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New Firestarter Clips Showcase Charlie’s Power Universal Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 10, 2022 1:38 pm EST Two fiery clips from Blumhouse’s “Firestarter” are here, and the key takeaway from these would be … do not mess with Charlie. The upcoming Stephen King adaptation will, once again, dive into Charlie’s pyrokinetic abilities, which are coveted by people around her who wish to use them to their advantage. While Charlie is unable to control her powers as of now, she displays a remarkable awareness of the extent of her powers, which are capable of reducing a door to a scorched mess and violently-bubbling contents in a glass jar (which will most likely explode in a quick second)....

No Time To Die Star Billy Magnussen Plays A Sport Involving A Dead Goat Carcass, So Where’s The Movie About That? [Exclusive] Eon Productions By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 21, 2021 11:46 am EST Daniel Craig’s final James Bond movie, “No Time to Die,” became available on Blu-ray this week, just in time for Christmas. In the movie, Billy Magnussen plays the CIA agent, Logan Ash, who’s a fanboy for Bond, but whose clean-cut, Mormon-nice facade soon gives way to a heel turn....

“This guy’s just f***ing horrible.” HBO Max Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and structure. In “Peacemaker,” you play a terrifying villain. Yeah, what is it about him you don’t like? Everything. He’s a horrible father. A misogynist. Xenophobe. Antisemite. Complete out and out racist, white nationalist. Deep state thinker. Believes the country’s under attack. Yeah, he’s a pretty despicable guy. I think James and you do a very good job with tone....

Strange New World 20th Television In an interview with Mother Jones shortly before the “Futurama” premiere, Groening explained the trouble: “The second they ordered it, they completely freaked out and were afraid the show was too dark and mean-spirited, and thought they had made a huge mistake and that the only way they could address their anxieties was to try to make me as crazy as possible with their frustrations.”...

Studio Ghibli’s Scripting Process Is Practically Nonexistent Toho By Witney Seibold/May 17, 2022 8:37 am EST The very first film produced under the Studio Ghibli banner was Hayao Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky” in 1986. Miyazaki’s screenplay was based partly on Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel “Gulliver’s Travels,” which featured a floating island called Laputa populated by a people known as the Balnibarbi, who have devoted their lives to academics and the arts....

Superhero Bits: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Character Posters, The Batman HBO Max Teaser & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/April 11, 2022 4:53 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 Afterparty Season 2 Will Have Returning Cast Members Apple TV+ By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 11, 2022 9:38 am EST Now that the murder mystery comedy series “The Afterparty” has been renewed for a second season, various cast members from season 1 are set to return. Executive producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord recently spoke at the show’s Emmy FYC event alongside season 1 star Ben Schwartz, hinting at the fact that there will be more than one returning actor in the upcoming season (per Variety)....

The Battle At Lake Changjin II Tops The International Box Office With $105 Million Opening Day Bona Film Group By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 1, 2022 1:50 pm EST Today marks the Lunar New Year (also referred to as the Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival) for those of us in the Western Hemisphere, and the international box office is already well under way in reflecting the movies that audiences around the globe have been heading out to see in theaters while ringing in the holiday....

The Daily Stream: Meet The Australian Bloodhunters Of Firebite AMC+ By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 20, 2022 6:21 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Firebite” Where You Can Watch It: AMC+ The Pitch: Indigenous “bloodhunters” kill vampires with boomerangs in abandoned mine shafts in the Australian desert....

The movie magic of Spider-Man: No Way Home First up, CG Record takes a look at the compositing, the environment, the effects and digital hybrid suit work done by Imageworks for the finale of “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” If you haven’t seen the movie, there are plenty of spoilers abound, and you can see how the sequence came together with a lot of visual effects. You might be surprised to see how much of the Spider-Man suit is created in post-production....

The Star Wars Universe Is Cool Until You Have To Fly Commercial Lucasfilm By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 26, 2022 2:00 pm EST Life in a galaxy far, far away sounds pretty great, but that’s without considering the more mundane aspects of existing in the “Star Wars” universe. If you have your own starfighter or are a member of a fleet, you’re fine, but what about the rest of the regular rubes who are forced to fly commercial?...

Kimi is our first (only?) great pandemic movie HBO Max Between this and the January 2022 debut of “Under the Radar,” director Steven Soderbergh has now forced my hand and compelled me to include two of his own movies on two separate editions of this newly-born column. How’s that for consistency? After directing at the furious pace of seven total movies in the last five years (with really only one considered a disappointment) and especially after delivering arguably the most prescient pandemic-themed movie back in 2011, Soderbergh stands tall as one of the few filmmakers I’d ever trust — by far — to directly integrate the ongoing Covid crisis into his art....

Why Peaky Blinders Showrunner Steven Knight Changed The Ending Of Season 6 BBC By Jeremy Mathai/March 29, 2022 4:52 pm EST You know what they say about God laughing at those who make plans, right? Nobody would understand that sentiment more than Tommy Shelby himself, the head of the Shelby crime family and the PTSD-ridden main character of the hit show “Peaky Blinders.” Played with a deft (and almost comically heavily-accented) touch by Cillian Murphy, the violent and endlessly driven character has turned the Shelby family name from one most commonly associated with illegal horse racing and gambling to one of the British Isles’ most powerful and well-connected political figures....

Anthony Masi Wants To Make The Horror Board Games You Never Had Growing Up [Interview] Wonderwheel Entertainment By Matthew Monagle/May 4, 2022 2:29 pm EST Horror has come to Kickstarter. For the past two months, wedged between the high-profile projects and expensive miniatures games, throwback adaptations of ’80s horror films like “Silent Night, Deadly Night” and “My Bloody Valentine” have caught horror fans by surprise. With artwork by Fright-Rags and the participation of the original producers, these projects occupy a rare niche in the world of tabletop: independent games where the license is the most significant selling point....

Lucasfilm By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2022 2:54 pm EST In The News: Also mentioned: What’s the filmmaker line-up at Skydance Animation? Their first animated feature, “Luck,” will premiere on August 5, 2022, on Apple TV+, Followed by “Spellbound,” directed by Vicky Jensen (“Shrek,” “Shark Tale”) and features music by Alan Menken Brad Bird Raygun Their first animated feature, “Luck,” will premiere on August 5, 2022, on Apple TV+, Followed by “Spellbound,” directed by Vicky Jensen (“Shrek,” “Shark Tale”) and features music by Alan Menken...

New toys Marvel Studios While speaking to /Film’s own Jacob Hall in our recent interview with him, Sam Raimi discussed what it was like for him to work on the upcoming Phase Four movie. First, while it’s well documented that he’s a massive comic book fan, he didn’t really set out to add a bunch of his favorite characters or story arcs into the mix. Instead, he ended up focusing on playing with all the super cool new toys that Marvel Studios had just added to their toy box:...

Eiichiro Oda Has A Harrowing Process For Coming Up With One Piece Ideas Toei Company By Ernesto Valenzuela/June 30, 2022 11:20 am EST “One Piece” is still as relevant as it was when the first chapter came out in July of 1997. Now boasting over 1,000 chapters (that’s over 100 volumes), Eiichiro Oda’s magnum opus of a manga series has been a Shonen Jump staple for 25 years, as Monkey D....

Here’s When The Marvel Netflix Shows Arrive On Disney+ Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/March 1, 2022 3:02 pm EST Ever since “Daredevil” TV series debuted in 2015, Netflix has been home to some pretty key Marvel content, with several beloved shows set within the company’s cinematic universe living exclusively on the streaming service after a landmark deal cut in 2013. But nothing is forever in the age of the streaming wars, and the Netflix Marvel shows are set to have a new home on Disney+ in the not-too-distant future....

Here’s Who Daniel Radcliffe Almost Played In Everything Everywhere All At Once A24 By Erin Brady/June 30, 2022 10:12 pm EST In a just world, we would have gotten a Daniel Radcliffe cameo in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Unfortunately, it is not a just world because the “Swiss Army Man” actor was unable to clear his schedule to reunite with directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, better known as Daniels....

How Matt Dillon’s First Movie Inspired Both Richard Linklater And Kurt Cobain Orion Pictures By Bill Bria/May 11, 2022 1:30 pm EST Most actors would rather forget their first movies, whether due to the type of film they appeared in or their work within them. Yet, some have the good fortune to not only give an excellent performance the first time out of the gate, but deliver it inside a movie that becomes enormously influential to future legendary artists....