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No, we are not doing any extra time Sony Pictures Releasing In a 2020 interview with CBC Listen, Bradley Pierce, who co-starred in “Jumanji” with Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst when he was 13, shared how Robin Williams saved him and the also 13-year-old future “Spider-Man” actress from being coaxed into working overtime. The rescue came while they were filming the monsoon scene. At that point in the film, Pierce’s character had been turned into a monkey, so he had to complete the scene in heavy makeup....

Severance’s Computers Were Actually Functional, Including The Numbers On Screen Apple TV+ By BJ Colangelo/April 20, 2022 4:28 pm EST The captivating sci-fi workplace thriller “Severance” exists in a world that is familiar and simultaneously unrecognizable. On the surface, the white walls and structurally organized world of the mega-corporation Lumon Industries resembles just about every soul-sucking office job with its employees trapped within the confines of meticulously designed buildings. But with a department dedicated to feeding baby goats, a break room that doubles as psychological torture, and a Perpetuity Wing dedicated to recreating the company founder’s former home, I’ve never been more grateful to work from home full time....

Shining Vale Gets A Season 2 Renewal At Starz Starz By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 10, 2022 3:53 pm EST Starz’s Courteney Cox-led horror-comedy “Shining Vale” will be back for more shocks and thrills, as it’s been officially renewed for a second season according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, which premiered in March, put a new spin on a familiar story when a family led by writer Pat (Cox) moved into a potentially very haunted house....

Steven Spielberg Threw A Wrench In Sam Neill’s Plans For His Jurassic Park Performance Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/May 2, 2022 10:46 am EST If the art form known as cinema were to end today and no more movies were ever produced, and someone were to make a list of the most influential blockbusters in history, “Jurassic Park” would very likely come out near the top of the list, right alongside several other Steven Spielberg films such as “Jaws” or “E....

The Batman Director Explains What He Borrowed From Alfred Hitchcock Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 16, 2022 1:04 pm EST When talented, introspective, and well-rounded directors get free rein on big-budget comic book movies, there are no limits to how they might shake up an entire franchise and inject a sense of freshness to characters that audiences may have assumed have nothing new to offer. Batman movies consistently make money and, as a result, will continue to be made on a near-annual basis until the heat death of the universe....

The Best Episode Of The Book Of Boba Fett Is An Episode Of The Mandalorian Lucasfilm By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2022 1:00 pm EST “The Book of Boba Fett” once held the exciting prospect of digging into a mysterious character who “Star Wars” fans have loved since his arrival in “The Empire Strikes Back.” In fact, he was already a hit before the movie even hit theaters thanks to his animated debut in “The Star Wars Holiday Special....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To HBO Max In February 2022 Searchlight Pictures By Anya Stanley/Jan. 21, 2022 6:15 pm EST As we keep trucking into 2022, we’re saying goodbye to some bangers on HBO Max. “Dunkirk,” “Blade Runner 2049,” and the trilogies for the “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Rush Hour” franchises are departing from the streaming service, but HBO Max balances the scales with plenty of worthwhile movies and shows for your viewing pleasure....

The L Word: Generation Q Will Be Back For Season 3 Showtime By Debopriyaa Dutta/Feb. 7, 2022 11:30 am EST Showtime’s “The L Word: Generation Q” has been renewed for a third season, four months after its sophomore finale aired in October 2021. According to The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan and creator Ilene Chaiken’s groundbreaking drama series will be back for its season 3 run on Showtime, the Viacom CBS-backed premium network....

The Technology In The Martian Is Being Created In Real Life By Witney Seibold/May 23, 2022 10:57 am EST “In the face of overwhelming odds, I’m left with only one option: I’m going to have to science the s*** out of this.” So spoke Mark Watney (Matt Damon), the title character in Ridley Scott’s 2015 film “The Martian,” easily one of the best films of its year. Written by Drew Goddard after the novel by Andy Weir, the film had a pretty simple thesis: Science, knowledge, and engineering know-how were not just superpowers, but could be the stuff of ripping entertainment....

Top Gun: Maverick Writers Christopher McQuarrie And Justin Marks On Flying In The Jets And Bringing Iceman Back [Interview] Paramount Pictures By Jenna Busch/May 27, 2022 2:00 pm EST “Top Gun: Maverick” is a wild ride, and audiences who see this on the big screen are in for a treat — especially if you’re a fan of the first film. Though this movie hits the right notes of nostalgia with a beach scene (thank goodness for that), wild flying, cocky pilots, authority figures who like to play by the rules, and true friendship, it’s not solely a rehash of what we’ve seen before....

Viggo Mortensen Was Up For A Big Role In Sixteen Candles Universal Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 25, 2022 3:30 pm EST John Hughes’ directorial debut “Sixteen Candles” is one of the most popular romantic comedies of the 1980s. It tells the story of Sam (Molly Ringwald), a young teenager whose 16th birthday is overshadowed by her older sister’s wedding, causing her parents to forget about her special day. The only thing keeping her going is her unrequited high school crush....

Violent Night Footage Reaction: John Wick Meets Krampus With David Harbour As Santa Claus [CinemaCon 2022] Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer AND Eric Vespe/April 27, 2022 9:51 pm EST David Harbour and “John Wick” producer David Leitch are coming your way this December with a holiday-themed action movie called “Violent Night,” the title of which is obviously a pun on the Christmas carol “Silent Night.” That’s a gentle song, almost like a lullaby, which conjures the image of the “dear Lord baby Jesus, lying there in [his] ghost manger,” as Ricky Bobby once said in “Talledega Nights....

Why Jurassic World Dominion’s Epic Prologue Was Cut From The Movie Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/June 16, 2022 11:21 am EST 65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth as the dominant form of life on this planet. Unless you’re a weirdo like myself and obsessively watched all those BBC “Walking with Dinosaurs” specials from back in the day, the somewhat less-than-realistic “Dinosaur” movie from 2000, or “The Land Before Time” animated movies/shows, or the recent Apple TV+ series “Prehistoric Planet,” that’s likely a version of the world most audiences haven’t seen depicted on the screen....

Why We Have Portugal. The Man To Thank For The Return Of Beavis And Butthead Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/June 17, 2022 8:14 am EST Since his breakthrough in the early 1990s, Mike Judge has been responsible for some of the most beloved projects in pop culture history. The man has given the world a multitude of gifts, including the films “Office Space,” “Idiocracy,” and “Extract,” in addition to the series “Silicon Valley,” and “King of the Hill....

Will There Ever Be A Trading Places 2? Here’s What We Know Paramount Pictures By Lee Adams/Dec. 20, 2021 1:29 pm EST With the recent “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and Tom Cruise heading back to the Danger Zone in “Top Gun: Maverick” next year, it looks like our current ’80s love-in is showing no sign of slowing down anytime soon. If anything, it looks set to intensify, with a whole bunch of remakes also in the pipeline, from “The Toxic Avenger” to “The Lost Boys,” and even “Silent Night, Deadly Night....

Alfonso Herrera Had Just One Worry In Mind When He Joined The Ozark Cast Netflix By Joshua Meyer/May 2, 2022 8:27 am EST When Alfonso Herrera joined the cast of “Ozark” this year as Javi Elizonndro, the nephew of Omar Navarro (Felix Solis) and his up-and-coming replacement as leader of the Navarro drug cartel, he was boarding the show as a wild card late in its run. The final half-season of “Ozark” is now streaming on Netflix, so Javi has already reached the end of the storytelling line along with every other character on the show....

Barry Reveals His Big Plan For Forgiveness In An Uncomfortable New Episode HBO By Josh Spiegel/May 1, 2022 10:30 pm EST Last week’s season 3 premiere of HBO’s black comedy “Barry” left us on a particularly precarious cliffhanger. Our eponymous Barry Berkman (Bill Hader), known by some as a guy named Barry Block with some surprising acting chops, and by others as a particularly fierce hitman, was holding his old acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler) at gunpoint, because the latter had failed at taking Barry down for having murdered his girlfriend at the end of season 1....

Expect the Unexpected Lucasfilm The latest trailer for “The Book of Boba Fett” provided plenty of material for eager viewers to chew over and analyze, but there is apparently much more that we still haven’t seen and likely won’t until the episodes begin streaming on Disney+ later this month. In a profile with THR, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and writer Dave Filoni explained how the unique storytelling opportunities in “The Book of Boba Fett” will allow this series to establish itself apart from its parent show....

Math-Ray vision 20th Television Cohen, a math club champion from high school, talked about his obsessions with Wired Magazine back in 2007, eager to share how geeky he would let the show be. As a math aficionado, Cohen resented the way mathematicians were depicted on TV, tired of their Olympian, wizard-like qualities: “As a general rule, I hate watching TV or movies with mathematicians in it. It never rings true. They’re portrayed as magic beings....

Here’s Why Bruce Lee Didn’t Show On The First Day Of Shooting Enter The Dragon Warner Bros. By Travis Yates/March 16, 2022 3:19 pm EST Bruce Lee’s 1973 film “Enter the Dragon” is famous for many reasons. The movie was Lee’s introduction to American audiences, it inspired a wave of martial arts films in the U.S., and is known for this classic fight scene. It’s also famous for a more tragic reason: For the burgeoning film star, Lee’s most popular film would also be his last....