Tales From The Box Office: Nic Cage Battled Nic Cage In The Summer Of ‘97 Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/April 23, 2022 2:23 pm EST There are no actors quite like Nicolas Cage and there will probably never be another actor like him, even if movies exist for another 1,000 years. The man is a complete and utter anomaly, a bonafide movie star who has had several careers all wrapped into one....
The Ending Of Under The Silver Lake Explained: Vindication But At What Cost? A24 By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 10, 2022 10:36 am EST Now that we’ve all collectively stopped crying over Andrew Garfield’s beautiful performance as Jonathan Larson in “Tick…Tick…BOOM!,” plenty of folks are making their way through Garfield’s non-“Spider-Man” filmography, which includes the messy and polarizing neo-noir film, 2018’s “Under the Silver Lake.” The follow-up film from “It Follows” director David Robert Mitchell, “Under the Silver Lake” follows a guy named Sam (Garfield) who meets and immediately becomes infatuated with his neighbor Sarah (Riley Keough) after spending one evening together....
The Expanse’s Dominique Tipper And Steven Strait Talk About That Big Emotional Scene In Redoubt [Exclusive] Prime Video By Vanessa Armstrong/Dec. 31, 2021 1:41 pm EST The latest episode of “The Expanse” includes a lot of emotionally intense moments, but one that especially stands out is that scene between Holden (Steven Strait) and Naomi (Dominique Tipper). /Film had the chance to ask Strait and Tipper about that scene and what it meant for their characters as well as what it was like for them as actors to perform it....
The Lost City Directors Want To Bring Back That Amblin Feeling [SXSW] Paramount By Jacob Hall/March 14, 2022 12:14 pm EST Aaron and Adam Nee like movies. That much is clear when you speak with them. Like so many moviemakers (and film writers) of a certain generation, they grew up with Spielberg and Zemeckis, and still see that special Amblin magic as the kind of high watermark worth pursuing. The brother filmmaking duo have made the leap to big studio movies with “The Lost City,” an adventure comedy starring a bunch of movie stars (Sandra Bullock!...
Hitchcock’s Creative Differences with the Government MGM Alfred Hitchcock filmed the close-ups of his actors climbing down the mountain at the MGM Studios lot in Culver City, California. Yet, they are so skillfully interwoven with the other South Dakota location footage in “North by Northwest” that the government was concerned the moviegoing public would get the wrong idea and think it had consented to Hitchcock and his actors traipsing all over Mount Rushmore and using it as the scene of character deaths....
An arthouse blockbuster in the making Focus Features Here’s some of the first feedback from critics, which seems to indicate “The Northman” is an ambitious and truly epic movie: #TheNorthman is incredible. Like, fall-to-your-knees, ‘HOW the HELL did they do this?’ good. Breathtakingly gnarly too. It deserves to be a massive hit. EGGERS HIVE ASSEMBLE. pic.twitter.com/NpijhqV6g8 — Cameron Frew (@FrewFilm) April 5, 2022 #TheNorthman is a visually stunning time piece that is meticulously crafted and intricately paced....
Watch How VFX Brings The Multiverse Of Everything Everywhere All At Once To Life A24 By Joshua Meyer/April 8, 2022 8:24 am EST “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has earned rave reviews since it made its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival last month, and the buzz surrounding the movie earned it a strong opening weekend, with a per-theater average second only to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza,” in terms of platform releases during the Covid era (per Deadline)....
What Would Make A Resident Evil Adaptation Successful? Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/May 14, 2022 1:27 pm EST Since the games first debuted in 1996, “Resident Evil” has been a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. With a whopping 28 games, seven live-action feature films, five CGI animated films, four stage productions (including a musical), four in-universe documentaries, six dramatic audio albums, an animated series, and a live-action series adaptation on the way, it’s safe to say “Resident Evil” is one of the biggest franchises in history....
Which Stranger Things 4 Plotlines Actually Paid Off? Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 1, 2022 9:00 am EST This article contains major spoilers from the final two episodes of “Stranger Things” season 4. There’s a lot going on in “Stranger Things” season 4. With multiple locations across states and continents, plots with inspirations that range from “Nightmare on Elm Street” to “Dazed and Confused,” and a sprawling ensemble cast, it seemed impossible that the show would completely come together for its season finale....
15 Best Hugh Jackman Movies, Ranked lucacavallari/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/May 11, 2022 10:52 am EST Several actors have played Bruce Wayne/Batman, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and Clark Kent/Superman on the big screen. However, there’s been only one Logan/Wolverine. Hugh Jackman played the iconic mutant in the “X-Men” franchise for almost two decades. While many of his co-stars were recast in the subsequent films, Jackman stuck with the part. If a new actor is cast as Wolverine in a rebooted “X-Men” franchise within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they will have to live up to the legacy that Jackman left behind....
Something in the water FX The episode begins with a conversation between two friends, one Black, one white, alone at night on the still waters of what I suspect is Lake Lanier, or some fictional place inspired by it given the history lesson that white friend provides. “It’s s*** water,” he says, before elaborating further: “This whole lake used to be a town. Houses, farms, roads. There’s a whole raceway. Big government built a dam and flooded the place....
Beavis And Butt-Head Do The Universe: Release Date, Cast, And More Paramount+ By BJ Colangelo/June 3, 2022 8:52 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) As a wise Butt-Head once said, “If you love something, and you set it free, and it doesn’t come back, you’re a dumba**....
A film full of TV subplots Disney Of course, part of the issue with Tom — a well-meaning white guy, to be sure — not being too challenged for his unavoidable privilege amidst his personal allyship is the fact that “Cheaper by the Dozen” has to be as much about Tom and Zoe’s many kids as it is about the two adults. The first five minutes of “Cheaper by the Dozen” make clear how challenging it is to balance so many potential characters, with a joint voiceover between Braff and Union that explains which of the kids wants to be a basketball player, who wants to be a comic-book artist, and on and on and on....
Part of your world Disney Now, before we continue, let’s get this out of the way: Yes, “The Little Mermaid” is full of messy and problematic elements, be it the infamous “blackfish” in the “Under the Sea” musical number or how, on the surface (no pun intended), it’s a story about a 16-year-old girl — that’s right, in case you had forgotten, Ariel is 16 in the movie — altering herself physically and literally giving up her voice while pursuing a young man whom she ends up marrying....
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Finally Gives The MCU An Official Designation Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/May 6, 2022 11:48 am EST Arguably the most anticipated blockbuster of the summer has arrived in the form of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been teeing up the ball for this one for some time, with the multiverse being ripped wide open by Stephen Strange in this one, opening up truly limitless possibilities for the future....
Euphoria And What Happens When An Edgy Show Becomes Mainstream HBO By BJ Colangelo/March 3, 2022 4:00 pm EST Turns out you don’t need superheroes defying the laws of gravity or fire-breathing dragons to get people to watch your programming, you just need highly-stylized melodramatic teenagers and a little bit of controversy. Twitter labeled “Euphoria” as the most-tweeted-about series of the decade, and following the show’s second season finale, the discourse surrounding the show is still as spicy as ever....
Glee Is Coming To Disney+ On June 1, And Then Presumably Going On To Regionals 20th Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 20, 2022 5:38 pm EST Here’s a reason to bust a move: “Glee” is coming to Disney+. The erstwhile phenomenon will be making its way to the streamer on June 1st according to the official Disney+ Twitter account, meaning all of the show’s catchiest and most ridiculous moments will be right at your fingertips....
‘Intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes’ Lions Gate Films Christian Bale’s performance as Patrick Bateman is especially haunting, considering how realistic it seems to so many people we witness in real life. In an interview regarding the film’s 20th anniversary, Mary Harron confessed that one of the biggest inspirations for Bale’s performance was Tom Cruise himself, not Cruise’s portrayal of a specific movie character. Harron had challenged Bale to think of Bateman like an alien studying human nature, which inspired him to study the energy of Tom Cruise....
Ice Age Character Scrat Finally Gets His Acorn As Blue Sky Studios Says Goodbye Blue Sky Studios By Rafael Motamayor/April 14, 2022 4:03 pm EST The very first creature we ever see in a movie by Blue Sky Studios is Scrat the Squirrel, as he tries to obtain (and keep) a single acorn to last the entire winter. That was 20 years ago, in the opening of “Ice Age,” and ever since then, the poor squirrel/rat hybrid has been through literal hell and back....
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Trailer Breakdown: Echoes Of The Past Paramount By Mike Shutt/May 23, 2022 4:17 pm EST Ethan Hunt is back, baby! And you know what that means? Movies are back. “Mission: Impossible” has, without question, been the greatest franchise since it began back in 1996. It is a series that is constantly reinventing and one-upping itself, and writer/director Christopher McQuarrie, who joined as a writer on “Ghost Protocol” and a director on “Rogue Nation,” has elevated it to the point where every other franchise going looks paltry in comparison....
