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Everything We Know About The Banshees Of Inisherin So Far Focus Features By Shae Sennett/May 13, 2022 12:52 pm EST Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell are retracing their Irish roots in an exciting new project coming this fall (via Screen Daily). This will be McDonagh’s follow-up to the 2017 drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” also produced by Searchlight Pictures. The upcoming film, titled the “Banshees of Inisherin,” follows “two lifelong pals on a remote Irish isle,” Variety reports....

Free Guy VFX Team On Their 25 Years Of Experience, Film Vs Digital, And Crafting That Opening Oner [Interview] 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 26, 2022 2:09 pm EST “Don’t have a good day … have a great day.” Somehow, that endlessly repeated catchphrase actually sounds kind of sincere in “Free Guy” when delivered by Ryan Reynolds, who plays the hopelessly naïve video game NPC (non-player character) named, fittingly, Guy....

I Want You Back Trailer: Charlie Day And Jenny Slate Scheme In This Revenge Rom-Com Prime Video By Shania Russell/Dec. 21, 2021 8:45 am EST Bet you can’t guess which song plays in the trailer for the upcoming romcom, “I Want You Back.” Hint: it may or may not be a Jackson 5 song … nah, never mind, you couldn’t possibly get this right, nope, no way. Before you find out for yourself, prepare to be swept away into the world of romance and breakups, with a romantic comedy that sees two broken-hearted lunatics attempting the kind of plan destined for failure....

Kingpin’s Original Ending Could’ve Sent The Entire Movie Down The Gutter Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Lee Adams/March 23, 2022 10:45 am EST Way back when Jeff Daniels had a volcanic case of diarrhoea in “Dumb and Dumber,” who could have predicted that one of the directors would go on to helm a Best Picture Oscar winner? The Farrelly Brothers have come a long way since they first barfed their way onto the scene with their deliriously idiotic odyssey, with elder sibling Peter also picking up the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Green Book....

Lulu Wang Wasn’t Going To Let Studio Demands Derail Her Plan For The Farewell A24 By Sandy Schaefer/May 13, 2022 6:18 pm EST If all you had was a vague logline, you would be forgiven for assuming “The Farewell” is a farce. After all, writer-director Lulu Wang’s 2019 dramedy centers on a Chinese-American family who, upon learning their grandmother (Nai Nai, played by Zhao Shu-zhen) has terminal cancer, hastily schedule a wedding as an excuse for all their relatives to gather and covertly say their goodbyes without telling Nai Nai she’s dying....

Major Hollywood Showrunners Sign Pledge To Depict Guns More Responsibly Going Forward ABC By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 13, 2022 2:33 pm EST As legislators continue to stall out on any meaningful action in the wake of the mass shooting that left 19 elementary students and two teachers dead last month, Hollywood is making a plan to curb harmful depictions of gun use on screen. As reported by Variety, a group of 200 writers, producers, and directors put their names to an open letter pledging to be more thoughtful about how guns are shown in film and on television moving forward....

Getting it right on the page Paramount Martin Scorsese was first given the book “Silence” in 1988, the same year his film “The Last Temptation of Christ” was released. While that film is beloved today, it was marred by the religious right upon release, as is any art that deviates from the “agreed upon” interpretations of Christianity. But it had its fans, and one was Episcopalian Bishop Paul Moore. He gave Scorsese the book “Silence,” and Scorsese was immediately struck by it....

Michael Keaton Hypes His Batman’s Return With Photo Of His Bat-Eared Shadow Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 25, 2022 8:38 am EST With “The Batman,” starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, set to open in one week, Michael Keaton has taken to Instagram to remind people that Pattinson isn’t the only Batman who is flying into theaters this year. Keaton, the original — and arguably still best — Batman will make his triumphant return later this year in “The Flash....

Everything Jurassic Park can’t be Ethan Pettus Admittedly, this is an out-there concept and one that will seemingly require a lot of resources to do it right. Yet, this isn’t set up at a major studio and it seems the production will be trying to make “dinosaurs in war” happen on a relatively small budget. That makes this all the more fascinating, especially since we already have the big-budget version of dinosaurs ruling the Earth with the “Jurassic Park” franchise....

Rutherford Falls Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More Peacock By Sandy Schaefer/May 4, 2022 4:18 pm EST 2021 saw the arrival of two ground-breaking TV shows led by Indigenous Americans on both sides of the camera. The best of the pair, “Reservation Dogs,” is an off-beat mix of mythicism, comedy, and pathos about four Indigenous teenagers coming of age in a small, primarily Indigenous American town in Oklahoma. The other, “Rutherford Falls,” is a flawed yet enjoyable sitcom centered on an Indigenous American woman and a white guy whose lifelong friendship is put to the test when the mayor of the titular town plots to move a historical statue of the latter’s ancestor (which cars keep crashing into due to its placement)....

The Long Halloween and Zero Year Warner Bros. Right off the bat (pun intended), “The Batman” begins on Halloween night. That seems to be rather intentional, because the movie takes some inspiration from the 13-issue comic book series “Batman: The Long Halloween.” In the comic, Batman is trying to track down a mysterious killer named Holiday who is killing someone on a holiday each month. At the same time, there’s a crime war between the Maroni and Falcone crime families....

An American Werewolf in London Universal Pictures Known more for its brilliant practical werewolf effects transformation, which garnered the very first Academy Award for best makeup, John Landis’ “An American Werewolf in London” is also home to one of the most passionate love stories in horror history. After David Kessler (David Naughton) and his best friend Jack (Griffin Dunne) are attacked by a werewolf, David awakens in a hospital and meets nurse Alex Price (Jenny Agutter)....

The Blue Beetle Movie Beefs Up Its Cast With Adriana Barraza, George Lopez & More Prime Video By BJ Colangelo/March 18, 2022 6:15 pm EST After it was announced that “Blue Beetle” would be pivoting away from HBO Max and heading into theaters, it became clear that Warner Bros. had some big plans for DC’s first Latino superhero film. “Cobra Kai’s” Xolo Maridueña (below) will star as Jaime Reyes, a high school student who becomes the Blue Beetle after coming in contact with an alien scarab....

Why it’s essential viewing HBO Max Created and show-run by “Prisoners” and “Papillon” writer Aaron Guzikowski, “Raised by Wolves” is a cheery pick-me-up in the same vein as his earlier work. That is to say, it takes place in a desolate future where Earth has been laid to ruin after years of war between two major factions of humanity: Those who practice Mithraism (a fictional version of the real-life Roman mystery religion that centers on a deity known as Sol) and those who identify as atheists....

Why It’s Essential Viewing British Lion Films Let’s say you’re like me and have, to this point, only cultivated a superficial knowledge of folk horror’s greatest hits. You know your recent stuff from such luminaries as Ari Aster and Robert Eggers (the latter of whom is yet another interviewee here), but now, you’re looking to go deeper into the woods. “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” is educational and it offers a good go-to guide....

The Last Of Us Star Pedro Pascal Admits He’s Terrible At The Game Lionsgate By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 15, 2022 9:07 am EST In the near future, “The Last of Us” fans will finally be able to see Pedro Pascal as reluctant hero Joel. In the meantime, the actor is preparing for the role by trying his hand at the video game phenomenon that inspired the upcoming HBO show. Apparently, he’s pretty bad at it....

Industrial Light & Magic worked hard on Hawkeye First up, Industrial Light & Magic shows off the work they put into Marvel’s “Hawkeye” TV series on Disney+. Much of this breakdown focuses on the creation of Rockefeller Plaza where the famous Christmas tree stands during the holidays. It would appear that not much of that sequence was shot on location, and visual effects actually brought the real tourist attraction to life....

The Movies That Inspired The Batman New Line Cinema / Warner Bros. / Paramount By Lyvie Scott/March 6, 2022 9:04 pm EST From the moment director Matt Reeves first came aboard “The Batman,” the conversation has leaned heavily on the director’s many influences. Reeves and his muse Robert Pattinson have spoken at length about their many sources of inspiration for the forthcoming film, which could effectively set “The Batman” apart from past iterations and (hopefully) cure our franchise fatigue once and for all....

The Pianist Ending Explained: Władysław Szpilman In The Warsaw Ghetto Studiocanal By Anthony Crislip/May 4, 2022 2:50 pm EST Few movies about the Holocaust have matched the sheer, experiential horror of Roman Polanski’s 2002 film “The Pianist,” which balances its depiction of the pain suffered by Polish Jews with rare moments of human connection amidst collective terror, bolstered by nothing so much as the great music of Chopin. Polanski had dealt with controversy in his films before (beyond his own crimes, which would see him expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018), as with the “Satanic” cult film “Rosemary’s Baby....

The Princess Star Joey King On Why She Chose This Film And Working With Veronica Ngo [Interview] 20th Century Studios By Nguyen Le/June 17, 2022 2:00 pm EST A long time ago, there lived a princess who was far from ordinary, for she could beat people up with thunder and fury… Once you’ve watched “The Princess,” the female-led medieval actioner that is set to land on Hulu this July, you’ll know these words aren’t the introduction to a tall tale....