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Attention Industry Execs: We Still Want Vampire Content, Morbius Just Sucked Hulu By BJ Colangelo/April 22, 2022 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.) This year marks the 100th anniversary of “Nosferatu,” and here at /Film we’ve been celebrating the occasion with our ongoing “Year of the Vampire” series. Bloodsuckers have always been a favorite bedfellow for film fans, which is why so many of us have been excited for the upcoming flood of vampire projects....

CODA’s Best Picture Win Is The First For A Streaming Service – And Apple Beat Netflix To The Punch Apple TV+ By Ryan Scott/March 28, 2022 12:07 am EST In a genuinely amazing turn of events, Apple TV+ has just become the first streaming service to take home the biggest award Hollywood has to offer, as “CODA” won Best Picture at the Oscars. The acclaimed film from director Sian Hader had emerged as a front-runner in recent weeks, but still, beating out the likes of “West Side Story,” “Nightmare Alley” and, perhaps most importantly, Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” and “The Power of the Dog” makes this a monumental win....

Cowboy Bebop’s Inspirations Were As Eclectic As The Show Itself Netflix By Adam Wescott/April 15, 2022 5:30 pm EST “They are sick and tired of conventional fixed style jazz,” read the opening credits of “Cowboy Bebop.” “The work, which becomes a new genre itself…will be called ‘COWBOY BEBOP.’” “Cowboy Bebop” is very different from other anime of its time, just as its creators intended. Its central characters are adults rather than teenagers, and they inhabit a multiracial and multilingual world....

Death On The Nile’s Box Office Debut Won’t Pay For Enough Champagne To Fill The Nile 20th Century Studios By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 12, 2022 4:51 pm EST In unsurprising news, Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel “Death on the Nile” isn’t doing so hot at the box office. The film seemed cursed to fail — complicated by sexual abuse allegations against star Armie Hammer, that cringe-worthy “Imagine” viral video by star Gal Gadot, reports of anti-vaccination misinformation from star Letitia Wright, and a two-year delay in release due to the pandemic....

Doctor Strange 2 Will Be ‘On The Level’ Of No Way Home, Benedict Cumberbatch Claims Marvel Studios By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 14, 2022 2:32 pm EST The success of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has been staggering, especially keeping in mind that the film has a lifetime gross of $788,210,954 (so far) in the pandemic era. Now, Benedict Cumberbatch, who will reprise his role as Doctor Stephen Strange in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” has claimed that the upcoming MCU Phase Four will have success “on the level” of “No Way Home,” according to an exclusive report by Empire....

Fantasia Barrino, Peacemaker’s Danielle Brooks To Star In The Color Purple Movie Musical Maury Phillips/Getty Images By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 4, 2022 10:32 am EST “The Color Purple,” a film based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway stage musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name (so, you know, no pressure on this new re-telling of the story to be any good), has cast two key roles....

Jackass Forever And Moonfall Offer Equal Parts Hope And Concern For The Box Office Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/Feb. 7, 2022 2:14 pm EST After nearly two months of dominating the charts virtually unopposed (save for one week where “Scream” took the crown), “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally fallen from atop the box office and, amazingly enough, it was Johnny Knoxville and the gang that took the Marvel superhero out....

No cheers for Matt Murdock Netflix Having wrapped “Daredevil” by 2020, Cox was excited at the chance to return in a cameo role in “No Way Home,” hoping to do more with the character in a far greater capacity. Well, good news for “Daredevil” fans: according to Radio Times, Cox has confirmed that he will be reprising his roles as the lawyer/vigilante for a future MCU project, although details about the same are scant....

Our Great National Parks Trailer: Obama Befriends A ‘Sleepy Sloth’ As The Host Of A Netflix Docuseries Netflix By Shania Russell/March 15, 2022 11:20 am EST You’ve seen him lead a country, write books, try his hand at comedy, produce movies, and even become a very successful meme — but now prepare yourself for the latest chapter of former President Barack Obama’s career: nature documentary narrator! The former commander-in-chief is heading up “Our Great National Parks,” a new Netflix docuseries celebrating the power of our planet’s greatest national parks and wild space....

Pam And Tommy Ending Explained: The Victims Of Voyeurism Hulu By Danielle Ryan/March 11, 2022 5:39 pm EST The true story of the world’s first viral video and the couple who inadvertently starred in it is a complicated one that almost seems too wild to be believed. Hulu’s limited series “Pam & Tommy” sets out to try and make sense of the mayhem, providing a more sympathetic look at Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) than the media or pop culture ever did....

Quentin Tarantino In Talks To Direct Episodes Of Timothy Olyphant-Led Series Justified: City Primeval FX By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 24, 2022 10:40 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s return to the screen could come in the form of a TV project. Tarantino is reportedly in talks to helm an episode or two of the upcoming FX limited series, “Justified: City Primeval,” which would reunite him with star Timothy Olyphant, who appeared in Tarantino’s last film, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....

Robert Pattinson Has A Few Baddies In Mind For The Batman’s Sequel Warner Bros. Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/June 28, 2022 10:14 am EST Robert Pattinson’s stint as the brooding and battered version of Bruce Wayne/Batman isn’t ending anytime soon — the actor is confirmed to star in a sequel of the critically acclaimed film from Matt Reeves. In the movie, it has been two years since Batman has been lurking in the city’s shadows and its criminal underbelly, actively bringing Gotham’s bad guys to their knees....

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Clip: Dr. Robotnik Is Back To Deliver A Knuckles Sandwich Paramount Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 28, 2022 1:43 pm EST Two years after the live-action “Sonic The Hedgehog” film hit theaters, it’s still hard to believe it was actually good. After a memorably terrible response to the first footage released led the film’s team to a full animation redesign, the movie sounded like it would be fated for the trash pile....

Station Eleven Team Reunites For The Glass Hotel And Sea Of Tranquility Adaptations At HBO Max HBO Max By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 1, 2022 5:50 pm EST One of the best shows of 2021 is spawning two more series, although they’re not sequels: according to a New Yorker profile, the team behind HBO Max’s heart-rending limited series “Station Eleven” are set to adapt two more novels by “Station” author Emily St. John Mandel....

The Ghost Of Tsushima Movie Has Found Its Screenwriter Sony Interactive Entertainment By Danielle Ryan/April 12, 2022 9:53 pm EST The “Ghost of Tsushima” movie, based on the popular 2020 Sony Interactive video game, has found its writer. The movie will be directed by “John Wick” franchise helmer Chad Stahelski, which means the game’s samurai-inspired action sequences should pack plenty of punch. Deadline reports that Takashi Doscher will pen the screenplay for the upcoming Sony Pictures production....

George Raft United Artists The antagonist of “Some Like It Hot” is the Chicago gangster “Spats” Columbo, so named for his favorite piece of clothing. Indeed, he loves his spats so much that he insist others wash their hands before buttoning them on. “Spats” is an archetypal character, played with all the necessary heft by George Raft, and whose Chicago origins indicated that he was clearly modeled after Al Capone. However, “Spats” was just the latest in a very long line of movie gangsters that had been a fashionable character type throughout the 1930s....

A viral photo cries for help FX When Loquareeous runs to the cop, he’s looking for help, but what he gets instead is a photo op to make white people feel better. Devonte Hart also ended up in a photo that went viral, only in reality, he and his adoptive family were attending a protest related to the shooting of Michael Brown when it happened. In a look back at the picture in the wake of the family’s murder-suicide, The Outline explains that freelance photographer Johnny Nguyen caught the photo after seeing Devonte carrying a sign that read “Free Hugs....

‘The two shows … are entwined even more than ever’ Netflix In addition to making both Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and not-a-villain Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) main characters, “Better Call Saul” has already brought back numerous other “Breaking Bad” characters for guest appearances. We’ve also seen Walter and Jessie reunite once already in “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” where Cranston donned a bald cap for one scene. It’s possible that Walter and Jessie could simply cameo in “Better Call Saul” season 6, the way Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and Steven Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) did in the season 5 episode, “The Guy for This....

Wanda Gets The Spotlight In A New Doctor Strange 2 Featurette Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/April 29, 2022 12:45 pm EST The folks at Marvel Studios have really begun to double down on the marketing campaign ahead of the release of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” next week. That being the case, they have released a brand new featurette that focuses on the return of Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch....

Watch Saturday Night Live Bid Farewell To Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, And Pete Davidson … But Not Kyle Mooney NBC By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2022 12:16 pm EST This weekend brought the 47th season finale of “Saturday Night Live” to the airwaves. With “Russian Doll” star Natasha Lyonne set to host, it seemed like this was going to be your average season finale for the late night sketch series. But those expectations became something else entirely when Friday brought news that cast members Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney would be leaving the show after the end of the season....