Horror Roles That Changed Actors Forever New Line Cinema By SlashFilm Staff/Jan. 27, 2022 8:46 pm EST We often think about the life-changing impact horror has on us. Whether it was Regan MacNeil doing the spider walk in “The Exorcist” that made us terrified of stairs, “Jaws” effectively making us never want to set foot in the water again, or “Psycho” forcing us to develop questionable hygiene habits, horror movies leave a serious mark....
How Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Influenced Joseph Kosinski’s Spiderhead Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/June 23, 2022 10:10 pm EST Who hasn’t been influenced by Stanley Kubrick? That’s the real question here. And I’m not just asking that because my own personal aesthetic life has at times veered towards the Kubrickian (no, I’m not going to go into depth on that one, you’ll just have to trust me). I’m asking that because when you’re one of the greats, the list of people you’ve influenced becomes longer than the list of people you haven’t....
It was worse than Rush Hour 1 New Line Cinema In a 2002 interview with the magazine Crosswalk, Jackie Chan admitted he experienced a great deal of disappointment and confusion over “Rush Hour,” eventually realizing that what American audiences find funny is vastly different than what audiences in Hong Kong find funny. He even brought numbers to prove it, and it’s telling that “Rush Hour” was not a success in Asia, and many of Chan’s Hong Kong movies remained only cult hits in America....
Jake Gyllenhaal Made A Stealth Directorial Debut In Michael Bay’s Ambulance Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 18, 2022 10:32 am EST Actors becoming directors is nothing new in Hollywood. Typically, however, it happens in a piecemeal fashion. They start off by forming their own production company and becoming increasingly selective about the types of movies they work on, either as an actor and/or a producer. Margot Robbie, for example, broke out with her turn in “The Wolf of Wall Street” before co-founding her production shingle, LuckyChap Entertainment, in 2014....
Mando’s Meat Factory Fight Featured Designs From A Canceled Boba Fett Video Game Disney+ By Eric Vespe/Jan. 29, 2022 1:04 pm EST So, you may not have noticed this on your recent viewing of “The Book of Boba Fett” Episode 5, but among the Easter eggs sprinkled throughout that frankly spectacular episode were references to a “Star Wars” project that never even saw the light of day — at least, according to game designer Grant Parker....
Mayor Of Kingstown Season 2: Everything We Know So Far Paramount+ By Kaylee Dugan/April 1, 2022 8:17 am EST Put on your mayor … hat? Sash? Pin? (I’m very engaged in local politics) and get ready for another season filled with crime, corruption, and systemic injustice, because “Mayor of Kingstown” is coming back. The mayor has been “reelected” for another season, and if you’ve been looking forward to spending office hours with Jeremy Renner, you’ve come to the right place....
Netflix 2022 Movie Preview Gives Us Our First Look At Knives Out 2 And More Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 3, 2022 11:26 am EST I would be lying if I said I didn’t have very mixed feelings about Netflix. On the one hand, the streaming giant has provided a platform for adult-oriented films, mid-budget movies, and original tentpoles at a time when all of those things are struggling to draw a crowd in theaters (and not just during the pandemic, either)....
Nicolas Cage Wants To Play Egghead Opposite Robert Pattinson’s Batman ABC/Lionsgate By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 14, 2022 1:49 pm EST In today’s section of “please, for the love of all things holy, make it happen,” Nicolas Cage wants to play the villain Egghead opposite Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader in “The Batman” sequel. In an interview with FOX 7 Austin during the SXSW premiere of “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Cage revealed that he would love to play Egghead in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” sequel in a way that’s “absolutely terrifying” (!...
One Of The MCU’s Biggest Fight Scenes Was Planned Using Action Figures Walt Disney Pictures / Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/March 15, 2022 12:02 pm EST Over the years, we’ve seen for ourselves that action scenes in Marvel movies can be a bit of a coin toss. Last year’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” featured an epic bus brawl with a three-act structure, but for every memorable takedown, there’s another Marvel flick with a lengthy light show, an inexplicable beam shooting into the sky, and some back and forth blasting destined to fade from memory as soon as the credits roll....
Robert Pattinson’s Favorite Batman Villain Is Predictably Ridiculous Warner Bros. By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 11, 2022 11:37 am EST Ah, of course, Robert Pattinson’s favorite Batman villain is as predictably unhinged as one might think it to be. In an interview with “Brut México (via Screen Rant) Pattinson revealed that his absolute favorite villain among the caped crusader’s otherwise formidable rogues gallery is none other than Condiment King. This is understandably baffling but also perfectly in keeping with Pattinson’s persona, which is undoubtedly a gift that keeps on giving....
Six Of Gilbert Gottfried’s Most Hilarious Moments College Humor By Witney Seibold/April 12, 2022 6:20 pm EST Gilbert Gottfried has passed away at the age of 67, leaving behind a legacy of utter filth, intense depravity, and sick humor that we will all desperately and tragically miss. While Gottfried’s highest-profile role as an actor likely came from voicing the animated parrot Iago in the G-rated 1992 film “Aladdin,” anyone who bothered to delve into his stand-up career would discover some pretty blue humor....
Sony Has Now Pulled Morbius’ Russian Theatrical Release In Light Of Recent Events Sony Pictures By Joshua Meyer/March 1, 2022 8:33 am EST Sony Pictures is the latest distributor to pull its movies from the release calendar in Russia due to the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This move will most immediately impact the release of “Morbius,” the Spider-Man-adjacent vampire superhero film starring Jared Leto. We previously reported that Disney has elected to halt all of its theatrical releases in Russia, including Pixar’s “Turning Red,” which is due to receive a streaming release in the U....
Tales From The Box Office: How Jackass: The Movie Made A Big Leap To The Big Screen Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/Feb. 5, 2022 3:04 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) In October of 2000, just at the turn of the millennium, MTV aired a cheap and risky TV show largely inspired by skateboarding videos of the late ’90s and born out of Big Brother magazine called “Jackass....
The ‘Love’ Part Of Thor: Love And Thunder Was Taika Waititi’s Biggest Challenge Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/May 12, 2022 2:35 pm EST Director Taika Waititi delivered one of the most unique and widely acclaimed Marvel Cinematic Universe films to date with 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok.” Now, the filmmaker is back with a sequel in the form of this summer’s much-anticipated “Thor: Love and Thunder.” As the title implies, love is going to be a big part of the movie, and as it turns out, that was actually the toughest part to nail down when it came to the story....
George Romero Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock George Romero defined the cinematic zombie with his groundbreaking work in practical gore effects. Romero’s creative use of makeup would be imitated for decades, and cinematic zombies rarely strained from the template he’d defined. In fact, when Danny Boyle introduced fast moving zombies in “28 Days Later,” it was a novelty that he wasn’t simply replicating Romero. Romero saw zombies as a reflection of what humanity left behind, and his undead represented societal fears....
The Batman Finally Lets Batman Be The World’s Greatest Detective Warner Bros. By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 4, 2022 3:00 pm EST Yes, the nuances of Batman as a character — be it the layers inherent within his decision to protect a crumbling Gotham City or the dichotomies ever-present between his two identities — have had many, many live-action iterations to date. Be it Tim Burton’s gothic and fantastical vision that colored the world of the caped crusader or Christopher Nolan’s iteration of a relatively grounded, “cinematic reality,” these films managed to steer away from helming hackneyed re-interpretations while still remaining (somewhat) loyal to the character’s comic book roots....
The Big Conn Review: A Convoluted Story Tries To Make Light Of A Real Tragedy AppleTV+ By Sarah Milner/May 4, 2022 1:00 pm EST Perhaps the most unpredictable trend to come out of the pandemic is the rise of “wacky” true-crime docuseries, with AppleTV+’s “The Big Conn” being just the latest in a line of “crazy-but-true” documentary TV shows that present real crimes with all the dignity and decorum of Paramount’s “Bar Rescue....
Darth Maul Robin Platzer/Twin Images/Getty/Lucasfilm On the set of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace,” chief make-up artist Paul Engelen concerned himself mostly with creating Darth Maul, portrayed by Ray Park. He was tasked with developing other characters, including Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), but Maul is arguably the pinnacle of the work. Initially, Engelen based early ideas on Doug Chiang’s concept drawings. Artist Ian McCaig was also approached about sketching concept art....
The Black Phone Star Ethan Hawke Wanted To Play Hide And Seek With The Audience [Interview] Universal By Jacob Hall/June 21, 2022 1:00 pm EST You don’t see too much of Ethan Hawke in “The Black Phone,” and that’s by design. In Scott Derrickson’s new horror movie, the Oscar-nominated actor plays The Grabber, a mysterious abductor and killer of children who hides his identity with a gruesome mask, one that he seems very proud to wear....
Why it’s essential viewing Even if you aren’t interested in film history, or giallo-inspired surrealism, maybe this will sell you: “Censor” moves at a clip, delivering a weird and dreamy punch of a horror film in a scant 84 minutes. A bloody history lesson? In less than 90 minutes? I personally couldn’t hit “play” faster. Of course, Bailey-Bond does more than deliver the worlds weirdest history lesson. Within those 84 minutes (a truly amazing number that every movie should strive for), she puts the audience into the mind of Enid, a person who wouldn’t want you to be seeing the very movie you’re watching, and then Bailey-Bond breaks it wide open, exposing Enid’s most base motivations....
