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Ridley Scott Believes This Is The Most Important Thing When It Comes To Directing 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Smith/June 29, 2022 5:47 pm EST Ridley Scott didn’t make his first feature until he was 40, but the now 85-year-old filmmaker has more than made up for lost time. He’s currently shooting his 28th movie, “Napoleon,” and has a development slate full of projects angling to be number 29. Stanley Kubrick could only muster 13 films over roughly the same period of time (a chunk of which was dedicated to an unmade Napoleon biopic), but his relentless perfectionism spared him the undercooked likes of “Someone to Watch Over Me” and “A Good Year....

Ryan Gosling In Talks To Star In The Fall Guy Feature Adaptation Warner Bros By Shania Russell/May 17, 2022 11:30 am EST Ryan Gosling is taking a detour from Barbie world to take a trip down under. Per Variety, the actor is set to star in “The Fall Guy,” a feature film adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, that will shoot in Sydney, Australia. The original series starring Lee Majors ran from 1981 to 1986 and followed the life of a Hollywood stunt man with a side hustle as a bounty hunter to make ends meet....

Scream Featurette Introduces The New Cast Members Who Are About To Be Killed Paramount Pictures By Jenna Busch/Dec. 17, 2021 6:58 pm EST It’s day five of the “Scream” social media campaign #12ScreamsForTheHolidays, and Paramount Pictures has a new present for you. Today we got a behind-the-scenes video featuring the returning cast as well as the new faces. Ghostfaces? Maybe. (Check out the poster for the killer — it’s a pretty great marketing idea....

Shining Girls Review: Elisabeth Moss Is Unstuck In Time In This Creepy, Mystifying Series Apple TV+ By Chris Evangelista/March 13, 2022 4:45 pm EST Having read Lauren Beukes’ 2013 page-turner “The Shining Girls,” I had somewhat of a grasp on what happens in “Shining Girls,” the Apple TV+ adaptation of Buekes’ book from creator Silka Luisa. But those who have no clue regarding the contents of the novel should expect to be almost completely lost during the show’s initial episodes (four of which were made available to critics to coincide with an SXSW screening)....

The Bounty (1984) Orion Pictures From 1984 to 1985, Daniel Day-Lewis had two roles where he could use his own upper-class English accent. His reputation as the greatest actor of his generation would form from him playing Irish (and Northern Irish) and American men, as he’s actually rarely played Englishmen. In “The Bounty,” starring Anthony Hopkins as Captain Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, the famous mutineer, Day-Lewis plays Fryer, an officer who initially clashes with Bligh, but then remains loyal to him and the “proper” way of doing things aboard ship....

The Daily Stream: Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Is A Sobering Reminder Of Our Place In The Natural World Lions Gate Films By Joshua Meyer/June 5, 2022 6:29 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Grizzly Man” Where You Can Stream It: The Roku Channel, Kanopy (free with library card)...

The Green Knight Composer Daniel Hart On Creating ‘The Giant’s Call’ And ‘Now I’m Ready, I’m Ready Now’ [Interview] A24 By Jack Giroux/Jan. 21, 2022 1:40 pm EST David Lowery and Daniel Hart are a match made in heaven. The introspective filmmaker and the classically trained composer have collaborated on several films now, including “The Old Man and the Gun,” “A Ghost Story,” and most recently, “The Green Knight,” in which inevitability and time consume the protagonists....

The Most Surprisingly Appetizing Moments In Hannibal NBC By Addison Peacock/June 28, 2022 6:38 pm EST Though its last episode aired in 2015, Bryan Fuller’s opulent, gothic horror take on the police procedural genre and the iconic characters created by Thomas Harris is still considered essential viewing by many. Watching it, it’s easy to see why. Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy breathe glorious, messy life into the characters of Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham, and the dizzying, dangerous dance that the two engage in over the show’s three seasons is nearly impossible to look away from....

This is going to be weird and violent! Focus Features For “The Northman,” Eggers is drawing on the ancient Scandanavian legend of Amleth, which heavily inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” and, in turn, “The Lion King.” As a result, watching “The Northman” can often feel like an ultra-violent “Lion King”-“Hamlet” mash-up. The story concerns a prince who plots revenge after his uncle murders his father and takes over the throne. Like I said: “Hamlet” by way of “The Lion King....

The Raw Controversy Explained Focus World By Caroline Madden/March 28, 2022 10:11 am EST From the bold filmmaker behind the provocative “Titane,” Julia Ducournau’s feature debut “Raw” uses visceral horror to examine adolescent yearning. The lurid film follows a young vegetarian named Justine (Garance Marillier) who attends veterinary school where she tastes meat for the first time and develops a craving for flesh — including human. After Justine is forced to eat raw rabbit kidneys as part of a hazing ritual to welcome new students, her newfound hunger becomes overpowering, and she finds herself making emergency trips to the gas station for meat and sneaking raw chicken in the early hours of the morning....

The Weird Way May Calamawy Landed Her Moon Knight Audition Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/April 13, 2022 1:38 pm EST Ah, yes, every actor’s favorite part of the job: the audition process. The grueling exercise in tireless hustle, torturous patience, and frequently crushing disappointment can’t be a fun or easy landscape for anyone to navigate, let alone performers born in a different country entirely and who endured a long journey to finally getting their big break....

Celebrate Moonfall With Roland Emmerich’s Conspiracy Theory Himbo Shakespeare Movie Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 2, 2022 3:27 pm EST I long for the days when the public perception of conspiracy theories was based in nonsensical fun like whether or not Bigfoot is real, and not this current timeline where people gather en masse at Dealey Plaza awaiting the “return” of the very dead JFK Jr. so he can become the vice presidential running mate of Trump in 2024....

Cobra Kai Season 5: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Natalia Keogan/May 9, 2022 3:14 pm 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.) Originally created for YouTube Red, “Cobra Kai” has turned into one of Netflix’s most popular shows. The streamer picked it up after it was dropped by its original home after season 2 and at this point, the series has now had a longer run (and an arguably more successful one, garnering an Emmy nomination in 2021) at Netflix than it did on YouTube Red....

Disney+ Will Introduce An Ad-Supported Tier This Year Marvel Studios By Lex Briscuso/March 4, 2022 10:40 am EST Our (ad-supported) streaming options just keep getting better and better! Yes, you’re hearing a bit of sarcasm here, but Disney+ announced they will expand their platform offerings by introducing an ad-supported subscription later this year. This option will be in addition to the platform’s subscription without ads and will start in the United States with plans to expand internationally in 2023....

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Eyes $40 Million Opening Weekend, A New Series Low Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/April 14, 2022 11:44 am EST As “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” gets ready to make its way to theaters in North America this weekend, things are frankly not looking good for the latest “Harry Potter” spin-off. While movie theaters around the country will surely be more than happy to see whatever moviegoers make it out for the third installment in the series, Warner Bros....

Gran Turismo Movie In The Works At Sony, Neill Blomkamp Might Direct PlayStation By BJ Colangelo/May 26, 2022 9:32 pm EST PlayStation Productions and Sony Pictures are collaborating once again to bring a video game adaptation to the big screen, this time with the popular racing simulator, “Gran Turismo.” The two companies took in hundreds of millions with their collaboration for “Uncharted,” and with “Gran Turismo” serving as the most popular game on the PlayStation console, it’s clear they’re hoping to make lightning strike twice....

Greg Kinnear Says He Would Join Ben Stiller In Mystery Men 2 (If It Ever Gets Made) [Exclusive] Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/July 5, 2022 2:02 pm EST Back in 1999, a superhero film was released that gave us a look at what it would be like to have superpowers that were just sort of “meh.” Does its characters save the world? I mean, yeah, pretty much. They’re just not very good at it....

Pinocchio Teaser “I want to tell you a story. It’s a story you may think you know, but … you don’t. Not really.” Meet Sebastian J. Cricket, the character who appears to be the narrator throughout this new story. Gone are the familiar trappings of Jiminy Cricket and all other hints of Disney’s pervasive take on the tale, confidently replaced with Guillermo del Toro’s much different-looking approach. The altogether too-brief footage doesn’t give us much to go on, but consider our appetites thoroughly and properly whetted in advance of the stop-motion animated film’s release at the tail-end of this year....

Here’s How Sam Raimi Reacted To Seeing Tobey Maguire Play Peter Parker Again In Spider-Man: No Way Home Sony Pictures By BJ Colangelo/May 3, 2022 10:01 pm EST 20 years ago today, horror maestro and auteur filmmaker Sam Raimi debuted “Spider-Man,” and the world of superhero cinema has never been the same. The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Comics film adaptations all owe a great debt to “Spider-Man,” as Raimi proved there was a huge market for these kinds of stories....

Hirohiko Araki Took A Major Risk With JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Netflix By Adam Wescott/March 28, 2022 9:54 am EST Shounen Jump is the most popular manga magazine in the world. “Naruto,” “Demon Slayer” and “Dragon Ball” are all Shounen Jump comics, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. But there’s a science to the magazine’s success. In his alternative history of bizarre ’80s cult manga, “Manga Zombie,” the critic Takeo Udagawa describes Shounen Jump’s “Great Two” system....