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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Reveals Villain, Many New Characters [Annecy 2022] Sony Pictures Animation By Rafael Motamayor/June 13, 2022 9:37 am EST “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is not only the best movie of 2018, it is one of the finest superhero movies ever made, and one of the best American studio animated films ever made. A triumph of both comic-book storytelling as well as animation, the film redefined what a superhero origin story could be, what a superhero could look like on screen, all while introducing what still remains the best depiction of the multiverse in a major motion picture....

The English voices of Visions photo by Caroline Cao The panel also surprised attendees with the English voice cast of “Visions,” many of them veterans of other “Star Wars” animation, from “The Clone Wars” to “Star Wars: Resistance.” Voice actors on the panel included Andrew Kishino (Juro of “The Ninth Jedi”), Hiromi Dames (Ochō in “Lop & Ochō”), Keone Young (Kamahachi of “Akakiri”), Christopher Sean (Asu from “The Village Bride”), Bobby Moynihan (Geezer of “Tatooine Rhapsody”), and Brian Tee (The Ronin of “The Duel”)....

What is The Boogeyman About? Doubleday Publishing “The Boogeyman” was first published in the March 1973 issue of the magazine “Cavalier,” and later in 1978 as part of Stephen King’s “Night Shift” collection of short stories. “Night Shift” was published the year after “The Shining,” and the short story collection is home to the source material for “Children of the Corn,” “Cat’s Eye,” “Graveyard Shift,” “The Mangler,” “Sometimes They Come Back,” “Chapelwaite,” “The Lawnmower Man,” and King’s one and only foray into directing, “Maximum Overdrive....

The 22 Jump Street Moment That Was A Little Too Real For Jonah Hill Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/March 8, 2022 2:42 pm EST The filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, colloquially referred to as Lord & Miller, have established their reputation for taking films that sound like terrible ideas and — like Rumpelstiltskin — spinning self-aware, slapstick comedic gold out of them. Lord & Miller’s first film was “Extreme Movie,” one of the final films in the unfortunate trend of really, really awful spoof films that plagued the 2000s....

The Banned Music That Gives Moon Knight Its Soundtrack Marvel By Danielle Ryan/June 9, 2022 6:27 pm EST When director Mohamed Diab approached the Disney+ series “Moon Knight,” he was deeply concerned with making the series look and feel authentically Egyptian. A big part of that was bringing the sounds of Egypt to the production, and for that the director made a bold choice, playing songs by underground Egyptian musicians who had been banned by their own government....

The Best Romance In Love And Thunder Isn’t Between Thor And Jane Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/June 27, 2022 11:13 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe has a bit of a weird relationship with romance. Phase One was filled with love interests for our heroes to try and sweep off their feet, including some played by Academy Award winners! But as the MCU grew larger, more elaborate, and hugely successful, it kind of just forgot about these love interests and ignored these romances in favor of very, very chaste and bombastic hero stories....

The Boys Presents: Diabolical Review: An Anthology Experiment That Works, Mostly By Danielle Ryan/March 1, 2022 12:00 pm EST “The Boys Presents: Diabolical” is an animated anthology series from the twisted world of Garth Ennis’ “The Boys,” with eight unique tales. Each comes from different creators, with stories by Ennis, Eliot and Ilana Glazer, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, Aisha Tyler, Andy Samberg, Awkwafina, Simon Racioppa, and Justin Roiland and Ben Bayouth....

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 Review: It’s Finally Time To Unravel Midge’s Flaws Prime Video By Shania Russell/Feb. 16, 2022 12:00 pm EST Midge Maisel is a winner. She’s a magnetic motormouth with endless charm and a direct line to even the most cynical funny bones. As the series title indicates, she’s gifted with the undeniable ability to leave both friends and strangers stunned, with nothing to do but marvel at the sheer force of her....

Tobey Maguire Called Sam Raimi’s Bluff To Get Out Of A Spider-Man 2 Stunt Sony Pictures By Jamie Gerber/May 4, 2022 10:00 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s current domination of the film landscape can sometimes make it easy to forget about the earlier Marvel movies that helped pave the way for its incredible success. In an interesting twist, the auteur behind several of those films is also helming the MCU’s newest feature, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

Atlanta Season 3 Episode 5 Looks For A Missing Phone With ‘Cancer Attack’ FX By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/April 14, 2022 10:30 pm EST After last week’s episode of “Atlanta,” which managed to be simultaneously divisive and underwhelming, the boys are back — and only the boys. There’s no Van this week, but we do see the return of Socks, the U.K.’s most eager ally. Socks has joined Al, Earn, and Darius on tour for reasons that are never made clear....

Atlanta Season 3 Gets Ready For ‘The Big Payback’ FX By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/April 7, 2022 10:30 pm EST The latest episode of “Atlanta” is … exhausting in every sense of the word. These 36 minutes felt like a strange eternity. Like the season premiere, “The Big Payback” doesn’t feature any of the main cast, so we aren’t given a follow-up to the events in last week’s episode. We do, however, get an interesting storyline and the surprising return of a relatively new character, as well as further expansion on the themes prevalent throughout the season so far....

Daily Podcast: The Batman Tracking, Oscars Relevance, MoviePass Returns & Jurassic World Dominion Trailer Universal By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2022 2:57 pm EST On the February 11, 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 Batman box office tracking, Oscars relevancy, the return of MoviePass, and “Jurassic World Dominion.” Opening Banter: It’s the weekend!...

Elizabeth Banks Was Turned Down For Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man After Her Mary Jane Screen Test Columbia Pictures By Caroline Madden/June 13, 2022 8:51 am EST Elizabeth Banks appears in the Sam Raimi “Spider-Man” trilogy as Betty Brant, the secretary of Daily Bugle publisher and CEO J. Jonah Jameson. In the comic books, she is one of Peter Parker’s love interests. But Betty Brant was not the part Banks originally auditioned for....

Every George Lucas Directed Movie Ranked Worst To Best DFree/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/Jan. 20, 2022 11:46 am EST Few people in the history of cinema have been quite as influential as George Lucas. Even sidestepping the grand cultural legacy of the “Star Wars” franchise for a moment, Lucas has paved the way for how modern film technology is presented, distributed, and considered, leading the way on cutting-edge techniques in digital filmmaking and immersive sound effects....

Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen May Be Getting A TV Adaptation At Netflix STXfilms By Jeremy Mathai/March 11, 2022 5:52 pm EST “The Gentlemen” marked director Guy Ritchie’s grand return to the much more familiar confines of the gangster movie in early 2020, as opposed to massive, 9-figure blockbusters that never stood a chance of making a profit or live-action Disney remakes that left much to be desired. Apparently, Ritchie enjoyed the change of pace so much that he’s not quite ready to leave that world just yet, and we’re not sure that we can blame him at all....

One Mother of a Christmas Eve Marvel Studios This episode managed to confirm what we suspected all along, namely that Kate Bishop’s mommie dearest Eleanor (Vera Farmiga) is up to her eyeballs in mob ties, namely via Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, a role reprised by Vincent D’Onofrio from Marvel’s shows on Netflix. The Kingpin has been in a mutually beneficial business arrangement with Eleanor ever since her late husband fell into too much debt with the Hell’s Kitchen crime boss....

A Chase Through Time! ABC The only remaining portion of “Galactica 1980” that retains Larson and Bellisario’s original idea for the series is its three-part pilot, “Galactica Discovers Earth.” In it, the Battlestar Galactica finally reaches Earth, but Commander Adama (Lorne Greene, one of only a few returning cast members from the original series) realizes that a technologically inferior human race would be helpless against the nearby Cylon horde following the Battlestar....

Let’s Talk About The Most Underrated Ivan Reitman Movie Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 14, 2022 2:04 pm EST Ivan Reitman’s comedies were a fundamental part of my childhood growing up in the 1990s. In fact, it’s because of him that part of me still thinks of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a comedy actor first and an action movie star second — having watched “Twins” and “Kindergarten Cop” far more often as a kid than any of his ’80s and ’90s shoot-em-ups (save for “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”)....

More than meets the eye Marvel Comics The name Bertrand Crawley likely came to mind for many Moon Knight fans as Steven spoke to the living statue in the first episode of the Disney+ series. After all, the performer certainly looks the part. A quick peek at the show’s end credits confirms these suspicions, with Shaun Scott credited as Crawley. Similarly to Marlene, Frenchie, and Gena, Crawley has been a part of Marc’s inner circle for a very long time....

More Than Robots Wants To Change The World, And It’ll Use Disney To Get It Done [SXSW] Disney+ By Jacob Hall/March 15, 2022 3:38 pm EST “More Than Robots” is the kind of documentary that may change a kid’s life. Seriously. Sweet and fascinating and fun and very easy to watch, it’s a portrait of four teams participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition, where teams from schools around the world build robots to solve a specific course/problem....