The Batman Easily Won The Box Office Again, But BTS Was The Weekend’s Big Surprise Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/March 14, 2022 11:37 am EST In some ways, it was a bit of an uninspiring weekend at the box office as the narrative largely remains the same. Robert Pattinson’s “The Batman” managed to easily stay atop the competition to win its second weekend, cementing the film as a gigantic hit for Warner Bros....
The Batman Is A Very Funny Movie, Actually Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/March 9, 2022 1:00 pm EST “The Batman” is funny! No wait, hear me out. I’m not saying I got this right away. I mean, there were funny moments, but the first time I saw it in a screening, it was a very, very small group of people and the humor didn’t quite land. The second time was in a full (for Covid times) theater, and I was laughing right along with everyone else....
The most successful Tubi show ever Lionsgate / WTG Enterprises According to the report in Variety, “The Freak Brothers” has been the most successful show on Tubi by a two-to-one margin, outstripping all the streamer’s other offerings. Tubi only started offering original programming in 2021, previously serving as the “rundown local video store” of streaming services. That’s not meant to be disparaging: Tubi is a wonderful place to find cult movies, B-movies, and all the off-center fare that other services are too classy to maintain....
The Han Solo Easter Egg You May Have Missed In The Last Jedi Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Jan. 3, 2022 11:24 am EST “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is known for a great many things. But for the sake of avoiding arguments, let’s just leave it at being the second entry in the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy that arrived following Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm. The movie had to accomplish an awful lot, picking up where director J....
The Kills In Stranger Things Season 4 Are More Brutal Than Ever Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 28, 2022 8:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4. “‘Stranger Things’ isn’t scary.” This has been my refrain for the past six years and I try to get all my most beloved scaredy-cat friends to watch it. That part where Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) gets snatched off his bike in the pilot episode?...
The Outfit: Release Date, Cast, And More Focus Features By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 3, 2022 1:26 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Whether you know him best for his decades of work as an esteemed theater actor and playwright, his performances in acclaimed historical dramas directed by the likes of Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, and Aaron Sorkin, or as the guy who portrayed the wealthy weirdos in “Ready Player One” and “Don’t Look Up,” Mark Rylance has probably appeared on your radar at some point....
The Peacemaker Gag Reel Might Actually Make You Gag Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 20, 2022 10:26 am EST To celebrate the “Peacemaker” season 1 finale and President’s Day weekend, writer and director James Gunn has shared a blooper reel for the satirical superhero series on Twitter. As you might expect, the gag reel is full of foul-mouthed humor, potty jokes, and some things you should only consider googling in incognito mode....
The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Ending Explained: A Kugel-What-Now? Netflix By Ryan Leston/June 25, 2022 5:21 pm EST Netflix’s hit comic book series “The Umbrella Academy” is back for its third season. Of course, it wouldn’t be “The Umbrella Academy” without an impending apocalypse, and this time it’s the Kugelblitz that’s about to wipe out humanity, Earth, the known universe, and well, just about the whole of reality. But first things first – what’s all this about the Sparrow Academy?...
Ticket To Paradise Trailer: Julia Roberts Makes A Glorious Return To The Rom-Com With George Clooney Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/June 29, 2022 12:08 pm EST Rise and shine, rom-com fans. This genre has sorely been in need for a resurgence in recent years, even with films such as “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Fire Island,” and even the surprisingly entertaining “The Lost City” a few months back. Luckily for us all, Universal decided to call in the big guns for a much-welcomed reunion on the big screen....
The beauty of crossing genre Universal Pictures Listen, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a down and dirty horror flick. But don’t you just love it when fear and hope can exist in the same film, one never totally overcoming the other on an excruciating journey for survival? After all, if a film leaves a viewer without even a momentary reprieve from terror, how is anyone supposed to root for the protagonist to live?...
The Penguin’s hero’s journey Warner Bros. “Batman Returns” is Burton through and through, and it would be easy to come away from it thinking his real interests don’t lie with the superhero who’s got his name and Bat-logo on the pail. Screenwriter Daniel Waters (“Heathers”) penned the script, with Sam Hamm of the first “Batman” receiving a “Story by” co-credit. Often, in screenwriting, the first ten pages — equivalent to the first ten minutes of the movie — are considered crucial for hooking the reader, helping them imprint on the main character, and establishing the central dramatic question....
Black Bird’s Paul Walter Hauser On Mimicking That Distinctive Voice, I Think You Should Leave, And More [Interview] Apple TV+ By Ben Pearson/July 7, 2022 4:00 pm EST Paul Walter Hauser has range, folks. The actor, who broke out in 2017’s “I, Tonya,” seems equally comfortable playing goofy comedic characters as he does portraying creeps and weirdos. In the new Apple TV+ drama “Black Bird,” which comes from crime novelist Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Shutter Island”) and is inspired by a true story, Hauser delivers one of the best performances of his career as Larry Hall, a serial confessor who might have murdered several young girls in the Midwest in the 1990s....
Ricci returns to The Addams Family Showtime Mystery role or not, the thought of Christina Ricci being anywhere near “Wednesday” is thrilling. Even if the show doesn’t acknowledge her as Wednesday, Ricci sharing the screen with Ortega will be one of those spine-tingling generations-colliding moments because we know that it’s two Wednesdays at once! Then there’s all the potential of who she’s actually playing. Ricci recently appeared in Showtime’s breakout hit series “Yellowjackets” as a very different kind of crazy, proving there’s no shortage of ways she can unsettle a massive audience....
Dark City Filmmaker Alex Proyas Is ‘Returning To His Roots’ With Sister Darkness New Line Cinema By Eric Vespe/May 20, 2022 10:55 pm EST Alex Proyas has been MIA from the feature film scene since 2016’s “Gods of Egypt,” which fizzled at the box office despite its large scale and impressive cast, and that’s not great. Proyas has turned in masterpieces and head-scratchers over the last 30 years, but one thing is always consistent with his work: he swings for the fences....
Did The Book Of Boba Fett Just Kill Off One Of Our Favorite New Star Wars Characters? Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Feb. 2, 2022 1:10 pm EST We are rapidly approaching the conclusion of “The Book of Boba Fett” and Chapter 6, titled “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” brought us closer to the mark and set the stage for the finale. To that end, a great deal happened in this episode and, in particular, it seems the fate of a rather important “Star Wars” character is hanging in the balance as a result of this latest episode’s unexpected conclusion....
‘I would love to see Tony again, but …’ Marvel Studios Palmer continued: “As you saw in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home,’ some rumors ended up being true, some did not. I would love to see Tony again, but some rumors are just rumors. I will say that I love the Illuminati. But if we ever introduce the Illuminati in the future, it might be more MCU-driven and have some more ties to our characters in the MCU, versus just replicating what’s in the comics....
Futurama Had An Unspoken Explanation For Traveling Faster Than Light 20th Television By Witney Seibold/June 16, 2022 5:15 pm EST Watching “Star Wars,” one gets the impression that the galaxy in which it takes place is incredibly, incredibly small. Despite there being hundreds of worlds and hundreds of alien species, each planet can be accessed poking around at mere light speed. In our own galaxy, the next star over from Earth — Proxima Centauri — is 4....
Gangs Of New York Could Have Been A Bizarre Blues Brothers Reunion Miramax Films By Lee Adams/June 27, 2022 1:23 pm EST Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York” will be 20 years old this year, and I still can’t decide whether I like it or not. It’s meticulous but disjointed, sprawling yet claustrophobic, dense but naggingly empty, and packed with authentic period detail while other elements are so glaringly false (hello, Cameron Diaz)....
Ghostface Lives! Scream 6 Is Officially Happening Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/Feb. 3, 2022 1:05 pm EST It’s officially official horror fans: “Scream 6” is a go. With the new “Scream” currently in theaters and slashing it up at the box office in a big way, Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment wasted no time in giving a sixth installment in the legendary slasher franchise the go-ahead. So get ready for more Ghostface and more meta killings....
I Want You Back Writers Isaac Aptaker And Elizabeth Berger Embrace Flaws In Their Rom-Com [Interview] Prime Video By Jack Giroux/Feb. 17, 2022 5:50 pm EST Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger are a busy duo. Over the past few years alone, they’ve become showrunners on “This is Us,” steered the ship on “Love, Victor,” and created “How I Met Your Father.” On the feature film side, the duo also wrote “Love, Simon” and the charming new romantic comedy, “I Want You Back,” which stars Jenny Slate and Charlie Day....
