The Lord Of The Rings Cast Celebrates 20th Anniversary With The One Rap To Rule Them All CBS By Jenna Busch/Dec. 17, 2021 9:56 am EST Twenty years ago this Sunday, December 19, 2021, the one ring called out to us. It’s the 20th anniversary of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy! It’s hard to wrap my head around that. If you feel the same, here is something to soothe your battered soul....
The Mummy Inspired Daniel Radcliffe To Take On His The Lost City Role Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 20, 2022 7:51 pm EST Aaron and Adam Nee’s “The Lost City” recently made an unexpectedly large splash in theaters, earning over $170 million worldwide and generally pleasing critics. The film is about a romance author (Sandra Bullock) who only turned to writing archeology-themed smut when her interest and skill in genuine archeology was stymied by the death of her husband....
By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 28, 2021 9:34 am EST I was 14 years old when I snuck into my first screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and fell so deeply in love with the communal experience and ridiculous movie that I’ve since been in two different shadow casts and performed in the live stage production three different times. I’m that a-hole who is incapable of not screaming callbacks every time someone plays “The Time Warp” at a wedding, and I am a loyal evangelist who has been begging people to watch the unofficial sequel “Shock Treatment” for years....
A harrowing true story gets the big-screen treatment From this trailer, “Thirteen Lives” looks like it follows the narrative presented by non-fiction accounts of the story very closely. The footage shows the soccer team set out to explore the cave, coupled with shots of water rushing into it. From here, we see Farrell’s character, British diver John Volanthen, giving Mortensen’s Rick Stanton the rundown on the tricky situation unfolding. The clips get into the general danger of cave diving and the on-the-ground response to the crisis, and also show the hear-rending moment when one of the divers first surfaces and sees the emaciated boys, only to realize he can’t bring them all back right away....
Top Gun: Maverick & Minions: The Rise Of Gru Helped Save The Box Office With Patience (And Confidence) Paramount Pictures / Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/July 5, 2022 4:00 pm EST 2020 was a no-good, very-rotten year all around, but the movie industry was hit especially hard. It turns out that a business that relies on people being confined together in tight spaces for hours at a time indoors can’t thrive when a pandemic is raging....
History: The end of Hollywood’s Golden Age Universal Pictures The short, short version: After the Paramount Decree, many theaters were sold off or simply closed down. The “Golden Age” of Hollywood was at an end. People were watching more TV, and uptight citizens groups began targeting movies for their marketing of “Unamerican values” to people, souring the cinema for many. A modest cottage industry of grindhouses and drive-ins began to grow in its place, and independent movie theaters finally had a chance....
What Ms. Marvel Does Better Than Any Other MCU Show Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/June 29, 2022 4:00 pm EST When comparing DC to Marvel, the distinction people often use is that the heroes of the DC universe are superheroes first, humans second, while Marvel is about regular people first. When the MCU began with “Iron Man,” it took more than half of the film’s runtime before we actually saw Tony Stark in his iconic suit of armor....
Which John Wick Movie Has The Highest Kill Count? Lionsgate “Guns. Lots of guns.” That’s the name of the game for John Wick, hitman extraordinaire and all-around badass. Known for his love of dogs and penchant for brutal executions, John Wick has a bit of a reputation in the criminal underworld. He’s Baba Yaga. He’s the one you send to kill the Boogeyman. He’s even killed three men in a bar with a pencil....
Why Jason Momoa’s Apple TV+ Series See Is Ending With Season 3 Apple By Erin Brady/June 29, 2022 2:18 pm EST Looks like we won’t be seeing any more of “See” in the future. Ha, get it? It’s a play on the title. Well, anyways, the upcoming third season of the Apple TV+ series “See” has been confirmed to be its last. The news came on the heels of the release of a new trailer for the season showcasing Jason Momoa’s Voss as he deals with what final plans the sinister Trivantians have lined up for him and his village....
Being Andy Samberg’s Hot Rod Stuntman Was A Dangerous Job Paramount Pictures By Anya Stanley/May 20, 2022 11:45 am EST With an outfit like The Lonely Island — that’s director Akiva Schaffer and stars Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone, all childhood friends — behind “Hot Rod,” the early aughts comedy is naturally filled with ad-libs and impromptu shifts in the storytelling. But one thing that never left the agenda was the need for professional stunt crew in a tale of a raggedy amateur stuntman....
Celebrate The Batman With A Bat-Shaped Little Caesar’s Pizza, What Else? Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Jan. 24, 2022 3:23 pm EST Being a superhero is one part heroics, one part masking up, and one part branding. Just ask Kate Bishop about Hawkeye’s branding, or lack thereof. Batman doesn’t have that issue. He’s got the Bat Signal, the Batmobile, the Bat Phone, the Bat Pole, Bat-Darts, Bat-Bolas, Ace the Bat-Hound, and most recently, Batman Oreos....
Disenchantment Star Abbi Jacobson Teases Beanie’s Hero’s Journey In Season 4 [Interview] Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 7, 2022 2:12 pm EST Being queen of a magical kingdom sounds like a lot of fun, but it turns out it’s also extremely challenging. For “Disenchantment” character Princess Tiabeanie (Abbi Jacobson), being Queen of Dreamland means taking care of her mildly insane father, looking out for her friends Elfo (Nat Faxon) and Luci (Eric André), and hopefully averting a multitude of wars....
Dune Screenwriter Suggests Sequel Will Set Up A Third Movie, Of Course Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/March 10, 2022 6:08 pm EST Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” has been nominated for a whopping 10 Academy Awards including best picture, and rightly so. I have a deep and unabashed love for this film, which is interesting since I don’t love the book. I do have great respect for the worldbuilding, but the film just moved me in a way that Frank Herbert’s novel didn’t....
Everything Everywhere All At Once Star Stephanie Hsu To Reunite With Michelle Yeoh In Disney+ Series American Born Chinese A24 By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 11, 2022 1:53 pm EST Stephanie Hsu deserves everything good in this world. I could have just stopped there, but here’s some exciting news about her next project. Hsu will be reuniting with “Everything Everywhere All At Once” co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in the upcoming Disney+ series, “American Born Chinese” (via Variety)....
Fear The Walking Dead Season 7 Part 2 Trailer: The Apocalyptic Wasteland Returns … With One Big Surprise AMC By Jeremy Mathai/March 15, 2022 4:11 pm EST It’s hard to believe that the second half of season 7 of “Fear the Walking Dead” is upon us, marking yet a new milestone for the successful spin-off series of the original “The Walking Dead.” With the parent show continuing to thrive, ambling forward with no signs of stopping (well, almost no signs of stopping)....
Free Guy Will Give You A Great Day When It Debuts On Disney+ In February Disney Press Site By Jenna Busch/Dec. 17, 2021 9:17 am EST “Free Guy” was the first film I saw when I went back to movie theaters (masked and vaccinated). It was the very best choice. After over a year of, well, gestures around wildly this, it cheered me up in ways I didn’t even realize I needed....
Gaspar Noe’s 2019 Movie Lux Aeterna Will Finally Hit U.S. Theaters In Summer 2022 Nordisk Film By Joshua Meyer/March 1, 2022 10:07 am EST It’s been a long road to U.S. screens for Gaspar Noé’s “Lux Æterna.” The movie made its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was later set to play at the Tribeca Film Festival, until the event was canceled due to the pandemic. The last Noé effort to receive a release stateside was actually “Climax” back in 2018....
Fly in the ointment Paramount+ “Strange New Worlds” hit the ground running from its very first episode, effortlessly balancing episodic storylines with ongoing character arcs and juggling tones from serious stakes to fun romps, all with easek. But even with such a high level of consistency — or perhaps partly because of it — one particular subplot in the early going couldn’t help but stick out from the rest. If there’s any minor criticism to lob at this series, I would point towards its tendency to resort to tragic backstories, usually delivered through somewhat strained exposition dumps, in order to flesh out its supporting characters....
J.J. Abrams And Stephen King Team For Billy Summers Limited Series Adaptation Warner Bros. Entertainment By Anya Stanley/Feb. 1, 2022 5:09 pm EST One of the biggest names in horror racks up another adaptation of his original material. Bad Robot Productions, J.J. Abrams’ production company, will be developing a limited series adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling 2021 novel “Billy Summers.” Ed Zwick (“Courage Under Fire”) & Marshall Herskovitz (“Love and Other Drugs”) will handle the adaptation, which Deadline reports will aim for six to ten episodes with Zwick in the captain’s chair....
LEGO Unveils New Back To The Future DeLorean Playset (Time Travel Not Included) LEGO By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 17, 2022 12:50 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. LEGO previously took us back in time with a “Back to the Future” LEGO set that was one of the earliest sets in their LEGO Ideas line created by passionate fans. Now they’re delivering a superior “Back to the Future” LEGO DeLorean time machine playset that’s much bigger and far more detailed, but it still won’t go back in time if you somehow manage to get it up to 88mph....
