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Nicolas Cage And Pedro Pascal Took A ‘No Acting’ Approach To The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent Lionsgate By Rafael Motamayor/April 22, 2022 8:56 am EST “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is finally in theaters, which means audiences can experience one of the weirdest, most bizarre movies of the year … and one of the most wholesome. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Nick Cage, an incredibly neurotic fictional version of himself who is going through a bad batch of financial troubles....

Robert Pattinson Actually Drove The Batmobile 100 Miles Per Hour, For Real Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/March 4, 2022 5:32 pm EST “The Batman” has arrived in theaters and even if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you’ve surely seen the trailers, which have focused a lot on Robert Pattinson’s brand new, heavily-revamped Batmobile. Essentially, Matt Reeves opted to give the DC hero a muscle car this time around, and it’s impressive....

Short Round Actor Ke Huy Quan Would ‘Absolutely’ Return For More Indiana Jones Movies A24 By Lex Briscuso/April 11, 2022 12:45 pm EST Warning: This news will have you wanting to do an “Indiana Jones” binge. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” star Ke Huy Quan revealed during a recent and totally wholesome Reddit AMA that, yes, he would love to return to the “Indiana Jones” universe to reprise his role as the resourceful, hilarious, and just plain sweet sidekick Short Round....

Tales From The Box Office: The Hunger Games Legacy 10 Years Later Lionsgate By Ryan Scott/March 28, 2022 9:40 am EST There was a relatively specific moment in time for Hollywood when the YA craze took over and every studio was looking for a young adult franchise to rule them all. There was “Harry Potter.” There was “Twilight.” And it was Lionsgate winning the rights to a novel titled “The Hunger Games” in 2009 that was the true turning point....

The Book Of Boba Fett Brings Back A Familiar, Adorable Droid Model From Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Lucasfilm By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 26, 2022 5:56 pm EST Droids are one of the best parts of the “Star Wars” canon. Whether it’s the paranoid communication android C-3PO, the sassy RD-D2, or sentient soccer ball BB-8, the droids of “Star Wars” bring a lot of comedy and cuteness to the sci-fi universe. There’s a massive community of folks online who build and modify pre-existing Droid Depot droids as well, bringing these fictional friends to our reality....

The Book Of Boba Fett Finale Will Change Fans’ Minds, Ming-Na Wen Teases Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 18, 2022 10:31 am EST We’re about halfway through “The Book of Boba Fett” season 1, and if there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on, it’s that the show hasn’t really been what they expected. From Boba teaming up with young cyborg gangs that ride around in rainbow-colored bikes to getting his own adorable pet baby rancor (one which he is absolutely going to ride one day) and taking many, many bacta baths while recalling his past with the Tusken Raiders, the “Mandalorian” spinoff series has gone in a number of surprising and, on occasion, patience-trying directions so far on its way to getting wherever it’s going....

The Daily Stream: Battle At Big Rock Is The Jurassic World Sequel That Should Have Been Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/June 16, 2022 2:00 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: “Battle at Big Rock” Where You Can Stream It: YouTube The Pitch: What would happen if dinosaurs and average humans living out in the real world were suddenly forced to co-exist?...

The Daily Stream: Why Do I Still Remember Every Punchline In Dennis The Menace? Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/March 9, 2022 12:00 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: “Dennis The Menace” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Loosely based on the popular Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name, “Dennis the Menace” tells the goofball story of five-year-old Dennis Mitchell (Mason Gamble), a mischievous little boy who makes the life of his neighbor George Wilson (Walter Matthau) a living hell....

The Pez Outlaw Review: A Breezy, Charming Documentary About The World Of Pez Collecting [SXSW] SXSW By Chris Evangelista/March 12, 2022 6:55 pm EST Have you ever heard the story about the Pez Outlaw? In the 1990s, a curious man named Steve Glew met a mysterious woman at a toy convention. Opening her coat like a spy in a thriller she showed Steve a rare Pez dispenser — and told him how he could get his hands on such a gem: by hopping on a plane to Slovenia....

The Power Rangers Will Battle Godzilla In New IDW Comic Miniseries IDW By Danielle Ryan/March 23, 2022 12:24 pm EST Two of America’s favorite Japanese pop culture imports are about to collide in comic book format. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are teaming up to battle against the scaled menace Godzilla for IDW’s “Godzilla Vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” a new comic miniseries that pits the Rangers’ giant mech against all kinds of kaiju in a battle for the ages....

The Real-Life Legacy Jessica Williams Brought To Her Fantastic Beast Character Warner Bros. Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/April 19, 2022 10:02 am EST “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” might not be good enough to save the floundering franchise, but it does have a few redeemable qualities: Jude Law’s twinkle-eyed Dumbledore, Newt’s manticore dance, and Professor Eulalie “Lally” Hicks. Portrayed by Jessica Williams, Lally is a charms teacher at Ilvermorny (The American version of Hogwarts) who has a charming mid-Atlantic accent and joins Dumbledore’s army in his fight against Gellert Grindelwald....

The Scariest Horror Movie Villains You Never Actually See New Line Cinema By Witney Seibold/June 8, 2022 9:31 am EST A good horror film can shock and surprise you. It can make you jump into the arms of your date, recoil from gore, or scream out loud. And those things are certainly a fun night at the movies. A great horror film, however, will delve deeper into your subconscious, find the things that terrify us as a species, and prod at those fear receptors until we begin to lose our grasp on the world around us and vanish into a miasma of terror that will last as long as a film has us under its spell....

What’s Up, Doc? Warner Bros. The first “official” Bugs Bunny cartoon short was Tex Avery’s 1940 film “A Wild Hare.” Although there were proto versions of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in previous cartoons (purists will point you to the very Bugs Bunny-like rascally rabbit in Ben Hardaway’s “Porky’s Hare Hunt” from 1938; technically this was a character often dubbed “happy rabbit” who appeared in several shorts in ‘38 and ‘39), it was “A Wild Hare” that features the characters redesigned (by Bob Givens) into the versions that would eventually become their standard....

What Happens To DC’s Arrowverse If The CW Gets Sold? The CW By Ryan Scott/Jan. 13, 2022 1:00 pm EST Fans of the Arrowverse who don’t keep up with business news may not be aware that the DC shows they love could be in for a big shake-up in the not-too-distant future. The CW, the network behind the hugely popular suite of shows based on characters from the pages of DC Comics, is apparently up for sale, with both WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS looking to get out of owning a TV network....

Why George Romero Decided To Use An Alternate Ending For Dawn Of The Dead United Film Distribution Company By Miyako Pleines/Feb. 28, 2022 10:14 am EST It’s impossible to forget the ending to George A. Romero’s classic, “Night of the Living Dead.” After a long night of battling zombies while trapped inside an old house, Ben (Duane Jones), the sole survivor of the group of rag-tag individuals thrown together by chance, emerges from the cellar hoping to be rescued by the police that have finally arrived on the scene....

Winning Time Creator Max Borenstein On The Chemistry Between Tracy Letts And Jason Segel [Interview] HBO By Jack Giroux/March 30, 2022 11:48 am EST Training camp has commenced in the latest episode of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.” Dr. Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) is ready to party in Palm Springs, just as his finances take another hard hit. As for the new coach, Jack McKinney (Tracy Letts), he is ready to go to work....

Yellowjackets Executive Producer Drew Comins On The Line That Never Made It Into The Show [ATX] Showtime By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 3, 2022 3:55 pm EST The thrilling new series “Yellowjackets” may be in the off season, but the buzz around the freaky, excellent wilderness survival drama hasn’t died down. Today, /Film’s Ryan Scott is reporting from ATX Television Festival, where executive producer Drew Comins is breaking down some of what made the show’s first season so singular....

An Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Pushed Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby Into 3D Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/June 16, 2022 5:57 pm EST When Baz Luhrmann released “The Great Gatsby,” many questioned the director’s intent to shoot the film in 3D. After all, this wasn’t some giant action blockbuster or kinetic animated film. This was a drama based on one of the great works of American literature. What could 3D possibly add, especially at a time when the 3D craze was in its dying days?...

Black Bird’s Greg Kinnear And Sepideh Moafi On The ‘Perfect Script’ And A Six-Hour Table Read [Interview] Apple TV+ By Ben Pearson/July 7, 2022 3:00 pm EST The new Apple TV+ series “Black Bird” provides plenty of opportunities for electric performances. Taron Egerton plays Jimmy Keene, a criminal presented with an intriguing option: In exchange for his freedom, he must go undercover in a maximum security facility, befriend a possible killer (Paul Walter Hauser), and get the man to reveal the locations of where he buried his victims....

Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village Arc Trailer: Tanjiro Gets Yet Another Sword He’ll Probably Break Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/April 17, 2022 11:59 am EST “Demon Slayer” is arguably one of the most surprising success stories in anime in quite a while. While the manga was not a failure by any means, it quickly jumped to the top of the bestsellers list when the anime adaptation. The anime is so popular that it became a box office juggernaut, and made protagonists Tanjiro and Nezuko two of the most popular anime characters ever....