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White Witnessed The Birth of Television NBC In April 1939, RCA introduced television broadcasting as we know it at the New York World’s Fair. Two months earlier, a young Betty White stood in front of TV cameras for one of the first broadcasts ever transmitted on the West coast. According to Jennifer Kelshin Armstrong’s book “When Women Invented Television,” the broadcast took place at the Packard Motor Car Company in Downtown Los Angeles, where Packard distributor Earle C....

I Think You Should Leave Renewed For Season 3, Because Triples Makes It Safe, Triples Is Best Netflix By BJ Colangelo/May 6, 2022 4:48 pm EST After a week of what felt like nothing but bad news and cancellations over at Netflix, a beacon of hope shines brightly through the doom and destruction. I don’t want anybody to have the worst day at their job, which is why the announcement from Variety that savior of the people, Tim Robinson, will return for a third season of his brilliant sketch show, “I Think You Should Leave” is something worth screaming about....

Joel Edgerton To Star In Dark Matter, An Apple TV+ Show About The Multiverse Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/March 29, 2022 3:50 pm EST Joel Edgerton (“Obi-Wan Kenobi,” “Boy Erased”) is set to star in the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Dark Matter,” based on the book by Blake Crouch. Though I have yet to read said book, I love the news that the series will be written by the author....

Evil Dead brought them together New Line Cinema “The Evil Dead” wasn’t just Sam Raimi’s breakthrough hit as a director, it also introduced him to Joel Coen. Born in Minnesota, Coen moved to Michigan — Raimi’s home state — and worked as an assistant editor to Edna Ruth Paul. When Paul was hired to edit “The Evil Dead,” Coen assisted her and met Raimi. The pair became friends, so when Coen and his younger brother were trying to get a film of their own funded, Raimi was on hand to offer advice....

Natalie Portman Struggled To Find Work After The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy There are a lot of strong opinions about the “Star Wars” prequels. Some fondly remember them as the films they grew up on, while others have gone as far as to say George Lucas ruined the franchise. But how about trying this one on for size: Lucas almost killed Natalie Portman’s career. Lucas seemed preoccupied with the all-digital visuals of the prequels, taking advantage of cutting-edge special effects at the turn of the century....

Oscar Nominee CODA Is Playing In Theaters For Free Later This Month Apple TV+ By Jenna Busch/Feb. 18, 2022 4:47 pm EST If you haven’t had a chance to watch the Apple TV+ film “CODA” yet, you have a chance to do it now — even if you don’t have the streaming service. “CODA” was nominated for three Academy Awards including best adapted screenplay, best picture, and best supporting actor for Troy Kotsur, the first deaf man to earn an Oscar nomination for acting....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Clip: Burnham And Book Have A Holographic Heart-To-Heart Paramount+ By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 18, 2022 11:00 pm EST “Star Trek: Discovery” kicked off the back half of its fourth season this month, with its mid-season premiere hitting Paramount+ on February 10, 2022. To help get viewers back in the swing of things this week, the series has released a new clip from its latest episode, “Rubicon.”...

‘I’ll never do anything like that again’ “Strangers on a Train” came about in 1951, just one year after Hitchcock’s dazzling Marlene Dietrich-led noir “Stage Fright.” The latter is considered one of his creative failures, but he followed up with a personal passion project: An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel of the same name, with a script written first by Whitfield Cook, then “The Big Sleep” author Raymond Chandler. None of the screenplays were quite to Hitchcock’s liking, and so the finalized draft was a group effort between (according to “Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light”) three women: Greenhorn screenwriter Czenzi Ormonde, associate producer Barbara Keon, and Alma Reville, Hitchcock’s wife....

Superhero Bits: The Making Of Moon Knight, Someone Was Streaming Morbius On Twitch & More Disney+ By Ryan Scott/May 26, 2022 4:15 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....

Taika Waititi’s What We Do In The Shadows Crew Stole Equipment From The Hobbit Set Madman Entertainment By Jenna Busch/June 23, 2022 3:09 pm EST Director Taika Waititi has a brand new film coming out called “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Perhaps you’ve heard of it? Naked thunder god, Marvel, hammers, and stuff? I’m kidding, of course. It’s the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson....

Thanos Creator Jim Starlin On Marvel Movies, A Dreadstar TV Show & More [Interview] By Ryan Scott/June 2, 2022 1:33 pm EST Jim Stalin is a name that will go down in pop culture history. At one point or another, it would have been in the circles of those who read and appreciated comic books. Now? His name will be mentioned right alongside some of the biggest films of all time like “Avengers: Endgame” as he is the man who created the Mad Titan they call Thanos....

The ’90s Thriller Jamie Campbell Bower Referenced When Playing Vecna In Stranger Things Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 5, 2022 2:04 pm EST There are major spoilers ahead for “Stranger Things” season 4. If you haven’t watched, don’t read on, or Vecna will get you. The entire fourth season of “Stranger Things” is finally out, and while there was a cliffhanger of an ending, we know we’re going to be battling the Upside Down in the fifth and final season....

The 15 Best Folk Horror Movies Ranked A24 By Addison Peacock/Feb. 17, 2022 1:39 pm EST For as long as human beings have walled themselves up in cities and kept warm by the light of the fire, the forest has been associated with the unknown, the mysterious, and that which is older, stronger, and more powerful than human beings. This is clear from Little Red Riding Hood encountering a wolf on the path to Grandmother’s house to the hundreds of people who go missing in United States parks each year....

The Daily Stream: Fortune Feimster’s Sweet & Salty Is Your Happy Escape From The Hell We’re Living In Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 1, 2022 8:26 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 Special: “Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Southern-born Fortune Feimster first broke into the mainstream scene on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” and successfully sparked a career as a comedian, writer, and actor....

The Haunted History Of The Lighthouse From The Ring DreamWorks By Witney Seibold/Dec. 28, 2021 12:02 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The “Ring” series is one of the more unexpectedly expansive in contemporary horror movie history. It started in 1991 with the publication of Koji Suzuki’s Japanese novel “Ring,” which expanded into a full six-book series by 2013. In 1998, Hideo Nakata adapted “Ring” into a feature film which spawned a complicated continuity-reshuffling string of sequels....

A fitting farewell for the series AMC Nicotero has served as an executive producer, special make-up effects supervisor, and primary director on “The Walking Dead” for years, having directed 37 episodes of the series (so far) and 13 episodes of “The Walking Dead: Webisodes.” Nicotero was the gifted practical design artist behind the now-iconic look of the Walkers and provided much of the digital VFX designs for Shiva, Ezekiel’s tiger companion....

Tokyo Vice Actor Ken Watanabe On The Duality Of His Character And Working With Michael Mann [Interview] HBO Max By Ben Pearson/April 6, 2022 10:59 pm EST Whether you recognize him from movies like “Batman Begins,” “Inception,” “The Last Samurai,” or from the “Let them fight” meme that spawned from “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” you know Ken Watanabe. Since breaking out into a global star, the acclaimed Japanese actor has dipped in and out of TV miniseries and the occasional made-for-TV movie, but “Tokyo Vice,” the new crime drama from playwright and creator J....

So, naturally, Chaganty told them ’no' Sony Pictures Releasing Having only directed short films prior to “Searching,” Aneesh Chaganty politely said “no” to the offer, much to Sev Ohanian’s dismay. As he recalled: “On my left side, [Sev] was like kicking me, like, ‘What are you doing?’ and everything like that. But in the moment, it felt like what we were being asked to do was take a concept that we had found to not be a gimmick and then stretch it right back into a 90-minute gimmick....

Why Diversity Is So Important To The Star Trek Universe, According To Rod Roddenberry Paramount By Witney Seibold/June 15, 2022 4:13 pm EST In the “Star Trek” episode called “The Savage Curtain” (first aired March 7, 1969), an all-powerful, psychic lava alien from the planet Excalbia is able to read the minds of Kirk and Spock (William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy), and resurrect reasonable facsimiles of historical heroes personally dear to them....

How it started New Line Cinema When Collider asked Jim Carrey why he chose the name, he pointed out some keen coincidences. One should bear in mind that Carrey was an aspirational performer, and he was in a constant state of actualizing success. He famously wrote himself a $10 million check in 1985 as a promise to be successful in the future. The number 23 spoke to him of that success, he told Collider: “… A friend of mine in Canada kind of handed it down to me....