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Godzilla Vs. Kong Is Getting A Sequel, Will Shoot Later This Year Warner Bros. Pictures By Lex Briscuso/March 21, 2022 10:22 am EST As if it wasn’t enough to have one mega monster back on the scene, we’ve got two. The currently untitled sequel to last year’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” is set to shoot in Australia later this year, according to government agency Screen Queensland. As reported by Deadline, State Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk revealed that filming will begin in Queensland before the year is out, and will span the Gold Coast and the southeast area of Australia....

Hayden Christensen Talks About Putting The Darth Vader Suit On Again Lucasfilm By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 31, 2022 1:48 pm EST Darth Vader is set to return again in the upcoming Disney+ series, “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” with Hayden Christensen reprising his role as the Jedi-turned-Sith Lord after 17 (!) years away from the character. Christensen talked about donning the iconic suit and helmet again, calling it “a great honor” to be able to reprise a cornerstone role in the entire history of the “Star Wars” franchise (via Entertainment Weekly):...

Chuck Fries Archive of American Television Prolific producer Charles W. Fries was responsible for many horror gems from the ’70s and ’80s that are finally getting a new audience thanks to streaming. Born to a grocer in Cincinnati on Sept. 30, 1928, Charles William Fries later graduated from Ohio State University before landing his first LA gig in 1952 as an accountant at Ziv Television, where he made $100 a week....

How To With John Wilson Season 3 Is Coming To HBO HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 8, 2022 2:11 pm EST HBO’s wide-ranging documentary series “How To With John Wilson” has officially been renewed for a third season. In a pop cultural landscape where our favorite shows can get canceled with the snap of a network executive’s fingers, it’s uniquely wonderful to see bold, creative filmmaking get the chance to thrive....

John Woo Directed A Bizarre Made For TV Movie In Between Blockbusters WCG Entertainment Productions By Erin Brady/May 18, 2022 3:30 pm EST John Woo is perhaps one of the greatest Hong Kong directors and, depending on your tastes, the best one to ever bless the silver screen. However, whether you are an action movie aficionado or not, his influence on cinema cannot be overstated, as his films such as “A Better Tomorrow” and “The Killer” are classics that continue to influence filmmakers today....

Moon Knight Cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo On Creative Freedom & The Green Knight’s Oscars Snub [Interview] Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/April 25, 2022 6:00 pm EST For Marvel fans, the production of “Moon Knight” as a Disney+ streaming series presented a unique opportunity for a uniquely fascinating superhero. Here was a chance for a pair of immediately recognizable stars, Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, to lend a sense of gravity to a character that even the most ardent fans would admit had a lot to prove to mainstream audiences....

O-T Fagbenle’s Black Widow Character Might Return In Future Projects [Exclusive] Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/April 4, 2022 10:45 pm EST In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “people who don’t have friends” call Rick Mason, the character played by O-T Fagbenle in “Black Widow.” As a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent turned free agent and weapons supplier, Mason was there for Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) when she was on the run from the U....

One Peacemaker Cameo Led To 16 Minutes Of Deleted ‘Aquaman Has Sex With Fish’ Jokes Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/March 23, 2022 4:51 pm EST Before we get into this, I want to make it clear that if you haven’t watched “Peacemaker” yet on HBO Max, and/or you don’t know who the cameos are at the end, you should avert your eyes right now. There are spoilers ahead. I also want to be clear about the fact that I picked the thirstiest pic of Aquaman that I could manage for the “Aquaman has sex with fish” story because I couldn’t resist....

Paramount Archivist Andrea Kalas On Spiffying Up Elvis Presley’s Blue Hawaii For The 21st Century [Interview] Paramount By Jeremy Smith/June 23, 2022 3:22 pm EST When Elvis Presley exploded onto the American music scene in 1956, he touched off a pop cultural firestorm that inflamed the passions of young people and infuriated the staid sensibilities of their parents. The gangly Tennessean’s first salvo rockabilly singles –- namely “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” and “Hound Dog” –- were rebellion enough; paired with his electrifying stage presence and that wildly gyrating pelvis, Elvis represented either an insouciant, liberated future or the looming spiritual ruin of the United States....

Superhero Bits: A Spider-Man Actor Wore A Fake Butt, The Art Of The Batman Book & More Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Feb. 22, 2022 4:12 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The Batman Features A Killing Joke Homage That You May Not Have Noticed Warner Bros./DC Comics By Devin Meenan/March 7, 2022 3:16 pm EST This article contains spoilers for “The Batman.” Proceed with caution. In the months leading up to the release of “The Batman,” we knew that the film would feature three quarters of the classic “Batman” 1966 villain line-up: Catwoman, the Riddler, and the Penguin. With director Matt Reeves’ film now in theaters, it turns out the story actually has the complete set....

Blinding Lights — The Weeknd Marvel Studios Say what you will about The Weeknd, the artist certainly gets a lot of radio play, and for good reason. “Blinding Lights” has arguably become one of his most playable tracks, with its hypnotic ’80s synths and total earworm of a hook. The “epic” version that appeared in the “Ms. Marvel” trailer — and helped kick things off in the series’ first episode — is similarly infectious....

The Boys Season 3 Villains On Redemption, Deep Voices, And Shifting Allegiances [Exclusive] Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/June 6, 2022 3:04 pm EST “The Boys” is one of the best TV satires in recent years. A superhero show with biting social commentary and wrapped up in tons of depravity, gore, and nudity, it’s equal parts hilarious and poignant — and it’s only getting better as time goes on. One thing that makes the show stand out from other superhero adaptations is the care and nuance it gives its villains....

The Daily Stream: Hannibal Puts A Terrifying Twist On Procedural TV NBC By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 22, 2022 6:16 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 Series: “Hannibal” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Before he battled wits with Clarice Starling and helped take down Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs,” Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) was a renowned psychiatrist and FBI consultant....

The Daily Stream: He Got Game Is Basketball Poetry In Motion And An Essential Spike Lee And Denzel Washington Collaboration Touchstone Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 27, 2022 1:56 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: “He Got Game” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu / Paramount+ / DirecTV / Epix...

The Daily Stream: Steven Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds Remains A Complex, Atypical Blockbuster Paramount Pictures By Eric Vespe/June 1, 2022 9:12 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: “War of the Worlds” (2005) Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Steven Spielberg’s aliens have historically been friendly....

Why It’s Essential Viewing A24 “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is a striking evocation of Shakespeare as horror, one that is revelatory in how it forges a new appreciation for the power of the Bard’s words. An atmosphere of foreboding pervades the film right from its opening seconds, where Kathyrn Hunter toggles between different vocal registers over a black screen, first whispering, then going guttural in a manner redolent of Mercedes McCambridge’s demon-voice in “The Exorcist....

CODA is Groundbreaking and Great Apple TV+ In an interview with ET Canada, Kotsur highlighted the importance of the nomination: “I’ve received so many messages today since this morning. So many deaf people are excited and the deaf community finally feels seen and recognized with this increased awareness of American Sign Language and deaf culture.” He went on to say that the “CODA” nominations give people from diverse backgrounds “more hope for the future to tell their stories....

The Dropout First Look: Amanda Seyfried Is Elizabeth Holmes Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 15, 2021 5:08 pm EST It was only a matter of time before someone made a dramatized series chronicling the wild rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and Hulu is doing just that with their upcoming limited series “The Dropout,” starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes and “Lost” veteran Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani. For the uninitiated, Elizabeth Holmes was once the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire, with money made through her health technology company Theranos....

The Fight For Luisa’s Muscles: How Encanto Dispels The Disney Tradition Walt Disney Productions By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 20, 2022 1:00 pm EST I may be a woman in my thirties, but if you think I haven’t been scouring the internet for merchandise of Luisa from “Encanto,” y’all don’t know me very well. From the moment she appeared in the trailer, the internet exploded, expressing their immediate obsession with the “Buff Lady....