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Tom Holland Paid A Huge Price To Commit To His Role In Cherry Apple By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 3, 2022 4:50 pm EST Hollywood values physical transformation. Whether the industry is giving awards to Gary Oldman for his Winston Churchill makeup, normalizing actors gaining and losing tremendous amounts of weight, or perpetuating the myth of the method-acting Joker, the film industry seems obsessed with seeing performers change before our very eyes. In reality, a lot of the changes actors make for roles are unsustainable, damaging, or even dangerous....

Year Of The Vampire: Twilight Is Vampire Comedy At It’s Best Summit Entertainment By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 29, 2022 3:00 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.) Thinking about “Twilight” brings back fond (and ridiculous) memories from the past. I was 14 when I finished reading “Breaking Dawn,” after three days of struggling to conceal the enormous book inside another, just so my mum didn’t know I wasn’t actually studying....

A Similarity To The Simpsons Sold Joel McHale On Community’s Pilot Script NBC By Rafael Motamayor/June 23, 2022 11:33 am EST Dan Harmon’s “Community” remains one of the best sitcoms of the 2010s, a network comedy that, for six seasons (and hopefully a movie), broke the mold time and time again. With a foot firmly set in pop culture obsession, it often still found the time to comment on life in America and interpersonal relationships....

A Spirit Halloween Store Movie Is Coming To A Theater Near You, Apparently Sony Pictures By Witney Seibold/April 11, 2022 5:09 pm EST As Variety announced today, Strike Back Studios, Hideout Pictures, and Particular Crowd have teamed up with Spirit Halloween stores to make a feature film. Called “Spirit Halloween” (natch), the film will be a family-friendly horror movie, and will star veteran actor Christopher Lloyd, last seen in 2021’s “The Tender Bar,” and Rachael Leigh Cook, last seen in 2021’s “He’s All That....

Alexandra Shipp Joins Margot Robbie And Ryan Gosling In The Barbie Movie New Artist Pictures By Jenna Busch/March 19, 2022 5:02 pm EST Alexandra Shipp is getting ready to become a Barbie girl, as she’s joined the cast of the live-action “Barbie” film, according to Variety. The film is directed by the Academy Award-nominated Greta Gerwig and stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken. There is a joke there somewhere, but I didn’t sleep enough to make it....

Andrew Garfield Delightfully Flubs His Way Through This Tick, Tick…BOOM! Blooper Reel Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 21, 2022 6:32 pm EST In a social media landscape that’s rife with daily controversy, spontaneously dropped blooper reels may be the last bastion of agreed-upon good in the world. Netflix’s Oscar-nominated musical drama “Tick, Tick…BOOM!” clearly knows this, as the streamer just dropped these delightful outtakes on Twitter: Granted, the gag reel for “Tick, Tick…BOOM!...

Beware The Smiling DM As A ‘Definitive’ Dungeons & Dragons Documentary Is On The Way Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/May 11, 2022 10:30 pm EST Just when you though you’d run out of “Dungeons & Dragons” documentaries, they pull you right back in with a bag of shiny new dice. If you can’t get enough of watching people talk about everyone’s favorite tabletop roleplaying game (or at least, the most famous one) and you’re tired of listening to “Let’s Play” podcasts (aren’t we all?...

Birdman’s Brutal Filming Method Made Every Mistake That Much Worse By Michael Boyle/June 8, 2022 2:18 pm EST One of the best films to come out of 2014 was “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” a movie following a former big-name Hollywood actor who tries to make it as a more serious, thoughtful artist performing in theatre. Much like how Michael Keaton once played Batman in the Tim Burton films, his character Riggin is famous for playing the in-universe equivalent superhero Birdman, and is frustrated with his inability to ever escape from that one role....

Cary Fukunaga Is Telling The Stories Of Everyday Ukrainian People MGM By Lex Briscuso/April 7, 2022 11:12 am EST In times of crisis, the best thing any of us could do is use our personal skills, the things that make us unique, to help. In filmmaker Cary Fukunaga’s case, being on the ground to document the human toll of the war in Ukraine was his way of using his skills to make a difference....

Children Of Blood And Bone Adaptation Coming From Paramount Henry Holt Books for Young Readers By Shania Russell/Jan. 13, 2022 11:37 am EST Then there’s the incredible potential of the story itself — the following synopsis should give you a hint of what to expect: They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic....

Daily Podcast: Batman Box Office, Mandalorian Casting, Godzilla Vs. Kong Sequel,Super Pumped, Pam & Tommy, X And No Exit Warner Bros By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2022 2:33 pm EST On the March 21, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to discuss the latest film and tv news, including “The Batman” box office, “Mandalorian” casting, and a “Godzilla vs. Kong” sequel....

Don’t Forget To Watch After Yang, The Other Colin Farrell Movie Opening This Weekend A24 By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2022 4:36 pm EST Yes, “The Batman” has arrived. Congratulations! We did it. Vengeance has been served, courtesy of Robert Pattinson, and Colin Farrell made for quite a scene stealer hidden under all that prosthetic make-up as Penguin. But there’s another movie starring Colin Farrell that you should be seeking out this weekend, especially if you’re not up for all those riddles and emo vigilante guff....

Gaslit Trailer: Julia Roberts And Sean Penn Are Gonna Set It Straight, This Watergate Starz By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 2, 2022 9:50 pm EST The latest limited series from Starz is “Gaslit,” an alleged new take on the Watergate scandal, a story that has been serialized, adapted, podcasted about, and parodied since before I was alive. Showrunner Robbie Pickering claims the series is “the Watergate story you’ve never heard before,” a bold claim to make, but one that will surely impress if pulled off....

Hayao Miyazaki’s Graphic Novel Shuna’s Journey Finally Gets English Translation After Four Decades First Second Books By Debopriyaa Dutta/Feb. 24, 2022 10:03 am EST There’s some semblance of justice and gentleness in this world after all: renowned/beloved animator and film director Hayao Miyazaki’s first standalone graphic novel, “Shuna’s Journey,” is FINALLY receiving an American release after four whole decades. According to Gizmodo, translator Alex Dudok le Wit will be helming the English translation of the book, which is set to receive a release via the Macmillan graphic novel imprint, First Second....

Hideaki Anno Only Had One Goal For Neon Genesis Evangelion Studio Khara By Rafael Motamayor/April 8, 2022 10:43 am EST It’s been over a quarter-century since it first premiered, but “Neon Genesis Evangelion” remains a pop culture juggernaut. This is a series that helped usher in a new era for mecha anime, infusing it with a love of tokusatsu and enough symbolism and lore to fill entire wikis. It’s easy to see why....

Jurassic Park Had A Surprisingly Simple Solution To Self-Driving Cars Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/April 12, 2022 6:10 pm EST The term “movie magic” is thrown around an awful lot, but if there is a director out there who truly encapsulates that phrase, it is most likely Steven Spielberg, the man behind “Jaws” and “E.T.” But one of his finest hours in terms of crafting true blue movie magic is 1993’s “Jurassic Park,” which brought dinosaurs to life on the big screen in a way that nobody ever imagined possible before that moment....

Manhattan Apartments That Peter Parker Could Actually Afford To Rent Sony / Erik Conover By Danielle Ryan AND Hannah Shaw-Williams/Jan. 8, 2022 10:01 am EST Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” At the end of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” young Peter Parker needs to get his own apartment in Manhattan, and though the apartment shown on screen isn’t the height of luxury, it’s still pretty darn nice for his budget and location!...

Moon Knight: Release Date, Cast, And More Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 28, 2022 11:34 am EST Face front, true believers. Marvel’s “Moon Knight” is coming to Disney+, with Oscar Isaac in the titular role as a superhero who has dissociative identity disorder and can’t tell the difference between his waking life and dreams. There’s a moon good named Khonshu and some Egyptology involved, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has compared “Moon Knight” to “Indiana Jones....

New Jurassic World Dominion TV Spot Promises The End Of An Era Universal Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 19, 2022 5:50 pm EST “Jurassic World Dominion” is still nearly two months away, but the latest dinosaur-filled sequel is already dropping TV spots to get audiences excited. The newest footage from the sequel to “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” knows where its bread is buttered, as it delivers more footage of Jeff Goldblum’s fan favorite character Dr....

Surface: Release Date, Cast, More Apple TV+ By BJ Colangelo/June 2, 2022 4:41 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.) Apple TV+ feels like the sleeper cell agents in the streaming wars. While the streamer never makes headlines quite like Netflix or Disney+, they consistently provide some of the best quality output across the streams....