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Pretending To Do Magic On The Fantastic Beasts Set Looks Just As Silly As You’d Expect Warner Bros. Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/April 14, 2022 8:33 am EST If watching the “Fantastic Beasts” movies makes you uncomfortable, you’re not alone — they were also uncomfortable to make. I’m mostly kidding, and plenty of movies require putting actors in uncomfortable physical or mental situations to get needed footage. But still, it turns out that waving around those wands is much harder than it looks....

Star Wars Bits: Timelines, Tom Veitch, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Book Of Boba Fett, The High Republic, And More! Lucasfilm By Adam Frazier/Feb. 25, 2022 12:31 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: “Star Wars: Timelines” Visual Guide Celebrating “Star Wars” Author Tom Veitch Marvel’s Upcoming “Star Wars” Comics The “Star Wars” Podcast & YouTube Round-Up And more! Star Wars: Timelines visual guide...

Luke’s B.F.F. Biggs Darklighter Lucasfilm In the original cut of “Star Wars,” all audiences see of Luke’s childhood friend Biggs Darklighter comes in the form of a few short scenes near the end of the film. But Biggs once had a much larger role to play in the story. In one deleted scene, Luke runs into him by accident while picking up those power converters from Tosche Station. Biggs actor Garrick Hagon elaborated on the scene in a quote obtained by Empire back in 2005:...

The Major Line In When Harry Met Sally You Probably Didn’t Know Was Improvised Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/Feb. 14, 2022 11:45 am EST Improvisational comedy in film can be an incredibly tricky tactic to use. If the film is built around improv, such as the entirely improvised mockumentaries from Christopher Guest, they can create bizarre, wholly unique, hilarious moments that may never have made it into a script, and here we are thinking about them decades later....

The Morning Watch: Behind The Adam Project VFX, Halo TV Series Primer & More Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/March 30, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, go behind the scenes of “The Adam Project” to break down the VFX used in the location work, various action sequences, and vehicle design of the Netflix movie starring Ryan Reynolds....

The Ms. Marvel AvengerCon Scene Nearly Had A Fan-Favorite Thor Character Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/June 9, 2022 2:08 pm EST So far, it’s felt like the vast majority of the Marvel shows on Disney+ has felt like a breath of fresh air for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They have been opportunities to explore new genres and stories that feel different even if they still mostly follow the same formula. But other than “WandaVision,” arguably the biggest departure from the formula so far has been “Ms....

The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror Comics Are Getting An Ominous Omnibus Collection Abrams Books By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 2022 1:37 pm EST Even for fans who have fallen away from “The Simpsons” over the years, the annual “Treehouse of Horror” episodes featuring anthology stories inspired by horror and sci-fi are still a must-watch around Halloween. But did you know there’s also an entire series of comic books featuring even more terrifying, fantastical, and hilarious adventures with Springfield’s finest?...

The Stanley Kubrick Classic That Inspired Michael Mann To Make Movies Columbia Pictures By Witney Seibold/June 13, 2022 6:59 pm EST Many filmmakers have stories of how they, while still very young, were taken innocently to a movie theater where they encountered the film that would inspire them to become directors. For example, in an interview with the BFI, Steven Spielberg listed “Captains Courageous,” the 1940 version of “Pinocchio,” “How Green Was My Valley,” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still” — all seen when he was a boy — as primary creative and career motivators....

The Top 20 Disney Animated Villains Ranked Disney By Barry Levitt/May 27, 2022 11:45 am EST Heroes are nice and all, but there’s an undeniable quality that makes villains fascinating. Often the outcasts of society, villains hunger for recognition and power, and typically, what separates them from the “good” people in society is what they’re willing to do to get what they want. Some are just like us, and some are unrecognizably evil, but they’re all equally intriguing....

Viggo Mortensen Stared Death In The Face While Making Thirteen Lives New Line Cinema By Erin Brady/June 28, 2022 11:00 am EST Actors often do a lot for their craft, and sometimes that puts them in harm’s way. Such is the case for Viggo Mortensen, who stars in Ron Howard’s upcoming film “Thirteen Lives,” which recounts the events of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in the Chiang Rai Province of Thailand....

When You Finish Saving The World Review: Jesse Eisenberg’s Directorial Debut Is An Intentional Cringefest [Sundance 2022] A24 By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2022 3:15 pm EST The time-honored tradition of actors making their directorial debuts at film festivals continues with “When You Finish Saving the World,” a muddled indie dramedy from actor turned writer-director Jesse Eisenberg, based on his 2020 audio drama of the same name. It’s hard not to see Eisenberg’s personality — or rather, his public persona, of a fast-talking, intelligent, somewhat awkward guy — layered throughout the film, with star Finn Wolfhard doing a kind of Eisenberg cosplay the same way every male lead of a Woody Allen movie that isn’t Woody Allen is just doing a weird Woody Allen impersonation....

Year Of The Vampire: Only Lovers Left Alive Is A Haunting Portrait Of Eternal Love Recorded Picture Company By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 22, 2022 3:25 pm EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) What if time was but a byproduct of the love shared between two people, a culmination of several lifetimes shared together?...

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Kindergarten Cop Performance Proved His Co-Star’s Worries Wrong Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/May 21, 2022 7:48 am EST Is it sacrilege to say I like Arnold Schwarzenegger as a comedy actor more than an action star? Out of all his movies, the ones I’ve revisited the most are either comedies (“Twins,” “Kindergarten Cop”), films that satirize the tropes of Arnold’s shoot-em-ups (“Last Action Hero”), or “Batman & Robin” (sorry, my days of pretending I don’t enjoy Joel Schumacher’s neon-lit queer camp bonanza are long behind me)....

Cassandra Peterson Originally Had A More Colorful Design In Mind For Elvira New World Pictures By Witney Seibold/June 16, 2022 3:20 pm EST Cassandra Peterson laid out the origin of Elvira right at the start of her 2021 autobiography “Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark.” Without much romance or magic involved, Peterson merely auditioned to play a “sexy” horror hostess for KHJ Channel 9 in L.A. in the summer of 1981....

Clips Round-Up: Paulie Go! Featuring Spiderman: Homecoming’s Ethan Dizon & More [Exclusive] 1091 Pictures By Max Evry/June 1, 2022 12:10 pm EST (Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray and theatrical releases you won’t see anywhere else!) In this edition: Paulie Go! Firebird Freakscene Paulie Go! Right at the top, we have an exclusive clip debut from 1091 Pictures’ coming-of-age comedy “Paulie Go!...

Danny DeVito Almost Drowned During This Dangerous It’s Always Sunny Stunt FX By Travis Yates/Jan. 20, 2022 7:01 pm EST This one might be titled “The Gang Almost Kills DeVito.” The Gang at the center of the hit FX comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” — Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Dee, and Frank — have found themselves in all sorts of shenanigans over 15 seasons. Life imitated art during Season 11 of the show when Danny DeVito, who plays Paddy’s Pub co-owner Frank Reynolds, almost drowned during a stunt....

Does Naomi Take Place In The Arrowverse? The CW By Ryan Scott/Jan. 21, 2022 10:57 am EST The CW has been anchored in large part by its TV shows based on DC Comics properties for about a decade now, beginning with “Arrow” in 2012. The show kicked off what is now known as the Arrowverse, which consists of other series in the same universe such as “The Flash,” “Legends of Tomorrow,” “Superman & Lois,” and “Batwoman,” as well as “Supergirl” and “Black Lightning,” which recently ended their runs....

They’re Best Friends Warner Bros. During the “Harry Potter” reunion special, available to stream right now on HBO Max, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe revisited the scene where their characters danced together in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,” the penultimate film in the franchise. At this point in the film, Harry and Hermione are exhausted from their search for Voldemort’s horcruxes, and they’ve just been abandoned by an exasperated Ron....

Frank Grillo Learned An Important Lesson Thanks To Minority Report DreamWorks By Witney Seibold/June 22, 2022 9:07 am EST Readers might recognize actor Frank Grillo from … well, not from Steven Spielberg’s 2002 science fiction thriller “Minority Report.” Grillo is perhaps better known for his roles in the depressive survival film “The Grey,” the dystopian horror movie “The Purge: Anarchy,” as Crossbones in “Captain America: Civil War,” or from any number of myriad action films besides; Grillo racked up nine film credits in 2021 alone....

He’s Telling Us to be More Righteous. The trailer indeed seems to have condemnations, zealotry, and monsters galore! But what’s with the death countdown? The webtoon synopsis shines a little light: One day, you will receive a message from an unknown sender. The message will only include your name, the fact that you are going to hell, and the time you have left to live. When the time counts down to zero, supernatural beings manifest to condemn you to hell....