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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 Really Isn’t That Bad, Honestly Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/May 6, 2022 9:00 am EST My mom ran a daycare out of our home growing up, which meant we became a retirement home for the childhood toys of just about everyone in the neighborhood. Our closet held a gigantic bin of well-loved Barbies, Happy Meal toys, Hot Wheels, Beanie Babies, and an assortment of random superhero figures half the kids never knew the names of....

The Bad Guys And Memory Make For A Calm Before The Storm At The Box Office Open Road Films By Ryan Scott/May 2, 2022 11:56 am EST This was one of the more quiet weekends we’ve experienced at the box office in quite some time. The only new wide release attempting to take anything away from the repeat business crowd was Liam Neeson’s latest action flick “Memory,“coming just two months after the actor starred in another action flick, “Blacklight....

The Best Moments (And The Best Little Details) In The Batman Warner Bros. By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/March 5, 2022 8:52 pm EST Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” is packed with so many little details, moments, and Easter eggs that display an immense love and understanding of the source material. There’s humor, there’s heroism, there’s a glorious mix of absurdity and realism. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a live action Batman movie, and it’s only right to show appreciation by gathering some of the best details and little moments that helped make “The Batman” arguably one the best Batman movies to ever grace the big screen....

Bigger Than Big, Stronger than Strong Madman Entertainment The anime series that Ôtomo credits for inspiring “Akira” is “Gigantor,” which was based on the manga “Tetsujin 28-gō.” Ôtomo admits that the characters and story of “Akira” owe a great deal to “Gigantor:” “Heck, considering Akira’s basic concept is that a secret weapon from a past war is resurrected, you could say that Akira was based on Tetsujin 28.” “Gigantor” does indeed feature a secret weapon — the titular robot himself, which was developed by Japan to fight in World War II; “Akira,” meanwhile, features the use of psychic-powered beings as weapons....

The Growing Cinematic Trend Of The Abortion Road Trip Movie Is Our Bleak Reality HBO Max By BJ Colangelo/May 3, 2022 9:35 pm EST Fifteen years ago, Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody’s Academy Award-winning teen pregnancy comedy “Juno” told the story of a pregnant teen who at first walks right into her local abortion clinic, only having to deal with a sole protestor and an odd receptionist who is way too comfortable talking about the smell of her boyfriend’s junk....

The MCU’s Ms. Marvel Has Very Different Powers Than The Comic Version Marvel Studios Changing a comic book character’s powers to better fit a cinematic universe is nothing new — Spider-Man’s web-shooters famously became biological for Sam Raimi’s take on the film, for example. Now, the trailer for the Disney+ series “Ms. Marvel” shows us a slightly different take on Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani). It appears that the character’s stretching abilities are going to be changed a bit, and the source of those abilities comes from a different source than her comic-book counterpart....

Haven’t I Seen You Somewhere Before? NBCUniversal Richard Hatch portrayed Commander Adama’s son, Captain Apollo, in the original “Battlestar Galactica.” Also known as Lee Adama in the reboot (though Apollo was still his call sign), the character was later played by Jamie Bamber. Hatch returned to space for the reboot as Tom Zarek, a role which enabled him to face off against Bamber’s iteration of the character he used to play on more than one occasion....

The Stephen King Movies That Helped Define Drew Barrymore’s Career Universal Pictures By Eric Vespe/April 30, 2022 10:17 am EST In 1982, Drew Barrymore became America’s little sister thanks to her adorable turn as Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” But she has another Steve to thank for solidifying her child star status. “E.T.” might have made her famous, but back-to-back Stephen King films made her a star. Barrymore followed up “E....

This Princess Bride Character Was Almost Entirely Improvised By Jamie Gerber/March 14, 2022 12:16 pm EST One of the most instantly quotable and beloved films of all time, “The Princess Bride” was released in 1987, and has proven itself a timeless classic. Written by William Goldman (based on his 1973 novel) and directed by Rob Reiner, the film is a twist on typical fairy tales that has it all: swashbuckling, comedy, revenge, and of course, swoon-worthy romance — don’t worry, it’s not a kissing book....

We Own This City Teaser: The Wire Creator Returns To Expose Police Corruption In New HBO Max Series HBO Max By Jeremy Mathai/March 16, 2022 3:24 pm EST How many times have you seen “The Wire” listed among the ranks of the greatest television shows of all time? How many times have you heard fans of the show insist that it does actually deserve its sterling reputation, no matter how tempting it may be to dismiss it as “overrated” or something?...

Why David Ayer Had To Rewrite The Original Ending To Training Day Warner Bros. Pictures By Joshua Meyer/April 15, 2022 10:57 am EST This post contains immediate spoilers for the ending of the 2001 film “Training Day.” The original “Training Day” movie, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, has an action-packed ending that involves a shootout, a foot chase, leaps from a building, a barking pit bull, punches and kicks, broken windows and windshields, and a car wreck....

Six degrees away from an Oscar MGM Smith has been angling for an Oscar since his star began to rise with “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” on television. The rapper-turner-actor set his sights high from the very beginning. His first major Hollywood role was in “Six Degrees of Separation,” an adaptation of the play of the same name, based on a true story. Smith played a young man who cons New York socialites into thinking he’s the son of actor Sidney Poiter, opposite veterans actors like Donald Sutherland, Stockard Channing, and Ian McKellan....

Ambulance Super Bowl Trailer: Michael Bay Is Back, Baby Universal Pictures By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Feb. 13, 2022 8:39 pm EST The “Ambulance” Super Bowl trailer has dropped, and even people who have only seen a handful of Michael Bay movies should be able to immediately recognize the filmmaker behind upcoming “heist gone wrong” thriller. Between the action and dynamic, eye-catching visuals, the “Ambulance” trailer is dripping with the director’s bombastic style....

Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andre Braugher Joins The Good Fight Season 6 As Series Regular NBCUniversal By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 10, 2022 2:59 pm EST One of the best actors on television is headed to one of the most inventive shows on television: André Braugher is joining “The Good Fight.” According to Deadline, the actor will play a “showman lawyer” named Ri’Chard Lane in the upcoming sixth season of the Paramount+ series. “The Good Fight” is a spin-off of the Emmy-winning series “The Good Wife,” and it’s long-since felt like one of TV’s best hidden gems....

Christian Bale Thought Werner Herzog Was Going To Get Him Killed MGM Distribution Co. By Lee Adams/June 22, 2022 9:29 am EST Werner Herzog has always been drawn to people like himself; dreamers, eccentrics with peculiar passions, obsessives driven to the ends of the Earth by their burning desires. Their compulsion often brings them into direct conflict with nature, and Herzog tells these stories over and over again, sometimes blurring the line between subject and filmmaker....

Daily Podcast: Reactions To The 94th Academy Awards Apple TV+ By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2022 3:41 pm EST On the March 28, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to discuss the 94th Academy Awards. Opening Banter: Ryan has Covid. How is he doing? In The News: Ryan provides a brief weekly box office update Spider-Man: No Way Home Swings Past $800 Million At The Domestic Box Office And Into The Record Books...

Daily Podcast: Star Wars Celebration Day 1 Recap, True Detective Season 4, And A Gran Turismo Movie Lucasfilm On the May 27, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson talks about the latest film and TV news, including a reaction to the first two episodes of “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” casting news about “True Detective” season 4, and a broad recap of Star Wars Celebration Day 1. Opening Banter: In The News:...

O Captain! My Captain! Buena Vista Pictures Director Peter Weir recalled that he met with then-Disney chairman Jeffery Katzenberg (he of the ill-fated Quibi) and read the “Dead Poets” script on a plane to Sydney. However, the ending was almost a dealbreaker for him. “So, when Jeff rang a couple of weeks later, and asked, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘Look, I’m going to pass.’ And he said ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because you go through the whole story, and it’s about seizing the day, and you have this wonderful, inspiring teacher, who I would have followed, and I would have definitely become part of the “Dead Poets Society,” but then you come to the scene with Keating in the hospital, and you realize he’s got leukemia, and that’s why he was saying “seize the day”?...

Dual Star Karen Gillan On Playing Clones And Working On A Smaller Scale [Interview] RLJE Films By Anthony Crislip/April 14, 2022 4:01 pm EST Karen Gillan is no stranger to blockbuster action, using her athleticism and gifted physical comedy chops to perfect effect in movies like the new “Jumanji” series or the “John Wick”-esque “Gunpowder Milkshake.” As the angry, vulnerable assassin Nebula in the Marvel movies, she brought pathos and fear to the franchise, culminating in a time-travel showdown with her past self in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Daniels’ Version Of A Big Marvel-Style Blockbuster [Exclusive] A24 By Rafael Motamayor/March 23, 2022 1:54 pm EST One of the best sci-fi movies of the year is “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” a film that encompasses the totality of life, and makes a rather kickass sci-fi action story out of it. From the beautifully chaotic minds of the Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), the film follows Michelle Yeoh as a woman quite unhappy with the way her life turned out....