with the project — after filming had already commenced, incredibly enough, and merely days after star Vin Diesel posted a wildly uncomfortable set video with Lin....

It Took Some Convincing Before Simon Pegg Agreed To Be Star Trek’s Scotty Paramount By Witney Seibold/April 1, 2022 10:26 am EST After the cancelation of “Star Trek: Enterprise” in 2005, it looked like the book had shut on “Star Trek.” After four TV shows and six movies starting in 1987, it seemed like the property was to be set to pasture, remaining pleasant in our memories and in reruns ad infinitum....

Jurassic World Dominion Ending Explained: Life Finds A Way, Again Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/June 10, 2022 8:04 am EST (Spoiler warning: This article will openly discuss plot elements of “Jurassic World Dominion”) J.A. Bayona’s 2018 film “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” ended with the implication that dinosaurs, now free to roam the world, will, perhaps chillingly, infiltrate a human-controlled Earth and take their rightful spot at the top of the food chain....

Kevin Costner’s New Movie, Horizon, Is Being Split Into Four 2 Hour And 45 Minute Movies Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/June 21, 2022 3:36 pm EST Kevin Costner is a big ole cowboy, with a great familiarity with the American West. He’s currently in the fifth season of “Yellowstone,” which has spawned a whole lot of spin-offs. He directed “The Postman” in 1997. He directed “Dances With Wolves” in 1990, and “Open Range” in 2003....

Mrs. Doubtfire Would Eventually Decide Robin Williams’ Role In The Birdcage United Artists By Christian Gainey/May 6, 2022 9:50 am EST Robin Williams is known for flamboyant, larger-than-life characters that might break into dance or operatic song at any given moment. Throughout the early ’90s, Williams breathed life into some of his quirkiest characters, including Euphegenia Doubtfire and the Genie. Parts of those roles called for more serious moments, but the majority of the films showed the actor’s silly, boisterous side, which is in part why he was tapped for “The Birdcage....

Robert Beltran Has Some Regrets About His Star Trek: Voyager Romance Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 20, 2022 12:16 pm EST At the start of “Star Trek: Voyager” in 1995, Robert Beltran (“Eating Raoul”) played Chakotay, a Native American member of The Maquis, an anti-Federation resistance group formed when the Federation resettled their home worlds following a sketchy agreement with the Cardassian Empire. He and several compatriots were on the run from the show’s titular ship when the action of the series hurled them all clear across the galaxy, landing then 70 years from Earth....

The 20 Best ’90s Romantic Comedies Ranked Buena Vista By Audrey Fox/Dec. 17, 2021 6:13 pm EST Maybe there’s a certain amount of recency bias at play, but the 1990s feel like a modern golden age for romantic comedies. You have icons of the genre (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts — the list goes on and on) being paid more than ever before to keep churning out delightful little films throughout the entire decade....

The 30 Best Episodes Of The Office, Ranked NBC By Barry Levitt/May 10, 2022 3:46 pm EST Incredibly, “The Office” has only gotten more popular since its finale aired in 2013. In 2020, the Emmy-winning series earned the impressive and perhaps surprising honor of being the most-streamed show of the year. It makes perfect sense: “The Office” is my number one choice for comfort viewing, and it works perfectly both as a show to have on in the background as well as a program to devote your complete attention to (trust me, it’s much better this way)....

The Book Of Boba Fett Premiere Features A Robert Rodriguez Cameo Lucasfilm By Ben F. Silverio/Dec. 29, 2021 7:40 pm EST Proceed with caution as this article contains SPOILERS for the first episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” Following his reintroduction of the iconic bounty hunter in “The Mandalorian” season two, Robert Rodriguez signed on to executive produce “The Book of Boba Fett” starring Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen. Following Fett and Fennec Shard as they take over the crime syndicate formerly run by Jabba the Hutt on the treacherous planet of Tatooine, this series is set up to fill in some major blanks for the mysterious fan-favorite character....

10 Years In And Still Going Strong Universal Pictures My apologies for reminding you of the passage of time, but it turns out the “Pitch Perfect” franchise is almost a decade old. In the years since the first film premiered, two sequels followed to round out the trilogy, following the women of the Barden University Bellas on increasingly chaotic adventures. But while there may be room for a few cameos and surprise appearances, the Peacock spinoff will be setting its gaze elsewhere by focusing on Devine’s Bumper....

The Jackass Forever Stunt That Made Johnny Knoxville Call It Quits Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 25, 2022 7:50 pm EST Being able to boast that a franchise has lasted over two decades is impressive, but considering the world of “Jackass” requires putting the body, mind, arrest record, and stomach on the line at every turn, it’s a damn miracle that everyone’s favorite comedy stuntmen are still up to their usual shenanigans after all these years....

The Offer Review: A Limited Series That Should’ve Been A Movie Paramount+ By Josh Spiegel/April 21, 2022 3:00 am EST Just as some meetings should be emails, some TV shows should be movies. Never has this felt truer, in enormously extended fashion, than in the Paramount+ limited series “The Offer.” In short, “The Offer” is the unnecessary answer to the question, “How did they ever make a movie out of Mario Puzo’s wildly popular novel about the Corleone family of criminals?...