The Daily Stream: The Good Place Will Soothe Your Battered Soul NBC By Jenna Busch/Jan. 6, 2022 3:02 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: “The Good Place” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) has died and gone to the Good Place, AKA heaven....
The Fabulous Filipino Brothers’ Dante Basco On His Directorial Debut And Filipino American Cinema [Interview] 1091 Media By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 8, 2022 4:02 pm EST On more than one occasion during my tenure at /Film, I’ve emphasized the importance of diversity in media. This is nothing new. As of February 2022, I’ve been advocating for this sort of thing professionally for ten years. But this cause has been near and dear to my heart since the moment I saw Dante Basco as Rufio in “Hook....
The Flash Footage Reaction: Michael Keaton’s Batman Returns [CinemaCon 2022] Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/April 26, 2022 8:38 pm EST CinemaCon is currently taking place in Las Vegas, and tonight, Warner Bros. has taken the stage at the convention to showcase some of what they’ve got coming down the pipeline. Part of the presentation included new footage from director Andy Muschietti’s “The Flash,” which has been in the works for a very long time....
The Morning Watch: Morbius Honest Trailer, Tom Cruise Puts James Corden In A Top Gun Jet & More Sony Pictures By Jenna Busch/May 25, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) Warner Bros. Pictures You wouldn’t normally associate comedies with massive budgets, but titles like “Evan Almighty” show that entries in this genre can rack up budgets comparable to your average Marvel movie. “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” a 2002 sci-fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy, wasn’t quite that costly but it still had a sizable $100 million budget. Up to this point in his career, Murphy hadn’t appeared in a live-action movie that exceeded $317 million worldwide....
The Star Wars Scene That Was Pivotal To George Lucas And Hayden Christensen’s Relationship On Set Lucasfilm By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 5, 2022 2:35 pm EST “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” may have an infamous reputation in the saga’s canon, but that doesn’t make it any less of a “Star Wars” film. With 2022 marking 20 years since the sequel’s release, a film already hotly discussed for years now is even more prominent today....
Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off Review: It’s Skate Or Die In This Revealing Portrait Of The Skateboarding Icon [SXSW] HBO By Ethan Anderton/March 17, 2022 4:00 pm EST “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off” begins in a surprisingly brutal fashion. The skateboarding icon drops into a halfpipe, trying to pull off his most famous, notoriously difficult trick, but he just can’t do it. He loses grip of his board, which occasionally bounces off somewhere behind the halfpipe, and he slides down the drop in defeat....
We Finally Know For Sure How Boba Fett Escaped The Sarlacc Pit Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Dec. 29, 2021 11:36 am EST The day is finally upon us, “Star Wars” fans. A year after that bombshell “The Mandalorian” season 2 finale, the latest adventure in a galaxy far, far away, “The Book of Boba Fett,” is here. Indeed, after literal decades, the fan-favorite bounty hunter is finally taking the spotlight in his very own TV show....
30% Of Star Trek Fans Said This Is Their Favorite Picard Character Not Named Jean-Luc Picard Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 3, 2022 2:59 pm EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) “Star Trek: Picard” will be wrapping up its second season on May 5, 2022, and its third (and final) season is set to debut early in 2023....
All About Eve Is Still The Only Film To Achieve This Oscar Milestone 20th Century Studios By Mike Shutt/Feb. 3, 2022 11:39 am EST Landing an Academy Award nomination is tough enough, but what about earning a record-setting 14 Academy Award nominations? Only three films in history have ever reached that number: “All About Eve,” “Titanic,” and “La La Land.” To achieve that kind of Oscar success requires across-the-board enthusiasm for a particular picture, from the directors and actors to the costume designers and sound mixers....
Andrew Garfield Fan Tom Holland Also Wants The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Sony Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 3, 2022 8:31 pm EST “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has been out since mid-December and is already closing in on the domestic box office record held by James Cameron’s “Avatar.” It’s currently the fourth highest-grossing film of all time, which means a lot of people have seen the movie already and we can hopefully talk about it a little more freely now....
Arthur Is Foundational Kids’ TV PBS While PBS’ version of “Arthur” debuted in 1996, the friendly aardvark (spelled “A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K,” as anyone who ever heard him rap about it knows) was conceived of much earlier, in a series of kids’ books that began in 1976. Marc Brown, who created the books and executive produces the show, is also releasing a retrospective book ahead of the finale, titled, “Believe in Yourself: What We Learned From Arthur....
Christian Bale Had An Easier Time Playing A Villain In Thor: Love And Thunder Than Playing A Superhero Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/June 27, 2022 10:37 am EST It’s already unbelievable enough that we live in a world where Christian Bale, of all actors, ended up accepting the role of Bruce Wayne for an entire trilogy of movies. (Maybe don’t ask him about that newest “The Batman” movie just yet, though....
Cronenberg didn’t want to do a remake 20th Century Studios The sequel, titled “The Fly 2” (1989), did not have either of the main actors nor the original director attached. The film follows the life of the deceased couple’s mutated son. The boy’s aging process is grossly accelerated to the point where he matures to full adulthood by the age of 5. He takes over his father’s old lab and returns to developing the teleportation device, but runs into trouble with his sinister old sponsor, Anton Bartok....
David Cronenberg Reveals Why He Re-Used The Title Crimes Of The Future For His New Film Neon By Sandy Schaefer/May 10, 2022 10:40 am EST There’s no need to turn in your cinephile card if you haven’t seen David Cronenberg’s 1970 sci-fi horror film “Crimes of the Future.” Most people haven’t (myself included), much less even heard of it before they found out the director’s next movie has the same title....
Disney+ Unveils New Details About Its Ad-Supported Plan Disney+ By Ryan Scott/May 17, 2022 1:00 pm EST New details have emerged regarding the ad-supported version of Disney+ that is set to arrive later this year in the U.S., as well as in international markets next year. Yes, this will be a cheaper option — but at what cost? How much time will viewers have to spend watching commercials? And what kinds of ads are people going to see?...
Elvis Trailer: Baz Luhrmann Tells The Story Of The King Of Rock ‘N Roll Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Feb. 17, 2022 12:03 pm EST The King is getting his own biopic. Warner Bros. has released the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” which stars Austin Butler as Elvis Presley and Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, and from what we see here, we’re taking a journey through the entire life of the singer and cultural phenomenon....
Ethan Peck Thought He Auditioned For A Much Smaller Star Trek Part Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 22, 2022 10:04 am EST For as long as visual media has been around, so have reboots and sequels. That means for decades, fans of popular stories have been debating the recasting of their favorite characters, closely scrutinizing new actors to see if they measure up to the James Bond or Doctor Who they know....
Every Emma Watson Role Ranked Worst To Best By Billie Gagné-LeBel/Jan. 12, 2022 6:51 pm EST The audience discovered Emma Watson when she was only 11 years old. The role of Hermione Granger didn’t just launch Watson’s acting career, but made it, as she spent a decade filming the eight-movie series. In the following decade, the young Brit then proved she could do more than play a teenage wizard, appearing in almost a dozen movies and trying her hand at different types of characters and genres, building on the reputation that Hermione gave her....
Everything We Know About First Kill So Far Warner Bros. Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 25, 2022 10:19 am EST We all knew the “Twilight” renaissance was going to pay off eventually, and if “First Kill” is any indication, we might be in for another vampire media craze. The upcoming Netflix series sounds like a classic teen vampire drama, a la “Vampire Diaries” to cite another essential vampire text, and who could be upset about that?...
