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What Is Omnipotence City In Thor: Love And Thunder? The Home Of The Marvel Gods Explained Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/July 8, 2022 8:30 am EST The Norse, Egyptian, and Wakandan gods are not the only ones in the MCU. With “Thor: Love and Thunder,” we’re being introduced to a whole lot more deities including Zeus (Russell Crowe) and his pantheon. Zeus is a cheeky god, at one point flicking the clothes right off of Thor (Chris Hemsworth)....

Will There Be A Quiet Place Part 3? Here’s What We Know Paramount Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 21, 2021 11:56 am EST (Welcome to Will There Be a Sequel?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) Now more than ever, the ongoing pandemic has forced a reckoning with how box office pundits and movie fans analyze the theatrical market. The release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” would seem to dictate that designated “event” movies are relatively pandemic-proof, convincing more than enough moviegoers to brave the elements and show up for the giant IP-based blockbuster tentpoles that are deemed to be unmissable....

Alycia Debnam-Carey Exits Fear The Walking Dead After Seven Seasons AMC By Lex Briscuso/May 30, 2022 2:03 pm EST Her zombie walk has finally come to a close: Alycia Debnam-Carey revealed that she will be officially leaving “Fear the Walking Dead” after starring on the spin-off series for seven seasons. On Sunday, May 29, the English actor shared via Instagram that she had decided to leave the series, which exists alongside “The Walking Dead” in a shared universe:...

Attack On Titan Final Season Part 3 Officially Announced For 2023 NHK General TV By Joshua Meyer/April 4, 2022 8:46 am EST The “Attack on Titan” anime series is gearing up to end its decade-long run next year with Part 3 of its fourth and final season. NHK General TV, which broadcasts the show in Japan, has now made it official with a teaser announcing Part 3, “The Final Arc” of “Attack on Titan” season 4, in 2023....

Butterfly In The Sky Review: A Loving Tribute To The Power Of Reading Rainbow And The Magic Of LeVar Burton [Tribeca] Tribeca Film Festival By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2022 11:00 am EST “‘Reading Rainbow’ was not about learning to read, it was about loving to read.” This astute and apt observation is made early on in “Butterfly in the Sky,” a new documentary playing at the Tribeca Film Festival that focuses on the seminal children’s television series “Reading Rainbow....

Colin Farrell Fought (And Lost) For Penguin To Have A Cigar In The Batman Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 24, 2022 2:08 pm EST We’re all sensible humans who can hold two seemingly contradictory thoughts in our heads at the same time, right? On the one hand, smoking is obviously a nasty little habit in real life that can lead to debilitating health problems. On the other hand, smoking also looks indescribably cool when captured on-screen in movies or shows, having been used since the dawn of filmmaking itself to instantly add a shot of atmosphere and mood and tension to noir films, romance movies, and everything in between....

Daily Podcast: Stan Lee’s Postmortem Marvel Return, Lessons Learned From Solo: A Star Wars Story & She-Hulk Trailer Lucasfilm On the May 18, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by news writer Ryan Scott here to talk about the latest film and TV news, Stan Lee’s postmortem Marvel return, lessons learned from Solo, She-Hulk trailer, and the future of Star Wars. Opening Banter: Ryan did great on the podcast yesterday....

The Crash impact at Cannes Recorded Picture Company Cronenberg is no stranger to stirring up controversy at Cannes. In 1996, “Crash” made its premiere at the prestigious French film festival to the sound of angry boos and storm-outs, while the Cannes jury was powerfully divided on the erotic drama. Cronenberg recalled in a 2020 Q&A with Canadian press that jury president Francis Ford Coppola was so opposed to award Cronenberg with the rare Special Jury Prize for the film that he refused to personally present the award to him....

Downton Abbey: A New Era Stars Jim Carter And Raquel Cassidy Had A Blast Filming The Big Dinner Scene [Interview] Focus Features By Matthew Bilodeau/July 4, 2022 3:48 pm EST The captivating melodrama of “Downton Abbey” would be but window dressing without its spectacular ensemble to bring these characters to life. Even when some favorites ended up leaving the show, series creator/writer Julian Fellowes (“The Gilded Age”) always had someone interesting to add to the roster....

First Ahsoka Footage Teases The Search For Ezra Lucasfilm By Shania Russell/May 28, 2022 4:37 pm EST “Star Wars” Celebration is the gift that keeps on giving, and the latest tithings put Ahsoka Tano front and center. Ever since her live-action debut in the second season of “The Mandalorian,” the hype for her solo outing has been building fast. The show is piloted by “Star Wars” fan, historian, and Ahsoka co-creator, Dave Filoni, and is set to bring Rosario Dawson back in the titular role....

How The Maltese Falcon Helped Shape Film Noir Warner Bros. By Andrew Housman/Feb. 22, 2022 12:07 pm EST The term “film noir” brings to mind dimly lit offices of chain-smoking private eyes where window shades are barely cracked open to cautiously peer at the menacing, shadowy figures in back-alleys holding guns under their trench coats. The popular image of the film noir, with its hardboiled detective, its seductive and dangerous femme fatale, and its general cast of unsavory criminals, owes its existence to director John Huston’s 1941 classic “The Maltese Falcon....

Knives Out Has A Subtle Nod To A Mystery Movie Classic Lionsgate By Devin Meenan/March 4, 2022 5:24 pm EST “Knives Out” has been praised to high heaven since its release in 2019, and the film is totally deserving of those accolades, from critical raves to a Best Original Screenplay nomination. That screenplay is a great showcase of the detail-oriented approach writer/director Rian Johnson takes to his projects, and those details are brought to life by a marvelous ensemble....

Martin Scorsese Helped Push Peter Jackson To Finish Filming The Lord Of The Rings New Line Cinema By Miyako Pleines/May 20, 2022 11:01 am EST Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy will go down in history as one of the best fantasy film adaptations of all time. It has everything from elves, orcs, and hobbits to talking trees, giant eagles, and one seriously scary gold ring (I mean, can you imagine if that thing was a wedding band?...

Meeting The Real-Life Bunk Left A Terrifying Impression On The Wire’s Wendell Pierce HBO By Anya Stanley/May 21, 2022 11:32 am EST HBO’s “The Wire” recalibrated the way audiences engaged with TV drama, not just through its sly sociopolitical commentary dressed up as cop procedural, but in the ways that its characters amplified its themes. One of the stauncher characters on the cop side was Det. William “Bunk” Moreland, played by Wendell Pierce....

Netflix’s Most Watched Movies Last Week - Which Should You Check Out? Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 11, 2022 9:54 pm EST A new year has begun and audiences are looking for a fresh start. Only three films from last week’s top 10 are making a return appearance, while everything else has been replaced. The adorable animated feature “Back to the Outback” has finally been ousted as the top watch for kids and replaced by the underrated “Rise of the Guardians....

It’s Amazing Neon Nicolas Cage remains one of our most interesting working actors. Yes, he often appears in junk. But most of the time, even if the film itself is lacking, Cage is giving it his all. And every now and then, the Oscar-winner will appear in a genuinely great movie to remind us he’s the real deal – the most recent example of this being the excellent “Pig.” Cage remains as busy as ever, and one of his several upcoming projects is “Renfield,” a horror-comedy inspired by “Dracula....

Peacock Lost $1.7 Billion In 2021 Universal By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 27, 2022 12:19 pm EST Breaking news: The film and TV industries are in a state of flux right now. To be fair, a lot of recent changes we’ve seen in the way movies and shows are made and released didn’t come out of nowhere; the pandemic simply shortened the timetable for when they would happen. Because of this, just about every major streaming service out there is still scrambling to build up its library of exclusive films and TV series — meaning, they’re a ways off from turning a profit, making it all the harder to say how successful (or not) they have actually been up to this point....

Persuasion Trailer: Dakota Johnson Stars In A Jane Austen Adaptation On Netflix Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/June 14, 2022 10:29 am EST Stop whatever you’re doing and have a look at this: Netflix just dropped the trailer for the adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion,” with Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot. Dakota Johnson as a Jane Austen protagonist is everything (obviously), especially when she is caught up in a conflicting love affair while struggling to express herself amid the societal conventions of her time....

Stranger Things 4 Volume 2 Teaser Breakdown: Looking Ahead To The Super-Sized Second Part Of The Season Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 27, 2022 6:08 pm EST Fans who raced through the first seven episodes of “Stranger Things” season 4 today got a special surprise at the end. The ultra-intense seventh episode ended with a teaser for Volume 2 of the new season, which will drop on July 1, 2022. The back half of the season will actually only consist of two episodes, but they’re both super-sized, totaling about four hours back-to-back....

The Flash Season 8: Armageddon Pt. 4 Here’s the official promo for the fourth episode of the eighth season of “The Flash” on The CW: Barry (Grant Gustin) is shocked when Eobard Thawne (guest star Tom Cavanagh) returns in the most unexpected way, and with a tie to a loved one. Damien Darhk (guest star Neal McDonough) offers advice to Barry but there is a catch. An epic battle begins with Reverse Flash pitted against The Flash, Team Flash, Batwoman (guest star Javicia Leslie), Sentinel (guest star Chyler Leigh) and Ryan Choi (guest star Osric Chau)....