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The Boys’ Chace Crawford Gets Hate Mail From Aquaman Fans, And He Loves It Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/June 3, 2022 12:26 pm EST It’s not easy bein’ green, as a wise man once said. Apparently, those words apply just as much to other green-hued, amphibian-themed individuals, too. “The Boys” is back with its long-awaited third season, the first 3 episodes of which arrived early on Prime Video last night. That means more merciless eviscerations of pop culture and politics, all sorts of spectacularly gruesome gore, and the shocking plot developments we’ve come to expect from this no-holds-barred show....

Prime Video The news of “The Boys” getting the go-ahead for season 4 comes straight from Prime Video, who made the announcement while the currently ongoing third season has only just begun to air … with only a little amount of technical difficulty, thanks to overwhelming demand for last night’s episode. If anything, that only serves to justify the no-brainer decision to move ahead with even more “The Boys” goodness to come, proving that audience interest remains strong in the adventures of Jack Quaid’s Hughie Campbell, his superhero girlfriend Starlight (Erin Moriarty), their troublesome leader Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), and the rest of the assorted misfits who make up the anti-Supe Boys....

The Bridge On The River Kwai Ending Explained: When Duty Becomes Hubris Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/March 23, 2022 3:58 pm EST When it comes to film, no one has ever understood the word “epic” quite as much as David Lean. The British director captured scale in ways that completely baffle the mind. Sure, there are the gorgeous landscapes and huge masses of extras, but also he frames a simple medium shot in a way that makes it feel like the grandest thing you have ever seen....

The Cuphead Show Season 2 Trailer: Who Drugged My Coffee This Morning? Netflix By Jenna Busch/June 10, 2022 3:59 pm EST If it feels like your brain is in a blender these days, you are not alone. Maybe it’s why watching the trailer for season 2 of the Netflix animated series “The Cuphead Show!” sort of fits into a world where (gestures wildly at everything out there) is happening. I don’t mean that to sound negative....

The Daily Stream: Are You Ready To Go Back To Titanic? Paramount By Mike Shutt/May 17, 2022 2:00 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: “Titanic” Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video, Paramount+ The Pitch: I feel a little silly trying to give you the gist about the romantic epic to end all romantic epics, but I will give it a go....

The Ghostbusters Ultimate Gift Set Doesn’t Include Ghostbusters 2016 And That’s A Huge Problem Sony Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 21, 2021 5:19 pm EST Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is one of the most polarizing releases of the year, with plenty finding the film to be a love letter to their childhood favorite, and others seeing it as nothing more than an empty shell filled with nostalgia. Regardless of how anyone feels about the film as a final product, it’s brought home over $173....

The Hawkeye Finale Finally Explained What’s Up With That Watch Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2021 12:39 pm EST Throughout the first (and only?) season of “Hawkeye,” there was a lingering mystery concerning a certain Rolex watch that was recovered from the wreckage of the Avengers compound that was destroyed by Thanos in the climax of “Avengers: Endgame.” For some reason, the Tracksuit Mafia was tasked with stealing the watch from the same underground auction where the Clint Barton’s Ronin sword and costume were up for sale....

Tom Hiddleston Teases A More Heroic Loki In Season 2 Marvel Studios By Max Evry/Dec. 20, 2021 10:54 am EST One of my most indelible New York Comic-Con memories was being in the big hall for Marvel’s “The Avengers” panel back in 2011, where they showed some footage and Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo showed up. But then Tom Hiddleston came out and the audience lit up. You would think Justin Bieber or “Twilight”-era Robert Pattinson had just hit the stage — that’s the intensity of the love fans already felt for Hiddleston and the character of Loki after only one appearance in “Thor....

An absolute win for movie lovers Warner Bros. There is much to be said about Warner Bros. Discovery’s place in the media landscape and Zaslav’s radical shake-up within the corporate structure of the media giant. That having been said, at the base level, this strategy appears to be very good for people who love movies of any kind. Period. There is almost no other way to look at it, at least in the short term....

Connection or coincidence? Paramount Pictures It can be hard to pin down exact influences and inspirations from one movie to another — even when the connection seems too specific to be anything else but a direct reference. In this case, however, the broadly familiar climactic showdowns between the two films, involving various aircraft attempting to pull off an impossible task, proved to be nothing more than coincidental. “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski confirmed as much to /Film previously, noting that while he didn’t consciously reference “Star Wars” in any intentional manner:...

Why A Godzilla Vs. Kong Sequel Might Be A Huge Risk Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/March 23, 2022 1:00 pm EST We recently got the somewhat unexpected news that a sequel to last year’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” is on the way. It’s not so much that getting another entry in Legendary and Warner Bros.’ so-called MonsterVerse was a big surprise, but the fact that they are not wasting any time at all and getting production going in Australia this year was actually a bit surprising....

Alex Garland’s New Movie Is An A24 Action Movie Called Civil War Starring Kirsten Dunst Zentropa Entertainments By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 21, 2022 3:02 pm EST Indie sci-fi auteur Alex Garland is dreaming up something new once again, and this time it’ll involve Kirsten Dunst. According to a press release, the writer/director is teaming up with A24 once again for his next project, an action movie called “Civil War.” Dunst is set to star in the movie....

Ben Affleck’s Most Infamous Bomb Led To His Directing Career Columbia Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 12, 2022 10:03 am EST There’s no denying a movie like “Gigli.” It’s one of those movies that transcended a normal, run-of-the-mill kind of bad and became a movie that was solely famous for being bad. We’re not talking about so bad it’s charming, like “The Room.” No one wants to go to a brunch screening of “Gigli....

‘We actually reverse-engineered this’ Congratulations on your short. How much, if at all, did the Tio Salamanca character from “Breaking Bad” inspire you when you sat down to write this? Cohen: [laughs] I mean, it just inspires us every day. Halberg: Yeah, what doesn’t that inspire? What was the actual inspiration for this? Cohen: So the initial inspiration was I woke up one night and I had sleep paralysis. It was the only time I’ve ever had it, and I remember waking up and I couldn’t move my body....

A rom-com told many times Marc Brenner I start with a disclaimer that I have never experienced any straightforward staging of the 1897 verse-written “Cyrano de Bergerac” by Edmond Rostand. I am not the best arbiter on whether this is a “fresh” take on Rostand’s play, from stage to movies. I know the source material in the fragments and have seen Erica Schmidt’s stage musical rendition with a sparer translation starring Peter Dinklage — as well as its recent Joe Wright-directed film adaptation with Dinklage’s reprisal....

Dan Harmon Loves The Problems That Come With His Community Film Script NBC By Rafael Motamayor/April 26, 2022 11:47 am EST “Community” is one of the best TV comedies of this century. The Dan Harmon-created show constantly broke TV formulas and crossed many genres in order to tell a unique and infinitely rewatchable story that celebrated pop culture, friendships, and well, community. The NBC comedy series was also the little show that could, a sitcom that was constantly under threat of cancellation, until it was actually canceled....

Daniel Kaluuya Didn’t Have To Audition For Jordan Peele’s Nope Universal Pictures By Erin Brady/June 16, 2022 6:56 pm EST When “Nope,” the mysterious sci-fi horror from Jordan Peele, was first announced, it wasn’t surprising that a familiar face was also attached to the project. At the time that Daniel Kaluuya was confirmed to star in the film alongside Keke Palmer in February 2021, he and Peele had already made horror history together....

FX Announces Premiere Dates For Multiple Shows, Including What We Do In The Shadows Season 4 FX By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 13, 2022 3:37 pm EST FX has just announced a slew of upcoming premiere dates for new and returning shows, with the exceptional comedies “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Reservation Dogs” both set for summer return dates. “What We Do in the Shadows,” the vampire mockumentary based on the cult film by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, is set to return for its fourth season July 12, 2022....

Halo Season 2 Will Begin Filming This Summer Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/March 21, 2022 3:00 pm EST The highly anticipated series “Halo” is hitting Paramount+ on Thursday, March 24. It is, of course, based on the juggernaut of a video game that I sadly can’t play because first person shooters make me ill. I have long envied everyone who can, so I’m doubly thrilled about what’s coming in the series....

Johnny Depp Turned Down American Psycho — And That Changes The Movie Completely Universal Pictures By Natalia Keogan/April 29, 2022 9:23 am EST While it might feel a bit over the top to say, it’s simply true: Mary Harron’s “American Psycho”, an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name, easily endures as one of the best horror films of the 21st century. Released 22 years ago this April, “American Psycho” might even be the first great horror movie we were graced with post-Y2K....