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The Star Trek Frustrations That Shaped Battlestar Galactica SYFY By Devin Meenan/March 28, 2022 4:24 pm EST The best remakes are those that take promising ideas and revamp them with better execution. Case in point: “Battlestar Galactica.” The original 1978 series was a kitschy “Star Wars” knock-off, while the 2004 reimagined series is one of the best science-fiction TV shows ever made. The series went to places no previous sci-fi show had dared all while telling a gripping, moving story about humanity and faith....

Universal Casts Mookie Cook As Young LeBron James In Shooting Stars Warner Bros. Pictures By Joshua Meyer/May 16, 2022 8:43 am EST High school basketball star Mookie Cook will play the young Lebron James in “Shooting Stars,” the upcoming Peacock film adaptation of the 2009 memoir by James and “Friday Night Lights” author Buzz Bissinger. Caleb McLaughlin of “Stranger Things” fame will co-star. “Shooting Stars” recently commenced production in Akron, Ohio, where current Los Angeles Laker James grew up before he went on to play first for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA....

WeCrashed Review: Anne Hathaway Steals The Show In A Sleek, Seductive Tale Of A Startup Gone Wrong Apple TV+ By Jeremy Mathai/March 12, 2022 5:30 pm EST The writing is already on the wall for WeWork, the wildly profitable (but exorbitantly expensive) brainchild of co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann (Jared Leto, once again affecting an outsized accent), when “WeCrashed” throws viewers headfirst into the plot with its very first scene. Based on the Wondery podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork,” the Apple TV+ series from creators Lee Eisenberg (“The Office,” “Good Boys,” “Little America”) and Drew Crevello documents the whirlwind years leading up to the make-or-break moment when the co-working space company is set to go public … or not....

What Does That Final Season 4 Scene Mean For The Future Of Stranger Things? Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 5, 2022 11:23 am EST Warning: Major spoilers ahead for both volumes of “Stranger Things” season 4! The fourth season of “Stranger Things” ended on a rather catastrophic note, with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) successfully opening four gates to the Upside Down and unleashing hell on Hawkins. This is a significant development in terms of the direction the show seems to be heading towards, as previous incursions were more or less manageable for the central group as they kept the Upside Down at bay....

Who Is Khonshu In Moon Knight? The God Explained Disney+ By Jamie Gerber/March 30, 2022 10:40 am EST Moon Knight, one of Marvel’s most fascinating characters, has finally entered the MCU. Marc Spector is not only unique among his comic book colleagues but is also unlike any other hero currently a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is a man constantly at war with himself. His mind is fractured, with several distinct personalities having emerged, though whether that stems from dissociative identity disorder or brain damage from a cruel god depends on what comics you read....

Why Humphrey Bogart Claimed William Holden Was Trying To Kill Him On Set Paramount By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 21, 2022 3:00 pm EST When it comes to Hollywood legend, the feud between Humphrey Bogart and William Holden is no secret. Bogart’s distaste for Holden is usually credited to the work the pair did together on 1954’s “Sabrina,” in which the actors played brothers who both caught the attention of Audrey Hepburn’s titular character....

Why Vera Farmiga Compares Working On The Conjuring To Eating Caviar Warner Bros. Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/April 27, 2022 10:18 am EST When “The Conjuring” was released in 2013, viewers loved how it combined the subgenres of demonic possession and the good old haunted house, to tell a story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a controversial real-life couple who were famous for being paranormal investigators. “The Conjuring” has a rain-soaked, atmospheric color scheme that makes it a terrific setting for jump scares, and deserves praise for painting a stellar portrait of how faith (in a higher power and a person) can dismiss even the most frightening demons....

Nobody 2 script was already in the works Universal Pictures For those who are hoping to see the adventures of kickass Bob Odenkirk continue, there is hope. According to director Ilya Naishuller, a sequel is being written. In an interview from June 2021, Naishuller explained that Derek Kolstad, the writer behind the “John Wick” movies, has begun penning a script: “There’s plenty of stories that can be told in this world, with the character Hutch....

Yet Another New Jurassic World Dominion Image: Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady Is Back To Tame More Dinos Universal Pictures By Miyako Pleines/Dec. 17, 2021 3:00 pm EST There is one thing the pandemic hasn’t changed, and that is our constant, undying devotion to dinosaurs. We love them. We love when they ravage stuff and stomp their big, scaly feet all over our nice things. We all, secretly, wish they had never gone extinct....

Finding A Bigger Purpose Marvel Studios In an exclusive interview with Empire magazine, Saldana spoke about her experience shooting with the “Guardians of the Galaxy” cast and crew, and how it made her feel “nostalgic,” despite the practical difficulties of the green make-up (said only in jest). This is how she described shooting amidst the pandemic, and how the process made her feel as a whole: “It’s bittersweet; after all those years of complaining about that green make-up, I find myself already nostalgic about it....

A Tom Brady Biopic Is Inevitable, And It’s Probably A Great Bet ESPN By Ryan Scott/Feb. 1, 2022 6:10 pm EST It is truly the end of an era — not just for the NFL, not just for football, but for sports in general. After more than 20 years of dominating the sport at the highest level, perhaps among the highest levels anyone has ever dominated anything, Tom Brady has officially announced that he is retiring from the game....

All The Moments Where The Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailers Misled Us Sony By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Dec. 18, 2021 6:18 pm EST Movie trailers can be misleading, and that’s always not a bad thing. After all, what would be the fun of watching a movie for the first time if everything is handed to us in the previews? There would be no surprises, nothing to look forward to. In the case of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and the trailers that preceded its release, a little deception was essential in order to hide the movie’s biggest reveals....

You Are The Music Apple TV+ After an extended delay, season 2 of the Tillerman family’s adventures in New York City’s legendary park resumes on March 4, 2022. “Central Park” star and executive producer Josh Gad broke the news by tweeting the first look at a new song by the EGOT-winning songwriting duo of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (known for creating the many earworms of “Frozen” and “Frozen II”). In “You Are The Music,” Gad’s Birdie, the show’s fourth wall-breaking narrator and Central Park bard, is joined by Rory O’Malley’s Elmwood, one of Owen Tillerman’s fellow Park Rangers, as they serenade a confused Molly and Cole (voiced by Emmy Raver-Lampman and Tituss Burgess, respectively)....

Attack On Titan The Final Season Part 2 Dub Clip: Old Wounds Start To Heal [Exclusive] Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/April 15, 2022 12:00 pm EST Today, /Film has an exclusive clip from the next episode of the English dub for “Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2,” which streams Sunday on Crunchyroll and Funimation. Not that “Attack on Titan” needs an introduction, but in case you are not familiar with it, this is a rather bad place to start....

Cursed Films Creator Jay Cheel On Going Outside The Box In Season 2 [Interview] Janus Films By Jason Baxter/April 7, 2022 12:15 pm EST Today marks the premiere of season 2 of Shudder’s streaming docuseries “Cursed Films,” which delves into the urban myths and legacies of movies that are supposedly haunted or bedeviled in some fashion. Far more than just a fact versus fiction investigation, each episode of “Cursed Films” provides useful historical and societal context for the motion pictures it explores....

Daily Podcast: CinemaCon 2022: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, The Woman King, Crimes Of The Future, And More Sony Pictures Animation On the April 26, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson brings you an update from CinemaCon 2022, recapping what he saw at the Sony and Neon panels and teasing what’s to come. Opening Banter: In The News: Bullet Train Footage Reaction: We Saw The Bloody, Banter-Filled First Reel Of The Brad Pitt Action Flick [CinemaCon 2022]...

Fallout TV Series Adds Handsome Man Walton Goggins As A Disfigured Ghoul HBO By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 18, 2022 3:23 pm EST The “Fallout” franchise of games are set in a version of reality where the Cold War and nuclear fears of the 1940s come to a head, leading to an all-out nuclear event in 2077. In order to survive, the remainder of humanity hides in underground fallout shelters, emerging at different points after the final battle to try and rebuild civilization....

Fantastic Beasts 4 Uncertain As Warner Bros. Navigates J.K. Rowling, Ezra Miller Controversies Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/April 12, 2022 1:42 pm EST Warner Bros. has a franchise that virtually every other studio in Hollywood would kill for in the form of the Wizarding World of “Harry Potter.” The original movies dominated the box office for a decade and have generated plenty more cash in merchandising, licensing and other revenue streams....

Figuring Out How To Pull Off Return Of The Jedi’s Rancor Scene Was An Exhausting Task By Steven Ward/June 28, 2022 10:31 am EST From the moment audiences caught a glimpse of its gargantuan form in “Return of the Jedi,” the rancor has remained a creature favorite in that galaxy far, far away. It rode the line between terrifyingly monstrous and unprecedented awesome as sci-fi monsters went in the ’80s. Prior to seeing the movie, I never had a preferred beast of the “Star Wars” universe – but that changed the moment the Rancor stepped out of the shadows in all its grisly glory....

Frank Capra Only Saw One Role As The ‘Real’ Clark Gable Columbia Pictures By Witney Seibold/June 22, 2022 9:03 pm EST Frank Capra’s romantic comedy “It Happened One Night” was one of the most acclaimed films of 1934, and became the first film to win the “big five” Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Indeed, the film was so influential that it more or less codified an entire genre....