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How Dan Harmon’s Own Community College Experience Influenced Community NBC By Sandy Schaefer/May 4, 2022 11:37 am EST Going to college can be a surreal experience. It’s a place where you’re suddenly exposed to ideas and points-of-view you’ve never encountered before, surrounded by people of all walks of life. If you jump to college right out of high school, it also means going through all this when you’ve only just become a “real” adult and are scrambling to figure out what that even means (much less how to “adult” well)....

How Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire Captured The Real-Life Awkwardness Of The Cast Warner Bros By Shania Russell/Jan. 1, 2022 2:38 pm EST Saving the world from a villain so chilling that people are afraid to speak his name is one thing, but have you tried asking a girl to the Yule Ball? How about actually dancing in front of all your classmates at said event? Such are the unspeakable horrors of adolescence....

How It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Turned $100 Into A Fan-Favorite Series FX By Travis Yates/May 11, 2022 5:08 pm EST There’s nothing conventional about the FX sitcom “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” The show evolved from humble beginnings into a beloved guilty pleasure for millions of viewers. It broke the mold of the sitcom on its way to becoming television’s longest-running live-action comedy series in American television history. The cringe-worthy dark comedy features ludicrous storylines like faking a baby funeral to avoid the IRS, fulfilling dreams of becoming a drug addict, and the creation of a product called kitten mittens....

Everybody loves cute creatures Disney/Pixar Without diving too deep into the “Lightyear”-sized rabbit hole the film has created in terms of “Toy Story” canon, it stands to reason that if “Lightyear” is what got Andy and so many other fictional “Toy Story” children into neurotic space dolls, then toys of other “Lightyear” characters would have surely been produced in that universe. Sox in particular would have surely been the perfect holiday gift and companion toy for the Buzz Lightyear dolls....

Minions: The Rise Of Gru Will Open The Annecy Animation Film Festival Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/March 15, 2022 10:33 am EST There’s no escaping those nonsense-babbling, oddball yellow hench-beings-turned wildly popular Facebook memes known as the Minions, with “Minions: The Rise of Gru” set to make its debut at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The animated movie from Illumination and Universal Pictures will kick off the event with a screening on June 13, 2022, in the Grande Salle de Bonlieu....

NECA’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Action Figures And Accessories Are Totally Bodacious NECA By Ethan Anderton/March 21, 2022 4:44 pm EST Over the past few years, NECA has been giving “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” fans plenty of reasons to whip out their wallets for an impressive assembly of action figures inspired by the beloved movies of the 1990s and the animated series. Easily one of the best collectible releases gave the original big screen versions of the Heroes in a Half-Shell exactly the kind of detailed action figures that fans have wanted to see for years, and all four of the turtles even came in a giant VHS-style box....

Netflix Is Casting Young Kate Middleton For The Crown Season 6 The Royal Family YouTube Channel By Jenna Busch/April 26, 2022 1:53 pm EST It might not be historically accurate, but I unabashedly love Netflix’s “The Crown.” If you do as well, you might want to listen up. The series about the current royal family of the United Kingdom is looking for a young actor to play the role of Kate Middleton, according to Variety....

New Ambulance Featurette Is All About How Madman Michael Bay Uses A Drone Universal Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/March 22, 2022 8:10 pm EST I don’t own a drone, but I very recently lapsed into what must have been a Michael Bay-induced mania and asked my best friend to buy one with me. We were looking over a beautiful vista, admiring the view, and like a person who is suddenly and fully possessed, I broke our mutual, comfortable silence and said, “Should we buy a drone?...

Toho hopes to take the show outside Japan Studio Ghibli This stage production of “Spirited Away” looks exceptionally well-done, good enough that it could tour the world and/or be a permanent fixture at the upcoming Studio Ghibli theme park, set to open on November 1, 2022. At present, there are no plans for the latter scenario that we know of, but I’m thinking of what Disney has done with its Broadway-style “Beauty & the Beast Live on Stage” show at Hollywood Studios in Florida....

Steven Spielberg’s Advice For Colin Trevorrow On Jurassic World Dominion Was Very Spielbergian Universal Pictures By Joshua Meyer/June 10, 2022 9:57 pm EST “Jurassic World: Dominion” wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Steven Spielberg, who obviously directed “Jurassic Park,” the movie that started the whole ever-loving dino franchise. Spielberg remains an executive producer on “Dominion,” and as the father of the franchise, he had some advice that proved useful for director Colin Trevorrow....

Action Jackson Warner Bros The only way to torture a man like Action Jackson is to tie him up like the Steve Reeves Hercules and turn an industrial blowtorch on him. He won’t break, of course, but it gives him time to come up with material. How director Craig Baxley and star Weathers handle that material is what puts Action Jackson, man and movie, in the pantheon. Cornering his captor at point-blank range with a grenade launcher, Weathers drops the punchline – “How do you like your ribs?...

Batman is actually the star in The Batman Warner Bros. Robert Pattinson, a man largely known to the broad public as the guy from “Twilight,” made for a pretty fascinating choice when Reeves was met with the notion of having to cast a new version of the character after Ben Affleck decided he wanted to step away. Yet, in the early going, he appears to be winning out in the popular vote from both critics and audiences alike....

The Best Horror Movie Cliffhangers Of All Time Rosebud Releasing Corporation By David Court/May 25, 2022 2:10 pm EST The term cliffhanger is thought to derive from the film serials in the early days of cinema, where the square-jawed hero (or hapless heroine) would typically be hanging off the edge of a cliff, enticing audiences to tune in next week to see how they’d escape from this perilous predicament. The horror genre is no stranger to the cliffhanger, with every film hoping to be a franchise ending with a sly nod or a wink to the audience that the bad guy still lives, or the aliens aren’t quite as defeated as you’d been led to believe....

The RoboCop Script Spent Some Time In Paul Verhoeven’s Trash Can Orion Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 1, 2022 11:02 am EST The original “RoboCop” was only Paul Verhoeven’s second English-language film, but it brought the Dutch director a new level of mainstream success in the U.S. market as his style shifted more toward violent sci-fi blockbusters. When Verhoeven first read Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner’s “RoboCop” script, however, he was not so impressed with the concept....

The Search For A New Fast X Director May Be Costing Universal $1 Million A Day Universal By Rafael Motamayor/April 28, 2022 10:25 am EST “The Fast & Furious” franchise has always been about money. Making money, spending money, losing money, stealing money, and otherwise burning money pretty fast. The Toretto crime family started out as DVD-player thieves, then quickly escalated to stealing $100 million from a corrupt Brazilian businessman. If that wasn’t enough, once the family became international super spies, they turned from stealing money to outright causing millions in property damage by destroying everything from cars, to planes, a nuclear sub, and part of the Etihad Towers....

Ship shape QMx Interactive The lovable rogues of Serenity — including first mate Zoe Washburne, pilot Hoban “Wash” Washburne, resident muscle Jayne Cobb, mechanic Kaylee Frye, Shepherd Derrial Book, respected Companion Inara Serra, and fugitives Simon and River Tam — have seen their fair share of spaceships during their travels across the verse. However, eagle-eyed viewers might have noticed a few familiar vessels from a galaxy far, far away throughout the series....

What Kevin Doyle Found Fascinating About Filming Downton Abbey: A New Era Focus Features By Matthew Bilodeau/June 2, 2022 9:58 am EST If I haven’t made it clear in my other articles surrounding the release of “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” then allow me to repeat myself in saying that Kevin Doyle’s Mr. Molesley is my favorite character of the series, second only to Dame Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess. While most of the characters on “Downton Abbey” have their likable qualities, Mr....

What is a continuity error? MGM Let’s answer the most basic question first. “Continuity” is the illusion that allows cuts in a movie to appear seamless, when actually the two shots we see may have been filmed hours, days, or even months apart. For example, one character throws a punch, and there’s a cut to a wider angle in which the punch lands. In the second shot, we may not even be looking at the same two people; the actor getting punched in the face may have been stealthily replaced with a stunt performer, with the shot angled to hide their face....

Why Sourcing Props For American Psycho Was A Major Struggle Lionsgate Films/Colombia Tristar By Lee Adams/May 13, 2022 11:23 am EST Over 20 years ago, “American Psycho” changed the way we looked at Phil Collins, Huey Lewis and the News, plastic rain macs, and business cards. Is it even possible now to hear “Sussudio” on the radio without picturing Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) giving himself a gun show in the mirror while engaged in a threesome?...

Why Turning Red Is The Perfect Film To Teach Young Audiences About Queer Identity Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/March 15, 2022 9:01 am EST In the wake of the controversy surrounding Disney’s financial donations to the Republicans behind the passing of HB 1557, AKA the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s constant fumbling of the situation, the conversation regarding what is or is not appropriate to be teaching children regarding LGBTQIA+ themes has come into the public consciousness....