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When Marcel isn’t wearing a lentil for a hat, he’s investigating I guess A24 In an interview soon to be published with Dean Fleischer-Camp, it’s revealed that one of the studios spitballing about potential Marcel adventures clearly had an outing where someone investigates alongside a cute, crime-fighting side-kick on the brain. Of the many fielded pitches, Fleischer-Camp explains “there definitely was one where a studio had suggested that we partner him with Ryan Reynolds and they fight crime together....

Moon Knight Comics You Should Read To Prep For The Disney+ Series Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Jan. 18, 2022 1:58 pm EST Marvel fans have something big to look forward to in March as the “Moon Knight” series is set to arrive on Disney+. This is a character many fans have long desired to see brought to life, ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe paved the way for slightly lesser-known characters to make the jump from page to screen....

All hail the king of Bollywood Disney+/Marvel Studios For as much as “Ms. Marvel” speaks directly to Gen Z viewers with its references and heightened style, it also draws inspiration from the older films that Bisha K. Ali and other Millennials were raised on. Ali elaborated on this in her interview with /Film’s Jeremy Mathai, citing the influence of Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan, aka the “King of Bollywood:” “And then, I think some of the other influences, like the Shah Rukh Khan of it all, that people are talking about....

Norman Reedus Doesn’t Believe Melissa McBride’s Exit From The Walking Dead Spin-Off Is The End For Daryl And Carol AMC By BJ Colangelo/May 3, 2022 3:47 pm EST Fans of “The Walking Dead” were shocked last week when it was announced that series favorite, Melissa McBride, was no longer going to appear in the upcoming spin-off series, “Daryl and Carol.” For the uninitiated, that’s a huge deal as McBride is the “Carol Peletier” part of that title....

One Of Star Trek: Voyager’s Most Memorable Episodes Could Have Been An Entire Season Paramount By Collier Jennings/March 17, 2022 6:47 pm EST Though “Star Trek: Voyager” isn’t held in quite as high esteem as some of its fellow “Star Trek” series, it still contains a number of episodes that are worth watching. Who could forget season 3’s “The Chute,” which featured BFF’s Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) working together to survive an alien prison?...

Sharing makeup tips TriStar Pictures Two years after playing everyone’s favorite nanny, Robin Williams starred in “Jumanji.” He portrayed Alan Parrish, a boy trapped in a board game until someone rolls a five or an eight. Decades later, Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and her brother, Peter (Bradley Pierce), find and play the game, which results in Alan being freed. The character Williams plays in the film has more of an edge to him than Mrs....

Robin Williams Was The Original Howard The Duck – Here’s Why He Left The Project Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/Jan. 6, 2022 2:09 pm EST Willard Huyck’s 1986 film “Howard the Duck,” overseen by people at Lucasfilm and featuring a Marvel Comics character, still has a reputation as one of the most notorious bombs in film history. It didn’t lose the most money – not by a long shot. But it was lambasted and pilloried upon its release as off-putting and misguided, using state-of-the-art visual effects to realize a very strange, cynical comedy character in a baffling and badly written story....

Superhero Bits: Another Decade Of Marvel Movies, An Encouraging Superman Movie Update & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/April 27, 2022 5:31 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The Batman stands alone Warner Bros. It’s not exactly surprising that studios are a little hesitant to release any other box office bets against “The Batman,” but a little bit of counter-programming to a gigantic blockbuster used to be a good and necessary thing. Yet, in this case, Guy Ritchie’s “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” was delayed by STX to avoid Battinson, while “The Contractor” was sold to Showtime, taking some potential competitors off the board....

The Batman Star John Turturro Had No Idea Colin Farrell Was Colin Farrell Under His Make-Up Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/March 8, 2022 11:21 am EST Beware! Spoilers for “The Batman” follow! After lighting up the box office this past weekend like a flare in the darkness, “The Batman” has finally overcome a frustrating series of pandemic-related delays and made good on all the thrilling trailer footage we’ve devoured over the last several months (well, more like a year and a half, going back to when that very first teaser from DC FanDome first dropped back in August of 2020)....

The Crow Remake Has Apparently Returned From The Grave Yet Again Miramax Films By Witney Seibold/March 3, 2022 6:06 pm EST Alex Proyas’ “The Crow,” based on the comics by James O’Barr, was released in 1994 and stands as a time capsule for the state of Goth fashion at the time. A highly stylized, aggressively broody action picture, “The Crow” told the story of Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), who is murdered by thugs while his fiancée is assaulted....

The Sea Beast Trailer: True Adventure Begins In The Latest Netflix Animated Film Netflix By Jenna Busch/March 30, 2022 8:13 am EST Netflix has released a new trailer for their upcoming animated family film “The Sea Beast.” It’s the story of a sailor/monster hunter who ventures into new and uncharted waters. He discovers that a young girl has unexpectedly stowed away on his ship, which sounds adorable. Even better? It comes to us from Chris Williams, the co-director of the Disney films “Moana,” “Big Hero 6,” and “Bolt....

The Walking Dead Actor Moses J. Moseley Has Died At 31 Paul Archuleta / Getty Images By Ariel Fisher/Jan. 31, 2022 11:39 pm EST Moses J. Moseley, the young actor who got his big break playing Michonne’s (Danai Gurira) “iconic pet zombie” on “The Walking Dead,” has died. He was 31 years old. He had been working as a model and actor since 2010, and started to create an impressive CV, including bit parts in “Watchmen,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” and “Queen of the South....

Turning Red Deleted Scenes Try To Tame The Panda, Include Cut Storylines Pixar By Rafael Motamayor/April 26, 2022 12:42 pm EST “Turning Red” is one of the best movies Pixar has made in years. A funny, visually distinct, and fresh movie with influences ranging from “Ranma ½” and “Sailor Moon” to Disney movies. Domee Shi makes her feature debut with a film that is just as emotionally devastating as her short film “Bao,” yet a lot more upbeat....

Rankin/Bass Outsourced Its Animation Jensen Farley Pictures The same team who animated both “The Hobbit” and “The Return of the King” was also responsible for “The Last Unicorn.” Author Peter S. Beagle told Aaron Golden he was initially quite unhappy with the decision to go with Rankin/Bass because he was not a fan of their previous work. In fact, though it took him a while, Beagle did warm to the film eventually, the animation and performances in particular....

Warner Bros. Still Plans To Release Its 2022 Slate In Theaters Warner Bros By Eric Vespe/Dec. 16, 2021 3:58 pm EST For those hoping for a continuation of the big studios going day and date with their films into 2022 … well, Warner Bros says don’t get your hopes up. Most of the big studios changed their release strategies for Covid, many of them trying to bolster their streaming services by adding in giant name franchise titles to their platforms....

What Gates McFadden Wishes She Knew Before Joining Star Trek: The Next Generation ViacomCBS By Witney Seibold/Jan. 18, 2022 10:52 am EST Gates McFadden wasn’t incredibly happy with the way her character was written on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” McFadden played Dr. Beverly Crusher on six of the show’s seven seasons, and reprised the role for four feature films, but the arc of her character was, as she recently confessed to Scott Collura at IGN, ultimately unsatisfying....

What’s The Fate Of Moon Knight’s Arthur Harrow? Ethan Hawke Has An Answer Disney+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 13, 2022 3:59 pm EST Ethan Hawke shook up the Marvel TV universe this spring with his devilish turn as cult leader Arthur Harrow in “Moon Knight.” The show’s finale saw the unnerving villain seemingly dispatched by another alter of Marc Spector’s, murderous Jake Lockley. But apparently, Hawke isn’t 100% convinced his character is dead....

Year Of The Vampire: My Sucky Teen Romance Perfectly Captures Geeky Teen Love Dark Sky Films By BJ Colangelo/April 16, 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.) In the mid-2000s a micro-budget zombie film called “Pathogen” — about a group of middle schoolers discovering an infection in their town’s water supply was turning people into zombies — was making waves at horror festivals all across the globe....

Yellowjackets Originally Killed Off A Key Character In The Pilot Episode Showtime By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 21, 2022 9:36 am EST When the trailer for “Yellowjackets” dropped last August, I remember writing up a post about it, thinking, “Wow, this show looks really good, but I’ll bet it gets lost in the streaming shuffle.” Thankfully, that’s hasn’t been the case. Like the wasp or hornet that gives the show and its wilderness-stranded, cannibalistic girls’ soccer team their name, “Yellowjackets” has built up a lot of buzz around itself over the last 10 weeks....